Gosh! This is an absolute classic! IRON BUTTERFLY In a gadda da vida REACTION - First time hearing

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  • @michaelbaucom4019
    @michaelbaucom4019 7 місяців тому +111

    This song is the very definition of psychedelic rock

  • @stevenewcomer8837
    @stevenewcomer8837 7 місяців тому +131

    You know the story on how the name came about? Doug Ingle wrote the song and was the lead singer and organ player. Well, he went to sing it for the band and he was so drunk that when he sang what was supposed to be, “In the Garden of Eden Baby”, it sounded to the band like “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida". 😂 So, they kept it. 😂

    • @Cynthia...
      @Cynthia... 7 місяців тому +12

      I never knew that. lol

    • @chuckmoseley3771
      @chuckmoseley3771 7 місяців тому +12

      Doug just passed 5/24/24 RIP
      I was 16 when this song came out

    • @eddiemeeks7133
      @eddiemeeks7133 7 місяців тому +3

      ​@@chuckmoseley3771see my comment, that's how old I was when I heard this.

    • @eddiemeeks7133
      @eddiemeeks7133 7 місяців тому +6

      You are 100% correct

    • @T-bone1950
      @T-bone1950 7 місяців тому +6

      Thanks, I always wondered about that gibberish. Love the song, but I could never figure out that phrase.

  • @MaxWray111
    @MaxWray111 7 місяців тому +58

    Acid rock from the 1960's. What a great time to be alive.

    • @324cmac
      @324cmac 7 місяців тому +3

      Yup! Loved 60s music and fashion. I lived in the SF Bay Area (Oakland, Berkeley, San Jose) and it was an exciting time. I also loved what was happening in London.

    • @davidpotwin1691
      @davidpotwin1691 6 місяців тому +2

      Time warp back anytime love growing up in the 60s

  • @slimpickins9124
    @slimpickins9124 Місяць тому +2

    Been listening to this tune since Iron Butterfly dropped it in "68 & I had not really appreciated the drum solo until I listened to a you-tube drum instructor react to this. He said the guy was playing real music instead of just going crazy fast & showing off his chops. Thanks for doing the uncut version.

  • @randyconger8620
    @randyconger8620 7 місяців тому +76

    When my youngest son was in high school band, I rashly promised him a drum set if he could learn this. I was unaware of their price. One evening at a school concert, my son surprised me with this song. He learned his part well, especially only practicing at school. Naturally the whole band including the teacher knew about our deal. It was worth the money, considering the look of pride on his face. I’m still proud of him, though he gave up drumming. He gave his mother and I, 5 grand children, I think I got the best deal in the end!

    • @jeffking4176
      @jeffking4176 7 місяців тому +5

      Very cool.
      📻🙂

    • @scottchapin2323
      @scottchapin2323 7 місяців тому +4

      Fantastic. As a drummer myself, I can tell you that what your son achieved was no easy task. Hat's off to your Son.

    • @KC-gy5xw
      @KC-gy5xw 7 місяців тому +2

      Great story! and congratulations!

    • @supafrogg258
      @supafrogg258 7 місяців тому +2

      @randyconger8620 Ha ha! Marvelous story. Thank you for sharing!

    • @stephenleffelman5203
      @stephenleffelman5203 7 місяців тому +1

      I was twelve years old and I wanted a drum set really bad. My dad said if I could play, without stopping on an old hassock with a pair of tablespoons, for four hours straight, I'd get my drum set. I did it! Must have drove my parents crazy listening to four hours of nonstop drumming, but, bottom line: I got my drum set!

  • @324cmac
    @324cmac 7 місяців тому +135

    Some of the differences between the 1960s/1970s and now are: People were thinner. People had healthy, shiny hair. People had energy. And people had the patience to listen to long songs on FM radio and to watch double features at the movies. LOL

    • @sst3d
      @sst3d 7 місяців тому +5

      Saw them with my big brother when I was 15…and what else we had going was we were high and chilling at high school parties…and this was background music, like so many other LPs … great times

    • @clannad99germany70
      @clannad99germany70 7 місяців тому +10

      @@sst3d And the songs were better in many, many ways. Would need a book to write, to explain why.

