Closing Bell: Woodstock 40th Anniversary at Prospect Park?
Yes, this could really happen. NY Daily News reports that Michael Lang, who helped put on the famous 1969 festival, is hoping to put on a Woodstock 40th anniversary concert in Prospect Park’s Long Meadow this summer. However, he needs to find $8 million to $10 million to pay for it by the end of…
Yes, this could really happen. NY Daily News reports that Michael Lang, who helped put on the famous 1969 festival, is hoping to put on a Woodstock 40th anniversary concert in Prospect Park’s Long Meadow this summer. However, he needs to find $8 million to $10 million to pay for it by the end of the month. The event would be billed as a throwback to the original with bands like Crosby, Stills and Nash and Dave Matthews Band (different from the ’99 fiasco). Do you think this is a good idea? Would you go?
Photo by FlySi.
I’d only go if they brought back Wavy Gravy and the Village People.
How many remember the Village People played the original Woodstock. It’s in the film, a total WTF moment??!!
TERRIBLE IDEA! SAY NO TO WOODSTOCK IN PROSPECT PARK!!
Sorry to be a wet blanket but the original rock acts are long gone and the Woodstock reunions have been disasters.
The Brooklyn Summer stage concerts are wonderful and that’s enough for me (and our beloved park).
Hippies? We don’t need no stinking hippies.
dirty stinky hippies
It is the height of Boomer pomposity to fancy that the original muck-up would be worth resuscitating, rather than moving on and doing a concert featuring the best of what defines the Brooklyn music scene now. Any geriatric survivors of the first “Woodstock” are ready for Marty’s Coney Island golden-age concerts, not a mega-moment in Prospect Park! For more of my vicious bile ladled onto My Generation, see ayearinthepark.typepad.com.
That weekend sounds like a great opportunity to get out of the city.
Hi DIBS. I have been here at Brownstoner since last September. Thanks for your welcome!
-Theresa
Only bands from Brooklyn. Brook-stock.
That and the hipster dunking someone mentioned above.
It won’t happen, i agree.