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’m laying 2:1 it can’t happen on that scale. Put up your jelly beans.
Then lets just have a concert and see if the Stones will play. I will agree that nobody is cooler than Mick, except sometimes Keith.
I do a fantastic “Somebody To Love” from JA at Karaoke.
“But he didn’t write any songs in the 60s or 70s and that’s what this is about.”
Oh I totally disagree man…although maybe the Stones could play. Who is cooler than Mick Jagger? NOBODY!
I think NYPD could handle a real concert. I’m not sure that I’m ready for Prospect Park to become overrun w/ hippies drawn by jam bands.
On the “plus” side, sha-na-na is still around and ready to go.
There should be a booth for dunking hipsters.
Get Ratdog to headline:
“Jack Straw from Wichita!
Cut his buddy down!”
OK, gotta go, hunger pangs making me silly.
This nostalgia is kinda silly. You can never reproduce what was, even if they all the original musicians were still alive.
Do a concert, make it full of young bands and young people, not a bunch of sixty year olds (and I’m 54).
But he didn’t write any songs in the 60s or 70s and that’s what this is about.