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. 😂
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.
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!
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!
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.
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
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
@@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.
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
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!!
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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
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.
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!'❤❤❤❤
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!
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.
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. 😀🤟🤟
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!
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.
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 😵💫
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.
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.
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.
Thanks, Harri, for a great reaction to this. You also chose the better video for it, too. Good job! I concur, the piece is operatic as well as epic. The contributions from each of the four members meshed together into a masterpiece. Cheers!
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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
I actually saw them perform in San Francisco. The place was the Filmore West. They used psychedelic imagery that was up on the screen. I was a straight teenager who smelled a lot of weed, plus seeing a lot of other stuff happening in the audience. This was in the 1960s.
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!)
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.
In a gadda da vida was intended to be "In the Garden of Eden"" .Organist-vocalist Doug Ingle wrote the song one evening while drinking an entire gallon of Red Mountain wine. When the inebriated Ingle then played the song for Bushy, who wrote down the lyrics for him, he was slurring his words so badly that what was supposed to be "in the Garden of Eden" was interpreted by Bushy as "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" Great Psychedelic song back in the day. I bought the album. The drumming is what sold me on this song...very iconic and memorable to this day. Also bought they're Iron B Heavy album and was great listening stoned, lol.
I got this album from my 2nd cousin. He had a huge record collection way back in 1969. 11 year old me was fascinated by the whole thing. The craziest thing was that this song took up the second side. It was the beginning of my journey through psychedelic rock.
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.
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.
Great proto prog metal! Glad you reacted to the full version, not the radio edit. First LP I ever bought with my own money in 1968. Same day I also bought 2001: A Space Odyssey - soundtrack. I was raised on classical music. In-A-Gadda-da-Vida was my gateway epic to the dark side....
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.
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
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.
Epic Song, and Iconic in the representation of psychedelic rock, a sensation in the 60's, so readily identifiable, with 4 separate solo performances within the song, drum solo is one of the best. I was 17 when this song was released, so good, so many memories, listening to it is like time travel into the past
Seen them in 68 at the ASU Activity Center. And again in 80. Unfortunately most are unaware that they had another great long song Butterfly Bleu. Just as long as this. And was the first introduced the talkbox. ( extensively) There's a live version that was recorded for television. They when commercial free to get the whole song in without interruption. 🚜🤠🐂
My older brother got this album when it first came out. when he went for a trip to San Francisco to experience more of the hippie life style i was 5 years young and played this all summer. I started growing my hair long. there were some construction workers working on our elementary school across the street, they asked us kids if our place was a church because of the organ. we laughed. This song reminds me of those summer days, still a kid, about to become a teen back in the 1960s
This song is the very definition of psychedelic rock
Also Very Groovy!✌
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. 😂
I never knew that. lol
Doug just passed 5/24/24 RIP
I was 16 when this song came out
@@chuckmoseley3771see my comment, that's how old I was when I heard this.
You are 100% correct
Thanks, I always wondered about that gibberish. Love the song, but I could never figure out that phrase.
Acid rock from the 1960's. What a great time to be alive.
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.
Time warp back anytime love growing up in the 60s
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!
Very cool.
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Fantastic. As a drummer myself, I can tell you that what your son achieved was no easy task. Hat's off to your Son.
Great story! and congratulations!
@randyconger8620 Ha ha! Marvelous story. Thank you for sharing!
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!
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.
The late, great Ron Bushy on drums with the most iconic drum solo known to man. RIP! Thanks, Harri!
When I started playing drums I tried the imitate that....
@@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!
I miss the organ in rock!
Before this we only had " Wipeout". Then this came alone and blew everone away.
This was the beginning of rock and roll for me at least. You couldn't go anywhere in the hippie scene without hearing this
This song holds special memories as back in the day, we'd dance to this at parties. Much younger, way more energy.
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.
That's sad to know.
Is Erik Keith Brann alive? The lead guitarist.
@@johntiggleman4686 He died in 2003 only 52 yrs old.
@@natlee8947 Ok, thanks for the info.
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
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
@@sst3d And the songs were better in many, many ways. Would need a book to write, to explain why.
For me from NJ mainly it was 102.7 WNEW-FM from NYC.
@@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.
Isn't THAT the truth!
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.
I saw them in Austin in December 1969. I was barely a teenager!
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.
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
Yep
And a really comfortable couch you could just sink into. Damn those were the days ❤❤❤❤
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 💨💨💨
@@rickjohnson8707 Enjoy it my brother I'm just up above you in pa. peace
And turn the black light on…
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!!
Great to see a music reactor not afraid to dive into a song longer than 5 minutes! Thx Harri!
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.
I remember this song very well from back in the day. Thanks JK and Harri.
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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.
that's the way I first understood it on the radio - and still do!
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
The most violent year of your lifetime so far. 2024 has parallels. History doesn't repeat itself. Just rhymes.
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
Love it and have always loved it, Great Hippie/Psychedelic song.
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.
I only ever heard the short version. Thanks for this!
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!'❤❤❤❤
Guys running thru the jungles of Vietnam during the war were crazy about this song. It was a classic for them also. Great song.
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!!
@@jaytigert688 God bless your dad for his service, and God bless you and yours.
The drum solo on this was iconic. Friggin’ Epic.
Dancing in a club with the colored lights flashing. Also the light shows under the stars while rock music played.
I was 13 when this was released. It blew our minds. I still have the original album.
One of the greatest classics of our time.. and arguably the best drum solo ever!!!!
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!
One of the greatest rock songs ever. I was 15 when they cut this song. Thank you.
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.
Blew my mind back then and still does.
I didn't do drugs in the sixties, but I sure tripped on life to this song! Good reaction Harri.
one of best drum solo's ever, people still play it and beginners always want to play it.......
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.
