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Nine Inch Nails were considered to have the largest crowd density at the event, overshadowing many of the more mainstream bands of the time. In the interview after their performance, Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor claimed he thought his band's performance was "terrible". Reznor admitted that while he disliked playing at such a large show, it was done for the money: "To be quite frank, it's basically to offset the cost of the tour we're doing right now."
The story behind the band being covered in mud was told in an originally presented as being a happy accident[http://www.theninhotline.net/archives/articles/rip1.shtml interview] with ''RIP'' magazine: <blockquote>We were right out by the big mud pit and watchin' everybody, I thought, "well, this looks like a lot of fun." At that time there wasn't that many people that were muddy, but the people that *were* in the mud looked like they were having a great time and we thought "fuck, y'know, we kinda can't actually do that." But we didn't have showers backstage at footage later revealed that time either, so we went back and hung out backstage, and it was just done on purpose in order to leave a real nervous day. Then stronger impression on the way to the stage I pushed Danny audience.[Lohner], our guitar player, and he just fell face-first into the mudhttps://www. Then he tackled me and it turned into a kind of all-male mud wrestling thingyoutube. It was actually really funny. After we did that, all nervousness kind of subsided.<com/blockquote>watch?v=fJMowK3OkWc]
According to ''Rolling Stone'' magazine, Reznor's mud-covered stage outfit from the show is now part of the collection at the [[Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame]].[http://www.rollingstone.com/music/videos/flashback-nine-inch-nails-play-mud-caked-set-at-woodstock-94-20130606] With NIN's induction in 2020, an exhibit about the concert was also installed.