Was it happening at Filmore West back then or what! And if you could time travel back to that magical place and someone holds out a hand of purple berries and says "Turn On"! You got the ticked to ride on the magic bus on the hwy west.
Thank you, thank you, thank you....for posting this great link to the past! One of the comments mentions having this on 8-track at one time: I STILL have my 8-track, but am afraid to play it for fear of it "locking up". I also have this on a reel type tape (reel-to-reel, remember?). Anyway, even without the great Patti Santos singing, the group, I'm told, still appears, mostly in the South, and still sounds great. Does remind me of a war I'd just as soon forget, though!
...this one gets a lotta play... deserves it. with just one eternity to work with, We 'll have many looks into the angelic beauty of this timeless piece ( as well as countless others...) . hope You are yearning for that , as am I , on the Horizon of Your minds.....
I am still here too. River ,redwoods , juicing organic carrots and making a vegan smoothee looking for my 1 white bird among all the blue jays just north of SF.Its a beautiful day!
i was so much older then..im younger than that now.......what happened to the hippies...my guess is that there dug into to the corporate america they sought to change so many tears (years)ago..i dunno....all the young pseudo hippies i meet now..have no heart,,,they just seem to be into the language and clothing and smoking pot....all the fun stuff we did then...but i dont see the conviction to make changes... its your future....do something...?
@crankyfrankification Here I am! Back in '67, I was a Bay Area hippie. Now retired from an engineering career, I'm working on an invention. Been working here in Silicon Valley since it was only called Santa Clara County. The Santa Cruz Mountains are my home, living humbly on S.S. It's peaceful & loaded with fresh air & redwood trees. Enjoying it the old-fashioned way. BTW, the hippie never left. I agree w/ you; the young should tune-in to world events of their future. Peace!
I was there. In 1971 when I was a senior in high school. It was summer time and I was in summer school. When me and my friends heard of the "Last Days" concert, we decided to go. I remember Grootna was great. The rest of the concert, I'm afraid I don't remember much. But, I know I had a good time. 40 years ago.
Thanks...I'm 58 now, long white beard, saw them in New Orleans early 70s.Whatever happened to Bill Gregory on guitar?BTW, I still love the same girl I did when this song came out.This does my heart good.What the heart has it never loses.(To paraphrase a lovely girl's tombstone.)
Anyone at Kimbolton School in 1970-1971 will remember me blasting this out across the high street from my room, much to the annoyance of Geoff Coles....
@crazonianmaster Personally I think that you have to be able to relax to perform music like this or think of ideas like this. Today, everyone's stressed out and on the Internet constantly. George W. Bush is actually starting to have a political comeback, which if that doesn't blow your mind ....
It's a good thing they closed the Fillmore. Can you imagine Patti Smith or Judas Priest playing there? That's the direction rock was going in the '70s: tough and mean. Idealism was over. The hippies were always aware of public relations. Like any good corporate entity, the owners of the Fillmore knew the time to close it all down.
Live at Carnegie Hall (1972) is the absolute best performance of this song I ever heard, such a killer guitar in that version, of course by It's a Beautiful Day!
This version is very good also, but I'm a guitar guy.
Live at Carnegie Hall (1972) is the absolute best performance of this song I ever heard, such a killer guitar in that version, of course by It's a Beautiful Day!
Totally agree, if I close my eyes and use just a little imagination, I am back at Winterland in SF and it's also 1970. When life and everything that comes with it seemed to make more sense. Make love not war was the slogan of those times, pretty relevant for today. Just add some good Panama Red and start grooving...
This performance is forty years old . . . yet it holds up really well today; it sounds just as good now as it did back then. Great music is like that - timeless.
@johnnyleedl A similar thing happened to me. Went to Fillmore East to see Iron Butterfly. The warmup act turned out to be ab obscure English group called "Led Zeppelin". Three guesses which group was better.
@TheDrmedina Patti Santos was killed in a car accident. David and Linda LaFlamme still play with It's a Beautiful Day.Linda does a great job with the vocals Patti used to sing.
@nerblebun Always loved this song from the beginning. I was an original flower child in the sixties. This song played almost everywhere hippies gathered when it was first released. Very cool!
R.I.P. Pattie Santos (Pattie with an E just for the record) *killed in a car crash on December 14, 1989*.
And yes, David and Linda LaFlamme still perform, him on his 5 string violin and her on vocals.
@9162000tuck KZAP! Great FM station. Even sent out a tone to set your VU meter for taping just before dropping wax. Back then, they encouraged you to record it! Great times.
!st time I heard this was the night John Lennon got shot in NYC...WNEW-FM played this and As Falls Whita As Falls Whita Falls...only songs I remember beiny played other than Beatle/ Lennon songs that week here in NYC......live life...love it, man!
"White Bird" is played frequently as a "break song" between 1/2 hour segments of the nighttime radio show "Coast to Coast AM" - it's an excellent choice to bring back some nice memories of a time long ago, in the middle of the night. Thanks!
