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Some dos and don'ts Speaking: "Alternative uses of the Apple II com- Technology masters puter: sound effects, recording techniques and live Three-da-y tickets are $37.50. Single-da- y tickets are Technology is an important performance." $17.50. aspect of the US Festival that will be held at Glen Helen. A . 1:30 p.m. Vaughn Young, Author Services. Free parking is included with each admission.' list of speakers and subjects for the three-da-y event is listed. Speaking: "Using the computer to produce a musical Festival officials say the three-da- y admission also FRIDAY soundtrack from a book," . will include free camping on the festival site. t 1 p.m. Stewart Brand, editor of the Whole Earth 2:30 p.m. Dave Bross, Fairlite CMI. Infants will be admitted free, but there will be no Catalogue Quarterly. Speaking: "Using the Fairlite, a computer musical day care services and UNUSON officials are not and CoEvolution 2 p.m. Mark Dubois, president, Friends of the instrument." . encouraging parents to bring small children. . 3:30 p.m. Will Stone, San Francisco Gallery of three-da- y River. Speaking; "Community Water Conservation." Those with admissions will be allowed to , 3 p.m. Kent, president, Delta Vee Inc. Contemporary Fine Arts. leave the grounds and return the next day. However, Stan i Age." Speaking: "Visual Ideas for Tomorrow." they will not be allowed to grounds Speaking: "Diversity of Careers in the Space f, leave the and 4:30 p.m. Jim Dillitosso, UFO expert. return the same day. 4 p.m. Alan Layton, Sun Fuel. Speaking: "Alcohol Alternative Fuels." 'Admissions are being sold through Ticketron out- and 5 p.m. Energy Collective. SUNDAY lets. Southern Ticketron orders can be Susan Blanc, Alternative Speaking: .''Community Energy ." taken at (213) 410-106- Festival information is avail- 6 p.m. Jacques yallee, founder of Info Media and 10 a.m. Ken Silverman, president, International able at (800) 662-633- for "Close'Encounters of Third Kind." Apple Core. UNUSON officials say the Glen Helen Regional consultant the e Speaking: "Computer Networking." Speaking: "Impact of user groups on individual and Park campgrounds will open on Thursday morning. 7 p.m. Robert Dlits, Neuro Linguistic Program- industry computer use." Gates of concert area open at 10 a.m. Friday. the ming. 11 a.m. Lee The, editor, Fersonal Computing Festival participants may camp overnight on Sun- Speaking: "Computing as a Development Tool." magazine. day, the last day of the event, but must leave by 0 8 p.m. Ken Widelitz, microcomputing consultant Speaking: "Personal Computing in Your Life." Monday. attorney. Noon Paul Aarmette, Alexander Grand and Com- Campers are urged to bring sleeping bags, ground and Speaking: "Legal Aspects of Software Copyrighting pany. battery-powere- d lanterns, cool covers, flashlights, Speaking: "Survival in the Digital Society." daytime,, warm clothing for the eve- and Piracy." clothing for 1 p.m. Jerry Borrell. with ice. No nings, hats, visors, spray bottles, coolers SATURDAY Speaking: "Computer Networking." cooking will be allowed. Introduction by Steve Wozniak. campf ires or open flame 10 a.m. 2 p.m. Leigh Zeitz, educational editor, the jazz musician. Personal The following items will not be allowed in 10:30 a.m. Herbie Hancock, Computer Age. exposition area: coolers, bottles, cans, Speaking: "Music and Computers." concert and Speaking: "Microcomputing in Education: The c balls, recording devices, 11:30 a.m. Robert Moog, inventor of the Moog bota bags, frisbees, beach Future is Here." glass bottles, drugs movie or video cameras, metal or synthesizer. 3 p.m. Ken Hadermann, t State of Electronic Professional Communica- or alcoholic beverages. Speaking: "Present and Future tions Design. 0 will be subject to a search upon Music." All patrons Speaking: "Telephone lines and computer network- entrance to the concert and exposition area. If you 12:30 p.m. Ellen Laphan, Alpha Syntauri com- ing possibilities.". bring a backpack, large purse or duffel bag onto the pany. , , .,.,,.. grounds, be prepared to wait longer for entry. I)Oilil(oJDfTnSOil JUU QQQU ENGINEERS AND CONTRACTORS SINCE 1942

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CONGRATULATIONS p on a jo W .DON US accent is rock 'n' roll IV . By RAY COOKUS a Lad (1981) and Nothing to Fear (1982) Oingo Son Staff Writer Boingo uses such innovations as West African Nearly all the entertainers who will perform at rhythms and percussion. next weekend's US Festival fit neatly into one big The Gang of Four, a politically oriented quartet musical category: rock 'n' roll. from a tough industrial district in England; the v: Included in the list of talent for the Labor Day s, who started out in Georgia but gained their in '70s New scene; and The weekend y fair are some of reputation the late York concert, rock's biggest names from the 1960s to the present English Beat round out the bill for Friday's Santana,1 The Grateful Dead, The Kinks, w hich is scheduled to end at midnight. Fleetwood Mac, Jackson Browne, and The Police, to name a few. . SATURDAY Such bands no doubt will be the festival's biggest The music will take a turn toward the rock 'n' roll drawing cards. Indeed, the US Festival advertising mainstream Saturday. A fairly representative so far has placed heavy emphasis on the featured cross-sectio- n of the popular rock spectrum