Deep Purple - California Jam '74 (Blu-Ray)

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The phenomenon now known as Arena Rock was born at the California Jam - and Deep Purple were at its epicentre. In many ways, the California Jam was the equivalent of the Woodstock festival to a burgeoning generation of hard rock and heavy metal fans. The Jam took place at the Ontario Motor Speedway in Ontario, California on a hot and sunny spring day on 6 April 1974.

The event attracted an enormous crowd of a quarter-million people, and represented a baptism of fire - in more ways than one - for Purple's new boys, frontman David Coverdale and bassist Glenn Hughes, who had replaced Ian Gillan and Roger Glover, the previous year, ushering in the band's so called Mk III line-up.