Iron Butterfly (Official Thread)

[kellyjdrummer]

Actually, the drum solo in In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida is less the four minutes long.

 

[kellyjdrummer]

Who can forget the infamous never ending drum solo to In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida?? Iron Butterfly were one of the heaviest psychedelic bands of the 60's for sure.



Their debut album In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida is one of the best albums of the 60's and IMO was not where their music started and ended. The band had many fine songs beyond this.

Doug Ingle, the vocalist and keyboardist of the band has stated that In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida was a llurred version of In The Garden Of Eden! The band went through numerous line up changes.

Let's post some of our favorite songs,albums,clips and share with us (our more experienced members) if you had the chance to ever see them live in concert....!!!

Have you ever noticed that "Termination" is misspelled on the song list on the back of the album? All of the original releases had this error.

 

[kellyjdrummer]

Re: Iron Butterfly

Erik Brann, IB's guitar player was only the tender age of 17 on their debut record...and a very advanced musician for that time and his age.

Erik Brann didn't play on the debut. He first appeared on In A Gadda Da Vida.

 

[METALPRIEST]

Re: Iron Butterfly

Erik Brann didn't play on the debut. He first appeared on In A Gadda Da Vida.

Yeah well Heavy and Vida both came out in 68...so I tripped up.

Thanks for pointing it out as it was Danny Weis who was also in Rhinoceros.

I stand corrected.

 

[Groovy Man]

Re: Iron Butterfly

The BUTTERFLY will always flap its PSYCHEDELIC wings

I miss snakes&ladders and his comments like this.

Cheers snakes, where ever you are!

 

[Lord Dweedle]

I so want more of their music, i only own the single song inna gadda da vida (sorry if misspelt), i want their whole album of it, hard to find in NZ though, may buy it from an mp3 site

 

[Groovy Man]

I so want more of their music, i only own the single song inna gadda da vida (sorry if misspelt), i want their whole album of it, hard to find in NZ though, may buy it from an mp3 site

"In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" or their first album ''Heavy'...

either or....both....

 

[kellyjdrummer]

Iron Butterfly

Heavy (1968)
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (1968)
Soundtrack to The Savage 7 (1968)
Ball (1969)
Live (1970)
Metamorphosis (1970)
Evolution: The Best of Iron Butterfly
Star Collection
Scorching Beauty (1975)
Sun and Steel (1976)
Rare Flight (1988)
Light & Heavy: The Best of Iron Butterfly (1993)
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida Deluxe Edition (1995)
Fillmore East 1968 (2011)

Who can forget the infamous never ending drum solo to In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida?? Iron Butterfly were one of the heaviest psychedelic bands of the 60's for sure.



Their debut album In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida is one of the best albums of the 60's and IMO was not where their music started and ended. The band had many fine songs beyond this.

Doug Ingle, the vocalist and keyboardist of the band has stated that In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida was a llurred version of In The Garden Of Eden! The band went through numerous line up changes.

Let's post some of our favorite songs,albums,clips and share with us (our more experienced members) if you had the chance to ever see them live in concert....!!!









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Actually, the drum solo didn't run much longer than three minutes, although it seemed much longer.

 

[kellyjdrummer]

I so want more of their music, i only own the single song inna gadda da vida (sorry if misspelt), i want their whole album of it, hard to find in NZ though, may buy it from an mp3 site

thepiratebay.se and install uTorrent to decrypt it. If not, let me know, I'll mail a copy.

 

[kellyjdrummer]

Re: Iron Butterfly

Yeah well Heavy and Vida both came out in 68...so I tripped up.

Thanks for pointing it out as it was Danny Weis who was also in Rhinoceros.

I stand corrected.

Eric didn't appear again till "Scorching Beauty." Now he is gone. RIP.