will take performers. " the stage during the 10 session. '60s three-da- y Two established bands from the are on the , But the US Festival will not be just a Kinks, hardest rock 'n' roll concert, according to Peter Ellis, bill. The who have been called "the president of UNUSON Corp., which is producing rock of the British Invasion, and probably the the event meanest" by rock critic Greil Marcus, started in In a Sun interview this week, Ellis said that more 1964. Three of its four original members Ray Davies, Dave Davies and Mick Avory are still in than 140 companies in the computer-technolog- y field will exhibit their wares at the festival. The the band. Santana, led by its creative force, Carlos "Tech Fair" portion of the event includes a full, Santana, sprang up in the San Francisco Bay area in 1960s, mixing the psychedelic rock of that three-da-y schedule of talks by technology experts the late Jackson Browne from synthesizer wizard Robert Moog to financial time with jazz and Latin influences. The band has education. At one point she was a part-tim- e bank analyst Ken continued experimenting and fusing musical styles Widelitz. teller in Richmond, Va. Ellis conceded, is throughout its career, with a notable use of authen- however, that rock music the But she worked her way back into music, singing event's primary attraction but not just any kind tic Latin American folk music. a lounge act complete with a tight leopard-ski- n of The Cars dates from 1972, when leader Ric Ocasek rock music outfit that she developed into a tough rock style "We said from beginning we met Benjamin Orr at a party and began performing right the that ... after she moved back to New York. Her albums are weren't going to have any greaser music, that we as a musical duo in Boston. At one point, the band was called Richard and the Rabbits, then Cap'n In the Heat of the Night, Crimes of Passion and weren't going to have any heavy-met- al music, like Precious Time. ACDC." Swing, before it settled on its present name. Among , The other acts Saturday include: Dave Edmunds, a UNUSON made decision, said, even its albums are Candy-0- Panorama and Shake It Up. that he former "pub rocker" from England who is known though including such acts "would solve some of " Tom Petty, a rock singer from Gainesville, FUl, as one of the New Wave's "loners" (along with our ticket sales, and fill up that,(amphitheater) in no who worked with various bands, in his home state, . compatriots Graham Parker; Nick Lowe and Elvis But we said 'No, we don't want those guys in hooked up with the group The Heartbreakers in Los time. Costello); , an from here. That's not the image we want' " Angeles in 1976. The combination clicked, but Petty took Brooklyn who toured as an opening act for the The "punk" image also is being shunned. "We're then ran into financial and legal troubles that Rolling Stones, Ted Nugent and Cheap Trick, not having any punk groups in there," said Ellis, several years to straighten out. Working for a new group climbed to the before finding rock fame on his own with songs like noting that groups on the US bill like The B-5- and label, Backstreet Records, the 1981. "Baby Hold On" and "Two Tickets to Paradise." Talking Heads properly should be considered New top with Damn the Torpedoes in Born Pat Andrzejewski on Long Island, Pat Wave bands. , opera at Juilliard School of Music, Each group, he said, will play at least a ltt-hou- r Benatar studied set. With five to seven bands scheduled each day of but dropped out to switch her field to health (Please see Bands, page 10) the festival, that means a lot of live music Following is a schedule of performers: FRIDAY The opening day's musical festivities will begin at r v 4 p.m. with a lineup of seven bands, all of which can few be described accurately as "New Wave." Several of the groups, like Talking Heads, The and The ' s, started out in the late-'70- s New York under- U- ft scene, ground rock playing at New Wavepunk - clubs like CBGB's. All record for labels that special--' ize in New Wave groups. ... .1- , ? But Friday wasn't purposely planned as "New ft-- J-- - V:-W fsi 4 - that-wa- y. --- ill)' ' Wave Night," Ellis said. It just "kind of went v '. ,!' We kind of had general plans to include (New !' I ! ' e Wave), but not until we got down here, and started :1I.11 (O to do some research in L.A.," he said. j i , ; Heading the lineup is The Police, whose first 4 V album Outlandos D'Amour (1978) and single "Rox-anne- " Jam 1: brought the Jamaican reggae beat to the 5. X-h- wwliiia?i&m MJ& 09 New Wave mainstream. . Talking Heads, a band formed by a group of students at the Rhode Island School of Design in the In H ; '70s, often gets the label "intellectual" for its V '',v; creative work. 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IH .. IHH1MIMIIII1IJIHB THE FESTIVAL AMPHITHEATRE ( These great groups and more will fill the air with the greatest (is) sounds in rock 'n roll for 3 days in one of the most beautiful settings ever created for an outdoor music festival. A vast fir amphitheatre of has been carved out Glen Helen Regional - iV - Park, Si and covered with soft new grass making a most W comfortable bowl that affords everyone a spectacular, 1 f tw .7 unobstructed view of the stage, its two huge video screens, Glen Helen's lakes, hills, I TIC pouceS i : :::".", d mac and the San Bernardino mountains beyond.

