Woodstock Organizers Cancel 50th Anniversary Festival

Billboard ^ | April 29, 2019 | Dave Brooks

[a fool in paradise]

Detroit

Dr John
MC5
Chuck Berry
Sun Ra
Iggy Pop and the Stooges
Ted Nugent and the Amboy Dukes
Brownsville Station
Johnny Winter
The James Gang
The Bonzo Dog Band
Grand Funk Railroad

https://www.festivival.com/history/first-annual-detroit-rock-and-roll-revival-1969

[mrsmith]

HA!

The only ‘festival’ I made it to. Had way too little money, hitchhiked, (was in high school- so ...) no ticket.
Bunch of us went to the back, the Sheriff got up on a jeep with a bullhorn and told us to be good. After he left we knocked down the fence and went in.
Only lasted the first day. I think a hamburger was $10. Anyway, I couldn’t afford anything.
Remember PG&E, and a great act by King Crimson.
Had to make a report to my english class.

[Tellurian]

Thanks for the rundowns.

I went to the “Newport Pop Festival” in ‘68, both days. Filled my head with constant music for about a week ... a weird experience. Quite a few well known groups at that one: Jefferson Airplane, Byrds, Steppenwolf, Chambers Brothers, Country Joe & the Fish, Tiny Tim, Sonny & Cher, Grateful Dead, Quicksilver MS, Alice Cooper, Eric Burden. I remember moments here and there. Where I sat all went well, but I know it had its share of drug problems, gate-crashers, heat, and shortages.

I intended to go to Altamont. Fortunately, I nearly froze riding my motorcycle up the coast and turned back.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Bearded, Toothless, Stoned and Homeless is no way to go through life, Kids!