THICK AS A BRICK by JETHRO TULL should be your next prog rock masterpiece. It blows this away in my opinion even though this has its place in classic rock history.
My dad had this on vinyl and called me to the room to put on his headphones and listen. Was blown away, and this was in the 80s. Fast forward present day and I'm jamming it on my bluetooth headphones and my 7 yr old daughter comes into the room and wants to know what I'm listening to. I put the headphones on her head and a smile comes across her face. My dad's cup runneth over.
I feel the way you do hearing this song except I am ten years + younger. But it still takes me back to my younger days. A&A great song selection just found you on UA-cam and was drawn in by Stephenwolf. music. Thanks for the memories from so long ago. 👌❤🤍💙🌟💗
Yes, exactly! This was before Led Zeppelin, before Black Sabbath, *before almost everything* that we would think of as even early "hard rock" or "heavy metal" today. Back in '68, only Cream, Hendrix, Blue Cheer, Steppenwolf, and a very few other artists, were recording music that was "heavy" like Iron Butterfly. I respect the band, and this song, for being pioneers in very early heavy music.
@@aileenturrietta7553 I first heard this song as a teenager in the late '80s and loved it! I bought the album on vinyl, back in '87, and thought it was great. I was really into the music and counetrculture of the late '60s, at the time, and I felt very out of place, growing up in a small rural town in Alabama, where, even in the late '80s, guys who had long hair and listened to music like this were almost treated like beings from another planet!
@@aileenturrietta7553 I got your point, and I wasn't meaning to contradict it. I was just adding my own story of discovering and loving this song and this band, in a very unlikely environment, in small-town Alabama, two decades after they had been an early, groundbreaking band for heavy music.
This was one of the songs that my dad liked, even though he hated most rock music, because he could understand the words. My mom would dance around the kitchen to it when I was blaring it from my room. I can see her now, waving the dishtowel around and getting down!!! RIP mom and dad, together In A Gadda Da Vida.
@@cindynau8068 I appreciate your not taking offence, I'm sure she was a great dancer, that's a lovely memory. I'm sorry they're both gone, but somehow, that memory is eternally present, isn't it.🙂💞
I agree. I was 11 when older brother bought this vinyl back in 1968. Man o man it was epic. Definitely shades drawn, black lights, black light posters, lava lamp, and incense!
He might have made the simplest drum solo in all of rock, but he did it so good and it completely takes the song from the front to the back so seamlessly. Love it.
@@bobbybobbatunday9959 The thing about that solo is that it had an amazing groove. Which is why I could play the solo but never managed to get the groove right.
@@bobbybobbatunday9959 I would commend Ron for refraining from hot dogging. He just did a very tasteful, melodic solo that fits perfectly with the song.
You are right about most baby boomers knowing that drum solo note for note. As I was watching the video I was amazed that in my mind I still remembered it.
@wyomarine Yup. Lived three blocks off U-Ave and 54th. Me and my best friend were 11 when this took our souls away and made us both drummers! The head shops along the Ave with those little back rooms with the black light posters...and the 'paraphernalia" under the glass...Lots of great albums bought out of those hole-in-the-wall places.
Classic trip song. Of a kind. Influence d heavy metal to come. Fun to listen to at the time but of that time only. Head snap when you compare it with Heard It Through the Grapevine.
Andy and Alex get back to doing what no one else is able to do; listen to truly classic, iconic rock music from the late 1960s and early 1970s with fresh ears, and convey to us their feeling of excitement. It's truly heartening to know that fifty years after these songs came out, two young guys are reacting to them exactly as we did, half-a-century ago, but with so much more musical intelligence. Thank you A&A!
I know, I love seeing their reactions. I remember mine the first time. The drums blew me away! Even my mom, who played the organ but who was from the big band era, liked this song.
Probably one of the first stoner songs in recorded history where you just sit staring into space with your bong, black lit posters, strobe light, incense burning and of course the lava lamp.
‘68 and ‘69, every guy in every school everywhere was playing the drum solo on his desk, or any other surface. Every high school drummer everywhere was doing this. This song was universally recognized as an instant classic from the first time it played.
Wow, there's a memory - I was in elementary school but even I remember all the guys "playing" this on every school desk. Trying to find surfaces that made the different tones, too. I always thought the part after a bunch of the solos where they briefly bring back the riff, just for a little bit, was just to provide a little reminder to anyone who needed it that they were still listening to Inna Godda Da Vida.
I was twelve , In remember this one rather well , I liked it , my father not so much . lol but then ,he thought the Beatles were going to ruin the youth of America ! lol
I remember listening to this in the 70s on a turntable with a 100-watt Pioneer receiver, lounging on my avocado green beanbag chair, drinking Boone's Farm Strawberry Hill and smashed off my face on hash. Very, very good times.
Check out "You Keep Me Hangin On" by Vanilla Fudge for a kind of similar, heavy psych rock tune that influenced Zeppelin and Deep Purple. Zeppelin opened for them in their early days and Deep Purple modeled their early sound after them.
Yeah, I suggested that A&A do that one too. Look for UA-cam of VF doing this tune on Ed Sullivan show. No lip sync crap... standout performance by all, with Appice doing his crazy drumstick twirls!
In the Simpsons, Bart tricked the church congregation into playing this full song, and Homer commented to Marge “remember when we used to make out to this hymn?”
I've heard ABOUT this song all my life, and I've heard people hum it so many times that I know the main riff...but this is the first time I've actually heard it!! It's amazing! from reading the comments, it was pretty groundbreaking in its day - cheers A&A!!
I saw this song performed by them in the late sixties. When this album came out, all my musician friends went nuts. You have to remember hard rock was just beginning back then, and to hear this music was amazing to us. This was definitely a "tripping" song for most people. Psychedelic man...
I was 16-17 when this came out, my friends always gathered at one of our friend's basement filled with black lites, posters, stereo, And strobe lights and incense. Very trippy music, Some pot, at that age not into psychedelics. We sure loved this, the Doors, Steppenwolf, Led Zeppelin, CCR, the Beatles, The Stones, musically so primetime
This really was a moment in history. This song stands alone in that moment which it created. It's iconic and untouchable in it's rare and unusual impact. My brother had his own room decorated a bit hippy style and he let me in once to see it in all it's glory with his lampshade covered in multi colored tissue paper and this song was playing somewhat softly on the record player in the closet, and it set the perfect psychedelic mood. I've never forgotten that time and how it felt. This song was so far out that some people just didn't know what to make of it. It was an instant classic. The stuff of legends. Released one year after The Doors-Light My Fire, it was like Morrison on a heavy acid trip.
Hah! I had 2 teenage brothers just like yours! I played with my Hotwheels in the living room to the sounds of the late 60's and early 70's, because their rooms were usually off limits to me, their little brother.. To me, this tune will always be part of the Hotwheels music era. All hail bell bottoms and side burns! Hah!
I was born in1959, about the time "the Music died" I grew up with 60s music as a kid and and into the 70s. I liked both but I preferred the more laid back 70s. I never drank, smoked, or got stoned but I didn't need that to get a kick out of great music.
The story is that the person who wrote this song was really trying to say “ In the garden of Eden” but was so effed up he couldn’t get the words out right. ❤️ you young gents!
I thought the story was the song was called In the garden of Eden but when the band turned up for rehearsals they were so drugged out, out came this instead so they went with it
"And now please rise for our opening hymn... uh, 'In the Garden of Eden'... by I. Ron Butterfly. " "Hey, Marge, remember when we used to make out to this hymn?" "Wait a minute...This sounds like rock and/or roll!" THE SIMPSONS, "Bart Sells His Soul"
Back in 1968 when this song was released, MILLIONS of us so called "Hippies" smoked bales of weed listening to this iconic masterpiece. It's truly a timeless track that will never be replicated.
So grateful that I grew up in the era when music like this came out! I was an impressionable 15-year-old! And music definitely was the pulse of the time! My brother was in a rock ‘n’ roll garage band at the time so I was surrounded by music.
The stuff Lead Singer/Keyboardist Doug Ingle is playing during his solo bits was some of the greatest trippy/stoney music ever for me. An outstanding 60's Acid Rock counter culture milestone.
I'm surprised that the keyboardist is also the vocalist, because while the lyrics are simple almost to the point of being insipid (great voice, though), the organ parts are incredibly sophisticated. I don't know a whole lot about classical music, but I'm almost sure some of it was adapted from Bach--like Procol Harum, but even more complex.
