US Festival
| US Festival | |
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| Genre | Rock music, pop music, etc. |
| Dates | 1982-1983 |
| Founded by | Steve Wozniak, Bill Graham |
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The US Festival (US pronounced like the pronoun, not as initials) was the name of two early 1980s music and culture festivals.
Steve Wozniak, creator of the Apple II, believed that the 1970s were the "Me" generation. He intended the Us Festivals, with Bill Graham's participation, to encourage the 1980s to be more community-oriented and combine technology with rock music. 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 amphitheatre in the United States as of 2007[update].) The festival stage has resided at Disneyland in Anaheim since 1985, and has operated under various names and functions as the Videopolis dance club, the Videopolis Theatre, and the Fantasyland Theater.
The festival ran for three days, in 110 °F (42.5 °C) weather. There were 100 arrests and a reported 35 drug overdoses. One "associated" murder of a hitchhiker occurred the day after the event. The festival lost a reported $12 million. (Bands are listed in the order they appeared.)
The reprise festival ran for three days, this time at the helm was promoter Barry Fey, who with Wozniak added a fourth Country Day a week later. Attendance was reported at 670,000; the festival still lost $12 million. There were two reported deaths.
In 2003, the band Triumph released a DVD of their US Festival performance. In 2011 Shout! Factory announced plans to release a series of live concert DVDs from the US Festival. The first two of these releases, Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings, were released November 15, 2011. The third DVD release from Shout! Factory was Quiet Riot, released on March 27, 2012.
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