"Landslide" Dedications

[David]

Originally Posted by Rickypt

US festival was just a southern california gig, right?

Yes. Both US Fests ('82 & '83) were at the same spot in Devore, which is off the 10 freeway in San Bernardino. I sort of got the feeling that there would have been more US Fests in later years, but that's about when the whole Live Aid & all its progeny (like Farm Aid & Amnesty International) got going -- the mid '80s. So those big festivals probably made Steve Wozniak's purely capitalistic enterprise (rock festivals with huge fees for the performers & cheap marketing for Apple Computers) seem rather crass. Rock fans wanted to help fight "world hunger" & bring amnesty to prisoners of conscience, not just put millions more in the pockets of the PC industry. Personally, I have nothing against the latter, but I thought the location for the US Fests really sucked. For those who don't know, it's unbearably hot out there from late spring through late fall. It's pretty junky out there, even today, when they've built a permanent amphitheater (they sometimes hold Ozzfest out there now).