The technology faire with a concert added in. Turned out that the concert overshadowed the tech faire. Parking was a madhouse. Freeways were stopped. It was a zoo. On the top of stage there was a big rainbow with the words US across the center...It would be lit up later on during the nights. Massive speaker towers across the meadow. Vendors in the back (I had a vendor full access pass for ins/outs) A big lake in the back, lots of skin. Dusty up front, water cannons would spray when it got too hot. GD added at the last moment. BGP took over at last min too. I was 14 and loved every minute of my "woodstock"
I was at the festival for all three days and the Dead came on first thing Sunday morning. The first words from the stage that day were from Phil Lesh saying "Wake up and spread, it's time for breakfast in bed with the Grateful Dead".
Not exactily a steller set from the Dead that day as I recall, but high time all the same.
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Man was it hot
What a blast.
No longer the ME generation, now the US generation
The US Festival - Labor Day Weekend 1982
The technology faire with a concert added in. Turned out that the concert overshadowed the tech faire. Parking was a madhouse. Freeways were stopped. It was a zoo. On the top of stage there was a big rainbow with the words US across the center...It would be lit up later on during the nights. Massive speaker towers across the meadow. Vendors in the back (I had a vendor full access pass for ins/outs) A big lake in the back, lots of skin. Dusty up front, water cannons would spray when it got too hot. GD added at the last moment. BGP took over at last min too. I was 14 and loved every minute of my "woodstock"
Wake Up
I was at the festival for all three days and the Dead came on first thing Sunday morning. The first words from the stage that day were from Phil Lesh saying "Wake up and spread, it's time for breakfast in bed with the Grateful Dead".
Not exactily a steller set from the Dead that day as I recall, but high time all the same.