The “Simpsons” have an episode where Bart swaps this song for the organ player of the Sunday Services at his church exhausting her to the point of collapse immediately upon finishing.
The song on the music sheet was "In The Garden Of Eden", which I heard was the original title of this song. Probably got garbled among the group at one point.
Spot on. it's becoming a trade mark of JP's 'live' reactions. 'When is live, not live', when it's mimed, lipsynced etc..... he should've gone for the live 1971 recording on Jazz/Beat. There they actually had microphones :)
@@bobholtzmann That depends, dear Bob. A lot of TV recording- and transmitting equipment was already dual channel (usually through two mono amps, aka monoblocs), but the beams had to pass through several analogue, mono land transmitters and the equipment you have yourself at home must be able to receive and decode the stereo or multiple channel signal. The signal of the transmitter doesn't matter much, but you need the right hardware to split the hidden sub-channels from the main transmssion as the extra channels are coded into the main channel. Everything is sent out as a single beam and needs to be decoded, aka separated, by the hard- and software you have at home. The first movie with multi-channel sound was Gone With The Wind from 1938, by the way.
Story goes this song was originally titled In The Garden Of Eden. But they were so high recording it they began singing In Da Gadda Da Vida instead. They liked it and kept it.
The three most played songs in the history of the English language: “Happy Birthday to You”, “Auld Lang Syen”, and “In a Gadda Da Vida”, according to Cheech & Chong.
Plus, at one moment you're in church, next you're in a scary castle's dungeon trying to find a way out, or out in tent at a desert oasis, perhaps even experiencing a bad acid trip. Love the shifts in mood, key, and instrumentation. As many others have said: "A CLASSIC!"
In the garden of Eden was what he wrote but when he told his band members on the phone he was drunk on red wine and said in a gadda da vida! Ha, true story
Still have to think of the final scenes in Manhunter by Michael Mann from 1986, the first movie adaption of Thomas Harris’ Red Dragon novel, when FBI agent Will Graham faces the serial killer in a deadly gunfight to this music … the perfect psychedelic horror movie soundtrack!
I'm pretty sure this is the studio album version with some concert footage edited over it. Lord knows I listened to this album enough times to know every idiosyncy of this by heart.
Yeah, this is from that fascinating period where psychedelia morphs into different musical styles - proto-prog and, in this case, organ/guitar-led heavy metal. Deep Purple were paying close attention.
In A Gadda Da Vida = In The Garden Of Eden. When this album came out, this is what we considered psychedelic rock. The music was so different than the Beach Boys, The Monkees, even the Rolling Stones.
For me this was the first real heavy metal song. The vocal style separates it from the other contenders - Summertime Blues, Helter Skelter, Steppenwolf, cream, Who etc.
Lee Dorman (bassist) went on to form the pioneering supergroup "Captain Beyond" in 1971, with Deep Purple lead vocalist Rod Evans, Iron Butterfly lead guitarist Larry "Rhino" Rheinhart (Metamorphosis) and Bobby Caldwell (Johnny Winter's drummer). I strongly suggest you give their first album "Captain Beyond" a serious listen. It is absolutely amazing and has been on my top five playlist for 50 years.
For that light effect, they used an overhead projector, They placed a clear glass plate with a thin layer of baby oil in ti and put drops of food coloring randomly into it. This was then covered with another plate which was wobbled up and down in the mix to cause the colors to move and dance around...old school tech. BTW this is the studio version with the band lip-synching.
This song was the first time I heard a drummer not just keeping the beat for the band, or hitting every drum as fast as he could, but actually making music with his drums. Ron Bushy was my first drummer crush. Google "Ron Bushy's drum kit", it's interesting.
The sixties kid in me says "far out man!" The sixty-some-old hippie that I still am says, " groovy dude!" Legend has it that the original lyrics were "In the garden of Eden" but he was impaired, and it sounded good-so. The band says it was crummy equipment, and the mistake was better! Who really knows? Peace & Love with great Flower Power.
In Eureka California in 1968 AM radio was playing the entire song on the Midnight Psychedelic Hour Sunday Morning every week for many months and then all the Acid Rock just disappeared.
I see you hid your cube, was Thanos looking for it? Anyway, you are right the cover is nice. It was what was called a "liquid light show". There were no digital effects so people were hired to put colored gelatin and different colored oils, put them in a huge Pyrex glass baking pan and people bounced up and down with the music. Absolutely "no tech", but if you were on a hallucinogen, it would be as amazing as you could stand. BTW, that screeching guitar work you reacted to was supposed to be the yell of the iron butterfly, you can check it out in the song "Iron Butterfly Theme" from their first album, called, what else, Heavy.
You forgot to mention the pyrex container was placed on an overhead projector (probably borrowed from a local high school). Still. pretty "no tech" but leading edge for those days!
The Classic of Classics !! And the Drum solo every young kid "Me" just had to do ! Lol I loved the cover of my Brothers album and Loved this song writr away, even now 50+ years later when I hear it on my Classic Radio station it brings back good memories ! ☺🎶
The cover art is a photo of a common form of psychedelic lighting effects of the time. It was oil, water, and food color giggling over the surface of an overhead projector. Usually it was shaken to undulate with the beat. I tried it once at a high school dance, glad I didn't spill it all over the projector. 🤣
The riff of "In-a-Gadda-da-Vida" is one of the most iconic riffs in rock music. Definitely a classic. Another great track by Iron Butterfly is "Butterfly Bleu" from their 1970 album "Metamorphosis". It is as far as we know the first example of using throat singing (also called overtone singing) in rock music. It is a vocal technique with which you can sing more than one note at a time. Friederike is a master of this vocal technique. She probably even invented a new way of it; at least we never heard that kind of throat singing from any other throat singer. She invented this as a kid when watching reruns of the German SF television series "Raumpatrouille" ("Space Patrol"), a series that sadly only had seven episodes, each about an hour long. This series first aired in September 1966, a week after "Star Trek" first aired. The series was rerun many times in Germany; Friederike first saw it in the mid 70s when she was 7 or 8 years old. If there ever was a TV-series that could be called a "cult series" in Germany it is this one. The title melody is very catchy, and Friederike wanted to sing it in an "appropriate" way, which is how she came to invent that vocal technique. And here is the title melody: ua-cam.com/video/YXF29tCeh0c/v-deo.html
My ex-husband was a drummer in a pretty bad band called the Purple Decay (yikes!), and they covered this song. This was the soundtrack of my life for what seemed like 3 months nonstop. Still a great sound.