    • @markdecker6190
      @markdecker6190 7 місяців тому +2

      For me from NJ mainly it was 102.7 WNEW-FM from NYC.

    • @johnpizarro892
      @johnpizarro892 7 місяців тому +2

      @@markdecker6190 I saw them in the summer of 1967 at the Camden County (NJ) Music Fair...The cost $1.50....Me and my 3 friends all 15 were mesmerized......we had heard them on 93.3 FM WMMR Philly.....Different times.

    • @kimmaedke2763
      @kimmaedke2763 7 місяців тому +1

      Isn't THAT the truth!

  • @Grateful_Dad_54
    @Grateful_Dad_54 7 місяців тому +64

    The late, great Ron Bushy on drums with the most iconic drum solo known to man. RIP! Thanks, Harri!

    • @eddiemeeks7133
      @eddiemeeks7133 7 місяців тому +3

      When I started playing drums I tried the imitate that....

    • @guidosarducci
      @guidosarducci 7 місяців тому +3

      @@eddiemeeks7133 Dude, I'm 74 now, but I FINALLY mastered Ron's solo when I was maybe 19 or 20...could play it accurately. Not so much anymore...LOL!

    • @tomcollens4621
      @tomcollens4621 7 місяців тому +1

      I miss the organ in rock!

    • @guyray1504
      @guyray1504 6 місяців тому +3

      Before this we only had " Wipeout". Then this came alone and blew everone away.

  • @davebzen795
    @davebzen795 7 місяців тому +14

    JK-We are in blacklight posters, lava lamps, and significant sound system territory with this bedrock of the psychedelic era. Superb Hall of Fame submission. Great review and commentary from Cosmic Harri....so versatile.

    • @JK_Clarke
      @JK_Clarke 7 місяців тому +2

      Yes, Dave, with the lava lamps sensing and responding to the audio ebbs and flows of the song, especially effective with bookend lamps and stereo speakers in between the lamps. The new remix with surround sound has everything going round and round your head when you sit in the middle. Psyche-delicious!

  • @natlee8947
    @natlee8947 7 місяців тому +42

    Doug Ingle the lead singer and organist just died this year in May he was the last surviving original member and founder of the band.

    • @steverakes6182
      @steverakes6182 7 місяців тому +7

      That's sad to know.

    • @johntiggleman4686
      @johntiggleman4686 7 місяців тому +2

      Is Erik Keith Brann alive? The lead guitarist.

    • @natlee8947
      @natlee8947 7 місяців тому +1

      @@johntiggleman4686 He died in 2003 only 52 yrs old.

    • @johntiggleman4686
      @johntiggleman4686 7 місяців тому +2

      @@natlee8947 Ok, thanks for the info.

  • @eddiemeeks7133
    @eddiemeeks7133 7 місяців тому +24

    This was the beginning of rock and roll for me at least. You couldn't go anywhere in the hippie scene without hearing this

  • @tobysmith3351
    @tobysmith3351 7 місяців тому +32

    This song holds special memories as back in the day, we'd dance to this at parties. Much younger, way more energy.

  • @sgt.pembry9688
    @sgt.pembry9688 7 місяців тому +1

    I sa them live in 69. It was a hellava show. The stage erupted in smoke at the last note of this tune. When it cleared, the stage was cleared of everything. All the equipment was gone.

  • @kishka7
    @kishka7 7 місяців тому +11

    I'm 71 yr old male in N California - grew up with this music - the phenominal thing about THAT RIFF - is that you NEVER GET TIRED OF IT.. (sort of like "Hey Jude"). It's not annoying somehow. Glad to see someone genuinely appreciating this!!! Great reaction vid!!

