I saw this band in the summer of '68 at the Carousel Ballroom in San Francisco. They were the headline band, Credence Clearwater Revival was 2nd billing (they had just come out with their first single), third on the bill was a local city band; Santana. GREAT show. Beautiful Day was the best of the bunch.
Bl i like your comment i bet it was a great gig , my word all those fantastic bands ,, How lucky were you , i adore this beautiful song , it reminds me of many days gone by in happy times xx kind regards from South Yorks England lol x Jane x
I lived in Alameda this same time and went to the same venue. I graduated in 69 Encinal HS would trip over to Berkley and small venues to hear Big Brother, Jeff Airplane with the Takes Off album before Grace and The Holding company with Janis. What a great time. Can not explain it to anybody that didn't live there. Remember searching for an FM station as most were am and FM was the counter culture. Doors, Hendrix, early Chicago, Blood sweat and tears. Jeez we had it good.
I saw all of those groups either while in HS or college and looking back, I have to agree with you. As an afterthought, their live album has most of the songs that are listed here but is so much better.
Pushing 70 years on this planet and White Bird is the greatest song ever. Takes me on a mystical journey that I never want to end. Gonna request they play this when it's time for me to check out.
I remember when I bought this album in 1970. I would lay in my bed, put on my headphones, and drift away to another place where nobody would bother me. Great classic album.
(I WANT d-LSD-25, 500 ug right now.)acable0351 can you help me out? I have a high level of certainty David Crosby and a great many others would agree last but not least of which still seems to be me.@@acable0351 🤔could go to Colorado or The Dominion i reckon. Owsley stockpiles seem to be running thin.
This was my Favorite album back when I was 18 and into my 20’s back in the 70’s . And is STILL one of my ALL time favorites. I can listen to it and be transported back to that time .
The most beautiful song by It’s A Beautiful Day. Born in 1951 , I experienced the songs of the simple times when flower children truly believed in love and peace. This was an innocent expression of everything good , but sadly short-lived. Before the protests , hippees were beautiful gentle peaceful people. ¡What happened? Let's go back.
hey dude, i was there, i lived it and i remember that it was all hijacked by the communist movement opening the door to the globalist collectivist democrats who are weeding out the sovergn individualist spirit identity, abolishing human rights if not aligned with or approved by their lock step fascist goals - I changed back then when I saw what was happening - they are hell bent on anihilatin of the Constitution - I never signed on, nor will I ever, for that - I WILL NOT COMPLY !
Saw them October 9,1970, Fillmore East, late show. They opened for John Mayall that night. went to the local record shop next dat and ordered their first album. still have it.
Heyo amigos, It was a Beautiful Day in Amsterdam back in '1970. On my last day in Europe, I got to see them perform their sets in a nearly vacant theater. The first two rows were full of local youths looking a lot like vikings with their hair bangs to their shoulders, dressed in festival garb. David LaFlamme took us all on a wild ride, up to the ceiling, and screaming back down with his violin solos! Whew! Flew back to the states the next day, exhausted, grateful, and happy!
This is one of five albums that I would petition God to play in Heaven. Thank you, David; This composition of White Bird has soothed and steadied me many times in the last 50 years. Pure Genius folks, let's make it go viral now!!
I saw It's A Beautiful Day in San Diego (1970? 71?) at a small venue called Earth on Garnet Avenue in Pacific Beach. It was an amazing show. The opening act was a young Phil Keaggy, already a mind-blowing guitar virtuoso, and his band Glass Harp.
Four of us, all 15, sitting in a friend's bedroom with a half-ounce lump of good resin, a pack of cigarettes, a pack of rolling paper, a lighter ....... and this album amongst others, those long and late weekend evenings helped make me who I am today.
Now It's A Beautiful Day was one of the progressive rock groups that I heard on radio station WMMR in Philadelphia, which played mostly progressive rock. When I'd listen to WMMR, I heard a lot of folk music and unidentified album rock music, which also came from certain albums that were played on WMMR. "That's Tiftowein on WMMR, from their recent album. Good evening to you. I'm David Dye. We're WMMR in Philadelphia,the radio station. Coming up, you'll hear some Folkejopus here on WMMR. This is side one of the album, The Isle of Wight/Atlanta Pop Festival, otherwise known as The First Great Rock Festivals Of The Seventies!!" the radio blared out. -Mark Weintraub.
It was 1972 and I was in college in Gainesville, Florida. I was smoking some really good Gainesville Green and pretty high. The smoke from the incense mixed with the pot smoke. I laid back on the waterbed while a friend started playing this album. The blacklight posters glowed as I sank deeper and deeper into the water bed. This is one of the most beautiful songs ever recorded. Where did the time go? I am now 70 but I can still smell the incense in the air.
I have this LP in my collection. This is prime 60s psych! So much cool rock records from this era but this one is very listenable and easy to get into.
I danced at Humboldt State University to this song, alone at first. It was the only time I wanted a mind opening drug as I was about to graduate from High School, in 1971. I took a part of my Donald Duck blotter acid, after awhile didn’t feel much effects so took the other half…hence this song started playing while I was coming onto it, so in faded blue jean cut offs and a light blue lace and cotton, loose shirt to match, danced alone, then many joined me before the end. I also liked Hot Summer Day, as it was.
Heard this song when it first came out. On KPRI 106.5 FM San Diego. The song is timeless magic and so is the whole album. I rushed to get the album at the PX at Camp Pendleton. I was 16.
Yep bloome, am 70 and this group and this song filled me with good vibes when I really needed some, I was 18 yr. old hippie on my 4th. yr. of experimenting with all the basic drugs of the sixties. The following year in 1971 I started my traveling, East coast, Florida, up to New York, Quebec, Canada, then Puerto Rico, then Venezuela and Peru. My days of Shangrila and Days of Heaven! Beautiful people, enchanting places, life changing experiences that opened my eyes, my mind and especially my heart forever! Back when sitting with friends or strangers passing a J and "rapping" meant opening up heart to heart talking about love and life.
First time I've listened to this awesome album in ages , but I played it a LOT ; IN THE DAY ! And with the First Note(s) , I got a Serious Emotional Response !! 😆 Heavenly "piece(s) of work !!!!
RIP 8-6-23 ♥️David La Flamme this great violinist, artist died on my late husband’s birthday 😢my husband’s favorite song of all time. Mine too!David DeLacy Rest in Peace🕊
Hi! I'm 67 yo, and still have this album in vinyl. I also have Marrying Maiden & Grand Camel Suite in vinyl. Along with about 100 or more other vinyls... including Moody Blues, Pink Floyd, Dion DiMucci (solo albums), Leonard Cohen, Joan Baez, etc. Most albums are from the 1970's, when I first heard their work at age 17 yrs old. 😊
It's refreshing to read the comments from the Vietnam era dudes and how this song was important to them. I am 71 and was drafted in 69, later that year found myself in Germany....a fact I count as a blessing. This group as well as Jethro Tull and the Moody Blues helped me during those days. Retirement gives you time to kick back and reminisce musically.
