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Originally Posted by jayswin
Two major reasons while you'll never see a major festival like that.
1) The music world is moving away from major artist/band success that can be lived off of for decades. Now it's about new artists breaking through (mostly on social media) with a hit or two and an album, blowing up on social media and then becoming much smaller due to the critical mass of new artists being discovered.
2) Artist/Band fees for major recording artists are astronomical now a days. To pull off the star power of the original Woodstock, hell even Woodstock 99, they'd have to charge like $1500 a ticket and have huge numbers sold at that price.
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Liability and law enforcement has changed as well.
They pretty much body cavity search people entering some festivals these days. Plus there is far more structure and order. Capacity is strictly enforced. Everyone gets an allotted space for parking. You need a crazy expensive license to sell food, which is crazy expensive. Basically, "festivals" are now corporate events.
The closest thing to a "Woodstock" type free festival is probably burning man.