David laFlamme has his own website now at DavidlaFlamme.com Note, it's called the official website, but some of the original musicians don't have anything to do with that either. basically, the musicians on that website are what used to be The david LaFlamme Band who played for many years throughout the west (David LaFlamme and The Roadhogs) The only thing different now is that David trademarked the name IABD and applied it to this band. People should not consider it a reunion of the original musicians except for Val Fuentes the drummer
The above photgraph of David LaFlamme at the Whiskey-A-Go-Go on January 17th, 1999 is courtesy of Don Aters at Haight Street Music News
This photograph was given to me by Don Aters in appreciation for all the legal research I did on Matthew Katz, It's A beautiful Dayand Moby Grape.
Below is some stuff that you'll never find on the 'official' site and might explain why half the band isn't even there
David LaFlamme apparently took credit for quite a bit of things he didn't originate, see the section on Vince Wallace. he exaplins alot in his letter. And i was told that David originally did credit Vince with Bombay Calling when he first played it live, because it was a cool thing to have a good authentic jazz song in there. But as the shows went on david started taking more and more credit for it, eventually registering a copyright under his own nameThere are second generation musicians who still will not talk about what happened to this day, because of what David did back then, from what I understand. While no-one questions Davids extraordinary talent for the electric violin and singing abilities, there seems to be a fundamental underlying inabilty to recognize the five other musicians who made the name famous, and made a gold record. It's a problem that continues to this day, and is at the very heart of why this band dissapeared for so long. It wasn't because of a lack of talent
Time is too short to write original material
David LaFlamme owns the publishing on the song "Time Is" and copyrighted it under his own name..The problem is that he didn't write the words, Henry Van Dyke did. I've been told that david originally saw these lyrics backstage at a gig sometime in 1968. It was a Time magazine article that had this poem in there
"Time is too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who laugh, But for those who love, For those who really love, time is eternity"-David LaFlamme, first album, 1969
"Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity."--Henry Van Dyke, 1904
I have been told that this was originally published in "Katrina's Sun-Dial". First book publication (it may have appeared in a periodical before that) was in 1904, in Van Dyke's "Music and Other Poems".
Thanks, Chaz ..Please email me if you have more info
"David: The quality is poor and it is a blatant... It’s illegal. First off, it is illegal to put out product that doesn’t recognize the source and the licensing source."
quote from David LaFlamme in an article dated February 19th, 1998, available on this website, talking about the San Francisco Sound release of IABD
And here's a link to a fairly recent interview
Here's an early photo of David with Dan Hicks from 1968..This is a photo insert from this CD, available at Dan Hick's website..David on violin before IABD!!..Look for "Early Muses"
An interview with David LaFlamme
Please note that this interview is copyrighted by David LaFlamme and John Barthel
In this interview you will find a link to Bobby Beausoleil who was in a band with David prior to IABD...You will find a much more extensive history of the Electric Chamber Orkustra(pre IABD)in an interview here
David LaFlamme is voted one of the best musicians of all time..See 1968-string/wind.
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