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PEACE AND MUSIC: It wasn’t all peace...

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PEACE AND MUSIC: It wasn’t all peace and love at Woodstock ‘94--not when the festival’s co-producer John Scher refused to give an all-access pass to his old pal Tim Collins, Aerosmith’s manager.

Collins, already angry because Metallica was allowed to sell its own T-shirts and use pyrotechnics during its show--which Collins had been told were strict no-nos--confronted Scher backstage.

“I said, ‘John, I don’t trust you anymore,’ ” Collins told Pop Eye.

Collins says that Scher then threw a bottle of Evian water across the room and, after more verbal exchanges, lunged at him. A Collins associate came in to break it up, only to get into it with Scher himself.

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Scher was unavailable for comment. His partner, Jim Koplik, says, “John . . . had peaked that afternoon when we had 350,000 people in the audience instead of the 200,000 we expected. He cracked . . . under the pressure.”

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