Loved this piece since I heard it in my teens performed by a group at the Kawartha Folk Festival in Cobourg, Ontario. I think the group's name was the Common 'Taters. The girl sang it beautifully. The guy was good too, I can't remember if he played the violin of other group member did. Great weekend. Thanks for the posting Aurora. There are groups now skating on the edges like this one. Just look for them. Lots of university radio, check out CIUT.fm.
Nothing like it! never will be those times are gone but...oh my god I still love I LACK THE WORDS...AS I AS OLD i really miss these days ! One albumn or not they rocked the big one! In there way...they gave!!
Think I saw them at the Connetic Playground in Chicago in the 70's. They're great. Stoned, makin' out with a beautiful brunette, listening to It's A Bautiful Day. Damn, where does time go?
I've had this LP from the late 60's and it is pretty thrashed from everybody playing it. It's so nice to hear the live version of this song again, it was my fav on the album .... thanks for sharing! :)
Guy at a record store told me a story, and told me to hang on to my original It's a Beautiful Day Album. He said Linda LaFlamme (the female singer of IABD) became angry at her husband for being with another woman (also Linda). In her anger she broke the original masters so there is no master to make new CD's from. DK if it's true, but I'm hanging onto my original vinyl of this one.
Not British but had to throw this in...I loved this song. Its a bit faster than the original recording and the film is scratchy but damn, I'm old too.
It's called Prog Rock and I love the stuff. There were a lot of big names in the same groove. I bought their alblum... I can't swear whether it was on the discount bin at the time. I was a student and LP's weren't cheap for me at the time. You can argue who was Prog and which folks went through a Prog phase.
///continued/// I grew up in Southern California during the 1960s, literally from 1959 to 1969, and I remember the music scene well. We were living in Arcadia when the first Love In happened...the next weekend the hippies went to San Francisco. I miss those days...but not the Viet Nam war. Peace.
Thank you so very much for posting this video. I saw It's A Beautiful Day in San Franciso Golden Gate Park Speedway during the Tribal Stomp for Chet Helm and they were, needless to say, excellent, as well as all of the other musicians who gathered there that day to play. ///continued///
White Bird was originally sung by Linda and David LaFlamme, I believe they were brother and sister. I used to own the album, but now only own the CD. Their first self-titled album is excellent. Thanks so much for posting it.
True Hippie music. I just love this stuff. It was not hard rock, rather the blending of folk, which was on it's way out, with beautiful meolodies, some rock. They were one of the few with violin. The only other two were Tull and Papa John Creech. The late 60's and early 70's were really great but really sad times. These folks were one of the bright points in my opinion.
1969 - White Bird was my first experience outside of the box. Had been pretty straight laced musically until my new long-hair-hippy-freak room mate in college put on this record. I wouldn't let him light up a J in the dorm room, but I did listen to the music. While he was at class the next day, I put it on again. Hope he doesn't skip class and come back to find me messin' with his sh__. Still one of my favorite songs!
I can't believe I hadn't seen this video (and "Fresh Air" either). I've heard this song 100's of times from "The Last Days of Fillmore," double cd. I've gotten stoned listening to this song so many times it's kerazzy!!! I've jammed on my guitar to this song 100's of times as well!!! The mood it brings and the ambience it gives is just so calming and different. No other song like it that's for sure. Superb post, thank you!!!!!
I'm 32 now but i fell in love with this song when it was used as a background track in "Knight Rider" back in 82 and 85. Kinda forgot about till I just watched the series again the other day and had to find the full version
Aurora1957A, you rock (& psyche)!! I love this (& you, of course) for trippin' me w/ some of the best psychedelic live music ever. Peace, sister (or brother)... you touch me w/ a wand, & then transform me.
thanks I saw Its a beautiful day with seatrain in richmond va in 72. I was 15 , i was givin tickits from my step mother. one of my all time favorite shows.
I saw It's a Beautiful Day at Winterland with Hot Tuna and The Rowan Brothers in about '72. The stage was on the side not at the far end then. Excellent Memory, Thanks!!
@monkeydharma I grew up in LA during the 60's and yes this was the greatest times. Had I known they were going to go away I would have done more then. Yes I miss them also.
@netstepb Ah yes, Los Angeles in the 60's. I remember well having grown up there also. Smog so bad that if you didn't live there you wouldn't have known that there is a mountain range a mere 8 miles north of downtown. Traffic jams that would take you an hour and a half to drive the distance from down town to San Gabriel Valley, a distance of 12 miles. Charlie Manson, need I say more? And lets not forget the SLA (okay the early 70's), the Watts riots or the Sylmar earthquake. I wax romantic....