This was the shit back in the day. You should have been there. First time listening on headphones though. Nice new experience. Haven’t smoked a fatty in 25 years. Felt like I just did.
The first time I heard this song I was 14 and stoned, and it much as I loved the song, it was a terrifying experience I wouldn’t want to relive. I had smoked pot several times and had a blast, but this was the first time I had smoked hash. I was in my room alone on a hot summer night and decided to try a few hits of the chunk of hash my older brother had given me. I put on this song and got so severely stoned far quicker than I was expecting. I was dying to get something to eat and drink, but I was too paranoid to leave my bedroom. I locked my bedroom door and pushed my heavy desk against the door to keep out the members of the Manson Family that I was sure were going to break into my house and kill me, my brother, and our parents in an extremely gruesome way. I had to turn this song off after 10 minutes or so because it was only adding to my terror. This was in 1980 and when I hear this song it instantly takes me back to that awful night. Of course, now I can also listen to it and enjoy it as well.
In 1969, every eighth grader had to know how to drum that solo on their desk top. Different thicknesses of text books determined the drum tone. At 14, I wrote a self hypnosis script and read it into a reel to reel with this song to follow. It was over for me. Ozzy and Sabbath, Led Zep and Yes. Now you guys have to listen to Who Do You Love suite by QUICKSILVER MESSENGER SERVICE who did FRESH AIR. You will love it . Thanks Andy, I waited 4 years to see you do this one.
Really thrilled that you all reacted to this!! In 1969 we went to visit my godparents in Michigan and although their daughters were grown and out of the house, they still had their albums in the basement room. That's where I discovered Iron Butterfly and since my godmother knew I liked the album, she bought me a copy and sent it back to Texas. Needless to say I was thrilled!!! Doug Ingle, the vocalist and organist, was the son of a church organist. You can kinda hear the baroque progressions in his playing, especially after the drum solo. Erik Brann, the guitar player, was 17 when they recorded this. This was considered the first "heavy rock" album when it was released in 1967. A classic.
When you're in the mood for more long songs, you gotta listen to the album version of Time Has Come Today, by The Chambers Brothers. Your soul will be psychadelicized.
In the late 70s early, early 80s, my family owned a lumber yard in the San Fernando Valley (LA, CA). A Makita tools salesperson came in and commented on the Grateful Dead shirt I had on. Come to find out it was Ron Bushy, drummer for the Iron Butterfly. Absolutely the nicest guy you'd ever want to meet. We were friendly acquaintances for several years. He shared tons of amazing stories, I was in awe of the guy that has to this day one of the most iconic drum solos in rock history. Very sad to see that he recently passed away. RIP Ron, thanks for the memories 💙
Funny story about this song.... I had a '67 Firebird with an 8 track cassette player when this album came out, and I had this tape along with others. Well, stealing these tape players was a thing back in the day, and mine was stolen along with all my tapes. I was pissed and called the cops. As they were itemizing what was stolen, writing it down in a notebook, I said one of the tapes was In A Gadda Da Vida, and the cop looked at me and said, " In a Goddamn what?" OK, it was funny at the time.
Regarding 'your story about how the title came about: I was a neighbor of Jim Hilton in the mid-'90s in Van Nuys, CA--if you check the back of the album you'll see he's listed s the recording engineer--and I asked him about that story; He said it was absolutely true. The band had been drinking all day and when it came time to pitch the idea to the producers they were so loaded they kept slurring their words, and the original title, "In the Garden of Eden"turned into "Inna Gadda Da Vida". He said they were NOT drunk when they recorded the song--contrary to popular opinion--just when they pitched it. Hope this helps.
That drum solo is the GOAT. I never get tired of hearing it. The whole track is great, but the drums . . .that blew my mind when this first came out, and I can still get lost in it.
it is good but not the best. You’re forgetting the solos by Ginger Baker, Mitch Mitchell and many others just from that era. Terry bozio, Neil Peart, I could go on. More than that I would call this a Drum movement, much more than a solo, he is creating atmosphere which enables the ensemble to go to places they would have never gone. Cheers
@@MichaelB12345 Yes, it's a very - musical - solo. Not heavy on chops. Not showing off (you can substitute another word for showing). Integral to the overall vibe of the track, which is a journey.
My dad (a potato farmer and amateur drummer) wore this song OUT on the LP. And he would drum that solo on me and my brothers heads and bellies (the belly bongo!). This song always reminds me of him.
A great get high song back in the day! You can literally hear all of the colors of the instruments. The song just seemed to go on for hours. And that drum solo, one of the best ever. Not to mention the spectacular organ, bass and guitar. Holy hell. What a wonderful way to spend my lunch hour (and no I didn't get high boss 😂) Thanks guys!
This is easily one of those songs that I can just listen to over and over again. The dissonant distorted guitar, the contrapuntal keyboards, and I love that drum solo, perfect rhythm without being over the top. And I love how it starts and ends with the same keyboard line. Thanks for finally getting to this one. And it definitely does not feel like 17 minutes.
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida was originally written to be a much shorter song, but with spaces for the different solos heard on the final recording. However, as the recording progressed, the solo sections became longer and longer until the song filled out its total running time. Guitarist Erik Brann (or Braun) was 17 at the time of the recording but plays like a much more experienced guitarist, his solo sections are a hallmark of the song. Ron Bushy's drum solo is iconic. So much so that many drummers who came up through the early 70s learned at least portions of it as their first taste of soloing. Lee Dorman's bass is the epitome of solid, driving bottom, even during his own solo section he's driving the song along, not letting it meander away. It's an amazing piece of sonic art that really has been maligned over the years, usually unfairly so. Doug Ingle played the organ and sang vocals on this and most other Iron Butterfly tunes.
The original line up in '68 had the coolest end of show I've ever seen. They ended their set with "In a Gadda Da Vida" and walked off to an incredible ovation. After a few minutes of constant chanting from the crowd they came back for a couple more songs and then left again to another long ovation. When they came back the second time, I don't remember what song they went into, but it was loud and fast. As the song started to wrap up. the bass player set his bass down next to his amp causing heavy feedback and walked off stage leaving the guitar and organ players feverishly jamming with the drummer. Then the guitar player set his guitar against his amp and left. So now there is the organ player and drummer cranking along wildly while the feedback from the bass and guitar is so loud you can't hear yourself think. Then the organ player takes his mic stand and lays it across the keyboard so that every note is blasting. Now its just the hard working drummer and this pure rock noise coming at the audience. The drummer slows down the beat to a boom boom boom and walks off. However the kick drum keeps pounding out the slow boom boom boom as it was apparently being hit by a mechanical pedal. This totally musician free music? noise? continued for a minute or so as the crowd went nuts. Then finally a roadie came out and one by one turned off all the equipment and there was nothing left but silence except for the ringing in all our ears.
We all love to joke but this is legitimately a tasty long jam. This is one of the only drum solos I actually enjoy listening to, there are tons are great guitar and organ sections, that incredible riff and lyric - a legitimate S-tier classic!
For an obscure drum solo you might enjoy, try Incomudro: Hymn to the Atman by Phil Ehart of Kansas from their Song for America album. One of my favorites for sure.
I'm 64 years old and everybody loved this back then. Drop some acid at a party and play this song and everyone tripping out. One of my top songs of all time!!
Omg. Memories. Im a boomer. Best drum solo in history. Love how you’re generation still interested in my era music. You guys rock. Best reaction channel on UA-cam
Agree. Really surprised there's more than a few dislike comments, totally up to them but man this song was a game changer and is still relevant to this day.
I was 9 when this came out. An iconic song that doesn't require an argument to support it. Just listen. This sounds like everything that was inventive, alive and timeless about 1968. And the groove rocks like no other.
This may be the third time I’ve watched this reaction and I still love it every time! This thing this post you have could go on forever and ever and ever……and you are continuing history……. Thank You😀
Best description of this song I ever heard: an acid trip even without the acid. My favorite aspect of the instrumentation was the ability of the drummer to maintain control and direction of the solo. Too many drum solos wander out into the outer reaches and struggle to come home. Here, the drummer kept the song in view so that each step was logical to the ones before and after but were also coherent to the song as a whole. Then it all slid into place when the solo ended.
Yep, we actually played a shortened version of this song in high school marching band. We also played it in the stands at high school basketball games. Groovy, dude, especially for a teenage clarinet player!