  • @davidhattman7649
    @davidhattman7649 6 місяців тому +4

    Iron Butterfly was my first ever concert in 1967. amazingly I still remember it. 😁 The guitar play Erik Brann was 17 years when the band recorded this song. Sadly Doug Ingle who wrote this song, recently passed away.

  • @craigreid7178
    @craigreid7178 7 місяців тому +18

    I think Ron Bushy's drum solo in this is one of the best ever. Not fancy, not hot dogging - just very rhythmic and melodic and I love it.

  • @billmoser2802
    @billmoser2802 7 місяців тому +32

    greatest headphone song EVER !!!! Smoke a joint put the headphones on turn off the lights close your eyes and enjoy the ride...had it on 8 track vinyl and the cd to this day....great choice...peace

    • @sst3d
      @sst3d 7 місяців тому +2

      Yep

    • @tinamarcum6170
      @tinamarcum6170 7 місяців тому +3

      And a really comfortable couch you could just sink into. Damn those were the days ❤❤❤❤

    • @rickjohnson8707
      @rickjohnson8707 7 місяців тому +3

      I'm doing that right now at 11:40pm 6/1/24 . I'm a 68yo black man in Hagerstown Md smoking some of mother's finest greenery 💨💨💨

    • @billmoser2802
      @billmoser2802 7 місяців тому

      @@rickjohnson8707 Enjoy it my brother I'm just up above you in pa. peace

    • @socadream
      @socadream 7 місяців тому

      And turn the black light on…

  • @324cmac
    @324cmac 7 місяців тому +26

    This song was one whole side of their album. Thirteen year olds like me in northern California would put it on while we did our homework.

  • @markroberts8864
    @markroberts8864 7 місяців тому +15

    Great to see a music reactor not afraid to dive into a song longer than 5 minutes! Thx Harri!

  • @LouisFLamas
    @LouisFLamas 7 місяців тому +7

    Saw Iron Butterfly with Jefferson Airplane in Houston, Texas in the late 1960’s. What a concert! I was just a Teenager. I’m 72 now.

    • @daveman15
      @daveman15 6 місяців тому +3

      I saw them in Austin in December 1969. I was barely a teenager!

  • @jeffhavlicek7414
    @jeffhavlicek7414 5 місяців тому +2

    One of the greatest rock songs ever. I was 15 when they cut this song. Thank you.

  • @davidcohen4536
    @davidcohen4536 7 місяців тому +27

    This song always reminds me of 1968, the most violent political year in my lifetime. The assassinations of Martin Luther king, Bobby Kennedy, the Democratic convention in Chicago, the Vietnam war, civil rights. A lot of protest music came out that year.

    • @Pops-km8xt
      @Pops-km8xt 7 місяців тому

      The most violent year of your lifetime so far. 2024 has parallels. History doesn't repeat itself. Just rhymes.

    • @davidcohen4536
      @davidcohen4536 7 місяців тому

      ⁠well, if you’re referring to that malignantly cruel narcissistic felonious sociopath running for office, promising a bloodbath if he’s not re-elected then…………..you have a point

  • @Cynthia...
    @Cynthia... 7 місяців тому +29

    I remember this song very well from back in the day. Thanks JK and Harri.

  • @robertdupuis3300
    @robertdupuis3300 7 місяців тому +11

    It was supposed to be called... In the Garden of Eden. I have listened to this song 100s of times. One of the best drums solos on record.

    • @jollyrodgers7272
      @jollyrodgers7272 7 місяців тому +1

      that's the way I first understood it on the radio - and still do!

  • @stevea6307
    @stevea6307 7 місяців тому +15

    I was at a party in the mid-70s and these two guys were fondly recalling this song. I’d only heard the edited single version before and I was intrigued by their description of the full length album cut, the drum solo, the shrieking elephant sounding guitar after, etc. Someone turned on the radio, and the album version was playing, about 3 minutes into the song. An incredible coincidence!
    Definitely psychedelic.

