MUSIC NEWS - With the increased interest in all things Woodstock and the original event's 40th Anniversary, some legal squables has already started. And now, the organizer's of San Francisco's planned daylong celebration have announced that they will fight the original Woodstock promoters. These are the same Summer of Love folks that revisit the Hippie Sacred Ground in Golden Gate Park every 10 years to celebrate San Francisco's Human Be In that became the Summer of Love that became the Woodstock Generation and the Age of Aquarius. Council of Light leader and SF event promoter, Boots Hughston, Former District Attorney Terrence “Kayo”Hallinan, Woodstock veteran musician and attorney Barry “The Fish” Melton and his partner Country Joe McDonald along with Lester Chambers of The Chambers Brothers and Super Lotto Winner Dennis “Mr. Lucky” Sanfilippo announced today at a press conference that despite a Cease and Desist demand from NY's Woodstock Ventures, their day long free show on Sunday, October 25th is fully permitted, financed and will take place as scheduled. Hughston also complained of “an old fashioned shakedown tactics for money” by Woodstock producer Michael Lang.
Lang 's attorney, Jonathan Reichman, has said his clients are trying to head off any confusion over events. Lang and Woodstock Ventures planned 40th Anniversary of Woodstock
The group of Summer of Love and Woodstock veterans have asked that Woodstock Ventures recognize that the “Peace, Love & Music they (WV) wish to cash in on was created in San Francisco.” They have pointed out that no less than 18 of acts that performed at the original Woodstock in NY State, flew in from San Francisco and the roots of the event and movement are in SF. At Wednesday's Press conference Former San Francisco District Attorney, Terrence Hallinan unveiled a map of San Francisco made by Governor HH Haight that shows a large part of San Francisco was designated Woodstock back in 1878.
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