Black Sabbath_Motor Speedway - Ontario, CA  (Complete Set) 1974-04-06



This is a First Generation copy of a Reel to Reel Soundboard recorded

with microphones placed at the stage amps. The equipment is unknown.

This is NOT from the TV Broadcast or from a soundboard that the band may

possess. It is an independant soundboard. I received this in early 1977.



After further investigation, the Black Sabbath release was not official,

but a bootleg release. I have never heard this bootleg but it could have

been sourced from this tape which I believe I did circulate to a few people.

I also noticed the unoffical copy had the the drum solo broken into two parts.

This is where the tape flip occured on my copy. Anybody who knows, please let

me know.



Lineage: Reel to Reel Soundboard > TDK-SA C90 >Tascam 302 > Sony PCM M-10

at 96/24 Wave files > Audacityfor volume adjustment > CD Wave Editor

V. 1.98 for tracking > 96/24and converted to FLAC using Trader's Little

Helper V2.8.3.182. Tape and conversion and editing by Michael Cariola.



01_Tommorow's Dream (3:04)

02_Sweet Leaf (6:04)

03_Killing Yourself to Live (6:15)

04_War Pigs (8:05)

05_Snowblind (5:30)

06_Sabbra Cadabra (Part 1) (18:21)

07_Supernaut (2:09)

08_Iron Man (5:41)

09_Orchid (3:34)

10_Sabbra Cadabra (Part 2) (5:01)

11_Paranoid (3:18)



Encore:



12_Audience anticipation (1:36)

13_Children of the Grave (5:29)



Total Time: (74:07)





Band:

OZZY - VOCALS

TONY IOMMI - GUITAR

BILL WARD - DRUMS

GEEZER BUTLER - BASS





The Story of this Recording:



In early 1977, I was contacted by a Southern California tape

trader who answered one of my AD's in Trouser Press magazine.

That person did not have anything to trade except the Cal Jam

show from 1974 (which I attended). He had taped all the bands

on a Reel to Reel recorder and separate michrophones he had set

up on the stage. He must have had a small mixer as well as the

recordings picked up all that was played. There is no audience

noise except when the band asked the crowd to make noise (which

was very muted). The only band not recorded was ELP because he

loaded the reel to reel tape upside down and nothing was recorded.

He sent me the remaining bands on TDK-SA cassette tapes.

Unfortunately, the recordings of Seals & Croft, Black Oak Arkansas

& The Eagles were probably used for blank tapes as these band were

not important to me at the time (Alan could shoot me for that).

The recording of Rare Earth and Earth, Wind and Fire were transfered

to a TDK-D cassette as I needed the SA tape for other recordings.

In spite of that, they still sound great.



Memories of the Event:



I attended the show with my friend Kevin and another fellow who drove

us to the event. The decision to go was made around midnight and with

about 4 hours sleep, we left from San Diego. Tickets were $10 or $15

on the day of the event. I ended up getting my ticket for $10 on the

day of the show. The ticket belonged to the seller's girlfriend who was

in jail. While waiting in line, we heard Rare Earth starting their set.

When we finally made it to a position several hundred feet in front of the

center right PA. We found someone selling an ounce of hash for $10, so we

splitthat between us all. Around the time Black Oak Arkansas started their

set,it was time for a restroom break. The porta-poty's were placed along

the sides of the event field. In order to find my way back to my friends, I

needed to triangulate our area. Most people had blankets set out with flag

poles similar to a day at the beach. I memorized the flags, and left. It took

the entire Black Oak set to get back to my general location. I found my position

between the three flags and slowly scanned the ground all around me for maybe

5 to 7 minutes without finding my friends. As I was still looking, I felt Kevin

tug on my pant leg and say "Arn't you going to sit down?". I hit the exact spot

with a quater million people all around me! Amazing. It was a really hot day and

the event organizers handed out empty 1 gallon plastic jugs with the handle at

the side (similar to milk containers). Everyone needed to fill them with water

to keep hydrated. After Black Sabbath's set was over, there was a long delay

before Deep Purple took the stage. The sun was setting so without the need for

water anymore, the crowd started tossing the semi-filled water containers in the

air. This sprayed the water everywhere and watching this from the distance, the

containers all reached about the same height. Then someone came on the PA and

stated, that the show would be cancelled unless everyone stopped throwing the

containers in the air. ELP played last. I had seen them only 6 weeks earlier in

San Diego so I new the set they would play. So when the main set was done but not

the encore, our group headed to fence in front of the stage. Most people were

leaving at that point so it was pretty easy to get within arms reach of the fence.

We needed to look upwards from that position to see the band. At the end we managed

to find the car and make our way back to San Diego. What a show!!!



The scanned ticket stub is pieced together from two differant halves picked up after

the show. The scan was made on the best scanner  at the time in 2001 before I sent

my origional to Allen who runs the Cal Jam web site.