US Festival - Historic Films Archive

Historic Films, partnering with California-based SHOUT FACTORY has acquired all rights to the first tech-driven rock festival.

The US Festivals were two early 1980s music and culture festivals sponsored by Steve Wozniak, formerly of Apple Computer. 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 amphitheater in the United States as of 2007.)

A stellar list of the most popular acts of the day including FLEETWOOD MAC, TALKING HEADS, SANTANA, STRAY CATS, THE CLASH, THE CARS, THE POLICE, THE B-52s, VAN HALEN, OZZY OSBOURNE, THE GRATEFUL DEAD, THE PRETENDERS, DAVID BOWIE, THE RAMONES, MOTLEY CREW, QUIET RIOT and many others were filmed at the festival with multi-camera shoots. Some of the footage was used on SHOWTIME and MTV specials but the great majority has never met the light of day. Besides the over 100 hours of performance footage is many hours of great early 1980s youth pop-culture stock footage. All of which has been logged and re-transferred and is available for licensing.

For licensing inquiries please contact our research staff.

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Music

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• US Festival
• Rock Festival
• 80's Rock
• 1980's Rock
• Amphitheater Rock
• Summer Festival
• Stock Footage
• Archival Footage
• Historic Films

[believersunderground]

I was there. still have my t shirt too. hahaha. LUVBUG nice upload

[Johnnywhamo]

@magrillo50 I was there for all three days too,19 years old without a care in the world, I still have my ticket stubs and they are the highlight of an impressive collection I might add! LOL!

It was HOT as shit, remember every so often they'd blast us with those water towers?

[magrillo50]

I was there, bathing in the "pond", Beer gardens till closing. Great fun!

[whodoesknow99]

Some video is available for free as converted from Showtime DVD, but only bands like Motley Crew and Van Halen, dammit.

Otherwise a site such asrockshowvideos-dot-com/usfes­tivaldvds-hteeml at $15/pop is what you got now.

[insertblackname]

crazy.. wish i couldve gone to one of these.. rock just isnt the same anymore

[teegeemedia]

So how do we get our hands on the videos??

[udaraboy]

THE WOODSTOCK OF THE 80´S , NO DOUBT ABOUT IT AND ALL THE GREAT BANDS ON BOTH FESTIVALS PAT BENATAR,OZZY OSBOURNE, VAN HALEN, THE CLASH, U-2, BERLIN ETC,ETC, AND THE USAF AND U.F.O. EXHIBITIONS ALONG WITH SOME COMPUTERS ABOUT TO GO TO THE MARKETING

THANKS FOR THIS VIDEOS::::::::::::::::::