1968 was definitely in the middle of the Psychedelic rock era. I was 8 years old. I got to be raised in the 60s and 70s - the best two decades for music. Lucky me.
@@DiconDissectionalReactions Hey Daniel! Digging back through a bunch of your oldies that I hadn't seen yet and stumbled on Inna Gadda da Vida. One of my favorites from way back! Was this tracing their trip to find the Garden of Eden, what kind of trip are they taking me on you asked. Hmmm, 1960's, psychedelic.... an LSD trip most likely!! LOL! ...I will say your perceptiveness is spot on accurate with these old classic songs. When you said "this gives me Black Sabbath vibes," "this gives me a Jimi Hendrix vibe," "this part sounds like Santana," "this part is definitely Egyptian," "did anybody else think that pick scrape sounded like an elephant." etc., etc. numerous times.... I'm thinking, Yep, ditto. You hit the nail on the head exactly with each perception! ... This was the one song that I got into the most trouble with my parents over! LOL! I played the old vinyl to go to sleep with one night. They kept yelling at me through the bedroom door, we're trying to sleep! Turn that g*ddamn mess down!! Finally I had the volume shut completely off, listening to only the acoustic vibrations of the needle sliding through the groove. They could still hear it. Dad came storming in the room and nearly whacked the stereo ---no wait, we didn't even have stereo in those days. It was only mono! ---off the dresser he was so mad! Oh, those were the good old days indeed when parents thought we were going to hell for listening to that "awful rock & roll!!" /// Actually there were a few other songs that also got me in a lot of trouble too. The Doors' Soft Parade and the Guess Who's Hang On To Your Life.
When this was released, most radio stations would not play a 17 minute song. The shorter versions were edits for radio play. The full version appears on the LP.
Unless you were the DJ all alone on the overnight shift, then you would always have a song like this, or maybe Don McLean's American Pie where you could put it on the turntable and take that much needed bathroom break, smoke break, snack break, etc.
@@silvertube52 I remember hearing of that happening. I'm near Grand Rapids, Michigan and my station there WLAV would play this frequently! They spoke about it, and I went crazy!
Everyone had this album tucked away. Played at so many partys. I was 14 years old, hanging with college kids in a small theater where I used to help out. After rehearsal one night, someone slipped this onto the sound system. Someone turned on the strobe light -- I watched the girls dance... and joined in. It was in fact one of those 'You will not be the same after this' moments. You must realize - there was no heavy metal, there was no pick scraping, there were no drum solos in rock, at least not highlighted and solo like this. So glad you have repeated listening to this dirty gem on your own. It was a game changer - everybody should have it as part of their life soundtrack. Nice job - no real analysis needed for this one!
@@purplehead9157 One of the most popular early distortion pedals was called the Fuzz Face. Ten years back or so, a company in Russia was making licensed copies of the Fuzz Face. Almost all of the vacuum tubes still being manufactured come from Russia. Thanks, outdated Soviet technology ! There was also a Russian company called SovTek who manufactured unlicensed clones of the Fender Bassman amplifier.
I knew you'd like this when I saw it come up. I was hoping you'd get to this song sooner or later; imagine my delight when it was "sooner". This song was a touchstone of psychedelic music and psychedelic culture. Uncountable legions of fifty-year-olds were conceived while this played. I think the most memorable time I watched someone hear "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" for the first time was my junior year of High School. I played it for an organ-obsessed friend of mine who was looking in all our record collections for any albums with significant organ use. He was absolutely floored, and and immediately had me copy it onto 8-track so he could play it in his car. That day, I also turned him on to the Allman Brothers, which was close as a guy who idolized Keith Emerson and Rick Wakeman ever let himself get to Southern Rock. When my friends went cruising, ours was the car blasting out "Tarkus" or "Heart Of The Sunrise" while everybody else in the parking lot was playing "Free Bird" and "Walk This Way". My Grandma got me this album for my tenth birthday - she had no idea what it was (literally said "I don't know what it is"), but I'd asked, so she swallowed her reservations and bought me this weird-looking record. I'd heard it when my local "underground" radio station played it sometimes late at night, and I was transported in a way that music had never done for me before. It opened one of the most important doors in my life, one which I still walk through as often as I can. That Christmas was the only time I ever got to show my 8-months-older-and-a-thousand-times-cooler cousin Rickey something cool that he'd never heard. He not only got the album, he also got an electric guitar (a Silvertone, with the amplifier built into the guitar case). Next time I saw him the following summer he and a couple of guys were trying to bang out "Magic Carpet Ride" in the garage. I hadn't considered this, but "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" was probably one of the most influential songs guiding my musical tastes going forward. Because I'd already embraced what could be considered one of the first prog-rock albums, by the time Pink Floyd and Jethro Tull came into my life, I was more than ready. Also, the guitar and organ on this song (along with Led Zeppelin and Jefferson Airplane) made me comfortable with Black Sabbath, Deep Purple and Uriah Heep as soon as I heard them. I think the funniest use of the song I ever saw was in The Simpsons. During one of Rev. Lovejoy's interminable sermons, Bart snuck over to the organ and, when the organist wasn't looking, replaced her sheet music with what he'd labelled "In The Garden Of Eden", composed by I. Ron Butterfly. When the song begins, Homer turns to Marge and says, "Do you remember when we used to make out to this hymn?" Cut to the end of the song, and the exhausted organist collapses over her keyboard. Note on the album itself: don't even bother with side 1. Only a glutton for punishment would play the other side of this album more than once. When I got the deluxe remastered CD a couple of years back, I tried to play side 1, just to see if it was as bad as I remembered. It was actually worse.
Daniel, Iron Butterfly was one of the bands that influenced all Heavy Metal sound afterward. Proto-Metal if you will. Keep up the great work! Loving the channel.
Also back in this time of music, sometimes you just wanted to jam and let the band's talent speak out instead of singing. Makes music even more awesome. You wont ever hear this kind of music today guaranteed.
I saw them back in 1969 at the Shady Grove Music Fair in Maryland. The drum solo lasted 20 minutes. The whole song sounds like you are traveling on a magic carpet searching for the garden of eden.
