It's Still A Beautiful Day
My copy also has their pre-album Love For You as the opening track, which yours doesn't, and sounds absolutely right at home. Give it a listen this way even if you already gots the album (the other song sometimes touted as early I.A.B.D., Aquarian Dream, is by Indian Pudding & Pipe, and nuts to Matthew Katz, still alive and making a damn nuisance of himself).
Beyond Dreams is a late [2003 - Ed.] copyright-protection release, with interesting versions of the old songs. Here it's properly credited to the band and has the cover it couldn't have but wanted, by Maxfield Parrish.
Orkustra is pre-I.A.B.D. The history of these guys is complex and repays research, David LaFlamme emerging as one of the Great And Good.
I have a bunch of bootlegs by these guys, as well as all the other albums (excluding Today), but let's see if you want these first.
ReplyDeleteToday's Mass Debate: The diff between SF and LA bands/culture. Apples and oranges or oil and water? You decide.
Excellent piece here with Linda LaFlamme (the first) on the origins of Orkustra and IABD: https://pleasekillme.com/beautiful-day-linda-laflamme/
ReplyDeleteLinda LaFlamme (the first) was my downstairs neighbor in '86 in Oakland, CA. Had a VW bus with pine tree branches (with cones) framing the front windshield. On the inside, not the outside.
DeleteNice story!
DeleteI have the "...... Today" album. One of my favorites. Let me know if you need me to post it.
ReplyDeleteDifference between SF and LA bands? I'd say its the funk/soul/zydeco influences from the southern half of LA....... oh wait, you mean that LA.
I've had that, but never liked it! Not even as an album by another band, which is basically what it is.
DeleteMy buddy was a guitarist on that album. One of the first rock albums that had a tuba/sousaphone play the bass line.
DeleteListening to Love for You from the Live at The Fillmore '68 album - thanks for the reminder about IABD
ReplyDeleteLet me know if you want the live recordings I have.
DeleteI have a few but fire up whichever you feel is worth a listen - thanks
DeleteOrkustra had Manson/Kenneth Anger cohort Bobby Beausoleil sometimes
ReplyDeleteSan Francisco Love vs LA Revolution
ReplyDeleteNice distinction. How about SF out in the open, LA behind closed doors.
Deleteemoji-worthy!
Deletemy favourite
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q918fs4RAto
The difference between SF and LA bands? I dunno, I come from Shropshire. It's all music tho' innit, some's good (to my taste) some's not so good (not to my taste), so I'm gonna say 381.6 miles.
ReplyDeleteThat LP sleeve tho' ... wow, one of the top three. I bought my copy of the LP in a Midlands charity shop a few years ago for 50p. I was excited 'till I looked closer: the cover is a bit moth eaten and some idiot wrote something meaningless on it in felt tip pen. Idiot. Nevertheless, it sits in a frame just behind where I sits now. The disc however ... well, it was 50p because it is scratched to hell and unplayable. I don't mind, it shows it's had a useful life and probably a good time along the way. Unplayable tho', so it would be nice if a listenable downloadable copy arrived from out of the fluffy clouded clear blue sky.
Cheers, Peanuts Molloy.
There's a big diff in the cultures. SF could never have birthed the Beach Boys, LA never the Dead.
DeleteI'll up these albums later - on my Sleep Break right now.
Here's th' three featured albums:
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(You really "should" give the first album a spin with Love For You as the opening track ... sounds natural) and the Beyond Dreams album has some of LaFlamme's most lyrical and lovely playing. The Orkustra is a one-listen experience for me. Too dark - that's Beausoleil's influence. In the linked interview above, Linda says he lived with them for six months, and they were "lucky to get out of that alive".
Dear Farq.
DeleteIt seems that your staff have let you down. The Beyond Dreams album is missing two tracks: #3 Who's Gonna Love Me and #10 One San Francisco Night. It would be ever so delightful if you were to post the missing tracks (and have a stern talk with the staff member who was at fault).
I saw It's a Beautiful Day many times in the sixties, but lost interest when the band line up was changed for the worse. I did put them on a festival (Karfluki Fest) I put on in 2006. During ntheir set, David had a problem with his violin, and I helped him get it fixed, and after the show he was very appreciative. He liked the festival so much, that he came as a guest for Big Brother And The Holding Company that was on our 2007 festival. During IABD set in 2006, I spent quite a bit of time talking to Linda when she was singing, and she was very delightful.
Thank you for the post of IABD, and the link to Neska's interview. The interview was a great read.
You're right. I don't have those tracks, they were lost in a freak kernel panic storm. If anyone has the complete album, please post it here!
DeleteGreat story about meeting David. I was not entirely surprised to read that Neska doesn'r rate him highly as a human being - ex-wives have their own take on ex-husbands.
Must have occurred somewhere between awakening from sleep break and first cup of coffee.
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