January 2, 2026 • 28 mins
Jay Leno keeps the stories coming, talking about the near-miss of getting a statue in his honor and diving into the very real headache of catalytic converter thefts. It’s classic Jay—self-deprecating, sharp, and oddly informative.Then Tim opens up the phones for a full-blown nostalgia trip as listeners call in to relive their memories from Calway Jam. From unforgettable performances to teenage shenanigans, the calls keep rolling with stories of fun, freedom, and the creative ways people managed to outsmart their parents just to be there.Legendary guests, listener memories, and concert chaos—this Best Of perfectly captures the spirit of ringing in the New Year together. 🥂
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KMF. I am six forty and you're listening to
the Conway Show on demand on the iHeart Radio app.
Bring up watching the Tonight Show and you take your
for Carson and then for you to be sitting here
right now, it's unbelievable. Well, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
It shows you how much I've fallenieable.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
One day you're on top. Next day, Look fil A
out of the window.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Yeah, that's right, it's a Chick fil A out the window.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
That's right. Let's talk about favorite restaurant, your favorite, your
Italian favorite, and you also cook.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Well, there uhould be a great one uh on on Magnolia.
It's across the street from Pinocchios. Is very I like pa.
Oh the guy across the street was great. Oh, my
God was good. And he he got fed up with something.
But but that was fir. I'll tell you a funny story.
Somebody in my crew goes to Italy and they go
(00:55):
to Fumari, which is the village where my grandfather came from.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
So they go.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Jay when we're in from Mari, and everybody there looks
like you, I know, that's where my grandfather came from.
They came from America. Okay, my grandfather born in eighteen
fifty seven. Wow, okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
So I am okay so uh.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
He meets the mayor, so he bites the mayor when
you're in America, come to the tonight. Six months later, Jay,
the mayor from what the mayor and the mayor comes
in after the show. He looks like Italian Mary. He's
got the little hat that's too small for his head
to suit.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
The buttons are too far party because he's more in
a too late kind of fan.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
He goes, he's Aleno and the mayor of from Ari
with your grandfather.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Wan.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Nice to meet you, say, because listen, we want to
build a statue of you and your grandfather to put
in a town square. I said, you know, I'm not
really a statue. No, No, you toomorrow is from my
humble beginnings. Your grandfather, his grandson becomes a huge starter
to our village. You would meet so much to have
the statue of you and your grandfather in our town square.
(01:57):
He says, will you give a pmision? I said, well,
all right, yes, thank you. He goes, yes, good. Now
the basic statue is this seventy five thousand dollars if
you want to be on the hill looking down it's
you know, yeah, I said, I don't really know. I
believe that I mean something.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
I has to pay for it. I know, I understand.
I said, I appreciate it. It couldn't be the most
Italian thing. Oh yeah, oh yeah, just hilarious. God, wait,
your grandfather was born before the Civil War or the
Civil War?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Woh that is that I got in nineteen fifty seven.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Yeah, it's almost one hundred years older.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Man.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
My dad was born in nineteen ten. Yeah. Wow, you
know what that's that's great jeans. You're gonna be around
a long time. Well, we'll see. You know, I was
talking about you know, you had a great line we
were talking about during the commercial break. If you you
know a lot of people have these CATLLITCIC converters stolen
off their car. And if you take it off your
(02:58):
own car, well, this is what it's a problem.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
It's a federal offense because it's a government mandate. You know,
So you take catileca, it's a ten thousand dollars fine
to mess with the emission system on your car.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Ten thousand dollars fine if you do it. If you
do it, yes, but.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
If your catalytic converter is stolen by a thief, it's
a misdemeanor. Film like, so you you would actually what
you usually do is hire a thief to take your
catle co converter.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Off, right, And what do they get the guy that
steals the catalytic converter, they're three thousand dollars to replace.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
You know. I had a friend of mine. You just
need all these CD people when you're in show business.
And this guy used to steal cars and he would say,
what do you think you get for stole Mercedes something
a thousand, ten thousand, no, seventy five bucks?
Speaker 1 (03:42):
What? Yeah? And he said I had to steal two
or three a night to make enough money, you know.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
And then they sell it to a shop shop and
he sells a fore every piece of the car's gone
you And that's that's what it is.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
That's what it is. It's hard to sell nowadays because
they're all numbers.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Yeah, and catalytic converter is also it's illegal to sell them,
so you got it sell them as someone who knows
he's buying. So he's committing a crime by buying it
from you, so he's not going to pay you anything
for it.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Yeah, yeah, it's it's a terrible thing. But you know,
up until recently, fire engines didn't have the Cadillac conversion.
Now they all do. What's the what's the advantage of
not having.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Well, in the old days, when emissions was not as
computer oriented as is now and they couldn't regulate it
quite as well, if you took the catalytic converter off
your car, your engine ran better because it ran a
little cooler. Uh, you know, didn't have to be quite
so lean, so you got better mileage and more power.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Fire engines have to perform at a certain standard, so
they were exempt for years until they came up with
modern more mind modern fire engines, the more up to
date equipment, you know. So now now they all have
Catallac convert even motorcycles.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Is your garage in la or in the valley? It's
in Burbank Burbank Airport. Yeah, oh I knew the airport. Okay.
Do you have somebody maintained for you and somebody keeps
it clean? Well, I have people who work there. I
keep it clean. You know you're there? Are you there
every day? I'm there every day?
Speaker 5 (05:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Really, Yeah, it's my Meliboo beach out. I heard you
never sell one of those cars, you only give them away. Well, no, no,
I don't like to selling. No, I like I call Michel. Yeah,
I have a Michael. Is the whole garage and everything
expensive to ensure it's gotta be duh. Yeah, like hundreds
of thousands of dollars. Yeah, that's probably correct. Yeah, but
that's fair to say you never sell a car. No, no,
(05:25):
I just like you ever buy him anymore. Yeah, you're
still buying cars, you know something. I watch horders and go.
I don't see the problem. I mean there's still a
path to the bedroom. Look, you can get the guy
can get into the bathroom. Look you just go around
to the.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Thing, you know.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Yeah, No, I don't know. You have electric cars. I
do have an electric. I got a nineteen oh nine
Baker Electric.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
I got a nineteen fteen to try elect They had
electric before you had gas. In fact, the year nineteen
oh seven eight nine, a third of the cars were steam,
a third were electric, and a third were gas. And
there was a battle which one was going to win.