That is a true story. They were so drunk or high when they initially performed the song, whose title was originally "In the garden of Eden", it came out In a gadda da vida and they just decided to leave it that way
This got blasted at full volume (hell of set of speakers owned by one of our EE majors) from one of Rice U's residential dorm at midnight one night. 3000 people heard it and not one complained.
Another great long song is "Get Ready" by Rare Earth. Yes, there's a radio version that's only three minutes long....but the album version clocks in at 20, and you're never bored in that 20 minutes.
This was as cutting edge as it got when this song came out. At the time, this music was called underground rock ( later psychedelic rock.) Blew people away because this was an era when top 40 radio ruled and no song was more than 3 minutes. So a 20 minute song (and entire side of the album -- no tapes CDs or streaming back then) was entirely new. As was the entire approach to the song, the dischordent notes, the string stratching noise as opposed to notes. The very first long drum solo in rock. No one had ever heard anything like it. In its long from, this was mostly only heard on fledgling FM rock stations, of which were few and far between at the time. AM radio ruled in the late 60s. (A heavily cut 3 minute version eventually made to top 40) This was another song of the era, heavy drug influences. But a one hit wonder. This band did nothing else of merit. Still, it blazed a new trail that many others have followed.
They also made other popular albums in the era too, including another top ten (top five, actually) album, after the multi-million-selling album of this song's name. Just last year, a 7-CD Iron Butterfly boxed set was released, and the announcement led to *six full pages of excited comments* from music fans, in the U.S., the U.K., and worldwide, on a popular music forum board online. Many Iron Butterfly fans fondly remember this band for more than one song. To say that they did "nothing else of merit" is very much a personal opinion, and I, and many other people, would disagree.
@@vicprovost2561 I'd love to see Andy and Alex react to that song! Also, the song, "Iron Butterfly Theme," from the band's first, pre-"Gadda" album, "Heavy," would be a great reaction song. Before "Gadda" was released and quickly became an iconic rock anthem, "Iron Butterfly Theme" was actually the band's most popular song in concert. Both albums-- "Heavy" and "Gadda"-- were released in the same year, 1968, but that was back when many bands more commonly released *two full albums* of new songs in the same year!
@Roger Prain In my reply to him, I did disagree with that statement about the band, which seemed dismissive and overly harsh, but telling him, "You know nothing," is even more harsh and needless than his initial statement about Iron Butterfly! The guy is a human being. We're *all* just human beings here writing these comments. I can disagree with him without being disrespectful to him. Most of his comment was actually *complimentary* to Iron Butterfly for being trailblazers in heavy psych-rock with "Gadda." The fact that he doesn't like, or maybe, is not aware of, the rest of their work, does not mean that he "knows nothing."
Folks, this is the record that started it all: the drum solo during rock concerts. Yes, there had been "drum" songs before, like "Sing, Sing, Sing" or "Wipe Out." But soon after this song came out, every drummer and his brother started doing drum solos during their concerts. I remember this happening when I was in junior high school in late 1968/early 1969. Heck! Even a reluctant Ringo was "required" to do a drum solo on the ABBEY ROAD LP. The drum solo has been a staple of rock concerts ever since, all these 50-plus years later.
Correct. I believe Ringo's drum solo on Side 2 of Abbey Road took place about 10 months after In A Gadda Da Vida was released. I knew as soon as I heard it that The Beatles were doing a copycat.
This song definitely was a game changer. Legitimate drum solo pioneer. Absolute S Tier level impact on Rock N Roll and it's history. My guess is that every parent hearing their children listening daily to this song knew they'd lost them to the dark side. Those of us listening to it at the time knew just how important this song was in context. There was a single version released for AM radio that was like 2:53 long that cut out the entire song and was a joke to those of us that understood just what Iron Butterfly had done here. Guys, this is truly S Tier if anything is so rated.
This is the MOST EPIC album side (side 2) ever put on vinyl. It was revolutionary when it came out in '68. I was in junior high at the time and I can tell you that every guy I knew learned every "air" guitar/bass/drum/organ part by heart that summer. I would sit in my basement bedroom, turn on the black light, put on the headphones and just put the turntable on repeat. I have no idea how many hundreds of times I've listed to it but whenever it comes up, it never gets old for me. Glad you guys like it.
Was in college, enjoying forays into these guys, Cream, Hendrix, The Doors, Blood Sweat & Tears, etc. and other experiences! Brings back great memories! Thanks. ✌
Those bands are all light years better than Iron Butterfly. Most people who were around in 1968 thought the band was a bad joke...at least everyone I knew who listened to the bands you mentioned.
"A moment in history" Great comment, Alex. Perhaps it explains my surprising initial reaction when you guys first started playing the song, because I instantly began to tear up. Not the reaction I was expecting at all. But I guess it is because this song was so much a part of my youth, as I turned 13 at the end of 1968 when it was released. I must be getting old and sentimental.😂
12:41 The organist plays a big chunk of God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen and I have never heard anyone mention it! Many years ago, my local TV station used the part at 14:28 for the intro to their news broadcast. I always wondered how many people realized what it was! HaHaHa
Yes, finally. Welcome to the long psychedelic trippy song. Yes, I felt it was ground breaking. It was a huge hit. The shorter version was played on the radio. This was sooooo cool in the day.
As a kid I would go to yard sales with my grandmother. She bought this record for me, I took it home and listened to it in the dark. Felt like I was a 2nd grade hippie. Thanks for the memory guys!
@@jacquelinedawson7219 The single was an abomination, though. 17 minute masterpiece reduced to a 3 minute joke with horrible edits. My little sister and I did that, too. I had blacklights, psycholights, color organs and strobes back then. Oh, and lava lamps. That song was even cooler with all that fired up.
I fell in love with this song a long time ago, when I first heard it at 16yrs old. I brought the album home, but was afraid to play it because of my parents. They were all about the 50's and hated 60's music. But as soon as my dad heard me playing this song, that was the last time I got to hear it. Because he was always listening to it. He stole it from me, so I had to get another one for myself. He absolutely fell in love with it, also. My dad passed just recently...hearing this brought back memories.
@@SandraHof Thank you so much for your condolences. Value the times spent with your loved ones. Because one day, they will not be there. Miss him...Thank you.
@@lindahunter4545 I agree so much with you about valuing time with our loved ones. For some reason, I have always been keenly aware of that from a young age. So I always made sure to tell my loved ones several times a day, or everytime I communicated with them, that I loved them. I made sure to maintain my relationships with them, as far as possible, to have no regrets. I have lost my husband, both my parents, and too many friends to count, in death. My husband and my father were the two most important people in my life. Because I understand loss all too well, my heart went out to you and your loss. You expressed your memory of your dad so well. I had to laugh that he stole your record from you. Though probably not funny to you at the time. But a great memory that both of you loved this song that much. I hope your mind and heart are comforted by these memories. I am comforted by memories, photos and by Scriptures, such as Acts 24:15 and Revelation 21:3, 4. Best wishes to you, Linda.
I was 10 when this came out and it was THE song that summer when the big kids were jamming. It forced me to become a drummer... It doesn’t hold up as well as later more sophisticated rock but, at the time, it was revolutionary.
This came along at exactly the right time. AM was on it's way out, FM was on its way in, and some of them played entire album sides, like this one, and CTA from Chicago. Only a few stations would play the long version (they made a short version), but by the time FM Stereo SimulCast came around, AM was as good as dead.
Vintage "acid" or "psychedelic" rock. A year later than "Sunshine of Your Love." Superficially similar, but really a completely different song other than the vague similarity of riffs. "Sunshine" is basically a modified blues. "Vita" is much more deeply acid rock. When they said smoke 'em if you got 'em, they were not talking about Marlboros. And the audience is not limited to things you could light up.
I was 10 years old when this came out and specifically asked to play the “long version” on am radio. They always said hell no, it’s too long!! That drum solo was to die for at the time! Thanks for the reaction. You had to be there.
Truly ground breaking stuff. The first side long rock track to achieve legendary status. The first hard rock album to sell a million copies, and the guitarist was 17!!
69 Subic Bay Yank other ranks club had local bands, rock, country, etc. in the club this afternoon and asked local band to play the song. They said no until we took up a collection and they said ok. They start the song and when they get to the five minute drum solo the rest of the group walk off and have a drink. The drummer gets to the point where the guitar has to restart and they ignored him. So he did it again. Fabulous memories.