This is the MOTHER of all psychedelic, stoner songs. You have a cool dad, who must have a cool dad..because this is MY generations music....and I’m your grandma’s age....Saw them live in Denver in 1969 or 70.......very cool....and yeah..everyone was very “mellow”....😁😉
Great reaction to this!!!! My older cousin gave me this album as a present in 1969 when I was 10 years old. The organ player and singer was Doug Ingle, whose father was a church organist. The guitar player was Erik Brann, and was 17 years old when they recorded this. Again, great reaction video!!!
@@21Piloteer two years in rock and roll is a long time. In the 60s and 70s two years years difference is almost a lifetime with how quickly rock was progressing
And that's why you listen to the original length song! You mentioned you wanted to turn it up as far as you could. I remember many nights spent in a darkened room lit by candles, lava lamps and black lights, in a slightly altered state, listening to this through the BIG Altec Lansing speakers turned up so loud you felt every drumbeat and bass note in your chest. Many times on my radio show I followed it with Deep Purple's " Smoke on the Water." Amazing songs, amazing memory. Thank you and your dad!
Fell in love with this song as a 5 year old. Still love it. Go look for a clip of The Simpsons where Bart slips the music sheet of this song to the church organist. Funny. "Hey Marge, remember when we made out to this hymn?"
Santana was probably after Butterfly. I heard that Jeff Beck claims to have heard them play this song at a bar in 1967 in California. The guitarist for this band, during this time, was a teenager. I think the natural precursor to their sound, certainly the organ, is Bach.
Great reaction,...true story,...the track you just heard was done in one take.The band didn’t know they were being recorded.The producer said run through it once for a sound check.Hit the record button,.....then went to an upstairs booth.If you listen closely,..you can hear towards the middle,..to the end,..the musicians toggling volume controls on effects or something.When they finished the producer called them into the booth and said i want you to hear some thing.Hence,...one take.....it is so raw sounding.Its genius.Thanks,..great reaction...glad you enjoyed it,....
Yes, it's a journey like close to the edge ( Yes ), nights in white satin ( Moody blues , full option ) or many titels from Pink Floyd. 👍 In history this kind of music was very popular. Unfortunately nobody compose something like this anymore. 😔
Nam - Like Taylor Swift song #1: My boyfriend this week. Song #2: My boyfriend last week. Song #3: Your boyfriend this week. Song #4: Boyfriend forever. etc, etc
bill - Indeed. Perhaps a couple doobies, depending. Or mushrooms ... Listening to some songs with the assistance of hallucinagenics is like watching a 3D movie without the 3D glasses.
Just subbed 8/29/20 7:30pm Northern California wine country 67 Yrs old white guy rocker- enjoying today’s youth appreciating our music! WE USED TO SLOW DANCE TO THIS!
You’re the first reactor I’ve seen who caught the God Rest Ye Merry reference around 19:32! Apparently, the organist was a trained church organist. It’s so good to see younger generations catching on to the great music of the late 60s through 70s.
Yes! I was 15 years old in 1968 and bought this album. I called it the "electric elephant". Great minds think alike. Because the title is about The Garden of Eden, I interpreted the electric elephant part as the Devil making an entrance.
The drum solo in the middle was meant to simulate the sound of a human heartbeat. I've always liked this song. I heard it for the first time in 1975 when I was 14. It sounded dated to me. But I listen to it now and I have the reaction that it sounds so stereotypically psychedelic that you almost think it couldn't have actually been written in the real 1960's. . It's as if a rock musician born in 1990 was asked to write "a 1960's psychedelic song" and came up with this.
Not award-winning lyrics but the music makes up for it. Iron Butterfly capitalizing on late 1960s psychedelia a la Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane: light show, extended playtime songs; plus some Pink Floydish effects. Experimentation with channel switching, long drum solo, mid-East tonal motif, churchy organ, fuzz tone and reverb on guitars, wah-wah pedal and probably more I can't hear. Multiple key changes, undulating switches to various moods; certainly fertile ground for "visualizations" by temporarily mentally altered listeners. Still enjoyable all these years later. Thanks for your insights and commentary ... and seeing you enjoy a classic. And don't forget to thank your Dad for the recommendation!
You nailed everything from the musical elements to the imagery to the 'sounds like'. And yes, definite Black Sabbath and Santana moments, and God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen.
Speaking of guitar riffs - Have you listened to "Layla" by Derek and the Dominos yet? Eric Clapton, Bobby Whitlock, Carl Radle, and Jim Gordon (with Duane Allman of the Allman Brothers Band contributing outstanding guitar work on this track). Interesting back story with this song too.
You are the first reactor that I've seen react to this song. I've begged others to, but nada. Thank you! The guitar and drum solos in this song are amazing and should be played to every child ever born beginning in the womb. I'm so glad to see your reaction and appreciation! Edited: I always thought the part where the "elephant" comes in is symbolic of the snake tempting Eve. All of the lyrics could be the snake tempting Eve rather than Adam talking to Eve or a man talking to his "love". Maybe that's too spot on, but it's a way to look at it.
1968. I was 16. Went to my first high school dance. They played this 17 minute version. Prior to that, I only heard the shorter versions that were allowed on the radio stations. So, I asked a girl named Meg to dance. The song kept going, and going, and after a bit, the other couples on the dance floor dropped out to rest. It was like a scene from one of those movies. Meg and I were the only ones out there. Made it through, but oh, what a memory. Thanks, Daniel. you took me back yet again! (And yes, I AM that old! lol) Oh yeah, we called it "the elephant," too.
The story goes that the tune was called " In the Garden of Eden" but they misunderstood what was being told to them and they recorded it as "In a Gadda Da Vida" Take it for what it's worth...
If you like psychedelic and progressive you definitely need to check out Pink Floyd. Arguably the greatest band ever. Recommend Comfortably Numb (Pulse version) and studio version, and also Echoes part 1&2 from Live at Pompeii.
I'm coming to party late, sorry-but the guitar is being run thru a classic "fuzz box". The first ones were lime green and about the size of 2 cigarette pkgs stacked and gave the distortion to the guitar. Also there is a "wah-wah peddle" which gives the ....wah, wah sound. Classic electronics for psychedelic rock era. Thanks Daniel for listening to the sound of my youth with me!!
When I was in grade school and learning to play drums, everyone was impressed by anyone who could play this drum solo. Actually, it's very easy to play, but what made the drum solo great is that it sustained a rhythm, it was melodic and had hooks that developed over time. It's still my favorite rock drum solo. It was groundbreaking in its time. A rite of passage.