And we're kind of go on through that now. I
think the next big player is going to be hydrogen.
That'll be the next one to come.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
I didn't know this until recently. I was watching YouTuber TikTok,
where I go all my information from. But the Brownstones
in Manhattan were built up three or four feet and
you had stairs because when they were built, the streets
were all filled with horse crap, that's right, and people
were tired of that.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
That's where there were dashboard comes. Dash was another word
for manure. Oh, So they would put a board in front,
so when the horses kicked up manure, it would hit
the board, it would hit the dashboard.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Yeah. So then then then cars came on, and then
you had an engine in front. Now the dashboard obviously
just holds the gauges right.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
And as you said, I think last time you were
on there was it was a great trade off from
you know, the horses filled with you know, horse crap,
and the alternative was a puff of blue smoke. That's right.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
I mean that seemed like, oh, this is so much
better than having six tons of manure in your sixty
tons of manure every day in New York City.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Do you remember your dad probably did this, maybe your grandfather.
My grandfather used to do this in Cleveland when he
would go to change the oil in his car, he'd
put two tires up on the curb and then undo
the this you know, the screw there this, you know,
the spiggot or whatever old the oil and then the
oil goes right into the gutter. Yeah. Yeah, it goes
back to the earth where it came from.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Yeah, yeah, that's what we were saying. It goes right back.
That's the beauty of it goes back to the earth.
Speaker 7 (07:22):
You see.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
It's a recycling Yeah. Yeah, all right, Jay, thank you,
back your guys. Thank you to having on Johnmen.
Speaker 8 (07:29):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from kf
I AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Cal Jam Festival nineteen seventy four. It's three hours long.
But felly, what bands were there? And there was at
the Ontario Speedway. It was a huge weekend. I think
it was all weekend, one hundred and ten people. Yeah,
hel Jam. Do you remember that?
Speaker 7 (07:53):
No?
Speaker 1 (07:53):
I don't.
Speaker 9 (07:54):
It was before my time, but I remember about it.
Speaker 10 (07:57):
It said two hundred and fifty thousand, Yeah tickets soul whoa,
because where's this thing? I was saying?
Speaker 11 (08:06):
You know, woodstock, a lot of people showed up without paying.
Oh my god, concert people actually paid.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Yeah, well it's California.
Speaker 10 (08:14):
And do you remember the price of your ticket.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
At the time. I didn't go, you know, cause that
was eleven when it happened. But I just remember I had, like,
you know, my dad's friends went. You know, they were
probably in their thirties. But how much were a tickets?
Probably done on twenty five dollars.
Speaker 10 (08:32):
The price was ten dollars in advance or fifteen at
the gate.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
That's wild and whoever the bands are there?
Speaker 11 (08:39):
So so it was co headlined by Deep Purple and
Emerson Lake and Palmer Wow. So you had Earth Wind
and Fire, Eagles, Seals and Cross Black Oak Arkansas. And
I think it was emceed by Don iMOS.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Oh that's kind of cool. Yeah, a young don iMOS. Yeah,
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's that's incredible. First of all,
that they even had it on video or filmed. It
(09:20):
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 I'll bet you.
I bet we have listeners that have that went to
(09:42):
cal Jam. I'm going to open up the phones here
and see if we do. If anybody out there, we
may not give 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
and fifty thousand people that attended this thing. Calls here
(10:03):
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 were 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 queludes, I don't know. Maybe
a guy was you know, had a dime bag blown,
(10:25):
a little dime bag, maybe a little ti stick, some shake.
I don't know, right, I don't know what kind of
people showed up, But if you went to the Caljam
concert nineteen seventy four, Ontario Speedway, I think they'd 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
(10:46):
was a really cool time where you know, in the
late sixties early seventies in LA and southern California, it
was a really cool vibe.
Speaker 9 (10:55):
I've watched the earth wind fire behinds there. Oh from
Caljam is that right? It's Verdein does an unbelievable bass solo,
which you don't see bases do that.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
But actually life although no that you know what the
Eagles back then probably didn't.
Speaker 9 (11:10):
This is an order of appearance. The Eagles were the
third behind. They were after Rare Earth and Earth went
in fire, and then.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
It was the Eagles. Okay, all right.
Speaker 9 (11:18):
Steve Purple was like next to last. Let's see if
I can find the Eagles Black Sabbath. They were like
the biggest band. Right then, Let's talk to Andy here.
You're on KFI. Were you at at this cow?
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Jam?
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Was there?
Speaker 12 (11:29):
Buddy?
Speaker 3 (11:30):
I tell you what.
Speaker 5 (11:31):
They had the band set up by like rail cars
and they just moved them across.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Oh that's great. How old are you now?
Speaker 5 (11:39):
I'm sixty six.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Okay, so you're you were young, you were a young
teenager when you went.
Speaker 12 (11:44):
I was eighteen.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Man, Okay, that's great, man. You know, I thought it
was I thought it was, you know, dreaming that, you know,
did this thing happen. 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 give me boy, Hey,
what's up, Bob?
Speaker 3 (12:04):
How are you doing?
Speaker 1 (12:05):
You were there?
Speaker 13 (12:06):
Yes, sir?
Speaker 14 (12:07):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (12:07):
How old are you now? Seventies, sixties, sixty one? For
sixty one? Man, you were young, dude.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
I had a blas Yeah, I was in high school.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Who'd you go with? You would go with your parents
or friends.
Speaker 12 (12:20):
With some buddy.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
We said, let's do it. It was a nightmare to
get you there, It like forever anywhere you were.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Oh yeah, oh you know what to get there. I'm
glad you said that. 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 3 (12:37):
It was like standstills, just moving barely.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
I remember that. 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 3 (12:47):
Yees, sir, Yeah, it was crazy, dude.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
You remember paying ten bucks to get in?
Speaker 3 (12:51):
You know, I didn't even I just do. I think
we had tickets are ready, so we we we were in.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
But it was right, all right, buddy, thanks for calling.
Let's talk to Doug here. You're on KFI. Were you there, dude?
