Tag: California Jam

The California Jam was a rock music festival held at the Ontario Motor Speedway in Ontario, California, on April 6, 1974¹. The event attracted 250,000 paying music fans¹. Here are the bands that performed at the California Jam in 1974, in order of appearance:

1. Rare Earth
2. Earth, Wind & Fire
3. The Eagles, joined by Jackson Browne
4. Seals and Crofts
5. Black Oak Arkansas
6. Black Sabbath
7. Deep Purple
8. Emerson, Lake & Palmer¹²³

Deep Purple’s performance was one of the first with their third line-up, which included vocalist David Coverdale and vocalist/bassist Glenn Hughes¹. At the end of Purple’s set, guitarist Ritchie Blackmore threw a guitar and a small speaker monitor into the audience. He suddenly attacked one of the network’s video cameras with a guitar1. Later, a mishap with a pyrotechnic effect caused one of Blackmore’s amplifiers to explode, briefly setting the stage on fire¹.

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