US Festival (1982)

The US Festival 1982 was a perfect reflection of that loose tribe of musicians, geeks, artists, gays and other counter-cultural.

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[oscarandbernie]

In the parking lot at night was when the party started. We had the beer and they had the time of their life. So much fun as security pulled up and under their headlights, people were swapping stuff for our beer. You could not take beer in, so we sat on the hood of the VW and bartered. The party on the one end of the parking lot went all night and I passed out during Dead the next day. The laser lights at night were unreal; the sky looked like a canvass of light. The TV over the stage was tits.

[rodolfobelentani]

@oscarandbernie It's great to read your feedback! If you can share more. ;-) Keep that memory alive!

[ammittei]

Nice vid. I was there! It was freaking hot, but an awesome three days!

[rodolfobelentani]

@ammittei Do you have photos? We could start a memory page about US Festival. How about?

[ammittei]

@rodolfobelentani I don't have photos, but I do have a bunch of negatives I've been meaning to scan.

[rodolfobelentani]

@ammittei That's great. I think we can build a project to keep this memories alive. How about?

[Johnnysynth]

@jogmas12 Yeah, cause we love that "gansta" rap !

[jogmas12]

@ugogugo dawn of a new era giving way to rap and hiphop

[indyfan22k]

@jogmas12 personified greed, and erosion of american jobs.

[indyfan22k]

@jogmas12 no.

[ugogugo]

Great day! I was there by chance having found a ride in a van by a group of swiss people in s.francisco and remember arriving in the afternoon at a temperature of 110 fahreneit the music had already started playing and people around drinking beer and celebrating! The dawn of a new era!

[jogmas12]

for 2012 what do we have now? we have gansta rap and hiphop, deal with it.

[jogmas12]

the 80's were not the 60's. the 80's personified conservatism and ronald reagan as president.

[Nekton58]

was there saw TP and the HB's best performance ever and yes we were all beautiful then.

[jogmas12]

i mean just to back up what i said earlier look at the number of times people have viewed "woodstock 1969" on youtube it's close to 2,500,000 but look at how many times people have viewed this video about US festival 1982 and the number is only 6,193. Now i ask you, were the 80's that significant, pop culturally speaking? Turns out the US festivals were just another big excuse to party, nothing more.

[jogmas12]

i think there is a strong consensus not to remember the US festivals as a cultural epic of the early 80's by those who actually created it and those powers involved (save for the fans) because they were such money losers. Woodstock will always be remembered even by those who were not even born yet when it happened but ask someone about the US festivals who was born after 1982, and you get a blank look.