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A new Woodstock will happen 50 years later. So, who can still perform? And who should?
miami herald ^ | DECEMBER 29, 2018 | By Howard Cohen

Posted on 12/30/2018 12:06:10 PM PST by Morgana

Soon it will be 50 years since Woodstock.

Not sure what surprises more: the fact that seminal cultural event is coming up on a half-century or that some of its featured acts are still touring. Wasn’t rock ‘n’ roll a youth movement? Didn’t The Who’s Pete Townshend write the immortal line “Hope I die before I get old?” and sing it at Woodstock?

Answers: Yes but not anymore. And yes Pete did, indeed, sing that line from “My Generation” on the third and last day of Woodstock on Aug. 17, 1969.

This week, The Bethel Woods Center for the Arts with Live Nation Concerts and INVNT announced a 50th anniversary edition of Woodstock for August 2019.

(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...


TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: ageism; bonjovi; dentsuaegis; michaellang; militantleft; music; newyork; powertothemarxists; samadams76; stinkinghippies; teardownthiswall; woodstock; woodstock50
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To: Morgana

Only LGBQTWXYZ acts should be allowed to perform.


21 posted on 12/30/2018 12:25:52 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Democracy dies when Democrats decide only elections they win are valid.)
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To: Chickensoup

Burning man amounts to malignant idiocy by a mob of drug addled miscreants.


22 posted on 12/30/2018 12:28:14 PM PST by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man.)
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To: Morgana

Was at the first one at white lake in 69. That’s enough.

Of what i Can remember, I had a good time. My memory today of it is about the same as a week after the event. And that proves I was there.

My favorite performances? The Who and surprisingly Sly and the Family Stone. Janis Joplin was OK. The Band was good. The Dead were stoned to the point that their music was unintelligible.

Lots of new faces like Joe Cocker and Sha Na Na no one ever heard of. Also CSN was unheard of as a band. Missed Hendrix. He played Monday morning while I was hiking the 10 miles to my car.


23 posted on 12/30/2018 12:29:00 PM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you .)
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To: Morgana

The concert could be sponsored by a jails. Th slogan would be, “Sex drugs...and rock ‘n roll.”


24 posted on 12/30/2018 12:29:17 PM PST by I-ambush (One foot in the grave,one foot on the pedal. I was born to rebel.)
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To: Morgana

No one today has the naivete to pull off the charisma of the original. The remade Woodstock would look like a scene from ‘Idiocracy’.


25 posted on 12/30/2018 12:29:39 PM PST by jjotto (Next week, BOOM!, for sure!)
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To: Morgana

Wavy Gravy
26 posted on 12/30/2018 12:29:39 PM PST by conservative98
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To: Morgana
It is sad seeing these old rock warhorses still taking the stage a half century past their prime. I know that there is big money in touring and that aging baby boomers will drop $500 a ticket easily to see their childhood hero croak his way through his greatest hits.

But have some dignity you aging rock stars. Take the money you already earned and go sit on a beach somewhere. This guy below (Bon Jovi believe it or not) looks like the guy I just saw at Ace Hardware buying a new wax seal for his toilet.


27 posted on 12/30/2018 12:29:48 PM PST by SamAdams76
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To: I-ambush

Jails=Cialis. Thanks Autocorrect


28 posted on 12/30/2018 12:32:40 PM PST by I-ambush (One foot in the grave,one foot on the pedal. I was born to rebel.)
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To: SamAdams76

Looks like Clapton.


29 posted on 12/30/2018 12:33:47 PM PST by deadrock
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To: Bullish

Yes.

So what.

That is this generation’s wooodstock


30 posted on 12/30/2018 12:33:56 PM PST by Chickensoup (Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: Bullish

Yes.

So what.

That is this generation’s wooodstock


31 posted on 12/30/2018 12:33:57 PM PST by Chickensoup (Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: SamAdams76

This guy below (Bon Jovi believe it or not)


That guy looks like Eric Clapton and if you dig a little deeper you’ll see that it is Eric Clapton. Google has it messed up in the image search.

https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/aging-rock-stars/22/


32 posted on 12/30/2018 12:35:06 PM PST by conservative98
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To: SamAdams76

That is certainly Eric Clapton not Bon Jovi.


33 posted on 12/30/2018 12:36:58 PM PST by KevinB (If I'm ever arrested, I'm switching parties.)
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To: SamAdams76

“This guy below (Bon Jovi believe it or not) looks like the guy I just saw at Ace Hardware buying a new wax seal for his toilet.

Christ! I was just at Ace Hardware buying a new wax seal for my toilet! You’re not in Tallahassee, are you? And, yeah, except for the hair, that’s me.


34 posted on 12/30/2018 12:38:01 PM PST by Gen.Blather
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To: SamAdams76

Yea. Old folks should just go away and die already. Move on and get out of the way. Right?


35 posted on 12/30/2018 12:41:24 PM PST by Sir Bangaz Cracka (Sweet Saint Skittles bounced dat ole white Craka head off da sidewalk causin he was real skeered.)
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To: Morgana
Better yet who will attend? Will the same people come?

Only if there is secure parking for their limos and SUV's........and ample bleachers and chairs so they don't have to roll around in the mud..........

36 posted on 12/30/2018 12:41:36 PM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: Secret Agent Man

A lot of canes and walkers...


37 posted on 12/30/2018 12:41:56 PM PST by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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To: Gen.Blather

boy I do want to find out the end of this conversation.


38 posted on 12/30/2018 12:44:18 PM PST by Chickensoup (Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: Morgana

Still alive and possibly able to perform:

John Sebastian
Joan Baez
Arlo Guthrie
Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young


39 posted on 12/30/2018 12:47:07 PM PST by proxy_user
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To: Nifster

“Who cares? It was a drugged out sh$& show”

Totally agree. While Woodstock was happening I was at Fort Bragg training for movement to Vietnam. I remember Apollo 11 and Chappaquiddick that summer better than accounts of stoned out hippies in the mud.

For me, 2019 will be the 50th anniversary of nothing.


40 posted on 12/30/2018 12:49:48 PM PST by elcid1970 (My gun safe is saying, "Room for one more, honey!")
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