US Festival '83, Glen Helen Regional Park, San Bernardino, CA, 5-29-1983 - Day 2, Part 4: Judas Priest

The fourth act on Day Two (Heavy Metal Day) at the 1983 US Festival was the band Judas Priest.

Judas Priest is one of the most famous heavy metal bands of all time. They've sold over 50 million albums worldwide. They were formed way back in 1969, but only really started to take off in the late 1970s. Their big breakthrough was the album "British Steel" in 1980, which allmusic.com has said is the album that "kick-started heavy metal's glory days of the 1980's." It sold over a million copies in the U.S. Their 1982 album "Screaming for Vengeance," which was their most recent album at the time of this festival, did even better. It sold two million in the U.S., helped by the hit single "You've Got Another Thing Comin'." 

So at the time of this festival, they were probably at the peak of their popularity, since no other album would sell nearly as well as "Screaming for Vengeance." However, the band has had a steady career since, and is still in existence as I write this in 2024.

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

Judas Priest - Wikipedia

Gil Moore, drummer for Triumph (the next band to play), later recalled, "The heat for all the bands was tremendous. I remember watching Judas Priest go out. They had on the leather, and it wasn't just a little bit of leather – we're talking pounds and pounds of it. Each one of their outfits must've weighed ten pounds in black leather and studs. I’m laughing – 'these guys are going to absolutely melt.' It’s like 110 degrees, full-on sun."

I found the music here from a soundboard quality bootleg. All of the music is officially unreleased. The lead vocals were low in the mix, so I boosted them using the UVR5 audio editing program.

This album is an hour and one minute long.

054 talk (Judas Priest)
055 Electric Eye (Judas Priest)
056 Riding on the Wind (Judas Priest)
057 talk (Judas Priest)
058 Heading Out to the Highway (Judas Priest)
059 talk (Judas Priest)
060 Metal Gods (Judas Priest)
061 talk (Judas Priest)
062 Breaking the Law (Judas Priest)
063 talk (Judas Priest)
064 Diamonds and Rust (Judas Priest)
065 talk (Judas Priest)
066 Victim of Changes (Judas Priest)
067 talk (Judas Priest)
068 Living After Midnight (Judas Priest)
069 talk (Judas Priest)
070 The Green Manalishi [With the Two-Pronged Crown] (Judas Priest)
071 talk (Judas Priest)
072 Screaming for Vengeance (Judas Priest)
073 You've Got Another Thing Comin' (Judas Priest)
074 talk (Judas Priest)
075 Hell Bent for Leather (Judas Priest)

https://www.upload.ee/files/17028262/VA-1983USFstvlDay0204JdasPrest_atse.zip.html

alternate link:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/9oGPco8X

The cover photo shows guitarist K.K. Downing at this exact concert.

Live Aid - JFK Stadium, Philadelphia, PA, 7-13-1985, Part 2: Crosby, Stills and Nash, Judas Priest, Bryan Adams & The Beach Boys

Here's Part 2 of the Philadelphia portion of the 1985 Live Aid benefit concert. With this part, we generally get to bigger name acts than those in Part 1.

Later on in Live Aid, Crosby, Stills and Nash would reunite with Neil Young for a short Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young set. But first, they did a set just as Crosby, Stills and Nash. 

Next up was the heavy metal band Judas Priest. (I'll bet that was the only time CSN was followed on stage by a heavy metal band!) They were followed by Bryan Adams, then by the Beach Boys. Note that Brian Wilson, the genius who wrote most of the Beach Boys' hits, only occasionally played live with the band. But he did play Live Aid, since it was such a big occasion.

As with all the parts, I had to do a lot of work to get the recording to sound its best, including remixing the balance between vocals and the instruments for all the songs using UVR5. Also, sometimes I was able to find introductions to the musical acts, and sometimes I wasn't. As I explained previously, Live Aid wasn't professionally recorded, so sometimes when DJs talked over the introductions, they were lost. Sometimes, celebrities made the introductions. For this part, actor Jack Nicholson introduced Bryan Adams and Marilyn McCoo of the band the Fifth Dimension introduced the Beach Boys.

This album is an hour and seven minutes long.

027 Southern Cross (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
028 talk (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
029 Teach Your Children (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
030 Suite- Judy Blue Eyes (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
031 Livin' After Midnight (Judas Priest)
032 talk (Judas Priest)
033 The Green Manalishi [With the Two-Pronged Crown] (Judas Priest)
034 talk (Judas Priest)
035 You've Got Another Thing Comin' (Judas Priest)
036 talk (Jack Nicholson)
037 Kids Wanna Rock (Bryan Adams)
038 talk (Bryan Adams)
039 Summer of 69 (Bryan Adams)
040 talk (Bryan Adams)
041 Tears Are Not Enough (Bryan Adams)
042 talk (Bryan Adams)
043 Cuts like a Knife (Bryan Adams)
044 talk (Bryan Adams)
045 talk (Marilyn McCoo)
046 California Girls (Beach Boys)
047 Help Me, Rhonda (Beach Boys)
048 Wouldn't It Be Nice (Beach Boys)
049 talk (Beach Boys)
050 Good Vibrations (Beach Boys)
051 talk (Beach Boys)
052 Surfin' U.S.A. (Beach Boys)
053 talk (Bill Graham)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/CCG6sJr3 

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/4xjOzfQNog1I1e8/file

For the cover, I generally noticed there are four big acts per album, so from here on in I'm dividing each cover into four parts so I can show all of them. All the photos are from Live Aid. Crosby, Stills and Nash are in the top left, Rob Halford of Judas Priest in the top right, Bryan Adams in the lower left, and Al Jardine, Mike Love, and Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys in the lower right.