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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: Extremely Extreme Extremist

I gathered back when that most all the Stones had done that total transfusion routine in Switzerland. Was to end addiction to heroin without withdrawal unpleasantness.


41 posted on 12/30/2018 12:52:49 PM PST by doorgunner69
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To: Morgana

And a lot of cat food cans aka their tuna.


42 posted on 12/30/2018 1:01:52 PM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: proxy_user
John Fogerty (CCR), although CCR's performance was not released on the film nor the soundtrack. Rumor has it the record company owning their rights couldn't come to an agreement. No surprise there, given all of the legal issues CCR and Fogerty had over the decades with them.

Fogerty is a raging liberal these days, so he would fit right in. Which saddens me because CCR was one of my all-time favorite groups.

43 posted on 12/30/2018 1:03:59 PM PST by CatOwner
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To: Sir Bangaz Cracka

Go to the beach. That’s all I’m saying.


44 posted on 12/30/2018 1:04:01 PM PST by SamAdams76
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To: Morgana

They’ll have to build the arena like a Greek ampitheater to wheel all the remaining geriatics out to the stage.....,


45 posted on 12/30/2018 1:09:47 PM PST by Viking2002 ("For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind." Hosea 7:8)
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To: Morgana

The Who (the two who survive) would definitely be able to - saw them for the first and only time in 2017 and they were great. Watched their Woodstock performance of “See Me Feel Me” and although their 2017 version wasn’t quite as energetic, it was still really good.


46 posted on 12/30/2018 1:10:01 PM PST by hadrian
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To: Morgana

Woodstock - an American memorabilia event, no more to be repeated that VE Day, 1945, the end of the war in Europe.

The original participants may no longer be gathered, and the events cannot be recreated as any more than carefully arranged poses.


47 posted on 12/30/2018 1:31:14 PM PST by alloysteel (Man does not live by bread alone. He needs chocolate cake too.)
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To: SamAdams76

That’s not Bon Jovi.


48 posted on 12/30/2018 1:31:26 PM PST by dinodino
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To: Morgana

This thing will fizzle out when all of the old Woodstockers take off their clothes.


49 posted on 12/30/2018 1:35:56 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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To: Morgana

Sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll with filthy hippies in endless MUD, what’s not to love?

Think I’ll pass....


50 posted on 12/30/2018 1:50:45 PM PST by Trump_the_Evil_Left (FReeper formerly known as Enchante (registered Sept. 5, 2001), back from the wild....)
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To: dinodino

Eric Clapton


51 posted on 12/30/2018 1:54:04 PM PST by Trump_the_Evil_Left (FReeper formerly known as Enchante (registered Sept. 5, 2001), back from the wild....)
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To: Vaquero

“The Dead were stoned to the point that their music was unintelligible.”

Could be any GD performance. Funny.


52 posted on 12/30/2018 1:54:54 PM PST by northside
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To: northside

Actually I saw the Dead 6-7 times. They definitely have different degrees of proficiency in their music. Sometimes excellent. I’m talking about their more ‘country’ stuff not their psychedelic early ‘acid’ stuff.


53 posted on 12/30/2018 1:59:05 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: SamAdams76
It is sad seeing these old rock warhorses still taking the stage a half century past their prime.
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It is an indicator of the choke hold baby boomers have on the culture.  Reanimating Woodstock fifty years after the fact would be like the 1965 Super Bowl featuring a half-time performance by the Cliquot Club Eskimos.



54 posted on 12/30/2018 1:59:16 PM PST by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: CatOwner
CCR definitely developed huge legal (and interpersonal) struggles which led to early break-up of the band and endless bad blood to this day. However, I have read a couple of times over the years that the specific cause of their performance being left out of Woodstock film and album releases was that John Fogerty considered the performance sub-par for them and vetoed its release (he was quite the perfectionist, but maybe also control-freak in the eyes of fellow band members):

"At the wee hours of the night, CCR took the stage for a sleepy Woodstock crowd who had just finished mellowing out to an arduously long performance by the Grateful Dead. John Fogerty of CCR refused to allow the concert to be put on the documentary as he felt that the circumstances created a performance was not good enough to be documented."
55 posted on 12/30/2018 2:04:47 PM PST by Trump_the_Evil_Left (FReeper formerly known as Enchante (registered Sept. 5, 2001), back from the wild....)
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To: Morgana

I hope the Rolling Stones don’t employ the Hell’s Angels for security like they did at The Altamont Speedway Free Festival. Or maybe they should?


56 posted on 12/30/2018 2:09:47 PM PST by tech_rjmarce1
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To: conservative98

Bon Jovi and Clapton actually melded into one person back in 1993. I saw it on the internet, so I believe it.


57 posted on 12/30/2018 2:15:00 PM PST by tech_rjmarce1
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To: Morgana

It will be like Coachella in CA or Ultra in Miami.


58 posted on 12/30/2018 2:15:14 PM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: donna

I’ve heard the album. Most of the music was crap, IMO.


59 posted on 12/30/2018 2:25:44 PM PST by Hardastarboard (Break it off in 'em, Brett. They've earned it, and you've earned it.)
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To: Morgana

Don’t take the brown acid.


60 posted on 12/30/2018 2:26:46 PM PST by the_daug
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