I saw Beautiful Day, The Greatful Dead, John Mayall, and Quicksilver all in concert billed as The Six Hour Concertbin San Antonio,Tx in 1971. I was 15 yrs old and it was my first concert! A great seat cost $2.00!!!(yes two dollars) and the concert ran over 8 hrs!!! Beautiful Day was FABULOUS!! I will never forget that moment in time.
Sorry to hear of Davids passing. May 2005 David gave me one of his violins, autographed to me, that is in my music room. I mentioned that I wanted to take up the violin again since it had been my first instrument as a child. He indulged me. Great guy. EJ Bisiar
Fabulous performance by a truly wonderful band. On this occasion they were opening for The Who and Jethro Tull, in a special Fillmore at Tanglewood gig arranged by Bill Graham. Tickets started at $4 for lawn seating, and sheltered seating in "the shed" ranged from five bucks to a top price of a staggering SEVEN DOLLARS. Can you just imagine seeing those three acts in premium seating for what would amount to about $55 in 2023? RIP David LaFlamme and Pattie Santos 💞
INCREDIBLE! My dad always told me he and my godmother Linda were in this band, yet this is the first time I'm watching a show from their era. He said they split off into a band called Titus's Brother as well, I think after someone died...THANK YOU FOR POSTING! The solos in this performance are face-melters!!! The violin adds something with that organ, damn, it really is beautiful.
I was lucky enough to catch them in July 1969 at the Fillmore west .Not a seat in the house.The Fillmore east was a converted movie theatre.Both places great concerts and memories.love this band.
I've loved this band since 1969. To me they were THE psychedelic band and were better than any of the other SF bands at the time. Incredible musicianship!
@@TheGravygun He was fine. I can think of only 2 San Francisco guitar players that were close to great 1) Jorna Kaukonen of Jeff Airplane although he never really showed his chops until Hot Tuna and 2) John Cipollina of Quicksilver MS. Please don't say Jerry Garcia.
This show is an absolute Masterpiece!! None of these musicians skipped a beat, and I would say that this live performance is better than the studio recordings. And wow, it's been 50 years!!
Love this band - The beautiful day album was the soundtrack to my first couple of trips ...a journey that has led me to so many good times , good people , and amazing music ...
it's amazing how hard these bands from that time worked with a vocal cacophany that sometimes goes out of control but is glorius in its attempt to reach the heights.
in my humble opinion this band was the best of the west coast movement in the late 6o´s and early 70´s which by the way was the best time of true good music. thanks for uploading this concert.
I saw them at North Texas University in 1972. They completely blew me away. They were a great, original band. Patties' vocals were astounding. Plus she was freakin' hot!.
It is so great that this recording exists. I saw them live many times in the Bay Area and they were always tight. Linda, before she left, could melt her leslie speakers. (Fred Webb - I believe this is him playing here - was no lightweight either.) David could time his solo playing to the speed of the spinning speakers and push you back in your chair. I saw him do it at the University of Pacific stadium and people were putting their hands on the ground as if to stop themselves from spinning. Fine musicianship and consummate professionalism. David sat down with us on the ground at this gig and hung out - a cool easy going guy talking about getting back to the land.
I saw them at University of the Pacific too! Was it fall, 1968? I was a freshman in the conservatory. I had never heard anything lime it before. What a time!
@@lastnamefirst4035 ...Univ. of the Pacific is in Stockton, California, about an hour south of Sacramento and maybe an hour and a half due east of San Francisco. Bay area...great place to be in 1968.
Pattie was just 40(!) years of age when she passed away. Her sweet backing vocals blended perfectly with David LaFlamme's leads. Rest in peace, Pattie and David.
Was lucky enough to be turned on to this in my teens during the late 1980s...I was listening to thrash metal at the time but something about this album appealed to me...and Time is actually really a heavy tune. He really is the ultimate dude David isn't he!!!? Too cool for the world almost...almost.
It’s quite a long story, but I spent one night with Patti a few days before this show when It’s A Beautiful Day played an outside gig at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. She got me into the show thru the back gate where the musicians entered, I watched the show from backstage, and after the show, we went out for dinner and spent that night together. She was a great singer and a super nice young woman.
