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Labor Day Weekend in 1982 promised to be the biggest musical happening since Woodstock, or so proclaimed Steve Wozniak, the elfish, bearded co-founder of Apple Computers, and his acolytes, music idealists who formed the non-profit foundation Unusun, which stood for Unite Us In Song, the organizing and planning group who helped Wozniak make a reality his dream to host an epic, historic concert festival that came to be known as the US Festival. Wozniak's idea was to push back against the notion that the 70s had become the "me generation," and to "throw a part in the middle of nowhere" in the 80s for "the US generation," or as he also put it "a few thousand of his friends."
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Having made a huge personal fortune from innovating the home computer industry, his plan was to spend some of it on paying big dollars for a concert to attract the best bands from diverse music genres over a three-day period, using the state of the art in technology to convey the best sound and to using the best advance planning to provide superior amenities and make sure concert goers would have the best experience possible, avoiding some of the pitfalls that Woodstock had experienced because of bad planning. In other words, it was going to be Woodstock without all the mud, traffic, starvation, thirst, chaos and casualties. Wozniak and his planning committee had provided for adequate facilities for the anticipated daily 400,000 concertgoers to eat, drink and be merry and all that was left was to rock their socks off. As it happened, socks would be in short supply as the temperature soared to 115 degrees in the Southern California mountain basin in which the concert venue was located.
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