When I was a DJ at an album-oriented rock station in the late 70's, this was one of the go-to songs for whenever I needed to take a potty break. The iconic drum solo that every drummer I knew learned definitely furthered a trend at the time for the drums to move up a bit in the recording mix and for every drummer to be showcased at some point in the live performance.
@@RussVerbofsky my roommate in college was from Cleveland. He always talked about WMMS. I grew up in Springfield, OH, so we had WVUD which was broadcast from the University of Dayton.
I was overnight DJ at a local small town oldies station (mid 50's to mid 70's music) during the 90's. Since I am a child of the 60's myself, this song has been in my top 10 favorites since it arrived on the scene, but in that time frame it shot to the top ... it was my go to bathroom break song. Good memories.
yes, I was there when it hit and it made a splash and was played endlessly. Of course, it was the era of the "Green Amplifier" if you get my drift. Good times.
As a drummer this song was the first song in the day to give a drummer such a dominate solo in the song and at the time this was unbelievable and I do believe it was the longest solo by far given to a drummer on a record album, this is defiantly a time piece and as a drummer this song broke the mold and that is my humble opinion. Love you guys!
I remember when a disk jockey on some radio station said that the three most listened to songs that year were "White Christmas", "Happy Birthday", and "In A Gadda Da Vida". Welcome to ACID ROCK boys. Late 60's and early 70's...great music, great times to be alive. This song came out the year after I graduated H.S.
1968. I was a sophomore in HS Spanish class. Mr. Cano(looked like James Bond) was about to teach Spanish lab. There was a portable record player. My friend walks in w an album and asks Mr. Cano if he could just play the first track before class begins. You guessed it. Priceless memory. That’s what school is really about.
Now you've done it fellas. I got this album from my second cousin, who is a huge audiophile, at 13 years old way back in 1971 or 1972. Inside the sleeve was another great album, Cream's "Disreali Gears" as well. This baby spent a lot of hours on my turntable back in high school.
The drum solo was the topic of conversation when it came out; among music lovers, musicians, late night talk radio djs. In concerts, the solo could last to twelve minutes or more and then a second drum solo five minutes later would come in for another shine. In Chicago, they jammed for nearly 45 minutes on the song. Good times, good memories. Thanks for reviewing it.
"If you want to trance out, man..." I can remember listening to this in my college dorm room in 1970 and that's exactly what this music was for...especially when stoned at many a party. It's really better if you are stoned. (Not that I'm advocating drugs...LOL.) I listened to this song so many times that all these many decades later I remember every refrain. I guess it's burned into my brain cells. It was considered edgy for it's time.
This band was scheduled to play Woodstock. They got as far as Laguardia airport in NYC when they found out the New York Thruway was closed and there was no way they could make the show.
FINALLY, AFTER LONG LAST, we are hitting this track, you’ve been waiting for it, we’ve been waiting for it, let’s dive in…! 🔥😈
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THICK AS A BRICK by JETHRO TULL should be your next prog rock masterpiece. It blows this away in my opinion even though this has its place in classic rock history.
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The ultimate "List in the Sauce" song. S-Tier for what it is.
Thorogood please
My dad had this on vinyl and called me to the room to put on his headphones and listen. Was blown away, and this was in the 80s. Fast forward present day and I'm jamming it on my bluetooth headphones and my 7 yr old daughter comes into the room and wants to know what I'm listening to. I put the headphones on her head and a smile comes across her face. My dad's cup runneth over.
I’m 74 years old, guys.. watching and listening to you and the classic rock you review makes me feel like I’m back in the day, once again. Keep it up.
68 here and had an Iron Butterfly album in the late sixties that was played on a turntable EVERYDAY for I don't know how long. Love this!
I feel the way you do hearing this song except I am ten years + younger. But it still takes me back to my younger days. A&A great song selection just found you on UA-cam and was drawn in by Stephenwolf. music. Thanks for the memories from so long ago. 👌❤🤍💙🌟💗
Same here!
I'm 71 and I wore this album out almost always with headphones on.
Me too. But the other side of the record sucks!
What's impossible to convey is how heavy music like this was at the time - not just sonically, but culturally.
Embarrassing, isn't it?
@@kinksfan9781 It's alright, we Baby Boomers kept it like a hidden gem. We owned it.!!
Yes, exactly! This was before Led Zeppelin, before Black Sabbath, *before almost everything* that we would think of as even early "hard rock" or "heavy metal" today. Back in '68, only Cream, Hendrix, Blue Cheer, Steppenwolf, and a very few other artists, were recording music that was "heavy" like Iron Butterfly. I respect the band, and this song, for being pioneers in very early heavy music.
@@aileenturrietta7553 I first heard this song as a teenager in the late '80s and loved it! I bought the album on vinyl, back in '87, and thought it was great. I was really into the music and counetrculture of the late '60s, at the time, and I felt very out of place, growing up in a small rural town in Alabama, where, even in the late '80s, guys who had long hair and listened to music like this were almost treated like beings from another planet!
@@aileenturrietta7553 I got your point, and I wasn't meaning to contradict it. I was just adding my own story of discovering and loving this song and this band, in a very unlikely environment, in small-town Alabama, two decades after they had been an early, groundbreaking band for heavy music.
This was one of the songs that my dad liked, even though he hated most rock music, because he could understand the words. My mom would dance around the kitchen to it when I was blaring it from my room. I can see her now, waving the dishtowel around and getting down!!! RIP mom and dad, together In A Gadda Da Vida.
that's special
..down on what!!?
@@juli-annb.anderson8816 Hahaha! My mom was a great dancer!
@@cindynau8068 I appreciate your not taking offence, I'm sure she was a great dancer, that's a lovely memory. I'm sorry they're both gone, but somehow, that memory is eternally present, isn't it.🙂💞
I love this imagry - thank you for sharing :-)
The drummer is so good. Not just because of the solo. The way he keeps the rhythm for the rest of the song is impeccable
My generation may be called old but we had the absolute best music. Nothing since can compare.
I agree. I was 11 when older brother bought this vinyl back in 1968. Man o man it was epic. Definitely shades drawn, black lights, black light posters, lava lamp, and incense!
Psychedelic rock was the best
@@janiceforsyth5562 and probably some jamaican red...groovy
Classic! R.I.P. Ron Bushy, drummer for Iron Butterfly who recently passed away.🦋🦋🦋
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@@Lightmane 😎
He might have made the simplest drum solo in all of rock, but he did it so good and it completely takes the song from the front to the back so seamlessly. Love it.
@@bobbybobbatunday9959 The thing about that solo is that it had an amazing groove. Which is why I could play the solo but never managed to get the groove right.
@@bobbybobbatunday9959 I would commend Ron for refraining from hot dogging. He just did a very tasteful, melodic solo that fits perfectly with the song.
Welcome to the club. The riff is now permanently etched into your brains. Resistance is futile.
🤣🤣🤣Yup, I'm 67 today and it's never left!
@@emilyflotilla931 And I'm 74 and I've played it a few times in bands.
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All I needed was that opening riff, and I'm back in junior high school. And what followed...
I'm 64 and it is imprinted in my DNA.
Probably the most famous drum solo in music history. Most boomers know that drum solo note for note.
You are right about most baby boomers knowing that drum solo note for note. As I was watching the video I was amazed that in my mind I still remembered it.
Because it's easy to play. We all learned it on our first kit. I'd like to hear Butterfly Blu. Fat chance.
@wyomarine Yup. Lived three blocks off U-Ave and 54th. Me and my best friend were 11 when this took our souls away and made us both drummers! The head shops along the Ave with those little back rooms with the black light posters...and the 'paraphernalia" under the glass...Lots of great albums bought out of those hole-in-the-wall places.
Classic trip song. Of a kind. Influence d heavy metal to come. Fun to listen to at the time but of that time only. Head snap when you compare it with Heard It Through the Grapevine.
This Gen X'er knows it too. 😉
Andy and Alex get back to doing what no one else is able to do; listen to truly classic, iconic rock music from the late 1960s and early 1970s with fresh ears, and convey to us their feeling of excitement. It's truly heartening to know that fifty years after these songs came out, two young guys are reacting to them exactly as we did, half-a-century ago, but with so much more musical intelligence. Thank you A&A!