  • @Silverstreak1985
    @Silverstreak1985 7 місяців тому +3

    I've heard a few other bands play this song in the 70's and every time they got to the drum solo the rest of the band members put their instruments down and went to the bar to get a drink and chat with the patrons.

  • @russellfarina9099
    @russellfarina9099 7 місяців тому +10

    Guys running thru the jungles of Vietnam during the war were crazy about this song. It was a classic for them also. Great song.

    • @jaytigert688
      @jaytigert688 7 місяців тому +2

      My dad was one of those guys, and I grew up with this song. At 51 years old now, this song never gets old! Love it!!

    • @russellfarina9099
      @russellfarina9099 4 місяці тому

      @@jaytigert688 God bless your dad for his service, and God bless you and yours.

  • @coocoocachooglin
    @coocoocachooglin 7 місяців тому +7

    My older cousin was living with us so he could spend time in San Francisco for his art, but he had this on reel to reel, he used to play this and sit there rolling bugler tobacco cigarettes and something else and smoke, he had large drawing books he used to sit and listen to this and smoke and draw the most amazing drawings, it was fascinating for me to watch. He’d let me ride on the back of his Triumph and we would take his art drawing books and supplies in the messenger bag and ride up to San Francisco and hang out with all the hippies. It was an amazing time to be alive.

  • @gloriawilde9461
    @gloriawilde9461 3 місяці тому +1

    Wow, one of the first albums I ever bought, along with Santana at 16 years old! Now 72 but what a time to be alive for music for sure!!!

  • @Imadrummin
    @Imadrummin 7 місяців тому +23

    Harri, you might be thinking of the riff Cream had with "Sunshine of Your Love". Way to go JK. This song is an iconic song in rock and roll. Harri, I can't believe you made it through this one. 😀🤟🤟

  • @lennyrothbart
    @lennyrothbart 6 місяців тому +5

    It doesn't *have* psychedelic influence; it *is* psychedelic influence. They're one of the originals!

  • @mrsmissy2669
    @mrsmissy2669 7 місяців тому +4

    I didn't do drugs in the sixties, but I sure tripped on life to this song! Good reaction Harri.

  • @bobconklin7159
    @bobconklin7159 7 місяців тому +7

    The drum solo on this was iconic. Friggin’ Epic.

  • @mikecaetano
    @mikecaetano 7 місяців тому +5

    Heavy and groovy! That riff is iconic. The song was used in the 1986 thriller Manhunter, the first Hannibal Lector movie. It was also used in one of the Resident Evil films, so maybe you heard it in one of those places. Or maybe in a documentary on the 1960's counterculture. I have this on vinyl, picked up used in the eighties. I think I've only listened to side one once. This takes up all of side two. I've forgotten how many times I've listened to it.

  • @steamr0ll
    @steamr0ll 6 місяців тому +1

    Harri, this is a delight. I had not realized you had not done this song before! It wasn't in the '60s but as a teenager in the '80s I did hear this song on the local "classic rock" radio and did buy this LP record. These young dudes brought up a lot of the rock idioms that defined the era.

  • @johncheney950
    @johncheney950 7 місяців тому +2

    I was 13 when this was released. It blew our minds. I still have the original album.

  • @danicampbell402
    @danicampbell402 7 місяців тому +3

    I only ever heard the short version. Thanks for this!

  • @cmel714
    @cmel714 7 місяців тому +39

    The birth of psychedelic rock

    • @KingRat543
      @KingRat543 7 місяців тому

      A classic for sure, but I was getting stoned to Psychedelic Moods by The Deep, and The 13th Floor Elevators several years before this released...Tommy Hall playing the electric jug 😵‍💫

    • @324cmac
      @324cmac 7 місяців тому +1

      I think that was Jimi Hendrix.

    • @KingRat543
      @KingRat543 7 місяців тому +1

      @@324cmac I had been in London and we were on our way to Denmark when we heard the news...

