Missing Persons: Words - US Festival '83

The US Festivals (US pronounced like the pronoun, not as initials) 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. The festival stage has resided at the Disneyland theme park in California since 1985 and has operated under various names and functions as the Videopolis dance club, the Videopolis Theatre, and the Fantasyland Theatre.

The two festivals included large air-conditioned tents featuring the US Festival Technology Exposition— a dazzling display of then-cutting edge computers, software, and electronic music devices. Also making a debut were installations of "out-door rain" - perforated pvc nozzles that sprayed water to fight the fierce hundred degree heat. Each of the two festivals had a few hundred thousand people in attendance.

Missing Persons performed at the US Festival on Memorial Day Weekend, Saturday, May 28 1983. The day's lineup was as follows:
Divinyls
INXS
Wall of Voodoo
Oingo Boingo
The English Beat
Missing Persons
A Flock of Seagulls
Stray Cats
Men at Work
The Clash.

Now that's a lineup!

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Missing Persons
• Dale Bozzio
• Terry Bozzio
• New Wave
• 80s
• US festival
• 1983

[trollcrusher242]

@milesanddizzy

Nice ... nice ... nice quality on this video.

Best version here on YouTube.

Thanks for taking the time to upload it and share it with other fans of Missing Persons (and the 1980's in general).

Best wishes,

trollcrusher242

[milesanddizzy]

@trollcrusher242 No worries, great sound and great performance!

[jonsilence]

I saw MP countless times, mostly before they were signed, and they always sounded just like this, dead-on. First time I saw them---possibly their debut--was a tiny club in Fullerton, Calif called Ichabods. Word spread like wildfire and from then on every time they played the crowds grew bigger & bigger, as did the venues, and yet they could NOT get a deal for quite some time. One of the highlight gigs was at Knotts Berry Farm, where Bozzio lost a stick about 10 seconds into the first song.

[milesanddizzy]

You're killing me, I would have loved to see this band live in their prime...

[milesanddizzy]

@jonsilence Wish I'd just been at even one of those gigs :-) thanks for the comments...

[scientious]

The quality seemed too good to be live so I suspected that they were lip-syncing. However, I tried syncing the original recording to this video and they will not sync. She also transposes the lines "It's a funny thing; am I all alone" and "It's a sorry state; I think to myself" in the second verse. So it would have to be a different recording with that mistake in it (very unlikely). I'm certain it's live.

[milesanddizzy]

Definitely 100% LIVE!... don't know what it sounded at the back though.

[gregalabama]

She's wearing a blue tooth way back then!!!

[mytfinn]

I think you forgot U2 in your lineup list. I distinctly remember seeing them that day. ;)

[trollcrusher242]

@milesanddizzy

;-)

+1

tc242

[tmcmellon]

Zappa only hired the best. Dale, Terry and Warren did very great stuff on Zappa albums. Dale looks like a sketcher in this video though.

[modularland]

The reason they sound so good is because most members were musicians in Frank Zappa's band before... they are highly trained jazz musicians who broke away to do pop music...

[jonsilence]

Just saw Terry play a small outdoor concert in South Pasadena with Hotels Deluxe featuring Mark isham from Group 87. Killer performance and Terry was as brilliant and energetic as ever.