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I'm going to attend food was poisoned. my own party." More than a month after the accident, he still Wozniak plays a little guitar himself, and at one suffered- - bouts of confusion and memory loss. He time during the early planning stages for the festival woke up his fiancee one night and asked her, "Was llilttlif he toyed with the idea of making his own stage I dreaming, or did I really crash?" appearance. He has since changed his mind. . About five months after the accident, while driv- His own musical tastes run mostly to "progressive ing on the freeway, Wozniak dreamed up the US country and western," he said, and he pays no Festival. 'r:; (f - ' attention at all to Heavy Metal or New Wave. But he "I heard a few great songs in a row on the radio, gave his promoter, Bill Graham, a relatively free and I just got to thinking that it's about time someone hand in choosing acts for the three-da- y festival. As it did a big festival and got lots of groups together," he turns out, the Friday lineup will favor New Wave, said in a telephone interview from his home in the Saturday will tilt toward mainstream rock, and Santa Cruz Mountains. "I knew it was ludicrous to Sunday will be shaded toward country rock. , think of me doing it. But I met some people who "I'm willing to sit down and listen to expert could actually pull off the logistics of the thing. My advice," Wozniak said. "I don't know any of the motivation was fearless. I decided to go for it. The groups on Friday, but one of my friends has a time was right." sister whose favorite group is Oingo Boingo. Wozniak laughs at the thought that his brainstorm That's okay with me. In fact, she's going to introduce was just another episode of post-traum- a delirium. them." "Maybe there's a slot machine in my head and all ' The only two entertainers Wozniak said he "had to the ,0 neutrons just happened to line up a certain way," he V M have on the bill" were Jerry Jeff Walker, whom he said, enjoying the joke. "But no, somebody up there got, and , whom he didn't, because loves this festival and wants it to happen. I'm just the s,of,,,ho,0 she has a commitment on the East Coast that week- . WOZNIAK tool. Nobody who looked at my past would expect me STEPHEN end. "We tried so hard, but we just couldn't get her," to do something like this." . . . from dreams to reality he said. That's not entirely true. While Wozniak never has $1,300, and started Apple Computer, thus virtually There were other disappointments, too. "I didn't dabbled in festival production before, he has a long inventing the home computer industry. In 1977 the get a lot of my first choices, wozniak said, one oi history of creating spectacles of one sort or another. company made $2.7 million. By 1980 sales had my No. 1. choices was Bruce Springsteen but we For a man who started his engineering career by climbed to $200 million. Last year sales tripled to couldn't buy him out of the studio. I wanted Dire building "blue boxes" for illegal telephone use, who more than a half billion dollars, which represents Straits really bad, and we made an unreasonably once called the Pope and pretended to be Henry almost a quarter of the entire worldwide market in high offer, but we discovered they're no longer Kissinger, who once operated a dial-a-jok- e service personal computers. together." out of his apartment, who became a multimillionaire Wozniak, however, who made many of his friends Still, Wozniak said he is very pleased with the by inventing a state-of-the-a- rt home computer and and family members wealthy by handing around lineup, which does include some of his favorites. He then enrolled in undergraduate computer classes shares of Apple stock, wasn't actively involved In the named Fleetwood Mac, Jimmy Buffett, Jackson under an assumed name, this business of putting on company last year. He had his plane crash in Febru- Browne, Tom Petty and Santana. a new improved version of Woodstock is just another ary, and after recovering he took an official leave of Despite the fact that the US Festival inevitably is turn of the screw. absence. In June, about the time he,was dreaming up. being compared to that other three-da- y Stephen Wozniak, known to his friends as "Woz" (a the US Festival, he got married to Candi Clark, a called Woodstock, Wozniak dislikes the allusion. "I nickname the Wizard of Oz could have used, too), was Berkeley business administration graduate and an hope it's a historic event that people will remember born Aug. 11, 1950, in San Jose. A whiz kid, he built employee of Apple. Steven Jobs was best man at the 10 years later, but we're 180 degrees out of phase his first computer as a at Cupertino wedding and entertainer Emmylou Harris sang at with Woodstock," he said. Junior High, and it won first prize in the Bay Area the reception. "I never even knew Woodstock existed until I saw Science Fair that year. go said, referring to 1970 documen-tar- y Wozniak also decided to back to Berkeley and the movie," he the " At Homestead High School in Los Altos he met finish his degree. He enrolled under an assumed of the three-da- y Woodstock Music and Art Fair, Steven Jobs, a fellow electronics nut, and the two of name, because how would it look, after all, for one of held near Bethel, N.Y., in August 1969. them formed a friendship that after graduation the most famous names in computer technology to "Woodstock was a disaster," Wozniak