December 26, 2024 • 28 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to the
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Cal Jam
Festival nineteen seventy four. It's three hours long. But belly,
what bands were there? And there was at the Ontario Speedway.
It was a huge weekend. I think it was all weekend,
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one hundred and ten people. Yeah, cal Jam.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Do you remember that?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
No?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
It was before my time, but I remember about it.
Speaker 5 (00:30):
It said two hundred and fifty thousand, Yeah tickets soul whoa,
because where's this thing?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
I was saying, you know, woodstock.
Speaker 5 (00:40):
A lot of people showed up without paying, Oh my god,
concert people actually paid?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Yeah, well it's California.
Speaker 5 (00:47):
Do you remember the price of your ticket at the time.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
I didn't go, you.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Know, cause that was eleven when it happened. But I
just remember I had, like, you know, my dad's friends went.
They were probably in their thirties. But how much were it?
Tickets probably done on twenty five dollars.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
Price was ten dollars in advance or fifteen at the gate.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
That's wild and whoever the bands are there?
Speaker 5 (01:12):
So it was co headlined by Deep Purple and Emerson Lake.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
And Palmer. Wow.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
So you had Earthwind and Fire, Eagles, Seals and Crofts
black Oak, Arkansas. And I think it was mceed by
Don iMOS.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Oh that's kind of cool. Yeah, a young don Imis. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
I'm looking at the photos right now in the video.
This from nineteen seventy four in Ontario cal Jam. The
entire video is on YouTube. That's incredible. First of all,
that they even had.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
It on video.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Yeah, were filmed. It probably was filmed back then. Three
hour video online and you can go check it out.
I bet we have listeners that absolutely remember them cal Jam.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
I bet you.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
I bet we have listeners that have that went to
cal Jam. I'm going to open up the phones here
and see if we do. If anybody out there, we
may not get the you know, we're just fishing here,
may not get a you know, a bite. But if
anybody's listening right now and you went to cal Jam
nineteen seventy four Ontario Speedway, you're one of two hundred
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and fifty thousand people that attended this thing. Calls here
at the radio station, I want to pick your brain
about it. It was the West Coast version. I guess
it would stock right you know, people are hanging out
there all day, probably blowing a little weed even though
it was highly illegal, drinking, doing a couple of you know,
tabs of LSD. Maybe some quay ludes.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Maybe a guy was you know, had a dime bag,
was blown a little dime bag, maybe a little ty stick,
some shake.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
I don't know, right, I don't know what kind of
people showed up.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
But if you went to the cal Jam concert nineteen
seventy four Ontario Speedway, I think they sixth April sixth, okay,
nineteen seventy four. I think they did a couple of
years in a row. It was an unbelievable event for
people that went. Man, that was that was a really
cool time where you know, in the late sixties early
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seventies in LA and southern California.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
It was a really cool vibe.
Speaker 6 (03:28):
I've watched the earth wind and fire behind us there
from cal Jam.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Is that right?
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Verdein does an unbelievable bass solo, which you don't see
bases do that.
Speaker 6 (03:38):
But yeah, actually in my life.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Although no, you know what, the Eagles back then probably didn't.
Speaker 6 (03:42):
This is an order of appearance.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
The Eagles were the third behind They were after rare,
Earth and earth, wind and fire, and then it was
the Eagles.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Okay, all right, Purple was like next to last. Let's
see if I can find the Eagles Black Sabbath. They
were like the biggest band.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Right then.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
All right, let's talk to Andy here. You're on KFI.
Were you at this cow jam?
Speaker 7 (04:02):
Was there?
Speaker 8 (04:02):
Buddy? I tell you what.
Speaker 9 (04:03):
They had the band sit up by like rail cars,
and they just moved them across.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Oh that's great. How old are you now?
Speaker 9 (04:12):
I'm sixty six?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Okay, so you're you were young. You were a young
teenager when you went. I was eighteen, man, Okay, that's great, man.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
You know, I thought it was I thought it was,
you know, dreaming that you know, did this thing happened.
That's unbelievable that we have callers that actually went to
that concert. Let's talk to us. Steve here, Steve, you're
on KFI AM six forty. Let's see they put up
line there you go.
Speaker 10 (04:35):
Give me boy.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Hey, what's up? Bob?
Speaker 6 (04:37):
How are you doing?
Speaker 2 (04:38):
You were there?
Speaker 8 (04:39):
Yes, sir?
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Wow? How old are you now?
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Seventies sixties sixty one? Their sixty one? Man, you were young, dude.
Speaker 8 (04:47):
I had a blast.
Speaker 9 (04:47):
Ye was in high school.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Who'd you go with? You would go with your parents
or friends.
Speaker 9 (04:53):
With the buddy, we said, let's do it. It was
a nightmare getting there, like forever anywhere you were.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Oh yeah, oh you know what to get there. I'm
glad you said that.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
One of the big issues for that concert was traffic,
where people literally spent five hours to try to get
in and six hours to try to get out of there.
Speaker 11 (05:10):
It was like standstills, just rowing barely.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
I remember that.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
That's way before the two ten Freeway that was there,
so the only way to get in and out there
was the ten Freeway.
Speaker 11 (05:20):
Yes, sir, Yeah, it was crazy.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Dude. You remember paying ten bucks to get in?
Speaker 8 (05:24):
You know, I didn't even I just do.
Speaker 9 (05:26):
I think we had tickets ready so we were in.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
But it was great, buddy, Thanks for calling. Let's talk
to Doug here. You're on KFI.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Were you there, dude?
Speaker 8 (05:36):
Yes, Tim, I grew up ten minutes from Ontario Motor Speedway.
Speaker 9 (05:40):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Oh so when so like when the when the NASCAR
IndyCar actually I think it was IndyCar that came in there.
You could probably hear it from your house.
Speaker 8 (05:49):
Yes, we could, and one of the great things was
for the concert. My dad piled all of us neighborhood
kids into the Chevy van Wow drove over to the
speedway on four Street and he drove us around the
speedway from four Street to Avon to Milliken with the
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fighting door open, and we could hear the bands.
Speaker 6 (06:15):
That's wild. It's amazing. I remember stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Huh.
Speaker 8 (06:19):
It was awesome. And then two or three years later
cal Jam two. I got to work the I got
to work the parking lot on the west side, and
people that didn't have a pass to part I'll take twenty,
I'll take thirty. Come on apart. You know, I made
a killing, a killing.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
That is great, all right, But I really appreciate the
phone call. We'll take some more phone calls here. This
is great. These guys were all there at cal Jam
nineteen seventy four, and there was cal Jam two.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
I don't think it was it was as successful.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
I think they had a lot of problems with cal
Jam two because the neighbors after a while are like, Nah,
this is not going to happen every year. You're not
gonna bring all these lunatics in here every single year.
Speaker 6 (06:58):
There's a great story about that Purple's appearance on cal Jam.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Oh cool, right, we'll come back and talk more about
a cal Jam nineteen seventy four. April of nineteen seventy four.
Looked at all these guys on the phone, who went unreal.
Speaker 10 (07:11):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
It's sixty four, phone goes, I love that the guys
were there for this thing.
