US Festival '83- Day Two [3CD] @FLAC

The US Festival set a single-day concert attendance record with an estimated 375,000 people packing into the Glen Helen Regional Park near Devore, Calif.

Ironically, the US Festival event was not a moneymaker, as Apple Computer honcho Steve Wozniak allegedly lost close to $20 million staging a pair of events in the early ’80s. Part of that may have come from the exorbitant fee paid for the talent. It was reported that Van Halen commanded a $1.5 million payday to play the 1983 event.

Quiet Riot’s Frankie Banali stated via his band’s Facebook page, “30 years ago today, on May 29, 1983, Quiet Riot performed at the US Festival on Heavy Metal Day, and that day proved to be a life changing experience for Quiet Riot, which I still feel today.”

In all, over 670,000 people attended the four-day event that also featured a Rock Day and a Country Day, but over half of the attendance came from Heavy Metal Day, which provided the perfect measuring stick for exactly how popular the genre had become.