# 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:** 1\ **Showing post:** 32
**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. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-they-should-bring-back-woodstock-in-2029/1017465)._