said. "It became a business. Their first enterprise was to build appear on the roster of undergraduate computer didn't co smoothlv at all. Everything went wrong. "blue boxes," illegal electronic attachments for tele- science classes? ' There was poor planning, greed, extortion, sani- phones that allow users to make long distance calls Berkeley is where Wozniak spent last Labor Day tation problems. The logistics were horrible." free. The two Steves went door to door in college weekend. "I didn't do anything special," he remem- The US Festival, on the other hand, has been dormitories and sold the contraptions to students. bers. "I was just getting ready to go back to school." planned with scientific precision, Wozniak said. Once, as a demonstration, Wozniak rang up the This year, Labor Day weekend is going to be a little - "We're avoiding all the last-minu- decision making. Vatican, identified himself as Henry Kissinger, and more special for Stephen Wozniak. He's not only We won't have any last minute crises." asked for Pope Paul VI. The pontiff was summoned, going to be putting on a rock festival and technology Wozniak, who plans to return to Apple after the but Wozniak's ruse was discovered when a bishop fair that he hopes will make history, he and his wife dust settles in Devore, is spending about a fourth of came on the line to act as translator. are expecting their first child, and labor could his listed wealth of $50 million on this holiday Wozniak enrolled at Berkeley, but dropped out and happen on Labor Day weekend. "It's due anytime weekend "party" of his. The idea doesn't frighten went to work as a designer for Hewlett Packard. within a month but it might come during the him in the least. Meanwhile, Jobs enrolled in Oregon's Reed College festival," he said. "We're going to have a helicopter "We're not looking at the bottom line. Basically, I and then dropped out and went to work for Atari, available." would like to get paid back my loan, but if I don't, I'm where he designed video games. If it's a girl, Candi Wozniak gets to name her, and not going to cry," he said. Wozniak worked after-hour- s on the design for a she's still considering possible names. If it's a boy, "I don't pay attention to money. All you have to do We small, easy-to-us- e computer and in 1976 he suc- Wozniak gets to name him, and he's already got a is look at how all the decisions have been made. ceeded. Jobs saw the commercial possibilities of his name, picked: Jesse John. arent operating in terms of what we expect ticket friend's revolutionary invention, and begged The name alliterates nicely .with Jerry Jeff, as in sales to be. We are operating in terms of making a Wozniak to stop handing out copies of his design to Jerry Jeff Walker, who is one of Wozniak's musical festival good enough that I would want to attend it. interested hobbyists. heroes and one of the featured entertainers at the US "We're doing lots of neat things just because Soon the two Steves quit their jobs, scraped up Festival. .they're neat."; - When all the figures are added and final tallies on injuries and accidents are computed, UNUSON's Festival medical care plans ready medical bill may be close to $100,000. According to Hartman, the county's main respon- sibility will coordinating transports By JEANNINE GUTTMAN Most of that money has gone to Event Medical be ambulance it is Sun Staff Writer Services, Inc., of Cerritos, which has provided from the festival site to four area hospitals that monitoring. SAN BERNARDINO No matter what medical medical care at rock concerts and sporting events. "When you add normal Labor Day incidents problems arise at the US Festival, there will be an The EMS group, which worked at the recent the three-da- y concert 250,000 people are army of experts on hand to handle them all from Rolling Stones concert in the Los Angeles Coliseum with a where you can end up a mess," drug overdoses to childbirths to routine cuts and and the Journey concert at the Pasadena Rose expected, with quite said. to scratches. Bowl, was paid $51,000 to set up shop at the US Hartman "And that's what we're trying Eight first aid tents staffed by doctors, nurses and Festival. EMS employees will operate the first aid avoid." Through the use of computers, county personnel paramedics will be scattered throughout Glen stations and the central medical building. will be able to tell how many beds, units of blood Helen Regional Park for the three-da- y music festi- ' Wednesday, two days before the concert begins, val. EMS personnel will begin staffing the central and emergency room staff are available at the four In addition, a central medical building sort of medical building and will keep it operational hospitals San Bernardino Community, St. Bernardine, Loma Linda University Medical Center a "mini-hospital- " has been set up to provide more through the following Tuesday, two days after the extensive treatment. festival ends. and San Bernardino County Medical Center. The concert's major medical problems are ex- The EMS crew is keeping the main medical The medical planning for the US Festival has pected to come from the heat, drugs and alcohol. station open for seven days to deal with worker and been so extensive that nothing has been over- San Bernardino County health officials are predict- "pre-- and post-event- ", health problems. Much of looked, Hartman said. ing that marijuana, liquor, cocaine and metha-qualon- e their work will involve