John, I could have written your post exactly the same. Stationed in Germany and received orders, on Christmas Day, for Vietnam in Jan 70. Made it home in one piece.
@@bruceharris4138 Hi Bruce. Glad you made it back to "the world" safe and sound. Hopefully the Nam experience didn't affect your later life. I know guys who lived the memory of that experience for many years.
@@victoriamrose9645 Altho the Army was a bit boring and distasteful, being in Germany during the Vietnam conflict was pretty cool. Experiencing everything Europe had to offer on a GI's budget was rewarding.
I got married to "Bombay Calling" in 1986 to the love of my life. He passed away early and tragically in 2006, and I played this album again during my early mourning period and got much comfort. This is and always be a very very special album to me for the rest of my life.
White bird A beautiful song and each with its own story, I also got married in 1986, but ... I also have a life experience. We never know in advance, the end of our stories. Google translator. Pássaro branco Uma linda canção e cada um com sua história, Também casei em 1986, mas... Também tenho uma experiencia de vida. Nunca sabemos com antecedência, o final de nossas histórias. Google tradutor.
I am 54 years on, and hearing this for the first time. I am stunned at the awesome experience I had listening to this. It’s like a missing piece to a generation of music. As an influence on that generation, it explains so much!
15 yrs old at my friends house. His sister was playing this on their stereo. The music spoke to me. Saved my allowances and bought the album for myself. Still have it to this day.
I fondly recall those days of sitting around and listening to music instead of watching a screen. Only people who do it now are our age. Remember how careful you had to be setting the needle on the record? Glad I don't have to try that now.
OMG! Me too...and smoking my first joint at 15. Beautiful memories of an amazing time growing up in Ft Lauderdale hanging at the beach with my friends. 😊
Great album cover and a great band. I was in Genya Ravan's band, "Baby", and we toured with them for a while. They were a pleasure to work with and to know. I once lent their guitarist my Gibson SG when his guitar was on the fritz. Nice memories, nice music, nice people.
I haven’t listened to this album in decades. It’s beautiful to hear it again, but the comments here are just as beautiful, too. So many of us still around…..it’s been an amazing ride, and most of us are lucky to have grown up in the perfect time in America.
i am a 19 year old girl who never got drafted to the Vietnam War nor ever bought this album back in 1969 nor ever saw them live nor ever lived in San Francisco. in fact, i live in Brazil and i ended up knowing about this band because of Deep Purple, which is one of my all time favourite bands, that used the Bombay Calling main theme as the main riff for Child In Time. first listened to it at around 2020, during the pandemic, and fell in love at first listen. R.I.P Jon Lord, David LaFlamme and Pattie Santos.
Eu comprei várias fitas de rolo num sebo aqui no RJ. E numa delas havia esse álbum completo nela. Fui pesquisar e descobri esse grupo. Tem uma sonoridade bem parecida com Os Mutantes. Muito bom
@@liviajennings7339 Eu até então nunca tinha ouvido falar nesse grupo. Vou procurar mais outros álbuns deles.Decada 60 e 70 só se produziram ótimas músicas. Moro no Brasil.
@@liviajennings7339 We (Canadians) bought this as an 8 track tape in bargain basement in Cody Wyoming during our cross America trip in summer 1976 and it turned out to be a favorite
This is such a beautiful and one of a kind album....and of course takes me back to a free-er and much more happy time in my life! Thank you for posting and thank you artist for recording it! Belissimo!
I was never part of the drug culture. I returned from Vietnam in 1967 and got out of the service in 1968. My brother who spend time in SF turned me on to Its a Beautiful Day and I brought this album. I loved it and listened to it often. Somewhere during the course of life I lost the album. I am now 73 and rediscovered the album on YT. Its still one of the best albums ever recorded in my opinion. I am a strong Stones fan owning many of there albums but this album holds a special place in my heart.
I still have this LP, but too many have been lost -- stolen is more like it. We lose many things to Time, but someday when time is no more, we will retain the best of this life within us. Believe me; God has it kept for you -- this World is nothing.
The way man providing he is not slovenly, may tend to affect his termination of his own life as the desiradata expressed, I am not here to live up to your expectations, nor you to live up to mine. I am me and you are you. And if by chance we should meet, it is beautiful. Or something similar. Peace.
I recall getting introduced to this LP by a girl friend of mine back in the early 1970's. This recording is an absolute masterpiece. This recording represents the Renaissance type of era in rock music that you were able to experience back in the 1970's when musicians attempted to produce fantastic works of total complete fine arts. It's a Beautiful Day were pioneers of this pursuit of excellence in fine arts and music, that evolved into the Progressive/Classical genre and era of Rock music. Not just the music, you also experienced poetic lyrics to songs and in many recordings the package designs were excellent fine arts illustrations. Globe Propaganda who produced this album illustration cover also created the Quicksilver Messenger Service album design for "Shady Grove". I was in career art training school back then for fine arts and commercial art, I simply loved the illustration design for these two albums. They became an inspiration and motivated my personal pursuits as a fine artist illustrator. When you bought recordings like It's A Beautiful Day you got your money's worth and the bonus of a complete all around fine arts masterpiece.
Masterpiece is correct...Side 2 in particular....One of the most ambitious albums ever recorded...I'm sure LSD played into the creativity...Sounds amazing stone cold sober as well as not..
jazzyal53 i am Ted Kier54 . i grew up asking myself very same question. a publicity still. or a shot from a Heidi movie.-a painting by a man named hollister ,i learn. a subject of some legal dispute now
Many years ago, I was friends with a painter who was old and near death. He had enough gas left in the tank for one more work and I commissioned him to paint this. It hangs on my wall still, it reminds me of a better place in time
This is truly a beautiful album full of wonderful instrumental work, vocals, and lyrics. This is a must have album for '60's and '70's music fans. Imagine listening to this album on a good stereo with a vinyl recording. This is what music was meant to be. "White bird must fly..."
I don't imagine: I have 3 vinyl copies - the one I bought in the 60s, a European press, and a so-called audiophile press. And I listen an a high-end audio system. Magic.
Well there hot summer days for sure. Seem them play . Tickets were like $4.50. this album hangs on my wall to this day. I'm 66 and still love the great music
Amazing how music can be so totally embedded in your soul that you literally recall every beat once the song has started. When I heard this, I was a teen in the 80s. I loved this record.