Been a long time since I heard any version, but not even sure if or when I heard this one before. Got the same "aha" moments you did, "let nothing you dismay", and the elephant. Thanks.
They were supposed to play Woodstock, but couldn't get there without a helicopter. the producers were overwhelmed all ready, so Iron butterfly, joni Mitchell and several others never made it.
Excellent review, Daniel! (Many months later. Lol) Your joy and appreciation of great music always impresses me. I love your patience, and how you savor every moment. That is a rare virtue nowadays. You have great taste, and exceptional insight. You're getting quite the education with your channel. Too bad you can get college credit. ;) You have tought me so much. Thank you for that!
There's a live version of this 17 minute song here on TH-cam. This is one of the first albums I ever bought when I was a young teen. The drum solo alone is what drew me into the song in the first place. I have this in my private YT playlist so I can easily access it when I want to go back to a simpler, more civil time in my world. Thanks, Daniel. And here's a link to the live video: th-cam.com/video/UIVe-rZBcm4/w-d-xo.html (Yes, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen is definitely in there! :) EDIT: And Yes, I've always heard elephants, too!
Hi, Daniel! Enjoyed listening with you again. Returned after listening with you my first time, because your observations and insights were thoughtful, interesting, & I wanted to repeat the experience. Good stuff! Yeah, Iron Butterfly pulled off a great one with this arrangement. Reportedly, it was just at first a simple song that Organist, Vocalist, & Songwriter, Doug Ingle, had written, whose arrangement evolved over numerous engagement performances, with the band continually incorporating new ideas. When the band went into the recording studio to put the song to tape, the producer hadn't arrived yet. So, the recording engineer suggested that the band do some playing, for checking sound levels. The engineer started recording, the band started playing the song, and the engineer left the recording studio. The band was fresh, all alone, in a relaxed warm-up frame of mind, spontaneously playing a well-developed arrangement which each band member knew like the back of their hand. By the time the producer arrived, and the recording engineer returned, the band had performed the entire composition. The band's "Sound Check" was so good, that it became the "Master Take" released, which you heard! The band's record label was now in a quandary; what to do with a 17 minute recording? After much discussion, the label took a chance and had the entire 17 minute recording of In A Gadda Da Vida fill up Side 2 of the band's new 2nd album of the same title. The label's gamble paid off! International sales of Iron Butterfly's In A Gadda Da Vida album were so huge, the Atlantic label created a new award for the album's sales, The Platinum Record Award. Because the song's recording was so long, one radio Dee Jay first created his own edited short version, for airplay on his station. The Atlantic label also put out a radio-Dee-Jay-friendly edited short version, to further promote sales via radio airplay. Though radio airplay of shorter versions may have promoted the song some, there were many listeners who had only heard a short version, had heard all this hype about what a great piece it was, and who weren't aware of the 17 minute version, which is what all the accolades were about. As a result, many of those short-version-only listeners, thought the praises were much ado about nothing, and ridiculed the song. But time has settled the worth of this wonderful piece, and it's lovely to see new generations discovering it!
LOL you're very first break I have to comment haven't really listened to the drums much I like to listen to them independently. Lol I can't help but think Just Wait!
That was a great time period for music. I was 15, exploring all the different kinds of music coming out, finding what appealed to me. There was truly something for everyone.
You can tell the organist was classically trained. I think Cream lifted their riff for Sunshine of Your Love from this intro. This was a high school classic! Sounds like dinosaurs in the middle, doesn’t it? Notice how the drummer never gets a break. People were definitely on a “ trip” when listening to this !
This was the first rock song, with a drum solo. But it is also made like a jazz piece, with solos and everything, even with an oriental twist. On top of that, these kids (guitarist is just 17!!) know their instruments!
As a freshman in college 1968 when this erupted, you can not imagine what an impact it had. The dorm room opposite ours faced married student housing, an enclave for grad students and new mothers, so of course at 1AM they felt it a must to share this distortion with them by placing their stereo speakers on the ledge outside their windows and blasting 'In A Godda Da Vida' to the world. I do not recall if they were expelled or not. THOSE tom toms. Tribal! Tell me Phil was not listening the those drums as a 17 yr old. This influenced countless bands. Acid Rock at its prime. Trippy for sure. Not only heavy metal but progressive rock were spawned. (great pick up on God Rest ye Merry Gentlemen) CLASSIC!
These guys played at my High School because apparently, the drummer went to our school, they had a light show old-style that looked like that album cover!
Just beamed into your channel, during the 1960's, radio stations only played the short versions. My generation was blown away when we heard to 17 minute version. One must have day glow posters, black lights everywhere and a strobe light for the full effect. 👍 The keyboard player was the singer and his father was a preacher, I suspect the church sounding part was a homage to his father. I heard those same notes the first time I heard this in 1968. The guitarist was 17 years old when this was recorded. After this drum solo ( the best in my opinion), many bands tried to emulate with their own drummer solos. Wah pedal it was. There is a Simpson episode where Bart swaps out the church lady's organ music from some church song to "In-na-goda-da-vida". Pretty funny!🤣 Regards!
As far as I can remember their first L.P. was called "Heavy" by Iron Butterfly. It was the first music that was self described (then) as "Heavy Metal" and that and all of that type of music followed these guys
3 minute version was for the singles' version, the 8 min version for the movie MANHUNTER(1986) the 17 minute version for the album. 1st of the long long drum solos.
I've made this comment before, elsewhere, about this record, and I'll say it here. (And I stand by it, because I was a kid in junior high school school when this record came out, so I was there.) Although there had been records before with drums solos, especially in jazz, this recording ignited the extended drum solo in rock concerts from here on out. I remember it started with this song in school, then extended to other songs by high school. The extended drum solo is now a staple of rock concerts, these ~55 years later, fueled originally by this 1968 recording. Heck! Even a year later, Ringo "had" to do a solo on "Abbey Road." In Jan. 1969, Chicago recorded an extended drum solo for their debut LP.
Iron Butterfly were one of the pioneers of heavy metal in the late sixties along with steppenwolf, Blue Cheer , Vanilla fudge and several other bands. eventually that sound would coalesce into What Black Sabbath would wind up doing
To play guitar like these guys, it has to be an obsession with you. They say that Jimi Hendrix carried a guitar everywhere he went...everywhere including the bathroom. They say he played it constantly.