keeping tabs on problems Using data from other rock concerts, anticipated a hypnotic sedative also known as that arise in the overnight campgrounds, which can injuries and illnesses have been projected and six-hou- r blocks event. Quaaludes will be the most-abuse- d substances. At house up to 110,000 recreational vehicles. plotted by for each day of the this point, officials are not expecting widespread The UNUSON Corp. has shelled out an additional A detailed "worst case scenario" report estimates use of harder drugs like heroin and PCP. $14,000 to Courtesy Ambulance Service of San that the festival will have 1,390 minor injuries and Sick and injured persons who cannot be treated Bernardino, which is providing ambulance trans- illnesses and 186 major incidents. There also will be at the festival's medical stations will be taken to portation from the festival to local hospitals. an estimated 145 medical transports from the con- ' local hospitals by ambulance or medi-va- c heli- At the anticipated height of the concert from cert grounds to local hospitals. copter, which can land at two designated helipad Saturday through Sunday more than 100 medical Those figures are based on a crowd of 250,000 and zones in the park. personnel will be on duty, including staff from the include ailments ranging from fainting, cuts and Concert goers will not have to pay for any San Bernardino County Public Health Department bruises and respiratory problems to drug overdoses medical services or ambulance transports they UNUSON's costs do not yet Include services by and severe heat strokes. receive at the music event. the county Public Health Department, which will If ticket sales remain sluggish, "we will scale The UNUSON Corp., which is promoting the have 24 employees on hand to review all medical down our personnel accordingly," Hartman said. extravaganza, already has spent problems, said Greg Hartman, emergency medical "All our figures are based on 250,000 people show- $65,000 to provide the on-sit- e care. services coordinator for San Bernardino County. ing up. .

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By CARL YETZER Daves said he expects most of the Sun Staff Writer traffic will arrive via northbound In- - , fit": : ADMINISTRATOR SAN BERNARDINO - Picture a t6IStdt6 15 steady stream of cars, motorhomes, "We'll be taking the RVs off at Nea-ly'-s HARVEY campers, travel trailers and boats Corners," he said. From there, they heading up through Cajon Pass. will be directed down the old Devore That's what you'll find on Labor Day Road to the campground at Sycamore CASTE! weekend, traditionally a time of heavy Flats where 110,000 campsites have traffic with families heading for moun- been constructed. AS YOUR tain and desert resorts to enjoy the last The rest of the traffic, he said, will be few precious days of summer. directed to the offramp constructed PUBLIC For the California Highway Patrol it especially for the festival. That ramp is normally a "maximum enforcement will lead to a parking area with 2,500 ADmIHISTSATGR- - weekend," a time when officers' vaca- spaces. tions and days off are canceled and as "If that ramp fills up," he said, "or if a via many of them as possible are on the we get backup so that cars are stopped road. on the freeway we'll direct them north 100,000 through the interchange, then south Now, add in an additional or A man for job more vehicles heading for Glen Helen, on Interstate 15 to Palm Avenue." trained the site of the US Festival, a locatioa adja- From there, he said, they will be A man dedicated to truthfulness e cent to the interchange of two princi- directed back north on Cajon A man of proven leadership qualities pal freeways, Interstates 15 and 215. Boulevard to the festival. A man with That's the situation facing officials of "We'll use Cajon for stacking," he ... San as the CHP's Bernardino office said. "Our main effort will be to see OB they struggle to map out strategies to that all freeway lanes going through fc cope with what could amount to the the area are moving." ' UNQUESTIONABLE QUALIFICATIONS largest traffic jam ever in the Inland Daves said officers would be sta- Empire. tioned at 14 fixed positions 24 hours a Proven experience as Deputy San The man who bears primary respon- day to direct traffic. Bernardino sibility for the plan is Lt. C.A. "Bud" "Most of us will be working County Public Administrator and Coroner. Daves, executive officer for the San shifts," he said. c Bernardino area. He's been working In additon to handling the crowds, with UNUSON officials for several Daves is planning ways to get A the Qualified Man for a Difficult Job! 0 months. multitude of special vehicles am- "Right now, we're watching ticket bulances, fire trucks, garbage and de- That Requires Honest Qualifications sales to try and determine just how livery trucks, the news media and vehi- 3T many vehicles we will have," he said. cles Committee to Elect Castro Public Administrator-Coron- er 3 carrying the entertainers in and " ' "But, we're geared for the max." out. Treas. Nelda D. Brltton m Graham's finesse brought in the superstars

By YARDENA ARAR Well, the pne thing man hasn't solved yet is, how do make difficulties for a one-tim- e concert promoter, Associated Press you have two bands appearing at the same time at but not for a major promoter who will remember What's the hardest part about putting together the end of the day?" when the next event comes down the pike.

