ABC-TV In Concert Presents
The California Jam
Ontario Motor Speedway
Ontario, CA
April 6 1974
FM Broadcast Recording
Flac Level 8 & MP3 320kps
No Cover Art
Featuring:
Seals & Crofts
The Eagles with Jackson Browne
Rare Earth
Black Oak Arkansas
Black Sabbath
Part I
01 Introduction to the California Jam including news report on traffic jam
**SEALS AND CROFTS**
02 Fiddles of Thunder
03 A fans prediction (pipe dream) and prelude to the concert
**RARE EARTH**
04 Big Brother
05 Police Chief talks about the audience and crowd interviews with Lost and Found announcements
**EARTH, WIND AND FIRE**
06 Come On Children
07 Crowd interviews and description of stage set up
**The EAGLES** special guest Jackson Browne
08 Take It Easy
09 Announcer congratulates the crowd and crowd control efforts
**SEALS AND CROFTS**
10 Windflowers
**BLACK OAK ARKANSAS**
11 Introduction
12 Jim Dandy to the Rescue (w/ Ruby Star)
13 That's really wonderful and the move back request
**BLACK SABBATH**
14 Ozzy speaks about the show
15 Children Of The Grave
16 Ozzy's post show comments
17 Comments about the temperature dropping and introduction to Deep Purple
**DEEP PURPLE**
- Space Truckin' (extended with explosive ending)
**EMERSON, LAKE AND PALMER**
- Karn Evil 9 (Third Impression) > Fireworks Finale'
20 Final comments and end of part 1
total time part I: 48mn 1sc
Part II
**DEEP PURPLE**
01 introduction to part 2 / Burn
- Might Just Take Your Life
**BLACK SABBATH**
03 introduction / War Pigs
04 Paranoid
**DEEP PURPLE**
- New Band Members Introductions >
- Smoke On The Water
**RARE EARTH**
07 I Just Want To Celebrate
08 Big Brother
**DEEP PURPLE**
- Intro (jam or unknown song title) >
- You Fool No One >
- Drum Solo >
- You Fool No One
**BLACK SABBATH**
13 Killing Yourself To Live
total time part II: 26mn 41sc
Part III
01 Introduction to part 3
(The Crowd tells what they want to hear and it is....)
**EMERSON, LAKE AND PALMER**
- Karn Evil # 9 (First Impression part 2) >
- Drum Solo >
- Karn Evil # 9 (First Impression part 2) >
- Keith's Piano Solo
06 Announcement Helicopters are dropping sun visors courtesy of Black Oak Arkansas
**BLACK OAK ARKANSAS**
07 Up
**EMERSON, LAKE AND PALMER**
- Still... You Turn Me On
- Lucky Man
10 Interview with a disc jockey at KLOS-FM
**BLACK OAK ARKANSAS**
11 Mutants of the Monster
12 Jim Dandy To The Rescue (w/ Ruby Star)
**EMERSON, LAKE AND PALMER**
- Toccata (into explosions)
14 Interview with Jack Rose of the Ontario Holiday Inn
**BLACK OAK ARKANSAS**
15 When Electricity Came To Arkansas >
16 Dixie
**EMERSON, LAKE AND PALMER**
- Piano Interlude (includes Chasing the Fantastic Tiger In A Spotlight)
- Take A Pebble
- Karn Evil # 9 (Third Impression) / Fireworks Finale
total time part III: 24mn 53sc
Part IV
Introduction to part 4
**SEALS AND CROFTS**
01 Diamond Girl
02 The King Of Nothing
03 Ruby Jean and Billy Lee
04 Medical tent update
**The EAGLES** with special guest Jackson Browne
05 James Dean
06 Helicopter pilots and the sky divers segment
**The EAGLES** with special guest Jackson Browne
07 Blackberry Blossom (windy noise from helicopter dropping parachuters over the crowd thoughout most of song)
08 Midnight Flyer (spliced at 18:38)
**SEALS AND CROFTS**
09 Hummingbird
10 Unborn Child
**EARTH, WIND AND FIRE**
11 Time Is On Your Side
12 Keep Your Head To The Sky
**SEALS AND CROFTS**
13 Ridin' Thumb
14 Standing On A Mountain Top
**The EAGLES** with special guest Jackson Browne
15 Already Gone
**SEALS AND CROFTS**
(The end of) Diamond Girl (fade into)
16 Wisdom
17 High On The Mountain
total time part IV: 1hr 2 mn 50sc
Both Deep Purple & Emerson, Lake & Palmer have released their Cal Jam sets commercially so all their tracks have been omitted. I recommend you buy them they are awesome!
The Eagles:
Glenn Frey – vocals, guitars, keyboards, harmonica
Don Henley – vocals, drums, percussion
Bernie Leadon – guitars, vocals, banjo, mandolin, pedal steel
Randy Meisner – bass, vocals, guitar, guitarrón
Don Felder was not pressent because his son was being born
Black Oak Arkansas:
James L. Jim "Dandy" Mangrum - lead vocals, washboard
Ruby Starr (R.I.P.) - vocals
Rickie Lee "Risky" "Ricky" "Ricochet" Reynolds - twelve-string guitar, vocals
Tommy Aldridge - drums
Stanley Knight (R.I.P.) - lead guitar, steel guitar, organ, vocals
Pat Daugherty - bass guitar, vocals
Harvey Jett - lead guitar, banjo, piano, vocals
Rare Earth:
Gil Bridges – saxophone, flute, lead vocals
Peter Hoorelbeke (a.k.a. Peter Rivera) – drums, lead vocals
Eddie Guzman (R.I.P.) – percussion
Ray Monette – lead guitars, vocals
Mark Olson (R.I.P.) – keyboards, lead vocals
Mike Urso – bass, vocals
Black Sabbath:
Ozzy Osbourne vocals
Tony Iommi guitar
Geezer Butler bass
Bill Ward drums
Earth Wind & Fire:
Maurice White - Vocals, Kalimba, Drums, Percussion
Verdine White - Bass, Percussion, Vocals
Philip Bailey - Vocals, Conga, Percussion
Johnny Graham - Lead/Rhythm Guitar, Trumpet, Percussion
Larry Dunn - Keyboards, Synthesizers, "Mini-Moog"
Ralph Johnson - Drums, Percussion, Vocals
Al McKay - Lead/Rhythm Guitar, Percussion, Vocals
Gary L. Morgan -Vocals, Guitar, Drums, Percussion
Andrew Woolfolk - Flute, Saxophone, Percussion
Fred White - Drums, Percussion
This is the complete FM simulcast to the ABC-TV In Concert broadcast of the first California Jam. I have done my best to edit around the commercially released tracks while not taking away from the listening pleasure. If your like me this will take you back in time. I remember watching this on TV with my family. My parents liked Seals & Crofts, and The Eagles but the rest was just a little too much for them. They did like Keith Emerson's keyboard solo and the spinning piano sequence. I remember when Blackmore's amp blew up during "Space Truckin'" my my Dad making a comment that the "..fu##ing idiots almost killed their guitar player trying to be cool!"
this is a large file set so the flac is in 4 parts, the mp3 is divided in 2.
