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This vintage classic is psychedelic hard rock. Both contemplative and visual imagery yet absolutely a rocker. Even 55 years later.
This really stands up, if young people can just get into the psychedelic sound, which many of them can’t seem to stand. I’m glad YOU like it, John! 😁
John, the drum solo was famous even before the song got much radio play. It was not a surprise - but it was great! Everyone was beating the drum riff on their desks at school.
Eric Brann, the guitar player was 17 when they recorded this.
And a classically trained violinist.
We were all blown away by this in 1968. And left with a big smile on our faces. I was a junior in HS.
Seventeen year old with a
mind blown away. Stoner music.✌
If somebody asked me to describe 1968, I would play this song.
Pure psychedelic rock. The longest song EVER at that time, and a stoners delight. This was always played when weed was around.
I was in 7th grade when this came out. Our math teacher over the school year used a 16 mm movie camera and filmed all sorts of stuff through the year, then used this as the soundtrack. At the end of the year we had an assembly and we got to watch the movie in the auditorium. It was AWESOME, thank you Mr. Cooper ❤
Great reaction 😁 This song was my introduction to rock when I was 6 yrs old, later I found out that they are from my home town San Diego California. This was my favorite song back then, and it's still one of my favorite rock tunes. Speaking of haunting, 👻side B of the 45 rpm to this song is so spooky🕸🕷 that we use it for Halloween 🎃 every year. Thank you Peace!
What did we think? We were NOT listening to this with our families!! 😂. This was the soundtrack for get-togethers with friends, if you were part of the counter-culture and weed was a part of your life. Which it was for me and my crowd. ✌️ this was played in a dark room with black-light posters on the wall. Floor pillows. Incense.
Another drum solo that absolutely smokes: "Jump Into the Fire," Harry Nilsson.
Plus the bass intro by Herbie Flowers sets the tone for this classic!
" ambush " is another one on the same album by Harry.
Saw them do this in concert in Denver in 1969. It was in the round so the stage slowly rotated. Needless to say the air was blue from the smoke of a certain substance. ☮️✌️✌️
Poor Iron Butterfly: nobody wanted to hear anything else from them but this. It stands alone as perhaps THE greatest pure psychedelic opus from that period.
We were blown away by this in '68. I bet Ray Manzarak of the Doors loved this keyboard guy. And the great, great Lee Dorman (Captain Beyond) on bass guitar!
Introduced my adult nephew and wife to this about 8 years ago. They were pretty stoned. They LOVED it and I bought the vintage album for them as a Christmas present. 😁✌️
This tune is simply BADASS and the engineering is superb! The first concert I ever went to was the Butterfly...my ticket cost me $2.50., and I was blown away by Ron Bushy's drum solo. All in all, one of the greatest memories in my life. By the way, the Butterfly's "Ball" album may be of interest to you. I, for one, surely hope so. Great reaction, man.
Yes. Soul Experience from Ball was super.
@@erdossuitcase7667 Absolutely!
Those were the days. I could see great bands from anywhere from a buck to 5 bucks. I saw so many concerts back then but never got to hear Iron Butterfly. This song will always stand the test of time.
What makes this track one the gold standards of epic tracks is that when the band showed up to record,..the engineer Don Casale said he wanted them to do a run through for a sound check. What the band didn’t know is that he pressed the record button. When they were done,.. he said “come in, i want to show you😢 something. Thus….. “one take”. They did overdub the vocals and guitar. But the majority is a one take. You hear. someone toggling pedals or mics in the 2nd half. Raw,.. Classic,.. Timeless. Grand reaction. Thankyou.🔥🎸🤘✌️😀
I remember playing this in a coverband I was 18 at the time . I was always hopeful that the drum solo would turn out ok because I was the drummer. 😊
Every garage band in North America played some version of this, depending on their ability.......
I bought this album when I was 14 years old in 1968 and I still have it in my vinyl collection.
Still as fresh as the first day it was released.
Love it then and I loved now ❤ awesome ✌️
Me too i'm 62 😅
Me too. First listen with best friends at neighbors house on Admiral stereo!!! We took a trip, without leaving the living room.
It was more than just a song it was an experiance.Many radio stations wouldnt air it due to its length.
As a drummer, hearing this the first time, I freaked out. The tune became an instant classic. The mind groves and moves throughout. These dudes really cranked one out. All the places they go in this.
