Various Artists - Les Paul & Friends, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York City, 8-18-1988

Les Paul never liked rock and roll all that much, but he is one of the key people who made rock and roll what it is nonetheless. I'll explain more about his massive influence on music further down below. But first, this was a tribute concert to honor Paul when he was still in good enough health to perform. He was 73 years old at the time of this concert, but he would go on to live another 21 years before dying in 2009. A lot of musical stars showed up to honor him and perform music with him: Eddie Van Halen, B. B. King, Carly Simon, Steve Miller, Rita Coolidge, David Gilmour, Stanley Jordan, and the Stray Cats.

I think Les Paul isn't as well known as he should be today, because he made his considerable mark on music before the rock and roll era ever began. Here's the intro to his Wikipedia entry: 

"Les Paul was an American jazz, country, and blues guitarist, songwriter, luthier, and inventor. He was one of the pioneers of the solid-body electric guitar... and served as inspiration for the Gibson Les Paul. While he is mainly known for jazz and popular music, he had an early career in country music. In the 1950s, he and his wife, singer and guitarist Mary Ford, made numerous recordings, selling millions of copies. Paul is credited with many recording innovations. His early experiments with overdubbing, delay effects such as tape delay, phasing, and multitrack recording were among the first to attract widespread attention. His licks, trills, chording sequences, fretting techniques, and timing set him apart from his contemporaries and inspired many guitarists of the present day. Among his many honors, Paul is one of a handful of artists with a permanent exhibit in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. [He] is the only inductee in both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the National Inventors Hall of Fame."

In this concert, Paul played lead guitar on some instrumentals by himself. He also served as the emcee, introducing the guest stars. He then played guitar for some of the guest stars as well.

This is that was broadcast on the Cinemax TV channel. Maybe this is all of it, or maybe there was more, I don't know. You can find the video of this on YouTube. However, this has never been officially released in any audio format. 

This album is exactly one hour long. 

01 How High the Moon [Instrumental] (Les Paul)
02 talk (Les Paul)
03 Lover [When You're Near Me] [Instrumental] (Les Paul)
04 talk (Les Paul & Eddie Van Halen)
05 Echo Tribune - Back Pain Boogie [Instrumental] (Eddie Van Halen)
06 talk (Les Paul)
07 Every Day I Have the Blues (B.B. King)
08 talk (Les Paul & B.B. King)
09 It Happens (Carly Simon)
10 talk (Les Paul & Carly Simon)
11 talk (Les Paul)
12 God Bless the Child (Steve Miller)
13 talk (Les Paul)
14 Am I Blue (Rita Coolidge)
15 Somewhere Over the Rainbow [Instrumental] (Les Paul)
16 talk (Les Paul)
17 It's Been a Long, Long Time [Instrumental] (Les Paul)
18 Deep in the Blues [Instrumental] (David Gilmour)
19 talk (Les Paul & David Gilmour)
20 talk (Les Paul & Stanley Jordan)
21 Georgia on My Mind [Instrumental] (Stanley Jordan)
22 talk (Les Paul & Waylon Jennings)
23 I Really Don't Want to Know (Waylon Jennings)
24 Blue Suede Shoes (Stray Cats & Everyone)
25 How High the Moon [Instrumental] (Everyone)
26 Vaya con Dios [Instrumental] (Everyone)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/JHeRRgbe

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/bI4yBNMPj5h56H8/file

I assume the cover photo was taken either before or after the concert. From left to right, top row: B.B. King, Waylon Jennings, and Eddie Van Halen. In the middle is Les Paul. Left to right, bottom row: Stanley Jordan and Steve Miller.

Oh, by the way, I have some very good choices for the cover art. In addition to the one I chose, I've included two more in the download zip. One shows Les Paul with Eddie Van Halen, and the other shows most of the big name stars playing together for the finale. 

US Festival '83, Glen Helen Regional Park, San Bernardino, CA, 6-4-1983 - Day 4, Part 2: Waylon Jennings

The second act that I have from Day Four (Country Day) of the 1983 US Festival is set by Waylon Jennings.

Waylon Jennings is one of the biggest legends in the history of country music. No doubt he and another music legend, Willie Nelson, were the main draws for Country Day. 

Jennings had a long music career (he died in 2002), which I won't attempt to summarize here. But I'll note that from about 1975 to 1982, he was at his commercial peak, with his albums typically hitting Number One on the country charts, or at least getting very close. But as the 1980s went on, country radio changed, and didn't play older artists like him as much as they used to. At the time of this festival, he was one week away from releasing another album, called "It's Only Rock and Roll." The lead single, "Lucille" (a cover of the 1950s classic), would make it to Number One on the country charts, his twelfth to top the charts. But he would only have one more chart topping song after that, in 1987. He would later say he wasn't feeling musically inspired at this point in his life.

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

Waylon Jennings - Wikipedia

Jennings married Jessi Colter in 1969, and they stayed married until he died in 2002. She became a country star in her own right. During this set, they performed a duet on the song "Storms Never Last." But that appears to have been only involvement with the US Festival, though I'm sure she was popular enough to have done a set on her own.

Technically, this set has been officially released as the album "Live at the US Festival, 1983." But it's such a rare album that I couldn't find it anywhere. Instead, I found a YouTube video and converted that into mp3s. The sound quality is excellent.

This album is an hour and two minutes long.

006 talk (Waylon Jennings)
007 Don't You Think This Outlaw Bit's Done Got Out of Hand (Waylon Jennings)
008 Clyde (Waylon Jennings)
009 Amanda (Waylon Jennings)
010 Just to Satisfy You (Waylon Jennings)
011 Only Daddy That'll Walk the Line (Waylon Jennings)
012 Lucille (Waylon Jennings)
013 I've Always Been Crazy (Waylon Jennings)
014 talk (Waylon Jennings)
015 Breakin' Down (Waylon Jennings)
016 Lonesome, On'ry and Mean (Waylon Jennings)
017 Jack of Diamonds (Waylon Jennings)
018 Theme from 'The Dukes of Hazzard' [Good Ol' Boys] (Waylon Jennings)
019 talk (Waylon Jennings)
020 Storms Never Last (Waylon Jennings & Jessi Coulter)
021 Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way (Waylon Jennings)
022 Rainy Day Woman (Waylon Jennings)
023 Women Do Know How to Carry On (Waylon Jennings)
024 I Ain't Living Long like This (Waylon Jennings)
025 Good Hearted Woman (Waylon Jennings)
026 Honky Tonk Heroes (Waylon Jennings)
027 Luckenbach, Texas [Back to the Basics of Love] (Waylon Jennings)
028 Mental Revenge (Waylon Jennings)
029 Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys (Waylon Jennings)
030 talk (Waylon Jennings)
031 I Can Get Off on You (Waylon Jennings)

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I had the same situation with the cover art as with the other acts on this day. I couldn't find any photos, so I used a screenshot from a YouTube video for the cover photo.

UPDATE: On October 6, 2024, I upgraded the photo with the use of the Krea AI program.