We Built This City!

So Woodstock is coming back 4 sure?

Where is Melanie?

Yeah is this yes to this whole 4th woodstock?

Sounds kinda weak….they should have a Phish festival there

I agree, Melanie needs to be there as well as The Who, and Santana…and they should all do the same set that they originally did at the 69 Woodstock..how cool would that be!?

DannyBoy

… these bands sound great and it is also great that they are all willing to play. This will be a huge success!!!

I hope Jefferson Starship comes back with Grace Slick, even if it’s just for one performance.

So who is this going to be geared for? Only teens and early 20 somethings will be willing to camp out for days at a festival and they are not going care/know who half of these bands are. And anyone who went to the original or is in that age range are sure to be turned off already over the disaster that was Pepsis Woodstock 99

And I’ll be there again
I’m 75 years old and ready
to tune in turn on and drop out.

Hippies now rule the world

Maybe I can get a senior citizen
discount with my aarp card

Hope my bell bottoms still fit

They’ll be “Half a Thousand Strong” … Sorry Guys … “You can’t go Home”

how about HOT TUNA and the DEAD

I really hope that this edition of Woodstock goes back to the spirit of the original festival. I think the spirit of Max Yasgar might show up, introduced by Wavy Gravy. We are stardust indeed.

They’ve gotta stop doing this- it’s a joke. Everybody’s dead, including Garcia. Stop calling it Woodstock, and these old-timers should get another gig.

Rolling Stone Magazine was based on this music. Ain’t it a shame their subscriber base don’t know the bands, the players, or the tunes. I say long live rock.

Jefferson Starship……that about says it all.

Odds are that this edition of Starship will NOT be the `80s-Mickey-Thomas-led pop band; rather, the original offshoot of the Airplane, with Balin, et al. Unfortunately, that could mean “Miracles,” which is no less irritating to me that “We Built This City” is to others.

Ain’t these fu ckers allowed to retire?

I feel like the festival will not be anything close to what it was in ‘69. Just look at what happened last time they tried to do Woodstock again, it was terrible. I wish that they could recreate what they had before, but times have certainly changed, and people do not believe in Peace, Love, and Music anymore, they believe in making money. I hope that it will be fun for everone that goes, but I would not expect it to be like the original Woodstock.

People its Bethal Woods! its not supposed to be some huge festival geared towards twenty year olds. ITs on the ground of the originally Woodstock in a small ampitheater. nothing to do with Woodstock 94 or 99!

The event needs to capture the innocence of the time/era. It’s neat they have some of the original acts, but I don’t think solely it should rest with them. there are new bands carrying on the spirit of brotherhood. those bands should get the invite to play. As for Jefferson starship, I’m sure it will be with Balin, but I prefer the 1979-84 version myself.

Obviously it won’t be the same feel of the first and the 94 & 99 festivals. It just a show to remember the 40th anniversary. So soome of same guys are going to be there, the bands that were there have memembers who have since passed away and the ones who are left hav a right to play and have a rememberence. As for the last two, I think those were about greed and alcohol and drugs. Not that the 69 Woodstock certainly wasn’t. But it is what it is. If someone can bankroll it as apposed to another one, then wonderful, it can be a small venue, for some good times and music.

hope it was like woodstock 99

Listen, young’uns, Woodstock set the standard. It’s part of our national zeitgeist. There hasn’t been an event like it since, except maybe the ‘82 US Festival, and the Live Aid/Live 8 shows. And while Grace Slick is unlikely to show up (she’s long since retired from performing), Darby Gould, who has been singing with JS for over 15 years, is incredible.

Canned Heat-Al Wilson\Bob Hite dead
Jefferson Airplane-Kantner only
Big Brother-Janis Joplin dead
10 years after-no Alvin Lee
Jimi Hendrix dead
Levon Helm without the Band
Mountain-Felix Pappalardi dead

What’s the point? The magic of the festival was new and exciting bands of the day…not washed up fake tribute bands that are ot relevant or revolutionary.

Go to Coachella or Lollapalooza instead…or just buy the dvd..it’ll be much better than this farce..

Shouldn’t they be called “Jefferson Wheelchair” by now?

Levon Helm’s current Band is a killer 21/2 hours of true Rock & Roll,, he is the class of this pathetic event,,

He & his world class musicians will kick major butt,,,

the rest – FEH !!!

bd

Woodstock 2009
Forget about it,Woodstock 94
Corporate Bullshit,Woodstock 99 in my mind never existed.
There was only one Woodstock Festival and that was 1969.
And Woodstock 69 still rules the world.