The psychedelic anthem of my youth. Amazing song.
This is the song that introduced heavy metal to many of us when it hit the radio, it would be a couple years later that Sabbath came out with Paranoid and Iron Man
This whole version never made it to AM "Rock" stations in the day. This came out in the advent of album rock played on FM stations. Only place you could listen to full versions of songs, without buying the album, was FM radio. AM was left to shorter versions and the teenyboppers. FM was for the serious listener. This song was used to great effect in Micheal Mann's "Manhunter" closing scene. Great memories. Thanks for the vid.
Drum solo ,..he's like a shaman...I have goosebumps. When the organ comes in like from afar. It feels like walking through the desert or the East...like the fall of Adam and Eve... it's dark and sexy. . The musicians really put their feelings into it and controlled the direction of the story. I feel like I am walking through it..
The Simpsons' made a joke of this when, in church, the organist played it and the congregation sang the original lyrics. I think Bart changed her sheet music and all the lyric sheets passed out to them, if I remember right.
Also, being on of the first really long songs, DJ's LOVED it because it gave them a way to take a crap during their shows, if need be. :)
When this song came out we had many psychedelic bands....Vanilla Fudge and Moby Grape....all music was well received
I was fresh out of the Navy in '68 and this was very much a "psychedelic" tune. The "fuzz box/WaWa Peddle" was relatively new and people were looking to find out how to fit it in. People would drop some acid and trip out to this. (I never touched the stuff) It was definitely an FM radio song and AM had you limited to 3 or 4 minutes max and FM didn't care. (FM radio was really new at that time)
The attitude and dirt on this song is an element that separates it from other psychedelic bands that were phony. This and Strawberry Alarm Clock were legit-you could see the roots for prog in a song like this.
I was at a party in Honolulu in 1968 where most of Strawberry Alarm Clock showed up to party.
Puff,Puff pass ! Mom yelling "turn that hippie music down !"
Drum solo reaction? Every kid learned the beginning to the drum solo using their fingers on a tabletop. I was 13 at the time.
This song makes me feel like I am entering a haunted house. Love it❤
To really "get" this song from the perspective of those of us in the 60's experiencing it- we were blown away. The setting: a room with shag carpet, beanbag chairs, incredible artistic psychedelic posters covering the walls and lit up by black lights. You did not listen with your parents, you listened with your friends. You grabbed your vinyl record, set it on the turntable and placed the needle down. Then you let the music take you away. And for many of us, we smoked weed, ate magic mushrooms or dropped acid. Whether you were high or not, this song transported you into a completely new space. You can't listen to this from a perspective of trying to analyze it. Put that aside and just let the music creep into your depths. Let it soak into your soul. It is a mind/emotion/body journey because you can't separate the parts of yourself if you are truly experiencing it. The drum beat, the organ, bass and guitar all reverbate through you. The unexpected twists and turns of the various instruments just keep leading you further away from everyday reality into a new reality and you are changed. There were great bands and performances in the 60's but this was on a different level entirely. It was THE psychedelic experience.
The Simpson's did a funny parody in church , this is one long song it last a whole church service , I'm not so sure about , in the garden a 20 Min hynm , no don't think so
I was in HS marching band from 1972 to 1975 and this was my pregame ritual. We would go to the school on Saturday morning, around 9 AM and rehearse and have a run through of our half time show. I'd get back home by 10:30, take a shower and lie down in bed with headphones and listen to this. It had the right combination of hypnotic relaxation followed by adrenaline. If get up, have lunch , put my uniform on and get back to school for 1 PM kick off!
I heard this for the first time in the early 2000s in it's full form, and it blew me away. Still does. It's conceptually amazing and executed with cool, funky rhythm and technically perfect playing. I mean... hard to beat it, honestly. You can jam to it, dance to it, rock out to it.
Acid Rock (as in Lysergic acid diethylamide - LSD) was a term used in the late '60s to describe harder-sounding psychedelic Rock music. The band, Iron Butterfly, (whose harder tunes were thought to be Acid Rock) were contemporaries of, and had even toured with Blue Cheer, who were another type of Acid Rock band.
Blue Cheer was also considered to be a proto Heavy Metal band (inspired by Hendrix's Monterey Pop debut). Listen to Blue Cheer's 1st album, Vincebus Eruptum.