@ricrazo My good friend Mary was married to the singer for "Stuart Little"...the first band on stage.Remember, they were interrupted when the Hells Angles rode into the stadium?They rode out when the Byrds finished playing. I dropped mescaline about an hour before the Byrds played.Yes my friend... it was a beautiful day indeed.
deep song. the freeing of the bird from the cage is also found in Indian traditions as analogous to freeing the spiritual spark from being entrapped in the material body..i picked that up in hare krishna
Great sound & light show on this video, although I would like to see more of the band. Never saw them live but played the album many times in 1969 as a college student. The "activist stuff" looks dated now but was very real then.
By the way, I just love the transformation of sound to the plane that most people can relate to. The visuals really do transform one to the plane of just music.
This is one of my ALL TIME FAVORITES from the 60s... I agree, I would've preferred just seeing the performers... his violin... beautiful.. all the musicians and singers.. nice to hear them improvising... I'd like more volume please....Thanks
I am 52, when I was 16, at Llano High School, in Texas, my boyfriend named me Bird - we married later and had a wonderful daughter (RIP). This video is the BEST ...I remember scenes SO similar. And ... he still calls me his Bird. :-)
Great band, lucky I did get to see them at least once, at the Atlanta Pop Festival, '70, along with many great groups. They were super.... I still play this tune on gigs now & then...
I always loved this song and even if I don't think about it or hear it for a long time, I can easily groove right in and start singing along.............beautiful!
For all you fans David LaFlamme ismy uncle xD hes really funny and a nice guy behind his great music.. He is histarical to be honest he made me laugh for like an hour straight once... :)
Hey bbbaaaIII1 If he's really your uncle, maybe you can tell me what ever happened to Val. He was a friend of mine from Chicago. Lookin at a picture right now from april 1966 he's an amazing drummer.
ahhhhhhhhh.......I used to live in the coastal mountain range an hour north of San Francisco in a litle town of Forest Knolls.....this group used to practice up in the mountains on a friday night, sometimes on a Saturday morning.....what a treat to listen to them live bouncing off the mountain sides with coffee in one hand and a doobie in the other!! As my son has often said, "you lucky man, to live during that era and to be where I was in a town of 188 people. in the mountains."
this was a favorite of mine and also that of a beautiful lady Sherri C. , a former coworker of mine whom I adored ! Sherri, if you remember this song and me - I love you forever! - Tom
Wow and double wow! Thanks aurora1957a. I remember, and this song moves me as much today as when I heard it in high school. Such a solid groove, two chords, a lot of thumpin' and lots of self-indulgent guitar. These are my people.
OMG! I saw them at The Bodega in the Bay Area in 1979! They were AWESOME! This is a "sped up" version, but nice all the same...Love this song. Thanks for posting!
Saw them in new orleans at the warehouse , 72 , I believe.. papa john creech played violin for them.. anybody remember the warehouse ? saw lots of good concerts there.. great old video , takes me back to high school..
they played in Boca Raton Fl in 2007, David LaFlamme is still amazing
smartiethedog 2 weeks ago
too fast
Itubeutubevrybdytube 1 month ago
An incomparable oldie. Thank you.
GeneralCane 1 month ago
a fabulous song..........the album version is gentler..........the sleeve of which is an absolute
classic.............
MrRobangelo 1 month ago
I can remember getting chills from this song when my mom played it on her 8-track! Still get chills.
bakerylust 1 month ago
Was it happening at Filmore West back then or what! And if you could time travel back to that magical place and someone holds out a hand of purple berries and says "Turn On"! You got the ticked to ride on the magic bus on the hwy west.
TangleF50 2 months ago
Thank you, thank you, thank you....for posting this great link to the past! One of the comments mentions having this on 8-track at one time: I STILL have my 8-track, but am afraid to play it for fear of it "locking up". I also have this on a reel type tape (reel-to-reel, remember?). Anyway, even without the great Patti Santos singing, the group, I'm told, still appears, mostly in the South, and still sounds great. Does remind me of a war I'd just as soon forget, though!
bigblock1966 2 months ago
Knight rider
thegraze8 3 months ago
...this one gets a lotta play... deserves it. with just one eternity to work with, We 'll have many looks into the angelic beauty of this timeless piece ( as well as countless others...) . hope You are yearning for that , as am I , on the Horizon of Your minds.....
DocDoorman 4 months ago
My People......1969!
MarshaR100 4 months ago
I am still here too. River ,redwoods , juicing organic carrots and making a vegan smoothee looking for my 1 white bird among all the blue jays just north of SF.Its a beautiful day!
akashalovelight 4 months ago
i was so much older then..im younger than that now.......what happened to the hippies...my guess is that there dug into to the corporate america they sought to change so many tears (years)ago..i dunno....all the young pseudo hippies i meet now..have no heart,,,they just seem to be into the language and clothing and smoking pot....all the fun stuff we did then...but i dont see the conviction to make changes... its your future....do something...?
