US Festival performance appreciation

[The Tower]

"Mem'ries..... light the corners of my mind......"

I never forget this night as long as I live. I was fried- from sunburn AND drugs AND beer. Stevie was the best part of that day. Whatta weekend!!

[amber]

Originally Posted by The Tower

"Mem'ries..... light the corners of my mind......"

I never forget this night as long as I live. I was fried- from sunburn AND drugs AND beer. Stevie was the best part of that day. Whatta weekend!!

Can I touch you? I can't believe I know someone who was there.
Ah, I love that sunburn/drugs/beer/concert experience. Were you close up? I'm practically dying thinking about being there.
Streisand pisses me off, though.

i love the part when stevie goes running off the stage and tries to take sharona first, then yanks on lori's dress to try to get some company i guess...its a great vid tho

[Ghost_Tracker]

Originally Posted by Neal

I've never seen this show. Any of it. Nor heard any audio. Ever.

Nice review though.

pssssst stevie.nleone.com They're down a lot - for example, now -
but WHAT a gold mine. Including Outside the Rain and one or two
others from the US Festival. And as the weird space worm creature
thingy said in that movie "Dune,"

"I was never here.
YOU never HEARD this!"

[Ghost_Tracker]

Originally Posted by Nixxxed

Also, the first (ever) performance of Stand Back:

"What does that mean, you may ask??? Quicksand. And you're the only 200,000 people in the world who'll know that."

Waah????

[The Tower]

Originally Posted by amber

Can I touch you? I can't believe I know someone who was there.
Ah, I love that sunburn/drugs/beer/concert experience. Were you close up? I'm practically dying thinking about being there.
Streisand pisses me off, though.

I asked my Dad if I could go. He said, "Yeah, as long as one of your brothers takes you" (I was fourteen at the time). My brothers were all busy, but my brother's best friend (they were both in the Navy) wanted to go. He was a Czech named Boris. He drove up to my house from San Diego and picked me up in his teeny tiny MG convertible. On the way down, I asked him to buy cigarettes for me- he did (faggy ones, too- I won't name the brand because I'm not interested in giving people more ammo on me than they already possess around here...).

Anycrap..... We got down to San Diego and packed everything up and went in his friends Winnebago up to Glen Helen Park for the three days of the US Festival. Boris's friend girlfriend was paralyzed from the waist down. So, I chauffered her around the festival in her wheelchair. The whole place was grass- at the end of the three days that grass was thrashed- and, as a natural amphitheater, it's got a steep slope. So, she really needed someone to help get her around. For my services, she hooked me up with pot, shrooms, beer, amyl nitrate, quaaludes, hash, and I smoked opium (my one and only time- great high). Needless to say, this fourteen-year old had a greeeaaat time. The metal day was kind of a yawn, musically (Scorpions and Quiet Riot- barf). At the time, I thought it was odd that they put Stevie on the same day with Bowie, Missing Persons, and Berlin. Although, the 83 Festival didn't really have that many "rock" bands. She would have definitely been a sore thumb on Friday's show with Flock of Seagulls, Wall of Voodoo, and Oingo Boingo. Eh, what do I know.

I didn't have a clue about being up in the front. I thought where I was sitting was fine. The music was SO LOUD!!! People were seriously packed in the front half of the lawn. We had scoped out a little area with an ice chest, banana chairs, and blankets.

I had a pair of lemon chiffon yellow Op cord shorts that were REALLY short. I wore them on Stevie day and, with the grass super trashed, there was dust and dirt everywhere. By the time Stevie performed after dusk, my lemon yellow shorts were now almost black from the dirt. I had one of those cheesy blanket/tarp thingys with the silver reflecting junk on one side to beat the sun glare. During Stevie's show it was getting a little chilly and I wrapped that sucker around me to warm me up. I think I used it as shawl wings during "Edge of Seventeen". Yes, I was quite the queen.

That weekend was my official transition from adolescent to teenager. Good times.

[strandinthewind]

Did you let Boris touch you in your bikini area

[amber]

Oh.my.god.
great story. great experience.
wait, did you...."shawl" during edge, really?
did you go there mainly to see Stevie, or did you just want to go to the festival?
I totally remember those shorts.
That is a weird line up. Now that I hear everyone else that was there, Stevie strikes me as an odd duck. A fabulous odd duck.
That is one kick ass paralyzed lady!

[The Tower]

Originally Posted by strandinthewind

Did you let Boris touch you in your bikini area

No, Hooker- he was straight and too busy sniffing the amyl to be thinking about anything else.

Originally Posted by amber

Oh.my.god.
great story. great experience.
wait, did you...."shawl" during edge, really?

I'm embarassed to admit it, but yes, I believe I did.

did you go there mainly to see Stevie, or did you just want to go to the festival?

It was advertised like hell on Mtv back then and it was the beginning of summer and I really wanted to "get out", so I went. My parents never paid any attention to me, so they didn't give a rats ass about the conditions I would be in. Besides, that era was so much cooler and permissive than these days. I was more of an all-around music fan back then, so I wasn't as Steviefied as I would later become.

I totally remember those shorts.

They were totally whoreanus. Totally.

That is a weird line up. Now that I hear everyone else that was there, Stevie strikes me as an odd duck. A fabulous odd duck.

She really was the odd man out. Although Joe Walsh played right before her, so she had a good lead in.

That is one kick ass paralyzed lady!

****ing-a-yeah, baby!

[amber]

I believe this fact:

Originally Posted by TheTower

I'm embarassed to admit it, but yes, I believe I did.

directly contradicts this assertion:

Originally Posted by TheTower

so I wasn't as Steviefied as I would later become.

Nice.

I don't think I've ever really shawled.


That's very cool Joe Walsh was before her. I didn't see his name in your list.

[strandinthewind]

Originally Posted by The Tower

No, Hooker- he was straight and too busy sniffing the amyl to be thinking about anything else . . . .

DAMN!!!!!!!!!!!!

[MacMan]

Originally Posted by The Tower

"Mem'ries..... light the corners of my mind......"

I never forget this night as long as I live. I was fried- from sunburn AND drugs AND beer. Stevie was the best part of that day. Whatta weekend!!

haha.. That's funny! You're a survivor. Good for you at least you can live to tell about it... It's a great show.. This is one show or set of Stevies that should have been commercially released either by herself, or by the people that put together the US Fest.

[Kelly]

If anyone wants to trade for a copy of this dvd, PM me. Amber, if you have nothing to trade , I will send you one if you PM me. This damn show is a MUST HAVE!!!!!!!!!! Crazy, coked up Stevie in all her glory. My favorite part is Gold and Braid, Angel and the crazy Edge jump. She was so much fun back then. (why does she walk off and talk to Jimmy in the middle of a song though?? )

[danax6]

Originally Posted by amber

I don't think I've ever really shawled.

My US Festival dvd will be done downloading in a few hours, so I bet I will doing that later this evening. Better start closing the curtains.

Did I just admit this out loud?

[WelshWitchPMD]

I have a copy of it on DVD. PM me if you want one.

I love the part when she brushes Waddy's hair.

Great story Tower! I remember wanting to go see Stevie and the Mac at the US Fest but being 2500+ miles away was kind of a problem and being in high school did not help either. I do remember calling every airline to see how much it was for a flight to LA. Could have used the Internet back then.