And mud. Don’t forget the mud.
What I meant was it wasn’t an annual or semi-regular thing. The second was an anniversary gimmick.
Or a several-off? (Woodstock '79, '89, '94 and '99)
I liked the Netflix doc on Woodstock '99.
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.
Billy McFarland, izzat you?
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.. )
Woodstock 1999 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.
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.
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
Carry on.
/endhijack
I’ll be 109… can you pick me up on the way?
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.
Pete Townshend did not want to follow Jimi:
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.