
The US Festival '83 Heavy Metal Day
Glen Helen Park
Devore CA.
May 29, 1983
Soundboard Recordings
Cover Art Included
MP3 320kps
Rosebud's Pick
Disc 1
01 Dangerzone / Quiet Riot
02 Cum On Feel The Noize / Quiet Riot
03 Slick Black Cadilac / Quiet Riot
04 Let's Get Crazy / Quiet Riot
05 Metal Heath / Quiet Riot
06 Interview / Quiet Riot
07 Take Me To The Top / Mötley Crüe
08 Looks That Kill / Mötley Crüe
09 Shout At The Devil / Mötley Crüe
10 Knock'em Dead Kid / Mötley Crüe
11 Live Wire / Mötley Crüe
12 Helter Skelter (Beatles Cover) / Mötley Crüe
13 Interview / Mötley Crüe
Disc 2
01 Over The Mountain / Ozzy Osbourne
02 Mr. Crowley / Ozzy Osbourne
03 Crazy Train / Ozzy Osbourne
04 Suicide Solution / Ozzy Osbourne
05 Flying High Again / Ozzy Osbourne
06 Paranoid / Ozzy Osbourne
07 Interview / Ozzy Osbourne
08 Riding On The Wind / Judas Priest
09 Breaking The Law / Judas Priest
10 Diamonds And Rust (Joan Baez Cover) / Judas Priest
11 Victim Of Change / Judas Priest
12 Living After Midnight / Judas Priest
13 Green Manalishi (With The Two-Pronged Crown) (Fleetwood Mac Cover) / Judas Priest
14 You've Got Another Thing Coming / Judas Priest
15 Interview / Judas Priest
Disc 3
01 Never Surrender / Triumph
02 When The Lights Go Out / Triumph
03 Fight The Good Fight / Triumph
04 Interview / Triumph
05 No One Like You / Scorpions
06 The Zoo / Scorpions
07 Can't Get Enough / Scorpions
08 Interview / Scorpions
09 Running With The Devil / Van Halen
10 Oh, Pretty Woman (Roy Orbison Cover) / Van Halen
11 You Really Got Me (Kinks Cover) / Van Halen
12 Interview / Van Halen
Triumph, Quiet Riot & Judas Priest have released their respective US Festival sets on both DVD and CD so their contributions to this disc set have been omitted.
The extent of
Heavy Metal's ascendancy as a musical force became apparent on May 29, 1983 in Devore California. Until then,
Metal Heads were gathered in the underground plotting our world conquest. Hated by the critics and shunned by major radio,
Heavy Metal gained acceptance by the shear power of its fans. But on May 29, 1983, the world had no choice but to take notice -
Heavy Metal had arrived on its own terms.
The numbers don't lie, Saturday's Show with
Flock Of Seagulls,
INXS,
Men At Work, &
The Clash drew nearly
300,000. Monday's show with
David Bowie,
U2, &
The Pretenders drew roughly the same numbers. Sunday's
Heavy Metal Day drew over
600,000 Headbangers. The critics had to pull their feet out of their mouths as the above named darlings of the music press were out shined by a bunch of guys in leather and studs!
Throughout its history,
Heavy Metal was looked down upon by the music press. The fans were regarded as
Stoners who couldn't understand what real music was. All the while
Metal Heads knew the truth, that real music is what you feel and we didn't need some guy in a skinny tie telling us what was real. A quote by
David Lee Roth used to hang on my wall when I was a teenager it said
"... You know why all the critics like Elvis Costello, they all look like him!!"
Don't get me wrong I love all styles of music,
Elvis Costello is a great songwriter, but in those days before
Heavy Metal became accepted as a viable genre, as a fan standing against the critical tide with your fist in the air, it was a daily fight to keep your cool when some skinny tie new waver claimed
The Knack were better than
Black Sabbath.
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