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U.S. Festival westfarms mall hours From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The U.S. Festivals (U.S. pronounced like the pronoun, not as initials) was two 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 May 1983. Wozniak paid for the bulldozing and construction of a new domain outdoor location as well as the construction of a huge 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 westfarms mall hours since 2007.) In the years after the confusion of the Woodstock Festival westfarms mall hours and crowd control debacle of the Altamont Free Concert in 1969, most tried festivals in the United States were small-scale affairs, usually centered around a humanitarian cause. The U.S. Festival in 1982 was the first major festival California Jam II since it was not a charity concert westfarms mall hours is intended to be celebration of evolving technologies, a marriage of music, computers, television westfarms mall hours and people. The two festivals also included large air-conditioned tents featuring the U.S. Festival Technology westfarms mall hours Exposition-a dazzling display of then-cutting edge computers, software and electronic music devices. (See link below Softalk article for a walk back in the history of computing.)
Each of the two festivals had hundreds of thousands of people in attendance, but were resounding commercial failures. It is estimated that sponsor Wozniak lost nearly $ 20 million in two years. Van Halen received an initial $ 1.5 million of the 1983 U.S. Festival. In contrast, The Clash refused to play unless some donations were made to charities or other worthy causes by Wozniak and some of the other great bands. After The Clash performed the DJ started talking immediately and Clash guitarist Mick Jones attacked the DJ believing he was trying to avoid an encore. This and The Clash's ironic criticism of the festival in the press and in interviews before the event caused an argument backstage between Van Halen frontman David Lee Roth and The Clash singer Joe Strummer. This may also have been kickstarted by a comment guitarist Eddie Van Halen made in Rolling Stone magazine one month prior regarding the punk movement ("... it'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 during the early Van Halen headlining set with his comment, "I want to take this moment to say that this is real whiskey here ... the only people who put iced tea in Jack Daniel's bottles is The Clash, baby! "Roth's westfarms mall hours comment, however, was used in each phase of Van Halen show as a challenge to the opening night of the group, and in this case, was directed by The Clash. This was the only mention westfarms mall hours of Roth The Clash on stage that night. westfarms mall hours "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" in Festival'83 U.S.. Assigned to the single day concert attendance record for the U.S. with an estimated 375,000 people. Showtime recorded the event, 90 minutes, and a special air for each day of the festival.
Labor Day Weekend 1982 Three days, 105 F (40.5 C) weather, 36 arrests, 12 drug overdoses, lost $ 12.5 million. (Bands are listed in the order They Appeared.) Friday, September 3 Gang of Four The Ramones The Inglês Beat Oingo Boingo The B-52's Talking Heads The Police Saturday, westfarms mall hours September 4 The Joe Sharino Band Dave Edmunds westfarms mall hours Eddie Money Santana The Cars The Kinks Pat Benatar Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers Sunday, September 5 Breakfast with the Dead Grateful Dead Jerry Jeff Walker Jimmy Buffett Jackson westfarms mall hours Browne Fleetwood Mac
Memorial Day Weekend, 1983 Three days, 105 F (40.5 C) weather, 36 arrests, 12 drug overdoses, lost $ 12.5 million. (Bands are listed in the order They Appeared.) Friday, September 3 Gang of Four The Ramones The Inglês Beat Oingo Boingo The B-52's Talking Heads The Police Saturday, September 4 The Joe Sharino Band Dave Edmunds Eddie Money Santana The Cars The Kinks Pat Benatar Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers Sunday, September 5 Breakfast with the Dead Grateful Dead Jerry Jeff Walker Jimmy Buffett Jackson Browne Fleetwood Mac
Memorial Day Weekend, 1983 Three days (plus a fourth Country Day a week later), 670,000 in attendance, lost $ 7-8 million, one Reported death. Saturday, May 28 (New Wave Day) Divinyls INXS Wall of Voodoo - Stan Ridgway's last appearance with Wall of Voodoo Oingo Boingo The Beat Inglês A Flock of Seagulls Stray Cats Men at Work The Clash