all-sta- y How do you the r bill for what may be the largest multi-da- tell such huge performers that they Why did'Graham, who has spent most of the last outdoor rock festival since Woodstock? won't close the show? year handling the Rolling Stones' tour, accept? Deciding who will headline, says Bill Graham, the "You don't tell them, you ask them to consider "It seemed, when they approached us earlier this veteran concert promoter. He is in charge not only some solution," Graham replied with a fleeting year, their intentions were highly honorable to the of making those decisions for the $12.5 million US smile. extent that at first it was with disbelief on my part Festival upcoming Labor Day weekend, but of "On the two or three occasions when we had a (that) I heard somebody say, 'We really have the persuading the big names and powerful egos seeming stalemate, we asked these groups who bucks and we want to do it right. We'd like it to involved to accept them. began to be doubtful to come out and see the site. break even or make a little money, but those aren't And big names are in plentiful supply at the And when they got out here they realized that it the important areas.' rockfest-compute- r fair. The bill includes such well-know- n was more than another show." "You don't hear that kind of dialogue," Graham musicians as Pat Benatar, Jackson Browne, Steve Wozniak, the Apple H computer millionaire said. "It turns out that that's the way Steve ap- the Cars, Fleetwood Mac, Tom Petty, the Police and who is providing the bucks for the festival, ap- proached this dream of his. I think somebody put it promo- the Grateful Dead. ; proached Graham to handle the booking, very well when they said that the main reason he "This has been a major problem," Graham said, tion and production on the theory that talent might wants to do it is so that he can get in for nothing." interviewed in his makeshift office, a boiling hot construction trailer set up behind what will be the football field-size- d stage. Only 2V4 weeks before the show, it was still several piles of metal rods sitting Many area hotels are already booked at one end of a natural amphitheater in Glen Helen Regional Park. SAN BERNARDINO Festival goers looking for However, many smaller motels still had space "This show has many superstars to the extent that last-minu- hotel or motel reservations would be earlier this week as did some of the larger ones in on Saturday Tom Petty, Pat Benatar, the Cars, well advised to look for small, independent motels the West End, the Riverside area and the High the Kinks each one of those groups could play in the San Bernardino area or look toward areas Desert. multiple dates at the Forum in Los Angeles," said farther away from the festival grounds, area hotel- Hotel officials said they expect to be booked solid Graham, a rangy man with hazel eyes and black iers say. for the weekend. With between 200,000 and 300,000 gray. hair flecked with Many of the larger hotels in the San Bernardino persons expected to attend the festival, if even 1 "When you have that, you obviously have groups area and those with chain affiliations already are percent were to choose to stay in hotel or motel who have sound management and sound guidance, full, and many' of them have been for as long as rooms instead of the campgrounds, between 2,000 say, you want us to play that day and they all 'Bill, three weeks. and 3,000 persons would be seeking guest rooms. we'll be the headliners, we'll close the show'....

