Drum Teacher Reacts: 'In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida' - Iron Butterfly | EPIC 60'S!
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As a teen from this era, this was considered an anthem for the 60's.
there was no over drumming it was all Ron ...RIP RON
I guess what he thought was percussion was actually the guitar strumming the muted strings.
@@manlioyllades I saw iron butterfly live and when Ron went into his solo the rest of the band walked off the stage ...there was no muted strings playing it was all Ron one of the greatest drummer
Back when musicians listened to each other and responded musically like, err humm, musicians.
I saw them live 1969 in SF at the Avalon Ballroom just before I got drafted....This song was so moving what happens is the eerie part with the guitar screech makes you feel oh no I'm not feeling good I'm too high then the song and familiar beat comes back and you go oh thank god I'm back now your back home and grooving with the band again.....
It's Memorial Day Today. Thank you.
What an insightful, descriptive observation. Thank you!
My brother saw them in '69 in D.C. He said the drum solo lasted 20 minutes. I don't know if that was true because I'm sure he was high at the time lol.
Back in the day radio, DJs used to put IN-A-GADA-DA-VIDA on so they could go out and smoke a joint, then come back and still catch the ending.
The introduction of stereo recordings and the new FM radio format allowing for the playing of these long pieces. Great days at the beginning. Replaced by MTV music videos and Payola.
Where I grew up, the full album cut was only played at night on the acid rock stations. I find it amusing that music that was so hard back then is now sound track music for commercials
@@robertoswalt319 perhaps because they are trying to sell stuff to us?
That's what the radio jocks did with Light My Fire and The End also. They loved those extended play songs for that reason
Harry Chapin said DJs liked his long songs because they could go take a dump.
I've been listening to this for about 55 years and still find it transcendent.
I love you and your channel and I'm seriously surprised you didn't know this song
Did you notice? At 14:42 "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" can be heard as a under theme. The song, especially the drum solo, was HUGE in my high school and everyone wished they could play like that.
Like when "Wipe Out" was released; every snare drummer in jr & sr hi school bands would warm up before class by showing their prowess on these songs.
Recorded Live in one take while they were waiting for the "Producer" to arrive. Nobody knew the sound man was doing a sound check and recorded the entire unexpected, unrehearsed "Jam Session" Masterpiece
Ron Bushy played from his heart. It was all feeling for him. Vida just evolved from each time they played it, until it became what was laid down and what we hear today. 🦋 He was self taught. Did not follow anyone. He was just himself.
Exactly,….. it was s sound check,., and the producer Don Casale pushed the. record button and when they finished he said come in i want you to hear something. Hence One take. Then they over dubbed the vocals and the guitar. Classic and raw. One of the best.!!!!!!!
@@nancybushy5716, I bought the album in '68, and both my younger brothers, from the solo, taught themselves to play. The kid, turning 63 next month, is playing, still.
Iron butterfly's masterpiece. Takes you another world.
Complete different world
@@AndrewRooneyDrums indeed: new age heavy improvisational rock ( and middle eastern. !!). What a combination. I was in my early college years when it came out. The impact was unreal: blaring out dorm windows all day
1968.....I'm 14 years old, manage to get into the Cavern Club in Hollywood to see "Iron Butterfly" and "Steppenwolf" live together, We smoked some of mother natures finest and I was only 20 feet away for this song live "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" 50 minute version. During the drum solo Doug Ingle smiled and said... "He Loves to show off like that, so we just let him do his thing for a while".... Never forget that experience
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50 minute version?!?! Are you sure that "nature's finest" didn't alter your perception of time a little?
@@eeduranti They were trying to out do Steppenwolf 30 min version of The Pusher May have been over an hour
Two teenage guitarists ... Eric Braunn & Michael Monarch.
@@dukeemzworth3005 Both bands were trying to out do the other with extra long solos, it was awesome to be so close to that show.
Well done on having the stamina to go through with this listen. Back in the day radio DJs usually played the much shorter version but on occasion when they needed a break they would play the full version. Always a treat when we knew it was the full one. Still have this on original vinyl. True classic.