When I was a kid this song became famous for the "5 minute drum solo". Exaggeration aside, this was an iconic song for us non AM music listeners (there were FM radio stations back in the day that played lots of prog...those were the days).
I watched Sina drum the rock classics - "Won't Get Fooled Again" is one of my favorites, because she has a bit of trouble keeping up with Moon's frantic drum parts.
@@bobholtzmann I think my favorite is Burn by Deep Purple. Ian Paice did a reaction to Sina doing Burn. They have done a few collaborations together since!😎
I am TOTALLY AMAZED you Never heard this song Justin !!! It's a Monster Classic Rock Hit, it's been on TV shows and movies for 40+yrs !! Well I'm glad you got to it, BTW this is the Studio version playing and the band is playing to it sadly this is how most TV shows did when I was growing up "Grasshopper" !! Lol ☺
Brings back memories Cruzin' on a Friday night in the "White Wale" '64 Ford country squire deluxe station wagon (full). Windows down listening to KMOE FM radio your "Cum spot on the radio dial" through a FM converter using the cars AM radio. Nobody knew the words but everybody was singing.
Now you need to listen to Qucicksilver Messenger Service "Who Do You Love" Suite, from their Happy Trails album..."Who Do Yo Love, Part 1,""When Do You Love," Where Do You Love." "How Do YO Love," "Which Do You Love," "Who DoYou Love, Part 2." It came out in 1969 and was another of those long (full album side) songs. Another record, like Ina Gadda Do Vida, that every self respecting hippy owned. :)
"In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida" was a drunken slurr by Doug Ingle of 'In The Garden Of Eden" because Ingle was too drunk to pronounce his own lyrics. *Edit* But you found that out yourself ny now. I should also add that there's a more or less similar song from the same timeframe by a band called Rare Earth. The song is "Get Ready".
Easily an all-time top 5 "long song" with the added bonus of a top 5 all-time riffs. This piece pioneered all of those other epic complete side vinyl tracks for all that followed.
I saw them in 1968-9 at Indiana Beach, outside of Monticello IN. the drum solo ran to over 30 min, he was so drunk that the solo ended by him falling off his his stool. but hey, it was that time.
I got my vinyl album out, too! The light show is done with a petri dish full of colored oils, shone through an overhead projector (I guess they used this method in Microbiology Class). The Jefferson Airplane made this light show widely popular. The album's liner notes don't have much info about what the musicians play, but I'm glad they mentioned that Lee Dorman's originally from St. Louis.
Later on, Nektar used a similar technique for their liquid light show by using nested glass clock faces floating on a mixture of clear oil and water died with food colouring, then placed on a projector plate. Amazing effect.
@Bob Holtzmann That depends, dear Bob. A lot of TV recording- and transmitting equipment was already dual channel (usually through two mono amps, aka monoblocs), but the beams had to pass through several analogue, mono land transmitters and the equipment you have yourself at home must be able to receive and decode the stereo or multiple channel signal. The signal of the transmitter doesn't matter much, but you need the right hardware to split the hidden sub-channels from the main transmssion as the extra channels are coded into the main channel. Everything is sent out as a single beam and needs to be decoded, aka separated, by the hard- and software you have at home. The first movie with multi-channel sound was Gone With The Wind from 1938, by the way.
@@JimmyRJump Interesting comments about process for TV -- I know in the 1960s, everyone at home listened to TV sets through mono speakers on the side of the screen, so TV broadcasting would naturally be limited to mono. And I know that any movie sound track, in 1939, was limited to the photo optical sound producer on the edge of the film stock, which was why there wasn't any wide screen movies back then. Magnetic tape didn't arrive in the US until Ampex produced it in the 1940s after the war. Up to that time, all broadcast audio was recorded on turntable discs, except during the war, German radio was using a pioneer reel to reel tape deck.
When I was young, you asked anyone what is a drum solo and that is the first thing that would come to mind. You would be amazed at the number of young drummers who started to play drums trying to emulate this solo.
In my old copy of the vinyl version of this were several skips. I lost that particular album in the early 80s. I still to this day expect the skips to be where they belonged🤣🤣. That's how much I used to listen to this. And yes, this is the studio recording with video synced over top. If you want real live, their live album has it in all its long glory.
@@-davidolivares I love my vinyls' nicks 'n' scrapes 'n' pops 'n' crackles. Like y'all, the song isn't complete without 'em. Also, on live albums, the feedback squawks 'n' squeals don't bother me in the least; for example, Santana's Woodstock performance of "Soul Sacrifice" has a few -- reflects the conditions of the venue and adds to the LIVE feel of the playing.
What a piece!! I will always remember, when with my friends from boarding school, we listened to this for the first time, we were like hypnotized during this incredible drum solo... good memories!!!
One sunny Saturday, we preteens had the house to ourselves and my older brother’s stereo, and he had this album when it came out. It was the summer I first started growing my hair long. And we put on this song and cranked it up loud, and played this song over and over again, just getting turned on for the first time. This was when music became a big part of my life. Later in the day we finally went outside. Workers at the elementary school across the street asked if our house was holding a church because of all the organ sounds from this album. That drum solo was icon, every long-haired, bell-bottom teen wannabe hippie had to know the whole sequence to play air-drums to impress the teen girls. Lol … yeah it wasn’t that impressive, but we still got the girl.
Erik Brann at 17 yrs old was the original Eddie Van Halen if you get the drift. Nobody then played the guitar the way he did, maybe Hendrix, but it was his innovations in playing the guitar as with Eddie a decade later. Jimmy Page was just coming on the stage as he was very innovative as we know. Many could play the guitar well, only a few could command the guitar. Very impressive for a 17 yr. old kid.
