![]() The ‘83 US Festival also holds historical significance as the last show the Clash ever played with co-founder/guitarist Mick Jones. The co-headliners, David Bowie and Van Halen, each earned record-setting $1.5 million paydays for their sets. The lineup for the four-day event was loaded, and quintessentially ‘80s: a Flock of Seagulls, INXS, Men at Work, Quiet Riot, Mötley Crüe, Ozzy Osbourne, Berlin, U2, the Pretenders, and Stevie Nicks, just to name some of the acts. – a location so obscure that even most SoCal residents couldn’t find it on a map even if you gave them a free ticket. A record-setting 670,000 people turned out for the second and final US Festival over Memorial Day Weekend 1983 at Glen Helen Regional Park in San Bernardino, Ca. “The organizers said, ‘Boys, there’s too much traffic and we’re gonna have to chopper you in.’ And as I looked down, I thought, ‘Wow, this is real rock star shit. “It was my first time on a helicopter,” Brian Setzer of the Stray Cats remembers. So one performer after another was picked up from the Red Lion Inn – a small hotel in Southern California’s sweltering Inland Empire that was used as the weekend’s staging area – and flown into the festival. Watch Iggy Pop Cover Lou Reed’s ‘Walk On The Wild Side’ For The First Timeīecause when you’re about to play in front of hundreds of thousands of people, you don’t just roll up in a limo – especially when it’s on Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak’s dime. And that makes sense since that’s what crowds look like when you’re flying in on a helicopter. ![]() That’s the first thing most artists who performed at the 1983 US Festival remember.
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