Everybody who even claimed to be a drummer. had to learn this song in the day. Loved it.
True! Glad you dug it!
Even non drummers played the solo with their hands on dashboards, steering wheels, or whatever was in front of them
Back in the 70's I was taking drumming lessons from a teacher that I didn't have any confidence in his abilities when he said the drum solo in this song was hard to master. I spent the next 8 months driving my parents crazy by practicing this solo every day of the week over and over and over. I had recently turned 12 and my sister was having a sweet 16 party. My dad paid for a band to play at her party. During their 1st break, I asked the drummer if I could play a little. He laughed at me and walked off. The party was being held in the large banquet hall in the basement of a bowling alley so everyone upstairs could still hear all the music from the band even over the noise of the bowling. Anyway, I started to get comfortable with the drum set and making one or two adjustments cause I was much smaller than the bands drummer. I started slow, but soon got down to business. I played the entire drum solo from in-a-gadda-da-vida without making even one mistake. It was the first time I realized what getting in-a-zone meant. When I was finished I was sweating and the entire hall had filled up with people cheering and clapping. People had actually stopped bowling upstairs to come down and listen. I will never forget that day.
And Wipeout
The channel Sina-Drums does a wonderful version of this song. Sina's drumming as always is top tier.
I just found her today. She is so amazing.
In 1963, the Surfaris released "Wipeout" and every garage band drummer had to learn to play the drum part to be taken seriously. Five years later, Iron Butterfly released this song and the list of "have to know drum parts" grew to two.
This was my father’s favorite song before he died in ‘74. I remember him playing it on the record player. I have his record and was the first song I downloaded off of Napster, now forever it is my favorite.
I’ll bet I played this solo 50 times. Back 70-72 it was highly requested.
This album sold about 30 million copies.
RIP Ron Bushy
“Improvising little motifs”… and then the microdot kicks in and the motifs swallow your mind…
Hi Andrew , as I know , they just jammed around in the studio and didn't know the tape was recording . So this was "live" without anything added !
Correct!
Just jamming and made zero mistakes, incredible....
So where are they now? Little side story about the original bass player (Greg Willis) for Iron Butterfly. I had a friend at work (in San Diego) that invited me to go watch her partner play in a band, this is around 2001? The band was called "Candye Kane & the Swingin' Armadillos". It was a swing/boogie band. On break, she takes me back to introduce me to all the band members and I met Greg. Greg was a regular member of Candye Kane's band for 9 years. Iron Butterfly was formed in San Diego in 1966, only 2 years before this iconic track. When the band moved to L.A. Greg's father would not let him go, as he was still in high school. He ended up not speaking to his father for 33 years over this decision. I'm sure this song had something to do with it. If you were alive when this song came out, you owned this album and played it until it wore out. It was over 17 Min long...lol
Erik Brann, the guitarist, is the first player I ever heard do these sounds. I used to call them “Elephant Sounds”.
I was 13 when this came out, and had it on 8-track. Played this for hours in the basement to learn it. On Saturday I took my drums out to the garage and opened up the doors, so the neighbors could enjoy it too. Learned a lot during those formative years !!
"... so the neighbors could enjoy it too." Of course, you just HAD TO share!
Me too!
When I was 15years old,American missionary tell me&teach me this song drums. good old music!
thanks Andrew! from Okinawa Japan Yogi.
Fantastic!
this was recorded in one take, the sound check, no less. It is a well-orchestrated piece in terms of timing and execution. Bushy's drum solo is remarkable and rare in that he plays not to just a melody he can hear, but that everyone can. The last series of drumming falls are even more extraordinary, hypnotic and tranceworthy, difficult for any drummer to maintain.
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Put in your vision a 16 year old Hippie in a Love In in San Fransisco like a mini Woodstock..that was me and totally loving this live. Flower Power Rules
It's sad to me that a drum teacher never heard this before, but at least you have now. This is a classic bit of excellence that i have lved for decades.
Better late than never!
