He was the man behind Woodstock. But as synonymous as his name became with the music festivals (there were three in total), his subsequent Woodstock iterations didn’t fare so well. We all know the history of Woodstock ’69 and how no one was prepared for the festival (billed as “Three Days of Peace and Music”) to draw 400,000 people to Max Yasgur’s farm in Bethel, New York.
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The miracle that was Woodstock deluded Lang and made him think a trilogy was what the people needed. But Woodstock ’94 and ’99 were sh*t shows. And what was supposed to be Woodstock 50 was canceled, and Lang went down a path of lawsuits and controversies. A few years later, he died.