Speaker 12 (13:03):
Yes, Tim, I grew up ten minutes from Ontario Motor Speedway.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Wow. 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 12 (13:16):
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 drove over to
the speedway on four Street, and he drove us around
the speedway from four Street to Haven to Milliken with
(13:38):
the sliding door open, and we could hear the band.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
That's wild. It's amazing how you remember stuff like that. Huh.
Speaker 12 (13:46):
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 past to part. I'll take twenty,
take thirty, come on apart. You know I made a
killing a killing.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Yeh, that is great, all right, but I really appreciate
the phone call. We'll take some more phone calls here.
I think this is great. These guys were all there
at cal Jam nineteen seventy four, and there was cal
Jam two. I don't think it was as successful. I
think they had a lot of problems with cal Jam
two because the neighbors after a while are like, Nah,
this is not gonna happen every year. You're not going
to bring all these lunatics in here every single year.
(14:25):
There's a great story about that Deep Purple's appearance on
cal Jam. Oh cool, all 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 8 (14:38):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
But I love the guys were there for this thing.
Speaker 9 (14:48):
Oh, by the way, so the Deep Purple story, 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.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Oh that's excellent.
Speaker 9 (15:10):
Yeah, but the concert was running kind of early, so
they refused to go on until dusk.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Big people sat there for like an hour. Wow.
Speaker 9 (15:17):
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
got into a fight with the cameraman or something like that.
And then there was some py technics that happened in
which was the fire that you saw. The stage caught fire,
and as as soon as they were done, they got
in a helicopter and bolted out of there because they
were afraid of bitting caught by the Ontario Fire Marshal.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Wow, that's awesome. Let's talk to it. Charlie here, you're
on KFI. How you I'm good?
Speaker 12 (15:45):
How are you all right?
Speaker 1 (15:46):
You were at this thing, h dude.
Speaker 15 (15:48):
Yeah, So me and and about a half a dozen
of us lived about fifty miles away, and I was
in the eighth grade. 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 (16:06):
Yeah, but you could clearly have heard that concert outside
the speedway as well.
Speaker 12 (16:10):
Oh yeah, no, no doubt.
Speaker 15 (16:12):
And we ended up hanging out. We ended up hanging
out by the by the paddy wagon. Ontario PD had
a big paddy wagon there, and then we were kicking
it and you can watch people come by and all
a sudden side that straight and there was and there
was a lot of bad tripping that.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Right, dude. That's a great story. Let's talk to a
Michael here. Michael, you're on KF five.
Speaker 14 (16:32):
Hey, Hey, hey, ding do y get dong.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Buddy, ding dong? How old were you there? How old
were you went there? When you went to the concert,
I was fourteen.
Speaker 14 (16:42):
I was fourteen years old, So 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 so you can just hear crashy.
I wonder if anybody could remember that. And then it
(17:05):
got so crazy they knocked down the fence and people
were giving tickets. Yeah, they jammed down the fence. I
wonder if any remembers that. And when yeah, and also
when Deep Purple came on, they're hanging out plastic gallon
jugs of water and people just start throwing them up
into the air like ping kong bo.
Speaker 13 (17:27):
No.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
I wasn't there, But was it hot? Was it hot
that they looked like everybody was shirtless?
Speaker 14 (17:31):
Okay, kick it out. It was hot. I laid down
on the hot grass and crossed 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 wallabies, they had like
dummy soles. Well they got they melted together and I couldn't.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
That's awesome, dude, that's a great story. Shoes are melting
at the concert. Uh, Gina, you're on KFI. How you you?
Speaker 6 (18:00):
Hello?
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Hey, Gina, Yeah, were you at the concert?
Speaker 15 (18:04):
Oh? Yes, sir.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Oh that's so cool. Do you remember don im.
Speaker 7 (18:08):
Was cal Jam? I was actually at cal Jam one
and two.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
All right.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
My brother said he confirmed this that don Imas was
the host of it.
Speaker 7 (18:16):
Huh yep, wow, man, I mean it was. It was
so cool. But it was general admission, so everybody was cramming.
Speaker 16 (18:24):
To get in sure, and it was just people were
taken off.
Speaker 7 (18:28):
It was so hot. People were taking off their clothes.
I was crammed up against a guy with no shirt on.
It was just madness. But it was great.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Do you remember a great time? Well, you were young,
so you probably didn't care. But do you remember the
nightmare traffic all day?
Speaker 9 (18:43):
No.
Speaker 7 (18:43):
I went with my girlfriend. I don't even know how
we got there. I don't remember because neither one of
us could drive.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
We probably, Oh, that's awesome, we probably.
Speaker 14 (18:51):
Caught a ride.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
But I love the fact.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
At the time.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
I love the fact that you're fourteen and your mom
and and you said to your mom and dad, I'm
going to a concert with two undred fifty thousand people,
and they're like, have a good time.
Speaker 7 (19:02):
Exactly right.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
I would never do that, Okay, I would never do that.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
I would not.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Allow my sixteen year old to go to that concert
for if my life depends on girl, Yeah, ding dong.
All right, Gina, thanks for phoning. That's that's really cool.
Let's talk to Michelle here. You're on KFI.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
Hi Kim.
Speaker 7 (19:18):
Oh my gosh. I'm so glad you're talking about this.
I love your show. I've listened from the beginning every night.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Thank hold on, yes, oh I love you guys.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
Listen.
Speaker 7 (19:25):
I was at cal jam 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 playing with March seventeenth, Saint
Patrick's Day, ninety seventy eight.
Speaker 16 (19:42):
I just turned sixteen.
Speaker 7 (19:43):
I'm working. I look at my line, Busy Frey, there's
all my friends in my line. Michelle, tell you boss
that I'm going to cal jam too.
Speaker 16 (19:49):
I go, okay, hold on, I go.
Speaker 7 (19:50):
To my boss and go listen to my Grandma's dying.
Got to go to listen, and he goes, I'm fine
of the concert.
Speaker 14 (19:54):
You're fired. I go, no problem.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Wow wait wait, so here we go.
Speaker 7 (19:58):
Now two of the guys I'm trend make a quick
are our governors 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.
Speaker 13 (20:09):
You got that.
Speaker 7 (20:09):
You wouldn't believed it on the ten Friday night.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Here's what you did.
