Woodstock 50 lineup revealed at secret session

[jmyrlefuller]

https://www.lohud.com/story/news/local/2019/03/19/woodstock-50-lineup-announcement-2019-black-keys-common-john-fogarty-miley-cyrus/3205213002/

Day 3, Aug. 18: Jay-Z, Imagine Dragons, Halsey, Cage the Elephant, Brandi Carlile, Janelle Monae

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[jmyrlefuller]

Yeah, first of all... 1, this isn't at Woodstock, it's in Watkins Glen. 2, I know it's not the 60s anymore and that most of the artists were on the cutting edge of rock at the time, but... some of these choices of musical acts make absolutely no sense, either as cutting-edge or as a nostalgia.

I mean, Jay-Z? Please...

(Note the bottom of the article, though: there's going to be a real Woodstock 50th anniversary, at Woodstock, the same weekend.)

[skeeter]

Gotta drive across country to catch Country Joe McDonald, who had one goofy protest song 50 years ago.

Time to put the whole Summer of Love thing to bed once and for all folks. Its over.

Call it something else maybe and move it out of upstate NY.

[jmyrlefuller]

Gotta drive across country to catch Country Joe McDonald, who had one goofy protest song 50 years ago.

Time to put the whole Summer of Love thing to bed once and for all folks. Its over.

Arlo Guthrie (who's going to be at the real Woodstock 50th birthday) once told a story about a conversation he had with Wavy Gravy, the hippie clown. Apparently someone had contacted Gravy about a 45th anniversary Woodstock celebration. Guthrie asked: "Why 45?" Gravy replied: "Because they're afraid there won't be enough of us still alive for the 50th!"

And if you think about it... I mean, most of Jefferson Airplane's gone now, so's Joe Cocker, Johnny Winter, Alvin Lee (Ten Years After) and of course Hendrix and Joplin.

I think for a lot of these guys it might well be a last hurrah.

[Smokin Joe]

It's like a high school reunion. The class is still reliving the past.

There is a lot of 60s redux going on, even if the music isn't as good.

Seems like all the bad parts got exhumed.

[goatprairie]

It's like a high school reunion. The class is still reliving the past.

There is a lot of 60s redux going on, even if the music isn't as good.

Seems like all the bad parts got exhumed.

Better to relive the past than listen to modern r and r.  Popular music today is simply awful.

[Smokin Joe]

Better to relive the past than listen to modern r and r.  Popular music today is simply awful.

The music never got buried. My grandkids listen to it.

It's the rest of the scene that is getting a replay I would pass on, from platform shoes to street riots. Zombie culture eats brains....