California Jamming

Infobox Album
Name = California Jamming
Type = Live album
Artist = Deep Purple


Released = 1996
2003
Recorded = April 1974
Genre = Hard rock
Length = 73:26 (Original edition)
74:48 (Remastered edition)
Label = Purple
Producer = Deep Purple
Reviews =
Last album = ""
(1995)
This album = "California Jamming"
(1996)
Next album = ""
(1996)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = California Jamming
Type = studio


Lower caption = The 2003 remastered edition ""California Jamming" is a live album by British hard rock band Deep Purple, recorded in 1974 and originally released in 1996, it was re-released as a remastered edition in 2003 with the bonus track "Lay Down, Stay Down".

The album is a live recording of Deep Purple's infamous appearance at the California Jam Festival on April 6 1974, which was televised by ABC-TV in prime time. At the end of the show, guitarist Ritchie Blackmore first attacked one of the network's video cameras (which had been getting between him and the audience) with his guitar, and then had his amplifiers doused with gasoline and set on fire, which caused an explosion. The final five minutes of the performance can be seen [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8927502973381015928 here] .

Releases

Deep Purple's performance at the California Jam has been available over the years in several different releases with various names, among them: "California Jamming", "Live at the Ontario Speedway '74", "Live at the California Jam" and finally "California Jam 1974" (not counting successive re-releases, mostly Japanese). While all of theses releases are culled from the same performance, most of them don't feature the full show, with edits and most importantly, missing a full song: "Lay Down, Stay Down."

While the successive re-releases have attempted to improve the sound quality (which was poor on the earliest ones), the show itself suffered from technical failures, making it impossible to fully correct them, a fact most notably evident during opening number "Burn", where the guitar is barely audible and then gradually gains volume.

Track listing

All songs written by David Coverdale, Ritchie Blackmore, Jon Lord and Ian Paice except where noted.

1996 original release

#"Burn" - 6:21
#"Might Just Take Your Life" - 4:41
#"Mistreated" (Coverdale, Blackmore) - 10:13
#"Smoke on the Water" (Ian Gillan, Blackmore, Roger Glover, Lord, Paice) - 8:26
#"You Fool No One" - 18:42
#a) "The Mule" (Gillan, Blackmore, Glover, Lord, Paice)
b) "Space Truckin'" (Gillan, Blackmore, Glover, Lord, Paice) - 25:13

2003 remastered edition

#"Burn" - 6:20
#"Might Just Take Your Life" - 4:49
#"Lay Down, Stay Down" - 4:45
#"Mistreated" (Coverdale, Blackmore) - 10:24
#"Smoke on the Water" (Gillan, Blackmore, Glover, Lord, Paice) - 8:55
#a) "You Fool No One" (Coverdale, Blackmore, Lord, Paice)
b) "The Mule" (Gillan, Blackmore, Glover, Lord, Paice) - 19:08
#"Space Truckin' (Gillan, Blackmore, Glover, Lord, Paice) - 25:12

Credits

*David Coverdale - lead vocals
*Ritchie Blackmore - guitar
*Glenn Hughes - bass, backing vocals
*Jon Lord - organ, synthesizer, backing vocals
*Ian Paice - drums