I was 7 when I heard this for the first time. I just turned 60 in September and for the life of me, the immediate impression as a child never left me: we are that white bird in a golden cage, let us fly...
I had a bunch of - for promotion only albums - found at used Record stores - sold most at flea market for 5 bucks a pop - no remorse - I needed the Cash - ✌️😁🌈
I was a nineteen year old male senior in high school when I heard this album and I forgot just how long the White Bird song was! I'm 72 (2022) and this album took me back to those days when I was a teenager! Thanks!!!
I met my ex-wife in 1974. The 1st time we made love this album was playing next to the bed. She found out she was pregnant soon after. As we discussed names for our child, not knowing the sex back then, I told her, no I insisted that if we had a daughter her name would be White Bird. My family prayed for a boy, lol. On 1/29/1975 my child was born, a healthy boy named Tom. I love this album.
White Bird, she would have been blessed to have such a name. I almost convinced my wife to name our son Wolfgang Raphael, we named him Sean Michael. All lucky children should have Love as the middle name.
A group of outstanding musicians in a golden cage! Totally unrecognized for their true worth to music in general... highly underrated in my very humble opinion!
This was really nice to stumble upon. Thank you for laying out the tracks. My mother loved this album and played it all the time on vinyl when I was a kid. She's in really bad shape right now and in a nursing home where I can't visit her (indefinitely). So, this makes me feel close to her. Thank you again
My buddy walked in and put this album on the turn table. I said "I like that" who is it. You can pretty much guess how the conversation went from there, almost like "Who's on First Base". I bought every album. They came to campus to play. I stood right against the stage and that is when it happened, Linda LaFlamme winked at me. Love you guys then and now. RIP Linda, Thank you.
I was a passenger in a car full of LSD-stoned U.S. sailors in San Diego in 1969 (?) when we turned a corner and I saw a movie billboard proclaiming "It's A Beautiful Day." At first, I though it was a movie, but I think the musical group was playing there. I came that close to them, I guess. Odd how I can see that in my mind as plain as day. Trippy, man! Where have all the flowers gone, dude?
The flowers have gone to beautiful places in beautiful minds, some call it "summerland" or a "metaphor dream", or heaven, an eternal essence of all the particulars in space/time ---where it's always a beautiful day !
I was born in 1969 and I’m now 54 years old. I’ve always loved 60’s and 70’s music . The music back then is far better than any of the junk they make today.
In 73’ I bought a new Pioneer receiver, Marantz Imperial 7 speakers, and a United Audio dual turn table. This album, ELP’s Debut, Pictures at an Exhibition, Trilogy, Tarkus, Brain Salad Surgery, Doobie Brothers, Eagles, Brian Augers Oblivion Express “ Straight Ahead “, Who “ who’s Next”, Mountain, Steely Dan “ Can’t Buy a Thrill, and more to christen my new sound system. I forgot how awesome this is. OMG
This was the coolest album of all time when I was in High School. Such a creative band. Loved the music, the instrumentals, the lyrics, great singing. Very under rated band for it's day. Thanks for posting it!
When I was at Polk for AIT we had R&B, Country and some rock. I livened it up with some classic rock - White Bird was a favorite, Pink Floyd, and Tubular Bells freaked out people because it was the soundtrack of the horror movie. The guys on the other side of the barrack would play the same Al Green tape, front to finish, each guy after the other. So I needed my music...lol
My feline friend Shade and me sit on the stoop watching the sun set as I rub his belly smoke a cigar while listening to It's a Beautiful Day enjoying a beautiful evening.
This makes me feel so ancient. I drove my Rambler full of pals 30 miles away to St. Cloud Minnesota to hear them in concert. We visited a while at some girls apartment and when we walked outside to drive home it had snowed damn near a foot. I have no idea how I survived!
You survived because back then we were living in magical times. In fact we were magic! We're back on the Earth plane now, living what we learned while up there making what was impossible real. Live your life and "Don't forget the magic!"
When on Okinawa in '71, a fellow jarhead from La Jolla played this album in our barracks. Being from East Coast, I probably never would've even heard about this band. Nice mellow, relaxing music!
I too would put this specific song on (white bird) and just drift away. I am also '71' and the music from back in the '60s'/'70' STILL resonates thru my mind, body and soul🌿
I AM 74 and I still love it! When my son was around 7 years old I used to listen to this music on a Bose surround sound system on CD! For some reason the song freaked him out! I LOVE it! It takes me back!
Hot Summer Day is the perfect song to hear on a hot summer day just chilling in the sand Oceanside with some weed, some wine a handful of shrooms and the sound of the surf Long live the sounds of the sixties Long live the flower children the hippies and the freaks
@@realitywave Interesting. It sounds like you're a person who has enjoyed the effects of psilocybin. I've always enjoyed the effect that Q M S has had on my mind. ☮️
There is a beautiful but haunting quality to many of the songs on this album. White Bird has been a favorite since the album came out, Girl with No Eyes is more recent favorite, and has a quality that is both creepy and calming to me. In my family we love this combined feeling, we call it creepy cool.
My favorite album of the hundreds I own. Just listened again. David is such a wizard with the violin, especially the pizzicatos in White Bird. Every track is magic.
Probably my favorite album of all time. I saw them live twice. Once in Philadelphia about 1973 or so and in 2000 outside at Honeymoon Island State Park here in Florida. It brought tears to my eyes. It was freezing cold that night and many people left, except for a few diehard and dedicated fans. I was rewarded by getting a CD signed by the entire band.
My fave album ever too..'Time Is' is outer body stuff...I assumed they burned out early & never could reach this level again...I didn't like their following album but this is all that's needed...I'm in south Florida & they never played here..
Yes, the same here. What would we say if someone told us our paths would Cross electronically on this topic tar into the future in our 70s when you could score a lid of some righteous dope legally on any street corner at a POT SHOP ?? ? WOW! 😮😮😮😂
A very good friend of mine just recently passed away and we spent hours listening to this classic in the early 1970's just riding around in his car and having our own private party watching the world go by. Going to miss you John, Rest in Peace Brother.
Goin' on 66 yo and man, sure do cherish those awesome memories these songs elicit. Those memories are the sunlight, the rain and the fertile soil of a rich simple life.
I heard "White Bird" on the radio several times when I was young. I noticed it seemed very similar to Jefferson Airplane. Maybe it was the violin, and male/female harmonies. Regardless, it stuck in my head even if it didn't get a tons of airplay in the early '70's. I love the random goodness RUclips sometimes provides.