Speaker 6 (07:22):
Oh, by the way, so the Deep Purple story.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Yeah, So the singer that had just joined Deep Purple
at the time, I think it was like their second
or third singer was David Coverdale, who went on to
be the main guy for White Snake in the eighties,
but that was like his first performance with the band.
And they gave Deep Purple the option of when they
wanted to go on, and they said they wanted to
go on at dusk. Oh that's excellent, Yeah, but the
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concert was running kind of early, so they refused to
go on until dusk. Big people sat there for like
an hour, and that pushed the other band after them,
Emerson Lincoln Palmer till later as well. And then during
the set, the guitarist Richie Blackmore, he got all pissed
off and gotten to a fight with the cameraman or
something like that. And then there was some pyate technics
that happened in which was the fire that you saw.
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The stage caught fire, and as as soon as they
were done, they got on a helicopter and bolted out
of there because they were afraid of bitting caught by
the Ontario Fire Marshal.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Wow, that's awesome. Let's talk to what Charlie here? You're
on KFI? How you I'm good? How are you all right?
You were at this thing? Huh dude?
Speaker 8 (08:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 12 (08:22):
So me and and about a half a dozen of
us lived about fifty miles away, and I was in
the eighth grade, and we rode our bicycles and so
technically I wasn't inside the inside the concert, but we
rode our bicycles around there, and I was exposed to
a lot of stuff I probably shouldn't have been at
that age.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Yeah, but you could clearly have heard that concert outside
the speedway as well.
Speaker 12 (08:44):
Oh yeah, no, no doubt. And we ended up hanging out.
We ended up hanging out by the paddy wagon. Ontario
PD had a big paddy wagon there, and then we
were kicking it and you could watch people come by
and all of sudden side of that straight and there
was a lot a bad tripping.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
That right, dude, that's a great story. Let's talk to
a Michael here. Michael, you're on kfive.
Speaker 7 (09:06):
Hey, Hey, hey, ding Dong, get.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Dong, buddy, ding dong. How old were you there? How
old were you went there? When you went to the concert?
Speaker 7 (09:15):
I was fourteen. I was fourteen years old. You're sixteen?
Yeah on sixty two. Yeah, I'm gonna be six streme me.
First of all, this is the first story is when
you when when you went in there was these big
uh trash cans and they were just throwing tossing his
bottles of liquor and beard and soff. You can just
hear crashing. I wonder if anybody could remember that. And
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then uh, it got so crazy they knocked down the
fence and people were giving tickets.
Speaker 11 (09:47):
Yeah, they jammed down the fence.
Speaker 13 (09:49):
I wonder if he remembers that.
Speaker 7 (09:50):
And when Yeah, and also when Deep Purpowl came on,
they're hanging out plastic gallon jugs of water and people
just start throwing them up in Ping Kong.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
No, I wasn't there. But was it hot? Was it
hot that day? Looked like everybody was shirtless?
Speaker 7 (10:05):
Okay, kick it out. It was hot. I laid down
on the hot grass and crushed my legs right and
you know when he crossed your legs, your your shoes
at the bottom of your soles touch each other where
I had my wallabies on, remember, Yeah, they had like
gummy soles.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Right.
Speaker 7 (10:22):
Well, he got he melted together and I couldn't.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
That's awesome, dude, that's a great story. Shoes are melting
at the concert. Uh, Gina, you're on KFI?
Speaker 2 (10:33):
How are you hello?
Speaker 6 (10:35):
Hey, Gina, were you at the concert?
Speaker 12 (10:38):
Oh? Yes, sir, Oh.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
That's so cool. Do you remember don.
Speaker 11 (10:42):
Imus cal Jam? I was actually a cal Jam one
and two?
Speaker 2 (10:46):
All right?
Speaker 1 (10:46):
My brother said he confirmed this that don Imus was
the host of it.
Speaker 11 (10:50):
Huh yep, wow, man, I mean it was.
Speaker 14 (10:54):
It was so cool. But it was general admission, so
everybody was cramming to get in sure, and it was
just people were taken off. It was so hot, people
were taking off their clothes. I was crammed up against
the guy with.
Speaker 12 (11:07):
No shirt on.
Speaker 14 (11:08):
It was just madness, but it was great.
Speaker 8 (11:11):
Do you remember a great time?
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Well, you were young, so you probably didn't care. But
do you remember the nightmare traffic all day?
Speaker 11 (11:17):
No, I went with my girlfriend. I don't even know
how we got there.
Speaker 14 (11:20):
I don't remember because neither one of us could drive.
Speaker 6 (11:23):
We probably would, Oh, that's awesome.
Speaker 14 (11:25):
We probably caught a ride.
Speaker 12 (11:26):
But I love the fact that.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Yeah, I love and at the time, I love the
fact that you're fourteen and your mom and you say
to your mom and dad, I'm going to a concert
with two hundred and fifty thousand people and they're like,
have a good time, exactly right.
Speaker 9 (11:37):
I would never do that.
Speaker 11 (11:38):
Okay, I would never do that.
Speaker 7 (11:40):
I would not.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Allow my sixteen year old to go to that concert.
For if my life depends on girl, Yeah, big dog.
All right, Gina, thanks for phoning. That's that's really cool.
Let's talk to Michelle here. You're on kfin Hi Kim.
Speaker 11 (11:52):
Oh my gosh, I'm so glad you're talking about this.
I love your show. I've listened from the beginning every
next thanks hold on, yes, oh, I love you guys. Listen.
I was in Jump too, So I'll make this quick.
But this is one of the most harrowing ding Dong
ding Dong Ding Dong Experiences of the Craziest Teenagers as
it was. So, I'm working at your local White of
Ventura McDonald's and Friday night three was March seventeenth, Saint
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Patrick's Day, nineteen seventy eight. I just turned sixteen. I'm working.
I look at my line. Busy Friday. There's all my
friends in my line, Michelle, Tody, Boss up and we're
going to cal Jium too. I go, okay, hold on,
I go to my boss and go listen. My grandma's dying.
I got to go to listen. And he goes, I'm
plan of the concert. You're fired. I go, no problem, bye,
wow wait wait, so.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Here we go.
Speaker 11 (12:32):
Now, two of the guys I'm trying to make it
quick are the our Governor Majian's nephews. They went to Grant.
Doesn't matter. The older brother's driving. And so the first
thing is the traffic you mentioned you got that you
wouldn't believed it on the ten Friday night.
Speaker 9 (12:47):
Here's what you did.
Speaker 11 (12:48):
You drove about twenty feet, then you say up for
like twenty minutes. So we all got out world teenagers,
We all got out of the cars. Okay, hey, what
do you guys got okay, we'll get in your vent. Sure,
let's do that together. Okay, now let's drug that's not back. Okay,
So let's see this Hong Kong. Every bugger cards were moving.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Oh that's so great. Yeah, you know, but that was
part of that was part of the thrill. You know,
it's part of the event.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
My god.