Speaker 7 (20:13):
You drove about twenty feet. Then you sat for like
twenty minutes. So we all got out roll teenagers. We
all got out of the cars. Okay, hey, what do you
guys die? Okay, we'll get in your vent. Sure, let's
do that together. Okay, now it's drug, that's not sack. Okay,
so let's do this Hong Kong. Every back of your
cars were moving.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Oh that's so great. Yeah yeah, but that was part
of that was part of the thrill. You know, that's
part of the event.
Speaker 7 (20:34):
My god, it was gonna say. No, I want to
say about teen Nisian, who I was not a fan of,
but he was like the best performance my helicopter.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Oh that is great. I gotta put you on here.
We gotta take a break. But man, that is so cool.
I can't believe how many people in the audience actually
went to this cow Jam in nineteen seventy four. This
is the end of the Eagles. The Eagles are wrapping
up here at cal Jam. Two hundred and fifty thousand people.
Speaker 8 (20:59):
Yeah, you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from
kf I am six forty.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
From this cal Jam. All the people who went there,
they're you know, I'm 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
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went to the concert. Let's say, we've got three or
four more callers here. People just want to talk about
this Mark is it Martini?
Speaker 14 (21:37):
Yes it is.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Hey, you're on KUY How are you good?
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Good? Thank you?
Speaker 12 (21:41):
I was there.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
But before I tell it a little funny story, I
was gonna say Lucky Man with Peverson, Lake and Palmer's
the song of the Listed. That was a hot song. Anyway,
what happened was when I went there, we went one
of the group of guys, and the group of guys
decided to buy our drugs there, okay, and we all
we all a little bit of uh ash it I
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guess they call it, and we all got high. That's
not the footing part, 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 have the pot called us
out and told us that it wasn't pot. It was
just weeds from someone's backyard. So we were so high,
(22:25):
and all day we were the rest of the contract
and we're smoking, you know, big and we're smoked as
a good pot. Of course, by saying it's a big lid,
it wasn't like it is today. That cousin, hey man,
he said, you do pretty high. I said, well, I know,
something got He said, well, it's it was something from it.
It's just weeds where someone's backyard.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Do you remember the term do you remember the term
tie stick?
Speaker 5 (22:44):
Yeah? All those things you mentioned brought back memories. I'm
not memories, but to me is the way is the
way pot is done now, you know, I mean then
you have to shove down the pants because you know,
you all sweat, and now now you just walk around
and I'm you know, smoking them.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
No part of that.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
You can do whatever you want now. But I remember
they had they had dimebag, 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 5 (23:14):
It was just something I believe.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Yeah right, yeah, that's wild.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
So that's how old you know? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (23:21):
How old are you now?
Speaker 12 (23:23):
I'm sixty two.
Speaker 5 (23:25):
I was fourteen dead.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Okay, that's great. That's awesome.
Speaker 5 (23:28):
By the way, that was the one, the one and
only time I did aid, So I get it.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
You have to explain to anybody. All right, Martini, thanks
for calling. Let's talk to William and you're on K five.
Speaker 13 (23:40):
So Timmy, it was a ding dong affair, definitely.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Damn It sounds like a event.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
Oh yeah, I was. I just graduated from high school.
I'm a third generation aided 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 Country. Wow,
(24:13):
I have been so tim I've been. I'm sixty five.
I've been sober twenty nine years, clean and sober.
Speaker 12 (24:20):
I earned Wait wait, wait.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Hold on, hold him on secon Yes, uh, Crouzer's name
is William. How'd you know that?
Speaker 7 (24:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 13 (24:30):
Everybody knows lam.
Speaker 12 (24:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (24:32):
Uh so.
Speaker 13 (24:33):
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 timeless hold on.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Hey, yeah, I had to dump that. 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. All right,
I didn't see I'm on coming out. I didn't see
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it coming at home.
Speaker 12 (25:05):
William?
Speaker 1 (25:06):
All right, Sean, you're on KFI?
Speaker 16 (25:09):
Are you ding dong? I'm good?
Speaker 2 (25:11):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Sorry for the last caller?
Speaker 16 (25:13):
Okay, that was my first concert that I had gone to.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Oh really, if you yes?
Speaker 16 (25:19):
And if back then it was the national pastime was streaking.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Oh that's right.
Speaker 16 (25:24):
Yeah, we're doing public treating. And so they were, you know,
as slow as they went through all the crowded people.
There was people streaking all over the place there.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
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,
oh yeah. There was unbelievable trafficking and we didn't care.
We did that great time the striking.
Speaker 16 (25:50):
Since it was festival seating, it was uh 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.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
It was a one day event though, as I remember right,
it wasn't two days.
Speaker 16 (26:03):
There's a one day event.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Yeah. I think it was on a Saturday or was
it a Sunday?
Speaker 14 (26:08):
I can't remember.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Yea.
Speaker 16 (26:09):
But the story about the milk jugs, it's true. It
got you know, it got so hot there there are
people getting the hydro's slip past all his water and
you know about time ever slick of powers on. There's
so many of them flying through there, it looked like
it was white Christmas.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
That's wild.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
Man.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Appreciate the phone call, thanks dude.
Speaker 10 (26:27):
Saturday was Saturday?
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Okay, all right, Saturday, Steph was What year were you born?
Eighty eight? 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, So
that's great man. All right, you got any we got
one more call here, wanted to get on.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Ray you there, I'm here.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Hey another concert goer. Huh cal Jam nineteen seventy four.
Speaker 6 (26:54):
Oh yeah, man, Yeah, First of all, to your dad
for sure you you you're right anyway?
Speaker 1 (27:01):
I was there, Yeah, that was some deal. Did you
get there early? Did you get caught up in all
that traffic and the craziness?
Speaker 6 (27:05):
Well, you know what I did, timause I lived at Sandmas.
Speaker 16 (27:08):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (27:08):
My mom never let me go anywhere, but I you know,
dad left us, so I snuck out, put my son out.
One of my friend, Brian Jackson. The hitchot 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 believe, Like had a step up over
(27:29):
a lot of you know, people that were passed out
and stuff. I saw ELP, I saw Black Sabbath and Aerosmith. Yeah,
it was cool.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
You imagine how many albums they sold from that concert.
There's two hundred and fifty thousand people there and everybody
had dough. Unbelievable, it was.