About 10 years ago (at a community meeting) I was chatting to the then Australian Federal Treasurer about our vinyl collections (as you do!) . I asked if he had a vinyl request for me to play at my BBQ that afternoon - he suggested In A Gadda Da Vida. So Swanny, this song is for you!
such a great tune. Most reactors react to this track, but I must tell you that to get a good feel for their talent, you gotta listen to the "Ball" album, specifically "Time Of Our Lives" and "Soul Experience". The whole album is amazing. Great reaction!
When Bart replaced the hymn music in the church on the Simpsons, it was this song. I tried requesting it on the radio at one point but they refused to play it because of the length.
Sina did a 'drum' cover of this in her teens ( with an older gentleman on bass and organ, and a17 yr. old young man on guitar(another Jimmy Page in the making)) it was a nearly flawless rendition...I was impressed.
JP, you are really on point with your review. I bought that album in 1968 and still have it. The drum solo was legendary back in '68 and every kid, including me, memorized it and played along with our 'air' drums in our room, car, playground, etc. I think the title means In the Garden of Eden. The 'churchy' organ was a feeling of bliss and was interrupted by the serpent, which was the scratchy guitar sounds that I always called the electric elephant. 🙂 This is one of my all-time favorite songs.
It's pretty cool how the psychedelic effects in the video editing also help to disguise that the performance does not always. exactly match up with bthe overdubbed studio sound. Helps to smooth everything out whils also enhancing the trippy vibe of the song. There was an edited 45 version that was pretty much the most played song on the radio (although the album version was the one played at parties) back in 68/69. Great band, great song, great party memories, LOL
With 54 personnel changes over the years it's hard to tell who these guys are, but I think it's Doug Ingle on vocals, Danny Weis guitar, Jack Pinney drums and Greg Willis bass. All amazing! I love the guitar! And drums.
Psychedelic effects: Egg whites in petrie dish place on stand of overhead projector mix in food coloring,with stick or q-tip project on wall image as you mix colors,light show,or album cover!
I think I'm on my fourth or fifth vinyl copy of this album. I think this was my second or third concert I attended, saw them at Ravinia in Highland Park Illinois in '68, complete with flaming pots on either side of the stage. Bonus was Blues Image was the opener. Can't tell you how many of those cardboard tubes from coat hangers I wore out trying to imitate the drum solo on a chair seat!! Great reaction JP.🤠👍👍👍
The flashing lights in the video were simulating what it was like on psychodelics like acid, schrooms or mescaline. Part of the times. This was groundbreaking music when it came out. This was played on FM stations for stoners mostly. A short version was made for AM, but obviously missed a lot. 🇨🇦🥇👍💖
The cover shows what they then called light show. A double slide with color and oils and water in it being projected and moved around to produce some psychedelic effects. Kind of like in a lava lamp - which came later. I tink Pink Floyd had been the first to come up with that.
THE most famous drum solo of our era, not 'Toad' by Ginger Baker with Cream, despite the attention it did get. 'Moby Dick' eventually supplanted it. This was within their biggest hit. My first band's drummer played it in the middle of another song on our first studio demo in '76. Partied with Doug Ingle one Sunday night in Toronto in '83. Electing to leave the rock-jam at one bar, "We do this 6 nights a week." Doug picking the jalapenos out of wretched bar nachos at Dan Ackroyd's place. Stereo Rodney Dangerfield impressions (IB's road-manager and I knew the same routines) en route back to the hotel, my friend Leslie, a model, and the connect thru the road manager, her bassist brother's roommate in LA, cracking up hilariously between us in the back seat. War stories and a couple 40s of gin from Doug's briefcase among 5 of us. Ahmet Ertegun taking him aside at a record-release and confiding, "You'll never work in this business again." Priceless. Obviously Doug did work again, some. His son, also Damon, had been with them the previous tour. This time his 14 year old had accompanied them. Didn't meet, obv. Feeding 10 lbs. of limburger to the seagulls at the beach-house while escaping the fam. Repeat the next day, deli folks thinking, "Who's this guy/weirdo/nutjob/old hippie?" Again, priceless. That '83 iteration was Doug, and Lee, who declined to join us for the venture out and eventual return, on the road with a couple of younger guys. ;>D On another note, Irish band Horslips once shared in Rolling Stone that their name came from a heavily inebriated rendering of "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse." "So that's us," one member wrapped it up, "the Poxmen!" Also without price.
Utah State University in Logan, Utah offers a class that takes a few days and breaks down everything about this song including how the band members wrote a song titled "In The Garden Of Eden", but they were so drunk and stoned that it ended up being called "In A Gadda Da Vida".
This is "live" only that the guys are there and lip-syncing to the studio version. Anyone, like me who has heard it hundreds of times, has no doubt this is not truly live. But in the 60's, that was what you got most of the time. Still way cool, and a great introduction to Iron Butterfly. Got a used copy of the album for $1.25 at a record shop, still have it.
Hi, JP! Listening to your Reaction Channel for the first time. Especially since this is s reaction channel, I'd love to be able to clearly hear your full comments either during the music playback, or with you briefly pausing the music, to make your comment(s). We'd love to hear how you're experiencing the music being highlighted!
When I first heard this, I was a seven-year old living in Mesa, AZ. It inspired me to want to start my own band with my friends, with a plastic piano and flutophone. We named ourselves Gold Bee. One of my first dives into my brothers deep record collection. Could this be the first extended drum solo in a popular radio hit?
Legend has it that, I believe it was at Woodstock, the lead singer was too drunk or otherwise intoxicated, and mispronounced the lyrics. It was supposedly originally titled "In the Garden of Eden". Classic hard rock banger at any rate! Check the version in a Simpsons episode. Bart switches the church organists music out😁
Far out, man. Yeah, I enjoyed that. It wasn't live but I hadn't heard the long version before. Groovy. I liked the drum solo too, nicely rhythmic. The guitarist was only 17!, Impressive. The camera effects and angles in the late 60's and early 70's could be seriously annoying. In an effort to be 'cool' they just created visuals that gave you eye stigmas and you'd hardly see the bands!. Still, those were the days. Inspired by another comment I'm just going to put this out there [for future ref.]: Deep Purple, from the album, "Deep Purple" -1969 - "Chasing Shadows". It's got a wicked bass line. Fun Video Justin. Cheers!✌
HOPE? I enjoyed it...??? that goes down as one of the best half hours I've spent on UA-cam. probably because of the anticipation as well as the stick but it was just a great way to spend my morning looking forward to the day Thanks so much. All the best! I was just waiting for you to get to the Wikipedia and learn about the song It was great the whole thing was great again Thanks.