Speaker 11 (13:09):
It was just saying. No, I want to say about technician,
who I was not a fan of, but he was
like the best performance. You know my helicopter.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Oh that is great. I gotta put you on. How
we gotta take a break. But man, that is so cool.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
I can't believe how many people in the audience actually
went to this cow jam in nineteen seventy four.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
This is the end of the Eagles. The Eagles are
wrapping up here at cal Jam. Two hundred and fifty
thousand people.
Speaker 10 (13:33):
Yes, you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
From this cal Jam.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
All the people who went there, they're you know, ten, eleven, twelve, fifteen, eighteen,
and they're all still living here in southern California. A
lot of them are, you know, still have that and
you know it seems like everybody that called about cal
Jam they had like that same energy they had that
when they went to the concert. Let's say we got
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three or four more callers here. People just want to
talk about this Mark. Is it Martini?
Speaker 9 (14:10):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (14:10):
It is?
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Hey, Why how are you good?
Speaker 12 (14:13):
Good?
Speaker 10 (14:14):
Thank you?
Speaker 9 (14:14):
I was there, But before I tell it a little
funny story, I was gonna say Lucky Man with Peerson
Lake and Power as a song and the listen that
was a hot song. Anyway, Uh, what happened was when
I went there, we went with a group of guys,
and the group of guys decided to buy our drugs there, okay,
and we all we all bought a little bit of
uh asht I guess they call it, and we all
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got high. That's not the footy parts, the footing part.
Then we bought a lid. Lids were a pot. So
then after we smoked, we were already high from the ass.
And then after that we smoked the pot. The next
day when we woke up, the guy that had the
pot called us all and told us that it wasn't pot,
it was just weeds from someone's backyard. So we were
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so high, and all day we were of the concert
and we're smoking, you know, big and were smoked as
a good pot. Of course, I say it's a big lid.
Wasn't like it is today. That cousin ay man, he said,
you do pretty high. I said, well, I know something.
He said, well it's it was something from it. It's
just weeds where someone's do you.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Remember the term do you remember the term ty stick?
Speaker 9 (15:17):
Yeah? All those things you mentioned brought back memories. I'm
not memories, but me is the way is the way
pot is done now, you know, I mean then you
have to shout down your pants because you know you
also went in and now now you just walk around
and I'm you know, smoking, It's amazing how far that you.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Can do whatever you want now.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
But I remember they had they had dime bag, lid,
tie stick and shake. But remember I always thought ty
stick was from from like Thailand. But it's just weed
that was tied to a stick.
Speaker 8 (15:47):
It was just in something I believe.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Yeah, that's wild. How old are you?
Speaker 11 (15:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (15:54):
How old are you now?
Speaker 9 (15:56):
I'm sixty two. I was fourteen.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Then, okay, that's great, that's awesome.
Speaker 9 (16:01):
By the way, that was the one, the one and
only time I did ascid, So.
Speaker 8 (16:04):
I wasn't get it.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
You have to explain to anybody. All right, Martini, thanks
for calling. Let's talk to William on you're on KFI.
Speaker 15 (16:13):
So, Timmy, it was a ding dong affair.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Definitely. Damn It sounds like, oh, yeah, I was.
Speaker 15 (16:21):
I just graduated from high school. I'm a third generation
at from Orange County. So uh if being a veteran
in a concert goer, what you did was you left
at five in the morning and got there before all
the other traffic and they just camped out. But it
was really hot. However, at the time, I was considered
the largest LSD dealer in Orange County. What I have been, so,
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tim I've been. I'm sixty five, I've been sober twenty
nine years clean and sober.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
I earned Wait wait, hold on, hold him on secon. Yes,
Crozer's name is William How'd you know that I will.
Speaker 15 (17:02):
Yeah, everybody knows lamb yeah so uh so. So I
had a connection with the old table that folks up
in northern California. And I can't go into that story
because there's still a time list.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Hold yeah, old time. I had to dump that.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Sorry, man, who would have guessed that the biggest LSD
dealer at the time, would call talk radio forty eight
years later and swear on the radio nobody would have guessed.
I didn't see I'm on coming out. I didn't see
coming it home. William, all right, Sean, you're on KFI.
Speaker 11 (17:42):
How are you ding dong?
Speaker 13 (17:43):
I'm good?
Speaker 3 (17:44):
How are you?
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Sorry for the last caller?
Speaker 13 (17:46):
Okay, that was my first concert that I had gone to. Really,
if you yes and if Back then it was the
national pastime was streaking in public treating, and so they
were as slow as they went through all the crowded people.
There was people streaking all over the place there.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
How old were you when you went? I was fourteen, man,
everyone's fourteen at this concert. It was a fourteen concert
for fourteen year olds, and everyone's sixty two now, and
we're all standing and you get everybody that called had
like the same energy they had when they were fourteen, like.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Oh yeah, no, there's unbelievable traffick. And we didn't care.
We did that a great time, the striking.
Speaker 13 (18:23):
Since it was festival seating, it was we got there
like a six in the morning. We just kept on
walking until eventually we ended up sitting on some people's
sleeping bags, and we were like pretty pretty close.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
It was a one day event though, as I remember, right,
it wasn't two days.
Speaker 13 (18:36):
There's a one day event.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Yeah. I think it was on a Saturday, or was
it a Sunday?
Speaker 13 (18:41):
I can't remember. But the story about the milk jugs,
it's true. It got you know, it got so hot
there there. People were getting the hydra slid past all
the water and you know about time ever slicking powers on.
There was so many of them flying through the air
it looked like it was white Christmas.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
That's wild.
Speaker 14 (18:57):
Man.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Appreciate the phone call. Thanks. Saturday was Saturday? Okay, all right, Saturday, Stephus.
When year were you born? Eighty eight?
Speaker 1 (19:06):
All right, so you're born fourteen. Everyone was fourteen when
they went to this concert, and you were born fourteen
years after the concert, pretty much right.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
So that's great man, all.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
Right, got it.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
We got one more call here. Wanted to get on.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Ray you there there, I'm here, Hey another concert goer.
Huh cal Jam nineteen seventy four.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Oh yeah, man, hey Jim, first of all, to your
dad for sure, you you're right belong anyway, I was there.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Yeah, that was some deal. Did you get there early?
Did you get caught up in all that traffic, in
the craziness.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Well, you know what I did, tim because I lived
as Sandemas. Okay, my mom never let me go anywhere,
but I you know, my dad left us, so I
snuck out, put my son out with my friend Brian Jackson.
The hitchhot here on Foothill Boulevard got picked, a guy
dropped us off. Couldn't find a parking spot, so then
all of a sudden he dropped us off in front.
We got in at the night, saw the whole damn thing,
and I saw stuff you won't leave, like have a
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step up over a lot of you know, people that
were passed out and stuff. I saw Elp, I saw
Black Sabbath and Aerol Sabeth. Yeah, it was cool.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
You imagine how many albums they sold from that concert.
There's two hundred and fifty thousand people there and everybody
had dough.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Unbelievable, it was.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
It was the largest concert for paid attendance, really, like, stop,
what's well? No, at the time, I said, Woodstock was bigger,
you know people there, but for paid people there it.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Was this that's wild, all right, right, thank you man,
great calls, great memories.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
We'll do it again.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
I don't know with something else, like a Genie Town
or kitty Town next to what was the carnival for
kids man, kitty Land?