Well said. 🌞
I know, I love seeing their reactions. I remember mine the first time. The drums blew me away! Even my mom, who played the organ but who was from the big band era, liked this song.
I just wish it wasn’t poll based most of the time. A lot they play is lemming songs, deep cuts take forever… not enuf votes.
Precisely! (senior from Canada)
Probably one of the first stoner songs in recorded history where you just sit staring into space with your bong, black lit posters, strobe light, incense burning and of course the lava lamp.
I was there!
Perfect description
Oh good times 😁. Or a little trip to nowhere land In your mind 😉
You nailed it, atmospherically speaking!
Don't forget the hippy beads instead of a door and black and orange shag rugs!
‘68 and ‘69, every guy in every school everywhere was playing the drum solo on his desk, or any other surface. Every high school drummer everywhere was doing this. This song was universally recognized as an instant classic from the first time it played.
Wow, there's a memory - I was in elementary school but even I remember all the guys "playing" this on every school desk. Trying to find surfaces that made the different tones, too. I always thought the part after a bunch of the solos where they briefly bring back the riff, just for a little bit, was just to provide a little reminder to anyone who needed it that they were still listening to Inna Godda Da Vida.
My ex-husband was a drummer for a band that covered this. Of course I heard him practice this a hundred times but never tired of it!
It is amazing how everyone knows it😂
Absolutely
Now, to blow your minds; imagine this being performed by a High School marching band as a football game halftime show. We did that, back in the '70s.
Wow. Way cool
I'm 70 and was 18 in 1969. That drum solo just came back to me after all those years!
Right on!
I heard this at 16 on a youth retreat. We played this song back to back all weekend.
I was twelve , In remember this one rather well , I liked it , my father not so much . lol but then ,he thought the Beatles were going to ruin the youth of America ! lol
I remember listening to this in the 70s on a turntable with a 100-watt Pioneer receiver, lounging on my avocado green beanbag chair, drinking Boone's Farm Strawberry Hill and smashed off my face on hash. Very, very good times.
Check out "You Keep Me Hangin On" by Vanilla Fudge for a kind of similar, heavy psych rock tune that influenced Zeppelin and Deep Purple. Zeppelin opened for them in their early days and Deep Purple modeled their early sound after them.
Yeah, I suggested that A&A do that one too.
Look for UA-cam of VF doing this tune on Ed Sullivan show. No lip sync crap... standout performance by all, with Appice doing his crazy drumstick twirls!
In the Simpsons, Bart tricked the church congregation into playing this full song, and Homer commented to Marge “remember when we used to make out to this hymn?”
“Wait a minute. This sounds like rock and/or roll!”
By I Ron Butterfly
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…and the old lady organist drops dead on the keys after playing the last note XD
@@brianjones8751 preacher says it wrong yea
I've heard ABOUT this song all my life, and I've heard people hum it so many times that I know the main riff...but this is the first time I've actually heard it!! It's amazing! from reading the comments, it was pretty groundbreaking in its day - cheers A&A!!
Listen on headphones!
I saw this song performed by them in the late sixties. When this album came out, all my musician friends went nuts. You have to remember hard rock was just beginning back then, and to hear this music was amazing to us. This was definitely a "tripping" song for most people. Psychedelic man...
Heard garden of eden story many times and I'm 70😮.
I was 16-17 when this came out, my friends always gathered at one of our friend's basement filled with black lites, posters, stereo,
And strobe lights and incense. Very trippy music,
Some pot, at that age not into psychedelics. We sure loved this, the Doors, Steppenwolf, Led Zeppelin,
CCR, the Beatles, The Stones, musically so primetime
Been there. Heard this back in the day. Blew me away.
This really was a moment in history. This song stands alone in that moment which it created. It's iconic and untouchable in it's rare and unusual impact. My brother had his own room decorated a bit hippy style and he let me in once to see it in all it's glory with his lampshade covered in multi colored tissue paper and this song was playing somewhat softly on the record player in the closet, and it set the perfect psychedelic mood. I've never forgotten that time and how it felt. This song was so far out that some people just didn't know what to make of it. It was an instant classic. The stuff of legends. Released one year after The Doors-Light My Fire, it was like Morrison on a heavy acid trip.
Precisely ✌️
You said it.
Hah! I had 2 teenage brothers just like yours! I played with my Hotwheels in the living room to the sounds of the late 60's and early 70's, because their rooms were usually off limits to me, their little brother.. To me, this tune will always be part of the Hotwheels music era. All hail bell bottoms and side burns! Hah!
@@dennissipsy3152 far out, man
I was born in1959, about the time "the Music died" I grew up with 60s music as a kid and and into the 70s. I liked both but I preferred the more laid back 70s. I never drank, smoked, or got stoned but I didn't need that to get a kick out of great music.
The story is that the person who wrote this song was really trying to say “ In the garden of Eden” but was so effed up he couldn’t get the words out right. ❤️ you young gents!
I thought the story was the song was called In the garden of Eden but when the band turned up for rehearsals they were so drugged out, out came this instead so they went with it
@@virgilk8872 Way too much vino. Big jug of ripple. Engle was trashed.
LSD
"And now please rise for our opening hymn... uh, 'In the Garden of Eden'... by I. Ron Butterfly. "
"Hey, Marge, remember when we used to make out to this hymn?"
"Wait a minute...This sounds like rock and/or roll!"
THE SIMPSONS, "Bart Sells His Soul"
The Simpsons rule
"And now I want you to clean every one of these organ pipes which you have befouled with your popular music"
Back in 1968 when this song was released, MILLIONS of us so called "Hippies" smoked bales of weed listening to this iconic masterpiece. It's truly a timeless track that will never be replicated.
Amem brother
Stoned right now.
Along with some Orange Sunshine, or Mr. Natural. Keep on trucking!
Stoned then and stoned now! It's a way of life! ❤️✌️
It's the quintessential stoner tripping song of the 60's.
So grateful that I grew up in the era when music like this came out! I was an impressionable 15-year-old! And music definitely was the pulse of the time! My brother was in a rock ‘n’ roll garage band at the time so I was surrounded by music.
The stuff Lead Singer/Keyboardist Doug Ingle is playing during his solo bits was some of the greatest trippy/stoney music ever for me. An outstanding 60's Acid Rock counter culture milestone.
I'm surprised that the keyboardist is also the vocalist, because while the lyrics are simple almost to the point of being insipid (great voice, though), the organ parts are incredibly sophisticated. I don't know a whole lot about classical music, but I'm almost sure some of it was adapted from Bach--like Procol Harum, but even more complex.
At exactly 13:00 Doug Ingle plays a subtle God Rest Ye’ Merry Gentlemen. His Father was a preacher so he had access to an organ very early in life.
This was the shit back in the day. You should have been there.
First time listening on headphones though. Nice new experience.
Haven’t smoked a fatty in 25 years. Felt like I just did.
My man!
The first time I heard this song I was 14 and stoned, and it much as I loved the song, it was a terrifying experience I wouldn’t want to relive. I had smoked pot several times and had a blast, but this was the first time I had smoked hash. I was in my room alone on a hot summer night and decided to try a few hits of the chunk of hash my older brother had given me. I put on this song and got so severely stoned far quicker than I was expecting. I was dying to get something to eat and drink, but I was too paranoid to leave my bedroom. I locked my bedroom door and pushed my heavy desk against the door to keep out the members of the Manson Family that I was sure were going to break into my house and kill me, my brother, and our parents in an extremely gruesome way. I had to turn this song off after 10 minutes or so because it was only adding to my terror. This was in 1980 and when I hear this song it instantly takes me back to that awful night. Of course, now I can also listen to it and enjoy it as well.
In 1969, every eighth grader had to know how to drum that solo on their desk top. Different thicknesses of text books determined the drum tone. At 14, I wrote a self hypnosis script and read it into a reel to reel with this song to follow.
It was over for me. Ozzy and Sabbath, Led Zep and Yes.
Now you guys have to listen to Who Do You Love suite by QUICKSILVER MESSENGER SERVICE who did FRESH AIR. You will love it . Thanks Andy, I waited 4 years to see you do this one.
