Putting all of these whiney me-generation brats and their offspring in one place is a great idea. Maybe the National Guard can finish what they started in Kent State 39 years ago.

Awseome dude, let there be mud!

Any music from before we knew that Ben moved the island is kinda meaningless.

animal collective should def headline

geronimo jackson!

Is Pepsi sponsoring this one too?

Limp Bizkit + bonfire = I'm staying at home

Animal Collective should learn how to actually play instruments.

Nothing says "counterculture" like corporate sponsorship and $10 bottled waters.

Pass.

Even LOST has hippies.

We will be just as silly to the youth when we/you are older.

Please hate on me.

when do the Vivian Girls play?

...because 40 years worth of baby boomers cramming their "culture" down our throats hasn't done enough damage already. Let's continue the cycle some more. Yay.

Jefferson M-F'n Starship???

Can you say "Jaaaaaaane yer playin a gaaaaaaaame you never can wiiiiiiin, girl.."

Also, Grace Slick will be on hand to pass out her first strain of the clap she contracted 40+ years ago.

i am so glad the internet exists. my opinions matter more than life itself. opinions = invidious comparisons to oneself (insecure). post post post!!!!!!!!!

i hope FIRE and RAPE are playing!

Fire is only playing a DJ set, NOT a full band performance. Gang Rape are supposedly playing with an orchestra, featuring members of the Spoiled Brats and Hippy Odor. Wizard Dick & Nick Zinner are also rumored to be working on a side project specifically for this event.

Cry-Baby: You didn't know anybody who was at Kent State, did you? Go screw yourself, asshole!

We are giving away free tickets to the concert to those with the best woodstock stories. See WoodstockStory dot com for more info. Thanks ;0)

Cry Baby,
You are a cry baby. Too bad one of those Kent State students was not your mom or dad. In which case no one would have to listen to your errors. It wasn't the National Guard that killed those students it was President Nixon you baboon. Get your facts straight.
If we hippies were around protesting today as we did back during the Viet Nam war, maybe there wouldn't be all these young beautiful kids men and women, coming home with blown off legs and arms.
You need to take a look at what's going on around you now brother. Your sister might come back home from Iraq with her pussy blown to bits. Some one else's sister already has. You are a low life, crawl back into your dark age hole please.

I agree with the posturing over who caused the Kent State debacle but as a Vietnam veteran, someone has to go to these political diseasters or we would all be speaking German from WW11 or Vietnamese from the sixites. I can appreciate protesting, conciencious objection but more importantly, i appreciate those who died there for no apparent reason. As teenagers, we went there without political conviction, we went because we were told to go. Heroes aren't born, it's just a flashing moment and in a place where nothing grows but rice and marijuana..go figure.
It remains a stigma that lingers over the political gurus in this country, a war with a country smaller than Rhode Island but.....
hippies or not, this is a violent country and some don't understand the dynamics of a warring country that has been in battles since the seventeen hundreds.
Lighten up, nuances and sensationalism are at times take to be factual.
Keep the faith
Cheers
Don

Wow, some of the commenters here should tone it down a bit...

Anyway, we’re holding an anniversary walk for peace on the weekend of August 8th & 9th in the town of Woodstock; I’ll be posting the schedule later today. And the certified spring water will be free.

http://woodstockwalkforpeace.wordpress.com

We hope to see you there. Peace.

With all respect Big Brother did not perform.
Janis had already split from the band and was
singing with the Full Tilt Boogie Band

wish there was some love left over from '69 for some of us leftovers who grew up free

Kent State left a scar on our National guard and our country. My best friend witnessed these murders on the steps of the admin building at Kent State. It was a horrorific incedent that I pray we learned from.

I hope Lange and company don't charge 5 bucks for a bottle of water like the did in 99 in Rome.

ten years after = crazy blues guitar playing.

Well I was there in spirit! Being only 8 years old at the time,but I consider myself a hippie and always will be!! The music of that time tells a story of the war, and the protesting, of the drug use and experimentation of that time. We'd be still pretty niave, like in the 50's, if weren't for the music of our generation!

This article inspired me to break out some old Janis Joplin tunes and check out some of her live videos on YouTube... incredible.

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

In the TImes of India, there was an article that mentioned a few of the performers from Woodstock. Here's my favorite part:

"Then there were the solo show stoppers and the mavericks - Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Cash - who with their brilliance and unpredictability injected enough drama to make even reality seem paranormal . If it was not their on-stage histrionics that drove fans insane, it was the sheer force of their talent that unleashed uncontrollable frenzy . No one knows what would have been Janis Joplin's place in the pantheon of legends had she not fallen to drugs and depression. Play Kozmic Blues for reaffirmation. As for Hendrix, his lyrics were a mere linguistic counterfoil to his guitar distortions , riffs and use of the wah-wah pedal. Some count six of his searing solos - Purple Haze, The Star-Spangled Banner, Machine Gun, Little Wing, Voodoo Child and All Along the Watchtower - among the top 100 guitar pieces in all of rock, and the man himself the best ever to move his hands on the electric strings. Ironically, the three 'J's of that decade, Morrision, Joplin and Hendrix, all died at 27, each unable to unravel their genius, frailty and madness."

From: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/music/Stuck-on-the-60s/articleshow/5254868.cms