US Festival new footage

400,000

hotter n Hell

The band looks surprisingly fresh for 7:30 a.m.   

Here are the line-ups for the 1982 fest:

Friday, September 3, 1982

Gang of Four

The Ramones

The English Beat

Oingo Boingo

The B-52's

Talking Heads

The Police

Saturday, September 4, 1982

Joe Sharino

Dave Edmunds

Eddie Money

Santana

The Cars

The Kinks

Pat Benatar

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers

Sunday, September 5, 1982

Breakfast with the Grateful Dead | The Grateful Dead

Jerry Jeff Walker

Jimmy Buffett and The Coral Reefer Band

Jackson Browne

Fleetwood Mac

No official festival highlights record was ever released, although The English Beat's set has been released.

From wikipedia:

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Steve Wozniak, co-founder 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 less than nine months later, over Memorial Day weekend in May 1983.

Wozniak paid for the bulldozing and construction[9] 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, just south of the junction of Interstates 15 and 215 (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.

Labor Day Weekend, 1982

The festival ran for three days in early September in 110 °F (43 °C) weather;  there were 36 arrests, and a reported twelve drug overdoses.  One "associated" murder of a hitchhiker occurred the day after the event.  The festival lost a reported $12 million, and total attendance for the three days was about 400,000.  The price for a three-day ticket was $37.50.

The US festival featured the first implementation of the U.S.-Soviet Space Bridge, a two-way satellite hookup between the United States and the Soviet Union.  Organizers had planned to have the US Festival and Soviet rock fans interact as a way to promote goodwill between the Cold War rivals, but it was too dark in California for cameras to pick up the festivalgoers when the link went live.

Guess they had plenty of time to get a good night's rest.  The previous show had been a week before in Seattle, and the next show was four days later in New Orleans.

Playin' In The Band-> Shakedown Street-> Minglewood Blues, Samson & Delilah, China Cat Sunflower-> I Know You Rider

Sugaree-> Women Are Smarter, Truckin'-> Drums-> Not Fade Away-> Black Peter-> Sugar Magnolia

Encore: U.S. Blues, E: Satisfaction

https://archive.org/details/gd82-09-05.sbd-patched.warner.5490.sbeok.shnf

I don't recall seeing that Ibanez with the nice inlay that Weir's playing before.  He's getting a good tone out of it in Minglewood.  Wonder what became of it?

Too much fun club both years

small problem. It too a long time to catch the shuttle from camping spot and arrived to hear only the Dead's  last song

many great memories and sets: bands 

I would go if able to in instant tomorrow if I could. ...... sigh....

Dave it was a one-off Ibanez custom made for Bob in 1976, unofficially called “cowboy fancy”. Word is he has played it recently, but I couldn’t tell you where or which shows.

Released commercially as Ibanez BWM1 in 2015. $8,000.

https://www.vintageguitar.com/29350/ibanez-bwm1-bob-weir-cowboy-fancy/

How did it get it’s name?

”That name comes from an answer Weir gave to Jeff Hasselberger of Ibanez who had asked him what he would like a guitar to look like. Referring to the often ornate inlays on the guitars of the old Country and Western stars, Weir replied, "Let's go for the full cowboy fancy," and so Full Cowboy Fancy it was. The word "Ace" on the fretboard refers to Weir's nickname, which comes from his first solo album of the same name.

The Cowboy Fancy shape was intended to be a compromise between a Gibson ES345, which Bob was playing at the time, and the Ibanez artist. One of the requests by Bob Weir was for a larger headstock than the prior smaller and more ornate Weir model headstocks so as to increase sustain. Hasselberger came up with the Ibanez 3-on-a-side design, which ultimately made its way into smaller versions for the George Benson guitars and other Ibanez jazz guitars. The explanation for the multitude of switches on the recreation also comes from what Bob Weir wanted in the Cowboy Fancy models. Said Jeff Hasselberger in an online reply as to the origins of the guitar: "We made a couple of the 'cowboy' models with a number of switching combos that were constantly going under the surgeon's soldering iron. Basically, Bob wanted as much flexibility of pickup selection as we could deliver. So he had a choice of single coils, series humbuckers, parallel humbuckers, phase reversals and so on. We also used the standard Artist EQ system on at least one of them."

The first Cowboy Fancy guitars featured a sliding middle pickup. Eventually Weir found the position he liked best and that became the ultimate position in the fixed pickup model.

RIP:

Joey, Dee Dee, Johnny & Tommy Ramone

Ricky Wilson, guitar B52's

Eddie Money

Rick Ocasek, Benjamin Orr, bass

Ian Gibbbons, keyboard Kinks

Tom Petty, Howie Epstein, bass 

Brent Mydland

Jerry Garcia

R.I.P. Tommy Ramone, but he wasn't playing with the Ramones in 1982  That was Marky Ramone (Marc Bell) on drums that day, and he is still alive.  I strongly recommend his autobiography fromn 2015, "Punk Rock Blitzkrieg: My Life As A Ramone".

Here's a photo of one of the working prototypes. I stole this pic from the Grateful Dead Illustrated Trip. 12/31/72; Winterland

I was there & had fun. My last festival before Federal Prison (began in November, 1982).

My last show before prison was "Your Arm Is Too Short To Box With God" in New York with Al Green & Pattie LaBelle (early October,1982).

My wife flew with me from San Francisco to New York where we vacationed for a week before going to Federal Court in Cincinnati, Ohio for sentencing. 

Federal time for MJ importation. I got money laundering charges. Glad I am not in there now as this disease is rampant. I was in Terminal Island (Long Beach) & they have a 65% infection rate.

  Crabbie I don't remember you stepping on me?

 I do hope you are relaxing w family on this holiday and that your personal investment is going well

xox