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It was the first major American festival since CALIFORNIA JAM 2, at 78. Conceived and directed by Steve Wosniak (co-founder of Apple Computer Inc. with the late Steve Jobs) to be the "Woodstock the West," the U.S. Festival was a huge festival with two editions held at the beginning of 80 at 82 and 83.
Wosniak own pocket to pay the land-leveling the ground, as well as the construction of a new structure acu open for the realization of the festival. The structure includes a modernssimo latest generation stage, which later would be relocated and used in various functions in the park temtico Disneylndia in California. The venue was at Glen Helen Regional Park (where later was built the Blockbuster Pavillion, today San Manuel Amphitheater, the largest amphitheater cu U.S. Open), a huge park and sports complex 1340 acres ( which offers all kinds of recreational activities) prximo the Devore in San Bernardino, California.
It was a real musical event that blended several parallel cultural events, workshops and lectures on new technologies, in addition to exhibitions of modern (poca) computers and new musical devices eletrnicos, all in air-conditioned tents with Modern panels. All this "fair tecnolgica", which also featured a wide variety of computer games (courtesy of Apple), arcade (arcade games, which were the great "fever" of that time), and the new and modern games Atari game, was named "Exhibition Tecnolgica U.S. Festival".
Despite the success of public festivals were both commercial failures, and it is estimated that Wosniak has lost about 20 million dollars in this endeavor. Though, as he said at the time, money was the problem. The festival was also sponsored by the Armed Forces, which took place some time in patristic and national holidays.
The first edition took place on the weekend of the holiday Labor Day U.S. (the "Labor Day"), on days 3, 4 and 5 September 1982, and recorded a financial prejudice 12 million es of dollars. About 425 000 people formed opblico present total in the first festival, with more than 200,000 just on Saturday.
The festival received the caption "Three Days Of Peace And Music And Technology ..." ("Three Days Of Peace And Technology EMsica ...") and had a character more "70s" that his second edition, which focused more bands "oitentistas". Still had grandiose moments with the following shows:
J on Sunday the festival ended with the classic rock bands GRATEFUL DEAD (with his show called "Breakfast With The Dead", "Caf Da Manh With The Dead" in Portuguese), JERRY JEFF WALKER , JIMMY BUFFETT, JACKSON BROWNE and FLEETWOOD MAC, closing in style (4th Sunday).
The following year the festival took place on the weekend holiday patritico the "Memorial Day" (which honors soldiers who lost their lives in battle), on days 28, 29 and May 30, 1983, over the Sabbath following, June 3, which became known as the "Day of the Country" ("Country Day"). The Showtime recorded the festival and presented an edited version of 90 minutes each day, being very famous ovdeo the "Day Of Heavy Metal" ("Heavy Metal Day").
Approximately 670,000 people attended the 4-day festival (which is recorded in the Guiness Book at today as "The Greatest Platia Of A Festival Of Rock"), and 375 000 only in "Day Of Heavy Metal" as it was called Sunday. saks off fifth VINCE NEIL (vocalist MTLEY CRE) went on to say that this was the day he died and the New Wave Rock 'n' Roll took his place in an allusion to the "Day saks off fifth Of The New Wave" ("New Wave Day "), the night before. It was the absolute record in American history one day only festival.
Divinyls, INXS, WALL OF VOODOO, Oingo BOINGO, THE ENGLISH BEAT, MISSING PERSONS, A FLOCK OF SEAGULLS, STRAY CATS, MEN AT WORK and THE CLASH, the last presentation of the band MICK JONES (Saturday / "New Wave Day").
LOS LOBOS (a secondary stage), LITTLE STEVEN & THE DISCIPLES OF SOUL, BERLIN, Quarterflash, U2, MISSING PERSONS, THE PRETENDERS, JOE WALSH (EAGLES guitarist), STEVIE NICKS (FLEETWOOD MAC singer of the group) and