There's some good footage of a few of the bands, notably the English Beat, the Stray Cats, Missing Persons, and U2. However, apparently they didn't get the rights to show all the bands, so its missing bands and artists like Wall of Voodoo, Motley Crue, Ozzy Osbourne, The Pretenders, Joe Walsh, and David Bowie, most of whom aren't event mentioned. And there's more of Triumph than any other band for some reason, although they were one of the least significant bands to play the festival. The interview footage is almost all Steve Wozniak and Mark Goodman (the MTV VJ) and their remarks are lackluster. It doesn't look like a whole lot of effort went into this documentary. I was at days 1 and 3 of the 1983 US Festival and there were some great moments I would have liked to have relived, but there was no magic in this. Hopefully, someone does a better documentary of the US Festival in the future with all the bands and more and better interviews.
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