Heavy Metal, 1969, pre Black Sabbath. Iron (heavy) Butterfly 🦋 The one section absolutely sounds like an elephant 🐘. Definitely a journey. What I really like is that the music takes you on a journey of your own interpretation. The Egyptian music takes you through time and the history of us all. Thank you, I've been a fan of this song since 1969 and have never tired of it.
When I was living in the dorm at college, I would often hear the opening organ notes blaring out at 3 a.m. from a guy's room down the hall and know I would not get any sleep for at least 17 minutes.
In high school I use to play drum solo using 2 architect scales on desk in drafting class. I know, weird but I was addicted to the song. The scales were beat oh don't ya know!
Santana "Soul Sacrifice" at Woodstock, the long version with full drum solos: th-cam.com/video/xBG6IaSQCpU/w-d-xo.html No lyrics - it's just an instrumental.
Great reaction! this song was my introduction to Rock!, it was 1968 I was 6yrs old and my sister bought me this record as a birthday gift. The best thing about it was the Iron Butterfly formed in my hometown of San Diego Ca. I've heard this song live! so many times I've lost count. p.s. on side b of the 45, is a song so spooky, we used it as Halloween music
Another group in the sixties was Big Brother and the Holding Company featuring Janis Joplin. My brother was in Vietnam and brought the vinyl album home. These few years ushered in the psychedelic rock period including Black Sabbath, Ten Years After, Jimmy Hendrix and many more.
Not sure if anybody mentioned this but the story I heard was that lead singer Doug Ingle was so drunk when they recorded this that the song was suppose to be In The Garden Of Eden but came out as In a Gadda Da Vida. Side Note: The Simpsons do a very funny reference to this song in a great episode where Bart sells his soul to Milhouse.
I have heard this whole song on the radio in two different markets. One also plays Alice's Restaurant at noon on Thanksgiving which is also 17 minutes. You're ready now for Argent Hold Your Head Up and The Guess Who, No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature.
Classic DJ wants to pee and have a smoke song! You've got a great dad there! 42 years later...I'm reliving the first time i heard it through your ears, it's an honor, seriously! You make me proud Daniel!
Also featured in a Simpson episode where Bart swaps the church organist music with this piece "Wait a minute, this sounds like Rock and or Roll" "by I. Ron Butterfly"
There is a performance video that shows the boys doing their thing. Doug Ingalls - Keyboards and Vocals, Ron Bushy - Drums, Lee Dorman - Bass and Eric Brann - Guitar. It's pretty good and worth the time.
One thing not mentioned is the organist had a church music background. Hence why it sounds like that. I was about 10 when I first heard the song a few years after it came out. My old sisters boyfriend had the 8-track. It changed channels mid song!
@@debrabrabenec3731 They were great! a little fun fact for you: guitarist, Mike Esposito, is in his 70's now and has been running a bicycle repair shop in upstate NY (Woodstock). He pretty much lives like a hermit and has for many decades.
The short 3 minute was because AM radio would not play songs longer than 2-3 minutes. Many songs you had to buy the album or just hear the cut up AM versions as FM had yet to come along. GFR-I'm your Captain, Doors-Light my Fire, Moody Blues-Nights in White Satin, Steppenwolf-Magic Carpet Ride, Tommy James-Crimson and Clover, Zeppelin-Whole Lotta Love and a whole bunch more had to chop their songs to get on radio. You are experiencing what 60's stereo tech sounds like on today's tech, that is why the sounds separate from back and forth so much, pretty awesome.
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1968 was definitely in the middle of the Psychedelic rock era. I was 8 years old. I got to be raised in the 60s and 70s - the best two decades for music. Lucky me.
Rock on!
I agree, best two decades of music ever. I also grew up during these eras. Fantastic time to grow up. Awesome music then.
I was also 8 years old 1968, and can't but agree fully with you.
@@DiconDissectionalReactions Hey Daniel! Digging back through a bunch of your oldies that I hadn't seen yet and stumbled on Inna Gadda da Vida. One of my favorites from way back! Was this tracing their trip to find the Garden of Eden, what kind of trip are they taking me on you asked. Hmmm, 1960's, psychedelic.... an LSD trip most likely!! LOL! ...I will say your perceptiveness is spot on accurate with these old classic songs. When you said "this gives me Black Sabbath vibes," "this gives me a Jimi Hendrix vibe," "this part sounds like Santana," "this part is definitely Egyptian," "did anybody else think that pick scrape sounded like an elephant." etc., etc. numerous times.... I'm thinking, Yep, ditto. You hit the nail on the head exactly with each perception! ... This was the one song that I got into the most trouble with my parents over! LOL! I played the old vinyl to go to sleep with one night. They kept yelling at me through the bedroom door, we're trying to sleep! Turn that g*ddamn mess down!! Finally I had the volume shut completely off, listening to only the acoustic vibrations of the needle sliding through the groove. They could still hear it. Dad came storming in the room and nearly whacked the stereo ---no wait, we didn't even have stereo in those days. It was only mono! ---off the dresser he was so mad! Oh, those were the good old days indeed when parents thought we were going to hell for listening to that "awful rock & roll!!" /// Actually there were a few other songs that also got me in a lot of trouble too. The Doors' Soft Parade and the Guess Who's Hang On To Your Life.
I was 11 and I can't agree more. bzzzzzzzzz!
When this was released, most radio stations would not play a 17 minute song. The shorter versions were edits for radio play. The full version appears on the LP.
Unless you were the DJ all alone on the overnight shift, then you would always have a song like this, or maybe Don McLean's American Pie where you could put it on the turntable and take that much needed bathroom break, smoke break, snack break, etc.
WABX in Detroit played it twice in a row in the middle of the afternoon. The DJ said something like: "I like that, let's hear it again". 😂
@@silvertube52 I remember hearing of that happening. I'm near Grand Rapids, Michigan and my station there WLAV would play this frequently! They spoke about it, and I went crazy!
Mark - Songs were all 3 minutes to fit the radio. Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone" in 1965 was 6 minutes and the music world broke it's mind.
I was 7 years old when this came out (1968), and I lobbied hard and got the album for chistmas. I must have worn it out, but I still have the vinyl.
I was 16 and playing in a band trying to be too cool.
I was 13 and wore out two and had to buy a third!
Got it on vinyl, and cd with all versions of it. I play the vinyl more
Everyone had this album tucked away. Played at so many partys.