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SIMKINETICS 4 months ago
@crankyfrankification Here I am! Back in '67, I was a Bay Area hippie. Now retired from an engineering career, I'm working on an invention. Been working here in Silicon Valley since it was only called Santa Clara County. The Santa Cruz Mountains are my home, living humbly on S.S. It's peaceful & loaded with fresh air & redwood trees. Enjoying it the old-fashioned way. BTW, the hippie never left. I agree w/ you; the young should tune-in to world events of their future. Peace!
SIMKINETICS 4 months ago 2
@SIMKINETICS that's beautiful
huskerrock1 4 months ago
@crankyfrankification don;t think we are gone or joined, just been low profile for a while...
audibleburp 3 months ago
I think it's a fantastic song with beautiful harmonies and soaring strings
songgod40 5 months ago
Actually, I've heard it was a pro-feminist thing.
teleny2 5 months ago
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White bird=Dove=HOLY SPIRIT which is caged inside the golden prison of flesh.
Unable to fly free...
bleuisis 5 months ago
White bird=Dove=HOLY SPIRIT which is caged inside the golden prison of flesh.
Unable to fly free...
bleuisis 5 months ago
amen brothers and sisters. it's never been about a damn bird. some people are idiots.
deepsnapper 5 months ago
This song was in response to the Vietnamese conflict. Human nature doesn't change. Afghanistan and now Libya. The music was great then and now.
TexMarque 6 months ago
They helped start our Peace Movemovement so long ago, why can't anyone realize we need this help again.
fran74603 6 months ago
RIP Patty Santos and Fred Webb.
HardworkingAmerican 6 months ago
I was there. In 1971 when I was a senior in high school. It was summer time and I was in summer school. When me and my friends heard of the "Last Days" concert, we decided to go. I remember Grootna was great. The rest of the concert, I'm afraid I don't remember much. But, I know I had a good time. 40 years ago.
silvasm516 7 months ago 2
one of the greatest song ever written in the peace movement in the 1970's. It could start happening again in 2011.
kingtrades 7 months ago
another excellent video ... thanks :)
studio910 8 months ago
Thanks...I'm 58 now, long white beard, saw them in New Orleans early 70s.Whatever happened to Bill Gregory on guitar?BTW, I still love the same girl I did when this song came out.This does my heart good.What the heart has it never loses.(To paraphrase a lovely girl's tombstone.)
andy131481 8 months ago 10
@andy131481 I was at that concert as well and i am 58 as well. At the warehouse right?
bfarmsbobful 6 days ago
great light show...look at all the lovely colours!!
phoebepeepers 8 months ago
i saw this band at pirates world in florida AWESOME!! also had this album on 8 track...remember those
phoebepeepers 8 months ago
I remember seeing the band at the Roundhouse Chalk Farm back in late 60s. Let my Woman Flow was my favourite.
sippedeedo 8 months ago
Anyone at Kimbolton School in 1970-1971 will remember me blasting this out across the high street from my room, much to the annoyance of Geoff Coles....
jlsherwood 8 months ago
@crazonianmaster Personally I think that you have to be able to relax to perform music like this or think of ideas like this. Today, everyone's stressed out and on the Internet constantly. George W. Bush is actually starting to have a political comeback, which if that doesn't blow your mind ....
mikedonn71 8 months ago
It's a good thing they closed the Fillmore. Can you imagine Patti Smith or Judas Priest playing there? That's the direction rock was going in the '70s: tough and mean. Idealism was over. The hippies were always aware of public relations. Like any good corporate entity, the owners of the Fillmore knew the time to close it all down.
mikedonn71 8 months ago
better then White Christmas.....
bluejay4480 8 months ago
Im so pissed that i wasnt alive to see the fillmore. This performance is amazing. i really wish there was more music like this these days
crazonianmaster 8 months ago
Helping me over my crashing weekend hangover, Monday never felt so bad !...........
Broomehall 8 months ago
At age 6 i knew this was perfection
JENZENZ8 8 months ago
Live at Carnegie Hall (1972) is the absolute best performance of this song I ever heard, such a killer guitar in that version, of course by It's a Beautiful Day!
This version is very good also, but I'm a guitar guy.
stillustronic 8 months ago
Live at Carnegie Hall (1972) is the absolute best performance of this song I ever heard, such a killer guitar in that version, of course by It's a Beautiful Day!
stillustronic 8 months ago
Good bye freedom hello police state!
monadnockandcasey 8 months ago
What a beautiful piece of music....RIP Patti
CUBALAW 8 months ago
I saw them at the New Orleans International Pop Festival. Great three days.
Lacombe57 9 months ago
To the person who had seen Iron Butterfly and Led Zepellin at the Fillmore West,
it brought back memories since I saw that double bill at the Fillmore East. Around 1970.
loebphoto 9 months ago
Totally agree, if I close my eyes and use just a little imagination, I am back at Winterland in SF and it's also 1970. When life and everything that comes with it seemed to make more sense. Make love not war was the slogan of those times, pretty relevant for today. Just add some good Panama Red and start grooving...
jiaconis 9 months ago 2
This is great music! And look at some of the meaningless crap we have today! This is what music is about. I feel like getting stow-end!
