The first installment in HBO’s new documentary series
Music Box examines the notorious 1999 Woodstock festival, an attempt to re-create the defining moment of the 1960s counterculture that instead led to rioting, multiple sexual assaults, and at least one death. In between footage from the actual festival,
Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage tells its story through interviews with organizers, attendees, journalists, and musicians such as Moby and Korn’s Jonathan Davis. Slate spoke to
Woodstock 99 director Garret Price (who also helmed the documentary
Love, Antosha about late actor Anton Yelchin) to find out more about how the documentary came together and how much things have or haven’t changed. This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.