# Do you think they should bring back Woodstock in 2029? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 25, 2025, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-they-should-bring-back-woodstock-in-2029/1017465 "2025-04-25T05:54:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Jaycat.again](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat.again/32/11525_2.png) [@Jaycat.again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaycat.again)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2025, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-they-should-bring-back-woodstock-in-2029/1017465/21 "2025-04-25T21:31:48Z")
> [@Kropotkin](#): > > a moment in a decade of counter-cultural and political intensity, with politics and art and hope woven together in an unwieldy, fraught, contradictory way. And mud. Don’t forget the mud. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2025, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-they-should-bring-back-woodstock-in-2029/1017465/22 "2025-04-25T21:49:02Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > TBF, it was a _two_-off What I meant was it wasn’t an annual or semi-regular thing. The second was an anniversary gimmick. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2025, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-they-should-bring-back-woodstock-in-2029/1017465/23 "2025-04-26T15:57:52Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > TBF, it was a _two_-off Or a several-off? (Woodstock '79, '89, '94 and '99) I liked the Netflix doc on Woodstock '99. > **[Trainwreck: Woodstock '99](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trainwreck:_Woodstock_%2799)** > > Trainwreck: Woodstock '99 (also known as Clusterf\*\*k: Woodstock '99) is a 2022 American three-part docuseries about the music festival Woodstock '99. It was released on Netflix on August 3, 2022. > The docuseries depicts the events leading up to the violence and sexual assaults that occurred during the festival. Many concert goers and some musicians who performed at the festival such as Gavin Rossdale, Jonathan Davis, and Fatboy Slim, depict their experiences during the three day festival. Carso... ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2025, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-they-should-bring-back-woodstock-in-2029/1017465/24 "2025-04-26T17:01:18Z")
If there is a Woodstock 2029, just don’t let Billy McFarland organize it. I saw a show a few years ago at Phil Lesh’s defunct Terrapin Crossroads club, billed as “Return to Aquarius”. There were a number of bands, and each band played one song that was played at the original Woodstock. The songs were played in the order that the original bands appeared at Woodstock. That was a lot of fun. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2025, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-they-should-bring-back-woodstock-in-2029/1017465/25 "2025-04-26T17:18:10Z")
> [@sta3535](#): > > However, if they improve and don’t make the same mistakes that they made in 1999, then it’ll be successful [Billy McFarland](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyre_Festival), izzat you? ---
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2025, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-they-should-bring-back-woodstock-in-2029/1017465/26 "2025-04-26T17:57:57Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > saying “show me your money”. He was satisfied when I produced a wallet . > > I’m still not sure exactly what he thought that was supposed to prove. I suppose in his mind, the distinction between “legitimate visitor” and “hippie bum”. yep, that’s exactly what it was supposed to prove. (off-topic, but here’s a similar story:) I flew from the US to England in 1977,and got the same question from the immigration guy when I got off the plane in the London airport. I was a young guy with a backpack, no hotel reservation or address in England , just a guide book called “Europe on $20 a day,” I had to show him that I had a certain sum of money, which he counted. (remember American Express Traveler’s Checks? Their slogan was “Don’t leave home without them.” Especially if you’re a suspicious-looking American hippie.. ) ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2025, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-they-should-bring-back-woodstock-in-2029/1017465/27 "2025-04-26T18:31:45Z")
> [@Kropotkin](#): > > And the original Woodstock ended up being a free concert and a moment in a decade of counter-cultural and political intensity, with politics and art and hope woven together in an unwieldy, fraught, contradictory way. Hard to replicate all that. [Woodstock 1999](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodstock_%2799) was pretty much the opposite of all that: > The festival was marred by difficult environmental conditions, overpriced food and water, poor sanitation, sexual harassment and rapes, rioting, looting, vandalism, arson, violence, and several deaths, leading to media attention and controversy that vastly overshadowed coverage of the musical performances. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2025, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-they-should-bring-back-woodstock-in-2029/1017465/28 "2025-04-26T18:33:22Z")
> [@Kropotkin](#): > > And the original Woodstock ended up being a free concert and a moment in a decade of counter-cultural and political intensity, with politics and art and hope woven together in an unwieldy, fraught, contradictory way. Hard to replicate all that. My thoughts also. I was too young to be there (only 15) but what I’ve learned about it in the years since convince me that it could never be repeated. It was a once-in-a-lifetime event and trading on the name can’t make it happen again. Those of us who weren’t there can never be there. Such is life. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2025, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-they-should-bring-back-woodstock-in-2029/1017465/29 "2025-04-26T18:49:33Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > that had the cream of the California rock groups and introduced **The Who** and Jimi Hendrix to the wider American audiences. Not meant as a hijack, but I ran across this interesting tidbit not long ago: The Who played 166 concerts in 1967 in the UK, USA, Canada, France, Belgium, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Germany, and Italy. They would play most any venue, including high schools. On November 16, 1967, they played at Shawnee Mission South High School in Overland Park, Kansas, as a backup band to The Buckinghams. [https://www.concertarchives.org/bands/the-who?page=1&year=1967#concert-table](https://www.concertarchives.org/bands/the-who?page=1&year=1967#concert-table) Carry on. /endhijack ---
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I’ll be 109… can you pick me up on the way? ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2025, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-they-should-bring-back-woodstock-in-2029/1017465/31 "2025-04-26T20:51:24Z")
Right. Monterey was their second trip to the U.S. after playing one of those Murray the K gigs in New York. What is fun is that, like Jimi Hendrik opening for The Monkees, the next Who U.S. tour saw them opening for Herman’s Hermits. Even the promoters were taking drugs during the Summer of Love. ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2025, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-they-should-bring-back-woodstock-in-2029/1017465/32 "2025-04-26T23:59:33Z")
Pete Townshend did not want to follow Jimi: > [@Myths that form about songs and bands / band members](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/myths-that-form-about-songs-and-bands-band-members/1014173/220): > > Another myth/tale I’d heard was that Jimi Hendrix and Pete Townshend had a guitar “duel” before the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival over who’d play first, The Who or Jimi Hendrix Experience. Both were relatively new to the US audiences, esp. Jimi. The Who had especially destructive stage antics, Townshend would smash his guitar and Keith Moon would often use pyrotechnics to blow up his drum kit. Jimi would play with his guitar (tuned/turned sort of upside down as he was a lefty and learned to play b… Jimi somehow was an unknown who didn’t make it in the USA and yet astounded the greatest guitarists in the UK. Townshend knew he did not want to follow a greater guitarist. Moon can blow up his drum kit, Townshend can smash his guitar. Jimi will kneel before his Fender Strat and light it on fire. As far as Woodstock, in the immortal words of George Harrison, “It’s been done” And even in the UK there’s Glastonbury, Isle of Wight. “Woodstock” as a concept was done once, and only made cool in latter cash-grabs by mud sliders and then ruined again by being in Saugerties. $10 water? Just no. MHO. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-they-should-bring-back-woodstock-in-2029/1017465.md?page=1)