Motley Crue "Live wire" Us festival
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Motley crue playing Live wire, at the Us festival '83
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Carlos Santana
Carlos Augusto Alves Santana (born July 20, 1947) is a Mexican American rock guitarist. Santana became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, Santana, which pioneered rock, salsa and jazz fusion. The band's sound featured his melodic, blues-based guitar lines set against Latin and African rhythms featuring percussion instruments such as timbales and congas not generally heard in rock music. Santana continued to work in these forms over the following decades. He experienced a resurgence of popularity and critical acclaim in the late 1990s. Rolling Stone named Santana number 15 on their list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time in 2003. He has won 10 Grammy Awards and 3 Latin Grammy Awards.
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Dave Edmunds
'''David 'Dave' Edmunds''' (born 15 April 1944, Cardiff, Glamorgan, South Wales) is a Welsh singer, guitarist and record producer. Although he is primarily associated with Pub rock and New Wave, and had numerous hits in the 1970s and early 1980s, his natural leaning has always been towards 1950s style rock and roll.
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David Bowie
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David Lee Roth
David Lee Roth (born October 10, 1954) is an American rock vocalist, songwriter, actor, author, and former radio personality, best known as the original lead singer of Van Halen. He was widely respected and emulated as one of the greatest frontmen of hard rock during his early career with Van Halen. In addition to his work with Van Halen, Roth is a successful solo artist, originally leaving Van Halen and going solo in 1986, creating The David Lee Roth Band and having released several platinum and gold solo albums. Without Van Halen, the band and brand he helped build up to support him, by the early 1990s Roth's solo career stalled, and he went on to explore other career alternatives. Sometimes referred to as Diamond Dave, Roth rejoined Van Halen in 2007 (much to the joy of the band's fanbase) for a North American tour that became the highest grossing tour in the band's history. Most people aren't aware that Roth's bass baritone voice, spanning F♯1 to F♯5, encompasses the widest range in rock music to this day. Roth was ranked by Hit Parader nineteenth on their list of the 100 Greatest Heavy Metal Singers of All Time.
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Eddie Money
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Eddie Van Halen
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Emmylou Harris
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Jackson Browne
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Jerry Jeff Walker
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Joe Walsh
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Ozzy Osbourne
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Pat Benatar
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Ramones
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Stan Ridgway
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Waylon Arnold Jennings (June 15, 1937 – February 13, 2002) was an American country music singer, writer and musician. A self-taught guitar player, he rose to prominence as a bass player for Buddy Holly following the break-up of The Crickets. Jennings escaped death in the February 3, 1959, plane crash that took the lives of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson when he gave up his seat to Richardson who had been sick with the flu. Urban legend and Hollywood folklore have it that Jennings and The Big Bopper flipped a coin for the last seat on the plane, with Jennings losing. It was, in fact, Tommy Allsup who flipped the coin for the fated plane trip, losing his seat to Ritchie Valens.
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Jack Daniel's
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Missing Persons - US festival, 1983 - Words [live...?]
there's another high quality video of this on youtube, i just fixed the aspect ratio on it, both to see if i could actually do it and so it wasn't annoying to look at. i don't claim any copyright. from some of the other uploaded videos of this performance, i'm not sure this is the original audio track. it does seem to be a live recording (it differs from the studio track), and the drum fill at the end seems to match the video...maybe some of the other youtube videos of this have the wrong audio? i don't know...but this sounds good, seems to match up well with the video, and now it looks right, too.
Van Halen 1983 US Festival - Jamies Crying
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- Duration: 7:56
- Published: 20 Dec 2007
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- Author: DimebagIsGod1992
Van Halen performing in 1983 at US Festival. Includes David Lee Roth's famous quote "hey dont squirt water at me pal, im gonna fuck you girl friend"
U2 - Electric Co. - US Festival 1983
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- Duration: 7:25
- Published: 28 Apr 2006
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- Author: ringomikan
US Festival 1983
US Festival - Historic Films Archive
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- Published: 13 Jan 2011
- Uploaded: 22 Jun 2011
- Author: historicfilms
Historic Films, partnering with California-based SHOUT FACTORY has acquired all rights to the first tech-driven rock festival. The US Festivals were two early 1980s music and culture festivals sponsored by Steve Wozniak, formerly of Apple Computer. The first was held Labor Day weekend in September 1982 and the second was Memorial Day weekend in May 1983. Wozniak paid for the bulldozing and construction of a new open-air field venue as well as the construction of an enormous state-of-the-art temporary stage at Glen Helen Regional Park near Devore, San Bernardino, California. (This site was later to become home to Blockbuster Pavilion - now San Manuel Amphitheater - the largest amphitheater in the United States as of 2007.) A stellar list of the most popular acts of the day including FLEETWOOD MAC, TALKING HEADS, SANTANA, STRAY CATS, THE CLASH, THE CARS, THE POLICE, THE B-52s, VAN HALEN, OZZY OSBOURNE, THE GRATEFUL DEAD, THE PRETENDERS, DAVID BOWIE, THE RAMONES, MOTLEY CREW, QUIET RIOT and many others were filmed at the festival with multi-camera shoots. Some of the footage was used on SHOWTIME and MTV specials but the great majority has never met the light of day. Besides the over 100 hours of performance footage is many hours of great early 1980s youth pop-culture stock footage. All of which has been logged and re-transferred and is available for licensing. For licensing inquiries please contact our research staff.
