As an employee of the station, I got in for free. I don't remember how many days that I attended, but I do remember seeing bands like Missing Persons, The Greg Kihn Band, and Oingo Boingo.
Being from Walla Walla, I had at the time, seen very few rock concerts. The idea of being in a room with famous people was a wild concept.
From a business standpoint, this event, from what I heard, was not a money maker. The admission price was perhaps a little high for fans of the genre, many whom decried the commercialization of their passion.
Seattle area historian Feliks Banel did this great report on the 40th anniversary of what I figured was a forgotten event.
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