I Own all this music, David Laflamme . Gema Publishing/ Davlin Music....composer, vocalist, violinist, performer.
hi Linda ,great album, you sure can be proud of this its a bloody classic as far as im concerned, good luck to you,from downunder.
hi.linda great album, a classic good luck!
I bought this album for my dad in the 80's, since he lost his, and fell in it myself. Being 16 years old at the time.
Linda, Thanks to all of you musicians for making such beautiful music that has been very special to me in my life's journey of happiness and sorrow.
THANK YOU!!
I saw this band in the summer of '68 at the Carousel Ballroom in San Francisco. They were the headline band, Credence Clearwater Revival was 2nd billing (they had just come out with their first single), third on the bill was a local city band; Santana. GREAT show. Beautiful Day was the best of the bunch.
Bl i like your comment i bet it was a great gig , my word all those fantastic bands ,, How lucky were you , i adore this beautiful song , it reminds me of many days gone by in happy times xx kind regards from South Yorks England lol x Jane x
I lived in Alameda this same time and went to the same venue. I graduated in 69 Encinal HS would trip over to Berkley and small venues to hear Big Brother, Jeff Airplane with the Takes Off album before Grace and The Holding company with Janis. What a great time. Can not explain it to anybody that didn't live there. Remember searching for an FM station as most were am and FM was the counter culture. Doors, Hendrix, early Chicago, Blood sweat and tears. Jeez we had it good.
same places i hung out, lol
I saw all of those groups either while in HS or college and looking back, I have to agree with you. As an afterthought, their live album has most of the songs that are listed here but is so much better.
That ‘s a great show! 3 of my favorite bands!!
Pushing 70 years on this planet and White Bird is the greatest song ever. Takes me on a mystical journey that I never want to end. Gonna request they play this when it's time for me to check out.
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I remember when I bought this album in 1970. I would lay in my bed, put on my headphones, and drift away to another place where nobody would bother me. Great classic album.
Very nice with LSD
me too. loved those days
Headphone Yeah
INDEED eee🤔
There's a girl in my room and her face on the wall...
(I WANT d-LSD-25, 500 ug right now.)acable0351 can you help me out? I have a high level of certainty David Crosby and a great many others would agree last but not least of which still seems to be me.@@acable0351 🤔could go to Colorado or The Dominion i reckon. Owsley stockpiles seem to be running thin.
Beautiful young hippie girls turned me on to this album and a whole lot of other things... 1970 forever in my mind!
It Ain't Me 1968 what ? The 80s weren’t the raddest times?
It Ain't Me 1968 I imagine California is awesome in any decade...so many stories, people. ✌🏻
@Theonlyonestanding 60s/70s was best.
Lucky man really. So sad now🙌🙏💚
@@Garrysullivanjones NOPE, not even close... LOL
This was my Favorite album back when I was 18 and into my 20’s back in the 70’s . And is STILL one of my ALL time favorites. I can listen to it and be transported back to that time .
I love this recording. I've bought it, when I'm 15 years old. Now I'm 62 and love the music like at the first time. ❤️🎼🎵🎶🎵❤️
The most beautiful song by It’s A Beautiful Day. Born in 1951 , I experienced the songs of the simple times when flower children truly believed in love and peace. This was an innocent expression of everything good , but sadly short-lived. Before the protests , hippees were beautiful gentle peaceful people. ¡What happened? Let's go back.
We told the USA to go Green , Nixon crushed it , look what the Elites have turned OUR music into, the REPUBS have no souls !!!!
The Spirit still lives, always will, always has.
@@mike-kn5jf YOU are living that Life. TY
hey dude, i was there, i lived it and i remember that it was all hijacked by the communist movement opening the door to the globalist collectivist democrats who are weeding out the sovergn individualist spirit identity, abolishing human rights if not aligned with or approved by their lock step fascist goals - I changed back then when I saw what was happening - they are hell bent on anihilatin of the Constitution - I never signed on, nor will I ever, for that - I WILL NOT COMPLY !
@@kingscairn Agree. The time for happy talk with Manchurian Candidates is over.
Saw them October 9,1970, Fillmore East, late show. They opened for John Mayall that night. went to the local record shop next dat and ordered their first album. still have it.
Heyo amigos, It was a Beautiful Day in Amsterdam back in '1970. On my last day in Europe, I got to see them perform their sets in a nearly vacant theater. The first two rows were full of local youths looking a lot like vikings with their hair bangs to their shoulders, dressed in festival garb. David LaFlamme took us all on a wild ride, up to the ceiling, and screaming back down with his violin solos! Whew! Flew back to the states the next day, exhausted, grateful, and happy!
As an Old Hippie from San Francisco I much appreciate this album✝️🌻🕊🕊❤️🔥
This is one of five albums that I would petition God to play in Heaven. Thank you, David; This composition of White Bird has soothed and steadied me many times in the last 50 years. Pure Genius folks, let's make it go viral now!!
私の大切なLPを､今見ています！苦労して，手に入れてものです！青春時代のよき思い出です！
I saw It's A Beautiful Day in San Diego (1970? 71?) at a small venue called Earth on Garnet Avenue in Pacific Beach. It was an amazing show. The opening act was a young Phil Keaggy, already a mind-blowing guitar virtuoso, and his band Glass Harp.
Thank you Bill for that wonderful memory! ❤
I’ve heard of Glass Harp.
Four of us, all 15, sitting in a friend's bedroom with a half-ounce lump of good resin, a pack of cigarettes, a pack of rolling paper, a lighter ....... and this album amongst others, those long and late weekend evenings helped make me who I am today.
I bought this album twice and lost in moves. Thanks so much for this❤️🌺
I was born in October of 1961 I love classical music like this psychedelic 60s and early seventies
One of the best albums every recorded. Hard to find a decent quality, thank you for uploading. Maybe one day I'll find it on vinyl!
Now It's A Beautiful Day was one of the progressive rock groups that I heard on radio station WMMR in Philadelphia, which played mostly progressive rock.
When I'd listen to WMMR, I heard a lot of folk music and unidentified album rock music, which also came from certain albums that were played on WMMR.
"That's Tiftowein on WMMR, from their recent album.
Good evening to you.
I'm David Dye.
We're WMMR in Philadelphia,the radio station.
Coming up, you'll hear some
Folkejopus here on WMMR.
This is side one of the album,
The Isle of Wight/Atlanta Pop Festival,
otherwise known as The First Great Rock Festivals Of The Seventies!!" the radio blared out.
-Mark Weintraub.
It was 1972 and I was in college in Gainesville, Florida. I was smoking some really good Gainesville Green and pretty high. The smoke from the incense mixed with the pot smoke. I laid back on the waterbed while a friend started playing this album. The blacklight posters glowed as I sank deeper and deeper into the water bed. This is one of the most beautiful songs ever recorded. Where did the time go? I am now 70 but I can still smell the incense in the air.