Divinyls - US Festival '83 - Boys in Town - RARE!!
Divinyls perform "Boys In Town" at the US Festival in San Bernardino, California, May 28, 1983. Transfered from a VHS recording of USA Network's "Night Flight" program which aired in 1983.
US Festival Ozzy live (jake e lee first concert) part 1
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- Published: 03 May 2008
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awesome= www.myspace.com ozzy live at the us festival/jake e lee's debut with ozzy Jakey Lou Williams (born February 15, 1957 in Norfolk, Virginia, USA), known as Jake E. Lee is a guitarist best known for his work with Ozzy Osbourne and the band Badlands. Lee took classical piano lessons as a child, and would also play around with his older sister's guitar. After discovering Jimi Hendrix, he knew he wanted to be a rock guitarist. He played in various high school bands and would eventually bring his skills to the San Diego music scene in the late 1970s. [edit] Musical career In San Diego he joined a band called Mickey Ratt in 1980, which later became the popular glam metal band Ratt. They released a single "Dr. Rock"/"Drivin On E", which they gave to fans at their shows. Ratt also released the song "Tell The World" on the first metal massacre album which also featured Metallica's first song "Hit The Lights". Lee soon left Ratt to join Rough Cutt which was produced by Ronnie James Dio and managed by Wendy Dio at that time. After hearing Lee in Rough Cutt in 1982, Ronnie James Dio invited Lee to join his band and Lee accepted. The other member was former Black Sabbath drummer and former bandmate of Dio, Vinny Appice. According to Appice there were rehearsals with Lee and Dio. Appice also has said recordings of those rehearsals exist. Lee also claims to have written the riff to "Don't Talk To Strangers" and that Dio wanted him to play "simple block chords that wouldn't <b>...</b>
The Clash - US Festival 1983 - London Calling / Radio Clash
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- Published: 13 Apr 2007
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This video cuts off during London Calling into Radio Clash, full versions are not known to exist except on audio.
Quiet Riot live US festival 1983 - Metal health
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- Published: 12 Oct 2008
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- Author: cho25chi25
Quiet Riot playing Metal Health on the US Festival 1983! Awesome Day :)
Mötley Crüe - Looks That Kill live US Festival 1983 - High Quality
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- Duration: 5:27
- Published: 31 Aug 2009
- Uploaded: 06 Aug 2011
- Author: BergendahlCRUE
Motley Crue - Looks That Kill live at US Festival Glen Helen Park, Sam Bernardino, CA Over 300.000 people attend day 2 of the 1983 US Festival for heavy metal sunday. It's a hot 90 spring day & fans of heavy metal are in for a great time. The 2nd band to take the stage is a relatively unknown band from Los Angeles know as MOTLEY CRUE. Only two weeks before the release of SHOUT AT THE DEVIL, this performance helped take the CRUE to the TOP of the heavy metal charts.
US Festival Ozzy live (jake e lee first concert) part 2
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- Duration: 5:18
- Published: 30 Apr 2008
- Uploaded: 07 Aug 2011
- Author: guitarhero41192
awesome= www.myspace.com ozzy live at the us festival/jake e lee's debut with ozzy Jakey Lou Williams (born February 15, 1957 in Norfolk, Virginia, USA), known as Jake E. Lee is a guitarist best known for his work with Ozzy Osbourne and the band Badlands. Lee took classical piano lessons as a child, and would also play around with his older sister's guitar. After discovering Jimi Hendrix, he knew he wanted to be a rock guitarist. He played in various high school bands and would eventually bring his skills to the San Diego music scene in the late 1970s. [edit] Musical career In San Diego he joined a band called Mickey Ratt in 1980, which later became the popular glam metal band Ratt. They released a single "Dr. Rock"/"Drivin On E", which they gave to fans at their shows. Ratt also released the song "Tell The World" on the first metal massacre album which also featured Metallica's first song "Hit The Lights". Lee soon left Ratt to join Rough Cutt which was produced by Ronnie James Dio and managed by Wendy Dio at that time. After hearing Lee in Rough Cutt in 1982, Ronnie James Dio invited Lee to join his band and Lee accepted. The other member was former Black Sabbath drummer and former bandmate of Dio, Vinny Appice. According to Appice there were rehearsals with Lee and Dio. Appice also has said recordings of those rehearsals exist. Lee also claims to have written the riff to "Don't Talk To Strangers" and that Dio wanted him to play "simple block chords that wouldn't <b>...</b>
Missing Persons - Windows US Festival '83 synced
This is another version of the Missing Persons performance of Windows from the US Festival Sunday May 30, 1983 (MP played from 1:40-2:40). There's already a version of this on YouTube but I wanted to make a version with the AV synced for those of us interested in seeing Bozzio's drum fills in real time. UPDATE: it looks like the YouTube encoding actually threw it a little out of sync again but it's still much better than it was before. PS: was Terry's vocal mic even on?