I was 14 years old, hanging with college kids in a small theater where I used to help out. After rehearsal one night, someone slipped this onto the sound system. Someone turned on the strobe light -- I watched the girls dance... and joined in. It was in fact one of those 'You will not be the same after this' moments.
You must realize - there was no heavy metal, there was no pick scraping, there were no drum solos in rock, at least not highlighted and solo like this. So glad you have repeated listening to this dirty gem on your own. It was a game changer - everybody should have it as part of their life soundtrack. Nice job - no real analysis needed for this one!
I had forgotten how cool strobe lights were in the way back.. Thanks.
Pretty much yes to everything you said. Hypnotic recording, particularly the drum work.
Not sure if you know but their lead guitarist Eric Brann was only 17, great tslent
Back then it was called a Fuzz pedal
@@purplehead9157 One of the most popular early distortion pedals was called the Fuzz Face. Ten years back or so, a company in Russia was making licensed copies of the Fuzz Face. Almost all of the vacuum tubes still being manufactured come from Russia. Thanks, outdated Soviet technology ! There was also a Russian company called SovTek who manufactured unlicensed clones of the Fender Bassman amplifier.
Unfortunately, Eric passed away in 2003 at the age of 53 from a cardiac arrest related to a birth defect that he had struggled with for years.
Erik Brann, the best guitarist Iron Butterfly ever had, and he was only 17 years old.
I had to laugh when you said "I haven't been focusing on the drums."
the drums play the all song , nobody can miss it .,
I knew you'd like this when I saw it come up. I was hoping you'd get to this song sooner or later; imagine my delight when it was "sooner". This song was a touchstone of psychedelic music and psychedelic culture. Uncountable legions of fifty-year-olds were conceived while this played.
I think the most memorable time I watched someone hear "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" for the first time was my junior year of High School. I played it for an organ-obsessed friend of mine who was looking in all our record collections for any albums with significant organ use. He was absolutely floored, and and immediately had me copy it onto 8-track so he could play it in his car. That day, I also turned him on to the Allman Brothers, which was close as a guy who idolized Keith Emerson and Rick Wakeman ever let himself get to Southern Rock. When my friends went cruising, ours was the car blasting out "Tarkus" or "Heart Of The Sunrise" while everybody else in the parking lot was playing "Free Bird" and "Walk This Way".
My Grandma got me this album for my tenth birthday - she had no idea what it was (literally said "I don't know what it is"), but I'd asked, so she swallowed her reservations and bought me this weird-looking record. I'd heard it when my local "underground" radio station played it sometimes late at night, and I was transported in a way that music had never done for me before. It opened one of the most important doors in my life, one which I still walk through as often as I can.
That Christmas was the only time I ever got to show my 8-months-older-and-a-thousand-times-cooler cousin Rickey something cool that he'd never heard. He not only got the album, he also got an electric guitar (a Silvertone, with the amplifier built into the guitar case). Next time I saw him the following summer he and a couple of guys were trying to bang out "Magic Carpet Ride" in the garage.
I hadn't considered this, but "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" was probably one of the most influential songs guiding my musical tastes going forward. Because I'd already embraced what could be considered one of the first prog-rock albums, by the time Pink Floyd and Jethro Tull came into my life, I was more than ready. Also, the guitar and organ on this song (along with Led Zeppelin and Jefferson Airplane) made me comfortable with Black Sabbath, Deep Purple and Uriah Heep as soon as I heard them.
I think the funniest use of the song I ever saw was in The Simpsons. During one of Rev. Lovejoy's interminable sermons, Bart snuck over to the organ and, when the organist wasn't looking, replaced her sheet music with what he'd labelled "In The Garden Of Eden", composed by I. Ron Butterfly. When the song begins, Homer turns to Marge and says, "Do you remember when we used to make out to this hymn?" Cut to the end of the song, and the exhausted organist collapses over her keyboard.
Note on the album itself: don't even bother with side 1. Only a glutton for punishment would play the other side of this album more than once. When I got the deluxe remastered CD a couple of years back, I tried to play side 1, just to see if it was as bad as I remembered. It was actually worse.
Daniel, Iron Butterfly was one of the bands that influenced all Heavy Metal sound afterward. Proto-Metal if you will. Keep up the great work! Loving the channel.
Also back in this time of music, sometimes you just wanted to jam and let the band's talent speak out instead of singing. Makes music even more awesome. You wont ever hear this kind of music today guaranteed.
I saw them back in 1969 at the Shady Grove Music Fair in Maryland. The drum solo lasted 20 minutes. The whole song sounds like you are traveling on a magic carpet searching for the garden of eden.
I remember Shady Grove, what a great little theater in the round. Saw John B. Sebastion there early 70's.
This is the MOTHER of all psychedelic, stoner songs. You have a cool dad, who must have a cool dad..because this is MY generations music....and I’m your grandma’s age....Saw them live in Denver in 1969 or 70.......very cool....and yeah..everyone was very “mellow”....😁😉
Great reaction to this!!!! My older cousin gave me this album as a present in 1969 when I was 10 years old. The organ player and singer was Doug Ingle, whose father was a church organist. The guitar player was Erik Brann, and was 17 years old when they recorded this. Again, great reaction video!!!
This is way before Black Sabbath.
This came out in 68, Sabbath's debut was 70. 2 years is way before? Lol
@@21Piloteer Well, at the rate rock was progressing back then, it was way before!
@@21Piloteer two years in rock and roll is a long time. In the 60s and 70s two years years difference is almost a lifetime with how quickly rock was progressing
And that's why you listen to the original length song! You mentioned you wanted to turn it up as far as you could. I remember many nights spent in a darkened room lit by candles, lava lamps and black lights, in a
slightly altered state, listening to this through the BIG Altec Lansing speakers turned up so loud you felt every drumbeat and bass note in your chest. Many times on my radio show I followed it with Deep Purple's " Smoke on the Water." Amazing songs, amazing memory. Thank you and your dad!
Steppenwolf's the pusher and iron butterfly unparalleled iconic songs.
You need to hear the Moody Blues - “Nights in White Satin” make sure it is the long version- around 11-12 minutes Wonderful orchestration!
Fell in love with this song as a 5 year old. Still love it. Go look for a clip of The Simpsons where Bart slips the music sheet of this song to the church organist. Funny. "Hey Marge, remember when we made out to this hymn?"
