Woodstock 50 is officially **OFF**!*

They are? Seems there are more of them than ever before - especially worldwide.

This new "Woodstock" will sell out in seconds too.

 

How about a Woodstock 50th with acts that were originally invited in 1969 but for one reason or another, did not appear? Any of those folks still kickin’ around?

 

Jethro Tull. But it doesn't look like it's going to be that kind of show.

 

Just the quality of much of the lineup would have rarely or likely never have been surpassed ever since!

 

Pleased to meet you, hope you know my name.

 

The Jeff Beck Group too and they're all still alive except for Nicky Hopkins.

 

I was at Woodstock '98 - Pete Townshend put on a good show.

 

Woodstock: The Do-Over Concert

 

TD Bank’s Woodstock

 

Everybody's dead. Plus, Woodstock was cut short by Altamont.

 

Is Sha Na Na still together?

 

I know you're joking, but unbelievably they are!

The Official Sha Na Na Website!

 

Don’t mean to be a killjoy but I went to Woodstock 94 and it was far and away the worst concert experience of my life. And ‘99 was a complete disaster by most accounts. Why will this be better?

 

What a sad thing to say .

 

dude, rock and roll will never die.


im intrigued by this.....could be interesting if they really try for something big.

 

Yeah, no doubt.

 

Greta Van Fleet can headline dressing as dirt whispering hippies.

 

Is he related to Fred Durst?

 

I think I'd Runaway from that concert.

 

What cat detector van?

 

Approached artists for the 50th anniversary concert include a small list of country stars like Zac Brown Band, Florida Georgia Line and Jason Aldean.

Ummm, none of those are country, regardless of what hats they wear.

 

I thought 94 was incredible... The core of the lineup certainly was..

 

Well trust me you had nothing near the experience I did!

Here is a slightly edited version of a letter my brother wrote to Howard Stern regarding his (and my) Woodstock ’94 Experience. This was before Woodstock '99. Howard read it over the air:

Howard, you have been promoting Woodstock '99 like it's the greatest thing ever. I just wanted to share with you my Woodstock '94 experience. Here's the setup. Me and three friends (one flew in from Atlanta). With our tickets ($130) we were given parking passes. Our parking lot was like 30 miles from the concert. We get there at around 9pm Friday. The lot is full, we have to go to another lot around 20 miles away. We get there and that lot is full. We have to go to a parking lot in SUNY Albany. We get to SUNY Albany. We get to that lot around 11 and there are thousands of other people. There we wait for a bus to take us 1/2 mile away where we will get another bus to take us to the concert. After waiting fruitlessly for a couple hours to get on the bus, we walk the 1/2 mile with our backpacks and bags to the next lot where we will get a bus to get to the concert. We get there and find thousands of other people. It's about 2am. At about 4am the worst monsoon I was ever outside for struck. 4 buses were coming about every 45 minutes. They felt like the buses that were taking us out of concentration camps. Finally, after fighting to the death, get on the bus at 6am, at the concert by 7am. All my stuff for the weekend soaking wet. Defeated. Exhausted. We pitch our tent about 1 mile from the stages, on a hill. Try sleeping for about an hour when Joe Cocker starts singing. Nightmare continues. Port a poties are overflowing, food unbearable, so sick can't even drink. Try to watch the music. Go back to our tent by like 2pm (it takes like 3 hours to get across the park because of the mass of people). Tent is under piles of mud. Everything ruined. Raining again. Had enough. On bus back to Albany by 3pm. Woodstock '94. A little more background: they were saying before the concert how strict they were going to be about alcohol. No alcohol or drugs. We stashed vodka and southern comfort in Scope and Shampoo bottles. We get there and people without tickets are walking in through the open gates with cases of beer on their head. I have to go back into therapy now after opening up these wounds again.

My two cents/memories: Fighting against a desperate mob to barely get on the bus with my friends. Exchanging money for Woodstock money, which was set up for the express purpose of ripping off every customer in the place. The toilets, which you could smell from a mile away. Worse, the smell stuck like glue to anyone who ventured anywhere near them.

Other than the above it was great!

 

hallowed ground...In 1994 we played on stage at the 1994 25th reunion at Bethel...it was mindblowing performing there...
Is this original ground going to be hosting the 50th?