Speaker 9 (27:45):
It was the largest concert for paid attendance really like
Wo's Well no, at the time, I said Woodstock was bigger.
You know people there, right, but for paid people there.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
It was this that's wild, all right, right, thank you man,
great call, great memories. Will do it again. I don't
know what something else, like a Genie Town or Kitty
Town next. What was that carnival for kids man, kitty Land?
I think it was. Yeah. Conway Show on demand on
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(28:18):
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Bring up watching the Tonight Show and you take your
for Carson and then for you to be sitting here
right now, it's unbelievable. Well, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
It shows you how much I've fallenieable.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
One day you're on top. Next day, Look fil A
out of the window.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Yeah, that's right, it's a Chick fil A out the window.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
That's right. Let's talk about favorite restaurant, your favorite, your
Italian favorite, and you also cook.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Well, there uhould be a great one uh on on Magnolia.
It's across the street from Pinocchios. Is very I like pa.
Oh the guy across the street was great. Oh, my
God was good. And he he got fed up with something.
But but that was fir. I'll tell you a funny story.
Somebody in my crew goes to Italy and they go
(00:55):
to Fumari, which is the village where my grandfather came from.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
So they go.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Jay when we're in from Mari, and everybody there looks
like you, I know, that's where my grandfather came from.
They came from America. Okay, my grandfather born in eighteen
fifty seven. Wow, okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
So I am okay so uh.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
He meets the mayor, so he bites the mayor when
you're in America, come to the tonight. Six months later, Jay,
the mayor from what the mayor and the mayor comes
in after the show. He looks like Italian Mary. He's
got the little hat that's too small for his head
to suit.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
The buttons are too far party because he's more in
a too late kind of fan.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
He goes, he's Aleno and the mayor of from Ari
with your grandfather.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Wan.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Nice to meet you, say, because listen, we want to
build a statue of you and your grandfather to put
in a town square. I said, you know, I'm not
really a statue. No, No, you toomorrow is from my
humble beginnings. Your grandfather, his grandson becomes a huge starter
to our village. You would meet so much to have
the statue of you and your grandfather in our town square.
(01:57):
He says, will you give a pmision? I said, well,
all right, yes, thank you. He goes, yes, good. Now
the basic statue is this seventy five thousand dollars if
you want to be on the hill looking down it's
you know, yeah, I said, I don't really know. I
believe that I mean something.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
I has to pay for it. I know, I understand.
I said, I appreciate it. It couldn't be the most
Italian thing. Oh yeah, oh yeah, just hilarious. God, wait,
your grandfather was born before the Civil War or the
Civil War?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Woh that is that I got in nineteen fifty seven.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Yeah, it's almost one hundred years older.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Man.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
My dad was born in nineteen ten. Yeah. Wow, you
know what that's that's great jeans. You're gonna be around
a long time. Well, we'll see. You know, I was
talking about you know, you had a great line we
were talking about during the commercial break. If you you
know a lot of people have these CATLLITCIC converters stolen
off their car. And if you take it off your
(02:58):
own car, well, this is what it's a problem.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
It's a federal offense because it's a government mandate. You know,
So you take catileca, it's a ten thousand dollars fine
to mess with the emission system on your car.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Ten thousand dollars fine if you do it. If you
do it, yes, but.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
If your catalytic converter is stolen by a thief, it's
a misdemeanor. Film like, so you you would actually what
you usually do is hire a thief to take your
catle co converter.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Off, right, And what do they get the guy that
steals the catalytic converter, they're three thousand dollars to replace.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
You know. I had a friend of mine. You just
need all these CD people when you're in show business.
And this guy used to steal cars and he would say,
what do you think you get for stole Mercedes something
a thousand, ten thousand, no, seventy five bucks?
Speaker 1 (03:42):
What? Yeah? And he said I had to steal two
or three a night to make enough money, you know.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
And then they sell it to a shop shop and
he sells a fore every piece of the car's gone
you And that's that's what it is.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
That's what it is. It's hard to sell nowadays because
they're all numbers.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Yeah, and catalytic converter is also it's illegal to sell them,
so you got it sell them as someone who knows
he's buying. So he's committing a crime by buying it
from you, so he's not going to pay you anything
for it.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Yeah, yeah, it's it's a terrible thing. But you know,
up until recently, fire engines didn't have the Cadillac conversion.
Now they all do. What's the what's the advantage of
not having.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Well, in the old days, when emissions was not as
computer oriented as is now and they couldn't regulate it
quite as well, if you took the catalytic converter off
your car, your engine ran better because it ran a
little cooler. Uh, you know, didn't have to be quite
so lean, so you got better mileage and more power.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Fire engines have to perform at a certain standard, so
they were exempt for years until they came up with
modern more mind modern fire engines, the more up to
date equipment, you know. So now now they all have
Catallac convert even motorcycles.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Is your garage in la or in the valley? It's
in Burbank Burbank Airport. Yeah, oh I knew the airport. Okay.
Do you have somebody maintained for you and somebody keeps
it clean? Well, I have people who work there. I
keep it clean. You know you're there? Are you there
every day? I'm there every day?
Speaker 5 (05:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Really, Yeah, it's my Meliboo beach out. I heard you
never sell one of those cars, you only give them away. Well, no, no,
I don't like to selling. No, I like I call Michel. Yeah,
I have a Michael. Is the whole garage and everything
expensive to ensure it's gotta be duh. Yeah, like hundreds
of thousands of dollars. Yeah, that's probably correct. Yeah, but
that's fair to say you never sell a car. No, no,
(05:25):
I just like you ever buy him anymore. Yeah, you're
still buying cars, you know something. I watch horders and go.
I don't see the problem. I mean there's still a
path to the bedroom. Look, you can get the guy
can get into the bathroom. Look you just go around
to the.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Thing, you know.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Yeah, No, I don't know. You have electric cars. I
do have an electric. I got a nineteen oh nine
Baker Electric.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
I got a nineteen fteen to try elect They had
electric before you had gas. In fact, the year nineteen
oh seven eight nine, a third of the cars were steam,
a third were electric, and a third were gas. And
there was a battle which one was going to win.
And we're kind of go on through that now. I
think the next big player is going to be hydrogen.