I have this LP in my collection. This is prime 60s psych! So much cool rock records from this era but this one is very listenable and easy to get into.
I listen to this at least once a week. Sadly knowing so many of good friends have died that we would get together an listen to this back in 1969
I danced at Humboldt State University to this song, alone at first. It was the only time I wanted a mind opening drug as I was about to graduate from High School, in 1971. I took a part of my Donald Duck blotter acid, after awhile didn’t feel much effects so took the other half…hence this song started playing while I was coming onto it, so in faded blue jean cut offs and a light blue lace and cotton, loose shirt to match, danced alone, then many joined me before the end. I also liked Hot Summer Day, as it was.
lOVE THIS BAND REALLY TAKES ME BACK
Hot Summer Day.............adrenaline energy still feel it 50 years later.
Stunning 💚🌟👏👏👏🌳
inCredible :)
biGGGGGGGestFAAAAANks x a kazillion
Heard this song when it first came out.
On KPRI 106.5 FM San Diego.
The song is timeless magic and so is the whole album.
I rushed to get the album at the PX at Camp Pendleton.
I was 16.
I have this album and Ive seen them live!!!
Owned this back in the day!
Maravilloso album!!!
Ik heb deze lp ook nog in goede staat kraker!!!!
I just noticed 😊At 20.50 it's where deep purple got their tune from that became iconic....
A beautiful piece of music from a beautiful time that will probably never be repeated. I was lucky to be alive through it. It changed me forever.
Thank you
Me too. This music affected me profoundly. It spoke to me of freedom .
did you eat the acid?
Hippie generation! So amazing! 🙂
Me, likewise. The music is timeless. It's A Beautiful Day, this album and Marrying Maiden, are among the cherished.
I’m 71 years young and still love hearing this amazing LP. Gives me a youthful feel
Yep bloome, am 70 and this group and this song filled me with good vibes when I really needed some, I was 18 yr. old hippie on my 4th. yr. of experimenting with all the basic drugs of the sixties. The following year in 1971 I started my traveling, East coast, Florida, up to New York, Quebec, Canada, then Puerto Rico, then Venezuela and Peru. My days of Shangrila and Days of Heaven! Beautiful people, enchanting places, life changing experiences that opened my eyes, my mind and especially my heart forever! Back when sitting with friends or strangers passing a J and "rapping" meant opening up heart to heart talking about love and life.
Same here. My favorite album of all time actually. A feeling of summertime and no world cares.
@@artfernandez7127 año 80 Ibiza y todo magia
First time I've listened to this awesome album in ages , but I played it a LOT ; IN THE DAY ! And with the First Note(s) , I got a Serious Emotional Response !! 😆 Heavenly "piece(s) of work !!!!
I am also 71 (5//11/51 ) and this album is like engrained in my DNA !! / MEMORY
Rest in Peace David LaFlamme 8/10/23. Thank you! This music means more to me than I could ever put into words.
Holy trees, that's unfortunate! Might explain why it's on my recommendations, but still :/.This sounds pretty nice.
He and patti are back together again making beautiful music
RIP 8-6-23 ♥️David La Flamme this great violinist, artist died on my late husband’s birthday 😢my husband’s favorite song of all time. Mine too!David DeLacy Rest in Peace🕊
amen
I was at a bar in Fort Collins 1983 for The LaFlamme Family Band. He said,"We know You want to hear it so we're going to play the whole album."
This album was, in 1970, played almost as often as Carol King's Tapestry. Both have stood up well.
Tapestry came out in 1971. But I was grooving on both albums in the summer of 72. I’m listening to this album in 2023 on a Hot Summer Day.
Those, Santana Abraxas, and Ten years after "A Space in Time"...
I loved that album too
Best all around album ever. I am 69 years old and hardly remember what I had for breakfast, but can recite every word to every song.
😂😂😂es el 5G.y chentrail.calma
I feel you. I'm 75 and YES the lyrics of most songs I loved in the late 60s-mid-70s are still fresh ... 🥰
... you come too ... that called ... CRS =Can't Remember Shit ... happens to us as we age ...
72 and ditto! ❤
I’m the same age as you and share your opinion. Never forgotten.
My dad had this album growing up. I am 57 years old now and still have his beautiful stereo and this beautiful album that I cherish.
I still have this album from my long ago college days. Wonderful sounds!
... sure beat the Joan Baiz Folk music of those days... yes things are a lot different now ...
Hi! I'm 67 yo, and still have this album in vinyl.
I also have Marrying Maiden & Grand Camel Suite in vinyl. Along with about 100 or more other vinyls... including Moody Blues, Pink Floyd, Dion DiMucci (solo albums), Leonard Cohen, Joan Baez, etc. Most albums are from the 1970's, when I first heard their work at age 17 yrs old. 😊
@@willgaukler8979
It's A Beautiful Day was recording mainly from the late 1960's thru mid-1970's. 😊
Now you know.
@@Living2bLoved 1969 to be exact.
It's refreshing to read the comments from the Vietnam era dudes and how this song was important to them. I am 71 and was drafted in 69, later that year found myself in Germany....a fact I count as a blessing. This group as well as Jethro Tull and the Moody Blues helped me during those days.
Retirement gives you time to kick back and reminisce musically.
were you someplace awful?
John, I could have written your post exactly the same. Stationed in Germany and received orders, on Christmas Day, for Vietnam in Jan 70. Made it home in one piece.
@@bruceharris4138 Hi Bruce. Glad you made it back to "the world" safe and sound. Hopefully the Nam experience didn't affect your later life. I know guys who lived the memory of that experience for many years.
@@victoriamrose9645 Altho the Army was a bit boring and distasteful, being in Germany during the Vietnam conflict was pretty cool.
Experiencing everything Europe had to offer on a GI's budget was rewarding.
Jethro till, Jethro till, dude, 1973, Lake City Seattle, Pam and me, 57 TR3, and Jethro Till !! Memories !! Ciao !!! And thanks !!!
This has been my favorite album for over 50 years. I can sit and drift off listening to it. Glad someone else loves it enough to put out here.
Still have the original vinyl album of this and “Marrying Maiden”. Bought the CDs too.
Along the years I totally forgot about this album, when I saw this cover again, my best years came back at once ! Thanks !
Great cover and White Bird life changing.
I got married to "Bombay Calling" in 1986 to the love of my life. He passed away early and tragically in 2006, and I played this album again during my early mourning period and got much comfort. This is and always be a very very special album to me for the rest of my life.
White bird
A beautiful song and each with its own story,
I also got married in 1986, but ... I also have a life experience.
