New Delhi, Aug 20 - The man who organised the momentous Woodstock concert in the US in 1969 wants to come to India next year to host a music carnival, says DJ Black Jack, one of India's oldest and leading classic rock and blues disc jockeys.

DJ Black Jack, whose real name is David Masilamani, interviewed this week Artie Kornfeld, a former vice-president of Capital Records who came up with the idea of Woodstock and made it happen 40 years ago.

'I met Artie in August 2008 when he came to India to plan an Indian Woodstock with Bollywood star Jackie Shroff. But he did not quite like the idea because he felt that Woodstock was not a public property,' Masilamani told IANS over telephone from Secunderabad.

'Instead, Artie hosted a three-day Spirit of India festival in Bangalore with the Art of Living founder Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. Artie and I got together there and have since then bonded over music.

'Artie now wants to come back to India in 2010 and host another festival - another Spirit of India festival,' he said.

Masilamani interviewed Kornfeld for the 'Woodstock Tribute', an hour-long online music show on Myopusradio.com, India's first internet radio for international music created by the DJ.

He said he wanted to interview Kornfeld as he decided to dedicate his music broadcasts for August to Woodstock. 'The message that music heals rings loud even now as new conflicts ravage the world', said Masilamani.

It was on the weekend of Aug 15, 1969, nearly 500,000 people descended on a six-acre dairy farm near New York for a rain-drenched carnival of rock 'n' roll. For three days, the legends of classic rock, along with Indian musicians like Ravi Shankar and Allah Rakha, let their music lash out against the horror of the ongoing Vietnam war.

'Vietnam was such a major issue for America. Woodstock was a rejection of the war and for all the freedom of human soul. Artie captures the spirit in his book,' Masilamani said.

Forty years down the line, the scenario is not much different, the DJ says.

'It's worse. We can never have another Woodstock, but contemporary Western music is going back to its mellow roots of the 60s.