BRONC0WILLY 9 months ago
A great band!! Their eponymous first album is one of Rocks five all-time classics.
ratscisum 10 months ago 2
One of many songs that amplified the feelings of the 60's...and now as I prepare to retire...AM I THE WHITE BIRD IN TH GOLDEN CAGE? GeoSpring
ss454gts 10 months ago
Brings back some memories!! Past not forgotten!!
stedude007 10 months ago
This performance is forty years old . . . yet it holds up really well today; it sounds just as good now as it did back then. Great music is like that - timeless.
wwleslie 10 months ago
I saw them live in 1969 at the filmore west, Iron butterfly was supposed to be there but had to be replaced for the show. It was an awesome show.
I was not disappointed,
johnnyleedl 10 months ago
@johnnyleedl A similar thing happened to me. Went to Fillmore East to see Iron Butterfly. The warmup act turned out to be ab obscure English group called "Led Zeppelin". Three guesses which group was better.
TheDrmedina 10 months ago 2
What a wonderful group they were! I wonder what ever happened to them?
TheDrmedina 11 months ago
@TheDrmedina Patti Santos was killed in a car accident. David and Linda LaFlamme still play with It's a Beautiful Day.Linda does a great job with the vocals Patti used to sing.
nerblebun 10 months ago
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@nerblebun Always loved this song from the beginning. I was an original flower child in the sixties. This song played almost everywhere hippies gathered when it was first released. Very cool!
R.I.P. Pattie Santos (Pattie with an E just for the record) *killed in a car crash on December 14, 1989*.
And yes, David and Linda LaFlamme still perform, him on his 5 string violin and her on vocals.
peace
technocrash09 9 months ago
This is a beautiful song.
nholt 11 months ago
ahh the psychedelic days of the '60's the protest the anti-establishment movement the hippies down with the pigs ..good days
xadam2dudex 11 months ago
THANK YOU for The Graphics Trip...
1979sterling 11 months ago
good smoke good music good times had by all...........
4usloghome 1 year ago
High Times! That song was played on KZAP FM radio. Miss that song!
9162000tuck 1 year ago
@9162000tuck KZAP! Great FM station. Even sent out a tone to set your VU meter for taping just before dropping wax. Back then, they encouraged you to record it! Great times.
pupwinder 11 months ago
love that violin!
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mollysangelique 1 year ago
!st time I heard this was the night John Lennon got shot in NYC...WNEW-FM played this and As Falls Whita As Falls Whita Falls...only songs I remember beiny played other than Beatle/ Lennon songs that week here in NYC......live life...love it, man!
DsveysNavy 1 year ago
this is it. Too many direct hits to head and heart....looking for home, alone.
slinky slide...speed along home.
TheSpottyBody 1 year ago
this is it. Too many direct hits to head and heart....looking for home, alone.
TheSpottyBody 1 year ago
"White Bird" is played frequently as a "break song" between 1/2 hour segments of the nighttime radio show "Coast to Coast AM" - it's an excellent choice to bring back some nice memories of a time long ago, in the middle of the night. Thanks!
WangDangNoodle 1 year ago
NOBODY like them. Great live version. Wish I had some weed.
whemadre 1 year ago
that's mesmerizing even without the pot lol! they were a great band no doubt!
hiseyes 1 year ago
What a freakin great slice of late 60s psychedelia.
theseether 1 year ago
THIS IS MY NUMBER ONE SONG!
igalflint 1 year ago
awesome!!!!!!!!
Rhythmrancher1 1 year ago
Don't forget the Avalon Ballroom!
jgbullat 1 year ago
headphones and hippy britches, from Novato to Enid...... i still fly
rwhector21 1 year ago
always such a wonderful song, no match ever..
cathycastleton 1 year ago
lots of memories when I here this song
madisondallas 1 year ago
what a trip LOL
dramatica2006 1 year ago
Magnificent!
vwkid05 1 year ago
freeking great forever..perfect..LOVE THIS
Philip331 1 year ago
Groovy
eraffel 1 year ago
Jimi was right - ev'rything's faster live...
pickinpedaler 1 year ago
Love this song then, still love listening to it now!
Libra2Shine 1 year ago
Just Magnificent ! and to hear the voice of the Great Bill Graham again ! Thanks for posting one of the best videos on the Tube.
vintagezigg 1 year ago
dude, you don't WATCH a guitar solo -- you listen to it.
KarmaChoirboy 1 year ago
@KarmaChoirboy right on, man! GOOD KARMA 2U! :)
bckm54 1 year ago
thanks for posting i'm enjoying this so much !
muelleici 1 year ago
Awesome! Thanks for posting.
