1978 Cal Jam ll

Our dear brother Mr @Mitch Pearrow SJMP was at this show and can tell you first hand about it. My dad was also there while stationed in the Marines at Camp Pendleton and drove up with some buddies of his. Said it was like looking at a human ocean, just endless people

Sadly, this was the last show of the classic Ted Nugent lineup as the next day, guys like Derek St Holmes and Rob Grange were gone. Effectively ending the great run the band had and they never regained that level after
 
Clockworkmike said:
Our dear brother Mr @Mitch Pearrow SJMP was at this show and can tell you first hand about it. My dad was also there while stationed in the Marines at Camp Pendleton and drove up with some buddies of his. Said it was like looking at a human ocean, just endless people

Sadly, this was the last show of the classic Ted Nugent lineup as the next day, guys like Derek St Holmes and Rob Grange were gone. Effectively ending the great run the band had and they never regained that level after
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Yeah, I was there too. Me and a friend from high-school hitched a ride there.
No ride home. There were about 5000 of us stragglers left over the next mourning.
We didn't have tickets. Went under the and over a couple of fences.
There were very few shows I missed in So Cal in the late 70's early 80's
 
A now good friend of mine that I met after we moved up to the mountains in 2020 was the sound engineer for some major acts. He toured with Fleetwood Mac, Little Feat, Deep Purple and more. Here he is on stage with Deep Purple at the first Cal Jam in 1974. He's the guy in the background (left) with sunglasses and a beard. He is long since retired. He also said Blackmore was an as#hole.

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Bittersweet. Such a great time and era that's like another world. You could actually hitchhike to a gig and walk free for the most part safe without apprehension. Video has freedom written all over it and in ways is just an inadvertent celebration of it.

Hard to believe we'd be into the morbid '90s just 13 years later.
 
That was a most awesome show
I have tried to find the footage of myself and a couple of others, who were sitting on the catch fence during Carlos Santanas set.
The part that would be the clincher of it , is that there is a guy dancing on top of the porta potties in front of us.
I remember the sitting in traffic on the 2 lane road . to get to the parking area the night before the concert .
There were 5 of us in my 64 Econoline.

Cheers
 
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