US Festival '83, Glen Helen Regional Park, San Bernardino, CA, 5-29-1983 - Day 2, Part 2: Motley Crue

The second act on Day Two (Heavy Metal Day) of the 1983 US Festival was the band Motley Crue.

As I write this decades later, Motley Crue is one of the best known heavy metal bands, having sold over 100 million albums worldwide. But at the time they were relatively little known, so much so that it's kind of remarkable they were included in the festival at all. They had only released one album at this point, "Too Fast for Love," and it had sold well under 100,000 copies at the time. In 1983, their second album "Shout at the Devil" would be their big breakthrough, selling four million copies in the U.S. alone. But that wouldn't be released until September, four months after this festival. Still, the band played about the same number of songs from each album, plus a cover of "Helter Skelter" by the Beatles.

Here's the band's Wikipedia page, if you want to know more:

Mötley Crüe - Wikipedia

Drummer Tommy Lee later recalled, "I remember arriving by helicopter and looking down on something I'd never, ever seen before – 300,000 people! Whoa! I was really excited and fucking nervous all at once. Kinda felt like puking, actually. When we got onstage – holy shit! We renamed it the Dust Festival. A sea of people in dust. I'll never forget that." 

That 300,000 people number is close, but it actually was even larger. The estimate for Heavy Metal Day was about 375,000 people, which was significantly more than any of the other days of the festival. 

I found a soundboard worthy bootleg of this band's entire set. I believe all of their set remains officially unreleased. The lead vocals were low in the mix, so I fixed that with the UVR5 audio editing program.

This album is 42 minutes long.

015 Take It to the Top (Motley Crue)
016 Looks that Kill (Motley Crue)
017 talk (Motley Crue)
018 Bastard (Motley Crue)
019 Shout at the Devil (Motley Crue)
020 talk (Motley Crue)
021 Merry-Go-Round (Motley Crue)
022 Knock 'Em Dead Kid (Motley Crue)
023 talk (Motley Crue)
024 Piece of Your Action (Motley Crue)
025 talk (Motley Crue)
026 Live Wire (Motley Crue)
027 talk (Motley Crue)
028 Helter Skelter (Motley Crue)
029 talk (Motley Crue) 

https://www.upload.ee/files/17028233/VA-1983USFstvlDay0202MtlyCru_atse.zip.html

alternate link:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/rdSPdz39

The cover photo is from this exact concert.