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The Pretenders
1983-05-30
US Festival
Glen Helen Regional Park
Devore, CA
FM Broadcast
320 kbps
Artwork Included
01. My City Was Gone
02. Message Of Love > The Adultress
03. Talk Of The Town
04. Stop Your Sobbing
05. Private Life*
06. Time The Avenger > Mystery Achievement
07. The Wait**
08. Middle Of The Road
09. Up The Neck
10. Precious
11. crowd noise
12. Back On The Chain Gang
13. Brass In Pocket
14. Money
*Dedicated to James Honeyman-Scott
**Dedicated to Pete Farndon
We'll finish May with 2 final new wave posts, both from May 30, 1983. Over Memorial Day Weekend 1983, Steve Wozniak of Apple hosted the 2nd US Festival (the first has been discussed here) at Glen Helen Regional Park near Devore, California. Over 650,000 people attended the 3 day event, and Wozniak lost over $12 million! Each day featured a different musical genre. Opening Day, May 28 was New Wave Day, with such acts as The Clash, English Beat, INXS, Flock of Seagulls, Stray Cats and Men At Work. I'm not quite sure how the last 2 qualified as New Wave! Day 2, was Heavy Metal Day and included Van Halen, Ozzy, and Judas Priest. Finally, day 3 was Rock Day (as if the other 2 days weren't rock??) and featured U2, David Bowie, Stevie Nicks, Joe Walsh and, this post's featured band, the Pretenders. This FM broadcast captures The Pretenders full set from the US Festival on May 30, 1983, 29 years ago today, which includes Middle of The Road and Back On the Chain Gang, 2 songs form their soon to be released album Learning to Crawl. Download this one and go back to the time when Apple simply made computers, and not Ipods, Ipads and Iphones!
9 comments:
This is not a comment about The pretenders. I just wanted to say THANKS, thank you for your effort, the time you give us, your comments, and for keeping this music alive.
Alberto-Buenos Aires
I'll second the above comment - all of your efforts are appreciated, thanks very much.
-DS
I'll comment on the Pretenders...Very nice set here and nice site as well.
Hey Speedy. The US Festival was a zoo. Crazy hot too. Hey Speedy vists to my site are down because there are no longer links to other sites on the Archive page at Bootleg Tunz World. Any thoughts on that. That was one of my major sources of traffic, TUBE and you were second and third. Now TUBE is one and you are two, followed by Grateful Breed.
Hey AZ -- Wow - thanks for the personal recollections of the US Festival. Regarding traffic, its down to my site as well. Two thoughts - 1) put up a few posts in the lossy area of the archive and add a link top your blog on the bottom. 2) Make sure you site is listed on Captain Crawl. Take care.
Thank you, great post
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Could you upload this bottleg again, plese? Thanks
new link is up - enjoy!
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