That'll be the next one to come.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
I didn't know this until recently. I was watching YouTuber TikTok,
where I go all my information from. But the Brownstones
in Manhattan were built up three or four feet and
you had stairs because when they were built, the streets
were all filled with horse crap, that's right, and people
were tired of that.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
That's where there were dashboard comes. Dash was another word
for manure. Oh, So they would put a board in front,
so when the horses kicked up manure, it would hit
the board, it would hit the dashboard.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Yeah. So then then then cars came on, and then
you had an engine in front. Now the dashboard obviously
just holds the gauges right.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
And as you said, I think last time you were
on there was it was a great trade off from
you know, the horses filled with you know, horse crap,
and the alternative was a puff of blue smoke. That's right.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
I mean that seemed like, oh, this is so much
better than having six tons of manure in your sixty
tons of manure every day in New York City.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Do you remember your dad probably did this, maybe your grandfather.
My grandfather used to do this in Cleveland when he
would go to change the oil in his car, he'd
put two tires up on the curb and then undo
the this you know, the screw there this, you know,
the spiggot or whatever old the oil and then the
oil goes right into the gutter. Yeah. Yeah, it goes
back to the earth where it came from.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Yeah, yeah, that's what we were saying. It goes right back.
That's the beauty of it goes back to the earth.
Speaker 7 (07:22):
You see.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
It's a recycling Yeah. Yeah, all right, Jay, thank you,
back your guys. Thank you to having on Johnmen.
Speaker 8 (07:29):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from kf
I AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Cal Jam Festival nineteen seventy four. It's three hours long.
But felly, what bands were there? And there was at
the Ontario Speedway. It was a huge weekend. I think
it was all weekend, one hundred and ten people. Yeah,
hel Jam. Do you remember that?
Speaker 7 (07:53):
No?
Speaker 1 (07:53):
I don't.
Speaker 9 (07:54):
It was before my time, but I remember about it.
Speaker 10 (07:57):
It said two hundred and fifty thousand, Yeah tickets soul whoa,
because where's this thing? I was saying?
Speaker 11 (08:06):
You know, woodstock, a lot of people showed up without paying.
Oh my god, concert people actually paid.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Yeah, well it's California.
Speaker 10 (08:14):
And do you remember the price of your ticket.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
At the time. I didn't go, you know, cause that
was eleven when it happened. But I just remember I had, like,
you know, my dad's friends went. You know, they were
probably in their thirties. But how much were a tickets?
Probably done on twenty five dollars.
Speaker 10 (08:32):
The price was ten dollars in advance or fifteen at
the gate.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
That's wild and whoever the bands are there?
Speaker 11 (08:39):
So so it was co headlined by Deep Purple and
Emerson Lake and Palmer Wow. So you had Earth Wind
and Fire, Eagles, Seals and Cross Black Oak Arkansas. And
I think it was emceed by Don iMOS.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Oh that's kind of cool. Yeah, a young don iMOS. Yeah,
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's that's incredible. First of all,
that they even had it on video or filmed. It
(09:20):
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 I'll bet you.
I bet we have listeners that have that went to
(09:42):
cal Jam. I'm going to open up the phones here
and see if we do. If anybody out there, we
may not give 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
and fifty thousand people that attended this thing. Calls here
(10:03):
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 were 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 queludes, I don't know. Maybe
a guy was you know, had a dime bag blown,
(10:25):
a little dime bag, maybe a little ti stick, some shake.
I don't know, right, I don't know what kind of
people showed up, But if you went to the Caljam
concert nineteen seventy four, Ontario Speedway, I think they'd 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
(10:46):
was a really cool time where you know, in the
late sixties early seventies in LA and southern California, it
was a really cool vibe.
Speaker 9 (10:55):
I've watched the earth wind fire behinds there. Oh from
Caljam is that right? It's Verdein does an unbelievable bass solo,
which you don't see bases do that.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
But actually life although no that you know what the
Eagles back then probably didn't.
Speaker 9 (11:10):
This is an order of appearance. The Eagles were the
third behind. They were after Rare Earth and Earth went
in fire, and then.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
It was the Eagles. Okay, all right.
Speaker 9 (11:18):
Steve Purple was like next to last. Let's see if
I can find the Eagles Black Sabbath. They were like
the biggest band. Right then, Let's talk to Andy here.
You're on KFI. Were you at at this cow?
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Jam?
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Was there?
Speaker 12 (11:29):
Buddy?
Speaker 3 (11:30):
I tell you what.
Speaker 5 (11:31):
They had the band set up by like rail cars
and they just moved them across.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Oh that's great. How old are you now?
Speaker 5 (11:39):
I'm sixty six.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Okay, so you're you were young, you were a young
teenager when you went.
Speaker 12 (11:44):
I was eighteen.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Man, Okay, that's great, man. You know, I thought it
was I thought it was, you know, dreaming that, you know,
did this thing happen. 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 give me boy, Hey,
what's up, Bob?
Speaker 3 (12:04):
How are you doing?
Speaker 1 (12:05):
You were there?
Speaker 13 (12:06):
Yes, sir?
Speaker 14 (12:07):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (12:07):
How old are you now? Seventies, sixties, sixty one? For
sixty one? Man, you were young, dude.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
I had a blas Yeah, I was in high school.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Who'd you go with? You would go with your parents
or friends.
Speaker 12 (12:20):
With some buddy.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
We said, let's do it. It was a nightmare to
get you there, It like forever anywhere you were.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Oh yeah, oh you know what to get there. I'm
glad you said that. 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 3 (12:37):
It was like standstills, just moving barely.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
I remember that. 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 3 (12:47):
Yees, sir, Yeah, it was crazy, dude.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
You remember paying ten bucks to get in?
Speaker 3 (12:51):
You know, I didn't even I just do. I think
we had tickets are ready, so we we we were in.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
But it was right, all right, buddy, thanks for calling.
Let's talk to Doug here. You're on KFI. Were you there, dude?
Speaker 12 (13:03):
Yes, Tim, I grew up ten minutes from Ontario Motor Speedway.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Wow. 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 12 (13:16):
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 drove over to
the speedway on four Street, and he drove us around
the speedway from four Street to Haven to Milliken with
(13:38):
the sliding door open, and we could hear the band.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
That's wild. It's amazing how you remember stuff like that. Huh.