Leoo40 1 year ago
I was a displaced nineteen year old hoosier living in the Bay area when this song came out. No one who was there in those days could ever forget them
drex23100 1 year ago
Loved this piece since I heard it in my teens performed by a group at the Kawartha Folk Festival in Cobourg, Ontario. I think the group's name was the Common 'Taters. The girl sang it beautifully. The guy was good too, I can't remember if he played the violin of other group member did. Great weekend. Thanks for the posting Aurora. There are groups now skating on the edges like this one. Just look for them. Lots of university radio, check out CIUT.fm.
MilSepic60 1 year ago
Fantastic!! I can't give it enough hearts. Thankyou aurora1957A...♥♥♥♥♥
bunsomatic 1 year ago
Nothing like it! never will be those times are gone but...oh my god I still love I LACK THE WORDS...AS I AS OLD i really miss these days ! One albumn or not they rocked the big one! In there way...they gave!!
Iwantobelieve2 1 year ago
Think I saw them at the Connetic Playground in Chicago in the 70's. They're great. Stoned, makin' out with a beautiful brunette, listening to It's A Bautiful Day. Damn, where does time go?
sloroll01 1 year ago
I love this one!
hotlegs57 1 year ago
I am so glad I was a hippie and stil am!!
osbikerossy 1 year ago
I've had this LP from the late 60's and it is pretty thrashed from everybody playing it. It's so nice to hear the live version of this song again, it was my fav on the album .... thanks for sharing! :)
lgdstphsn 1 year ago
Just Smokin Aurora Thx!!!
sfdog1369 1 year ago
i haven't heard this one in so many years that i forgot it even existed. such a beautiful tune
elps84 1 year ago
I saw them back in the dat. The Old Filmore in SF IIRC. Waht a trip. Thanks!
msimon6808 1 year ago
Saw them back in the day - the Old Filmore in SF IIRC. What a trip. The audio on this is very fine. Thanks!
msimon6808 1 year ago
Guy at a record store told me a story, and told me to hang on to my original It's a Beautiful Day Album. He said Linda LaFlamme (the female singer of IABD) became angry at her husband for being with another woman (also Linda). In her anger she broke the original masters so there is no master to make new CD's from. DK if it's true, but I'm hanging onto my original vinyl of this one.
miadora7 1 year ago
I seem to remember a Linda La Flamme. What happened.....
olddavid4 1 year ago
unreal , made my day !!
motamanaaaa 1 year ago
Way cool man! Loved it when it came out and still do. Where have the years gone? Best days of my life! Peace!
olhipe47 1 year ago
Not British but had to throw this in...I loved this song. Its a bit faster than the original recording and the film is scratchy but damn, I'm old too.
campsgrl 1 year ago
xzz ... not to be argumentative but how could you forget dave swarbricks fiddlin with fairport .... great stuff too :)
midnite22155 1 year ago
Dig It
BobJakeMcManus 1 year ago
It's called Prog Rock and I love the stuff. There were a lot of big names in the same groove. I bought their alblum... I can't swear whether it was on the discount bin at the time. I was a student and LP's weren't cheap for me at the time. You can argue who was Prog and which folks went through a Prog phase.
Anyhow, note the Raga-like structure...
thisismyname007 1 year ago
///continued/// I grew up in Southern California during the 1960s, literally from 1959 to 1969, and I remember the music scene well. We were living in Arcadia when the first Love In happened...the next weekend the hippies went to San Francisco. I miss those days...but not the Viet Nam war. Peace.
screendude69 1 year ago
Thank you so very much for posting this video. I saw It's A Beautiful Day in San Franciso Golden Gate Park Speedway during the Tribal Stomp for Chet Helm and they were, needless to say, excellent, as well as all of the other musicians who gathered there that day to play. ///continued///
screendude69 1 year ago
White Bird was originally sung by Linda and David LaFlamme, I believe they were brother and sister. I used to own the album, but now only own the CD. Their first self-titled album is excellent. Thanks so much for posting it.
fritzkr9 1 year ago
True Hippie music. I just love this stuff. It was not hard rock, rather the blending of folk, which was on it's way out, with beautiful meolodies, some rock. They were one of the few with violin. The only other two were Tull and Papa John Creech. The late 60's and early 70's were really great but really sad times. These folks were one of the bright points in my opinion.
xzz0195 1 year ago
1969 - White Bird was my first experience outside of the box. Had been pretty straight laced musically until my new long-hair-hippy-freak room mate in college put on this record. I wouldn't let him light up a J in the dorm room, but I did listen to the music. While he was at class the next day, I put it on again. Hope he doesn't skip class and come back to find me messin' with his sh__. Still one of my favorite songs!
builderbro 1 year ago
I can't believe I hadn't seen this video (and "Fresh Air" either). I've heard this song 100's of times from "The Last Days of Fillmore," double cd. I've gotten stoned listening to this song so many times it's kerazzy!!! I've jammed on my guitar to this song 100's of times as well!!! The mood it brings and the ambience it gives is just so calming and different. No other song like it that's for sure. Superb post, thank you!!!!!
WChicagoBlues 1 year ago
great great great!
I wish there was more footage of IABD.
