Before I say anything else, I want to make clear the sound quality of this set is not great. The vast majority of the sets from this festival are audio bootlegs, but some are better than others. This is one of the poorer ones. I still think it's worthy, but be ware.
Note that this was not actually the first act on this day of the festival. A Rolling Stone Magazine article explained it well:
"One of the advantages of footing the bill for a big rock show is that you can insist that your friends get on the bill. [Festival funder] Steve Wozniak clearly learned that early on, and day two opened with a couple of his own choices. First, there was Ms. Milk, who sang 'America, the Beautiful' to the accompaniment of a lone synthesizer, adding a few new lyrics along the way: 'America, America/It is our human right/To do our thing/To laugh and sing/Free from atomic fight.' Ms. Milk was followed by Joe Sharino, a Santa Cruz-based singer/songwriter who played at Wozniak’s wedding."
The attendance of Day Two was about 200,000 people, significantly greater than Day One. It must have been extremely strange to be either Ms. Milk or Joe Sharino on that day, because as far as I can tell, they had next to no musical careers aside from this one festival. (I found out there's one very obscure studio album by Joe Sharino that was released in 1984.) I couldn't find any recordings of either of their sets.
Dave Edmunds, by contrast, was a pretty big rock star in 1982. He had just gone back to fully focusing on being a solo artist after being one of the two lead singers in the band Rockpile for a few years.
As usual for this festival, I did what I could to improve the sound, using both the UVR5 and MVSEP audio editing programs. But one can only do so much with the source material.
This album is 35 minutes long.
001 Crawling from the Wreckage (Dave Edmunds)
002 Dear Dad (Dave Edmunds)
003 talk (Dave Edmunds)
004 From Small Things [Big Things One Day Come] (Dave Edmunds)
005 Girls Talk (Dave Edmunds)
006 talk (Dave Edmunds)
007 You Ain't Nothin' but Fine (Dave Edmunds)
008 talk (Dave Edmunds)
009 Me and the Boys (Dave Edmunds)
010 Queen of Hearts (Dave Edmunds)
011 I Knew the Bride [When She Used to Rock and Roll] (Dave Edmunds)
012 It's My Own Business (Dave Edmunds)
013 Ju Ju Man (Dave Edmunds)
014 Let's Talk about Us (Dave Edmunds)
015 talk (Dave Edmunds)
https://www.upload.ee/files/17497709/VA-1982USFstvlDay0201DveEdmnds_atse.zip.html
alternate:
https://pixeldrain.com/u/dRtW5mUd
alternate:
https://bestfile.io/B9H6TRcUuhB9CRN/file
Strangely, Dave Edmunds was the only major act of the festival where I couldn't find even a single photo of him performing at the festival. I wanted to have one album cover that showed just how huge the crowd was, so I chose a photo of the crowd. Now, imagine being someone like Joe Sharino who probably had never performed before more than a couple hundred people, playing to THAT crowd!
Thank you!
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