AVB
Jesus of Cool, I'm bad, I'm nationwide
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Cal Jam 1 Part 2
I have to apologize for the Deep Purple story above that I have believed for almost 50 years. I just found Richie Blackmore's version of the events and I can see how my alcohol/substance fueled mind could have misinterpreted the event in front of me.
I turns out that there was a fake Marshall stack with stage explosives in it. Richie had a fuel soaked rag at the end of a cheap sacrificial guitar that he lit at the time he threw it at the Marshall stack. From my vantage point it looked like it went right into the camera when it really went to the side of the camera, hit the stack causing it to explode almost instantaneously. What happened on the TV end was that the camera overloaded which caused the burst of light and the shut down. I never would have known the truth if I didn't tell the story here and looked into it again. mea culpa.
I have to apologize for the Deep Purple story above that I have believed for almost 50 years. I just found Richie Blackmore's version of the events and I can see how my alcohol/substance fueled mind could have misinterpreted the event in front of me.
I turns out that there was a fake Marshall stack with stage explosives in it. Richie had a fuel soaked rag at the end of a cheap sacrificial guitar that he lit at the time he threw it at the Marshall stack. From my vantage point it looked like it went right into the camera when it really went to the side of the camera, hit the stack causing it to explode almost instantaneously. What happened on the TV end was that the camera overloaded which caused the burst of light and the shut down. I never would have known the truth if I didn't tell the story here and looked into it again. mea culpa.