PJ to Headline Woodstock 50th Anniversary??

YoullseeDragons

I think it's a real possibility. The organizers of Woodstock are looking for the best-of-the-best over the last 50 years. Historically they are a perfect fit for what they are trying to present at the 3 day festival. Woodstock is more of a musical retrospective, not just an annual festival where you fill in the blanks from year to year. We shall see. 

DEGBTI

going to put my common sense reputation on the line, Not going to happen! just isn't 

darthvedder

PB11041 said:

I'd rather see Hootie and the Blowfish on acid with bugs crawling on me than Pearl Jam do Woodstock 50.

Lucky for you, they're touring this year!

PJammer4life

The I Am the Highway event this month will have better bands than Woodstock 50 (Foos Fighters, Metallica, Soundgarden members, Audioslave members, Temple of the Dog, Ryan Adams) but not playing all original material. 

PJWGIII

Here’s hoping they do in front of an insane lineup. I would make the trek.

JP218404

Nightmare. Won’t go near that to see a typical festival set. Not worth it

now Eddie playing Danny Clinch’s Asbury Park fest on the beach this year I would go to that.   

JimmyV

Webcast or bust. Even if it is their only show on the East Coast, there is no way I would go to this.

evenflow82

Danny Glover sums up how I feel about festivals.
https://youtu.be/Q37xJtuQ24w

ed243421

What if I drive?

Me and dankind will pick you up

#winnebago

#freelove

#freebonghits

karl_chihiro

evenflow82 said:

Danny Glover sums up how I feel about festivals.

TEAM GLOVER here

SandyRavage

For anyone saying woodstock is "unsafe": (i posted this in the rumor thread, but it belongs here now)

I'm so sick of this mentality. 

Some people act like festival production in the 90's was Bret Hart status. The best there was, the best there is, and the best there ever will be. 

Wrong. 

Music festivals as we know them today were just starting to take off in the late 80's, early 90's. Everything since then has become more organized and controlled. 

We shouldn't act like this band DOSEN'T go to South American every 3 years and play to THOUSANDS of people at Lolla's and other festivals and play for wayyyyyy crazier fans than the states. 

All of those things that people say left a "bad" taste in our mouths after 1999 were all products of all of those peoples environment. Don't try to act like the late 90's/early 2000's meat head upper east coast jock culture wasn't like that at ALL because the fact of the matter is it was. And if you get 300,000 people together and mix in alcohol and drugs, companies and businesses price gouging fans (as you said) at a time when most younger kids had absolutely no money and you will get what you inevitably got at that festival. 

When I see "Woodstock: 50" I don't see rape. I don't see violence. I objectively see a festival that has the potential to be the fucking concert of the DECADE. 

All I know is, since 1999, we've had a major shift in the industry in regards to touring and live shows. Every state basically has a mini Woodstock of their own now. 

I think we should let this notion of "Woodstock 99" destroying the Woodstock image die. It's like getting divorced in a bad marriage and never getting with someone else as you continue to shit talk your ex. Move on. You can only go up from the point you are at. 


As for people who disagree with this being a festival and PJ playing it, 

Why????????

Whats the alternative? Potentially either getting REALLLLY close with 10C tickets at an arena? Or potentially getting the second to last seat at an arena?? Who knows, if we got tickets NOW we probably wouldn't even find out where we are sitting until July..... (*cough, cough* last year)

People see festivals now and automatically dismiss it. At festivals you can literally PICK where you want to be in the audience. You can bring your *drug* of choice inside without having to worry about stadium or arena security. You have even more potential to meet people who have the same music values as you do etc, etc. 

$300 for a festival ticket with a weekend LINEUP (which we can only hope will be the lineup of the decade) 

or 

$300 for 2 10C tickets to 1 PJ show....

It's your money though..

tempo_n_groove

YoullseeDragons said:

I think it's a real possibility. The organizers of Woodstock are looking for the best-of-the-best over the last 50 years. Historically they are a perfect fit for what they are trying to present at the 3 day festival. Woodstock is more of a musical retrospective, not just an annual festival where you fill in the blanks from year to year. We shall see. 

