Missing Persons 05/30/1983 US Festival

WHAT IS IT?

this disc in mastered on a stand alone and is 3.04 GB


Here's somebody else description:

"This 3 part DVD includes the rare music videos produced in the early 1980s, the complete 1983 US Festival live concert, and an interview with Dale and Terry Bozzio by Martha Quinn when Missing Persons first made their debut in the early 80s.

First up is the complete '83 US Festival live concert (54:23). Tracks performed are as follows:

Mental Hopscotch
Noticable one
Words
Tears
It ain't none of your business
Bad Streets
US Drag
Windows
Here and now
Walking in LA
I like boys
Destination Unknown
No way out



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Promo Videos:

Right Now
Give
Destination Unknown
Surrender Your Heart
I Can't Think About Dancing

An early live performance of "Windows" on Solid Gold

Martha Quinn interview with Terry and Dale Bozzio. (9:12)"

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HOW IS IT?
...The US festival footage is professionally shot and easy to watch...There is a little high end tape noise, but it is not too bothersome...Band performs well- a bunch of musos, really. They jam a bit during US Drag and its obvious they're far more skilled than the pop songs they're trying to hit with. I nodded off once or twice, so if the above tracklist is wrong, email me with the details..

The first three videos look and sound excellent, but the audio quality drops dramatically on the last two...

the "windows" is a lip synch...

There is footage in the MTV interview from their first video, but that is not found on this disc...



The US Festival 83, despite attracting 670,000 people, lost money for the people who put it on. I get the impression that people have finally discovered how to orchestrate financially successful festivals. More than a decade seemed to go by in the United States without much in the way of music festivals and now there's a couple well established multiday events. 670,000! That staggering number got me thinking about record attendances in general...Apparently there is
1 Rod Stewart at Copacabana Beach - 3.5 million people December 31st, 1994
2 New York Philharmonic in Central Park - 800,000 people July 5th, 1986
3 Garth Brooks in Central Park - 750,000 people August 7th, 1997
4 US Festival - 670,000 people

(how close can 3.5 million people actually physically get to a single stage? The Stones did a show which was TV broadcast at this venue 2/18/06...I'd be interested in seeing the layout)

The US festivals inspire some nostalgia these days. They have a fairly pleasant website commemorating the event and I believe that VH1 recently broadcast some of the material. I imagine that every moment of every performance was preserved by the MTV cameras, but I could be wrong about that. 26 years later, at least 20 full performances are available for trading. I know this because some industrious bootlegger has linked his well layed-out site to the US festival Wikipedia entry---I don't personally recommend spending money at sites like this, but they do give you an idea of what has made it out of the vaults and can be seen. If you are a fan of one of the bands who played these festivals and got $15 bucks to spend, you should track them down on the internet and buy something they are personally going to profit from. My gut feeling is that gray area dealers, which is to say, people who are selling officially unavailable recordings...my gut feeling is that, in the download era, these are all one man operations which see about as much money for their efforts as they would doing something minimum wage. (please correct me if I'm wrong) Regardless of this, selling and buying bootlegs is bad vibrations...people freely trade this stuff out of fanaticism. When it takes on a money dimension, it threatens whatever permissibility this has acquired.

That little sermon complete, I'll mention the eyesore adverts served into this page. All I need is another ten thousand people to read this blog before I can earn $100 dollars! Hopefully, all the celebrity misfortune legions will find their way to my timely Dale Bozzio reference in search of lurid dead animal indignities. If only I had some bootleg Michael Jackson concert to ramble on about!