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Emerson, Lake And Palmer (ELP), Deep Purple, The Eagles and Black Sabbath perform at The California Jam Festival, Ontario Raceway, Ontario, California, USA. Audience estimated at 400,000Full article:
Glenn Hughes (vocalist Deep Purple) : The day before, I spent with Tony Iommi and Ozzy doing lines and drinking beer. We were up all night and Sabbath played before us at Cal Jam. I remember flying in on the helicopter with Coverdale, looking down at the audience, and Sabbath were on stage. We flew in there and…I don't mean to make this sound grandiose, but I knew that show was going to be a great Glenn Hughes moment. I just felt like I was born to play at events like this. I was 22-years-old. I just felt, "You know - I feel real good today. And I'm gonna go out there and I'm gonna give a go." And you know, I think it was a really good statement and testament.
(Source : Interview by Shawn Perry at http://www.vintagerock.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=46:glenn-hughes&catid=35:glenn-hughes&Itemid=3)
Tony Iommi (guitarist, Black Sabbath) : The California Jam was fantastic for us, and very frightening, because we hadn’t rehearsed before that gig. Our crew went out there first, and there was such a big commotion going on between Deep Purple and Emerson, Lake And Palmer. Who was going to close the show? We didn’t want to get involved in any of that. I said to our crew guy Spock, ‘Let’s not do this.’ But he phoned me – it was around three o’clock in the morning – and said, ‘You’ve got to come out here, everybody wants to see the band.’ So I phoned the others in the middle of the night, and they thought it was me joking, but I said, ‘We’ve got to go out there.’ Eventually they realized I was serious. We went out there, and we didn’t have any chance to rehearse. We went on stage extremely cold. We hadn’t played for a few months, which was a long time for us. But it was great, really great. One of the best shows we ever did.
We were pretty burnt out by this time. We were doing a lot of stuff – and not just drugs. We were doing a lot of work, a lot of gigs. There was a lot of pressure.
(Source : interview by Paul Elliott for Classic Rock, 2014)
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(Source : Interview by Shawn Perry at http://www.vintagerock.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=46:glenn-hughes&catid=35:glenn-hughes&Itemid=3)
Tony Iommi (guitarist, Black Sabbath) : The California Jam was fantastic for us, and very frightening, because we hadn’t rehearsed before that gig. Our crew went out there first, and there was such a big commotion going on between Deep Purple and Emerson, Lake And Palmer. Who was going to close the show? We didn’t want to get involved in any of that. I said to our crew guy Spock, ‘Let’s not do this.’ But he phoned me – it was around three o’clock in the morning – and said, ‘You’ve got to come out here, everybody wants to see the band.’ So I phoned the others in the middle of the night, and they thought it was me joking, but I said, ‘We’ve got to go out there.’ Eventually they realized I was serious. We went out there, and we didn’t have any chance to rehearse. We went on stage extremely cold. We hadn’t played for a few months, which was a long time for us. But it was great, really great. One of the best shows we ever did.
We were pretty burnt out by this time. We were doing a lot of stuff – and not just drugs. We were doing a lot of work, a lot of gigs. There was a lot of pressure.
(Source : interview by Paul Elliott for Classic Rock, 2014)