Performance
Val Fuentes
Chicago, United States
Val Fuentes is credited on 147 releases across 16 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1968–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
147
Pressings credited
16
Albums
7
Decades active
47
In collections
Biography
Val Fuentes (born November 25, 1947) is the original and current drummer for the folk and rock band It's a Beautiful Day. He has also played with Fat Chance, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Shadowfax, Lina Valentino, Linda Imperial, The Pure Pleasure Band, and The Moments. Fuentes lives in California and plays shows with David LaFlamme until LaFlamme’s death in 2023 and It's a Beautiful Day, as well as several other local Sonoma County bands such as The Zins, a rock and funk group. He has a son.
Bio from Wikipedia
Credited work
147 releases · 16 albums · active 1968–2025
- Performance · 389
Studios: Pacific High Recording · Wally Heider Studios · Carnegie Hall · Quadrafonic Sound Studios
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- It's A Beautiful Day
- David LaFlamme Band
- Various
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