We never know in advance, the end of our stories.
Google translator.
Pássaro branco
Uma linda canção e cada um com sua história,
Também casei em 1986, mas... Também tenho uma experiencia de vida.
Nunca sabemos com antecedência, o final de nossas histórias.
Google tradutor.
@@carlosteixeira9548 bringing tears to my eyes .
@@mikekostanski8997
Yeah ... It's life
É... É a vida.
'Bombay Calling' inspired the amazing "Child in time" by Deep Purple. Greetings from Peru 🇵🇪.
I just wanna say, Bless u Lady !!! 98208
I am 54 years on, and hearing this for the first time. I am stunned at the awesome experience I had listening to this. It’s like a missing piece to a generation of music. As an influence on that generation, it explains so much!
I just love it when a young[er] person looks into the past . . . YT is great for that. I'm doing it myself.
They just don't make music like this anymore. Magic.
15 yrs old at my friends house. His sister was playing this on their stereo. The music spoke to me. Saved my allowances and bought the album for myself. Still have it to this day.
It still speaks to most of us all these years later.
I fondly recall those days of sitting around and listening to music instead of watching a screen. Only people who do it now are our age. Remember how careful you had to be setting the needle on the record? Glad I don't have to try that now.
worth some dough.
Me too. White Bird a masterpiece.
OMG! Me too...and smoking my first joint at 15. Beautiful memories of an amazing time growing up in Ft Lauderdale hanging at the beach with my friends. 😊
Great album cover and a great band. I was in Genya Ravan's band, "Baby", and we toured with them for a while. They were a pleasure to work with and to know. I once lent their guitarist my Gibson SG when his guitar was on the fritz. Nice memories, nice music, nice people.
I lived next door to Genya in Palenville N.Y. for a short time.
Thank you for sharing that memory of this wonderful Iconic group!
I don't care if it sounds dated or antiquated or whatever. This is beautiful music that lives on! Thanks for posting!
Don't worry. This album is a timeless classic.
I haven’t listened to this album in decades. It’s beautiful to hear it again, but the comments here are just as beautiful, too. So many of us still around…..it’s been an amazing ride, and most of us are lucky to have grown up in the perfect time in America.
The most iconic album cover of the 60s and pretty much summed up everything in just the first cut...'White Bird' is a masterpiece....
Totally agree. I still have my 1969 vinyl copy and Treasure it. White Bird and the lovely cover are masterpieces!
I’m 70 and I have the album framed and hanging on my wall. I was always drawn to the album cover, and I remember every word and note of White Bird.
bien julian
i am a 19 year old girl who never got drafted to the Vietnam War nor ever bought this album back in 1969 nor ever saw them live nor ever lived in San Francisco. in fact, i live in Brazil and i ended up knowing about this band because of Deep Purple, which is one of my all time favourite bands, that used the Bombay Calling main theme as the main riff for Child In Time. first listened to it at around 2020, during the pandemic, and fell in love at first listen. R.I.P Jon Lord, David LaFlamme and Pattie Santos.
Eu comprei várias fitas de rolo num sebo aqui no RJ.
E numa delas havia esse álbum completo nela.
Fui pesquisar e descobri esse grupo.
Tem uma sonoridade bem parecida com Os Mutantes. Muito bom
Uma surpresa mto boa esse álbum!
@@liviajennings7339 Eu até então nunca tinha ouvido falar nesse grupo.
Vou procurar mais outros álbuns deles.Decada 60 e 70 só se produziram ótimas músicas. Moro no Brasil.
@@liviajennings7339 We (Canadians) bought this as an 8 track tape in bargain basement in Cody Wyoming during our cross America trip in summer 1976 and it turned out to be a favorite
This is such a beautiful and one of a kind album....and of course takes me back to a free-er and much more happy time in my life! Thank you for posting and thank you artist for recording it! Belissimo!
I was never part of the drug culture. I returned from Vietnam in 1967 and got out of the service in 1968. My brother who spend time in SF turned me on to Its a Beautiful Day and I brought this album. I loved it and listened to it often. Somewhere during the course of life I lost the album. I am now 73 and rediscovered the album on YT. Its still one of the best albums ever recorded in my opinion. I am a strong Stones fan owning many of there albums but this album holds a special place in my heart.
Υou have my respectable soldier
I still have this LP, but too many have been lost -- stolen is more like it. We lose many things to Time, but someday when time is no more, we will retain the best of this life within us. Believe me; God has it kept for you -- this World is nothing.
@@eugwx9956 Thank you for your service I amproud to believe I shortened our time at war
Thanks for your service sir! I enjoy the freedoms I have because of your willingness to protect them. THANK YOU!
The way man providing he is not slovenly, may tend to affect his termination of his own life as the desiradata expressed, I am not here to live up to your expectations, nor you to live up to mine. I am me and you are you. And if by chance we should meet, it is beautiful. Or something similar. Peace.
I recall getting introduced to this LP by a girl friend of mine back in the early 1970's. This recording is an absolute masterpiece. This recording represents the Renaissance type of era in rock music that you were able to experience back in the 1970's when musicians attempted to produce fantastic works of total complete fine arts. It's a Beautiful Day were pioneers of this pursuit of excellence in fine arts and music, that evolved into the Progressive/Classical genre and era of Rock music. Not just the music, you also experienced poetic lyrics to songs and in many recordings the package designs were excellent fine arts illustrations. Globe Propaganda who produced this album illustration cover also created the Quicksilver Messenger Service album design for "Shady Grove". I was in career art training school back then for fine arts and commercial art, I simply loved the illustration design for these two albums. They became an inspiration and motivated my personal pursuits as a fine artist illustrator. When you bought recordings like It's A Beautiful Day you got your money's worth and the bonus of a complete all around fine arts masterpiece.
Wow Stephen !!!
Masterpiece is correct...Side 2 in particular....One of the most ambitious albums ever recorded...I'm sure LSD played into the creativity...Sounds amazing stone cold sober as well as not..
Your right album covers were works of art back then.
Thank you for posting Stephen.
Any other masterpieces you recommend checking out in case I missed something? Just discovering this one
One of the most beautiful record of the sixties . Underrated LP ! And the front cover ??? What a trip ;P
the front cover is a GAS!!!!!!!! made by Globe propaganda as well as QMS happy trails + shady grove....great covers!!!!!
jazzyal53 i am Ted Kier54 . i grew up asking myself very same question. a publicity still. or a shot from a Heidi movie.-a painting by a man named hollister ,i learn. a subject of some legal dispute now
My guess, he wasn't into the money as much as the music. Those types end up broke or in jazz and broke but create the absolute best music.
8alot4t 2019 I found this, now it’s in the top plays of mine.