Many many evenings sitting around smoking then illegal substances wearing this album out. Thanks for the reaction.
I was 15 years old when this came out. One night one of my 14 year old brother and my friend came over to our house with the LP and a black light, for our posters, and we listen to this a couple of times.
Rumor was he was drunk when he wrote the song and was trying to call his band and tell them what he did. They understood as the name says, but he was trying to say "In the Garden of Eden".
The Bassist and Guitarist from Iron Butterfly went on and joined the original Deep Purple singer Rod Evans in forming the band Captain Beyond. Their first album is worth a listen.
Classic! With great drums from Bobby Caldwell
Dancing Madly Backwards is a great jam.
Don't forget the great Bobby Caldwell on drums
Another track from them that is awesome is the "Iron Butterfly Theme"!
man this song is just a masterpiece it’s crazy too cause everyone shinned for 17 minutes straight.
I had the pleasure of meeting Ron and Lee in 1999 Clearwater Fla. Two of the nicest and friendliest guys you would want to meet. I live outside of Philly and anytime they were coming into town would call let me know get me a room would hang with them for the weekend . Wherever they were playing they would ask me after the show where’s the closest bar with live entertainment. We would go to the bar and they would take over would turn into a big jam fucking Awsome. So miss those 2 !
I had a secretary that was about 10 years older than me, who incredibly saw this completely new kind of thing played live BEFORE the album release in the Chicago area at a college (she was 17). She said all of the college kids had their mouths hanging open by the end in amazement, and after they stopped playing the place erupted.
Me too
Almost 69. Heard lots of music. Definitely invmy top ten songs ever.
Love this song. Also there's the Chambers Brothers: Time Will Come Today. Long. Kust as good as this song.
Time Has Come Today is in JM's Playlist. It was my first request, his number 41 back on Jan 14th 23
My dad loved this, I still have the original album he owned.
They used this song in an epic scene in the movie Man Hunter to perfection. It added incredible suspense.
i went to a iron butterfly and steppen wolf concert in 1978 steppen wolf was the head liner but after iron butter fly finished up steppen wolf came on and they were boring iron butter fiy stole the show . i could'nt beleive it iron butter fly kicked ass. one of the best concerts i have ever seen.
The era of the long musical jam. I so want this to become a trend again.
Would today's generation have the attention span to listen this long?
I think people who want the long jam sessions just flock to “jam bands” like Phish and Dave Mathews Band to get their fill. Same crowd that loved/loves Grateful Dead. I personally cannot stand that type of music for more than 5 minutes unless I’m super high or drunk. But to each their own, you like what you like.👍
Santana
One of my absolute favorite (Pioneer) headphones (mandatory for best effects) pieces while I was stationed in So Korea (Army) in 1969. Took you to different worlds.
Worked their first two back to back tours 1968-70. Bushy played with only one base drum head, heavily taped with a pillow inside and his toms and snare were taped also, created a distinctive sound, I would say primitive. The organist played organ at his Fathers church when he was a kid.
Turtle---D-HI Sound-
George blew his Rectilinear 3 speakers out with this. In 1985, no less.
To me this is the archetype of acid rock. Let the music saturate your brain, even without acid, gets you in a trance and gives you a musical trip both around the world and in time.
Michael Mann uses this song beautifully in the movie Manhunter.
Cant hear this and not think of that movie!
I thought Brian Cox played a vastly better Dr. Lecter! Much more “normal” which made his Dr Lecter vastly more scary!!
@@kenvincent8389 Agree 100%
1 of best rock drum solos from the 60s! 55 yrs and still sounds amazing
Yup love this
This album was being played everywhere in 1968; either lp or 8 track. Everybody quickly figured out that In-a-gadda-da-vida was just the perfect song for rocking the van with your best girl.
Great song. I think I was in my teens when we found out it was, "In the Garden of Eden." Mind blown. Love the reaction.
Saw IB play this live in a rural club in the woods in '71 Epic song of that psychedelic era. Went well over 20 mins in live shows.
Listened to this song every night at 10 pm on AM radio.
