Will there ever be another "Woodstock"?

MayDay10
MayDay10 Posts: 11,855
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I know the media framed the 1999 one as a huge disaster, but is there any chance one of these comes together again?

I would love to see a huge festival with all the remaining/surviving artists I hold in high regard in one place.

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  • EdsonNascimento
    EdsonNascimento Posts: 5,531
    It already did. It was called 121212. Sandy brought them together. Best show EVER.
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  • eeriepadave
    eeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 43,222
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    There will only ever be one Woodstock. There will be other festivals and some may call themselves "Woodstock II" or "WoodstockXIV" but there will only ever be one Woodstock. Following generations would do well to build there own dreams and create there own movements and leave those old farts to quietly mold.
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  • EdsonNascimento
    EdsonNascimento Posts: 5,531
    brianlux said:

    There will only ever be one Woodstock. There will be other festivals and some may call themselves "Woodstock II" or "WoodstockXIV" but there will only ever be one Woodstock. Following generations would do well to build there own dreams and create there own movements and leave those old farts to quietly mold.

    Agreed. I don't think he was saying another Woodstock per se. More like another festival with a line up like Woodstock.

    And even on that point it would still be impossible. If they tried to do that even 3 years later half those bands would have been too big, too broken up or too dead. It was just the right place right time kind of thing.

    But in terms of seeing an amazing line up of bands that you'd never think possible I will stick with my 121212 reference.

    And btw, WHO do those 2 shows/festivals have in common? You can't have the best show if you don't have the best live band ever. ;)
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    EdsonNascimento said:

    brianlux said:

    There will only ever be one Woodstock. There will be other festivals and some may call themselves "Woodstock II" or "WoodstockXIV" but there will only ever be one Woodstock. Following generations would do well to build there own dreams and create there own movements and leave those old farts to quietly mold.

    Agreed. I don't think he was saying another Woodstock per se. More like another festival with a line up like Woodstock.

    And even on that point it would still be impossible. If they tried to do that even 3 years later half those bands would have been too big, too broken up or too dead. It was just the right place right time kind of thing.

    But in terms of seeing an amazing line up of bands that you'd never think possible I will stick with my 121212 reference.

    And btw, WHO do those 2 shows/festivals have in common? You can't have the best show if you don't have the best live band ever. ;)
    Oh for Pete's sake, I very much Dalt. I could know WHO ARE YOU talking about!?

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  • EdsonNascimento
    EdsonNascimento Posts: 5,531
    brianlux said:

    EdsonNascimento said:

    brianlux said:

    There will only ever be one Woodstock. There will be other festivals and some may call themselves "Woodstock II" or "WoodstockXIV" but there will only ever be one Woodstock. Following generations would do well to build there own dreams and create there own movements and leave those old farts to quietly mold.

    Agreed. I don't think he was saying another Woodstock per se. More like another festival with a line up like Woodstock.

    And even on that point it would still be impossible. If they tried to do that even 3 years later half those bands would have been too big, too broken up or too dead. It was just the right place right time kind of thing.

    But in terms of seeing an amazing line up of bands that you'd never think possible I will stick with my 121212 reference.

    And btw, WHO do those 2 shows/festivals have in common? You can't have the best show if you don't have the best live band ever. ;)
    Oh for Pete's sake, I very much Dalt. I could know WHO ARE YOU talking about!?

    Roger that!
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  • SD48277
    SD48277 Posts: 12,243
    There have been rumors of another Woodstock-like concert for this upcoming summer at the site of Woodstock '94 (Saugerties, NY, less than 10 miles from Woodstock but over an hour from the original Woodstock site). One of the promoters from the original Woodstock (as well as Woodstock '94 and '99), Michael Lang, keeps trying.
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  • Nami
    Nami Newfoundland Posts: 5,999
    Woodstock 99 changed me forever.... sunday night scared the shit out of me...

    price gouging at its worst... make no wonder the outcome.
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  • Red Lukin
    Red Lukin Canada Posts: 2,994
    Yep Bonnaroo. Only difference is Bonnaroo is better!
  • DewieCox
    DewieCox Posts: 11,432
    No. Woodstock had the absolute best bands at or near their peak. Only the Stones and Zeppelin were missing, IMO. Even if you got the best bands today together, they don't stack up too well without adding all the nostalgia acts to the show.

    That's without even bringing the cultural impact into it, which I think is pretty much impossible to match these days.
  • 2-feign-reluctance
    2-feign-reluctance TigerTown, USA Posts: 23,462
    Don't call it Woodstock if so.
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  • bootlegger10
    bootlegger10 Posts: 16,256
    It won't. People today only care about there being enough charging stations.
  • eeriepadave
    eeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 43,222
    I think there might be
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  • deadendp
    deadendp Northeast Ohio Posts: 10,434
    https://www.wsmv.com/news/us_world_news/woodstock-th-anniversary-concert-set-for-august-pearl-jam-foo/article_fdc52bb9-f780-5e7a-9a52-78ac3637e89b.html
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  • deadendp
    deadendp Northeast Ohio Posts: 10,434
    edited January 2019
    1969 Woodstock capacity - 400,000

    Woodstock 2019 capacity - 15,000

    15,000 is the capacity of Riverbend in Cincinnati for those familiar.  It's not that large at all.  Certainly too small for the acts rumored to be headlining.  (PJ, Foos, The Who . . . )
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  • Zod
    Zod Posts: 10,906
    That's smaller than an arena.   400k seems stupidly large.  Even in 2019.  You'd still think it would be at least stadium sized?  50k to 100k?
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    Sure, lets do it again in 2019 and call it... what else?  Woodstock 50!  150,000 old stoners (the other 250,000 are either no longer with us or got lost on the freeway just outside of Poughkeepsie), dropping acid, rolling in the mud and listening to the last of the living 60's rockers wheeze their way through the old hits.  What could be more fun?!


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  • Thoughts_Arrive
    Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    Highly doubt it.
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  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,681
    edited January 2019
    deadendp said:
    1969 Woodstock capacity - 400,000

    Woodstock 2019 capacity - 15,000

    15,000 is the capacity of Riverbend in Cincinnati for those familiar.  It's not that large at all.  Certainly too small for the acts rumored to be headlining.  (PJ, Foos, The Who . . . )
    Where did you see 15,000? That doesn't sound right.
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  • deadendp
    deadendp Northeast Ohio Posts: 10,434
    edited January 2019
    PJ_Soul said:
    deadendp said:
    1969 Woodstock capacity - 400,000

    Woodstock 2019 capacity - 15,000

    15,000 is the capacity of Riverbend in Cincinnati for those familiar.  It's not that large at all.  Certainly too small for the acts rumored to be headlining.  (PJ, Foos, The Who . . . )
    Where did you see 15,000? That doesn't sound right.
    An article, several places online and I have a friend who lives in the town of Woodstock (not Bethel Woods where Woodstock actually took place) and she said that it is much, much smaller than what it was.  Phoned her yesterday about it. 

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