My first concert was Blue Cheer, and Mr. Tinnitus has lived in my ears ever since. Them boys were LOUD.
Saw them at the Fillmore West in 1968 Its so wonderful to see young folks enjoying the songs from an era of time that their elders lived.....
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida the beginning of the psychedelic era in music. I'm 73yrs old and i remember when i first heard this song. Back then there was an underground radio station called, The Velvet Underground. That was the only way you could listen to it in the 60's. I thought that it was beautiful and iconic. My own dad, who was a huge music-lover of all kinds was mainly stuck on 50's music but the first time he heard Iron Butterfly and this song, he absolutely fell in love with psychedelic music. He even stole this album from me and i ended up having to buy another one for myself! He absolutely loved In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida! I was so mad at him for stealing it from me. My dad passed away in February of last year. I remember him every time I hear this song.I also remember my friends and i doing magic mushrooms and listening to this beautiful psychedelic song! Lol!! Out of this world for sure. As i used to say, "Far out, man!"
The 45 rpm record was 2 minutes away 52 seconds long, it hit number 30 in the top 40, the album hit at number 4 in Billboards top 200
I was 18 in 1968 the first time I heard it on the radio. They never played the LP version because Radio Stations were required to play 3 minute, more or less, songs so they can talk and do their commercials. I was not aware of the drum solo until years later after I was discharged from the Army and purchased the full length album, falling in love again with the genius of this performance. The common knowledge at the time was that the band (which most musicians were) on drugs (LSD, Quayluds, Marijuana, etc.) and wrote the song originally named "In the Garden of Eden". If you want an idea of what genius 1968 produced listen to Vanilla Fudge "You keep me hanging on" performed on the Ed Sulivan Show or the Rascals "Good Lovin".
There's nothing like an organ going through a Leslie cabinet.
The elephant sound is a pick being dragged along a wound guitar string.
Seen them at the ASU Activity Center in 69. And again in '82 at the celebrity.
Iron Butterfly was also the first to introduce the talk box.
Song is
Butterfly Bleu
and it's a little longer than this one as well.
There is a video of them performing it on live television.
And they went commercial free for the band to play Non-Stop.
🤠🏞️🐂
I was 12 when this came out and knew it as the song FM DJs played when they wanted a long bathroom break and/or a smoke, and/or some snacks. I didn't like it much until I had my first smoke, wrapped in strawberry rolling paper, soon thereafter. Then I liked it, a lot. The song, and the smoke.😉
A couple comments to make. First off, FM radio really didn't come around till about 67. So all you could hear back them was AM radio songs. AM radio played 3 to 4 minute songs, that was it's format. So this song blew peoples minds that had been listening to Beatles and Beach Boys type stuff. The drum solo, for old farts like me, will always be the most iconic drum solo. I can remember kids in school playing that drum solo on their desktops. The organ after the drum solo has a section where it's playing an X-Mas song called, Tidings of Comfort and Joy. Go back and listen carefully you'll hear that. Most of the organ playing has an Egyptian feel to it. Remember guitar players back then didn't have all the electronic devices that are available now. Computers weren't around to clean up stuff either. They had to be great musicians. I still listen to this song on occasion and it really was ground breaking for music back then. Glad you enjoyed it. I still do.
Eric Braun was only 17yo at the time! Wow. Iron Butterfly Theme is a kick ass instrumental. Check it out.
Saw them play this live in '71in a small rural club in the woods. Epic song of the psychedelic times. Usually well over 20 mins when played live.
So much great MUSIC late 60s
One of my favorites from that era. I was 16, and I often listened to the song with my home built light show. Black lights, strobe, colored flashing lights helped to make it a total sensory experience. A couple of others to experience. The long version of Time Has Come Today by The Chambers Bros. and Omaha by Moby Grape, which is a band often overlooked when talking about 60s music.
You ain't kiddin, WOW!! I grew up in this era. So, so great!!!😊
Can you imagine having songs of three minutes on the radio and then it becomes to light with 17:05 minutes breaking all the rules of commercial radio (sure they made a shorter version for the radio) but there were special programs at night which used to air this very special song (at least in my country). Every band I knew in my town wanted to play this song, including mine (me being the drummer at the age of 14); I think we did it well but most of the other bands failed miserably with their poor versions. I sold all of my comics to buy a copy of the album and I still have it until now at the age of 69. Great review and reaction, John. I like you appreciate these bands (not so popular as others). Thanks a lot for having a stop and listen. Greetings to you wherever you are from Puebla, Pue., Mexico.