Speaker 2 (20:44):
I think it was.
Speaker 10 (20:45):
Yeah, you're listening to Tim Conwayjunior on De Mayo from
kf I am six forty.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
We were talking about Dimples, which was an old karaoke
bar across the street. It's where Whole foods Now is
on Olive near the one thirty four freeway. I'll live
in near Alameda, but Krozier. You remember on the top
of Dimples there were two statues. There was a an
Elvis Presley, I remember that one, and then there was
(21:15):
a Marilyn Monroe you know where their skirt going up. Yes,
that was sensational. Yes, So that was a real dive
bar I used to go to.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
That's a that's a total I mean just that and
how long that was there. I mean they considered that,
I mean some people considered that called that the first
karaoke bar in the entire country. Is that right, That's
what that's that's what they you know, try to use
this there sort of like a thing that they hung
on and.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Then what we used to do. We used to eat.
We would go to Adults and eat dinner.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
There was that restaurant Adults, which is where Kiss FM
used to be, and everybody everything was fried in that place.
Speaker 6 (21:50):
It wasn't it a McCormick's mix.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Yeah, then it would that became McCormick Shmid.
Speaker 9 (21:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
It was also a what was the other one, the
claim j Yeah, and then it it sort of lost
its way after Adults.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Adults was sensational. Man, it was really great.
Speaker 6 (22:05):
I think we came over, we moved into this building.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
I think at the tail end Adults when it was
kind of just hanging on and it was one of
those I don't know how alone, how much long is
this place.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Is going to be around?
Speaker 1 (22:14):
And then there was another bar that you know, you
sort of had to be a local or you know,
they didn't really accept you. And it was Starlight and
Starlit was on Riverside in Ta Honga, right near that
that old Ernie's Taco place, and that became a cactus
taco called Starlight. So there was Dimple Starlight. There was
Timmy Nolan's which was another great bar. Yes, and and
(22:37):
I had a going away party there once was that, right, yeah, yeah,
that was a great, great bar. And then right down
the street was the Money Tree, and the Money Tree
was a really great hang. And then Jo's and Burbank
was another one we used to go to, uh so
Timmy Nolan's. But there was another one that not a
lot of people knew about. And if you liked if
your thing, your thing was, you know, if you were
(22:59):
in your twenties and your thing was, you know, women
in their early fifties that like to smoke and drink,
Oyster Bar on Windsit and Riverside would would handle all
of that for you.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
They take care of all those fetishes you had going on.
And then another one another dive bar. This was my
circuit when I was, you know, single and going to
going to dive bars a lot. Was the Chimney Sweep
on Woodman and Ventura between Ventura and and got o
my More Park between More Park and Ventura on Woodman
(23:41):
and called the Chimney Sweep. And that again, if you're
in your twenties and you preferred fifty year old women
who liked to drink and smoke, they laid that out
for you.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
You had no problem with that. Sliding in there and
enjoying yourself. But those bars seem to be going away.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
I don't, you know, it seems like like every one
I listed, all right, Timmy Nolan's is not there anymore.
It's something else. It's another bar. I don't think they
called the Upstairs or whatever.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
I think they do.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Yeah, yeah, split level yet, right, but I think it's
some kind of whiskey bar. I don't know what it
is now, but Starlight was closed last time I drove by.
Dimples obviously closed. Money Tree is closed. The one Joseph
in Burbank is still open on it's on morep It's
on Magnolia, just west of Hollywood Way. That's still a
(24:34):
great hang oyster bar. I don't know if that's still
open or not. Chimney Sweep, I'm not sure, but man,
those we would just make our rounds, you know, because
all those bars were within two or three miles of
each other, and that was a real cool, like two
or three year span.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
I think people go through.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
You know, when you go to dive bars, that's your thing,
and you drink and you go to you know, you
have the happy hour and the little hot dogs and
you know, you know, all the people there, you play
golden tea video, you know, golf and stuff like that.
I think that can last for about two or three
nice year run, and then you've got to pull up
(25:11):
and really sort of straighten your life out.
Speaker 6 (25:14):
Going to them.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Yeah, I don't think you can continue your whole life.
If you do, I think you real limit to how
many people will continue to associate with you, you know.
I mean, you could go to dive bars your whole life,
but it's sort of a sad landing at the end,
you know, when you're seventy five and you're still going
(25:35):
every night and everybody else is thirty. Right, I think
it's the way to roll, really dumb, but man, they've
got to do it. That's got to be a coffee
table book the Valley Dive Bars.
Speaker 6 (25:49):
Absolutely, there isn't one.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Yeah, I can't imagine that thing wouldn't sell thousands of copies.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
You know, everybody that had.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
A great time and in their two or three year
run going to dive bars would buy it in a heartbeat.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
The type of places that Jen and I are looking
at around the country, depending on the cities that we're
looking at, you know, they kind of fit our sort
of style, and we we want to be in a
place where we're in walking distance of at least a
couple dive bars.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Okay, just what you want to open one? What do
you mean? I mean, have you ever talked to Jen
about owning one and operating one?
Speaker 11 (26:21):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (26:22):
Well, we've kind of talked about, you know, making some
sort of pub or something like that. Yeah, yeah, absolutely
good idea. But that's kind of why our heads always
kind of go to New Orleans because that's an easy
default for that sort of idea. But some of the
other cities that we've kind of talked about and looked at,
that's that's a that's a priority for us.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Yeah, New Orleans would be great, man. You know, you
can't there is not a single bar that that fails
in New Orleans. They're all packed.
Speaker 6 (26:44):
You can't throw a rock and not hit one.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Yeah, all of them.
Speaker 9 (26:48):
You know.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
On Nashville is the same way. Yes, yes, every single
bar was.
Speaker 6 (26:52):
Really like Nashville.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
And even where we were staying at with my friend
who lives in who lives near Duke in North Carolina,
a little town called Corboro. It's kind of got that too,
and it's like in the middle of the woods. So
it's like you can drive through the woods and then
all of a sudden it opens up to this little
little town and there's like two or three little bars
in there.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
That's great.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Yes, sir, you know there are four Irish bars on
one block in downtown Seal Beach.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
That was unbelievable.
Speaker 11 (27:19):
You know.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
I found Seal Beach where I used to live in
Koreatown and my wife then girlfriend used to live in
Lake four No.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
No, she used to live in San Clemente.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
And so we were we were sixty miles apart in total, right,
So we said, let's drive thirty miles. You drive north
thirty miles. I'll drive south thirty miles, and wherever that is,
we'll get an apartment, so we we both have the
same commute. Yeah, the exactly almost to the tenth of
(27:53):
a mile, Seal Beach was exactly between both of us.
We found an apartment in Seal Beach, we moved in together,
and we've been living together ever since.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Night thing go on.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
That was two thousand, now, that was nineteen ninety eight,
I think nineteen ninety eight. Why wow, Yeah, bars can
bring us together if we just let them. That's right,
that's a great shirt. We're live on KFI AM six
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(28:27):
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It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to the
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Cal Jam
Festival nineteen seventy four. It's three hours long. But belly,
what bands were there? And there was at the Ontario Speedway.