This song was a game changer for me. Acid Rock became King after this. Still love the simple effect of different coloured droplets of oil on an overhead projector created. Though here the film is black & white.
There is a live version, but this isn't it.This is just miming to the record for TV. Notice there is no mic in front of the singer / organist, and what the guitarist's fingers are doing don't match the sounds we are hearing, (especially the pick scrapes after the organ solo), so they inserted those psychedelic effects. The same goes for the drummer if you look closely. Another hint - the guitar and bass have no cords between the instruments and the amps, and there is no wah wah pedal on the floor in front of the guitarist. The churchy part of the 2nd organ solo - he inserted the melody to "Good King Wenceslas" into it.
I’ve noticed that the younger generations haven’t really been exposed to those types of Solid Gold or Top of the Pops, lip synced performances that were so common to those of us who grew up in the 60’s, 70’s & 80’s.
@@richg0404 I owned the album back in the day. Within a year I stopped listening to the other side and within two years I stopped listening to the album. There were just so many other tracks that were better for me. It was better than listening to the Monkees or The Association but not better than Jeff Beck, Led Zeppelin, the Guess Who and numerous other groups.
Not a bad video synch job for such old technology. Song's not much for lyrics, but the musicianship, composition, and how it doesn't stay on one theme for too long -- it treats the ears and brain to key changes and instrumentation throughout -- for the variety that's needed in a 17-minute tune. One of the first psychedelic songs, maybe one of the earliest heavy metal songs, as well. College radio stations loved it and played it usually on their overnight shows on weekends -- MIDNIGHT DJs! Drummer seems "ham-handed," not so flexible, but "WAIT FOR IT ... ".
Another classic. Thank you. I also forgot to mention when you did Aphrodite's Child that the late Vangelis was a part of that group. Thanks again Justin.
Just imagine how many people dropped acid just before these guys started their set at the Whisky a Go Go in 67-68. Well its what I would have done anyway.
Your shirt reminds me of the Doors song ‘When The Music’s Over’. Possibly the forerunners of heavy metal. Interesting both this band and Led Zeppelin are combinations of something heavy and something light. And both ( although intentionally misspelled, and of course a zeppelin is not light without helium ) begin with a type of metal.
this the most famous drumsolo of the 60’s, everybody from my generation knows this solo by heart .
The “Simpsons” have an episode where Bart swaps this song for the organ player of the Sunday Services at his church exhausting her to the point of collapse immediately upon finishing.
lol I'll have to look that episode up.
The organist passes out at the end of the song! Lol!
I tried to watch that scene with a straight face. I failed.
The song on the music sheet was "In The Garden Of Eden", which I heard was the original title of this song. Probably got garbled among the group at one point.
Classic scene!
Studio version synced for TV, not live. Gotta love that drum solo. One of the better heavy psychedelic songs of all time. Ciao hombre.
Spot on. it's becoming a trade mark of JP's 'live' reactions. 'When is live, not live', when it's mimed, lipsynced etc..... he should've gone for the live 1971 recording on Jazz/Beat. There they actually had microphones :)
Yeah, as many times as I've (and I'm sure you've) listened to it I know every tiny detail of the recording as if I had recorded it myself.
I spotted that, when I noticed it's in stereo -- TV and film were not set up for stereo in the 1960s, unless it were a blockbuster film feature..
@@bobholtzmann That depends, dear Bob. A lot of TV recording- and transmitting equipment was already dual channel (usually through two mono amps, aka monoblocs), but the beams had to pass through several analogue, mono land transmitters and the equipment you have yourself at home must be able to receive and decode the stereo or multiple channel signal. The signal of the transmitter doesn't matter much, but you need the right hardware to split the hidden sub-channels from the main transmssion as the extra channels are coded into the main channel. Everything is sent out as a single beam and needs to be decoded, aka separated, by the hard- and software you have at home. The first movie with multi-channel sound was Gone With The Wind from 1938, by the way.
Not synced very well though.
Story goes this song was originally titled In The Garden Of Eden. But they were so high recording it they began singing In Da Gadda Da Vida instead. They liked it and kept it.
The three most played songs in the history of the English language: “Happy Birthday to You”, “Auld Lang Syen”, and “In a Gadda Da Vida”, according to Cheech & Chong.
You know it's a great song when you listen to it for 17 minutes and when it ends you are disappointed that it's over.
Psych, Prog and Metal all in one song. Another classic groundbreaking 60's masterpiece!!!
Plus, at one moment you're in church, next you're in a scary castle's dungeon trying to find a way out, or out in tent at a desert oasis, perhaps even experiencing a bad acid trip. Love the shifts in mood, key, and instrumentation. As many others have said: "A CLASSIC!"
In the garden of Eden was what he wrote but when he told his band members on the phone he was drunk on red wine and said in a gadda da vida! Ha, true story
Still have to think of the final scenes in Manhunter by Michael Mann from 1986, the first movie adaption of Thomas Harris’ Red Dragon novel, when FBI agent Will Graham faces the serial killer in a deadly gunfight to this music … the perfect psychedelic horror movie soundtrack!
Yeah, the Tooth Fairie getting it served.
To this day, Manhunter is the best in the series.
Yep scene is just brilliant and this music is the perfect accompaniment
@@pentagrammaton6793 Classic film. They truly don't make them like that anymore.
@@pentagrammaton6793 you are not wrong
I'm pretty sure this is the studio album version with some concert footage edited over it. Lord knows I listened to this album enough times to know every idiosyncy of this by heart.
