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.
25 year reunion in 1994 was held near woodstock ny, right off the thruway exit at saugerties. This I know because it was the only job I ever got fired from……..
…wouldn’t pay 50 cents to see david crosby if he was in cobble hill park
They’ll never do it. The lawns will ruined.
The Iron & Wine guy. Beam is his name??? Born in 1974.
Southern Man was definitely NOT offered to Lynyrd Skynyrd, though they did write Sweet Home Alabama partly as a rebuttal.
If Vox Pop can get $64,000 in a few weeks to save a coffee shop, I don’t see why all of Brooklyn couldn’t raise $8-10 million for this. I’d rather have the Long Meadow be preserved, thank you…
Wasn’t that terrible 1999 festival where there were torched cars and rioting because it was so poorly run that there was no water for the concert goers?
Ugh. All I remember from reading about 1999 was violence and some girls getting raped.
Michael Lang needs to let go of the past.
DIBS – who’s the “he” refer to?
I love Neil Young, CSN not so much. “Expecting to Fly” – one of the saddest songs I know. I also love the guitar parts in “Down by the River”. “Southern Man” I think was offered to Lyrnyrd Skynryd first.
“And the reason the 30th anniversary party which actually was at Woodstock was such a flop was because it was full of crap like Metallica and got that kind of heavy metal crowd and there was a fair amount of violence.”
It was on a retired air force base in Rome NY. I stood on the stage for the whole thing and almost lost my life (only minor exaggeration) dodging all manner of thrown projectiles. Worst experience I ever had shooting concerts. Madness all around–badly run, terrible location, hideous line up, angry attendees. What a nightmare…