  • @glassontherocks
    @glassontherocks 7 місяців тому +13

    I was in HIGH school when this came out in record form. I bought mine at a record store named ~Licorice Pizza~ that was our nickname for albums.

  • @MaraGore-zf2dr
    @MaraGore-zf2dr 5 місяців тому +1

    one of best drum solo's ever, people still play it and beginners always want to play it.......

  • @soddykarate2525
    @soddykarate2525 7 місяців тому +12

    I was in middle school when this came out. Had a Sear's and Roebuck record player that would hold multiple records at once. Went to sleep with the Beatles, Monkees, and Herman's Hermit's. Mom told me I could get one new record at the five and dime store. I picked this record because of the cover. Played this song first every night to go to sleep on. That led to Steppenwolf, Black Sabbath, Led Zepp, Deep Purple etc. This song changed me forever!

  • @kathaleenrossi9577
    @kathaleenrossi9577 6 місяців тому +1

    Dancing in a club with the colored lights flashing. Also the light shows under the stars while rock music played.

  • @darrellkissick9513
    @darrellkissick9513 7 місяців тому +3

    One of the early great Rock 'N Roll songs,and one of the best drum solo's of all time! I've been a life long musician,and can still remember learning,and the playing this song! Every new drumker that I ever interviewed for a job,was asked if he knew,and could play this tune!There were others like Wipe Out,etc.,that were musts at that time,because people would make requests for them.Those were the days!'❤❤❤❤

  • @DaveNarn
    @DaveNarn 7 місяців тому

    This was the beginning of rock for me, I heard my older brother playing this Iron Butterfly album when I was 5 years old and thought it was the best thing I’d ever heard.
    They are on the list of Acid Rock bands

  • @tsquared4831
    @tsquared4831 7 місяців тому +5

    One of the greatest classics of our time.. and arguably the best drum solo ever!!!!

  • @Kate-hu5uz
    @Kate-hu5uz 7 місяців тому +7

    Fun fact: This song was featured in the 1986 film, "Manhunter"; the origin of the Hannibal Lector movies.

  • @pokey5428
    @pokey5428 7 місяців тому +2

    It's been used in a couple of movies--maybe you heard it there. "Manhunter was a great movie about a serial killer, and this was playing in the background during the finale when the hero cop was closing in on the killer.

    • @eugeneverlander829
      @eugeneverlander829 7 місяців тому

      I remember that, but not the movie title, thanks for the reminder.

  • @stevetillcock7361
    @stevetillcock7361 7 місяців тому +2

    Blew my mind back then and still does.

  • @avi8r66
    @avi8r66 2 місяці тому

    This is such a great song to just kick back with the eyes closed and let it carry you around.

  • @charlesolver303
    @charlesolver303 7 місяців тому +6

    There are a couple of live performances of the song, recorded at the Fillmore East a month before they went into the studio with it, where organist/singer/songwriter Doug Ingle very clearly announces the title as "In OUR Gadda-Da-Vida" - which is enough to convince me that, despite what many people (including band members) said in later years, the original intended title was "In Our Garden Of Eden" rather than "In THE Garden Of Eden". In other words, I don't think this song has anything to do with Adam and Eve, as such - it's just a metaphorical paradise he's singing about. The lyrics make more sense with that interpretation, too. (Ingle, who regrettably passed away very recently, also used to say that all of the songs he wrote were ballads, but they tended to turn into something very different once his bandmates got hold of them!)

  • @agnetesorensenelbom5085
    @agnetesorensenelbom5085 7 місяців тому +2

    What a fantastic memory, would never have known what it was called, but love it

    • @garycamara9955
      @garycamara9955 7 місяців тому +2

      How could you forget INNA GADA DA VIDA!

    • @agnetesorensenelbom5085
      @agnetesorensenelbom5085 7 місяців тому

      @@garycamara9955 Ask my brain ;-)
      Maybe 50 years since I heard this last, 17 years I was at the time. The music of my first stedy boyfriend 🙂

  • @jaac12000
    @jaac12000 7 місяців тому +1

    I can't imagine that you have EVER heard that riff before without it being associate with this song. It is CLASSIC and any pirating of it would have immediately been called out.