Not concert footage, a made for TV lip-synch over the studio version.
Over 17 minutes long, and you didn't interrupt it once. Good bless you, sir!👏👏👏👏👏
Yeah, this is from that fascinating period where psychedelia morphs into different musical styles - proto-prog and, in this case, organ/guitar-led heavy metal. Deep Purple were paying close attention.
They probably were but had released 2 albums of their own in 1968
@@garyarnett1220 And good ones too! Justin would dig early Purple.
Great, just fantastic even today. Thanks 👍
In A Gadda Da Vida = In The Garden Of Eden. When this album came out, this is what we considered psychedelic rock. The music was so different than the Beach Boys, The Monkees, even the Rolling Stones.
For me this was the first real heavy metal song. The vocal style separates it from the other contenders - Summertime Blues, Helter Skelter, Steppenwolf, cream, Who etc.
Same here. That and "Magic Carpet Ride"by, as you mentioned, Steppenwolf.
No power chords=no metal, so this doesn't qualify. Sabbath developed and codified the genre in late 1969 on their debut.
@@pentagrammaton6793 Arguably. They were first to record it but they were not the only one's playing it.
@@gog583 You can even go deeper with "The Ostrich" - Love me some Steppenwolf.
21st Century Schizoid Man - King Crimson 1969.
Best drum solo of all time! Ron Bushy, underrated.
Lee Dorman (bassist) went on to form the pioneering supergroup "Captain Beyond" in 1971, with Deep Purple lead vocalist Rod Evans, Iron Butterfly lead guitarist Larry "Rhino" Rheinhart (Metamorphosis) and Bobby Caldwell (Johnny Winter's drummer). I strongly suggest you give their first album "Captain Beyond" a serious listen. It is absolutely amazing and has been on my top five playlist for 50 years.
thanks for sharing. putting on my list to check out for sure...
Captain Beyond was sufficiently breathless when there is nothing left to live for. Forgot the provenance. Similar to BOC.
The first album of Captain Beyond is absolutely brilliant.
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Yep Captain Beyond would make great 2 long song Saturdays back to back.
For those not "in the know", "Sufficiently Breathless" is the title track of Captain Beyond's second album...
For that light effect, they used an overhead projector, They placed a clear glass plate with a thin layer of baby oil in ti and put drops of food coloring randomly into it. This was then covered with another plate which was wobbled up and down in the mix to cause the colors to move and dance around...old school tech.
BTW this is the studio version with the band lip-synching.
This song was the first time I heard a drummer not just keeping the beat for the band, or hitting every drum as fast as he could, but actually making music with his drums. Ron Bushy was my first drummer crush. Google "Ron Bushy's drum kit", it's interesting.
The most musical drum solo I have ever heard.
The sixties kid in me says "far out man!" The sixty-some-old hippie that I still am says, " groovy dude!" Legend has it that the original lyrics were "In the garden of Eden" but he was impaired, and it sounded good-so. The band says it was crummy equipment, and the mistake was better! Who really knows? Peace & Love with great Flower Power.
@@Katehowe3010 Stoned? Those clean cut boys would never touch the stuff! Ha ha ha ✌=🦦
In Eureka California in 1968 AM radio was playing the entire song on the Midnight Psychedelic Hour Sunday Morning every week for many months and then all the Acid Rock just disappeared.
I see you hid your cube, was Thanos looking for it? Anyway, you are right the cover is nice. It was what was called a "liquid light show". There were no digital effects so people were hired to put colored gelatin and different colored oils, put them in a huge Pyrex glass baking pan and people bounced up and down with the music. Absolutely "no tech", but if you were on a hallucinogen, it would be as amazing as you could stand. BTW, that screeching guitar work you reacted to was supposed to be the yell of the iron butterfly, you can check it out in the song "Iron Butterfly Theme" from their first album, called, what else, Heavy.
You forgot to mention the pyrex container was placed on an overhead projector (probably borrowed from a local high school). Still. pretty "no tech" but leading edge for those days!
BTW, for an ominous use of the song, check out the 1986 movie " Manhunter" , it's essentially the first appearance of Hannibal Lector!
The Classic of Classics !! And the Drum solo every young kid "Me" just had to do ! Lol
I loved the cover of my Brothers album and Loved this song writr away, even now 50+ years later when I hear it on my Classic Radio station it brings back good memories ! ☺🎶
Cracks me up to her "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" in the keyboard solo.
The cover art is a photo of a common form of psychedelic lighting effects of the time. It was oil, water, and food color giggling over the surface of an overhead projector. Usually it was shaken to undulate with the beat. I tried it once at a high school dance, glad I didn't spill it all over the projector. 🤣
IRON BUTTERFLY, "INAGODDADAVIDA". J.P. VERY GROOVY REACTION. Iconic blast from the past, 1968 greatness.
The riff of "In-a-Gadda-da-Vida" is one of the most iconic riffs in rock music. Definitely a classic.
Another great track by Iron Butterfly is "Butterfly Bleu" from their 1970 album "Metamorphosis". It is as far as we know the first example of using throat singing (also called overtone singing) in rock music. It is a vocal technique with which you can sing more than one note at a time. Friederike is a master of this vocal technique. She probably even invented a new way of it; at least we never heard that kind of throat singing from any other throat singer. She invented this as a kid when watching reruns of the German SF television series "Raumpatrouille" ("Space Patrol"), a series that sadly only had seven episodes, each about an hour long. This series first aired in September 1966, a week after "Star Trek" first aired.
The series was rerun many times in Germany; Friederike first saw it in the mid 70s when she was 7 or 8 years old. If there ever was a TV-series that could be called a "cult series" in Germany it is this one. The title melody is very catchy, and Friederike wanted to sing it in an "appropriate" way, which is how she came to invent that vocal technique.
And here is the title melody:
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So hypnotic . Love iron butterfly. I used to play the drum solo at parties in my youth , a lot of fun.
My ex-husband was a drummer in a pretty bad band called the Purple Decay (yikes!), and they covered this song. This was the soundtrack of my life for what seemed like 3 months nonstop. Still a great sound.