It was a huge weekend. I think it was all weekend,
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one hundred and ten people. Yeah, cal Jam.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Do you remember that?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
No?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
It was before my time, but I remember about it.
Speaker 5 (00:30):
It said two hundred and fifty thousand, Yeah tickets soul whoa,
because where's this thing?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
I was saying, you know, woodstock.
Speaker 5 (00:40):
A lot of people showed up without paying, Oh my god,
concert people actually paid?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Yeah, well it's California.
Speaker 5 (00:47):
Do you remember the price of your ticket at the time.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
I didn't go, you.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Know, cause that was eleven when it happened. But I
just remember I had, like, you know, my dad's friends went.
They were probably in their thirties. But how much were it?
Tickets probably done on twenty five dollars.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
Price was ten dollars in advance or fifteen at the gate.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
That's wild and whoever the bands are there?
Speaker 5 (01:12):
So it was co headlined by Deep Purple and Emerson Lake.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
And Palmer. Wow.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
So you had Earthwind and Fire, Eagles, Seals and Crofts
black Oak, Arkansas. And I think it was mceed by
Don iMOS.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Oh that's kind of cool. Yeah, a young don Imis. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
I'm looking at the photos right now in the video.
This from nineteen seventy four in Ontario cal Jam. The
entire video is on YouTube. That's incredible. First of all,
that they even had.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
It on video.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Yeah, were filmed. It probably was filmed back then. Three
hour video online and you can go check it out.
I bet we have listeners that absolutely remember them cal Jam.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
I bet you.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
I bet we have listeners that have that went to
cal Jam. I'm going to open up the phones here
and see if we do. If anybody out there, we
may not get the you know, we're just fishing here,
may not get a you know, a bite. But if
anybody's listening right now and you went to cal Jam
nineteen seventy four Ontario Speedway, you're one of two hundred
(02:32):
and fifty thousand people that attended this thing. Calls here
at the radio station, I want to pick your brain
about it. It was the West Coast version. I guess
it would stock right you know, people are hanging out
there all day, probably blowing a little weed even though
it was highly illegal, drinking, doing a couple of you know,
tabs of LSD. Maybe some quay ludes.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Maybe a guy was you know, had a dime bag,
was blown a little dime bag, maybe a little ty stick,
some shake.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
I don't know, right, I don't know what kind of
people showed up.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
But if you went to the cal Jam concert nineteen
seventy four Ontario Speedway, I think they sixth April sixth, okay,
nineteen seventy four. I think they did a couple of
years in a row. It was an unbelievable event for
people that went. Man, that was that was a really
cool time where you know, in the late sixties early
(03:24):
seventies in LA and southern California.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
It was a really cool vibe.
Speaker 6 (03:28):
I've watched the earth wind and fire behind us there
from cal Jam.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Is that right?
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Verdein does an unbelievable bass solo, which you don't see
bases do that.
Speaker 6 (03:38):
But yeah, actually in my life.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Although no, you know what, the Eagles back then probably didn't.
Speaker 6 (03:42):
This is an order of appearance.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
The Eagles were the third behind They were after rare,
Earth and earth, wind and fire, and then it was
the Eagles.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Okay, all right, Purple was like next to last. Let's
see if I can find the Eagles Black Sabbath. They
were like the biggest band.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Right then.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
All right, let's talk to Andy here. You're on KFI.
Were you at this cow jam?
Speaker 7 (04:02):
Was there?
Speaker 8 (04:02):
Buddy? I tell you what.
Speaker 9 (04:03):
They had the band sit up by like rail cars,
and they just moved them across.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Oh that's great. How old are you now?
Speaker 9 (04:12):
I'm sixty six?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Okay, so you're you were young. You were a young
teenager when you went. I was eighteen, man, Okay, that's great, man.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
You know, I thought it was I thought it was,
you know, dreaming that you know, did this thing happened.
That's unbelievable that we have callers that actually went to
that concert. Let's talk to us. Steve here, Steve, you're
on KFI AM six forty. Let's see they put up
line there you go.
Speaker 10 (04:35):
Give me boy.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Hey, what's up? Bob?
Speaker 6 (04:37):
How are you doing?
Speaker 2 (04:38):
You were there?
Speaker 8 (04:39):
Yes, sir?
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Wow? How old are you now?
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Seventies sixties sixty one? Their sixty one? Man, you were young, dude.
Speaker 8 (04:47):
I had a blast.
Speaker 9 (04:47):
Ye was in high school.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Who'd you go with? You would go with your parents
or friends.
Speaker 9 (04:53):
With the buddy, we said, let's do it. It was
a nightmare getting there, like forever anywhere you were.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Oh yeah, oh you know what to get there. I'm
glad you said that.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
One of the big issues for that concert was traffic,
where people literally spent five hours to try to get
in and six hours to try to get out of there.
Speaker 11 (05:10):
It was like standstills, just rowing barely.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
I remember that.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
That's way before the two ten Freeway that was there,
so the only way to get in and out there
was the ten Freeway.
Speaker 11 (05:20):
Yes, sir, Yeah, it was crazy.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Dude. You remember paying ten bucks to get in?
Speaker 8 (05:24):
You know, I didn't even I just do.
Speaker 9 (05:26):
I think we had tickets ready so we were in.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
But it was great, buddy, Thanks for calling. Let's talk
to Doug here. You're on KFI.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Were you there, dude?
Speaker 8 (05:36):
Yes, Tim, I grew up ten minutes from Ontario Motor Speedway.
Speaker 9 (05:40):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Oh so when so like when the when the NASCAR
IndyCar actually I think it was IndyCar that came in there.
You could probably hear it from your house.
Speaker 8 (05:49):
Yes, we could, and one of the great things was
for the concert. My dad piled all of us neighborhood
kids into the Chevy van Wow drove over to the
speedway on four Street and he drove us around the
speedway from four Street to Avon to Milliken with the
(06:11):
fighting door open, and we could hear the bands.
Speaker 6 (06:15):
That's wild. It's amazing. I remember stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Huh.
Speaker 8 (06:19):
It was awesome. And then two or three years later
cal Jam two. I got to work the I got
to work the parking lot on the west side, and
people that didn't have a pass to part I'll take twenty,
I'll take thirty. Come on apart. You know, I made
a killing, a killing.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
That is great, all right, But I really appreciate the
phone call. We'll take some more phone calls here. This
is great. These guys were all there at cal Jam
nineteen seventy four, and there was cal Jam two.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
I don't think it was it was as successful.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
I think they had a lot of problems with cal
Jam two because the neighbors after a while are like, Nah,
this is not going to happen every year. You're not
gonna bring all these lunatics in here every single year.
Speaker 6 (06:58):
There's a great story about that Purple's appearance on cal Jam.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Oh cool, right, we'll come back and talk more about
a cal Jam nineteen seventy four. April of nineteen seventy four.
Looked at all these guys on the phone, who went unreal.
Speaker 10 (07:11):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
It's sixty four, phone goes, I love that the guys
were there for this thing.