We wore out many copies of this album!
Mom had a rule: One rock/roll album, one 'show tunes' record, one Classic piece.
Because this was so long, it counted as three rock/roll albums!
She like the drumming...reminded her of Gene Krupa.
Every kid I knew was memorizing the drum solo!
There were long jams a lot in the late 60s. They would jam out a song live that was recorded shorter for an album, so it was common to hear a live album with your favorite song jammed out for a whole vinyl record side. Grateful Dead, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, Santana, even the Moody Blues did several songs in parts that blended and returned back to the beginning part.
Oh, I remember hearing this the first time at 15. It was SUCH an exciting time for music. This song could only be heard on (brand new) FM radio as commercial AM wouldn't play it. Sooo revolutionary. Soooo exciting. Soooo fun.
#2. Loved Guitar solo from a 17 yr. old! Elephant's trumpeting! Creatures in the Garden!
I was 20 years old in 1968 and in college. If this song blew you away now, you can imagine what it was like then 55 years ago. There was nothing like it. I had a pretty decent stereo and we would get high and listen to this in a trance.
A couple of interesting things.....the guitarist was only 17 years old when this was recorded. The name of the song originally was "In the Garden of Eden" but "In-A Godda-Da-Vida" was what came out of a bandmember's mouth when they were drinking heavily one night. I'm think I read somewhere that the version that you hear was recorded by an engineer in the studio without the band members even realizing he was recording them.
I think they classify this now as psychedelic rock. I believe it is considered the first of the genre.
Psychedelic rock started a couple years earlier in San Francisco with groups like The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Moby Grape, the Charlatans, and others. By this time, Jimi Hendrix, The Cream, Country Joe & the Fish, Big Brother & the Holding Company with Janis Joplin were all headlining together at places like the Filmore (later called West) into shows that lasted hours into the early morn.
I was lucky enough to see them live at Michigan Palace in Detroit in 1968. Small venue maybe 300 people. AWESOME. it was an old movie theatre.
I was 14 when this came out and I had been playing the drums for 2 or 3 years and you HAD to learn to play it, if I wasn't playing it on my drums I was playing it with 2 pencils on a table
It must have been so cool to hear for the first time. This band started heavy metal. It's dark and light.. cool
In the late sixties/early seventies, there were two branches of rock. The popular AM station rock and what was called "underground" rock which was covered by "underground" channels on FM which just let songs like this run for 15 20 minutes...😊
1968, Vietnam war, sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Far out man, wow! Turn up the volume, pass the M & M's, and don't bogart that joint.
First heard this track on a serial killer film called Manhunt ,the scene plus the music ,blew my mind.
It is the most popular psychedelic song and main staple of the late 60s genre that was at the peak of popular interest by 1968 . They did have that heavy gloomy sound far ahead of what Back Sabbath was doing about 2 years later and too bad they did not make a short cover version of it in the 1970s ....
1968 we said, " Far Out!" Been decades since hearing the long version. Could almost taste the acid! lols
This song is called acid rock for a reason, Whole different sound , and gives you visions of wonder. lets your imagination run wild.
When I was in... high school, I think, I hit my parents with 'in-a-box-a-Godiva.' They got a good laugh out of it.
You said it best.....WOW!! I was 16 when this came out and I remember the whole school just buzzing about this song. If you were in a garage band (remember them?) back then, this was the song you tried to master.
Just go with it, John; it's one of those songs that takes you many different places, maybe even different times.
I WAS 15 YEARS OLD IN 1968…..THIS SONG SHOWED US HOW DYNAMIC MUSIC COULD BE. MY PARENTS TRIED TO LIKE IT, BUT, THEY LIKED CHICAGO, PINK FLOYD, PROCAL HARUM AND THE MOODY BLUES….OH WELL….THIS SONG GOT ME INTO DRUMMING…..
Yes, In A Gadda Da Vida does have a dark sounding, and exotic theme to it. Like a sort of mini-horror movie, it takes you on a mysterious journey through strange and forbidding places, and then brings you back. When the recording came out, people loved it The track was fun to dance to, or just to listen to and take a psychedelic journey with.