Speaker 12 (13:46):
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 past to part. I'll take twenty,
take thirty, come on apart. You know I made a
killing a killing.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Yeh, that is great, all right, but I really appreciate
the phone call. We'll take some more phone calls here.
I think this is great. These guys were all there
at cal Jam nineteen seventy four, and there was cal
Jam two. I don't think it was as successful. I
think they had a lot of problems with cal Jam
two because the neighbors after a while are like, Nah,
this is not gonna happen every year. You're not going
to bring all these lunatics in here every single year.
(14:25):
There's a great story about that Deep Purple's appearance on
cal Jam. Oh cool, all 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 8 (14:38):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
But I love the guys were there for this thing.
Speaker 9 (14:48):
Oh, by the way, so the Deep Purple story, 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.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Oh that's excellent.
Speaker 9 (15:10):
Yeah, but the concert was running kind of early, so
they refused to go on until dusk.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Big people sat there for like an hour. Wow.
Speaker 9 (15:17):
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
got into a fight with the cameraman or something like that.
And then there was some py technics that happened in
which was the fire that you saw. The stage caught fire,
and as as soon as they were done, they got
in a helicopter and bolted out of there because they
were afraid of bitting caught by the Ontario Fire Marshal.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Wow, that's awesome. Let's talk to it. Charlie here, you're
on KFI. How you I'm good?
Speaker 12 (15:45):
How are you all right?
Speaker 1 (15:46):
You were at this thing, h dude.
Speaker 15 (15:48):
Yeah, So me and and about a half a dozen
of us lived about fifty miles away, and I was
in the eighth grade. 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 (16:06):
Yeah, but you could clearly have heard that concert outside
the speedway as well.
Speaker 12 (16:10):
Oh yeah, no, no doubt.
Speaker 15 (16:12):
And we ended up hanging out. We ended up hanging
out by the by the paddy wagon. Ontario PD had
a big paddy wagon there, and then we were kicking
it and you can watch people come by and all
a sudden side that straight and there was and there
was a lot of bad tripping that.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Right, dude. That's a great story. Let's talk to a
Michael here. Michael, you're on KF five.
Speaker 14 (16:32):
Hey, Hey, hey, ding do y get dong.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Buddy, ding dong? How old were you there? How old
were you went there? When you went to the concert,
I was fourteen.
Speaker 14 (16:42):
I was fourteen years old, So 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 so you can just hear crashy.
I wonder if anybody could remember that. And then it
(17:05):
got so crazy they knocked down the fence and people
were giving tickets. Yeah, they jammed down the fence. I
wonder if any remembers that. And when yeah, and also
when Deep Purple came on, they're hanging out plastic gallon
jugs of water and people just start throwing them up
into the air like ping kong bo.
Speaker 13 (17:27):
No.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
I wasn't there, But was it hot? Was it hot
that they looked like everybody was shirtless?
Speaker 14 (17:31):
Okay, kick it out. It was hot. I laid down
on the hot grass and crossed 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 wallabies, they had like
dummy soles. Well they got they melted together and I couldn't.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
That's awesome, dude, that's a great story. Shoes are melting
at the concert. Uh, Gina, you're on KFI. How you you?
Speaker 6 (18:00):
Hello?
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Hey, Gina, Yeah, were you at the concert?
Speaker 15 (18:04):
Oh? Yes, sir.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Oh that's so cool. Do you remember don im.
Speaker 7 (18:08):
Was cal Jam? I was actually at cal Jam one
and two.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
All right.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
My brother said he confirmed this that don Imas was
the host of it.
Speaker 7 (18:16):
Huh yep, wow, man, I mean it was. It was
so cool. But it was general admission, so everybody was cramming.
Speaker 16 (18:24):
To get in sure, and it was just people were
taken off.
Speaker 7 (18:28):
It was so hot. People were taking off their clothes.
I was crammed up against a guy with no shirt on.
It was just madness. But it was great.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Do you remember a great time? Well, you were young,
so you probably didn't care. But do you remember the
nightmare traffic all day?
Speaker 9 (18:43):
No.
Speaker 7 (18:43):
I went with my girlfriend. I don't even know how
we got there. I don't remember because neither one of
us could drive.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
We probably, Oh, that's awesome, we probably.
Speaker 14 (18:51):
Caught a ride.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
But I love the fact.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
At the time.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
I love the fact that you're fourteen and your mom
and and you said to your mom and dad, I'm
going to a concert with two undred fifty thousand people,
and they're like, have a good time.
Speaker 7 (19:02):
Exactly right.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
I would never do that, Okay, I would never do that.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
I would not.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Allow my sixteen year old to go to that concert
for if my life depends on girl, Yeah, ding dong.
All right, Gina, thanks for phoning. That's that's really cool.
Let's talk to Michelle here. You're on KFI.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
Hi Kim.
Speaker 7 (19:18):
Oh my gosh. I'm so glad you're talking about this.
I love your show. I've listened from the beginning every night.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Thank hold on, yes, oh I love you guys.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
Listen.
Speaker 7 (19:25):
I was at cal jam 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 playing with March seventeenth, Saint
Patrick's Day, ninety seventy eight.
Speaker 16 (19:42):
I just turned sixteen.
Speaker 7 (19:43):
I'm working. I look at my line, Busy Frey, there's
all my friends in my line. Michelle, tell you boss
that I'm going to cal jam too.
Speaker 16 (19:49):
I go, okay, hold on, I go.
Speaker 7 (19:50):
To my boss and go listen to my Grandma's dying.
Got to go to listen, and he goes, I'm fine
of the concert.
Speaker 14 (19:54):
You're fired. I go, no problem.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Wow wait wait, so here we go.
Speaker 7 (19:58):
Now two of the guys I'm trend make a quick
are our governors 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.
Speaker 13 (20:09):
You got that.
Speaker 7 (20:09):
You wouldn't believed it on the ten Friday night.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Here's what you did.
Speaker 7 (20:13):
You drove about twenty feet. Then you sat for like
twenty minutes. So we all got out roll teenagers. We
all got out of the cars. Okay, hey, what do you
guys die? Okay, we'll get in your vent. Sure, let's
do that together. Okay, now it's drug, that's not sack. Okay,
so let's do this Hong Kong. Every back of your
cars were moving.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Oh that's so great. Yeah yeah, but that was part
of that was part of the thrill. You know, that's
part of the event.
