This is one of the best moments in rock and roll history. This is the stuff of pure rock magic.Played in front of 200,000 people at Ontario Speedway in Ontario California. Deep Purple at California Jam 1974 gave a legendary show. Sharing the bill was Black Sabbath, Emerson Lake and Palmer, The Eagles and others. It was filmed for the late night ABC television "In Concert" series. The show mainly showed the Deep Purple set. They might have showed glimpses of the others. I don't know. David Coverdale (of Whitesnake fame ) and Glenn Hughes had not been in the band very long in this ("Mark 3"- The third lineup) incarnation of the band when this concert took place.Others in the band included Jon Lord, Ian Paice, Roger Glover, Ian Gillian, and Ritchie Blackmore. This was the first time Deep Purple had come to America since the original lineup.
The best tracks are " Burn", "Mistreated", "Smoke on the Water", "You Fool Know One", "Mule",and."Spacetruckin" There are only 7 tracks on this concert clocking in at 119 minutes. Everything past the 40 minute mark is solid amazing. I doesn't even do any justice to describe all the greatest of the concert except the part where Ritchie Blackmore destroys ABC television's camera's and their own equipment towards the end of "Spacetruckin" . The camera crew was getting too much in Ritchie Blckmore's face, so they asked them to stop. As we see in the concert, they didn't stop. He then becomes annoyed and smashes a camera, throws equipment off stage, destroys 3 guitars, catches on fire, plays guitars destroyed with missing strings and with his feet. Ian Paice and Lon Lord are the other two stand outs in the show. In a Rock and Roll History class, this surely would have to be on the curriculum. Truly a must watch concert. Rhett Taylor
Track listing:
Burn
Might Just Take Your Life
Mistreated
Smoke On the Water
You fool Know one
Mule
Spacetruckin
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