I've told friends literally for decades that I saw ABD, Jethro Tull and the Who on the same bill at Tanglewood and no one's believed me. So a very big THANK YOU. Now if I could only find video of the triple bill I saw in LA of Blue Cheer, Pink Floyd and the Jeff Beck Group. Still haven't come down from that one.
Hey, just remembered, I was at this Tanglewood concert too! A guy friend of mine at the time drove me up on the back of his motorcycle from North Adams, Mass when I was barely 17. Don't remember much of the concert cause I think I was stoned...
+edfou5 also saw Yes, Tull & The Who together in '71 @ The Warehouse in New Orleans, with all of them at the height of their powers, but never got to see IABD - & it's them who still knock me out much more than any of the others
Wow! I also saw Frank Zappa at Smith College, Northhampton, MA in 1967 when I was a mere 15 years old. Jetho Tull live concert, small venue, Boston??? Don't remember the year. Only remember my wine bag was confiscated while waiting in line. Ha ha on me.
The featuring vocalist is Pattie Santos along with violinist David LaFlammeand and his wife, Linda LaFlamme, on keyboards.... What a wonderful band and great sound at the time, and still today.
@Queenfinger i just read a little about them. Apparently Linda LaFlamme, the wife of David LaFlamme parted the group in the late 60-ties early seventies because she broke up with David and David LaFlamme married another woman also named Linda. The original Linda is now called Linda Neska? Correct me if I am wrong.
I can still remember your perfect concert in 69 at the University of Miami. The mikes were turned off because of regulations and we continued to jamb for 40 minutes. Everyone was in harmony, because that it is the way it should be. Thanks, John
I saw this band at the Rogue Theatre in Grants Pass, OR. I will never ever forget the fiddle. He was so freaking amazing that night. Thank you, Beautiful Day.
If one has ever had the opportunity to see this legendary band on a legendary stage such as the Fillmore, well, you would know that they rank among the TOP SEVEN bands of the era: the Dead, the Airplane, Quicksilver, Country Joe & the Fish, Big Brother with or without Janis, the Byrds, and IABD. Having seen all of them when I was a youngster and then on throughout my lifetime, I can tell you this is a real treat for an old codger like me.
Yes, what a lucky man you are ! More top west coast 60s: Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR), Buffalo Springfield, The Byrds, Crosby Stills Nash Young, The Doors. 😀✌💚
yeah my oldest brother turned me on to this great band in 1974. he just came back from Vietnam. we will always be thankful for there talents. i have seen probably 100 concerts. i sure would have loved to see them live but atleast i have the vinyl to listen to
Great recording of a truly great band! I just realized by the date of this, I had just seen them a couple days earlier, when they played the incredible Atlanta Pop Festival (out in the boonies, about 80 miles south of Atlanta). They were amazing...
Nice to hear these guys again after many years. Watched them play in San Diego, 1969 or 1970 fronting for Iron Butterfly. Thanks for putting this vid up for us 60s folks.
I have been horribly deprived. One of the greatest groups of the 60s slipped through my fingers. Not all my fault, since my first girlfriend loved "White Bird", so I avoided it at all costs. I have been in a psychological funk for the past 5 months, after learning that my most unfaithful first love had died. I do not know if I will get over that, ever. What I do know is that after learning of her death I approached "White Bird" as being evil incarnate. But I became obsessed, who knows, maybe to be closer to her. I listened, and listened, and even listened to other music by this group. The only thing I can say now is, WOW, It's a Beautiful Day is very near the top of the greatest acts to come out of the 60s.
+905if6was9 that's right...one of the great unsung acts to come out of that era...and one the finest that hailed from that Bay Area, later sixties, pop/rock/psych/folk vibe. And, trust your own mind, your own thoughts and emotions...they are, after all, the only ones that matter..the ones that are truly real because they are absolute and genuine.With that said, the hell with what anyone else says about your past and the difficulties that that experience carries along with you to this day. No one can say for anything that is worth any trusting bet to do this or that or to know what you are feeling. Though I will say this, to have emotions that linger and last forever is a sign that you lived once and experienced something very deep and very real...that is less important to characterize as a positive or negative as it is to understand from where you have been and how you have become who you are now. Be glad in it, it is yours and can not be changed, improved upon or taken away from you. Peace and gentle comfort to you!