Speaker 6 (07:22):
Oh, by the way, so the Deep Purple story.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Yeah, So the singer that had just joined Deep Purple
at the time, I think it was like their second
or third singer was David Coverdale, who went on to
be the main guy for White Snake in the eighties,
but that was like his first performance with the band.
And they gave Deep Purple the option of when they
wanted to go on, and they said they wanted to
go on at dusk. Oh that's excellent, Yeah, but the
(07:45):
concert was running kind of early, so they refused to
go on until dusk. Big people sat there for like
an hour, and that pushed the other band after them,
Emerson Lincoln Palmer till later as well. And then during
the set, the guitarist Richie Blackmore, he got all pissed
off and gotten to a fight with the cameraman or
something like that. And then there was some pyate technics
that happened in which was the fire that you saw.
(08:06):
The stage caught fire, and as as soon as they
were done, they got on a helicopter and bolted out
of there because they were afraid of bitting caught by
the Ontario Fire Marshal.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Wow, that's awesome. Let's talk to what Charlie here? You're
on KFI? How you I'm good? How are you all right?
You were at this thing? Huh dude?
Speaker 8 (08:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 12 (08:22):
So me and and about a half a dozen of
us lived about fifty miles away, and I was in
the eighth grade, and we rode our bicycles and so
technically I wasn't inside the inside the concert, but we
rode our bicycles around there, and I was exposed to
a lot of stuff I probably shouldn't have been at
that age.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Yeah, but you could clearly have heard that concert outside
the speedway as well.
Speaker 12 (08:44):
Oh yeah, no, no doubt. And we ended up hanging out.
We ended up hanging out by the paddy wagon. Ontario
PD had a big paddy wagon there, and then we
were kicking it and you could watch people come by
and all of sudden side of that straight and there
was a lot a bad tripping.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
That right, dude, that's a great story. Let's talk to
a Michael here. Michael, you're on kfive.
Speaker 7 (09:06):
Hey, Hey, hey, ding Dong, get.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Dong, buddy, ding dong. How old were you there? How
old were you went there? When you went to the concert?
Speaker 7 (09:15):
I was fourteen. I was fourteen years old. You're sixteen?
Yeah on sixty two. Yeah, I'm gonna be six streme me.
First of all, this is the first story is when
you when when you went in there was these big
uh trash cans and they were just throwing tossing his
bottles of liquor and beard and soff. You can just
hear crashing. I wonder if anybody could remember that. And
(09:38):
then uh, it got so crazy they knocked down the
fence and people were giving tickets.
Speaker 11 (09:47):
Yeah, they jammed down the fence.
Speaker 13 (09:49):
I wonder if he remembers that.
Speaker 7 (09:50):
And when Yeah, and also when Deep Purpowl came on,
they're hanging out plastic gallon jugs of water and people
just start throwing them up in Ping Kong.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
No, I wasn't there. But was it hot? Was it
hot that day? Looked like everybody was shirtless?
Speaker 7 (10:05):
Okay, kick it out. It was hot. I laid down
on the hot grass and crushed my legs right and
you know when he crossed your legs, your your shoes
at the bottom of your soles touch each other where
I had my wallabies on, remember, Yeah, they had like
gummy soles.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Right.
Speaker 7 (10:22):
Well, he got he melted together and I couldn't.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
That's awesome, dude, that's a great story. Shoes are melting
at the concert. Uh, Gina, you're on KFI?
Speaker 2 (10:33):
How are you hello?
Speaker 6 (10:35):
Hey, Gina, were you at the concert?
Speaker 12 (10:38):
Oh? Yes, sir, Oh.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
That's so cool. Do you remember don.
Speaker 11 (10:42):
Imus cal Jam? I was actually a cal Jam one
and two?
Speaker 2 (10:46):
All right?
Speaker 1 (10:46):
My brother said he confirmed this that don Imus was
the host of it.
Speaker 11 (10:50):
Huh yep, wow, man, I mean it was.
Speaker 14 (10:54):
It was so cool. But it was general admission, so
everybody was cramming to get in sure, and it was
just people were taken off. It was so hot, people
were taking off their clothes. I was crammed up against
the guy with.
Speaker 12 (11:07):
No shirt on.
Speaker 14 (11:08):
It was just madness, but it was great.
Speaker 8 (11:11):
Do you remember a great time?
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Well, you were young, so you probably didn't care. But
do you remember the nightmare traffic all day?
Speaker 11 (11:17):
No, I went with my girlfriend. I don't even know
how we got there.
Speaker 14 (11:20):
I don't remember because neither one of us could drive.
Speaker 6 (11:23):
We probably would, Oh, that's awesome.
Speaker 14 (11:25):
We probably caught a ride.
Speaker 12 (11:26):
But I love the fact that.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Yeah, I love and at the time, I love the
fact that you're fourteen and your mom and you say
to your mom and dad, I'm going to a concert
with two hundred and fifty thousand people and they're like,
have a good time, exactly right.
Speaker 9 (11:37):
I would never do that.
Speaker 11 (11:38):
Okay, I would never do that.
Speaker 7 (11:40):
I would not.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Allow my sixteen year old to go to that concert.
For if my life depends on girl, Yeah, big dog.
All right, Gina, thanks for phoning. That's that's really cool.
Let's talk to Michelle here. You're on kfin Hi Kim.
Speaker 11 (11:52):
Oh my gosh, I'm so glad you're talking about this.
I love your show. I've listened from the beginning every
next thanks hold on, yes, oh, I love you guys. Listen.
I was in Jump too, So I'll make this quick.
But this is one of the most harrowing ding Dong
ding Dong Ding Dong Experiences of the Craziest Teenagers as
it was. So, I'm working at your local White of
Ventura McDonald's and Friday night three was March seventeenth, Saint
(12:14):
Patrick's Day, nineteen seventy eight. I just turned sixteen. I'm working.
I look at my line. Busy Friday. There's all my
friends in my line, Michelle, Tody, Boss up and we're
going to cal Jium too. I go, okay, hold on,
I go to my boss and go listen. My grandma's dying.
I got to go to listen. And he goes, I'm
plan of the concert. You're fired. I go, no problem, bye,
wow wait wait, so.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Here we go.
Speaker 11 (12:32):
Now, two of the guys I'm trying to make it
quick are the our Governor Majian's nephews. They went to Grant.
Doesn't matter. The older brother's driving. And so the first
thing is the traffic you mentioned you got that you
wouldn't believed it on the ten Friday night.
Speaker 9 (12:47):
Here's what you did.
Speaker 11 (12:48):
You drove about twenty feet, then you say up for
like twenty minutes. So we all got out world teenagers,
We all got out of the cars. Okay, hey, what
do you guys got okay, we'll get in your vent. Sure,
let's do that together. Okay, now let's drug that's not back. Okay,
So let's see this Hong Kong. Every bugger cards were moving.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Oh that's so great. Yeah, you know, but that was
part of that was part of the thrill. You know,
it's part of the event.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
My god.
