who remembers this one???
http://www.soundpress.net/files-pres...s-festival.php
who remembers this one???
http://www.soundpress.net/files-pres...s-festival.php
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I think at this point he'd rather sit at home and spin his massive vinyl collection.
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down.'- Bob Newhart
If they did it again, it would be a bunch of hip-hop artists and Coldplay.
No thanks.
Music isn't about chops, or even about talent - it's about sound and the way that sound communicates to people. Mike Keneally
......and faux country pop schlock
Who cares about Taylor Swift and Coldplay. Give me that lineup from the '83 Metal day and I'm down, even if they are old farts at this point.
The Priest show from that day is legendary, IMO.
ETA: Oops, it was Nickleback that was mentioned but whatever, that kinda same thing.
Carry On My Blood-Ejaculating Son - JKL2000
A festival lineup of 80s acts, if done right, might draw a decent crowd. Depends on the headliner. If one were able to convince EVH to dust off the cobwebs and pull DLR out of his sarcophagus you'd draw quite a few for the metal/hard rock night.
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down.'- Bob Newhart
How many of those bands are even still functioning? Motley Crue retired a few years ago. Triumph I think has done a few reunion gigs in the last 10 years, but I think Mike Levine and Gil Moore are tied down by their day jobs. Quiet Riot...well, they may as well change their name to Spinal Tap.
I don't remember who the other bands were.
As far modern day bands go, I think Coachella, or however it's spelled, has that whole thing sowed up pretty good.
TRIUMPH! Also Crüe, Scorpions, and (of course) Van Halen.
The 5/30/83 Rock Day line-up was legendary, too: Los Lobos, Quarterflash, Missing Persons, Joe Walsh, Stevie Nicks, David Bowie. (U2 and The Pretenders also played, but that would be "take a piss, grab a beer" time.)
They wouldn't be able to replicate the line-up, anyway. Triumph's done as a performing band. Crüe made a pact, but I wouldn't be surprised if there's a "we can play again only if all four of us agree" clause buried in there. Look at how Dokken (the line-up with Lynch, Pilson and Brown) got it together to go play in Japan recently when they got the proverbial offer they couldn't refuse. Money talks.
It's about money. This year's Coachella bit the big burro.
U2 and The Pretenders would be groups I would have made sure I was back for after taking a piss and stocking up on brewskis. But this is the day I would have most wanted to see:
"The authorized story of the 1982 Us Festival features remastered live performances from The Police, Tom Petty, Fleetwood Mac, Santana, The Cars, The B-52s and more."
Did those groups all play on the same day?
There were two festivals, one on Labor Day Weekend 82, and another on Memorial Day weekend 83 (plus a fourth day a week later).
1982
Day One
Gang of Four
Blairing Out
The Ramones
The English Beat
Oingo Boingo
The B-52's
Talking Heads
The Police
Day Two
Joe Sharino
Dave Edmunds
Eddie Money
Santana
The Cars
The Kinks
Pat Benatar
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
Day Three
Breakfast with the Grateful Dead
Jerry Jeff Walker
Jimmy Buffett and The Coral Reefer Band
Jackson Browne
Fleetwood Mac
1983
New Wave Day
Divinyls
Berlin
INXS
Wall of Voodoo (last performance with Stan Ridgeway)
Oingo Boingo
The English Beat
A Flock of Seagulls
Stray Cats
Men at Work
The Clash (last performance with Mick Jones, so essentially the last "real" Clash performance)
Metal Day
Quiet Riot
Mötley Crüe
Ozzy Osbourne
Judas Priest
Triumph
Scorpions
Van Halen
Rock Day
Los Lobos (on a side stage only)
Little Steven & The Disciples of Soul
Quarterflash
Missing Persons
U2
The Pretenders
Joe Walsh
Stevie Nicks
David Bowie
Country Day
Thrasher Brothers
Ricky Skaggs
Hank Williams, Jr.
Emmylou Harris & The Hot Band
Alabama
Waylon Jennings
Riders in the Sky
Willie Nelson
So, no, not all of those bands were on the same day.
I seem to recall one of the premium channels of the day, either HBO or Showtime, airing edited highlights after the fact. 25 years later, VH-1 Classic aired some of that footage, I think.
I know VH-1 Classic showed Berlin performing Sex (I'm A...), but it was cut to ribbons (probably because back in 1983, someone thought Terri Nunn and John Crawford's routine during that song was "too suggestive"). They showed Quaterflash doing Find Another Fool, with footage cut together from at least two songs (you can tell, because there was shots of one of the guitarists where he's wearing a jacket, then in other shots, he's just got a shirt on). They showed The English Beat (who, I imagine, were just on the verge of breakign up), so they used stuff from both fests. Also shown was Scorpions, Men At Work, Missing Persons, Judas Priest, and I forget whoe else at the moment (maybe The Clash?).
I know Triumph released their set (minus the first song) on VHS back in the mid 80's, and it's out on DVD now. I believe the Judas Priest has also been issued (VH-1 Classic showed an edited version of their set a couple years after the earlier retrospective broadcast). Somewhere, I believe I have a bootleg VHS of Van Halen's set, where Roth brags about there being more arrests on Heavy Metal Day than there had been for the entire previous year's festival. He also pulls out a bottle of...I can't remember if it was Jack Daniels or whatever, but he makes a crack about how The Clash (I think he said The Clash) drank whiskey bottles filled with iced tea.
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I'd love to see those Oingo Boingo sets.
Chad
Walsh put on one of the worst concerts I ever attended back in the 90's when he was heavy into his substance abuse years. He appeared to be wasted and it was a very short, and not very good show. I swore I would never go see him again. That being said, I have seen him with The Eagles twice since then and he was great, so today I would probably go see him again if he came around the area. I recently read Joe's ex girlfriend's book. She was there at the US festival Walsh played. There was lots of Cocaine and other substances floating around back stage.
Not surprised. Every Eagle was bad into it for a while. IIRC, it was Geezer (Butler) who said while Sabbath was in North Miami recording Technical Ecstasy at Criteria, and splitting the shift with the Eagles (who were recording Hotel California), they had to "scrape the cocaine off the mixing console" every day before they started working.
Didn't Squire say that The Eagles introduced Yes to hard drugs?
Music isn't about chops, or even about talent - it's about sound and the way that sound communicates to people. Mike Keneally
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