I just found out the last member of this band died 2 weeks ago. There is a GREAT live version from my 14th birthday, which was the night of the 40th Anniversary of Atlantic Records concert with the og 4 members for this song. Ron has a bigger kit, but there is a camera on him during the solo.
Iron Butterfly was one of my first if not the first big name concert I ever attended, at Drew University in NJ. and they were every bit as good as the record. I partially blame my tinnitus on them because I used to put my head on a pillow on the floor between my Ampex bookshelf speakers and crank that song up, if I wasn't using headphones. Great reaction and informative breakdown.
My dad saw Iron Butterfly in 1969 he said that this song closed the show it was about an hour long and Ron Bushy played a 30 minute solo and after the song end he fell off his drum throne backward due to exhaustion. My dad said the song was just like the record just longer parts. I started listing to this song at age 5 or 6. And I just knew I wanted to play drums . Check out Ron's solo live on TH-cam from 2012.
Lee Dormant went on to play bass for Captain Beyond. Along with Rhino who joined Iron Butterfly later on. Rod Evans sang & was from Deep Purple. Bobby Caldwell played drums hailing from Johnny Winter etc.
The story (Back in the day) The singer was so drunk that he slurred the words to "In The Garden Of Eden". The Band liked the sound of "In-A-Gadda-De-Vida", and they decided to print the lyrics that way. (Don't know if this story is true, but it was the story we all knew.) A lot of people then assumed that "In-A-Gadda" was some kind of "mystical chant", or "magic incantation". Since Indian mysticism was popular in the late 1960's, people assumed these lyrics had meaning. Actually, the original "Eden" lyrics were kind of spiritual....
HA! Love it
Spent many a drunken nights at college having air drum battles with my friends on this one! Radar Love was a good one too.
Ron Bushy died a couple of years ago leaving Doug ingle, the organist, as the last surviving member though he has retired from music. This album was the first to receive a gold certification, ever. They were my first rock concert April 4, 1970, I was 15.
Yep
Doug Ingle passed away yesterday. RIP.
"Ain't that a Shame" (cover) Cheap Trick Live in Japan.
I wore out at least one vinyl record and several cassette tapes of this album. Still one of my favorites. Another one you should give a listen to is Rare Earth Live version of Get Ready.
Great reaction to this epic pivotal moment in rock history! Loved your insightful reaction! This was back when everything anybody put out was cooler than everything else, and at any moment it felt like something like this was about to happen. It wasn't long after this that young jazz guitarist Tony Iommi invented metal, and the golden age of music began its peak as Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple emerged along with Black Sabbath. Every young drummer practiced this solo, and every young guitarist practiced Smoke on the Water and Iron Man. As you said well, Ron Bushy was playing music, not "soloing", if you see what I mean, and in the process, this timeless classic solo was the result. Almost everything these days is so dismal and formulaic by comparison. It's a shame.
And artificial studio created shite with lip synching and the music sucks and... Light years better in the 60's and 70's. So are turntables.
I went to their concert in 68. Had 4th row center seats. It was awesome!
Fun fact: Ringo Starr's only "drum solo" on a Beatles album is in "The End" on Abbey Road. Ringo has said that it was inspired by Ron Bushy's solo in this song, and you can definitely hear it.
One of a kind, will never be duplicated
Love it
my dad had this on 8 track..and a VERY expensive audio system (according to him, anyway, lol) but Id listen to this on headphones, and that panning drum solo from one side to the other and back again always felt so very tribal...like you were at the center of this 'thing' and it was moving around you...then the keyboards coming in...floating....hearing it all again tonight...just...wow...I feel like Im 10 again....glad you liked it....
I got here because I was watching your video on Michael Schrieve's solo in Soul Sacrifice which has enough similarities to this one that it triggered the memory of this.
I got to watch this played on stage leaning on the back of the front columns at Massey Hall. That was the perk for hanging out back of hall offering to carry in equipment, which I did regularly. It was a double billing with the Turtles - Night and Day performances.
