It's been 30 years since the first muddy melee -- check out our chart of how times have changed
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Woodstock. It’s not your parents’ rock show anymore. Thirty years after hippie hordes descended on Max Yasgur’s field, the historic concert is back, ’90s style. Korn, Willie Nelson, Ice Cube, Sheryl Crow, Limp Bizkit, Alanis Morissette, and more than 35 other bands will be playing in Rome, N.Y., this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. To see how much the times have changed (or haven’t) since 1969, check out EW Online’s handy-dandy comparison.
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| 1969 | 1999 | |
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| Tortured Soul | Janis Joplin (above) | Alanis Morissette (above) |
| Motto | Don’t trust anyone over 30. | Start your Internet empire before you’re 30. |
| Price | $18 for three days | $150 for three days |
| Casualties | Audience burns millions of brain cells through drug use. | Audience burns out thousands of cell phones trying to track down their friends at the food court. |
| Most likely to end up in rehab | The Grateful Dead | Willie Nelson |
| Creepy albinos, then and now | Johnny Winter | Insane Clown Posse |
| Hippie chicks, then and now | Joan Baez | Jewel |
| Souvenirs | Bad acid trips — they’re free maaaaannnn! | T-shirts, jewelry, and crafts — $22.95 and up |
| Free Love | The only barriers to gettin’ some lovin’? Your own hang-ups, baby. | Uh, how about a condom, a blood test, and a list of references? |
| Worst hair | Joe Cocker | Adam Duritz (Counting Crows) |
| Destined for obscurity | Melanie | Sugar Ray |
| Weirdest act | Sha Na Na, a wacky bunch of doo-woppers whose ’70s TV show was about as funny as a dog exploding | The Umbilical Brothers, a wacky pair of performance artists who imitate the sound of a dog exploding |
| Locals | Townspeople threatened to break the legs of the concert’s promoters if the show went on. | Townspeople now accept Mastercard, Visa, and American Express. |
| Sole survivor | Mickey Hart, playing with the Grateful Dead | Mickey Hart, playing with Planet Drum |
| Fence jumpers | Uh, there was a fence? | Six miles of steel-girded fencing will be monitored by 3,100 security, law enforcement, and support staff. |
| Visual record | Award-winning documentary has had rock fans shaking their heads in wonder at this timeless event. | Pay-per-view simulcast on the same channel that normally shows WWF wrestlers smacking each other on the head with folding chairs. |
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