Hello my friend. Interesting how a very few individuals have that strength of attraction, or strength of connection that will never let up. My long-ago girlfriend of decades ago, and my very dear father who died in 97; their influence is strong. I often wonder how my dad would deal with things I encounter every day. As for the girlfriend that very effectively orchestrated my undying love for her: I never wanted to see her again, as far back as 1980. I last saw her in 82. I never did want to see her again. I just liked that she was out there--somewhere. I liked this world way, way more with her in it.
It never goes away. Dreamed about the first one (well, the first one who really mattered) a couple of nights ago, and all that happened FORTY YEARS AGO. Read a memoir recently, and while the author had stocked up very diligently on his personal supply of Memoir Bullshit (an indispensable element of most memoirs), he said one thing perfectly: "I never got over it, but I did get past it." Try to get past it.
I bought the IABD LP with White Bird in 1970, I was living in Brighton and it was soooo beautiful,took some acid and played it for about eight hours,far out ! Never got to see the band,this is the first time I have seen them playing live. . . 2019, and I'm over seventy, but wow, Linda LaFlamme's legs are just magnificent ;-)
I was in Brighton in 70 too. Climbed into a packed clapped out van and ended up at the bath festival and saw evèryone and his dog play. This band is the one that stayed vividly in my memory. They literally removed the sky. Good acid in those daze too.
The sunsets come The sunsets go The clouds roll by And the earth turns old And the young bird's eyes Do always glow for the earth indeed turned very old but you remained the Whitebird in a golden cage alone RIP Pattie Santos
1st time I saw them Live they played between Hot Tuna and Jefferson Airplane in Anaheim, about this time. Spectacular show. They were really good every time. Marrying Maiden was a great album also. Hal Wegenet was always an interesting guitarist.
Went to a Jefferson Airplane concert at Swing Auditorium in San Bernardino in 1969 or 1970, It's a Beautiful Day opened and got at least three standing ovations. The Airplane did not even get one.
I had the singular privilege of recording a little flute in Hal's Willets, California recording studio around 1980 or 1981. I doubt I made much impression then... but I have a fond memory.
IABD was my favorite. Saw them back to back with original Allman Bros. Duane and Barry July, 1971. Sunshine inside and outside. I doubt I reached those peaks again. Both bands jammed magic!
Great sound. Hear a few licks similar to some quicksilver messenger service. Very good bassist. I was 13 in 1970 and just starting to hear music such as this
Man this is so awesome and probably cutting of rock back in 1970. Can you believe this, 1970? Grateful Dead, watch out. Aaaahhhhh, but they obviously didn’t have the staying power and the eclectic following like the Dead had, right. Awesome violin and the cute chick in the purple skirt….MORE COW BELL, Damnit!!!!!!!
And a really nice guy. Met him in 2006. I asked him about the movie Stomping Ground and how it showed the storm coming in at the beginning of his amazing solo and then quietly disperse at the end. He said that he remembered that he felt like Mickey Mouse in the Sorcerer's Apprentice. Lol. He still had the same drummer and guitarist and maybe bassist. Also his wife here was doing her thing. Valentine's Day 2006, @ Marilyn's (now defunct) Sacramento CA
@@sluwisch can u tell me about the movie stomping ground? Ive not heard of it. Also do u ever see IABD or Laflamme play in your area (sacramento) He sometimes plays w the Dinosaurs
Can't remember who was top billed at the concert at the Swing Auditorium in San Bernardino, CA. This band came out and blew me away, fogging the headline band out of my memory. Bought that iconic It's A Beautiful Day album the next day.
"Don and Dewey," 1950's R/B band with violinist Don "Sugarcane" Harris. Later played with John Mayall and Harvey Mandel. This song named after that band.