The live version from their live album is awesome, the bass is awesome on that
The “Adrian Belew” sounds are created by Erik scraping the strings with the side of his pick and saturated in reverb.
Eric did even better elephant trumpets than Adrian.
@@x00p3 Agreed
When I was a kid this song became famous for the "5 minute drum solo". Exaggeration aside, this was an iconic song for us non AM music listeners (there were FM radio stations back in the day that played lots of prog...those were the days).
The dawn of heavy metal. I'm not a heavy metal fan but this gets grandfathered in. Literally. Great song. Great music.
If my memory serves me well the lead guitarist, Erik Brann, was only 17 when this album was recorded. Amazing!
For a real treat watch Sina Drums' cover of this classic from 4 years ago. It has 4.1 million views. It is INCREDIBLE!!🥁🥁
So right. I've watched and listened to that cover hundreds of times.
@@emma99hg Sina is phenomenal!😎
I watched Sina drum the rock classics - "Won't Get Fooled Again" is one of my favorites, because she has a bit of trouble keeping up with Moon's frantic drum parts.
@@bobholtzmann And that was years ago. She just turned 23 as you probably know. She is an awesome person.😎
@@bobholtzmann I think my favorite is Burn by Deep Purple. Ian Paice did a reaction to Sina doing Burn. They have done a few collaborations together since!😎
I am TOTALLY AMAZED you Never heard this song Justin !!!
It's a Monster Classic Rock Hit, it's been on TV shows and movies for 40+yrs !!
Well I'm glad you got to it, BTW this is the Studio version playing and the band is playing to it sadly this is how most TV shows did when I was growing up "Grasshopper" !! Lol ☺
Wow, this takes me back! I was in 8th grade when this came out, and I had many late nights listening to it on the headphones. Good times.
Brings back memories Cruzin' on a Friday night in the "White Wale" '64 Ford country squire deluxe
station wagon (full). Windows down listening to KMOE FM radio your "Cum spot on the radio dial"
through a FM converter using the cars AM radio. Nobody knew the words but everybody was singing.
Now you need to listen to Qucicksilver Messenger Service "Who Do You Love" Suite, from their Happy Trails album..."Who Do Yo Love, Part 1,""When Do You Love," Where Do You Love." "How Do YO Love," "Which Do You Love," "Who DoYou Love, Part 2." It came out in 1969 and was another of those long (full album side) songs.
Another record, like Ina Gadda Do Vida, that every self respecting hippy owned. :)
Great suggestion! I also entered that into his online spreadsheet of live music requests some time ago, but I don't think he ever looks at that. :(
"In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida" was a drunken slurr by Doug Ingle of 'In The Garden Of Eden" because Ingle was too drunk to pronounce his own lyrics.
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But you found that out yourself ny now. I should also add that there's a more or less similar song from the same timeframe by a band called Rare Earth. The song is "Get Ready".
Easily an all-time top 5 "long song" with the added bonus of a top 5 all-time riffs. This piece pioneered all of those other epic complete side vinyl tracks for all that followed.
I saw them in 1968-9 at Indiana Beach, outside of Monticello IN. the drum solo ran to over 30 min, he was so drunk that the solo ended by him falling off his his stool. but hey, it was that time.
My album cover of this LP is a lot more battered and bruised than yours, Justin! Always loved that drum solo, and of course the song itself is epic!
I got my vinyl album out, too! The light show is done with a petri dish full of colored oils, shone through an overhead projector (I guess they used this method in Microbiology Class). The Jefferson Airplane made this light show widely popular.
The album's liner notes don't have much info about what the musicians play, but I'm glad they mentioned that Lee Dorman's originally from St. Louis.
Later on, Nektar used a similar technique for their liquid light show by using nested glass clock faces floating on a mixture of clear oil and water died with food colouring, then placed on a projector plate. Amazing effect.
@Bob Holtzmann That depends, dear Bob. A lot of TV recording- and transmitting equipment was already dual channel (usually through two mono amps, aka monoblocs), but the beams had to pass through several analogue, mono land transmitters and the equipment you have yourself at home must be able to receive and decode the stereo or multiple channel signal. The signal of the transmitter doesn't matter much, but you need the right hardware to split the hidden sub-channels from the main transmssion as the extra channels are coded into the main channel. Everything is sent out as a single beam and needs to be decoded, aka separated, by the hard- and software you have at home. The first movie with multi-channel sound was Gone With The Wind from 1938, by the way.
@@JimmyRJump Interesting comments about process for TV -- I know in the 1960s, everyone at home listened to TV sets through mono speakers on the side of the screen, so TV broadcasting would naturally be limited to mono. And I know that any movie sound track, in 1939, was limited to the photo optical sound producer on the edge of the film stock, which was why there wasn't any wide screen movies back then. Magnetic tape didn't arrive in the US until Ampex produced it in the 1940s after the war. Up to that time, all broadcast audio was recorded on turntable discs, except during the war, German radio was using a pioneer reel to reel tape deck.
Early Floyd were partial to the old projected oil thing. It was probably the late 60's, early 70's equivalent to CGI :)
When I was young, you asked anyone what is a drum solo and that is the first thing that would come to mind. You would be amazed at the number of young drummers who started to play drums trying to emulate this solo.
In my old copy of the vinyl version of this were several skips. I lost that particular album in the early 80s. I still to this day expect the skips to be where they belonged🤣🤣. That's how much I used to listen to this. And yes, this is the studio recording with video synced over top. If you want real live, their live album has it in all its long glory.
Had the same ticks with my copy of Innervisions, when I got the CD, it was a shock. Heyyy, where’s my skips?
@@-davidolivares I love my vinyls' nicks 'n' scrapes 'n' pops 'n' crackles. Like y'all, the song isn't complete without 'em. Also, on live albums, the feedback squawks 'n' squeals don't bother me in the least; for example, Santana's Woodstock performance of "Soul Sacrifice" has a few -- reflects the conditions of the venue and adds to the LIVE feel of the playing.
What a piece!! I will always remember, when with my friends from boarding school, we listened to this for the first time, we were like hypnotized during this incredible drum solo... good memories!!!