I was a 'roadie' of a high school basement band that played things like this in a school full of soul brothers. It was the thrill of a life time to be that close to such greatness and I thank the roadie who recognized my zeal and let a roadie teenager into the concert hall for free and fixed it that I had the best seat in the house.
. . . we can't wait to see you play this beautiful solo on your own drum kit!
Back from the time where the solos were not overdubs but part of the backing track - or the live track as it is, if I'm not mistaken. Playing together, hickups all included. Just real. You can hear the moments of silence or crackle when switching effects for the guitar solo etc, and sometimes hesitation during the improvisations...
Wow one I was hoping you'd get too ! This track took up one whole side of the live album. ✌️
So good!
Great drumming without constantly crashing the cymbals
I cannot believe that he was a drum teacher and never heard of In a gadda da vida before.
The SOUND! Someone did a great job capturing the drum sound!
Come on , the first drum solo on a rock pop record was “Wipeout”.
"Wipe Out" spent four months on the Billboard Hot 100 in the summer of 1963, reaching number 2, behind Stevie Wonder's "Fingertips".
"Wipe Out" returned to the Hot 100 in 1966, reaching number 16 on the Hot 100 (and number 63 for the year), peaking at number 9 on the Cash Box chart, selling approximately 700,000 copies in the U.S. The single spent a grand total of 30 weeks on the Hot 100.
*** Drummer Sandy Nelson issued different versions on multiple LPs. In 1970, "Wipe Out" peaked at number 110 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart.
No.
Sandy Nelson is rarely mentioned when great rock drummers of the past are discussed, which is a shame. He was terrific.
Just to correct myself, Gene Krupa in 1934, played the famous drum solo back when pop music included some commercial jazz. With the Benny Goodman Orchestra, Gene Krupa’s tom-tom interludes on the hit "Sing, Sing, Sing" were the first extended drum solos to be recorded commercially.
* Gene Krupa appeared in the 1941 film Ball of Fire, in which he and his band performed an extended version of the hit "Drum Boogie" (composed by Krupa and Roy Eldridge), sung by Martha Tilton and lip-synced by Barbara Stanwyck.
Ahh my first album, 1968, 12 years old, heard this in the Hades Music Shop in Glasgow, came home with it and played it for many years in mono as we did not have a stereo record player, what a revelation when I finally got to hear this in stereo! Still have that album and now I'm 68 still listening to progressive rock music although now digital and in surround sound.
Though Hawkwind did more for me that Iron Butterfly, I found Hawkwind could send me off into a trance - no exotic substances required (or used)
That track is used to interesting effect in a film called Manhunter, (kind of a prequel to Silence of the Lambs).used to great effect in finale of the film.
The riff is haunting. The guitar sound is nasty as hell. The drum solo is melodic and tells a story. It's very musical and part of the composition rather than an a cappella drum solo per se.
wore both sides of this album out back in the day (before I heard Led Zep 😁) No headphones - just perched myself between 2 very close speakers 😂 I think Ginger Baker's Toad solo predated this by a few years. Haven't heard this in quite some time - Thanks for the reaction ☮
The idea was to do a musical representation of the Garden of Eden. To create this effect, they used disparate devices like; minimalism, Baroque counterpoint, tribal drumming, animal sounds and so on. Great work by a bunch of very talented, very skilled, very stoned young players.
There's a video of them performing this so you can check to see if they recording extra drums over the basic presentation. It's really quite good. My impression is that either they were recording this performance live & it sounded just like the studio version, or they were playing while listening to the recording & matching it perfectly. You decide & let us know?
Used this track for a humanities class presentation in fall 1969. It is still a great song and drum solo!
i am 71 and still listen to Iron Butterfly at too loud of volumes, haha. This CD is in my car right now, and i still have my original vinyl LP . I came across this video and was curious to your reactions and breakdown as an instructor. I loved your facial expressions when the song began! I really enjoyed your analysis of the song-very insightful. Personally, the only musical instrument i can play is a kazoo, so it was interesting to hear a professional break it down. Thanks!