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. 😀🤟🤟
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Fun fact: This song was featured in the 1986 film, "Manhunter"; the origin of the Hannibal Lector movies.
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!
I forgot how good this song is!
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.
The birth of psychedelic rock
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 😵💫
I think that was Jimi Hendrix.
@@324cmac I had been in London and we were on our way to Denmark when we heard the news...
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.
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.
Me too. I danced many times in my apartment while listening to it.
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.
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.
Thanks, Harri, for a great reaction to this. You also chose the better video for it, too. Good job! I concur, the piece is operatic as well as epic. The contributions from each of the four members meshed together into a masterpiece. Cheers!
My Dad used to steal this album from me all the time. The singer sounds like his oldest brother.
One of the funniest jokes ever on the Simpsons had to do with this song and the church organist having to play the full 26 minute keyboard solo.😂
...and dying of fatigue with the last accord!
That, my friend is one of the greatest episodes in The Simpsons history!!! It always cracks me up 😆❤️💯
Absolutely one of the greatest tunes ever recorded. It's just that...............
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.
This is such a great song to just kick back with the eyes closed and let it carry you around.
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
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
The favorite song of the hippies of the late '60's to listen to during their acid trips.
wasn't just the 60's....
Gaddis da vida means…garden of Eden.
I am from the sixties and this song has been playing in my head since then. ☮☮🍄🍄
Yeah Harri definitely psychedelic rock.
It doesn't *have* psychedelic influence; it *is* psychedelic influence. They're one of the originals!
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.
What a fantastic memory, would never have known what it was called, but love it
How could you forget INNA GADA DA VIDA!
@@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 🙂
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.
I had forgotten how much I like this song. Thank you for sharing it and bringing back some teenage memories.
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
What an opus! A cornerstone of psychedelic rock. Timeless.
Their catalog is much more than this classic. They had a handful of popular albums that never get reacted to these days.
First concert I ever saw. The Moody Blues were the backup band. LOL
I actually saw them perform in San Francisco. The place was the Filmore West. They used psychedelic imagery that was up on the screen. I was a straight teenager who smelled a lot of weed, plus seeing a lot of other stuff happening in the audience. This was in the 1960s.
The imagery was probably the Joshua Light Show.
Regardless of anything else, they hit the groove the night they recorded this song.
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!)
Back in the 70s we tried to make love to music. I dare you to try that with this song.
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.
In a gadda da vida was intended to be "In the Garden of Eden"" .Organist-vocalist Doug Ingle wrote the song one evening while drinking an entire gallon of Red Mountain wine. When the inebriated Ingle then played the song for Bushy, who wrote down the lyrics for him, he was slurring his words so badly that what was supposed to be "in the Garden of Eden" was interpreted by Bushy as "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" Great Psychedelic song back in the day. I bought the album. The drumming is what sold me on this song...very iconic and memorable to this day. Also bought they're Iron B Heavy album and was great listening stoned, lol.
Wow! Brings back so many memories. Don' t know how many times I played that drum solo on my desk in High school. Awesome! Thanks!.
Coming of age in the seventies , this was our anthem
I have this album on vinyl . Have not listened to the full cut of this in a long time. Thanks, Harri!
I got this album from my 2nd cousin. He had a huge record collection way back in 1969. 11 year old me was fascinated by the whole thing. The craziest thing was that this song took up the second side. It was the beginning of my journey through psychedelic rock.
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.
I was in college from 1967--1971, a great time to be alive listening to all kinds of rock music. Wouldn't trade that time of my life for the world.
I think I was 16 when this came out, that was my first introduction to heavy metal rock, and I was addicted to it ever since.
Brilliant I saw them live in 1968 in St. Louis/ Amazing concert
Back in the day we'd sit. Or sprawl on the floor smoking hash and trip out on albums like this. Moody Blues Seventh album also.
Had the record player on repeat.
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.
ONE OF THE GREATEST SONGS OF ALL TIME
I saw iron butterfly at the NY World’s Fair Pavilion on 09/20/1969 . They played this song for about 45 minutes.
One of my favorite songs, when i was in high school, in the late 70s. 😎
Great proto prog metal! Glad you reacted to the full version, not the radio edit. First LP I ever bought with my own money in 1968. Same day I also bought 2001: A Space Odyssey - soundtrack. I was raised on classical music. In-A-Gadda-da-Vida was my gateway epic to the dark side....
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The longest-recorded song at the time. They never played it the same way twice.
1968, the very beginning of acid rock
Eric Braun playing one of the best guitar solos of all time!
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.
I remember that, but not the movie title, thanks for the reminder.
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
The original title for this was "In the Garden of Eden" but they changed the name to be more what it sounded like phonetically when they sang it.
Use to listen to this when I spent the night at my grandmothers house....got off on the right foot !
I'm 72 now and have not heard this in some time. Happy to see your reaction.
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.
Epic Song, and Iconic in the representation of psychedelic rock, a sensation in the 60's, so readily identifiable, with 4 separate solo performances within the song, drum solo is one of the best. I was 17 when this song was released, so good, so many memories, listening to it is like time travel into the past
first rock concert i ever went to around 1969...iron butterfly.
Seen them in 68 at the ASU Activity Center. And again in 80.
Unfortunately most are unaware that they had another great long song
Butterfly Bleu.
Just as long as this. And was the first introduced the talkbox. ( extensively)
There's a live version that was recorded for television. They when commercial free to get the whole song in without interruption.
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My older brother got this album when it first came out. when he went for a trip to San Francisco to experience more of the hippie life style i was 5 years young and played this all summer. I started growing my hair long. there were some construction workers working on our elementary school across the street, they asked us kids if our place was a church because of the organ. we laughed. This song reminds me of those summer days, still a kid, about to become a teen back in the 1960s