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- With a budget of $12.5 million, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak put on the first US Festival on Labor Day weekend in 1982. The festival drew over 400,000 people to the dusty Southern California town of Devore to hear bands like the Grateful Dead, Talking Heads and Tom Petty.
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The festival featured the first use of the U.S.-Soviet Space Bridge, a two-way satellite hookup between the United States and the Soviet Union. [15] Organizers had planned to have the US Festival and Soviet rock fans interact as a way to promote goodwill between the Cold War rivals, but it was too dark in California for cameras to pick up the ...
Mar 10, 2023 · After Unuson enlisted legendary (and legendarily cranky) rock promoter Bill Graham, his booking agents headed off to the chosen location: Glen Helen Regional Park in San Bernadino County. It quickly became apparent that the sight was, to put it mildly, unappealing.
May 28, 2024 · With a budget of $12.5 million, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak put on the first US Festival on Labor Day weekend in 1982. The festival drew over 400,000 people to the dusty Southern California town of Devore to hear bands like the Grateful Dead, Talking Heads and Tom Petty.
- Day 1: “New Wave Day,” Saturday, May 28, 1983
- Day 2: “Heavy Metal Day,” Sunday, May 29, 1983
- Day 3: “Rock Day,” Monday, May 30, 1983
- Coda
The ‘83 show was divided into distinct days, with “New Wave Day” kicking off the festival. Saturday’s lineup featured a group of upstarts (Divinyls, INXS, Wall of Voodoo) and early ‘80s staples (Oingo Boingo, the English Beat, a Flock of Seagulls, Men at Work). Stray Cats, with their punk-rockabilly sound, were wedged into the New Wave batch – some...
There was no momentum lost on Day 2 – appropriately dubbed “Heavy Metal Day,” because its lineup was pretty close to being a Reagan-era hesher’s wet dream. The day kicked off at high noon, with Sunset Strip breakout stars Quiet Riot and Mötley Crüe performing back-to-back. They were followed by British metal icons Ozzy Osbourne and Judas Priest bef...
The third day, aka “Rock Day,” continued the seemingly never-ending assembly line of ‘80s hitmakers. Los Lobos, Little Steven & the Disciples of Soul, Quarterflash, Berlin, Missing Persons, U2, the Pretenders, Joe Walsh, and Stevie Nicks all performed. Headliner David Bowie had a tricky enough time just making it to the show. Bowie had kicked off h...
The ‘83 US Festival is usually remembered for the three-day bash that took place over Memorial Day Weekend. But the festival didn’t officially wrap up until the following weekend, when Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson led a “Country Day” on June 4. Details like that tend to get lost over the course of four decades. What hasn’t been lost on the art...
Jun 28, 2017 · Thirty-five years ago, on September 3, 1982, the US Festival took its shot at the pantheon, ambitiously plotting an updated version of utopian bliss. Set in the San Bernardino town of Devore...
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Sep 3, 2015 · The US Festival began with an idea from Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, who wanted to put on an event that would spotlight both music and technology.
Aug 10, 2018 · Today the US Festival, the multi-day all-star concert event that first launched in September 1982 by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, is regarded as a minor cultural footnote of the ’80s—similar...
