A new Woodstock will happen 50 years later. So, who can still perform? And who should?

miami herald ^ | DECEMBER 29, 2018 | By Howard Cohen

[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.

[doorgunner69]

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.

[Vaduz]

And a lot of cat food cans aka their tuna.

[CatOwner]

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.

[SamAdams76]

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

[Viking2002]

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

[hadrian]

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.

[alloysteel]

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.

[dinodino]

That’s not Bon Jovi.

[FlingWingFlyer]

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

[Trump_the_Evil_Left]

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

Think I’ll pass....

[Trump_the_Evil_Left]

Eric Clapton

[northside]

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

Could be any GD performance. Funny.

[Vaquero]

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.

[sparklite2]

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.

[Trump_the_Evil_Left]

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."

[tech_rjmarce1]

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?

[tech_rjmarce1]

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

[KC_Conspirator]

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

[Hardastarboard]

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

[the_daug]

Don’t take the brown acid.