Mötley Crüe
Live at 1983 US Festival
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)
History:
The US Festival (US pronounced like the pronoun, not as initials) was the name of two early 1980s music and culture festivals.
Background:
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.
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
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40 Responses
In those days you had to step back to "enjoy the rock n' roll"
I guess this is what made Metallica huge…
where is the vocal???
Tommy, Mick and Nikki deserved a vocalist powerful like Dio, Jeff Scott Soto, Dave Coverdale, Glenn Hughes, Miljenko Matijevic… thus MC would be real great.
For everyone being a backseat driver. Sitting back critiquing a performance you weren’t at is what is wrong with all the newer technology. “Back in the day” the shows we saw were a total experience. And they were awesome. I was at this show… it was insane in every way. Great time. Most of the time the shows were so loud you couldn’t tell if a band was off or on that day. Everyone was pretty high or drunk or whatever and having the time of our lives. Shows were plenty, shows were cheap. Thats way all of us that lived through these shows saw a whole lot of them….every weekend we were seeing a bad ass band somewhere. Enjoy the experience…. I know we all did!!!!!!
Horrible clothes nice songs
Keystah ma ha
Now let’s here what they sound like today: https://youtu.be/VKBnS12X5HA
Well he is not so good live but now he can't sing he needs to take a coach because even here i can notice how bad his technique is and he has doing that for all is career until now, take a coach and maybe his voice can return.
He came a little early but he still sounds good
dam they sucked from the beginning !! Lol
yo
7:15!
83' Karen…
Seeing Nikki here I see where Twiggy Ramirez got his swag from
So the truth is that Vince Neil has ALWAYS sounded like shit live because he refuses to annunciate anything and mumbles like Bob Dylan. Interesting.
mick mars looked dead then
Vince sucked back then!!!
I thought vince was just old and fat and couldn't sing live anymore but he's just sucked all along
Def Leppard should’ve been at US 83 fest. Man Joe’s voice back then could blow houses down.
Man I love how Vince has so much fun with this performance probably drunk but still having a good time before all the shit happened in his personal life which ruined him really wish the shit he went through never happened losing his little girl to cancer and killing razzle that without a doubt made him a different person he wasn’t the same fun loving guy and it fucked him up sure he made some bad choices but don’t we all?
it's crazy how much MGK looked just like Tommy in the movie
Vince Neil is the greatest singer I have ever seen ❤️❤️❤️
Transvestites can ROCK! These guys were sick, literally. LOL
Vinces mic keeps going in and out
sound was awful i felt bad for vince
Women: I'd like to see you walk around in heels!!
Nikki: Hold my heroin!
Mick: Hold my arthritis!
How was Vince once this? FYI. I just watched his most recent performance in 2021.
1:02 nice close up!!!
Mmmm….back when they were good
ha….what the hell is vince saying in shout at the devil?
I’d say whoever was running the mixer fucked up but all i wanna hear is the guitar anyway so..
I can see now why Metallica and Megadeth and Slayer were so loved over bands such as this from back then.
Tommy 'you are the best' Lee
Anyone else miss being in a crowd?
He sure set himself up for failure with all that falsetto. He will never be able to sing like that again
Motley crue , was never the best musicians , but they have , good songs , perfect looks with the drums with pentagrams , they were at the right , time and very good songs specially the 3 first albums , sounded different neil voice was very uncommon and the killer image 👍🏻 was perfect a the right time 🤟🏻
I think vince never actually learned to sing
This performance is worse than garage bands in my neighborhood. If you want to see what a live performance is supposed to be watch Exodus at Wacken 2008.
Sound is Terrible…. Empty…microphone not so good… ..