The Us Festival 1982: The US Generation Documentary

I was there in '82 and it was my first-ever rock festival. The documentary shows how well produced the entire festival was and it really did feature most of the great rock talent from its era.

There are full-song performances from The B-52s, The Police, Eddie Money, The Cars, Santana, Tom Petty and Fleetwood Mac, plus several snippets of songs from other performers. I wish they had been able to present a broader array of the music, but for a single documentary they did pretty well.

As a film, it wasn't particularly well put together, though. The festival itself was way more exciting than what is shown here. There was some repetitiveness in the monologues, which is kind of inexcusable. But overall, a solid film about a great festival, and (as stated in the doc) they really did set the standard for how to do things right for festivals in the future.

We been watching a lot of rock documentaries lately and this one suffered from being over edited. We learned a lot of new info, but the over abundance of cutaways from archival footage to info cards detracted from our enjoyment. The footage we saw was fantastic. Thank you Woz!

Very enjoyable. This documentary shows it like it was. Three days of EXCELLENT music and technology. I especially liked not having to endure the 100+ degree heat. John Heffernan, Terry Dunlap, David Rogers and Rick Rayford hope this movie makes you smile. One thing I noticed, people sure were skinnier back then. Thanks again WOZ.