As
you might imagine, when you hold a concert in somebodys living room,
it's an intimate occasion - even if it's a huge living room. That's
what makes the In-Home
Concert series such a hit with fans. You
can check out previous featured acts here. Last night we
shared a meal with the band and ended up sitting less than 2 feet away
during the performance. 
And did they ROCK! They
played a solid hour of hits and then took a short break to sign CD's
and original album covers and chat and drink a little vino and then
they came back on for another half hour of entertainment. They were
obviously enjoying themselves and, as a result, the rest of us did too.
David regaled us with short stories between songs about the genesis of
some of the material, about escaping out the back door of an old church
with Steve Miller as the cops were coming thru the front door and about
traveling thru India with the Maharishi in the early 70's. 
The
last time I saw these folks live was in 1971 or 1972 on a bill with
Quicksilver and The New Riders of The Purple Sage (or maybe it was
Santana - there is much that's unclear about those days). Their music
hasn't lost a beat. Both David & Linda retain fine voices with
great range, David's fiddle goes from a gentle sigh to a rasping yell
in a moment showing why the value of rock & roll fiddle has
always
been underrated. His instrumental duets with lead guitar Rob Espinosa
were electric and his vocal duets with Linda were perfection. They've
been together 35 years through kids, grandkids and numerous concerts
and the compatibility shows through in every nuance of their music. 
The
band is made up of David LaFlamme and his wife Linda. She's not the
original wife Linda who started the band in 1967 but she's the Linda
that's been there since 1970 so she's the voice you know. Drummer Val
Fuentes is also an original to the band, Toby Gray on Bass and Gary
Thomas on Keyboards have been with them for 20 years and lead guitarist
Rob Espinosa is the newcomer with only about 8 years tenure. 
If
David LaFlamme and It's A Beautiful Day make it to your part of the
country, don't write them off as an over-the-hill gang. They will rock
your socks off. Not only that they are congenial, personable, eager to
sign autographs and talk about family or the old days. But not the good
old days - because as David says, there's still plenty of good days
left to come. 
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