You have the early QMS, songs like Mona and Pride of Man, and then you have the Dino Valente-led QMS a whole different kettle of (smelly) fish
Really thrilled that you all reacted to this!! In 1969 we went to visit my godparents in Michigan and although their daughters were grown and out of the house, they still had their albums in the basement room. That's where I discovered Iron Butterfly and since my godmother knew I liked the album, she bought me a copy and sent it back to Texas. Needless to say I was thrilled!!! Doug Ingle, the vocalist and organist, was the son of a church organist. You can kinda hear the baroque progressions in his playing, especially after the drum solo. Erik Brann, the guitar player, was 17 when they recorded this. This was considered the first "heavy rock" album when it was released in 1967. A classic.
Absolutely iconic and like nothing else. I graduated HS in 67. This is straight up , “Psychedelic Rock” .
When you're in the mood for more long songs, you gotta listen to the album version of Time Has Come Today, by The Chambers Brothers. Your soul will be psychadelicized.
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Oh yeah now your talking 👍✌
Uh huh. Lester, Willy, Joe & George IIRC.
Love it.
In the late 70s early, early 80s, my family owned a lumber yard in the San Fernando Valley (LA, CA). A Makita tools salesperson came in and commented on the Grateful Dead shirt I had on. Come to find out it was Ron Bushy, drummer for the Iron Butterfly. Absolutely the nicest guy you'd ever want to meet. We were friendly acquaintances for several years. He shared tons of amazing stories, I was in awe of the guy that has to this day one of the most iconic drum solos in rock history. Very sad to see that he recently passed away. RIP Ron, thanks for the memories 💙
Funny story about this song.... I had a '67 Firebird with an 8 track cassette player when this album came out, and I had this tape along with others. Well, stealing these tape players was a thing back in the day, and mine was stolen along with all my tapes.
I was pissed and called the cops. As they were itemizing what was stolen, writing it down in a notebook, I said one of the tapes was In A Gadda Da Vida, and the cop looked at me and said, " In a Goddamn what?"
OK, it was funny at the time.
Please post the video - hahaha just jokin' :)
Still is funny!
I thought it was hilarious
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Man, that's funny freaking NOW, Charles. Kinda made my day.
Regarding 'your story about how the title came about: I was a neighbor of Jim Hilton in the mid-'90s in Van Nuys, CA--if you check the back of the album you'll see he's listed s the recording engineer--and I asked him about that story; He said it was absolutely true. The band had been drinking all day and when it came time to pitch the idea to the producers they were so loaded they kept slurring their words, and the original title, "In the Garden of Eden"turned into "Inna Gadda Da Vida". He said they were NOT drunk when they recorded the song--contrary to popular opinion--just when they pitched it.
Hope this helps.
That drum solo is the GOAT. I never get tired of hearing it. The whole track is great, but the drums . . .that blew my mind when this first came out, and I can still get lost in it.
it is good but not the best. You’re forgetting the solos by Ginger Baker, Mitch Mitchell and many others just from that era. Terry bozio, Neil Peart, I could go on. More than that I would call this a Drum movement, much more than a solo, he is creating atmosphere which enables the ensemble to go to places they would have never gone. Cheers
@@MichaelB12345 Yes, it's a very - musical - solo. Not heavy on chops. Not showing off (you can substitute another word for showing). Integral to the overall vibe of the track, which is a journey.
My dad (a potato farmer and amateur drummer) wore this song OUT on the LP. And he would drum that solo on me and my brothers heads and bellies (the belly bongo!).
This song always reminds me of him.
Bahaha 😂
You have now entered, neck deep, into true “Classic” Rock!
A great get high song back in the day! You can literally hear all of the colors of the instruments. The song just seemed to go on for hours. And that drum solo, one of the best ever. Not to mention the spectacular organ, bass and guitar. Holy hell. What a wonderful way to spend my lunch hour (and no I didn't get high boss 😂) Thanks guys!
This is easily one of those songs that I can just listen to over and over again. The dissonant distorted guitar, the contrapuntal keyboards, and I love that drum solo, perfect rhythm without being over the top. And I love how it starts and ends with the same keyboard line. Thanks for finally getting to this one. And it definitely does not feel like 17 minutes.
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida was originally written to be a much shorter song, but with spaces for the different solos heard on the final recording. However, as the recording progressed, the solo sections became longer and longer until the song filled out its total running time.
Guitarist Erik Brann (or Braun) was 17 at the time of the recording but plays like a much more experienced guitarist, his solo sections are a hallmark of the song.
Ron Bushy's drum solo is iconic. So much so that many drummers who came up through the early 70s learned at least portions of it as their first taste of soloing.
Lee Dorman's bass is the epitome of solid, driving bottom, even during his own solo section he's driving the song along, not letting it meander away.
It's an amazing piece of sonic art that really has been maligned over the years, usually unfairly so.
Doug Ingle played the organ and sang vocals on this and most other Iron Butterfly tunes.
The original line up in '68 had the coolest end of show I've ever seen. They ended their set with "In a Gadda Da Vida" and walked off to an incredible ovation. After a few minutes of constant chanting from the crowd they came back for a couple more songs and then left again to another long ovation. When they came back the second time, I don't remember what song they went into, but it was loud and fast. As the song started to wrap up. the bass player set his bass down next to his amp causing heavy feedback and walked off stage leaving the guitar and organ players feverishly jamming with the drummer. Then the guitar player set his guitar against his amp and left. So now there is the organ player and drummer cranking along wildly while the feedback from the bass and guitar is so loud you can't hear yourself think. Then the organ player takes his mic stand and lays it across the keyboard so that every note is blasting. Now its just the hard working drummer and this pure rock noise coming at the audience. The drummer slows down the beat to a boom boom boom and walks off. However the kick drum keeps pounding out the slow boom boom boom as it was apparently being hit by a mechanical pedal. This totally musician free music? noise? continued for a minute or so as the crowd went nuts. Then finally a roadie came out and one by one turned off all the equipment and there was nothing left but silence except for the ringing in all our ears.
Thanks for the memories? 🙂
@@mrnobody3161 Wow. Awesome. Wish I would have been there.
Are your ears still ringing? 😁
Mega!
Awesome band
Just woke up to this, OMG it's finally here. A&A comes thru. 💛💛💛
We all love to joke but this is legitimately a tasty long jam. This is one of the only drum solos I actually enjoy listening to, there are tons are great guitar and organ sections, that incredible riff and lyric - a legitimate S-tier classic!
For an obscure drum solo you might enjoy, try Incomudro: Hymn to the Atman by Phil Ehart of Kansas from their Song for America album. One of my favorites for sure.
I'm 64 years old and everybody loved this back then. Drop some acid at a party and play this song and everyone tripping out. One of my top songs of all time!!
Omg. Memories. Im a boomer. Best drum solo in history. Love how you’re generation still interested in my era music. You guys rock. Best reaction channel on UA-cam
YAY!! I think alot of us were waiting for you two to hit this classic track. It's the quintessential psychedelic era rock song. Far out, man.✌
Agree. Really surprised there's more than a few dislike comments, totally up to them but man this song was a game changer and is still relevant to this day.
@@stevemd6488 Essential for the time and a must for every Jr and Senior High school Dance and I said before, Bands had to know it!!
@@aileenturrietta7553 Hi Aileen, I hope life's treating you well!
@@lisamorrison2149 Hey Lisa. So far so good. I hope all is well with you too.!!! I absolutely adore this song. It was definitely a must!!!
You want long songs? Thanksgiving is in a few months... time to listen to "Alice's Restaurant" by Arlo Guthrie. It's a Thanksgiving tradition.
Every year!
"Litterin'......and disturbin' the peace!"
ABSOLUTELY! Do that on Black Friday! And take some 8 by 10 color glossies while you're at it.
Love Alice's Restaurant!...another great classic...
Listened to it every year with my Father... He passed away with covid.. 😑💔
A New chapter this year 🕯
R. I. P. Pop's
I was 9 when this came out. An iconic song that doesn't require an argument to support it. Just listen. This sounds like everything that was inventive, alive and timeless about 1968. And the groove rocks like no other.
Me too.
I was 10😄
Another 9 here ... What a time to be alive
We are the same exact age. This one brings back a lot of memories....at the expense of my parents, I'm afraid.
Teenagers we were still blasting this in 1989, 20 years after it came out. Heavy, groovy, and righteous.
This may be the third time I’ve watched this reaction and I still love it every time! This thing this post you have could go on forever and ever and ever……and you are continuing history……. Thank You😀
Best description of this song I ever heard: an acid trip even without the acid. My favorite aspect of the instrumentation was the ability of the drummer to maintain control and direction of the solo. Too many drum solos wander out into the outer reaches and struggle to come home. Here, the drummer kept the song in view so that each step was logical to the ones before and after but were also coherent to the song as a whole. Then it all slid into place when the solo ended.