Speaker 11 (13:09):
It was just saying. No, I want to say about technician,
who I was not a fan of, but he was
like the best performance. You know my helicopter.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Oh that is great. I gotta put you on. How
we gotta take a break. But man, that is so cool.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
I can't believe how many people in the audience actually
went to this cow jam in nineteen seventy four.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
This is the end of the Eagles. The Eagles are
wrapping up here at cal Jam. Two hundred and fifty
thousand people.
Speaker 10 (13:33):
Yes, you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
From this cal Jam.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
All the people who went there, they're you know, ten, eleven, twelve, fifteen, eighteen,
and they're all still living here in southern California. A
lot of them are, you know, still have that and
you know it seems like everybody that called about cal
Jam they had like that same energy they had that
when they went to the concert. Let's say we got
(14:04):
three or four more callers here. People just want to
talk about this Mark. Is it Martini?
Speaker 9 (14:10):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (14:10):
It is?
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Hey, Why how are you good?
Speaker 12 (14:13):
Good?
Speaker 10 (14:14):
Thank you?
Speaker 9 (14:14):
I was there, But before I tell it a little
funny story, I was gonna say Lucky Man with Peerson
Lake and Power as a song and the listen that
was a hot song. Anyway, Uh, what happened was when
I went there, we went with a group of guys,
and the group of guys decided to buy our drugs there, okay,
and we all we all bought a little bit of
uh asht I guess they call it, and we all
(14:37):
got high. That's not the footy parts, the footing part.
Then we bought a lid. Lids were a pot. So
then after we smoked, we were already high from the ass.
And then after that we smoked the pot. The next
day when we woke up, the guy that had the
pot called us all and told us that it wasn't pot,
it was just weeds from someone's backyard. So we were
(14:57):
so high, and all day we were of the concert
and we're smoking, you know, big and were smoked as
a good pot. Of course, I say it's a big lid.
Wasn't like it is today. That cousin ay man, he said,
you do pretty high. I said, well, I know something.
He said, well it's it was something from it. It's
just weeds where someone's do you.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Remember the term do you remember the term ty stick?
Speaker 9 (15:17):
Yeah? All those things you mentioned brought back memories. I'm
not memories, but me is the way is the way
pot is done now, you know, I mean then you
have to shout down your pants because you know you
also went in and now now you just walk around
and I'm you know, smoking, It's amazing how far that you.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Can do whatever you want now.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
But I remember they had they had dime bag, lid,
tie stick and shake. But remember I always thought ty
stick was from from like Thailand. But it's just weed
that was tied to a stick.
Speaker 8 (15:47):
It was just in something I believe.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Yeah, that's wild. How old are you?
Speaker 11 (15:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (15:54):
How old are you now?
Speaker 9 (15:56):
I'm sixty two. I was fourteen.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Then, okay, that's great, that's awesome.
Speaker 9 (16:01):
By the way, that was the one, the one and
only time I did ascid, So.
Speaker 8 (16:04):
I wasn't get it.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
You have to explain to anybody. All right, Martini, thanks
for calling. Let's talk to William on you're on KFI.
Speaker 15 (16:13):
So, Timmy, it was a ding dong affair.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Definitely. Damn It sounds like, oh, yeah, I was.
Speaker 15 (16:21):
I just graduated from high school. I'm a third generation
at from Orange County. So uh if being a veteran
in a concert goer, what you did was you left
at five in the morning and got there before all
the other traffic and they just camped out. But it
was really hot. However, at the time, I was considered
the largest LSD dealer in Orange County. What I have been, so,
(16:47):
tim I've been. I'm sixty five, I've been sober twenty
nine years clean and sober.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
I earned Wait wait, hold on, hold him on secon. Yes,
Crozer's name is William How'd you know that I will.
Speaker 15 (17:02):
Yeah, everybody knows lamb yeah so uh so. So I
had a connection with the old table that folks up
in northern California. And I can't go into that story
because there's still a time list.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Hold yeah, old time. I had to dump that.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Sorry, man, who would have guessed that the biggest LSD
dealer at the time, would call talk radio forty eight
years later and swear on the radio nobody would have guessed.
I didn't see I'm on coming out. I didn't see
coming it home. William, all right, Sean, you're on KFI.
Speaker 11 (17:42):
How are you ding dong?
Speaker 13 (17:43):
I'm good?
Speaker 3 (17:44):
How are you?
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Sorry for the last caller?
Speaker 13 (17:46):
Okay, that was my first concert that I had gone to. Really,
if you yes and if Back then it was the
national pastime was streaking in public treating, and so they
were as slow as they went through all the crowded people.
There was people streaking all over the place there.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
How old were you when you went? I was fourteen, man,
everyone's fourteen at this concert. It was a fourteen concert
for fourteen year olds, and everyone's sixty two now, and
we're all standing and you get everybody that called had
like the same energy they had when they were fourteen, like.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Oh yeah, no, there's unbelievable traffick. And we didn't care.
We did that a great time, the striking.
Speaker 13 (18:23):
Since it was festival seating, it was we got there
like a six in the morning. We just kept on
walking until eventually we ended up sitting on some people's
sleeping bags, and we were like pretty pretty close.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
It was a one day event though, as I remember, right,
it wasn't two days.
Speaker 13 (18:36):
There's a one day event.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Yeah. I think it was on a Saturday, or was
it a Sunday?
Speaker 13 (18:41):
I can't remember. But the story about the milk jugs,
it's true. It got you know, it got so hot
there there. People were getting the hydra slid past all
the water and you know about time ever slicking powers on.
There was so many of them flying through the air
it looked like it was white Christmas.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
That's wild.
Speaker 14 (18:57):
Man.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Appreciate the phone call. Thanks. Saturday was Saturday? Okay, all right, Saturday, Stephus.
When year were you born? Eighty eight?
Speaker 1 (19:06):
All right, so you're born fourteen. Everyone was fourteen when
they went to this concert, and you were born fourteen
years after the concert, pretty much right.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
So that's great man, all.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
Right, got it.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
We got one more call here. Wanted to get on.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Ray you there there, I'm here, Hey another concert goer.
Huh cal Jam nineteen seventy four.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Oh yeah, man, hey Jim, first of all, to your
dad for sure, you you're right belong anyway, I was there.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Yeah, that was some deal. Did you get there early?
Did you get caught up in all that traffic, in
the craziness.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Well, you know what I did, tim because I lived
as Sandemas. Okay, my mom never let me go anywhere,
but I you know, my dad left us, so I
snuck out, put my son out with my friend Brian Jackson.
The hitchhot here on Foothill Boulevard got picked, a guy
dropped us off. Couldn't find a parking spot, so then
all of a sudden he dropped us off in front.
We got in at the night, saw the whole damn thing,
and I saw stuff you won't leave, like have a
(20:01):
step up over a lot of you know, people that
were passed out and stuff. I saw Elp, I saw
Black Sabbath and Aerol Sabeth. Yeah, it was cool.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
You imagine how many albums they sold from that concert.
There's two hundred and fifty thousand people there and everybody
had dough.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Unbelievable, it was.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
It was the largest concert for paid attendance, really, like, stop,
what's well? No, at the time, I said, Woodstock was bigger,
you know people there, but for paid people there it.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Was this that's wild, all right, right, thank you man,
great calls, great memories.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
We'll do it again.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
I don't know with something else, like a Genie Town
or kitty Town next to what was the carnival for
kids man, kitty Land?