Better late than never(wipes brow)
ALSO Quicksilver Messenger Service happy trails ....BADASS
Omg! I’m 66 years old, I remember this like it was yesterday!! What great memories of my past!! This takes me back for sure!
Many years ago, I was friends with a painter who was old and near death. He had enough gas left in the tank for one more work and I commissioned him to paint this. It hangs on my wall still, it reminds me of a better place in time
This band will never get old. I'm pushing 67 and enjoy taking a walk down memory lane.
I'm 71 Karen and jog down it. Sometimes.
67 myself, and still creating memories!
This is truly a beautiful album full of wonderful instrumental work, vocals, and lyrics. This is a must have album for '60's and '70's music fans. Imagine listening to this album on a good stereo with a vinyl recording. This is what music was meant to be. "White bird must fly..."
No shit Sherlock, I've been without this music for a few decades and it truely does sooth the savage beast.
. . . and taken a few steps further, sets the white bird free !
do you want to own that vinyl record I have one for sale !!!!!!!!
I don't imagine: I have 3 vinyl copies - the one I bought in the 60s, a European press, and a so-called audiophile press. And I listen an a high-end audio system. Magic.
hpm's
Well there hot summer days for sure. Seem them play . Tickets were like $4.50. this album hangs on my wall to this day. I'm 66 and still love the great music
Clay's bro has wonderful taste in music...thanks for saving our asses when we were freezing in the cold
I have an unopened case containing 50 of these albums found in my grandpas house who owned a record shop for 54 years
WOW!
Wonderful!
Amazing how music can be so totally embedded in your soul that you literally recall every beat once the song has started. When I heard this, I was a teen in the 80s. I loved this record.
I loved this album when it first came out. Now I am 78 and I'm still loving it and still getting high also lol
Me too (takes a toke of legal weed). Yep, and grow my own in Canada.
I was 7 when I heard this for the first time. I just turned 60 in September and for the life of me, the immediate impression as a child never left me: we are that white bird in a golden cage, let us fly...
I've never heard this before. I'm blown away! Digging it.
I was alive when it was recorded, but was unaware of it then.
I have an original master of this album that was giving to me by a promoter. AMAZING!!!
Lucky you!
I had a bunch of - for promotion only albums - found at used Record stores - sold most at flea market for 5 bucks a pop - no remorse - I needed the Cash - ✌️😁🌈
Michael Baker so do I! One of my favorite classics not many are aware of 😎
Was it Bill Graham?
and then what?
65 years old...I had this on 8 track...I know every word by heart 💜
Cor, a youngster.... Nearly everyone else is in their 70's. LOL {Inc. me.
David signed my 8 track cassette after his show in Fairfax Ca. About 2006? What a nice guy! He said Linda died in a car crash?
Me too I just love this
What is an "8 track" ? ;)
65 years old, also had a Muntz 8 track player and this as well
Thanks for putting the whole album up. Love it and haven't heard it for 25 years.
I was a nineteen year old male senior in high school when I heard this album and I forgot just how long the White Bird song was! I'm 72 (2022) and this album took me back to those days when I was a teenager! Thanks!!!
Good times and music! This album and Beatles White album in 1969-- life changing!
I was married and spent two weeks listening to this album and loving my husband. He died at 36 and now I'm 73 still loving the memories and the music.
I met my ex-wife in 1974. The 1st time we made love this album was playing next to the bed. She found out she was pregnant soon after. As we discussed names for our child, not knowing the sex back then, I told her, no I insisted that if we had a daughter her name would be White Bird. My family prayed for a boy, lol. On 1/29/1975 my child was born, a healthy boy named Tom. I love this album.
I God , dude, you, man, this is so aussume that u told all of us this, it's really great, it's OK !!! This thing keeps spelling words wrong !! Ciao !!
that's a beautiful story!
White Bird is a Fine Native America name. Wouldn’t you say?
Tom or White bird? It's a children of love 💘 no ? 🙏💚
White Bird, she would have been blessed to have such a name. I almost convinced my wife to name our son Wolfgang Raphael, we named him Sean Michael. All lucky children should have Love as the middle name.
A group of outstanding musicians in a golden cage! Totally unrecognized for their true worth to music in general... highly underrated in my very humble opinion!
White Bird 0:00
Hot Summer Day 6:25
Wasted Union Blues 12:04
Girl with No Eyes 16:15
Bombay Calling 20:06
Bulgaria 24:30
Time is 30:55
Danke♥️
Thank you kindly ❤
White Bird 0:00
Hot Summer Day 6:25
Wasted Union Blues 12:04
Girl with No Eyes 16:15
Bombay Calling 20:06
Bulgaria 24:30
Time is 30:55
Ok a child in time rip off lick.
.31 seconds left
Gratias in multitudo.
This was really nice to stumble upon. Thank you for laying out the tracks. My mother loved this album and played it all the time on vinyl when I was a kid. She's in really bad shape right now and in a nursing home where I can't visit her (indefinitely). So, this makes me feel close to her. Thank you again
@@PickledEggs4
My pleasure.
My buddy walked in and put this album on the turn table. I said "I like that" who is it. You can pretty much guess how the conversation went from there, almost like "Who's on First Base".
I bought every album.
They came to campus to play. I stood right against the stage and that is when it happened, Linda LaFlamme winked at me. Love you guys then and now. RIP Linda, Thank you.
I was a passenger in a car full of LSD-stoned U.S. sailors in San Diego in 1969 (?) when we turned a corner and I saw a movie billboard proclaiming "It's A Beautiful Day." At first, I though it was a movie, but I think the musical group was playing there. I came that close to them, I guess. Odd how I can see that in my mind as plain as day. Trippy, man! Where have all the flowers gone, dude?
The flowers have gone to beautiful places in beautiful minds, some call it "summerland" or a "metaphor dream", or heaven, an eternal essence of all the particulars in space/time ---where it's always a beautiful day !
I was attending SDSU at the time having similar experiences. You had to have been there...
Jim Muncy. Long time ago
Agent Orange got em. Like us.
Jim Muncy yeah i think it was at San Diego sports arena.
I was born in 1969 and I’m now 54 years old. I’ve always loved 60’s and 70’s music . The music back then is far better than any of the junk they make today.
LOL, I had this on an 8-track tape in 1969 😀
You're too young to be that old. Open your ears, youngster. There is some GREAT music being made in the 21st century. Time to move into it.
@@rtcastleberry no thanks!