Santana was probably after Butterfly. I heard that Jeff Beck claims to have heard them play this song at a bar in 1967 in California.
The guitarist for this band, during this time, was a teenager.
I think the natural precursor to their sound, certainly the organ, is Bach.
When you’re stoned, you don’t think about how long it is....just get lost in it.
Great reaction,...true story,...the track you just heard was done in one take.The band didn’t know they were being recorded.The producer said run through it once for a sound check.Hit the record button,.....then went to an upstairs booth.If you listen closely,..you can hear towards the middle,..to the end,..the musicians toggling volume controls on effects or something.When they finished the producer called them into the booth and said i want you to hear some thing.Hence,...one take.....it is so raw sounding.Its genius.Thanks,..great reaction...glad you enjoyed it,....
It was first officially certified a Platinum and 4× Multi-Platinum album in the United States on January 26, 1993.
I was in college when this came out, and you nailed it exactly when you said it was a trip song.
First time I ever heard this song , I was about your age and I listened to it over and over and over again
I have heard it about 7 times since reacting to it since it's so great:)
Yes, it's a journey like close to the edge ( Yes ), nights in white satin ( Moody blues , full option ) or many titels from Pink Floyd. 👍
In history this kind of music was very popular.
Unfortunately nobody compose something like this anymore. 😔
Nam - Like Taylor Swift song #1: My boyfriend this week. Song #2: My boyfriend last week. Song #3: Your boyfriend this week. Song #4: Boyfriend forever. etc, etc
For those of you who ever wondered about Bach playing in a heavy metal band.
A dark room a black light some posters and a dooby is the only way to truly enjoy this
bill - Indeed. Perhaps a couple doobies, depending. Or mushrooms ...
Listening to some songs with the assistance of hallucinagenics is like watching a 3D movie without the 3D glasses.
This was the 1st time i ever encountered a song that was the whole side of a record.
I love the switch in timing in the middle of the drum solo, it’s so smooth
Just subbed 8/29/20 7:30pm Northern California wine country 67 Yrs old white guy rocker- enjoying today’s youth appreciating our music! WE USED TO SLOW DANCE TO THIS!
Released - June 14, 1968
Recorded - May 27, 1968
I was born in 1951. Grew up listening to this kind of music.
You’re the first reactor I’ve seen who caught the God Rest Ye Merry reference around 19:32! Apparently, the organist was a trained church organist.
It’s so good to see younger generations catching on to the great music of the late 60s through 70s.
The riff of "In a Gadda Da Vida" is one of the most iconic ones in rock music.
Yes! I was 15 years old in 1968 and bought this album. I called it the "electric elephant". Great minds think alike. Because the title is about The Garden of Eden, I interpreted the electric elephant part as the Devil making an entrance.
The drum solo in the middle was meant to simulate the sound of a human heartbeat. I've always liked this song. I heard it for the first time in 1975 when I was 14. It sounded dated to me. But I listen to it now and I have the reaction that it sounds so stereotypically psychedelic that you almost think it couldn't have actually been written in the real 1960's. . It's as if a rock musician born in 1990 was asked to write "a 1960's psychedelic song" and came up with this.
Not award-winning lyrics but the music makes up for it. Iron Butterfly capitalizing on late 1960s psychedelia a la Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane: light show, extended playtime songs; plus some Pink Floydish effects. Experimentation with channel switching, long drum solo, mid-East tonal motif, churchy organ, fuzz tone and reverb on guitars, wah-wah pedal and probably more I can't hear. Multiple key changes, undulating switches to various moods; certainly fertile ground for "visualizations" by temporarily mentally altered listeners. Still enjoyable all these years later. Thanks for your insights and commentary ... and seeing you enjoy a classic. And don't forget to thank your Dad for the recommendation!
You nailed everything from the musical elements to the imagery to the 'sounds like'. And yes, definite Black Sabbath and Santana moments, and God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen.
Speaking of guitar riffs - Have you listened to "Layla" by Derek and the Dominos yet? Eric Clapton, Bobby Whitlock, Carl Radle, and Jim Gordon (with Duane Allman of the Allman Brothers Band contributing outstanding guitar work on this track). Interesting back story with this song too.
You are the first reactor that I've seen react to this song. I've begged others to, but nada. Thank you! The guitar and drum solos in this song are amazing and should be played to every child ever born beginning in the womb. I'm so glad to see your reaction and appreciation! Edited: I always thought the part where the "elephant" comes in is symbolic of the snake tempting Eve. All of the lyrics could be the snake tempting Eve rather than Adam talking to Eve or a man talking to his "love". Maybe that's too spot on, but it's a way to look at it.
How about Deja Vu or Carry On by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young? That whole album is super-dee-duper.
Deja Vu album is a masterpiece. In my opinion one of the 10 greatest albums of all time.
1968. I was 16. Went to my first high school dance. They played this 17 minute version. Prior to that, I only heard the shorter versions that were allowed on the radio stations. So, I asked a girl named Meg to dance. The song kept going, and going, and after a bit, the other couples on the dance floor dropped out to rest. It was like a scene from one of those movies. Meg and I were the only ones out there. Made it through, but oh, what a memory. Thanks, Daniel. you took me back yet again! (And yes, I AM that old! lol) Oh yeah, we called it "the elephant," too.
The story goes that the tune was called " In the Garden of Eden" but they misunderstood what was being told to them and they recorded it as "In a Gadda Da Vida" Take it for what it's worth...
Lead singer was out partying all night and came to the session wasted. Kept slurring the name of the song. They liked it and changed the name of song.
If you like psychedelic and progressive you definitely need to check out Pink Floyd. Arguably the greatest band ever. Recommend Comfortably Numb (Pulse version) and studio version, and also Echoes part 1&2 from Live at Pompeii.
This is the version the radio DJ put on when he had to go to the bathroom or take a smoke...lol
Or "talk" to DJ groupies.
I'm coming to party late, sorry-but the guitar is being run thru a classic "fuzz box". The first ones were lime green and about the size of 2 cigarette pkgs stacked and gave the distortion to the guitar. Also there is a "wah-wah peddle" which gives the ....wah, wah sound. Classic electronics for psychedelic rock era. Thanks Daniel for listening to the sound of my youth with me!!