My dad loved to listen to this on LP with a brandy, As we got a cassette in the car, and latter CDs, the album became a gag gift. But, as my parents are both going through issues, this is perfect timing for a zone out. The Iron Butterfly theme is the theme for the Psychedelic Radio Headshop on KUNM in Albuquerque on Sat nights US. Cheers.
Best sound check ever🤣
Great review Andy! I have always enjoyed zoning out to this tune, in every version....spotify has different versions of this song, all by Iron Butterfly....just a great improv jam tune. And great ending with the drummer passing out...sounds like they are doing a cover of How Many More Times by Led Zep. Too many psychedelics for him! LOL!
REALLY dug this! What a time for music
Did you notice that the organ plays God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen after the guitar strings scraping? My local TV station in my hometown used to use the part that starts around 17:30 is at the beginning of the news.
Oh and I did hear directly from a video of one of the band members coming back to the hotel where they were staying and another band mate said he had a a new song, he asked what was it and he said In The Garden Of Eden .Being that he was drunk and slurred his words he thought he said In A Gadda Da Vida. and the name stuck.
this song was what really inspired me to start exploring the drum kit more. I was playing Dixieland jazz on a 3 piece kit. but when I heard this it blew my mind and I really starting examining drums from a different mindset. flash forward to hearing the likes of Yes, Genesis, Emerson lake and Palmer........
This is one of those pieces of music that sounds much better when kicked back in front of a stereo system with great speakers than it does with headphones. Those extreme panning effects are less noticeable, except for the part where the drum pan slides back and forth, and the general effect in the room is that the blended sound gives a good aural "image" of the band and their placement on the stage in front of you.
I always imagined this played in a gothic cathedral. Beautiful.
I used to play bass and I've always digged this song, cool bass and lots of dark mood minor chords.
14 years old when this blasted onto the radio. Blown away and bought the single, then only to find out there was an album version..more blown away. fly on Butterfly fly
This song was a significant part of my teen years. Now, I am 68.
A lot of the "Crispness" maybe due to, all the amps of the time were tube amps.
Ron Bushy was awesome, and he had the greatest ‘drumming face’ of all time. With his extremely dramatic grimacing, he always appeared to either be in great pain, or mortal danger..
And a footnote: yes, the lyrics were supposed to be ‘In The Garden Of Eden’. They were sung “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” because vocalist Doug Ingle was completely wasted on a certain “substance” during the recording session. This information is courtesy of Mickey Hart, drummer and percussionist of the Grateful Dead and also an amazing author. Check out his most excellent book “Drumming At The Edge Of Magic”, written in 1998.
Thanks for this one.
I don't remember when I last sat down and listened to this song in its entirety. And probably wouldn't have.
Fantastic pick & review. 21:08
Edit: opening song in the Resident Evil : Extinction movie.
Yup, tanker truck running down zombies to that tune.
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'bout 10-15 minutes in IIRC
Awesome!
Every teenager in those years had a copy of this and knew how to air-drum to this. I still can... It was completely unique in its day BUT I must say it hasn't aged well for me, there were so many astounding drummers to come. However, I will say, once a year I will pull this out and pretend I am still 13 years old.
Yea, lots of albums like this. Alices Rest is still a thanksgiving thing thou !!
I have this on vinyl and it sounds amazing!
Awesome! You have a great piece of history! 😎👍🤟
Doug Ingle was a classically trained organist.
No, in fact the lead singer was so drunk that he could not pronounce In the Garden of Eden. It came out as In a Gadda DA Vida
It leaves you with the impression that it was developed out of a jam session since it has few words, with each member adding their own idea. In regard to over drumming a poster on another video said it was a double base pedal. Even though double pedals for base drum came out in the 30's, most rockers used 2 base drums tuned differently. So what ever it's an original very good, composed arrangement.
Great comments
This was my most listened to song on headphones along with All Along The Watchtower. Loved all the music from that era. I'm 74.
That back and forth stuff was them playing with stereo as it was a new invention. Went well with LSD
Fun to watch you react. This is the first time I've listened to it in a while, in headphones with my hearing aids in. No wonder I love it.