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380 West Athol St. Ph. 884-826- 3 1 SAN BERNARDINO O) 0 w w w w w w a r I. 17 IT tt t 0. XL inniinn UOU3 Ellis brings -- A US Festival to reality 1 '?' By MARK LUNDAHL Sun Staff Writer While Apple Computer founder Stephen Wozniak is the most visible member of the UN-USO- N Corp., it is Dr. Peter Ellis who is its catalyst. '4 A anti-wa- r activist community or- 3 former and 1 ganizer, Ellis is primarily an educator who was thrust into the position of organizing the US Festi- val at the insistence of his friend, "the Woz." Ellis, 35, founded the Institute for Professional Development, a consulting firm that put together off-camp- programs for colleges and universities 4 across the country, and later organized the Univer- for-prof- photo sity of Phoenix, the first fully accredited it Staff 9 ' college in the United States. Dr. Peter Ellis, coordinator for the UNUSON US Festival, Is an easygoing man who has the He admits that organizing the three-da- y event is pick the right for job. only a temporary diversion and that he is primarily knack to people the J interested in developing computer applications for 1. of control He was a very successful politician, a On the surface, festival preparations appear to be the educational community and "getting the family super-talente- d guy. progressing smoothly. Has everything really been as involved once again in education." "A lot of the people came out of the University of smooth it afpears? Still, he views festival as a living example of at t the Phoenix. There are about nine of them that I hired "Us philosophy" a model of how teamwork "Yeah. It really has. So far, the toughest times for the and away ... I just went after the very best people we can put United States back, top again. us were the unknown times when we didn't have i the on could find. When we wanted to find a landscape A casual man with an easy Ellis sat in his the land, when we were planning and working all laugh, architect that really was good, we found Craig at Glen Regional this over the state. We'd be run out of one county and office Helen Park earlier Tocher, because he designed all the desert parks up week, looked out at the grassy amphitheater out- be dropped from another county, or someone i here and did a lot of work at Yosemite ... We went his window, Sun per- would freak out and riot understand what we were side and offered the his around this county and we asked who was the best spective on the upcoming festival. trying to do. guy in construction, heavy equipment and moving "After we knew (the festival) was go, we were dirt and stuff, and I'll tell you I've never run into a Where did idea the begin? ready. Everybody had been waiting for months to the for festival better group than Martin Matich and his people. "Woz kept telling me he wanted to do this thing. - roll up their sleeves and make it happen. "I Just think when you go out looking with an some to go t And I said, well, let's go out and do feasibility and "Recently, we've had transitions attitude that you're going to do it right, you're we've' or- management studies and see if it can be done. through, now that brought in another going to line up people who will get behind a ganization, like the Bill Graham organization, that ' But I didn't even get a third of the way into that common goal. (Our staff members) come from. a a style. feasibility study when, at one meeting, Woz handed has different diverse backround. I mean we've gat' kooks out "I Bill Graham likes to yell a lot. He yells me a check for $2 million and said, 'I want you to think here. We've got guys working pri this Sensonic and screams and hollers. It's a type of know I'm serious. I don't need no study. Lets go do different Theater who think there's going" to be a space ship style and his is very much a hierarchical organiza- this thing. landing . . . got ,b'orn-agai- n here We've Christians. tion . . . But there's not been much of a tonftict. A even I to do . . . "I wasn't convinced wanted it yet got right-win- g We've Republicans. bit, but a lot less I really expected . . . But he kept making me offers I couldn't refuse. little than "If we can get that kind of diversity and still focus' Again, he's the best, and we went after the best. Finally a friend said to me, 'Hey Peter, education a goal, I 4 on common we can't be stopped. think this "1 working groups pain- will be here a long time. This is the chance of a think with the riaM is a perfect example of teamwork." (Graham) sense he realfy'sees lifetime. You ought to go do it. So I did it." ful for him in the that this as something that could give rock 'n' roll a shot 7 Even with the time and money UNUSON has spent on get it to it was. Rock is Had you ever organized a music festival before? in the arm and back where security and safety provisons, is there a chance that kind of on the down side, but the managers don't in country. "I organized the first Earth Day the something might go wrong at the US Festival? always act that way.. was you may recall, we buried a new car That when, "There's a chance of that. But if you plan for that "The Police wouldn't play with anyone on Satur- 250,000 up in San Jose State and we had about and you work for it and, you put your best energy day. They wanted to be the headliners and they people. That was the biggest thing I ever organized behind making sure that it doesn't happen, usually wanted to play only with new wave groups. c sense of a single event. (O in the it won't happen. Again, good planning comes with "Then we had Tom Petty headlining and did a of of July and "I lot Fourth celebrations did people lining up behind a common' goal. A good Fleetwood Mac says they'll play, but only if they Day a N a lot of Labor celebrations where you'd have example is the space program. There have been a can headline. So the only day they can headline is band out in the park and sack races, all the screw-up- s few in the space program and there's , Sunday and that's country music day. We tell them kinds of fun things. We'd have big traditional been one tragedy. But by and large they've done that but as soon as they get in there they say to us, 4 carnivals, big street fairs, things like that. There pretty amazing things." we'll we have to have authority over who plays noth- was lots of organizing involved in them. But under us. ing of magnitude." this "I'm glad (Graham) did all of