Sunday, April 22, 2012

It's A Beautiful Day - 1978 Berkeley, CA

It's A Beautiful Day - 1978 Berkeley, CA

It's a beautiful day - 1978-10-01 - Berkeley, CA It's A Beautiful Day created a unique blend of rock, jazz, folk, classical and world beat styles during the seven years the band was officially together (1967-1974). The band's debut album, It's a Beautiful Day, was produced by David LaFlamme in Los Angeles and released by Columbia Records in 1969. It featured tracks such as "White Bird", "Hot Summer Day", "Bombay Calling" and "Time Is" (all four of them featured in this concert). The theme from the song "Bombay Calling" was later used, at a slower tempo, by Deep Purple as the intro to "Child in Time" on its In Rock album. In memory of Patty Santos, the original vocalist of the band who was killed at a car accident in 1989. David LaFlamme, violin & vocals Val Fuentes, drums Linda Baker LaFlamme, vocals Mitchel Holman , bass Gary Thomas, keyboards Hal Wagenet, guitar Michael Prichard, percussion 01 - Intro 3:31 02 - Wasted Union Blues 6:55 03 - Hot Summer Day 5:35 04 - Bombay C! alling 7:03 05 - Bulgaria 5:43 06 - Time Is 9:58 07 - White Bird 11:13 08 - Don & Dewey 7:47 It's a Beautiful Day war eine US-amerikanische Rockband, die 1967 von David LaFlamme in San Francisco gegründet wurde. Außerdem mit von der Partie waren LaFlammes erste Ehefrau Linda LaFlamme, Hal Wagenet, Mitchell Holman, Pattie Santos und Val Fuentes. Interessant war für damalige Verhältnisse besonders, dass von Bandleader LaFlamme eine elektronisch verstärkte Violine als tragendes Melodieinstrument benutzt ...





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