  • @billym90210
    @billym90210 7 місяців тому +2

    They had a number of great songs. One of them became a rocket scientist. He claimed he found something faster than the speed of light then mysteriously disappeared.

  • @lawrencebenjamin1634
    @lawrencebenjamin1634 7 місяців тому

    It was our lunch/bathroom break in the studio along with Layla. Great music.

  • @5117danielle
    @5117danielle 6 місяців тому +2

    I forgot how good this song is!

  • @gregkerr725
    @gregkerr725 7 місяців тому +5

    Eric Braun playing one of the best guitar solos of all time!

  • @ciphernine7824
    @ciphernine7824 7 місяців тому +1

    What an opus! A cornerstone of psychedelic rock. Timeless.

  • @johnnielson4341
    @johnnielson4341 7 місяців тому +1

    Back in the 70s we tried to make love to music. I dare you to try that with this song.

    • @samnsadie
      @samnsadie 5 місяців тому

      My husband and I moved in together on our second date. One night, he put this song on and told me people were making love to it. My man made it through the whole song. I can't hear that drum solo now without smiling. We were married for forty years. He passed away ten years ago, and I will miss him until the day I die.

  • @KC-gy5xw
    @KC-gy5xw 7 місяців тому

    I still have two vinyl albums from Iron Butterfly and I love them both equally. Both from my older brother who made sure I listened to all his music and critiqued them when I was 8-10 years old. Thank you Trevor!! I must say Ball is my favourite from the albums; Played LOUD, there is nothing like it...

  • @jvsmith7888
    @jvsmith7888 7 місяців тому +1

    RIAA certifications did not exist when this album came out, but this album is often listed as the first album to ever sell one million copies. I'm sure someone will mention that "The Eagles Greatest Hits" was the first album to be RIAA certified platinum (1 million copies), but that album came out in 1976. In-a-gadda-da-vida (album) was released in 1968 and reached 1 million in sales very quickly.

  • @TheToscanaMan
    @TheToscanaMan 7 місяців тому +2

    I am from the sixties and this song has been playing in my head since then. ☮☮🍄🍄
    Yeah Harri definitely psychedelic rock.

  • @michaelrider1024
    @michaelrider1024 7 місяців тому +1

    I'm 72 now and have not heard this in some time. Happy to see your reaction.

  • @jemogan
    @jemogan 7 місяців тому +2

    First album I ever bought. Wore out several copies of it through the years. I adored it all to heck, though as I got older I gravitated more to heavy but not jam rock - AC/DC, CCR, ZZ Top, Foghat, BTO, etc. I can still listen to this song and know every note. SO glad you listened to the full version. Groovy, man.

  • @anonamoose5673
    @anonamoose5673 7 місяців тому +4

    In 67/68 I was in jr high and one of the parents threw a party for are class. First time not going to a child's birthday party. Someone put this record on and it really changed my life!

  • @lindahunter4545
    @lindahunter4545 5 місяців тому +1

    In A Gadda Da Vida is well over 50yrs old. It was also my dad's(R.I.P) favorite piece of music as well as mine. He was always into 50's music that he grew up in. But he fell in love with this song by Iron Butterfly and actually stole it from me. I had to buy a new one because he never gave it back! Lol! It wasn't funny to me then but now i think about him and miss him every time I hear this album.

  • @guidosarducci
    @guidosarducci 7 місяців тому +3

    Absolutely one of the greatest tunes ever recorded. It's just that...............

  • @dragon-shepherd
    @dragon-shepherd 7 місяців тому +8

    My Dad used to steal this album from me all the time. The singer sounds like his oldest brother.

