A Day In Rock: September 3rd, 1982 – US Festival
On this day forty-two years ago… The US Festival kicks-off in San Bernadino, California.
The three-day festival featured, the Police (pictured), the Cars, Jackson Browne, David Edmunds, the Ramones, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers and the Grateful Dead.
The shindig was financed by Steve Wozniak of Apple Computer fame. He intended the US Festivals (this one and another less than nine months later) to encourage the 1980s to be more community-oriented and combine technology with Rock music.
The price for a three-day ticket was $37.50.
The festival, which drew 400,000, lost $12-million.
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