Troubled Woodstock 50 festival bids for 'great American comeback'

LOS ANGELES - The organizers of the troubled Woodstock 50 festival are making a last ditch attempt to save the event next month, pledging jobs and donations to community projects in a bid to win support from residents in a small town in upstate New York.

“We hope that, with the help of the people of Vernon can turn Woodstock 50 into a great American comeback story,” Greg Peck, co-owner of Woodstock 50, said in a statement. The organizers turned to Vernon Downs in June after their original investors withdrew their support and the larger Watkins Glen motor racing venue, also in upstate New York, pulled out.

“They are asking us to put together an event that really needs a year of planning in six weeks, and that’s unreasonable, “ he added.

Let’s get together for a pop up concert, half-a million strong, in the style of the Rainbow Gathering, on National Forest Service Land, Michael Lang and Greg Peck.

I watched Jimmy Hendrix perform The Star Spangled Banner at Woodstock. You can’t top perfection. Stop with this Woodstock 50. Miley Cyrus? Good grief

Miley Cyrus? Sorry, but at least performers at the original Woodstock were cool. Well, of course, there was Sha-na-na...

Is it going to be a politics free event?

This is gonna end up just being Country Joe & The Fish on a median strip in Schenectady.

It couldn't be the same Woodstock festival which turned out to be the chicken soup for an ailing country marred by strife how many decades ago, no?

Miley Cirus? Woodstock? Are you serious?

Not happening. I have become gay .. impotent .. nothing excites me anymore .. sight of women scares me .. happy? Now leave me alone. Go find husbands to warm their beds.

Considering the modern political atmosphere and how Woodstock 1999 went, you may want to rethink that.

I don’t know maybe fix your gun violence, homelessness, racism and concentration camps and then focus on the great American comeback. Just a thought.

The original Woodstock that started it all will never be topped. How could today’s artists hold a candle to pioneers like Limp Biscuit and Blind Melon? Woodstock 94 is the first and only IMO

Oooh... It's doomed

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