Friday, August 30, 2024

US Festival '83, Glen Helen Regional Park, San Bernardino, CA, 5-30-1983 - Day 3, Part 2: Quarterflash

The second act on Day Three (Rock Day) of the 1983 US Festival was the band Quarterflash.

The main forces in Quarterflash were Rindy Ross, the band's lead singer and saxophone player, and her husband Marv Ross, who played guitar and wrote most of the songs. They were formed in 1980 and found success right away. Their first single, "Harden My Heart," reached Number Three on the U.S. singles chart in 1981. Their follow-up single, "Find Another Fool," also made the Top Twenty, and their debut album "Quarterflash" sold over a million copies. Their follow up album, "Take Another Picture," was released in March 1983, two months before this festival. That contained another Top Twenty single, "Take Another Picture."

So far, so good. But unfortunately, their subsequent albums and singles failed to make their mark on the charts. The band finally folded in 2020.

Here's their Wikipedia entry if you want to know more:

Quarterflash - Wikipedia 

Unfortunately, this is another case where the set was almost certainly longer. I was only able to find four songs because they were included as part of the Westwood One radio network's broadcast of selections from the festival. If anyone has any music I'm missing, please let me know. 

This album is 20 minutes long.

005 talk (Quarterflash)
006 Find Another Fool (Quarterflash)
007 talk (Quarterflash)
008 Take Me to Heart (Quarterflash)
009 Harden My Heart (Quarterflash)
010 Take Another Picture (Quarterflash)

https://www.upload.ee/files/17039565/VA-1983USFstvlDay0302Qartrflsh_atse.zip.html

alternate link:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/2bEeM1Dd

The cover art of the band's lead singers Rindy Ross is from this exact concert.

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