Glen Helen ‘83

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5/14/2020 10:16am Edited Date/Time 5/26/2020 5:08pm
Epic line up - any Silverbacks on Vital there that weekend? What was it like? I woulda been 15 years old and fat chance I coulda got the green light from the parents to go.
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5/14/2020 11:32am
I remember that show but I didn't go. I was 12 at the time and had only been to one concert.
Funny to see how some of the bands have risen and fallen since then. Missing Persons got a higher billing than U2? Woohoo
I would never have guessed that The Divinyls were around back then.
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5/14/2020 11:32am
^^^ Sunday must've been a blast.
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5/14/2020 1:24pm
-MAVERICK- wrote:
^^^ Sunday must've been a blast.
I bet there were near deaths on Sunday. That woulda been a long, long day if you didn’t pace yourself.
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5/14/2020 1:26pm
Falcon wrote:
I remember that show but I didn't go. I was 12 at the time and had only been to one concert. Funny to see how some...
I remember that show but I didn't go. I was 12 at the time and had only been to one concert.
Funny to see how some of the bands have risen and fallen since then. Missing Persons got a higher billing than U2? Woohoo
I would never have guessed that The Divinyls were around back then.
Dale Bozzio half naked gets top billing in my book - music not so much.
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5/14/2020 1:56pm
Falcon wrote:
I remember that show but I didn't go. I was 12 at the time and had only been to one concert. Funny to see how some...
I remember that show but I didn't go. I was 12 at the time and had only been to one concert.
Funny to see how some of the bands have risen and fallen since then. Missing Persons got a higher billing than U2? Woohoo
I would never have guessed that The Divinyls were around back then.
Sonic99 wrote:
Dale Bozzio half naked gets top billing in my book - music not so much.
Careful, not everybody here knows that Dale is a girl. Laughing
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5/14/2020 3:01pm
Falcon wrote:
I remember that show but I didn't go. I was 12 at the time and had only been to one concert. Funny to see how some...
I remember that show but I didn't go. I was 12 at the time and had only been to one concert.
Funny to see how some of the bands have risen and fallen since then. Missing Persons got a higher billing than U2? Woohoo
I would never have guessed that The Divinyls were around back then.
Sonic99 wrote:
Dale Bozzio half naked gets top billing in my book - music not so much.
Falcon wrote:
Careful, not everybody here knows that Dale is a girl. Laughing
Haha! So true!
5/14/2020 7:36pm
What an awesome lineup, never heard of English Beat, Triumph, Missing persons or Little Steven though?
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5/14/2020 8:49pm
What an awesome lineup, never heard of English Beat, Triumph, Missing persons or Little Steven though?
The Beat is a ska band that peaked about ‘83. Mirror in the Bathroom is worth a listen and coincidentally if COVID never happened they woulda been on the West Coast swing of a tour this month.
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5/14/2020 8:59pm
I went the first year.
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5/14/2020 10:07pm
What an awesome lineup, never heard of English Beat, Triumph, Missing persons or Little Steven though?
Little Steven was Springsteen's guitarist, and he played Silvio on The Sopranos.
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5/14/2020 10:14pm
Was that the order of the bands? Same as on the poster?

You’d think Motley Crue would lead with Van Halen closing. Or Maybe everyone’s so plastered after about 6 bands, the top bands would rather get in / get out.
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5/14/2020 10:45pm
Falcon wrote:
I remember that show but I didn't go. I was 12 at the time and had only been to one concert. Funny to see how some...
I remember that show but I didn't go. I was 12 at the time and had only been to one concert.
Funny to see how some of the bands have risen and fallen since then. Missing Persons got a higher billing than U2? Woohoo
I would never have guessed that The Divinyls were around back then.
look how low INXS is on the friday night,
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5/14/2020 10:46pm
GuyB wrote:
I went the first year.
any chance of a photo for GuyB that year for us?
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5/15/2020 9:47am
Falcon wrote:
I remember that show but I didn't go. I was 12 at the time and had only been to one concert. Funny to see how some...
I remember that show but I didn't go. I was 12 at the time and had only been to one concert.
Funny to see how some of the bands have risen and fallen since then. Missing Persons got a higher billing than U2? Woohoo
I would never have guessed that The Divinyls were around back then.
scott_nz wrote:
look how low INXS is on the friday night,
Yeah. "Don't Change" was probably their only hit at the time.
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5/15/2020 11:48am Edited Date/Time 5/15/2020 11:57am
Went to the first one The “Dust Festival” Laughing That was enough
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5/15/2020 12:24pm
Some of you guys lived through the coolest era.

There's no superstar/bigger than life bands today. Watching videos of early Metallica, Aerosmith, etc. rocking out to 50k plus fans is awesome.

I need a time machine.
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5/16/2020 12:52pm
I grew up near there, the smog was horrible then. I didn’t go because of that.
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5/26/2020 4:48pm
Sunday must have rocked!
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Wall of voodoo..... I”m on a Mexican radio...radio...radio....😂
5/26/2020 5:07pm
When they had it at Ontario Motor Speedway people would just park on the shoulder of I10 lol

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