I love White bird, but they have so many other fabulous songs.
Anyways! Thanks for posting this gem.
The effects at 5:28 on look like inside my cat's eye.. just like her optic nerve!
freqazoidiac 1 year ago
I'm 32 now but i fell in love with this song when it was used as a background track in "Knight Rider" back in 82 and 85. Kinda forgot about till I just watched the series again the other day and had to find the full version
tallcoolone77 1 year ago
I have a first edition print of the original LP......one of my prized collectibles.....
tiedyekeith 1 year ago
Me too how cool is the inner of the gatefold,for those who love time is eternity,and hows the white bird on the back,very cool stuff.
qsergyuko 1 year ago
Aurora1957A, you rock (& psyche)!! I love this (& you, of course) for trippin' me w/ some of the best psychedelic live music ever. Peace, sister (or brother)... you touch me w/ a wand, & then transform me.
nukechem57 2 years ago
Chick singer is way hott!
rowdymax1 2 years ago
thanks I saw Its a beautiful day with seatrain in richmond va in 72. I was 15 , i was givin tickits from my step mother. one of my all time favorite shows.
nhchopperbob 2 years ago 3
Love it!
Still want to do a cover of it someday......
pirinst 2 years ago
Great memories.
avaistheone 2 years ago 4
Thank you so much for putting this up.
I saw It's a Beautiful Day at Winterland with Hot Tuna and The Rowan Brothers in about '72. The stage was on the side not at the far end then. Excellent Memory, Thanks!!
markmotors 2 years ago 3
Ahhhh....those were the days. I miss 'em.
monkeydharma 2 years ago 21
Me too...
vicparis 2 years ago
@monkeydharma I grew up in LA during the 60's and yes this was the greatest times. Had I known they were going to go away I would have done more then. Yes I miss them also.
netstepb 1 year ago
@netstepb Ah yes, Los Angeles in the 60's. I remember well having grown up there also. Smog so bad that if you didn't live there you wouldn't have known that there is a mountain range a mere 8 miles north of downtown. Traffic jams that would take you an hour and a half to drive the distance from down town to San Gabriel Valley, a distance of 12 miles. Charlie Manson, need I say more? And lets not forget the SLA (okay the early 70's), the Watts riots or the Sylmar earthquake. I wax romantic....
craismith 1 year ago
girl you wear your dresses to short....
finalnexus 2 years ago
Saw them at UOP in Stockton,Calif. The Byrds played the same day. I think I fell in love with Patti Santos. God I miss the Fillmore.
nerblebun 2 years ago 11
@nerblebun Amen to that, brother!
gsasko 1 year ago
@nerblebun I was there too. That was a great day.
ricrazo 1 year ago
@ricrazo My good friend Mary was married to the singer for "Stuart Little"...the first band on stage.Remember, they were interrupted when the Hells Angles rode into the stadium?They rode out when the Byrds finished playing. I dropped mescaline about an hour before the Byrds played.Yes my friend... it was a beautiful day indeed.
nerblebun 10 months ago
Sure brings back memories,after all these yrs can see the bands on u tube haha technology is great
strats4 2 years ago 3
@strats4 Without this the younguns would never believe us bout how great it was ;)
CarlSchwamberger 2 years ago 3
Simply amazing...piece of history..thanks for the post
scoianash 2 years ago 2
deep song. the freeing of the bird from the cage is also found in Indian traditions as analogous to freeing the spiritual spark from being entrapped in the material body..i picked that up in hare krishna
Sanfranchester 2 years ago
I saw these guys at an old bowling alley (Dream Bowl, I think) just south of Napa, California in 1970.
What a night!
No Cop interference.
babaluboo123 2 years ago 2
Great sound & light show on this video, although I would like to see more of the band. Never saw them live but played the album many times in 1969 as a college student. The "activist stuff" looks dated now but was very real then.
stoneyfoot 2 years ago
Let us ALL be "MASERS" in abundance!! Sorry mate- a good natured stir! Know what you mean and yes- masers they are............
Buggerlugz000 2 years ago
By the way, I just love the transformation of sound to the plane that most people can relate to. The visuals really do transform one to the plane of just music.
And David is a Maser.
JF
B52sguy 2 years ago
Just an opinion, but I like the version with David and Linda Although Patty did a remarkable job. I just like the original version better.
RCA really f___ed this group up.
Heard that they had to go to Australia to do more albums.
BTW, I have a copy of the very original, with the bare breasted maiden put out in 1968.
Still unopened, but I bought two, and played the hell out of it.