Joe Walsh - Life's Been Good (1983 US Festival)
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- Published: 21 Feb 2010
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- Author: usandthem72
Joe Walsh 1983 US Festival Glen Helen Park, Devore CA 05/30/83
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US musician Stevie Wonder performs, during the Glastonbury Festival, in Glastonbury, England, Sunday, June 27, 2010. This year marks the 40th anniversary of the festival.
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US singer and director Madonna arrives to the screening for her movie ' Filth And Wisdom' at the International Film Festival Berlinale in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2008. The 58th International Film Festival, Berlinale, takes place from Feb. 7 to Feb. 17, 2008.
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US actress Halle Berry waves to fans on the red carpet prior to the opening ceremony of the 12th Shanghai International Film Festival at Shanghai Grand Theater Saturday June 13, 2009 in Shanghai. China. The festival will run until June 21 in China's financial capital.
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US director, Zack Snyde, attends a news conference to the film "300" at the 57th Film Festival in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2007.
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US actress Scarlett Johansson waves to fans during her arrival for a news conference for the movie 'The Other Boleyn Girl' at the International Film Festival Berlinale in Berlin, Germany, Friday, Feb. 15, 2008. The 58th International Film Festival, Berlinale, takes place from Feb. 7 to Feb. 17, 2008.
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US actor Leonardo Di Caprio arrives at Rome's Tor Bella Monaca Theater, Sunday, Oct. 15, 2006, to present a documentary at the first ever edition of the Rome Film Festival.
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US actress and singer Juliette Lewis
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The Town Hall.
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History
In the years after the confusion of the Woodstock Festival and the crowd-control debacle of the Altamont Free Concert in 1969, most festivals attempted in the United States were small-scale affairs, usually centered around a humanitarian cause. Only one festival, Florida Sunfest, in 1977, attracted over 100,000 fans to see Jimmy Buffet and 17 other acts perform at a cow pasture in Lakeland, Florida. One of the ten largest music festivals in U.S. history, Florida Sun fest was produced by promoter Richard Flanzer. The 1982 US Festival was the first major festival since California Jam II that was not a charity concert—it was intended to be celebration of evolving technologies; a marriage of music, computers, television and people.The two festivals also included large air-conditioned tents featuring the US Festival Technology Exposition— a dazzling display of then-cutting edge computers, software, and electronic music devices. Also making a debut were installations of "out-door rain" - perforated pvc nozzles that sprayed water to fight the fierce hundred degree heat.
Each of the two festivals attracted several hundred thousand people, but were, ultimately, commercial failures. It is estimated that sponsor Wozniak lost nearly $20 million over both years.
Van Halen received an upfront sum of $1 million to headline the 1983 US Festival. It was then upped to $1.5 million after it was discovered that David Bowie was to be paid $1 million. Van Halen had a clause in their contract that they would be paid more than any other act performing at the festival. In contrast, The Clash refused to play unless some donations were made to charities or other such noble causes by Wozniak and some of the other major bands. Before the Clash began their set they made angry comments about the barrio conditions in LA. After The Clash performed, the DJ began speaking right away and Clash guitarist Mick Jones attacked the DJ, believing he was trying to prevent an encore.
This and The Clash's ironic criticism of the festival in the press conferences and in interviews prior to the event caused an argument backstage between Van Halen frontman David Lee Roth and The Clash singer Joe Strummer. This may have also been started by a comment guitarist Eddie Van Halen made in Rolling Stone magazine one month prior regarding the punk movement ("...that's like what I played in my garage when I was a kid, man."). A clearly intoxicated Roth compounded this rivalry by insulting The Clash on stage early during Van Halen's headlining set with his comment, "I wanna take this time to say that this is real whiskey here... the only people who put iced tea in Jack Daniel's bottles is The Clash, baby!" This was Roth's only mention of The Clash on stage that night.
"It was the day new wave died and rock n' roll took over" - Vince Neil, in a famous quote regarding the overwhelming attendance on Sunday, "Heavy Metal Day", at the '83 US Festival. It set the single-day concert attendance record for the US with an estimated 375,000 people. Showtime recorded the event and aired a 90-minute special for each day of the festival.
Labor Day Weekend, 1982
Three days, 110°F (42.5°C) weather; 100 arrests, 35 drug overdoses, $12 million lost. (Bands are listed in the order they appeared.)
Friday, September 3
Saturday, September 4
Sunday, September 5
Memorial Day Weekend, 1983
Three days, 115°F (plus a fourth Country Day a week later), 670,000 in attendance, $12 million lost, two reported deaths
Saturday, May 28 (New Wave Day)
Sunday, May 29 (Heavy Metal Day)
Monday, May 30 (Rock Day)
Saturday June 4th (Country Day)
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