  • @markdecker6190
    @markdecker6190 7 місяців тому +1

    This song is part of the reason why I have tinnitus and some hearing loss today. I used to put my dad's Ampex bookshelf speakers connected to a Harmon Kardon record player on the floor with my head on a pillow between them and get lost listening to Iron Butterfly, Hendrix Axis Bold as Love, Jefferson Airplane, Cream, Doors, Steppenwolf, Johnny Winter, Chicago, Humble Pie, and countless others. Saw all those groups in concert too inc. Iron Butterfly.

  • @amoco14
    @amoco14 4 місяці тому +1

    Love it and have always loved it, Great Hippie/Psychedelic song.

  • @rickmts
    @rickmts 7 місяців тому +1

    I have this album on vinyl . Have not listened to the full cut of this in a long time. Thanks, Harri!

  • @richardlandrum1966
    @richardlandrum1966 7 місяців тому +3

    As a child in the 80s and 90s, my father devoted a not unsubstantial amount of time to training me to do this drum solo, with my hands and the kitchen table.

  • @debbiechang5781
    @debbiechang5781 7 місяців тому

    Great classic here! Not much I can say that hasn’t been said before. Wonderful choice! Thanks Harri and JKClark 🌺✌️

  • @audreyjohnson4599
    @audreyjohnson4599 7 місяців тому +1

    The first time I heard this song, I was hooked. The drummer was fantastic. And what they could make those guitars do was something else.

    • @audreyjohnson4599
      @audreyjohnson4599 6 місяців тому

      Me too. I danced many times in my apartment while listening to it.

  • @livelaughandlovelong
    @livelaughandlovelong 7 місяців тому +3

    First concert I ever saw. The Moody Blues were the backup band. LOL

  • @panninggazz5244
    @panninggazz5244 6 місяців тому

    I fell asleep one day in summer of 1969 with this record playing on the record player with the arm up...I must have slept for a good three hours to this playing over and over again............................wow...........it is dyed into the tapestry that is me.....................................I just turned 70 .....damn it.....take me......

  • @ChipRobeson-m9g
    @ChipRobeson-m9g 7 місяців тому

    I played this drum solo, or tried, in 71 when I was a high school freshman in front of all classmates! As you can see we had different sounds coming out every week it seemed. I wouldn’t say we were the best generation. That belongs to our parents, and grandparents! But hands down, we grew up in the best of times! 😎 Love your reviews 👊🏻

  • @Revolver1701
    @Revolver1701 7 місяців тому +1

    Regardless of anything else, they hit the groove the night they recorded this song.

  • @mwflanagan1
    @mwflanagan1 7 місяців тому +2

    Harri, it shouldn’t surprise you to know that I played along with the drum solo on my thighs, as I’ve been doing for over 50 years now. By the way - the shirt you’re wearing in this video would have fit in very well back in those days. Thanks for hitting this one. Always worth taking the few minutes to enjoy this one.

  • @eddyvideo
    @eddyvideo 7 місяців тому

    Just one of those tracks you first learned to bob your head and sing along the chorus loudly. An anthem ! The other ones of course was Get Ready and Child in Time.

  • @OldWarriorFella
    @OldWarriorFella 7 місяців тому

    Many years ago I saw a clip on PBS of Bojangles recorded sometime around 1920 where he did the "2-step" stair and what he did was reprized by the drum solo in this song.

  • @TedBronson1918
    @TedBronson1918 7 місяців тому

    I first heard the short radio version of this song when it came out (I was like 5 yrs old) and I liked it then because of that riff. It was extremely popular and I recall people playing the riff on guitars until other people objected. I had to wait til I was older and had my own money to search out the album and be able to listen to the long version at will. What a classic great psychedelic rock tune !

  • @GroinStrain_
    @GroinStrain_ 6 місяців тому

    This song was meant to be called “In the Garden of Eden” but the leader singer was so fucked on acid, this is what he sang and hence became the name of the song. And this was meant to be a rehearsal, the band had no idea the producer had recorded the whole thing without them knowing

  • @gregpusczek4473
    @gregpusczek4473 7 місяців тому +1

    Brilliant I saw them live in 1968 in St. Louis/ Amazing concert

  • @stevetillcock7361
    @stevetillcock7361 7 місяців тому

    Thank you for LISTENING without yakking too much. First heard it in grade 7 when I was getting into music. Must have been a huge fave in Nam. Drugs of course.

