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SteppingRazor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-12-07 01:13 PM
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4. Short answer: No lineup could make up for '99. Long answer:
I was somewhere north of Indianapolis in late July 1999, at the Deer Creek Amphitheatre, for a two-day run by Phish, the inheritors of the Grateful Dead traveling-hippie circus. The band was playing its second night, and word had come down the wire that Woodstock was burning. The band performed a good set -- I recall a particularly stellar "Theme from the Bottom" segueing into "Down With Disease" -- and the band's lead singer/guitarist then gave a little speech about how great the band's scene was, what a community atmosphere, love, peace, and so on. He ended it with "It's only when you get greedy that things go up in flames."

Phish encored that night with "Woodstock" by Crosby, Stills and Nash.

What it comes down to is, there is combination of quantity and quality of bands that would make Woodstock great again. In fact, a killer lineup like you suggest would only make matters worse. Because it wasn't truly the lineup that killed Woodstock. It was the $8 bottle of water.
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