When I was in grade school and learning to play drums, everyone was impressed by anyone who could play this drum solo. Actually, it's very easy to play, but what made the drum solo great is that it sustained a rhythm, it was melodic and had hooks that developed over time. It's still my favorite rock drum solo. It was groundbreaking in its time. A rite of passage.
"A ballad without words" You spot on nailed it!
I always thought that that weird animal screeching was the sound that Mothra made in the Godzilla movies. Go Mothra!
Another great journey will be Moody Blues’ - “Nights in White Satin” !!
We've been going through the entire Days of Future Passed album.
Been a long time since I heard any version, but not even sure if or when I heard this one before. Got the same "aha" moments you did, "let nothing you dismay", and the elephant. Thanks.
The guitarist was only 17 years old when playing this.
I believe the different lengths of versions the song was for air play on the radio, my guess. I saw them play this for over 20 minutes live!
You have so much great music to listen to! Let us older rockers recommend songs! ENJOY!
They were supposed to play Woodstock, but couldn't get there without a helicopter. the producers were overwhelmed all ready, so Iron butterfly, joni Mitchell and several others never made it.
I never knew that about Woodstock, so cool.
Excellent review, Daniel! (Many months later. Lol) Your joy and appreciation of great music always impresses me. I love your patience, and how you savor every moment. That is a rare virtue nowadays. You have great taste, and exceptional insight. You're getting quite the education with your channel. Too bad you can get college credit. ;) You have tought me so much. Thank you for that!
One does not pause the 17 minute version of this song! :)
Amen
My young friend, Congratulations, you have now joined every teenager with a guitar from the last 50 years. I MUST learn this riff!! I LOVE it!
There's a live version of this 17 minute song here on TH-cam. This is one of the first albums I ever bought when I was a young teen. The drum solo alone is what drew me into the song in the first place. I have this in my private YT playlist so I can easily access it when I want to go back to a simpler, more civil time in my world. Thanks, Daniel. And here's a link to the live video:
th-cam.com/video/UIVe-rZBcm4/w-d-xo.html
(Yes, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen is definitely in there! :) EDIT: And Yes, I've always heard elephants, too!
Hi, Daniel! Enjoyed listening with you again. Returned after listening with you my first time, because your observations and insights were thoughtful, interesting, & I wanted to repeat the experience. Good stuff! Yeah, Iron Butterfly pulled off a great one with this arrangement. Reportedly, it was just at first a simple song that Organist, Vocalist, & Songwriter, Doug Ingle, had written, whose arrangement evolved over numerous engagement performances, with the band continually incorporating new ideas. When the band went into the recording studio to put the song to tape, the producer hadn't arrived yet. So, the recording engineer suggested that the band do some playing, for checking sound levels. The engineer started recording, the band started playing the song, and the engineer left the recording studio. The band was fresh, all alone, in a relaxed warm-up frame of mind, spontaneously playing a well-developed arrangement which each band member knew like the back of their hand. By the time the producer arrived, and the recording engineer returned, the band had performed the entire composition. The band's "Sound Check" was so good, that it became the "Master Take" released, which you heard! The band's record label was now in a quandary; what to do with a 17 minute recording? After much discussion, the label took a chance and had the entire 17 minute recording of In A Gadda Da Vida fill up Side 2 of the band's new 2nd album of the same title. The label's gamble paid off! International sales of Iron Butterfly's In A Gadda Da Vida album were so huge, the Atlantic label created a new award for the album's sales, The Platinum Record Award. Because the song's recording was so long, one radio Dee Jay first created his own edited short version, for airplay on his station. The Atlantic label also put out a radio-Dee-Jay-friendly edited short version, to further promote sales via radio airplay. Though radio airplay of shorter versions may have promoted the song some, there were many listeners who had only heard a short version, had heard all this hype about what a great piece it was, and who weren't aware of the 17 minute version, which is what all the accolades were about. As a result, many of those short-version-only listeners, thought the praises were much ado about nothing, and ridiculed the song. But time has settled the worth of this wonderful piece, and it's lovely to see new generations discovering it!
It's phoneticly sung. Like you said in your intro, it means in the garden of Eden. Guy's back in the day smoked fat ones listening to this!😝
Or pinners when the dry season hit.
Yellow Sunshine let you see the sounds.
LOL you're very first break I have to comment haven't really listened to the drums much I like to listen to them independently. Lol I can't help but think Just Wait!
Great song , high school days of my past so memories flooding back . Check out so some Steppinwolf Pusher , full version if you get a chance .
8 millions copies the first year and world wide more than 30 millions copies , one of the best drums performers i ever saw , and it was alive ,
It's always been my favorite drum solo. Very tribal. Kind of Ginger Baker-esque.
And that journey that it takes you on, best accompanied by some herb for sure.
In the garden of Eden.....In a dada Vida STONED
This came out the year I got out of the Navy, 1968.
That was a great time period for music. I was 15, exploring all the different kinds of music coming out, finding what appealed to me. There was truly something for everyone.
You can tell the organist was classically trained. I think Cream lifted their riff for Sunshine of Your Love from this intro. This was a high school classic! Sounds like dinosaurs in the middle, doesn’t it?
Notice how the drummer never gets a break.
People were definitely on a “ trip” when listening to this !
Pink Floyd is going to be a blast. 🎵🎙🎧
This is why it's called acid-rock
Altered state of consciousness
This was the first rock song, with a drum solo. But it is also made like a jazz piece, with solos and everything, even with an oriental twist. On top of that, these kids (guitarist is just 17!!) know their instruments!
As a freshman in college 1968 when this erupted, you can not imagine what an impact it had. The dorm room opposite ours faced married student housing, an enclave for grad students and new mothers, so of course at 1AM they felt it a must to share this distortion with them by placing their stereo speakers on the ledge outside their windows and blasting 'In A Godda Da Vida' to the world. I do not recall if they were expelled or not.
THOSE tom toms. Tribal! Tell me Phil was not listening the those drums as a 17 yr old. This influenced countless bands. Acid Rock at its prime. Trippy for sure.
Not only heavy metal but progressive rock were spawned. (great pick up on God Rest ye Merry Gentlemen) CLASSIC!
They were looking for a band name of complete opposites. Hence Iron Butterfly!
These guys played at my High School because apparently, the drummer went to our school, they had a light show old-style that looked like that album cover!