those negotiations. What is the worst thing that conceivably could But that's why you can see (Sunday's happen? entertain- How did you put together the UNUSON crew? ment) can hardly be called country. Jerry Jeff "I selected everybody. Gerald Cory (vice presi- "The worst thing that could happen is if too many Walker is country and Jimmy Buffet is, maybe. We dent cf operations) came .out of my experience at people decide to come. We'd rather have 100,000 really wanted country music, but it just got aced San Jose State ... He was the head of ROTC at San people here than 350,000 people. And that's crazy. out from under us." Jose State when I was trying to run them off "Most people who would promote something like 1 campus. We were mortal enemies in the sixties . . . this would rather have 350,000 people, or a million. Could you have forseen something like that happen- o to (but) I knew how talented he was." That's not our attitude. And we're going to work ing? v- 'Stan Kephart (head of public safety) came out of really hard to make sure this place is secured. "Well I had heard those things, how those groups -1 one my degree programs. I watched his career and We've put up a lot of fencing and we're going to are. I've heard the stories. We're getting them now. 5 watched the work lie did. He trained all the park have a lot of patrols and we're going to have the - - (Please see Ellis, page 16 1 ) 3 rangers in the state how to use non-leth- methods.. best security Yearns we caalxamTJViVI'Vlii'rATi .,. ( v festivai.1 been approved by the sheriff's office . . . I'll bet you there's nobody in the world in their right mind who's going to invest $12 million in a show and give Ellis holds it together the sheriff the right to veto the groups. ,"If we could have sold (more tickets) without ' ' (Continued from page 15) going to be really happy. ; : highlighting the rock 'n' roll, we would have. But now got to highlight rock. It's just a fact One of the groups doesn't want any orange" In their "I think that, again, the proof's going to be in the we've the . I it hotel room. One of them doesn't want any brown in pudding. We're going to do everything we can to of life . . It's more rock and roll than thought . (Devore would be. I'll admit that. I shared with you quite their hotel room I just laugh at it. But it doesn't protect the Devore community .. The ... honestly that we got couped on Sunday. But it's an strike me as being that I think it's one residents) are scaredand they're apprehensive, but I really could be a of the things that's wrong with that industry. I by and large they're not as mad at us as they are at exciting experiment. think it sense whole world honestly think the industry could learn a little bit the" Optimists. And this is a hell of a lot larger worldwide event in the that the festival's) project than a home up there for six juvenile might look at San Bernardino County and see what from (the theme. If they'd only learn to - delinquents." ,: these crazy Americans are doing. , have fun together and play together more and stop . TV out We've worrying so much about their image and their own "We've already had French here. Tokyo TV I mean it's already group and have a little more of that attitude that But there are those who say they were misled. When already had but here. community and the county Board of gotten a lot of international attention and it hasn't rock 'n' roll had in the sixties . you went to the Supervisors, you emphasized the technology fair and even happened yet. soft-pedall- ."It's a event until it happens. But What about the community of Devore. You've got to the concert. Isn't that true? . not historical 100,000 250,000 show up. I will bet know there are some hard feelings out there.. "Well, it's sort of true. But not completely. let's say or people years now, will be two million '"Yeah, I've heard some threats and people spout- "What you've got to understand is that we're you, five from there " will claim they were at the US festival," ing off. But when you think about it, the Devore selling tickets now. And we told the county that people who community usually rises up and goes out and fights from the beginning. Maybe the Devore people When the festival is over, will UNUSON continue to the condominium project or fights the boys' home. didn't hear it, but we've got over 140 exhibitors exist? coming here from major companies. We didn't You didn't see any of that happen with us. in "Yeah. Our goal is to have it continue to operate. ljull that. There's a tech fair going on here. "You can see the PTA has a booth out here and "We'd like this to be the event that ends the Lucky "We talked about the theme. We haven't cut back you can see (Godwin, proprietor of Mom's alienation between the entertainment industry and Store) has a booth out here. You see that we worked on that We haven't stopped talking about that. the educational community . . . That's kind of what "But we've got to sell tickets now . . . And to sell with the school and put a curriculum package in I'd like to see UNUSON doing in the future, provid- tickets, we never said we wouldn't be highlighting there and gave them a computer. Someone could ing curriculum packages that could really liven up : rock 'n' roll aspect of it. say we bribed them, but that ain't a bribe. the the classroom and also get family once again sheriff's department told us it was nothing the . "We knew we were going to inconvenience that 'The involved in education. a rock 'n' roll concert. And we said, no, it's not community when we came in from the beginning. but "Whatever, that's what I'm going to do. Whether just a rock 'n' roll concert. It's going to be different. When I first met with George Weber, senior resi- or not UNUSON keeps going depends on how they- - But there is going to be 'n' roll here. And we dent, and Jim Leslie, I told them had veto rock successful we are here. power over this project. I told them if they didnt said right from the beginning that we were going to "If things go well, I'm sure we'll continue. . . . It's com- have music that would attract the young kids' want us here, they were the leaders of the a big gamble, but I think people are going to be real . . . Every single one of those groups have munity . . . Now that doesn't mean that everybody's attention happy, and it's going to turn out well." (POUTICAt ADVERTISEMENT)

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