Just reading this comment around the 14 minute mark. Yes yes yes
Being a band geek in high school in the 70's , we marched to this killer drum cadance :)
Yep, we actually played a shortened version of this song in high school marching band. We also played it in the stands at high school basketball games. Groovy, dude, especially for a teenage clarinet player!
Don't you just love teachers that facilitated this kind of thing!
@@9337sjm that was my instrument as well. When we marched in parades we would swing our instruments as the drummers played this...ahh the memories!!!!
That is a true story. They were so drunk or high when they initially performed the song, whose title was originally "In the garden of Eden", it came out In a gadda da vida and they just decided to leave it that way
That wasn't the Simpsons?
@@cacho2112 No lol.
And thank goodness that they did leave it way. 👍
"The Simpsons did it" ua-cam.com/video/qSCUhqsy4Nk/v-deo.html The Simpsons - In the Garden of Eden
It's funny - I never heard that story 'til today, and I'm generally from the era. But it makes sense.
This got blasted at full volume (hell of set of speakers owned by one of our EE majors) from one of Rice U's residential dorm at midnight one night. 3000 people heard it and not one complained.
Another great long song is "Get Ready" by Rare Earth. Yes, there's a radio version that's only three minutes long....but the album version clocks in at 20, and you're never bored in that 20 minutes.
I somewhat disagree, while it's a great cover overall, there are many times that the music feels like time consuming filler.
I love that one - another one with that same vibe is "Vehicle" by Ides of March.
I have the greatest hits by Rare Earth and it's a great long song too.
Yes, I always like that one better than this one. But that's live and this is studio.
Rare earths album ' MA ' is another one with some 8 to 10 minutes songs but MA takes the entire side of one album, which I'm a fan of it
This was as cutting edge as it got when this song came out. At the time, this music was called underground rock ( later psychedelic rock.) Blew people away because this was an era when top 40 radio ruled and no song was more than 3 minutes. So a 20 minute song (and entire side of the album -- no tapes CDs or streaming back then) was entirely new. As was the entire approach to the song, the dischordent notes, the string stratching noise as opposed to notes. The very first long drum solo in rock. No one had ever heard anything like it. In its long from, this was mostly only heard on fledgling FM rock stations, of which were few and far between at the time. AM radio ruled in the late 60s. (A heavily cut 3 minute version eventually made to top 40) This was another song of the era, heavy drug influences. But a one hit wonder. This band did nothing else of merit. Still, it blazed a new trail that many others have followed.
They also made other popular albums in the era too, including another top ten (top five, actually) album, after the multi-million-selling album of this song's name. Just last year, a 7-CD Iron Butterfly boxed set was released, and the announcement led to *six full pages of excited comments* from music fans, in the U.S., the U.K., and worldwide, on a popular music forum board online. Many Iron Butterfly fans fondly remember this band for more than one song. To say that they did "nothing else of merit" is very much a personal opinion, and I, and many other people, would disagree.
In the Time of Our Lives is their next classic they should do of theirs. 🎸
@@vicprovost2561 I'd love to see Andy and Alex react to that song! Also, the song, "Iron Butterfly Theme," from the band's first, pre-"Gadda" album, "Heavy," would be a great reaction song. Before "Gadda" was released and quickly became an iconic rock anthem, "Iron Butterfly Theme" was actually the band's most popular song in concert. Both albums-- "Heavy" and "Gadda"-- were released in the same year, 1968, but that was back when many bands more commonly released *two full albums* of new songs in the same year!
@Roger Prain In my reply to him, I did disagree with that statement about the band, which seemed dismissive and overly harsh, but telling him, "You know nothing," is even more harsh and needless than his initial statement about Iron Butterfly! The guy is a human being. We're *all* just human beings here writing these comments. I can disagree with him without being disrespectful to him. Most of his comment was actually *complimentary* to Iron Butterfly for being trailblazers in heavy psych-rock with "Gadda." The fact that he doesn't like, or maybe, is not aware of, the rest of their work, does not mean that he "knows nothing."
Early Pink Floyd?
Folks, this is the record that started it all: the drum solo during rock concerts. Yes, there had been "drum" songs before, like "Sing, Sing, Sing" or "Wipe Out." But soon after this song came out, every drummer and his brother started doing drum solos during their concerts. I remember this happening when I was in junior high school in late 1968/early 1969. Heck! Even a reluctant Ringo was "required" to do a drum solo on the ABBEY ROAD LP. The drum solo has been a staple of rock concerts ever since, all these 50-plus years later.
I'm a drummer and unfortunately that's the time everyone goes to the bathroom...lol.
I agree with You Totally, It was Really Groovy Back then!!!!!
@@jazzyboy7784 People who go to the bathroom during a drum solo have either weak bladders, or no musical appreciation . . . or maybe both.
Correct. I believe Ringo's drum solo on Side 2 of Abbey Road took place about 10 months after In A Gadda Da Vida was released. I knew as soon as I heard it that The Beatles were doing a copycat.
@@ruprect1 And you can't read - "during rock concerts." isn't jazz.
Man alive! I was there for real back in the day! It’s tripping music for sure!🎼🎹☯️
This song definitely was a game changer. Legitimate drum solo pioneer. Absolute S Tier level impact on Rock N Roll and it's history. My guess is that every parent hearing their children listening daily to this song knew they'd lost them to the dark side. Those of us listening to it at the time knew just how important this song was in context. There was a single version released for AM radio that was like 2:53 long that cut out the entire song and was a joke to those of us that understood just what Iron Butterfly had done here. Guys, this is truly S Tier if anything is so rated.
This song was the first of its type. It was also considered by many to have spawned two different genre of rock music. Heavy Metal and Acid Rock.
This is the MOST EPIC album side (side 2) ever put on vinyl. It was revolutionary when it came out in '68. I was in junior high at the time and I can tell you that every guy I knew learned every "air" guitar/bass/drum/organ part by heart that summer. I would sit in my basement bedroom, turn on the black light, put on the headphones and just put the turntable on repeat. I have no idea how many hundreds of times I've listed to it but whenever it comes up, it never gets old for me. Glad you guys like it.
This was released in 1968.. when I was nine. It's just as good today as it was back then. Thanks guys, we love your channel. 💘
I was 10. My grandfather called it crazy. But he did like the Moody Blues. LOL
Was in college, enjoying forays into these guys, Cream, Hendrix, The Doors, Blood Sweat & Tears, etc. and other experiences! Brings back great memories! Thanks. ✌
blood sweat and tears is an under appreciated band. amazing production value on their songs.
Those bands are all light years better than Iron Butterfly. Most people who were around in 1968 thought the band was a bad joke...at least everyone I knew who listened to the bands you mentioned.
@@ucanbobonthis Agree. My favorite of theirs is, "and When I Die".
Seeing you guys bliss out to this brings back so many memories. Glad to see you enjoying just pure music.
"A moment in history" Great comment, Alex. Perhaps it explains my surprising initial reaction when you guys first started playing the song, because I instantly began to tear up. Not the reaction I was expecting at all. But I guess it is because this song was so much a part of my youth, as I turned 13 at the end of 1968 when it was released. I must be getting old and sentimental.😂
Same thing happened to me. Sentimental fool I am. 😞
I get it.
12:41 The organist plays a big chunk of God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen and I have never heard anyone mention it! Many years ago, my local TV station used the part at 14:28 for the intro to their news broadcast. I always wondered how many people realized what it was! HaHaHa
I’ve been hearing this song for 35 years and never noticed that!
Yes, finally. Welcome to the long psychedelic trippy song. Yes, I felt it was ground breaking. It was a huge hit. The shorter version was played on the radio. This was sooooo cool in the day.
Laura Bussard, I know I tripped to this at least once.😎😎😎😎
I am glad they did this long version because I was only familiar with the radio version of the song as a kid.
As a kid I would go to yard sales with my grandmother. She bought this record for me, I took it home and listened to it in the dark. Felt like I was a 2nd grade hippie. Thanks for the memory guys!
We had this 45 in the 70’s. My brothers and I would turn off all the lights and play for. A scare! 😂
Cool grandma!