Imagine the cost of this?!?

tempo_n_groove

SandyRavage said:

For anyone saying woodstock is "unsafe": (i posted this in the rumor thread, but it belongs here now)

I'm so sick of this mentality. 

Some people act like festival production in the 90's was Bret Hart status. The best there was, the best there is, and the best there ever will be. 

Wrong. 

Music festivals as we know them today were just starting to take off in the late 80's, early 90's. Everything since then has become more organized and controlled. 

We shouldn't act like this band DOSEN'T go to South American every 3 years and play to THOUSANDS of people at Lolla's and other festivals and play for wayyyyyy crazier fans than the states. 

All of those things that people say left a "bad" taste in our mouths after 1999 were all products of all of those peoples environment. Don't try to act like the late 90's/early 2000's meat head upper east coast jock culture wasn't like that at ALL because the fact of the matter is it was. And if you get 300,000 people together and mix in alcohol and drugs, companies and businesses price gouging fans (as you said) at a time when most younger kids had absolutely no money and you will get what you inevitably got at that festival. 

When I see "Woodstock: 50" I don't see rape. I don't see violence. I objectively see a festival that has the potential to be the fucking concert of the DECADE. 

All I know is, since 1999, we've had a major shift in the industry in regards to touring and live shows. Every state basically has a mini Woodstock of their own now. 

I think we should let this notion of "Woodstock 99" destroying the Woodstock image die. It's like getting divorced in a bad marriage and never getting with someone else as you continue to shit talk your ex. Move on. You can only go up from the point you are at. 


As for people who disagree with this being a festival and PJ playing it, 

Why????????

Whats the alternative? Potentially either getting REALLLLY close with 10C tickets at an arena? Or potentially getting the second to last seat at an arena?? Who knows, if we got tickets NOW we probably wouldn't even find out where we are sitting until July..... (*cough, cough* last year)

People see festivals now and automatically dismiss it. At festivals you can literally PICK where you want to be in the audience. You can bring your *drug* of choice inside without having to worry about stadium or arena security. You have even more potential to meet people who have the same music values as you do etc, etc. 

$300 for a festival ticket with a weekend LINEUP (which we can only hope will be the lineup of the decade) 

or 

$300 for 2 10C tickets to 1 PJ show....

It's your money though..

I agree with festivals being safe.

I went to ACL 2014 and Govenors ball in 17 and both are run great!

One had 150,000 people and the other had 60,000 and no problems.

pjsteelerfan

Not going to lie, but I would pay $100 a ticket to see a 3 hour PJ show in an arena  vs. $300 (likely much more) to see them play maybe a 2 hour set after standing all day in a field in 95 degree heat with 100% humidity in the middle of August every single time. 

SandyRavage

tempo_n_groove said:

I agree with festivals being safe.

I went to ACL 2014 and Govenors ball in 17 and both are run great!

One had 150,000 people and the other had 60,000 and no problems.

Its like people forget this is a multi-million dollar industry these days. 

I've been going to Voodoo Fest every year since 2011 and just seeing the progress that festival has made in that time is astonishing. 

I totally think we can pull off another Woodstock in the states and have as many problems as Coachella or Lollapalooza have each year (which are little to none in the grand scheme of things)

RoleModelsinBlood31

They haven’t even announced anything and people are complaining about it.  Just be happy they may play anywhere.  We complain when they play but not where we want, we complain when they don’t play, we complain about festivals, we complain about ballparks, what a mess we are.  No wonder they gave up on the single, we should all try to be a little more positive in 2019.

wall232

RoleModelsinBlood31 said:

They haven’t even announced anything and people are complaining about it.  Just be happy they may play anywhere.  We complain when they play but not where we want, we complain when they don’t play, we complain about festivals, we complain about ballparks, what a mess we are.  No wonder they gave up on the single, we should all try to be a little more positive in 2019.

This!

shecky

Woodstock was about young relevant bands. PJ is neither.

pjsteelerfan

Maybe it will be the same lineup as Coachella. 

trees

chiefnjk said:

Waiting for Dimi to weigh in on this one...

Who is dimi? And why do we this persons lead alot?