# What Happened at EDstock?

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**Created:** [April 16, 2002, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-at-edstock/103847 "2002-04-16T00:34:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2002, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-at-edstock/103847/1 "2002-04-16T00:34:11Z")

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I’m reading this book entitled: _Cult TV: Your Guide to the Shows America Can’t Live Without_, by John Javna.

One page has a picture of a flier for “Edstock,” a concert/Mr. Ed convention that took place in Texas in the mid 80’s. Mr. Javna says nothing about what happened at the event, but the caption says “Flier for the ill-fated Edstock.”

Ill-fated? What happened?

TIA

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**Author:** ![ubermensch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bcef8e/32.png) [@ubermensch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ubermensch)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2002, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-at-edstock/103847/2 "2002-04-16T02:06:09Z")

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ill-fated probably means it didn’t happen. they planned it, it just didn’t take off. (for obvious reasons)

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**Author:** ![SmackFu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2002, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-at-edstock/103847/3 "2002-04-16T04:12:33Z")

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From [an article about Tiny Tim](http://www.tinytim.org/articles/magazines/detour/), written by Bucks Burnett:

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> I kept in touch with Mr. Tim. In 1984, he headlined, with Joe Ely and T-Bone Burnett, my ill-fated Edstock music festival, a tribute to the famous talking horse. The show, a somewhat lavish if naive extravaganza, lost $25,000, and cast me into a debt from which I have not been pulled.