Epitaph for the Woodstock 50 that never happened

Jason Gross, excerpted from the article WOODSTOCK 50’s CAUTIONARY EXAMPLE:   MEMORIES OF A CANCELED FREE FESTIVAL in PopMatters:
If there is any tragedy, it's that Woodstock 50 began with all the ingredients for a great festival. They had a long-standing (if somewhat tarnished) name-brand, a cross-generational line-up of dozens of noted acts, and a well-established venue to accommodate them. But Lang and friends managed to blow all of that and tarnish their image even further. Lang's Aquarian Age thinking that you could fly by the seat of your pants (much the same way that the 1970 Isle of Wight fest did) and somehow pull off a miracle by sprinkling pixie dust that would magically make everything happen wasn't going to get an encore from 1969 to 2019. His ego and poor organizational skills couldn't save the day this time. Only in the movies does everything keep magically falling into place for shows.