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ATTACK OF THE TECHNO-TRIBES

Day 1: Welcome to Woz Land." Its 9 a.m., the temperature is 75 degrees and climbing as the Unuson shuttle bus winds its way into the dust-clogged, smog-ridden expanse of Glen Helen Regional Park, just outside the town of Devore, California.

September 1, 1983
Toby Goldstein

ATTACK OF THE TECHNO-TRIBES

HOW I (SORT OF) SURVIVED THE US FESTIVAL

Toby Goldstein

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Day 1: Welcome to Woz Land." Its 9 a.m., the temperature is 75 degrees and climbing as the Unuson shuttle bus winds its way into the dust-clogged, smog-ridden expanse of Glen Helen Regional Park, just outside the town of Devore, California. For at least five miles before pulling into the crewonly access road that leads to backstage, weve seen cars, vans, RVs, campers, tents and teepees sprawled throughout the impromptu parking lots. The scene looks so placid, jolly and time-warped that transient echoes of by the time we got to Woodstock, etc." strum through my naive little brain. These idyllic images will soon cease, replaced in the two following days with something a lot closer to the Pretenders Back On The Chain Gang." Oh no, not again, we will think, lungs choking and heads pounding.

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