Don’t forget Spencer Dryden (1938 - 2005)
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
Woodstock 50 looking for new venue as WGI cancels
I will say the organizers don’t give up easily. They say they’re in discussions with a new site.
I am still recovering from the first one.
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?
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.
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 McDonaldcollapse in a fit of coughing half way through the Fish Cheer.
So what was your excuse for Woodstock '94?
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.
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.
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:
“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.”
they no longer have a producer or a site but they insist the show is going on.
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.
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.