One sunny Saturday, we preteens had the house to ourselves and my older brother’s stereo, and he had this album when it came out. It was the summer I first started growing my hair long. And we put on this song and cranked it up loud, and played this song over and over again, just getting turned on for the first time. This was when music became a big part of my life. Later in the day we finally went outside. Workers at the elementary school across the street asked if our house was holding a church because of all the organ sounds from this album. That drum solo was icon, every long-haired, bell-bottom teen wannabe hippie had to know the whole sequence to play air-drums to impress the teen girls. Lol … yeah it wasn’t that impressive, but we still got the girl.
Erik Brann at 17 yrs old was the original Eddie Van Halen if you get the drift. Nobody then played the guitar the way he did, maybe Hendrix, but it was his innovations in playing the guitar as with Eddie a decade later. Jimmy Page was just coming on the stage as he was very innovative as we know. Many could play the guitar well, only a few could command the guitar. Very impressive for a 17 yr. old kid.
About 10 years ago (at a community meeting) I was chatting to the then Australian Federal Treasurer about our vinyl collections (as you do!) . I asked if he had a vinyl request for me to play at my BBQ that afternoon - he suggested In A Gadda Da Vida. So Swanny, this song is for you!
such a great tune. Most reactors react to this track, but I must tell you that to get a good feel for their talent, you gotta listen to the "Ball" album, specifically "Time Of Our Lives" and "Soul Experience". The whole album is amazing. Great reaction!
Every kid in 1968 was thigh slapping this drum solo for hours until we could at least come close.
You finally got to it. For us in the seventies this was an anthem
In the Garden of Eden -
Led Zeppelin opened for the Iron Butterfly briefly (before the first Zep album).
When Bart replaced the hymn music in the church on the Simpsons, it was this song.
I tried requesting it on the radio at one point but they refused to play it because of the length.
Sina did a 'drum' cover of this in her teens ( with an older gentleman on bass and organ, and a17 yr. old young man on guitar(another Jimmy Page in the making)) it was a nearly flawless rendition...I was impressed.
JP, you are really on point with your review. I bought that album in 1968 and still have it. The drum solo was legendary back in '68 and every kid, including me, memorized it and played along with our 'air' drums in our room, car, playground, etc. I think the title means In the Garden of Eden. The 'churchy' organ was a feeling of bliss and was interrupted by the serpent, which was the scratchy guitar sounds that I always called the electric elephant. 🙂 This is one of my all-time favorite songs.
The best part is that no one realizes how difficult this drum solo was...except for me...........................
It's pretty cool how the psychedelic effects in the video editing also help to disguise that the performance does not always. exactly match up with bthe overdubbed studio sound. Helps to smooth everything out whils also enhancing the trippy vibe of the song. There was an edited 45 version that was pretty much the most played song on the radio (although the album version was the one played at parties) back in 68/69. Great band, great song, great party memories, LOL
With 54 personnel changes over the years it's hard to tell who these guys are, but I think it's Doug Ingle on vocals, Danny Weis guitar, Jack Pinney drums and Greg Willis bass. All amazing! I love the guitar! And drums.
Psychedelic effects: Egg whites in petrie dish place on stand of overhead projector mix in food coloring,with stick or q-tip project on wall image as you mix colors,light show,or album cover!
I think I'm on my fourth or fifth vinyl copy of this album. I think this was my second or third concert I attended, saw them at Ravinia in Highland Park Illinois in '68, complete with flaming pots on either side of the stage. Bonus was Blues Image was the opener. Can't tell you how many of those cardboard tubes from coat hangers I wore out trying to imitate the drum solo on a chair seat!! Great reaction JP.🤠👍👍👍
My dad owned this album. This was one of his favorite songs. Definitely attribute this song to my love of all things prog.
I can pretty much guarantee that guitar riff (dun dun da da da dun da da da) will be in your head for a while.
Good morning Justin! This is classic masterpiece. This will still be played 100 years from now.☮😎
The flashing lights in the video were simulating what it was like on psychodelics like acid, schrooms or mescaline. Part of the times. This was groundbreaking music when it came out. This was played on FM stations for stoners mostly. A short version was made for AM, but obviously missed a lot. 🇨🇦🥇👍💖
The whole album is amazing!!!!!
The cover shows what they then called light show. A double slide with color and oils and water in it
being projected and moved around to produce some psychedelic effects. Kind of like in a lava lamp - which came later. I tink Pink Floyd had been the first to come up with that.
THE most famous drum solo of our era, not 'Toad' by Ginger Baker with Cream, despite the attention it did get. 'Moby Dick' eventually supplanted it. This was within their biggest hit. My first band's drummer played it in the middle of another song on our first studio demo in '76.
Partied with Doug Ingle one Sunday night in Toronto in '83. Electing to leave the rock-jam at one bar, "We do this 6 nights a week." Doug picking the jalapenos out of wretched bar nachos at Dan Ackroyd's place. Stereo Rodney Dangerfield impressions (IB's road-manager and I knew the same routines) en route back to the hotel, my friend Leslie, a model, and the connect thru the road manager, her bassist brother's roommate in LA, cracking up hilariously between us in the back seat. War stories and a couple 40s of gin from Doug's briefcase among 5 of us.
Ahmet Ertegun taking him aside at a record-release and confiding, "You'll never work in this business again." Priceless. Obviously Doug did work again, some. His son, also Damon, had been with them the previous tour. This time his 14 year old had accompanied them. Didn't meet, obv. Feeding 10 lbs. of limburger to the seagulls at the beach-house while escaping the fam. Repeat the next day, deli folks thinking, "Who's this guy/weirdo/nutjob/old hippie?" Again, priceless.
That '83 iteration was Doug, and Lee, who declined to join us for the venture out and eventual return, on the road with a couple of younger guys. ;>D
On another note, Irish band Horslips once shared in Rolling Stone that their name came from a heavily inebriated rendering of "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse." "So that's us," one member wrapped it up, "the Poxmen!" Also without price.
