Woodstock 50’s Last Stand: 6 Key Things We Learned From New Court Papers

Rolling Stone ^ | May 10 2019 | David Browne & Kory Grow

[Mr_Moonlight]

The organizers’ war against former investor Dentsu is going to court next week in a last-ditch effort to save the beleaguered festival.

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Less than two weeks after investor Dentsu Aegis announced it was pulling the plug on Woodstock 50, the festival’s organizers fired back at the company on Wednesday through the courts. In a filing with the Supreme Court of New York, Michael Lang, the original festival’s co-founder, and other organizers requested an injunction that would, among other things, force Dentsu to hand over $17.8 million in disputed funds and continue work on the festival. A hearing on the matter is expected to take place on Monday in New York.

[Mr_Moonlight]

Only goes to show - One can never re-create a legend, especially a legend which is based on a myth.

The original Woodstock of 1969 was a money-making enterprise from the word go. Any other reading of it is a head-in-the-sand, smiling unicorns, and peace & flowers in the grave fantasy.

Anyone who still believes otherwise is either willfully ignorant or still mentally stuck in the Abbie Hoffman era 60's ... although the latter may accurately describe the state of the current Democratic party ...

[Coffee... Black... No Sugar]

/sarc

I like the part where the organizers want the court to order that the company “continue to work” on the festival.

[ealgeone]

Never seen a liberal turn down a chance to make money....or keep their own money.

[Larry Lucido]

Can’t they just “pay for it”?

[mewzilla]

This was a Charlie foxtrot from the get-go, on every level, from the private to the public sector participants.

[Mr_Moonlight]

Still though, the music in '69 was pretty darned good :)

oh, and I love your screen name !! Good stuff :)

[Prov1322]

Never seen a liberal turn down a chance to make money....or keep their own money.

...or to keep someone else's money...

[Alberta's Child]

Re-creating Woodstock is like finding some half-decent Italian-American ballplayer from Staten Island and changing his legal name to Joe DiMaggio.

[Mouton]

Actually he was from the sf Bay Area. My dad took me to see his last game and I have been a yankee fan since! Any redo of this today would not be close to what that was: a bio hazard mess brought to us by the counter culture crowd of the 60s. I hope it goes nowhere

[mac_truck]

Fifty years later and Michael Lang is still screwing things up...some things never change.

[mewzilla]

Michael Lang had a lotta help.

[Jimmy The Snake]

The concert was a $ flop but the Movie was where the $ was made

[onedoug]

“Let It Rot” —The Rutles

[moovova]

Dentsu probably got the estimate for the clean-up AFTER the concert. Besides being an environmental disaster of biblical proportions, the cost would break the bank. And, if it rains like it did in 1969 & 1994...whew...

[a fool in paradise]

Michael Lang isnt a good helmsman.

Miami festival
Altamont
Woodstock 69
Woodstock 99

[Rockingham]

DiMaggio was a class act toward genuine fans. My mother was in a Disney hotel lobby and recognized DiMaggio standing by himself. So she went up to him and introcuced herself as a former New York girl who was a Brooklyn Dodgers fan and saw him play for the Yankees. They reminisced together about that era and several games that my mother attended. DiMaggio then saw that his party had arrived, so he asked if my mother had any sons who played baseball. And then he wrote out a personalized autographs for my two brothers in Little League.

[Mouton]

Great story about The Yankee Clipper.

[Rockingham]

And my mother, who can charm the paint off a tank.