Woodstock 50 Lineup Revealed

tempo_n_groove

HesCalledDyer said:

When did EVERY music festival become a hodge-podge of various bands & artists that are completely unrelated in genre or style?  Whatever happened to just a good old rock fest?  Every festival is the fucking same anymore, and they're almost all watered-down as fuck.

When lollapalooza started using rap in the 90's?!?

tempo_n_groove

jerparker20 said:

Sounds like a bunch of 40 year olds in here...

Theres just way too many festivals out there nowadays, and so many that cater to specific types of music. It seems like there is some big festival happening somewhere every weekend of the summer. It makes these giant, destination festivals irrelevant.

Festivals are the way to make a ton of cash now.

Every festival has great acts now.  Woodstock has some awesome lineups but not something I'd want to be out there for 3 days for...

I'd love to see Chance live along w RTJ, Cage and Young the Giant.

Wayyyy too many good acts on this billing that I'd like to see, just too damn far off the beaten path for myself to want to do it.

PJ_Soul

tempo_n_groove said:

HesCalledDyer said:

When did EVERY music festival become a hodge-podge of various bands & artists that are completely unrelated in genre or style?  Whatever happened to just a good old rock fest?  Every festival is the fucking same anymore, and they're almost all watered-down as fuck.

When lollapalooza started using rap in the 90's?!?

I assume he really meant to say it makes no sense to have fests that don't appeal to a generally cohesive audience. The rap at Lolla worked that way. Current lineups don't tend to.

ConorKavanagh

It's just part of getting older, guys. We're less inclined to return to these festivals because we have a sense of having seen it all before. The lineup isn't great. But I'm sure to others it's amazing. Anyone questioning why they ever revisited Woodstock in 1994 and 99, it's obvious really.

jerparker20

tempo_n_groove said:

jerparker20 said:

Sounds like a bunch of 40 year olds in here...

Theres just way too many festivals out there nowadays, and so many that cater to specific types of music. It seems like there is some big festival happening somewhere every weekend of the summer. It makes these giant, destination festivals irrelevant.

Festivals are the way to make a ton of cash now.

Every festival has great acts now.  Woodstock has some awesome lineups but not something I'd want to be out there for 3 days for...

I'd love to see Chance live along w RTJ, Cage and Young the Giant.

Wayyyy too many good acts on this billing that I'd like to see, just too damn far off the beaten path for myself to want to do it.

No doubt that festivals are huge cash grabs, otherwise there wouldn’t be one every weekend of the summer.  I’m not opposed to them either. I’m going to a small one (Hinterland) outside of Des Moines in August.

It makes me chuckle a bit reading peoples comments here that the lineups for these festivals blow because they’ve never heard of half the artists playing on them. When I talk to my cousins who are in their early 20s about these festivals, they complain that all the artist are old and blow. They’re more interested in going to hip-hop festivals or the Electric Daisy Festival. Can’t win...

tempo_n_groove

jerparker20 said:

tempo_n_groove said:

jerparker20 said:

Sounds like a bunch of 40 year olds in here...

Theres just way too many festivals out there nowadays, and so many that cater to specific types of music. It seems like there is some big festival happening somewhere every weekend of the summer. It makes these giant, destination festivals irrelevant.

Festivals are the way to make a ton of cash now.

Every festival has great acts now.  Woodstock has some awesome lineups but not something I'd want to be out there for 3 days for...

I'd love to see Chance live along w RTJ, Cage and Young the Giant.

Wayyyy too many good acts on this billing that I'd like to see, just too damn far off the beaten path for myself to want to do it.

No doubt that festivals are huge cash grabs, otherwise there wouldn’t be one every weekend of the summer.  I’m not opposed to them either. I’m going to a small one (Hinterland) outside of Des Moines in August.

It makes me chuckle a bit reading peoples comments here that the lineups for these festivals blow because they’ve never heard of half the artists playing on them. When I talk to my cousins who are in their early 20s about these festivals, they complain that all the artist are old and blow. They’re more interested in going to hip-hop festivals or the Electric Daisy Festival. Can’t win...

That's why Firefly and ACL are sooo good.  Young hip acts peppered in with some seasoned.

I actually argued with my 20 something cousin that it would be time well spent if we watched Skrillex instead of Eminem, lol.  I lost that discussion.

 We did leave M to watch the end of Skrillex because M was so awful and I got apologies afterward!

brianlux

ConorKavanagh said:

It's just part of getting older, guys. We're less inclined to return to these festivals because we have a sense of having seen it all before. The lineup isn't great. But I'm sure to others it's amazing. Anyone questioning why they ever revisited Woodstock in 1994 and 99, it's obvious really.

Since there is really no cultural or musical connection between Woodstock 50 and the original Woodstock, I can only think of one reason why there would be an attempt to revisit it:

given2fly23

DewieCox

HesCalledDyer said:

When did EVERY music festival become a hodge-podge of various bands & artists that are completely unrelated in genre or style?  Whatever happened to just a good old rock fest?  Every festival is the fucking same anymore, and they're almost all watered-down as fuck.

 Since the beginning. I thought that was the whole point. The lineups are just so sprawling now to include acts from every level of every genre and sub genre.

Olivavu

Awful lineup 

josevolution

By the 3rd day these events just become a shit show , that’s what happened for the last one the portal potty’s were full and just left to overflow down that giant hill , a stream of piss & crap ..never again for me !

Wobbie

josevolution said:

By the 3rd day these events just become a shit show , that’s what happened for the last one the portal potty’s were full and just left to overflow down that giant hill , a stream of piss & crap ..never again for me !

this lineup is mostly a stream of piss and crap

josevolution

Wobbie said:

josevolution said:

By the 3rd day these events just become a shit show , that’s what happened for the last one the portal potty’s were full and just left to overflow down that giant hill , a stream of piss & crap ..never again for me !

this lineup is mostly a stream of piss and crap

Yeah it’s a weak lineup not worth it for me at all..

helplessdancer

i would go just to see mayer's new band play one more saturday night. just saying...

Ledbetterman10

Now they're postponing the on-sale date. Turning into a shit show. 

https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/ct-ent-woodstock-50-festival-postpone-ticket-sale-20190420-story.html

Olivavu

A truly awful lineup. 

JOEJOEJOE

Onsale was postponed due to the lack of some sort of required permits.

dankind

FEST CANCELED!

given2fly23

Wow, crazy: https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/festivals/8509091/woodstock-50-festival-cancelled

Ledbetterman10

Well Michael Lang, go crawl back into your hole.