MARTIN: Half a century ago, singer-songwriter Stephen Stills and Judy Collins fell in love.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "SUITE: JUDY BLUE EYES")ĬROSBY, STILLS AND NASH: (Singing) It's getting to the point where I'm no fun anymore. Famously, it was their second time playing in public.And now we turn to a story of love, friendship and music. Here’s video of Crosby, Stills & Nash playing “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes” at the event. Thankfully, that didn’t happen and everyone came together to create true magic. Governor Nelson Rockefeller considered declaring the sight a disaster area. The traffic was so bad that many fans abandoned their cars on the thruway and walked for miles to reach the venue.
There were issues with food, water, medical attention and waste disposal. The original Woodstock was obviously a musical and cultural triumph, but the location moved shortly before the event and organizers weren’t even remotely prepared for the roughly 400,000 fans that showed up. It’s worth noting that Michael Lang has a pretty spotty record when it comes to organizing mass events. Festivals are very, very difficult to put on and the clock is rapidly ticking.
And even if they get that together, they need to figure out basic things like a traffic plan, housing for roughly 75,000 fans without any nearby hotels, getting enough potable water to the facility and so on and so forth. They have yet to secure a permit to hold the festival at Watkins Glen, New York, which means they are legally unable to even put tickets on sale. Huge problems remain beyond the fact that Lang lost his main financial backers. The bottom line is, there is going to be a Woodstock 50th Anniversary Festival, as there must be, and it’s going to be a blast.” “We would like to acknowledge the State of New York and Schuyler County for all of their hard work and support. “Although our financial partner is withdrawing, we will of course be continuing with the planning of the festival and intend to bring on new partners,” they said. Michael Lang’s team put out a competing statement saying that Dentsu didn’t have the power to kill the whole thing. “Despite our tremendous investment of time, effort and commitment,” Dentsu said in a statement, “we don’t believe the production of the festival can be executed as an event worthy of the Woodstock Brand name while also ensuring the health and safety of the artists, partners and attendees.” Woodstock co-founder Michael Lang is refusing to throw in the towel, but his main investor, Dentsu, has pulled out and released a statement saying the whole thing is off. Woodstock 50 isn’t officially dead at this point, but it’s on life support and the prognosis seems very, very grim.
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