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Media News. Subscribe to RT newsletter to get news highlights of the day right in your mailbox. RT Explainers. Lang and others sought to mount a concert in commemorating the 50th anniversary of the original Woodstock, but the endeavor ultimately was scrapped due to financial issues and difficulty securing a venue. Although Woodstock often is viewed as creating the template for large-scale music festivals, it wasn't the first to take place in the U. Two years earlier, the Monterey Pop festival drew about , people to California, and in the Miami Pop Festival followed, which Lang also organized.

Responding to media suspicion and criticism of the two s festivals, Lang distinguished between the legacies of the two. Lang still believed that Woodstock and the counterculture it represented was an incubator for social changes leading up all the way up to the present day. Give them that, and it seems to work. It was probably the most peaceful event of its kind in history.

Those are things that grew out of those times and evolved. Two steps forward, one step back, sometimes three steps back. Subscribe to Variety Newsletters and Email Alerts! Happening Now.