Speaker 7 (20:34):
My god, it was gonna say. No, I want to
say about teen Nisian, who I was not a fan of,
but he was like the best performance my helicopter.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Oh that is great. I gotta put you on here.
We gotta take a break. But man, that is so cool.
I can't believe how many people in the audience actually
went to this cow Jam in nineteen seventy four. This
is the end of the Eagles. The Eagles are wrapping
up here at cal Jam. Two hundred and fifty thousand people.
Speaker 8 (20:59):
Yeah, you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from
kf I am six forty.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
From this cal Jam. All the people who went there,
they're you know, I'm 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
(21:29):
went to the concert. Let's say, we've got three or
four more callers here. People just want to talk about
this Mark is it Martini?
Speaker 14 (21:37):
Yes it is.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Hey, you're on KUY How are you good?
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Good? Thank you?
Speaker 12 (21:41):
I was there.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
But before I tell it a little funny story, I
was gonna say Lucky Man with Peverson, Lake and Palmer's
the song of the Listed. That was a hot song. Anyway,
what happened was when I went there, we went one
of the group of guys, and the group of guys
decided to buy our drugs there, okay, and we all
we all a little bit of uh ash it I
(22:02):
guess they call it, and we all got high. That's
not the footing part, 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 have the pot called us
out and told us that it wasn't pot. It was
just weeds from someone's backyard. So we were so high,
(22:25):
and all day we were the rest of the contract
and we're smoking, you know, big and we're smoked as
a good pot. Of course, by saying it's a big lid,
it wasn't like it is today. That cousin, hey man,
he said, you do pretty high. I said, well, I know,
something got He said, well, it's it was something from it.
It's just weeds where someone's backyard.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Do you remember the term do you remember the term
tie stick?
Speaker 5 (22:44):
Yeah? All those things you mentioned brought back memories. I'm
not memories, but to me is the way is the
way pot is done now, you know, I mean then
you have to shove down the pants because you know,
you all sweat, and now now you just walk around
and I'm you know, smoking them.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
No part of that.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
You can do whatever you want now. But I remember
they had they had dimebag, 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 5 (23:14):
It was just something I believe.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Yeah right, yeah, that's wild.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
So that's how old you know? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (23:21):
How old are you now?
Speaker 12 (23:23):
I'm sixty two.
Speaker 5 (23:25):
I was fourteen dead.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Okay, that's great. That's awesome.
Speaker 5 (23:28):
By the way, that was the one, the one and
only time I did aid, So I get it.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
You have to explain to anybody. All right, Martini, thanks
for calling. Let's talk to William and you're on K five.
Speaker 13 (23:40):
So Timmy, it was a ding dong affair, definitely.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Damn It sounds like a event.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
Oh yeah, I was. I just graduated from high school.
I'm a third generation aided 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 Country. Wow,
(24:13):
I have been so tim I've been. I'm sixty five.
I've been sober twenty nine years, clean and sober.
Speaker 12 (24:20):
I earned Wait wait, wait.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Hold on, hold him on secon Yes, uh, Crouzer's name
is William. How'd you know that?
Speaker 7 (24:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 13 (24:30):
Everybody knows lam.
Speaker 12 (24:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (24:32):
Uh so.
Speaker 13 (24:33):
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 timeless hold on.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Hey, yeah, I had to dump that. 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. All right,
I didn't see I'm on coming out. I didn't see
(25:04):
it coming at home.
Speaker 12 (25:05):
William?
Speaker 1 (25:06):
All right, Sean, you're on KFI?
Speaker 16 (25:09):
Are you ding dong? I'm good?
Speaker 2 (25:11):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Sorry for the last caller?
Speaker 16 (25:13):
Okay, that was my first concert that I had gone to.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Oh really, if you yes?
Speaker 16 (25:19):
And if back then it was the national pastime was streaking.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Oh that's right.
Speaker 16 (25:24):
Yeah, we're doing public treating. And so they were, you know,
as slow as they went through all the crowded people.
There was people streaking all over the place there.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
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,
oh yeah. There was unbelievable trafficking and we didn't care.
We did that great time the striking.
Speaker 16 (25:50):
Since it was festival seating, it was uh 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.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
It was a one day event though, as I remember right,
it wasn't two days.
Speaker 16 (26:03):
There's a one day event.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Yeah. I think it was on a Saturday or was
it a Sunday?
Speaker 14 (26:08):
I can't remember.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Yea.
Speaker 16 (26:09):
But the story about the milk jugs, it's true. It
got you know, it got so hot there there are
people getting the hydro's slip past all his water and
you know about time ever slick of powers on. There's
so many of them flying through there, it looked like
it was white Christmas.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
That's wild.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
Man.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Appreciate the phone call, thanks dude.
Speaker 10 (26:27):
Saturday was Saturday?
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Okay, all right, Saturday, Steph was What year were you born?
Eighty eight? 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, So
that's great man. All right, you got any we got
one more call here, wanted to get on.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Ray you there, I'm here.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Hey another concert goer. Huh cal Jam nineteen seventy four.
Speaker 6 (26:54):
Oh yeah, man, Yeah, First of all, to your dad
for sure you you you're right anyway?
Speaker 1 (27:01):
I was there, Yeah, that was some deal. Did you
get there early? Did you get caught up in all
that traffic and the craziness?
Speaker 6 (27:05):
Well, you know what I did, timause I lived at Sandmas.
Speaker 16 (27:08):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (27:08):
My mom never let me go anywhere, but I you know,
dad left us, so I snuck out, put my son out.
One of my friend, Brian Jackson. The hitchot 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 believe, Like had a step up over
(27:29):
a lot of you know, people that were passed out
and stuff. I saw ELP, I saw Black Sabbath and Aerosmith. Yeah,
it was cool.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
You imagine how many albums they sold from that concert.
There's two hundred and fifty thousand people there and everybody
had dough. Unbelievable, it was.
Speaker 9 (27:45):
It was the largest concert for paid attendance really like
Wo's Well no, at the time, I said Woodstock was bigger.
You know people there, right, but for paid people there.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
It was this that's wild, all right, right, thank you man,
great call, great memories. Will do it again. I don't
know what something else, like a Genie Town or Kitty
Town next. What was that carnival for kids man, kitty Land?
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