Mötley Crüe – Live at the US Festival (1983)

Mötley Crüe – Live at 1983 US Festival

The US Festival was the name of two early 1980s music and culture festivals.

Steve Wozniak, cofounder of Apple and creator of the Apple I and Apple II personal computers, 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 Glen Helen Amphitheater—the largest amphitheatre in the United States as of 2007. 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.

Memorial Day Weekend, 1983:
The reprise festival ran for three days, this time at the helm was Colorado-based promoter Barry Fey, who with Wozniak added a fourth Country Day a week later. Total attendance was reported at 670,000; the festival still lost $12 million. There were two reported deaths.

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Set List:
Intro / Band Entrance (00:00)
Take Me To The Top (04:00)
Looks That Kills (07:44)
Bastard (14:14)
Shout At The Devil (17:10)
Merry-Go-Round (20:44)
Knock ‘Em Dead Kid (24:14)
Piece Of Your Action (30:25)
Live Wire (36:45)
Helter Skelter (42:35)

Schedule:
Saturday, May 28 (New Wave Day):
Divinyls
INXS
Wall of Voodoo – Stan Ridgway’s last appearance with Wall of Voodoo
Oingo Boingo
The English Beat
A Flock of Seagulls
Stray Cats
Men at Work
The Clash – Mick Jones’ last appearance with The Clash.

Sunday, May 29 (Heavy Metal Day):
Quiet Riot
Mötley Crüe
Ozzy Osbourne
Judas Priest
Triumph
Scorpions
Van Halen

Monday, May 30 (Rock Day):
Los Lobos (on a side stage only)
Little Steven & The Disciples of Soul
Quarterflash
Berlin
Missing Persons
U2
The Pretenders
Joe Walsh
Stevie Nicks
David Bowie

Saturday June 4th (Country Day):
Thrasher Brothers
Ricky Skaggs
Hank Williams, Jr.
Emmylou Harris & The Hot Band
Alabama
Waylon Jennings
Riders in the Sky
Willie Nelson