Speaker 2 (20:44):
I think it was.
Speaker 10 (20:45):
Yeah, you're listening to Tim Conwayjunior on De Mayo from
kf I am six forty.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
We were talking about Dimples, which was an old karaoke
bar across the street. It's where Whole foods Now is
on Olive near the one thirty four freeway. I'll live
in near Alameda, but Krozier. You remember on the top
of Dimples there were two statues. There was a an
Elvis Presley, I remember that one, and then there was
(21:15):
a Marilyn Monroe you know where their skirt going up. Yes,
that was sensational. Yes, So that was a real dive
bar I used to go to.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
That's a that's a total I mean just that and
how long that was there. I mean they considered that,
I mean some people considered that called that the first
karaoke bar in the entire country. Is that right, That's
what that's that's what they you know, try to use
this there sort of like a thing that they hung
on and.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Then what we used to do. We used to eat.
We would go to Adults and eat dinner.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
There was that restaurant Adults, which is where Kiss FM
used to be, and everybody everything was fried in that place.
Speaker 6 (21:50):
It wasn't it a McCormick's mix.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Yeah, then it would that became McCormick Shmid.
Speaker 9 (21:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
It was also a what was the other one, the
claim j Yeah, and then it it sort of lost
its way after Adults.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Adults was sensational. Man, it was really great.
Speaker 6 (22:05):
I think we came over, we moved into this building.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
I think at the tail end Adults when it was
kind of just hanging on and it was one of
those I don't know how alone, how much long is
this place.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Is going to be around?
Speaker 1 (22:14):
And then there was another bar that you know, you
sort of had to be a local or you know,
they didn't really accept you. And it was Starlight and
Starlit was on Riverside in Ta Honga, right near that
that old Ernie's Taco place, and that became a cactus
taco called Starlight. So there was Dimple Starlight. There was
Timmy Nolan's which was another great bar. Yes, and and
(22:37):
I had a going away party there once was that, right, yeah, yeah,
that was a great, great bar. And then right down
the street was the Money Tree, and the Money Tree
was a really great hang. And then Jo's and Burbank
was another one we used to go to, uh so
Timmy Nolan's. But there was another one that not a
lot of people knew about. And if you liked if
your thing, your thing was, you know, if you were
(22:59):
in your twenties and your thing was, you know, women
in their early fifties that like to smoke and drink,
Oyster Bar on Windsit and Riverside would would handle all
of that for you.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
They take care of all those fetishes you had going on.
And then another one another dive bar. This was my
circuit when I was, you know, single and going to
going to dive bars a lot. Was the Chimney Sweep
on Woodman and Ventura between Ventura and and got o
my More Park between More Park and Ventura on Woodman
(23:41):
and called the Chimney Sweep. And that again, if you're
in your twenties and you preferred fifty year old women
who liked to drink and smoke, they laid that out
for you.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
You had no problem with that. Sliding in there and
enjoying yourself. But those bars seem to be going away.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
I don't, you know, it seems like like every one
I listed, all right, Timmy Nolan's is not there anymore.
It's something else. It's another bar. I don't think they
called the Upstairs or whatever.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
I think they do.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Yeah, yeah, split level yet, right, but I think it's
some kind of whiskey bar. I don't know what it
is now, but Starlight was closed last time I drove by.
Dimples obviously closed. Money Tree is closed. The one Joseph
in Burbank is still open on it's on morep It's
on Magnolia, just west of Hollywood Way. That's still a
(24:34):
great hang oyster bar. I don't know if that's still
open or not. Chimney Sweep, I'm not sure, but man,
those we would just make our rounds, you know, because
all those bars were within two or three miles of
each other, and that was a real cool, like two
or three year span.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
I think people go through.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
You know, when you go to dive bars, that's your thing,
and you drink and you go to you know, you
have the happy hour and the little hot dogs and
you know, you know, all the people there, you play
golden tea video, you know, golf and stuff like that.
I think that can last for about two or three
nice year run, and then you've got to pull up
(25:11):
and really sort of straighten your life out.
Speaker 6 (25:14):
Going to them.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Yeah, I don't think you can continue your whole life.
If you do, I think you real limit to how
many people will continue to associate with you, you know.
I mean, you could go to dive bars your whole life,
but it's sort of a sad landing at the end,
you know, when you're seventy five and you're still going
(25:35):
every night and everybody else is thirty. Right, I think
it's the way to roll, really dumb, but man, they've
got to do it. That's got to be a coffee
table book the Valley Dive Bars.
Speaker 6 (25:49):
Absolutely, there isn't one.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Yeah, I can't imagine that thing wouldn't sell thousands of copies.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
You know, everybody that had.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
A great time and in their two or three year
run going to dive bars would buy it in a heartbeat.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
The type of places that Jen and I are looking
at around the country, depending on the cities that we're
looking at, you know, they kind of fit our sort
of style, and we we want to be in a
place where we're in walking distance of at least a
couple dive bars.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Okay, just what you want to open one? What do
you mean? I mean, have you ever talked to Jen
about owning one and operating one?
Speaker 11 (26:21):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (26:22):
Well, we've kind of talked about, you know, making some
sort of pub or something like that. Yeah, yeah, absolutely
good idea. But that's kind of why our heads always
kind of go to New Orleans because that's an easy
default for that sort of idea. But some of the
other cities that we've kind of talked about and looked at,
that's that's a that's a priority for us.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Yeah, New Orleans would be great, man. You know, you
can't there is not a single bar that that fails
in New Orleans. They're all packed.
Speaker 6 (26:44):
You can't throw a rock and not hit one.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Yeah, all of them.
Speaker 9 (26:48):
You know.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
On Nashville is the same way. Yes, yes, every single
bar was.
Speaker 6 (26:52):
Really like Nashville.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
And even where we were staying at with my friend
who lives in who lives near Duke in North Carolina,
a little town called Corboro. It's kind of got that too,
and it's like in the middle of the woods. So
it's like you can drive through the woods and then
all of a sudden it opens up to this little
little town and there's like two or three little bars
in there.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
That's great.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Yes, sir, you know there are four Irish bars on
one block in downtown Seal Beach.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
That was unbelievable.
Speaker 11 (27:19):
You know.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
I found Seal Beach where I used to live in
Koreatown and my wife then girlfriend used to live in
Lake four No.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
No, she used to live in San Clemente.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
And so we were we were sixty miles apart in total, right,
So we said, let's drive thirty miles. You drive north
thirty miles. I'll drive south thirty miles, and wherever that is,
we'll get an apartment, so we we both have the
same commute. Yeah, the exactly almost to the tenth of
(27:53):
a mile, Seal Beach was exactly between both of us.
We found an apartment in Seal Beach, we moved in together,
and we've been living together ever since.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Night thing go on.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
That was two thousand, now, that was nineteen ninety eight,
I think nineteen ninety eight. Why wow, Yeah, bars can
bring us together if we just let them. That's right,
that's a great shirt. We're live on KFI AM six
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