I've been waiting all week for this got up went for my morning walk came back wrapped up a stick kicking back and I'm enjoying this to no end
Utah State University in Logan, Utah offers a class that takes a few days and breaks down everything about this song including how the band members wrote a song titled "In The Garden Of Eden", but they were so drunk and stoned that it ended up being called "In A Gadda Da Vida".
Stoned out of thier minds. Especially the drummer
There's a movie with this song in it. Manhunter. Stars William Petersen from CSI fame. Pretty intense scene during the song.
This is "live" only that the guys are there and lip-syncing to the studio version. Anyone, like me who has heard it hundreds of times, has no doubt this is not truly live. But in the 60's, that was what you got most of the time. Still way cool, and a great introduction to Iron Butterfly. Got a used copy of the album for $1.25 at a record shop, still have it.
Hi, JP! Listening to your Reaction Channel for the first time. Especially since this is s reaction channel, I'd love to be able to clearly hear your full comments either during the music playback, or with you briefly pausing the music, to make your comment(s). We'd love to hear how you're experiencing the music being highlighted!
You should check out their album "Heavy" the song is the "Iron Butterfly Theme". The Guitarist Erik Brann was only 17 when they recorded their Albums.
When I first heard this, I was a seven-year old living in Mesa, AZ. It inspired me to want to start my own band with my friends, with a plastic piano and flutophone. We named ourselves Gold Bee. One of my first dives into my brothers deep record collection.
Could this be the first extended drum solo in a popular radio hit?
Highly recommend the film Manhunter.. This song is used to chilling effect in that great film 👍🏻
Thanks man... Perfect start to my saturday... What a song... Try John Butler, Oceans. Live studio version
I have seen the live version. Very impressive. He played the local folk festival and I ended up buying the album after his performance.
Another Legendary Song 👍🏻
Legend has it that, I believe it was at Woodstock, the lead singer was too drunk or otherwise intoxicated, and mispronounced the lyrics. It was supposedly originally titled "In the Garden of Eden". Classic hard rock banger at any rate! Check the version in a Simpsons episode. Bart switches the church organists music out😁
Far out, man. Yeah, I enjoyed that. It wasn't live but I hadn't heard the long version before. Groovy. I liked the drum solo too, nicely rhythmic. The guitarist was only 17!, Impressive. The camera effects and angles in the late 60's and early 70's could be seriously annoying. In an effort to be 'cool' they just created visuals that gave you eye stigmas and you'd hardly see the bands!. Still, those were the days. Inspired by another comment I'm just going to put this out there [for future ref.]: Deep Purple, from the album, "Deep Purple" -1969 - "Chasing Shadows". It's got a wicked bass line. Fun Video Justin. Cheers!✌
HOPE? I enjoyed it...???
that goes down as one of the best half hours I've spent on UA-cam.
probably because of the anticipation as well as the stick but it was just a great way to spend my morning looking forward to the day Thanks so much. All the best!
I was just waiting for you to get to the Wikipedia and learn about the song It was great the whole thing was great again Thanks.
Was I the only one who heard the heavily modified strains of God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen around the time baby-face started strangling the guitar?
Great breakdown, classic song!
I highly recommend that you listen to the Iron Butterfly "Ball" album. It's filled with surprises.
This song was a game changer for me. Acid Rock became King after this. Still love the simple effect of different coloured droplets of oil on an overhead projector created. Though here the film is black & white.
There is a live version, but this isn't it.This is just miming to the record for TV. Notice there is no mic in front of the singer / organist, and what the guitarist's fingers are doing don't match the sounds we are hearing, (especially the pick scrapes after the organ solo), so they inserted those psychedelic effects. The same goes for the drummer if you look closely. Another hint - the guitar and bass have no cords between the instruments and the amps, and there is no wah wah pedal on the floor in front of the guitarist. The churchy part of the 2nd organ solo - he inserted the melody to "Good King Wenceslas" into it.
I’ve noticed that the younger generations haven’t really been exposed to those types of Solid Gold or Top of the Pops, lip synced performances that were so common to those of us who grew up in the 60’s, 70’s & 80’s.
God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen (tidings of comfort and joy), methinks.
@@roberttaylor5997 Yes. That was the one.
@@-R.Gray- Always makes me smile when I hear that part.
In A Gadda Da Vida. In the Garden of Eden. So when you're high or drunk you say In A Gadda Da Vida, baby : )
I think I only played one side of that album. Ever.
You didn't miss much iirc.
@@maruad7577 Oh no, please flip it over and enjoy so wonderful hippe vibes.
@@richg0404 I owned the album back in the day. Within a year I stopped listening to the other side and within two years I stopped listening to the album. There were just so many other tracks that were better for me. It was better than listening to the Monkees or The Association but not better than Jeff Beck, Led Zeppelin, the Guess Who and numerous other groups.
They actually put this out as a single. Cut out the instrumental middle and the song came in less than 3:00
For a long time, this album was the best seller in the ATCO catalog.
Not a bad video synch job for such old technology. Song's not much for lyrics, but the musicianship, composition, and how it doesn't stay on one theme for too long -- it treats the ears and brain to key changes and instrumentation throughout -- for the variety that's needed in a 17-minute tune. One of the first psychedelic songs, maybe one of the earliest heavy metal songs, as well. College radio stations loved it and played it usually on their overnight shows on weekends -- MIDNIGHT DJs! Drummer seems "ham-handed," not so flexible, but "WAIT FOR IT ... ".
Another classic. Thank you. I also forgot to mention when you did Aphrodite's Child that the late Vangelis was a part of that group. Thanks again Justin.
Just imagine how many people dropped acid just before these guys started their set at the Whisky a Go Go in 67-68. Well its what I would have done anyway.
Your shirt reminds me of the Doors song ‘When The Music’s Over’.
Possibly the forerunners of heavy metal. Interesting both this band and Led Zeppelin are combinations of something heavy and something light. And both ( although intentionally misspelled, and of course a zeppelin is not light without helium ) begin with a type of metal.
If you like this album cover you should see King Crimson’s Court Of The Crimson King.
JP listened to the whole album about a year ago.
Good morning and thank you