Woodstock 69 vs Woodstock 09
Original 1969 Woodstock Performers
again at Woodstock 2009;;;;;
The List Goes On 2009
John Fogerty,Phil Lesh and Friends,The Who only with Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey,Bob Weir and Ratdog/The Dead,Carlos Santana,Joe Cocker,Levon Helm,Robbie Robertson solo,CSNY,
Jefferson Starship only with Paul Kantner,

Woodstock 69 vs Woodstock 09
Original 1969 Woodstock Performers
again at Woodstock 2009;;;;;
The List Goes On 2009
John Fogerty,Phil Lesh and Friends,The Who only with Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey,Bob Weir and Ratdog/The Dead,Carlos Santana,Joe Cocker,Levon Helm,Robbie Robertson solo,CSNY,
Jefferson Starship only with Paul Kantner,Maybe the festival should be held in West Saugerties on the 100 acres where The Big Pink house is(you know Dylan and The Band lived at Big Pink,and Dylan’s Basement Tapes,John Wesley Harding and Nashville Skyline was recorded in Big Pink’s Basement.Also The Band recorded the Music From Big Pink and the self Titled “The Band” albums there.How Cool it would be to hold Woodstock 2009 at the site of the former home of Bob Dylan and The Band………

It is an effort to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of an amazing event that helped change many lives and certainly an attiude in this country. Canned Heat may have lost the Bear and the Owl, but Harvey “The Snake” Mandel, Larry “The Mole” Taylor and Fito de la Parra are still ready to boogie and play some great music for all who would like to remember, reminisce and hear some great musicians and music!

Forget Melanie at Woodstock 2009.If the event does take place, we hardly need the aging hippie chick, who now resembles an old woman. Time hasn’t been kind to her.What happened?

Who needs an aging hippie like Melanie?

If Sha Na Na plays I’m so there.

Cannot wait for the show.

Don’t eat the yellow acid.

Just watched the anniversary DVD…it’s worth celebrating!!

has it been official yet? is woodstock 09 gonna happen? when and where?

The 40th Anniversary Of Woodstock sounds like it would be fun. Wish I could be there. And that was the brown acid that was bad.

‘the woodstock experience’ jefferson airplane-spencer dryden,nicky hopkins wow oh wow i hope there’s a crosby,stills,nash,young one,of course the greatest movie of all time !!!!!!!!!thanks,cheers peace & love

there were ‘hippie minstrels’ at woodstock 1969 and there will be at woodstock 2009 !!!

8uSadV

I was one of the youngest in attendance at Woodstock in 1969. From my perspective, no event since has captured the soul of a generation as Woodstock did. I attended a multitude of festivals, etc., after Woodstock and as great as some of them were, nothing has ever matched the experience of Woodstock for me. If there is another Woodstock affair in 2010 to acknowledge the original, cancel the original acts that one might be tempted to invite and let the sound of the day prevail instead, let the affair find its own life and let people who attend walk away with their own special memories.

The 40th anniversary should be celebrated with any of the original performers still alive and kickin’, including Johnny Winter, Arlo, Joan Baez, CSNY, John Sebastian, Santana, and everyone esle willin’ to make it. Would also like to see Steve Earle, Tom Rush, Emmylou Harris, Collective Soul, Ringo Starr added to the list of performers, along with John Prine, Michael Nesmith, and Diana Krall.

The original Woodstock was a marquis to our generation. The philosophies practiced there (Peace, Love and Brotherhood) are still a way of life for many brothers and sisters of our generation today. It’s becoming clear that our “philosophy”, plus the ecology movement are going to be our generation’s contribution to the evolution of American Society.
Sooooooo!!! Bring on the music that reminds us why we’re here. Love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Don’t even mention Hip Hop, Rap or Metal. Do them another time.

40 years ago Woodstock 69 was an Ascending Spiritual Event in the history of mankind.It shaped the history and future of modern music.It also brought about a revolution of Mind! It doesn’t matter who is dead or still playing or how old they are.There were many different styles of music just as there are today!The Source energy that was then is Now!The angst,the peace is with us all!I am sure that “Rise Against” or “Flobots” would love to be a part of “WoodstockNation”if they are not already! I am absolutly sure of that. Young or old it doen’t matter. We are leaving the Piscean Age in the dust. 40 years ago we felt this. We knew this in the heat and the rain and the mud.If dont agree” Sit and Spin” It’s totally your choice to decend or ascend! I want to make it again but you see I never left. We Are ONE!

They have PAVED PARADISE AND PUT UP A PARKING LOT! What a huge disappointment. Missed ‘69, made ‘94 (with Melanie “free” bless her heart) and was not sorry to drive away on all the new concrete in 2009!

Was the ‘BAND” at the Anniversary
Have heard that they held out and never appeared.

Won’t be the same without Janis Joplin, of course! There are some incredible live videos of her at Woodstock 69 and other live performances on YouTube.

Speaking of Janis Joplin, you should check out Nina Simone’s original version of “Little Girl Blue” and compare to Janis version!