+WickedTornado Great story, & one I can easily relate to. I too loved that guitar in Bonanza. Was that Duane Eddy? About 10 years ago a local art boutique had an open house with a band playing outside, mostly middle-of-the -road stuff, but they did one of the coolest things I ever heard: at the end of playing the Bonanza theme, at the finale, when it goes up an octave, they segued to Zeppelin's Heartbreaker. Can you imagine how it'd go? It was pure genius!! Knocked me out!
I know how you feel, I was five at the time...I've always loved the music and ideals of this era. I was a Mama Cass fan by age 3, a Steppenwolf fan by age 8!
Wow, kinda having a flashback, since I had seen them just a few days previous to this recording! They performed at the Atlanta Pop Festival, held about 80 miles south of the city, and was like a Woodstock II, 300/400,000 people, everyone from Hendrix to Grand Funk, to Tull, BB King, Spirit, and yeah, It's a Beautiful Day tore it up, for all us trippin hippies, in the South!
I saw them at Atlanta, next act after Jimmi, it was late and we had been in the sun all day, got cool finally and we were getting burnt, and Jim came out and brought us back alive, and after his deal came a group we had never heard of. I have been a fan ever since.
Amazing. Harmonies of Pattie Santos and David LaFlamme were so great and original. Remind me a lot of Exene Cervenka and John Doe, though of course It's a Beautiful Day came way before X. The instrumental at 28:15 is "Don and Dewey" from the Marrying Maiden album. Always really loved that one.
I have just had the pleasure of sharing music from IABD and others . You see about 6 yrs ago I came so close to losing him And now music is one thing we share together Thanks for the great up load.
Six people in this band! Just an amazing show and an incredible artifact from a legendary era. I do have to wonder how these six musicians split up the $50 Bill Graham paid them after the show was over... .
Filmed during the tour for their second album, Marrying Maiden. Hoedown, The Dolphins, Don & Dewey and Soapstone Mountain all come from this album. Great stuff. I saw the LA leg of this tour when they opened for Leon Russell at Santa Monica Civic. They did almost the whole Marrying Maiden album including Let A Woman Flow and Essence Of Now (personal faves) and most of the first album. Where has this been all these years? Thanks much.
Wow, so you can now see the whole concert: It's A Beautiful Day opened, then Jethro Tull came on (whose entire set you can see here on YT), and the The Who closed out the day with a SPECTACULAR set (again, you can see their entire set here on YT)! A great day of music. Thank you, Bill Graham! We're STILL appreciating the bill you put together! 😃
Seeing It's a Beautiful Day live was like waking up from a nap after eating a few slices of pizza with mushrooms on a lazy summer Sunday afternoon. Beautiful, clear, comfortable yet ripping, tight and supersonic at all the right times. Wait, there was never any pizza. Who am I trying to kid?
it was fall of 1967 and I had landed a no pay job at the Mathew Bradys pike street ballroom as a sweeper so I could get into the shows for free , the opening act was pacific gas and electric which was pretty good . some people were sitting at a booth and I swept my way up and introduced my self , this was ta beautiful day who were largely uknown at the time , by the next spring the album was out and I was blown away , " hey I remember meeting these people"
I saw them around 1973 in Austin, TX. Was I hallucinating, or did I see Patti Santos playing the violin, and a fantastic lead guitarist whom I don't see here, doing White Bird?? Blew me away. Does anyone remember?
Saw them at the UMass football stadium in the summer of 1972. They were on the bill with Genya Ravan and Ten Wheel Drive. There was also this kid just starting out named Bruce Springsteen. I wonder whatever happened to him?
I HAVE ALWAYS SOOO LOVED ALL THE PRECIOUS FILM WE HAVE OF THIS BAND AND THESE SOOO PRECIOUS TIMES ! DITTO J. AIRPLANE, PENTANGLE AND WISH WE HAD MORE OF EQUALLY PRECIOUS SWEETWATER AND WHOEVER ELSE I'M MISSING.
+yarg54 me too - IABD, Tull, The Who - a memorable night - but I think the best song of the evening - was when I was outside waiting to get in - during the sound check - "Don and Dewey" - it sounded simply incredible - I couldn't wait to get in - and was blown away by all 3 bands - Happy Memories