What was first hearing it like? People were telling everybody else "Aww, man! You've got to hear this! It takes up a whole album side. -But it's soo cool!!" I recall hearing strange theories like "the drummer played that solo on a whole array of tabla drums around him"!
This album sold 30 million copies worldwide!!!
I was 10 when this came out, certainly a departure from the Beatles, Lovin Spoonful, and Herman’s Hermits. The musical interludes are stellar, still on my playlist ❤
You Will love the band APOLOGETIX,the number 1 parody band in the world
The music fans of the day had speakers with big woofers. The thumping drums could get a room shaking!
The song's original title was "In the Garden of Eden." Reportedly, during a studio session someone said the name of the song and whoever heard it responded with "In-a-Gadda-da-Vida?" And the rest is history as they say...
We didn't do much labeling of songs back then, it was just music.
The tune was limited to the length of one side of an LP, the longest mass media format at the time.
Toke up a hooten sparky, spruder-fig and lock your wigs. This is a ride!
DJs loved this one, always put it on when they needed a bathroom break lol. Album sold about 30 million copies, in a country of 200 million people.
My reason was wow! I was 8 in 1968. This was crazy, because is was so long it never got played on the radio
Check out the Chambers Brothers Time Has Come Today. Psychedelic trip song i think around 11 mins. long. Takes you on a trip in time.
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida was my first 'trip,' and I never had a bad one.
The Guitarist Eric Bran was 16 years old......
The LP version of Time Has Come Today by The Chambers Brothers released in 1967 was over 11 minutes.
There is a lot of late sixties, early seventies eastern European heavy metal out there not many have heard, but really kicks ass. I saw a few pages on IG that posts these bands.
The DJs called it a "two donuts and a bathroom break" song.
Most teens were trying to play " Wipeout " on airdrums then this came along and everyone wanted to be a drummer.
I was 18 when this hit the airwaves, 18 minuets long! it blew our minds...of course...lol.
The drum solo blew us away!! Had to fire up another one!!!
The original title was IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN
I was12. Song was ground breaking. We were just coming off 3 minute radio bangers. FM radio was taking over, stereos and audio was better. Spent many hours zoned out on this. Every band added drum solos after this came out.
Did you catch the nod to God Rest You Merry Gentlemen Christmas song in the long organ solo?
I was too young to tell you how it was received when this first came out, but it was still big during the '70s, which was my big era for musical discovery. But only hardcore fans knew of this long version. There was a very short "singles" version, and then there was a longer (but still way shorter) version that was played on FM radio, but probably only college radio stations played this complete version. I like the song, and I can't remember the last time I heard this version.
As for what it was called back in the day, your initial instinct of calling it "psychedelic rock" was very accurate, and probably what it was most referenced as, back in the day.
Recorded in one take 1968. In a Garden of Eden. I was 18.
I remember where I was when this was released. This was considered hard rock, acid rock, psychedelic rock, and I will dare to apply the word "groovy" (I use that word sparingly. Here it is the rhythm section that sets up this amazing psychedelic groove that puts it in that rare category of 'groovy', which usually I apply to motown and earlier pre-disco funk). The reaction people had to it was favorable. It was cool, different-ish, and its own. It was deemed to be weird, but likeably weird. Very LSD. IT was almost treated like a caricature, though. It got attention...a lot...and then it didn''t. It became passe'. But now it is classic. (organ is playing middle eastern Hijaz or one of those modes), not indian, which is Mixolydian mode.
I was all of 16 back in 68 & when this "Mindbender" of a Tune debuted EVERY1 was psyched out with all the Instrumentation.. IF this Band never had another hit this tune cemented their place without a doubt.
The actual lyrics are In "The Garden of Eden" the singer was so platitude on alcohol and drugs he slured the words into Ina Gada Da Veda
This was played at a junior high jr senior prom i attended in hgh schol which resuled n a conga line that lasted for most of its full length
Back then the parents were shrieking, "Drug music!"
They weren’t entirely wrong. 😝
The actual name is In the "Garden of Eden". The album company gave it that name.
You were telling the person standing next to you, "Hey, Don't bolgart that joint my friend"
Listen for the unsettling "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" in the song.
This was not a family get together song. This was me and my friends in my garage with incense burning and black lights dazzling the fluorescent posters on the wall and smoking $20 an ounce of Columbian or maybe some hits of windowpane. If any of you old people out there know what I'm talking about, this song still gives you chills.