# Woodstock 50 may not happen **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 1, 2019, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woodstock-50-may-not-happen/833299 "2019-05-01T02:23:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2019, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woodstock-50-may-not-happen/833299/21 "2019-05-03T03:49:10Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Couldn’t Hot Tuna invite Gracie Slick back in and call themselves Jefferson Airplane? > > It would mean so much to us Olds, even though Marty Balin and Paul Kantner have kicked off. Don’t forget Spencer Dryden (1938 - 2005) ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woodstock-50-may-not-happen/833299/22 "2019-05-17T11:20:39Z")
It may still happen if they can find money from some other source [Woodstock 50: The Show Will Go On, But New Funding Needed – Rolling Stone](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/woodstock-50-dentsu-court-decision-835976/) ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2019, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woodstock-50-may-not-happen/833299/23 "2019-06-11T04:20:00Z")
[Woodstock 50 looking for new venue as WGI cancels](https://www.mytwintiers.com/news/breaking-wgi-terminates-woodstock-50-contract/2066782569) > [@](#): > > Watkins Glen International terminated the site license for Woodstock pursuant to provisions of the contract. As such, WGI will not be hosting the Woodstock 50 Festival. I will say the organizers don’t give up easily. They say they’re in discussions with a new site. ---
**Author:** ![jaycat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat/32/3015_2.png) [@jaycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaycat)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2019, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woodstock-50-may-not-happen/833299/24 "2019-06-11T13:00:34Z")
I am still recovering from the first one. ---
**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:** [June 11, 2019, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woodstock-50-may-not-happen/833299/25 "2019-06-11T13:17:08Z")
Man, I was born in just the wrong year: too young for the first Woodstock and too old for this one. As a throwback to the original, will there be rumors of Dylan showing up every couple of hours? ---
**Author:** ![Helmut\_Doork](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e8c25b/32.png) [@Helmut\_Doork](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helmut_Doork)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2019, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woodstock-50-may-not-happen/833299/26 "2019-06-11T14:55:09Z")
Walk ten miles due to traffic jams to sit in mud to hear Al Wilson and Bob Hite era Canned Heat- maybe? Doing the same to hear the second bassist and drummer and two other guys probably born in the 80’s? Pass. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2019, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woodstock-50-may-not-happen/833299/27 "2019-06-11T18:01:19Z")
Fuck nostalgia anyway. Go do something new. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2019, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woodstock-50-may-not-happen/833299/28 "2019-06-12T03:28:53Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Fuck nostalgia anyway. Go do something new. Fuck that. I’m too old to do something new. I’m not in the mood to go to a Woodstock 50 unless they hold it in my home town, but I’d love to get the phonograph album, wind up my Victrola, and sit close to the ear horn so I could hear [Country Joe McDonald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_Joe_McDonald)collapse in a fit of coughing half way through the Fish Cheer. ---
**Author:** ![SirRay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@SirRay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SirRay)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2019, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woodstock-50-may-not-happen/833299/29 "2019-06-12T17:41:31Z")
> [@digs](#): > > Man, I was born in just the wrong year: too young for the first Woodstock and too old for this one. > > As a throwback to the original, will there be rumors of Dylan showing up every couple of hours? So what was your excuse for Woodstock '94? ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2019, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woodstock-50-may-not-happen/833299/30 "2019-06-12T21:29:07Z")
> [@Kent\_Clark](#): > > Fuck that. I’m too old to do something new. I’m not in the mood to go to a Woodstock 50 unless they hold it in my home town, but I’d love to get the phonograph album, wind up my Victrola, and sit close to the ear horn so I could hear [Country Joe McDonald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_Joe_McDonald)collapse in a fit of coughing half way through the Fish Cheer. I’m old enough to have gone to the first one if my parents weren’t such squares 😛 ( I was a kid at the time, eh). But I can think of a bunch of newer & continuously produced festivals I’d rather go to than participate in a blatant cash-via-nostalgia event. ---
**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:** [June 12, 2019, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woodstock-50-may-not-happen/833299/31 "2019-06-12T21:49:49Z")
I go to a lot of multi-day music festivals. I enjoy them very much. I’m travelling 2500 miles for a 4-day festival next month. If there were a Woodstock 50, and I liked the lineup, I might go, just as I might go to any festival with a good lineup. Not for nostalgia, but because it would be a fun thing to do. I don’t care how old the songs are, if they are great music and are played well. On the other hand, a couple of years ago I saw a day-long festival which was explicitly nostalgia – several bands played one or two songs from (almost) every band that performed at Woodstock, in the order that they were played at Woodstock. That was a blast. Nostalgia or not, it was a really fun day. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2019, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woodstock-50-may-not-happen/833299/32 "2019-06-12T23:26:01Z")
> [@SirRay](#): > > So what was your excuse for Woodstock '94? I was there! I had a good time … mostly… saw some great music, got mud in places I didn’t think I could. Wouldn’t do it again. Especially at my age now. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2019, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woodstock-50-may-not-happen/833299/33 "2019-06-12T23:36:20Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > I just watched the Netflix documentary on the Fyre Festival. This could be fun. “Spending $3,000 to see Blink-182 - what were they expecting?” That reminded me of MAD magazine’s parody of “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” and specifically the scene where people gathered in IIRC the Gobi desert. “No food, no water, no shelter, no toilet facilities - what WERE they thinking?” “They thought it was a rock concert.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2019, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woodstock-50-may-not-happen/833299/34 "2019-06-13T15:22:14Z")
they no longer have a producer or a site but they insist the show is going on. [Woodstock 50 Loses Venue and Event Producer | Pitchfork](https://pitchfork.com/news/woodstock-50-loses-venue/) ---
**Author:** ![DrCube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@DrCube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrCube)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2019, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woodstock-50-may-not-happen/833299/35 "2019-06-13T19:49:52Z")
I wish them the best of luck, but it seems a little late now to basically start from scratch on a major music festival that’s supposed to take place in two months. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2019, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woodstock-50-may-not-happen/833299/36 "2019-07-31T23:56:15Z")
It is officially called off . They tried to move it to MD but that did not work. Some artists were already paid and get to keep the money. > **[Michael Lang Talks Woodstock 50's Collapse: 'We Did Everything We Could'](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/woodstock-50-michael-lang-interview-865861/)** > > “It just pretty much went off the rails from the beginning,” Woodstock 50 head tells Rolling Stone in wide-ranging interview [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woodstock-50-may-not-happen/833299.md?page=1)