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The US Festival 1983 You Pick One Day Only

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  1. 1. It's 1983 and your in California during the US Festival. You can only attend one day, which one???

    • Saturday: New Wave and Punk is my jam.
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    • Sunday: I'm sooo metal, gonna bang my head and hit the head during Joe Walsh.
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    • Monday: Because I'm too young to drive so I'm going with my parents.
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Saturday, the only interesting band is INXS, and I only like a few songs from The Clash. That day is a hard no.

 

Monday you have Bowie leading off and prime-era U2 much later in the day, but that's it. Too much dead space between those two to hang there the whole day.

 

Sunday we have Van Halen, Scorpions, Triumph and Preist in the first four spots. Randy Rhoads died the year before so no need to hang out for Ozzy. I could leave after the first four bands and be happy.

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J2112YYZ

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1 hour ago, 1-0-0-1-0-0-1 said:

Saturday, the only interesting band is INXS, and I only like a few songs from The Clash. That day is a hard no.

 

Monday you have Bowie leading off and prime-era U2 much later in the day, but that's it. Too much dead space between those two to hang there the whole day.

 

Sunday we have Van Halen, Scorpions, Triumph and Preist in the first four spots. Randy Rhoads died the year before so no need to hang out for Ozzy. I could leave after the first four bands and be happy.

 

You do know that festival lineups are arranged from headliner to opener when they make the posters, right? No way were Van Halen and David Bowie opening those shows. Triumph billed over Priest and Ozzy is a strange thing though.

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4 minutes ago, J2112YYZ said:

 

You do know that festival lineups are arranged from headliner to opener when they make the posters, right? No way were Van Halen and David Bowie opening those shows. Triumph billed over Priest and Ozzy is a strange thing though.

 

No, I didn't know that. I've never been to such a festival and I didn't pay much attention to them back in the day so all I had to go by was that poster.

 

I'm trying to find a definitive show order but no luck so far. This one, maybe? https://www.setlist.fm/festival/1983/us-festival-1983-3bd6b840.html

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4 hours ago, 1-0-0-1-0-0-1 said:

Saturday, the only interesting band is INXS, and I only like a few songs from The Clash. That day is a hard no.

 

Monday you have Bowie leading off and prime-era U2 much later in the day, but that's it. Too much dead space between those two to hang there the whole day.

 

Sunday we have Van Halen, Scorpions, Triumph and Preist in the first four spots. Randy Rhoads died the year before so no need to hang out for Ozzy. I could leave after the first four bands and be happy.

The top four bands come on last. What you would do is have a picnic for the first few bands and then watch the other bands later.

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Monday has War era U2 before Boner turned into a fauxlanthropist wanker and Bowie coming off his Let's Dance album so that one.

I would have picked new wave for The Clash but this was when they were falling apart with the firing of Topper and hated each other.  Strummer once described Jones as "Liz Taylor in a filthy mood" at that time.

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5 hours ago, zepphead said:

Sunday, for Ozzy, Priest and Scorpions.


Triumph dude.  Triumph. :)

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4 hours ago, 1-0-0-1-0-0-1 said:

$20.00 per day. That's mindblowing. What would it cost per day in 2024?


All the dollars.

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The line up all 3 days are crazy good.  Don't know what Joe Walsh was doing on the Sunday line up though - he should have been on the Monday line up IMO.

 

Sunday for me. Triumph (the fact that they were that high on the bill says a lot about how big they were in the early 1980's - plus the founder of Apple who helped put the show together really liked them so that may have helped put them a bit higher on the bill then they might have been otherwise), plus Priest and Ozzy?  Cant beat those 3 bands.  Just the 3 of them make me want to go on Sunday.

 

Interestingly, I understood Quiet Riot also played the festival.  I am certain I have a DVD of their set at the show.  

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1 hour ago, TheAccountant said:

The line up all 3 days are crazy good.  Don't know what Joe Walsh was doing on the Sunday line up though - he should have been on the Monday line up IMO.

 

Sunday for me. Triumph (the fact that they were that high on the bill says a lot about how big they were in the early 1980's - plus the founder of Apple who helped put the show together really liked them so that may have helped put them a bit higher on the bill then they might have been otherwise), plus Priest and Ozzy?  Cant beat those 3 bands.  Just the 3 of them make me want to go on Sunday.

 

Interestingly, I understood Quiet Riot also played the festival.  I am certain I have a DVD of their set at the show.  

It's a similar line-up to Donington in 1984 which I was at. It was:

 

AC/DC

Van Halen

Ozzy

Gary Moore

Y&T

Accept

Motley Crue

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Monday

 

Bowie and U2, Bowie being at his commercial peak and U2 having just released their best album and being on the rise.

 

I would be sad to miss Sunday, but I reckon I’ll get other chances to see VH, Ozzy, Priest, and the Scorps in the next couple years. Bowie in 83 and pre-megastar U2 is a once only event.

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9 hours ago, 1-0-0-1-0-0-1 said:

Saturday, the only interesting band is INXS, and I only like a few songs from The Clash. That day is a hard no.

 

Monday you have Bowie leading off and prime-era U2 much later in the day, but that's it. Too much dead space between those two to hang there the whole day.

 

Sunday we have Van Halen, Scorpions, Triumph and Preist in the first four spots. Randy Rhoads died the year before so no need to hang out for Ozzy. I could leave after the first four bands and be happy.

Pretty sure you’re reading the set order in reverse. Sunday Van Halen is the headliner, so they’ll play last, immediately preceded by The Scorpions. You’re best off showing up fashionably late if you want to catch everything from Priest through VH.

 

EDIT: oops, sorry 73 I see others already pointed this out to you.

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11 hours ago, treeduck said:

What about Triumph??

 

 

Good point .... Triumph would have been ace ....... I never got to see them live.

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10 hours ago, grep said:


Triumph dude.  Triumph. :)

agreed .... (see my last post!)

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Van Halen - Hide Your Sheep Tour

 

 

DUH - Sunday

 

 

 

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