@@jacquelinedawson7219 The single was an abomination, though. 17 minute masterpiece reduced to a 3 minute joke with horrible edits. My little sister and I did that, too. I had blacklights, psycholights, color organs and strobes back then. Oh, and lava lamps. That song was even cooler with all that fired up.
You had a really cool grandma 😎
"Dude"... "Yeah"... Words spoken while listening to this song since 1968.
I fell in love with this song a long time ago, when I first heard it at 16yrs old. I brought the album home, but was afraid to play it because of my parents. They were all about the 50's and hated 60's music. But as soon as my dad heard me playing this song, that was the last time I got to hear it. Because he was always listening to it. He stole it from me, so I had to get another one for myself. He absolutely fell in love with it, also. My dad passed just recently...hearing this brought back memories.
Thank you for sharing this precious memory about your dad. I am very sorry for your loss.
@@SandraHof Thank you so much for your condolences. Value the times spent with your loved ones. Because one day, they will not be there. Miss him...Thank you.
@@lindahunter4545 I agree so much with you about valuing time with our loved ones. For some reason, I have always been keenly aware of that from a young age. So I always made sure to tell my loved ones several times a day, or everytime I communicated with them, that I loved them. I made sure to maintain my relationships with them, as far as possible, to have no regrets. I have lost my husband, both my parents, and too many friends to count, in death. My husband and my father were the two most important people in my life. Because I understand loss all too well, my heart went out to you and your loss. You expressed your memory of your dad so well. I had to laugh that he stole your record from you. Though probably not funny to you at the time. But a great memory that both of you loved this song that much. I hope your mind and heart are comforted by these memories. I am comforted by memories, photos and by Scriptures, such as Acts 24:15 and Revelation 21:3, 4. Best wishes to you, Linda.
I got to see Iron Butterfly and Led Zeppelin back in 1970. This was an iconic stoner song. Yes to more Iron Butterfly.
my friend's mom said that was her very first concert.
I saw both bands in the 70"s too..what a privilege
I was 10 when this came out and it was THE song that summer when the big kids were jamming. It forced me to become a drummer... It doesn’t hold up as well as later more sophisticated rock but, at the time, it was revolutionary.
Awesome! Like I said, the drum solo was the most fantastic part of the song for us 10 year olds! I used to play it on the school desk!!
Still enjoy this song all these 50 + year's later since the first time i heard it.
This came along at exactly the right time. AM was on it's way out, FM was on its way in, and some of them played entire album sides, like this one, and CTA from Chicago. Only a few stations would play the long version (they made a short version), but by the time FM Stereo SimulCast came around, AM was as good as dead.
It WAS iconic! It's been decades since I've revisited this song, and I forgot about the most iconic drum solo ever! Thanks guys!
Vintage "acid" or "psychedelic" rock. A year later than "Sunshine of Your Love." Superficially similar, but really a completely different song other than the vague similarity of riffs. "Sunshine" is basically a modified blues. "Vita" is much more deeply acid rock. When they said smoke 'em if you got 'em, they were not talking about Marlboros. And the audience is not limited to things you could light up.
Interesting. They both came out when I was very young and I did confuse the two songs at first.
@@scottgelb2650 🙂
One of the things not usually talked about with this song is the terrific stereo mixing of the song. Shout out to the engineer.
Actually that’s what made it a good song.
I was 10 years old when this came out and specifically asked to play the “long version” on am radio. They always said hell no, it’s too long!! That drum solo was to die for at the time! Thanks for the reaction. You had to be there.
FM stations in the early 70's would play it, especially at night. DJ's would put it on when they needed a bathroom break or a doobie break.
Truly ground breaking stuff. The first side long rock track to achieve legendary status. The first hard rock album to sell a million copies, and the guitarist was 17!!
69 Subic Bay Yank other ranks club had local bands, rock, country, etc. in the club this afternoon and asked local band to play the song. They said no until we took up a collection and they said ok.
They start the song and when they get to the five minute drum solo the rest of the group walk off and have a drink.
The drummer gets to the point where the guitar has to restart and they ignored him. So he did it again.
Fabulous memories.
When I was a DJ at an album-oriented rock station in the late 70's, this was one of the go-to songs for whenever I needed to take a potty break. The iconic drum solo that every drummer I knew learned definitely furthered a trend at the time for the drums to move up a bit in the recording mix and for every drummer to be showcased at some point in the live performance.
they need to bring back album-oriented rock stations. I grew up listening to WMMS in Cleveland. It's not the same today.
@@RussVerbofsky my roommate in college was from Cleveland. He always talked about WMMS. I grew up in Springfield, OH, so we had WVUD which was broadcast from the University of Dayton.
I was overnight DJ at a local small town oldies station (mid 50's to mid 70's music) during the 90's. Since I am a child of the 60's myself, this song has been in my top 10 favorites since it arrived on the scene, but in that time frame it shot to the top ... it was my go to bathroom break song. Good memories.
Listening to this makes me realize just how stoned we were back in the day to listen this sooooo many times.
Carry On!!
There were a period of years that every drummer, worth his salt, could play this drum solo. Awesome.
yes, I was there when it hit and it made a splash and was played endlessly. Of course, it was the era of the "Green Amplifier" if you get my drift. Good times.
As a drummer this song was the first song in the day to give a drummer such a dominate solo in the song and at the time this was unbelievable and I do believe it was the longest solo by far given to a drummer on a record album, this is defiantly a time piece and as a drummer this song broke the mold and that is my humble opinion. Love you guys!
‘Get Ready’ by Rare Earth came out about the same time. Took up one side of the album, long drum solo. Would be be a good comparison song to this one.
Yes! Long version!
Some fantastic music on Rare Earth's album "Ma".
Yes! Definitely the 21 minute version to keep the long jam vibe going here
Laughed when they were wondering when this came out - -when could it have been but the late 60s? It definitely has that sound and feel.
1968 in 7th grade over at a friends house who just bought the album right at $3.00! We had heard the short version on the radio.
SAUCE! Required listening for any fan of classic rock. Once every 10 years is enough, though.
I agree
Amen to both
I'm good with the single edit. Less is more!
I listen to it at least once a year, whether I need to or not!
Craig-every 10 yrs? Did you get old on me?😛
I remember when a disk jockey on some radio station said that the three most listened to songs that year were "White Christmas", "Happy Birthday", and "In A Gadda Da Vida".
Welcome to ACID ROCK boys. Late 60's and early 70's...great music, great times to be alive. This song came out the year after I graduated H.S.
1968. I was a sophomore in HS Spanish class. Mr. Cano(looked like James Bond) was about to teach Spanish lab. There was a portable record player. My friend walks in w an album and asks Mr. Cano if he could just play the first track before class begins. You guessed it. Priceless memory. That’s what school is really about.
This puts me back in my dorm room at college with blacklight turned on and room mates vibing out.
Now you've done it fellas. I got this album from my second cousin, who is a huge audiophile, at 13 years old way back in 1971 or 1972. Inside the sleeve was another great album, Cream's "Disreali Gears" as well. This baby spent a lot of hours on my turntable back in high school.
same here!
Recorded in one take! No overdubs. The best 17 minutes of your life.
The drum solo was the topic of conversation when it came out; among music lovers, musicians, late night talk radio djs. In concerts, the solo could last to twelve minutes or more and then a second drum solo five minutes later would come in for another shine. In Chicago, they jammed for nearly 45 minutes on the song. Good times, good memories. Thanks for reviewing it.
One of the best songs ever. Glad you did the full song, also love how you guys just listen first and then talk. Great insight
"If you want to trance out, man..." I can remember listening to this in my college dorm room in 1970 and that's exactly what this music was for...especially when stoned at many a party. It's really better if you are stoned. (Not that I'm advocating drugs...LOL.) I listened to this song so many times that all these many decades later I remember every refrain. I guess it's burned into my brain cells. It was considered edgy for it's time.
Absolutely - that's what all psychedelic music was for.
Friends of Mine - the Guess Who
The Soft Parade - the Doors
Both deep cuts, long and under appreciated psychedelic masterpieces.
Oh yes! Great suggestions! Not sure they are really fans of the Guess Who, but that song is very very good
This band was scheduled to play Woodstock.
They got as far as Laguardia airport in NYC when they found out the New York Thruway was closed and there was no way they could make the show.
It was ground breaking at the time you can believe it ... follow up, if you haven't already ... with Iron Butterfly Theme ... off their first LP