  • @StuartBearden
    @StuartBearden 7 місяців тому

    Still remember first time heard this when it came out at a friend's house, 😊

  • @billybudd6776
    @billybudd6776 Місяць тому

    You have a wide range appreciation of great music! This was original acid rock. This cut known as the "long version" Ron Bushy stole the show on drums.

  • @Tony-wc8hm
    @Tony-wc8hm 7 місяців тому

    One of my favorite Iron Butterfly songs is called "Filled with Fear" try that some time.

  • @kianpa1
    @kianpa1 7 місяців тому

    Trippy! Thank you!

  • @ericarachel55
    @ericarachel55 7 місяців тому +2

    I still have three of Iron Butterfly albums, way heavy on the organ. All these years later I have to be in the mood for them, but years back I couldn't get enough of them

  • @mikehart5619
    @mikehart5619 7 місяців тому +3

    I got the album in high school and listened to it over and over. I even played it for my grandfather who listened very attentively patting his hand to the drumbeat.

  • @AliasMark69
    @AliasMark69 Місяць тому

    1969..... 15 years old, Hollywood Calif, Club called "The Caverns" (made to look like a cave) Two legendary bands played... Steppenwolf played for 75 minutes with a long version of The Pusher Man... after Iron Butterfly did two hours with a 35 minute version of this song, just to outdo Steppenwolf.... During the Drum solo, Keyboard/vocalist Doug Ingle says.... "Ron likes to go off like this, so we just let him do his thing for a while".... I was only 20 feet away totally blown away and stoned as everybody in the place was and room full of smoke. Great Memories.

  • @karenschumann3722
    @karenschumann3722 7 місяців тому +2

    I had forgotten how much I like this song. Thank you for sharing it and bringing back some teenage memories.

  • @jolenewitzel7919
    @jolenewitzel7919 7 місяців тому +1

    I love this. I have spent many hours listening to this. ❤❤❤❤❤

  • @FrankUli
    @FrankUli 7 місяців тому +1

    It was Iron Butterfly that was the forefathers of heavy metal and this songs is proof of that.

  • @VincentAgostino-gy6hr
    @VincentAgostino-gy6hr 7 місяців тому +1

    One of my favorite drum solos… instead of just thrashing wildly and seeing how many drums you could hit at one time it had a very tribal drum feel more than jazz… very melodic for a drum solo

  • @turnerdan53
    @turnerdan53 7 місяців тому +4

    Had the record player on repeat.

  • @michi9816
    @michi9816 6 місяців тому

    I heard this song some 40 years ago and still like it.

  • @scottchapin2323
    @scottchapin2323 7 місяців тому +1

    Such a great song

  • @flamencoprof
    @flamencoprof 7 місяців тому +1

    Thx Harri. I went to get a trendy haircut ONCE, it was so horrible I washed it out ASAP, but at least they played and I learned of this! I could write a book. Definitely psychedelic, a colour vid would have brought out the liquid light show bits. The LP is VERY STEREO. During the drum solo they mixed from loud centre L+R to quieter RHS, to quietest centre L+R, to quieter LHS, then back to loud centre L+R. It made it sound as though the drums were circling into the distance and back to the front.
    Then there is, at your 18:54 when the pterodactyl enters the cavernous mix.
    IMO one of the greatest psychedelic sides ever.

  • @timdonahuejr941
    @timdonahuejr941 7 місяців тому

    Love that song just one big jam session!

  • @timbrown5720
    @timbrown5720 7 місяців тому +1

    Bart switched this out with the hymnal on the Simpsons. Old lady Agnes played it on the church organ and the congregation sang it. DJ's played this when live radio required bathroom breaks.