Chords for California Jam 1974 - INTRO

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On February _ 17th, 1974, an ad appeared in Southern California newspapers announcing
California [Bbm] Jam, a 12 [Ab]-hour rock concert to be held at the Ontario Motor Speedway,
located [Ab] 50 miles by freeway [Bbm] from Los Angeles.
Several weeks before the event,
[Ebm] the anticipated audience was expected to exceed [Bbm] 100,000 people.
A stage large
enough to support the many tons of equipment and personnel of eight major
[Bb] rock groups had to be built from 500 sections [Bb] of scaffolding and covered with
23,000 square feet of plywood.
To support a 54 [F],000 watt sound system capable of
covering a square mile, four sound towers were erected to a total height of 15
stories. _ _
_ To move all the stage equipment around, sections of the stage were built
over 600 feet of railroad track.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ A million watts of power were generated to
light up everything from the stage to the parking lot. _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [Ab] 6,000 feet [Eb] of temporary
fence, a million and a half gallons of water, first aid centers, 1,500 employees,
artists, stagehands, ticket takers, security people, hot dog sellers, all
[Ab] coming together to have everything ready for the morning of April 6th.
It sure is going to be one fine day [D] for a rock and roll show.
945 on a beautiful, slightly
smoggy [Ebm] California Jam [D] morning.
Temperature is expected to reach 85
degrees today.
Right now it's a crisp 55.
We'll be [Ebm] broadcasting to you all day
from backstage [Eb] here at the Ontario [D] Motor Speedway.
Right now [Eb] about 150 [D],000
people are here with even more still pouring in.
If you're on the San
Bernardino freeway and caught in traffic, our best advice to you is take a big deep
breath, relax, get off the freeway and find an alternative route to get here, a
non-freeway method to [Eb] arrive at the Jam.
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_ _ _ _ [Am] In concert, [A]
proudly presents California Jetty.
[E] Starring in order of appearance,
seals and crocs, _ [Bm] balloons, [C] _ _ _ rare earth, [F] _
flying people, _ _ [N] earth, wind and [D] fire, flying
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_ eagles, talking monkeys, _
[C] _ _ Black Oak, Arkansas, mellow drama, _ _ _ [A] black savage,
_ [Gbm] interviews, one [G] last word, _ [A] California _ sunsets.
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And [C] there's more, deep purple, _
[D] explosions, _ _ [G] _ _ _
[A] lighting effects, _ [C] _ _ _ _
[D] Emerson Lake at Palmer [F] and tonight [Cm] only, special [A] guest
appearance, the [C] amazing flying [A] piano, _ plus [F] a lavish display [D] of [A] fireworks.
All this and _ 200,000 music lovers. _
[F] California Jetty, we'll be right back. _ _
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