In 73’ I bought a new Pioneer receiver, Marantz Imperial 7 speakers, and a United Audio dual turn table. This album, ELP’s Debut, Pictures at an Exhibition, Trilogy, Tarkus, Brain Salad Surgery, Doobie Brothers, Eagles, Brian Augers Oblivion Express “ Straight Ahead “, Who “ who’s Next”, Mountain, Steely Dan “ Can’t Buy a Thrill, and more to christen my new sound system. I forgot how awesome this is. OMG
RIP David LaFlamme. You composed, sang and performed some of the most beautiful and enduringly loved music of my life. Thank you.
This was the coolest album of all time when I was in High School. Such a creative band. Loved the music, the instrumentals, the lyrics, great singing. Very under rated band for it's day. Thanks for posting it!
It's aussume to see people recall their aged past mark, it's so frikin cool, Ciao!!! 98208
This album will never get old for me❤
After being drafted into the U.S. Army in 1970, this along with The Moody Blues helped me to retain sanity.
And who knows but that may have helped pave a path back to the good ole USA, and now a beautiful reunion !!!
I was drafted in 1971 and loved both groups. I saw the LaFlammes in Knotts Berry Farm 20 years ago and still amazing.
I got out of the Marine Corps in 1970 and this album helped me find my sanity again. Saw them in Houston in the Music Hall.
When I was at Polk for AIT we had R&B, Country and some rock. I livened it up with some classic rock - White Bird was a favorite, Pink Floyd, and Tubular Bells freaked out people because it was the soundtrack of the horror movie. The guys on the other side of the barrack would play the same Al Green tape, front to finish, each guy after the other. So I needed my music...lol
no Jefferson Airplane?
My feline friend Shade and me sit on the stoop watching the sun set as I rub his belly smoke a cigar while listening to It's a Beautiful Day enjoying a beautiful evening.
That sweet ethereal guitar, violin & voices. Transporting me...again
Yes.
This makes me feel so ancient. I drove my Rambler full of pals 30 miles away to St. Cloud Minnesota to hear them in concert. We visited a while at some girls apartment and when we walked outside to drive home it had snowed damn near a foot. I have no idea how I survived!
Mark Munkholm a bit like a small percentage of people getting a flu.....
I had a '65 Rambler. Loved that car!
I live in Hibbing, it's snowing now.
Ha! Mr. Olson, you're forgetting your Scandinavian heritage! Lots of Norwegians up there; i think the cold reminded them of home.
You survived because back then we were living in magical times. In fact we were magic! We're back on the Earth plane now,
living what we learned while up there making what was impossible real. Live your life and "Don't forget the magic!"
I’m 73 and had forgotten about this one. It’s just nice to lay back and listen.
✌️
White Bird is one of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard; It sounds like the group took it's sound from English Folk/Jazz group The Pentangle.
Or perhaps early Fairport Convention.
Can agree, yes very similar.
Pentangle was my fathers love. Sunday before bed 😍🥰
Oh and Fairport was my later teens taking Dad to gigs
I am 71 years old. Still cherish this album after all those years.
When on Okinawa in '71, a fellow jarhead from La Jolla played this album in our barracks. Being from East Coast, I probably never would've even heard about this band. Nice mellow, relaxing music!
I am 68 and this music still transports me to a much happier life.
I too would put this specific song on (white bird) and just drift away. I am also '71' and the music from back in the '60s'/'70' STILL resonates thru my mind, body and soul🌿
I AM 74 and I still love it! When my son was around 7 years old I used to listen to this music on a Bose surround sound system on CD! For some reason the song freaked him out! I LOVE it! It takes me back!
Hot Summer Day is the perfect song to hear on a hot summer day just chilling in the sand Oceanside
with some weed, some wine a handful of shrooms and the sound of the surf
Long live the sounds of the sixties
Long live the flower children
the hippies and the freaks
@@realitywave
Interesting. It sounds like you're a person who has enjoyed the effects of psilocybin.
I've always enjoyed the effect that
Q M S has had on my mind. ☮️
But a hot summer day in San Francisco is 80 degrees with an ocean breeze..lol
We ARE living long!
Y en el 70 murió Janis .
75 and still toking and enjoying the great albums of the late 60s-mid 70s. 😁
There is a beautiful but haunting quality to many of the songs on this album. White Bird has been a favorite since the album came out, Girl with No Eyes is more recent favorite, and has a quality that is both creepy and calming to me. In my family we love this combined feeling, we call it creepy cool.
First time ever hearing this. Wow. I'm blown away.
me too back in the 60s
Same, man.
@@mamapegg me too
This album should be in the history books 4 one of the best psychedelic albums
Welcome to some kickass music... lol
My favorite album of the hundreds I own. Just listened again. David is such a wizard with the violin, especially the pizzicatos in White Bird. Every track is magic.
Rip David LaFlamme August 06 2023, thanks for the record, i just discovered it here, great music, great days 1967…! FR
Probably my favorite album of all time. I saw them live twice. Once in Philadelphia about 1973 or so and in 2000 outside at Honeymoon Island State Park here in Florida. It brought tears to my eyes. It was freezing cold that night and many people left, except for a few diehard and dedicated fans. I was rewarded by getting a CD signed by the entire band.
My fave album ever too..'Time Is' is outer body stuff...I assumed they burned out early & never could reach this level again...I didn't like their following album but this is all that's needed...I'm in south Florida & they never played here..
Iam 78 years old and this song brings back instant memories in my youth.❤
Yes, the same here. What would we say if someone told us our paths would
Cross electronically on this topic tar into the future in our 70s when you could score a lid of some righteous dope legally on any street corner at a POT SHOP ?? ? WOW! 😮😮😮😂
I am 70 and this album was my very favorite. I wore it out. was having lots of personal "stuff" going on and it literally saved my life
I'm 77 and used to have this album...nice.
A very good friend of mine just recently passed away and we spent hours listening to this classic in the early 1970's just riding around in his car and having our own private party watching the world go by. Going to miss you John, Rest in Peace Brother.
Miss that life myself , if we could just go back !
Goin' on 66 yo and man, sure do cherish those awesome memories these songs elicit. Those memories are the sunlight, the rain and the fertile soil of a rich simple life.
I miss the promise those times offered, it was a novel idea the world couldn't or wouldn't accept.
It is a special song for my late husband and I. 😢
We've loved you all our lives. Thank you for sharing.
I still have mine in very good condition even after playing it a thousand times.
I heard "White Bird" on the radio several times when I was young. I noticed it seemed very similar to Jefferson Airplane. Maybe it was the violin, and male/female harmonies. Regardless, it stuck in my head even if it didn't get a tons of airplay in the early '70's.
I love the random goodness RUclips sometimes provides.
Used to listen to this great album in 1971 at the tender age of 18. Still a classic, though hardly known.
I grew up on this ... so good to have my old friend back. Music was real