JF
B52sguy 2 years ago
Is the song Bulgaria remaining me some piece of Schostakovitch?
foutupourfoutu 2 years ago
This is one of my ALL TIME FAVORITES from the 60s... I agree, I would've preferred just seeing the performers... his violin... beautiful.. all the musicians and singers.. nice to hear them improvising... I'd like more volume please....Thanks
BaaBaaRaa 2 years ago
I am 52, when I was 16, at Llano High School, in Texas, my boyfriend named me Bird - we married later and had a wonderful daughter (RIP). This video is the BEST ...I remember scenes SO similar. And ... he still calls me his Bird. :-)
terryliciareed 2 years ago 2
Wonderfull!! I was so stoned in those days and on my way to vietnam lol
BrazenMchazen 2 years ago 2
Great live version - not sure about the vid though...the activist stuff now seems so....old. But this band were sheer class
oojibar 2 years ago
Might seem old but we've gone full circle, considering what happened in Pittsburg last week.
mikeadksn 2 years ago
Great band, lucky I did get to see them at least once, at the Atlanta Pop Festival, '70, along with many great groups. They were super.... I still play this tune on gigs now & then...
StevenCharlesJazz 2 years ago
Did you just mean you saw the Allman Brothers Band as well???
foutupourfoutu 2 years ago
Yeah, they actually played in the woods, outside the main area, as they weren't on the Festival's roster, if you can believe that!
StevenCharlesJazz 2 years ago
Why didn't they play this at Woodstock?
rawcer 2 years ago
I always loved this song and even if I don't think about it or hear it for a long time, I can easily groove right in and start singing along.............beautiful!
moonchildiva 2 years ago
i first heard this in the knight rider series, when hasselhoff's girl died XD
zminemx 2 years ago
One of the finest songs of those incredible days of Flower Power.
vintagezigg 2 years ago 3
My favorite song from him is Soapstone mountain or Girl with no eyes
bbbaaalll1 2 years ago
For all you fans David LaFlamme ismy uncle xD hes really funny and a nice guy behind his great music.. He is histarical to be honest he made me laugh for like an hour straight once... :)
bbbaaalll1 2 years ago 2
Hey bbbaaaIII1 If he's really your uncle, maybe you can tell me what ever happened to Val. He was a friend of mine from Chicago. Lookin at a picture right now from april 1966 he's an amazing drummer.
CandiceY50 2 years ago
Please tell him thanks for many good memories. :)
eltrip50 2 years ago
wow , lehman.. what a trip! hey.. whats with all thr trip visuals? I wanna see the guitar solo.. or violin
rpdbluevideo 2 years ago
that's all the video available.. the rest was lost back in the 80s when storage got too costly...
:)
aurora1957A 2 years ago
ahhhhhhhhh.......I used to live in the coastal mountain range an hour north of San Francisco in a litle town of Forest Knolls.....this group used to practice up in the mountains on a friday night, sometimes on a Saturday morning.....what a treat to listen to them live bouncing off the mountain sides with coffee in one hand and a doobie in the other!! As my son has often said, "you lucky man, to live during that era and to be where I was in a town of 188 people. in the mountains."
lehman527 2 years ago 2
this was a favorite of mine and also that of a beautiful lady Sherri C. , a former coworker of mine whom I adored ! Sherri, if you remember this song and me - I love you forever! - Tom
MrThomashope 2 years ago
before my time but my friend Jack turned me on to this song.. it's nice. I really get the feeling of the time period by hearing this song.
freq32 2 years ago
Brings back memories, had Marrying Maiden and Live at Carnegie Hall, superb albums.
I was at the Bath Festival 1970 too pure magic.
RIP Pattie Santos.
chargrave 2 years ago
Memories... Excelent! Thank you for posting this video,isn't you tube great.
flo43223 2 years ago 2
wow, seen these @ bath festival 1970.still have the cassete,its a beautiful day! it certaintly was.awesome,love it still!
briantomo 2 years ago
farber2
you said it.........
247wadup 2 years ago
A hidden treasure inside Youtube. Who would have thunk it.
247wadup 2 years ago
more than we deserve
farber2 2 years ago
Fr' Schizzle!!!
thomasmantellwilliam 2 years ago
ditto writer4peace!!!
deebur53 2 years ago
Wow and double wow! Thanks aurora1957a. I remember, and this song moves me as much today as when I heard it in high school. Such a solid groove, two chords, a lot of thumpin' and lots of self-indulgent guitar. These are my people.
1turtlecrow 2 years ago 3
Wheres the video, Im such a low tech bastard ,is this related to lsd?
goatmark 2 years ago
patience, grasshopper
:)
aurora1957A 2 years ago
Another wonderful composition by a great musical group. Have alot of great memories of those days.
slever51 2 years ago 2
Hy! I didn't know this band! Great! Magic! I enjoye! I'm french! I like this sound! All my youth is coming back in my mind!
stilarel 2 years ago 2
OMG! I saw them at The Bodega in the Bay Area in 1979! They were AWESOME! This is a "sped up" version, but nice all the same...Love this song. Thanks for posting!
PissedOff803 2 years ago
Saw them in new orleans at the warehouse , 72 , I believe.. papa john creech played violin for them.. anybody remember the warehouse ? saw lots of good concerts there.. great old video , takes me back to high school..
pffbh 2 years ago