Just beamed into your channel, during the 1960's, radio stations only played the short versions. My generation was blown away when we heard to 17 minute version.
One must have day glow posters, black lights everywhere and a strobe light for the full effect.
👍
The keyboard player was the singer and his father was a preacher, I suspect the church sounding part was a homage to his father. I heard those same notes the first time I heard this in 1968.
The guitarist was 17 years old when this was recorded.
After this drum solo ( the best in my opinion), many bands tried to emulate with their own drummer solos.
Wah pedal it was.
There is a Simpson episode where Bart swaps out the church lady's organ music from some church song to "In-na-goda-da-vida".
Pretty funny!🤣
Regards!
As far as I can remember their first L.P. was called "Heavy" by Iron Butterfly. It was the first music that was self described (then) as "Heavy Metal" and that and all of that type of music followed these guys
3 minute version was for the singles' version, the 8 min version for the movie MANHUNTER(1986) the 17 minute version for the album. 1st of the long long drum solos.
I've made this comment before, elsewhere, about this record, and I'll say it here. (And I stand by it, because I was a kid in junior high school school when this record came out, so I was there.) Although there had been records before with drums solos, especially in jazz, this recording ignited the extended drum solo in rock concerts from here on out. I remember it started with this song in school, then extended to other songs by high school. The extended drum solo is now a staple of rock concerts, these ~55 years later, fueled originally by this 1968 recording. Heck! Even a year later, Ringo "had" to do a solo on "Abbey Road." In Jan. 1969, Chicago recorded an extended drum solo for their debut LP.
Iron Butterfly were one of the pioneers of heavy metal in the late sixties along with steppenwolf, Blue Cheer , Vanilla fudge and several other bands. eventually that sound would coalesce into What Black Sabbath would wind up doing
Great suggestion from Dad. But you absolutely could play guitar like this and I think Dad now needs to buy you a WahWah pedal.
I bought myself a digital pedal which has a bunch of settings, including wah, for like 85$ I think..
To play guitar like these guys, it has to be an obsession with you. They say that Jimi Hendrix carried a guitar everywhere he went...everywhere including the bathroom. They say he played it constantly.
Cool dad request.
If you are interested in a progressive lyrical whirlwind I suggest “supper’s ready” by Genesis.
One of the best songs ever!
Back in the days of vinyl records, this song took up the entire side of the album it was on.
When I was in high school in 68,69 and 70 almost every guy to play this drum solo on their textbooks or on their desk, and we did
Heavy Metal, 1969, pre Black Sabbath. Iron (heavy) Butterfly 🦋 The one section absolutely sounds like an elephant 🐘. Definitely a journey. What I really like is that the music takes you on a journey of your own interpretation. The Egyptian music takes you through time and the history of us all. Thank you, I've been a fan of this song since 1969 and have never tired of it.
When I was living in the dorm at college, I would often hear the opening organ notes blaring out at 3 a.m. from a guy's room down the hall and know I would not get any sleep for at least 17 minutes.
In high school I use to play drum solo using 2 architect scales on desk in drafting class. I know, weird but I was addicted to the song. The scales were beat oh don't ya know!
Santana "Soul Sacrifice" at Woodstock, the long version with full drum solos: th-cam.com/video/xBG6IaSQCpU/w-d-xo.html
No lyrics - it's just an instrumental.
Great reaction! this song was my introduction to Rock!, it was 1968 I was 6yrs old and my sister bought me this record as a birthday gift. The best thing about it was the Iron Butterfly formed in my hometown of San Diego Ca. I've heard this song live! so many times I've lost count. p.s. on side b of the 45, is a song so spooky, we used it as Halloween music
Do remember that Doug Ingles father was a church musican...
Another group in the sixties was Big Brother and the Holding Company featuring Janis Joplin. My brother was in Vietnam and brought the vinyl album home. These few years ushered in the psychedelic rock period including Black Sabbath, Ten Years After, Jimmy Hendrix and many more.
Not sure if anybody mentioned this but the story I heard was that lead singer Doug Ingle was so drunk when they recorded this that the song was suppose to be In The Garden Of Eden but came out as In a Gadda Da Vida. Side Note: The Simpsons do a very funny reference to this song in a great episode where Bart sells his soul to Milhouse.
I have heard this whole song on the radio in two different markets.
One also plays Alice's Restaurant at noon on Thanksgiving which is also 17 minutes.
You're ready now for Argent Hold Your Head Up and The Guess Who, No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature.
Classic DJ wants to pee and have a smoke song! You've got a great dad there!
42 years later...I'm reliving the first time i heard it through your ears, it's an honor, seriously! You make me proud Daniel!
BTW, for a great riff, check out Deep Purple Smoke on the Water.
I heard the Butterfly play this live at the Stampede Corral in Calgary, Canada on August 28, 1970.
Considered one of the greatest rock songs of that era !
Also featured in a Simpson episode where Bart swaps the church organist music with this piece "Wait a minute, this sounds like Rock and or Roll" "by I. Ron Butterfly"
There is a performance video that shows the boys doing their thing. Doug Ingalls - Keyboards and Vocals, Ron Bushy - Drums, Lee Dorman - Bass and Eric Brann - Guitar. It's pretty good and worth the time.
One thing not mentioned is the organist had a church music background. Hence why it sounds like that. I was about 10 when I first heard the song a few years after it came out. My old sisters boyfriend had the 8-track. It changed channels mid song!
Some other psychedelic bands to check out Blue Cheer, Jefferson Airplane, Blues Magoos, Vanilla Fudge, electric Prunes to name just a few.
Loved The Blues Magoos!
@@debrabrabenec3731 They were great! a little fun fact for you: guitarist, Mike Esposito, is in his 70's now and has been running a bicycle repair shop in upstate NY (Woodstock). He pretty much lives like a hermit and has for many decades.
The short 3 minute was because AM radio would not play songs longer than 2-3 minutes. Many songs you had to buy the album or just hear the cut up AM versions as FM had yet to come along. GFR-I'm your Captain, Doors-Light my Fire, Moody Blues-Nights in White Satin, Steppenwolf-Magic Carpet Ride, Tommy James-Crimson and Clover, Zeppelin-Whole Lotta Love and a whole bunch more had to chop their songs to get on radio. You are experiencing what 60's stereo tech sounds like on today's tech, that is why the sounds separate from back and forth so much, pretty awesome.