Yeah baby, share the love as loud as you can! I remember blasting this on my Dad's Zenith console stereo back in the 70's. I am so pumped having found this video tonight!
A few years ago i was in a bar with a friend. She had an app that let her control the Juke Box. She asked what song she should play. I suggested this song, so she played it. The reactions from the people in the bar was hilarious. Many didn't get it, but others were happy to hear it. Another experience, i stayed with a friend at Myrtle Beach. There was a nearby restaurant that had a good breakfast. She went to play the Juke Box and i told her to play In-A-Gadda- Da- Vida. This time most people got excited and talked about how long it had been since they heard this song. I think this song has a place in the hearts of those of us that are a certain age. I don't feel they got all the attention they deserved for their talent.
It's fantastic for so many reasons, first of all a rock tracks with a drum solo, and what a solo it is. Arranged like a jazz piece, funk bass and even a friendly greeting to oriental music. And then the title and how it came about.
I’m an old black granny. We all partied to this song back in the day! Had this on vinyl, then CD. Now listening on my boom and iPhone. Great rock will never die!
I'm an old white granny lol! I was only 8 when this was made. But I've loved it as long as I can remember. My oldest grandson and I would listen to all the "old style" rock. From Jimi to Deep Purple to tons of 80s stuff. Funny too, my fam is mixed so we're into everything! Rock on sister granny🤘🏼🌹
I'm 69 now, but I am 14 again when I hear this music. There is absolutely magic anywhere, anytime you want it. Love you , Boomers, and you younger folks, too.
I did that too! Laid on my bed in the dark, had a color wheel on the ceiling and headphones, so I could listen loud without disturbing my parents! They were cool with my music and me playing in a rock band! I listened to all of Grand Funk’s early albums too! Hendrix, Zeppelin, Deep Purple…. All the greats!
yeah this vid kind of captures what it was like in a dark ballroom surrounded by people with face paint that showed up under black light dancing away. glad i am old, don't see any new bands i like as much as these. well bruce dickinson is touring with the mandrake project. great but he is 65.
My ex was stationed in Vietnam. He was leaving the bar area when this song came on. He stayed to listen to it. His sleeping barracks were attacked and destroyed. He would not have lived nor would I have my children. Long Live rock and roll and thank you Iron Butterfly ❤
I am 79 and I never get tired of this masterpiece. No other band has ever come close too the beauty of this composition. It is a sacred song of Rock history. I hope they play it in the afterlife.
@rubengomez133 "In" your head? Not "on" suggests to me you may have experienced a disturbing psychosis brought on by a chemical compound inducing an adverse psychiatric reaction to psilocybin, a naturally occurring hallucinogen in certain types of fungus. This compound works by activating serotonin receptors in the brain most often in the prefrontal cortex. A region that regulates arousal and panic responses. I have a vague notion that these band members particularly the drummer may have ingested some form of this fungus. Ruben, you may have also done the same.
@@johannebernier3089 It is derived from; "In the Garden of Eden," the song was released by Iron Butterfly in 1968. Was almost 17 minutes long. Too long for it to get Radio play. Although some stations that were "alternative" would play it.
I’m 73 We lived in the time of love party and rock and roll Saw many concerts Wouldn’t change a thing Except it would be nice to be able to revisit this time Those of my age were so lucky to have lived when we did God bless all of us !!!
I will be 74 in Nov. Yes, that song takes me back to a time and place I miss as well. But rejoice in the fact that you were able to experience a time that many only dream of.
In 1968 I was doing my AIT after Basic Training in the Army at Ft. Leonard Wood, Missouri. We were in old WW2 barracks. Every night at 9pm the local radio station would play this masterpiece, the long version. We were on the second floor, 24 of us , and this song would rock us to sleep for 8 weeks. For quite some time after that I would need to play it on my 8 track so I could go to sleep. Geez that was a long time ago.
Only Doug Ingle is alive now of this version of the Iron Butterfly line-up. Ron Bushy died Aug 29th 2021, Lee Dorman died December 21, 2012 and Eric Braun was the first to depart us on July 25th, 2003. May God bless them all. Some of the greatest music ever created.
This song brings back a lot of memories for me , I seen them in concert a longgggggg time ago and they were fantastic !!! Boy , those were the days !!!!! ❤️
I'm 65 years old. I'll never forget playing this song in the bar, a guy come up to me in his 30s the song already been playing for about 7 or 8 minutes asking me how much longer this song is going to last. I told him about another 10 minutes he just shook his head and walked away. I don't know why but I thought it was hilarious..
76 y/o granny here who in her 30s sat at a drum set and for the heck of it tried to do the drum solo and got some of it right!! I was crying my eyes out just feeling the beat going through me. The only thing better than that to ever happen to me was to have my son play the guitar solos perfectly with his band. No I didn't play the drums that time. How I love this music. ❤❤❤💌
I’m a 71 year old great grandpa, I still love this song and the band. Always listening to it!!!!!!! I also still love playing the drum solo on my set of drums…….what great memories 😎🥁🎸😎
You’re in good company !! I’m also 71 and still love the memories that this song brings back. First time I ever saw them live was in 1970 at Garden State Arts Center in NJ.
I saw them in person in San Jose back in 1969. When they ended the concert with In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, everyone rushed the stage. I was close to the front for this song. A soul experience I'll never forget. Yeh, I'm old too...76 and I'm glad I was young during the 60's and 70's when some of the best music was going down...Beatles, Rolling Stones, Beach Boys, Moody Blues, et al. As Joe Walsh put it, "I'd rather be 20 in the 70's than 70 in the 20's."
Funny. When you think about it, our parents (I'm 72) despaired over that racket we called music, and we had a hard time even imagining being their age. And now we are grandparents. But . . . I let my kids listen to my LPs, I had a fair collection of Jethro Tull, Grand Funk, The Stones, Credence, the Grateful Dead, and quite a few others. They still really like Jethro Tull.
I was a junior in high school and was at that concert too. They picked up two girls and let them dance on stage when they played this song. My best friend and I were those girls.
Awesome, Vicky. Some good memories. Glad I grew up during that time. I have many record albums in frames in my music room. In-A-Gadda_Da Vita is one of them. @@vickyanderson1453
Grand Funk: Caught in the act, their greatest album, and for me best rockalbum ever. It was especially Eric Brann that made that typical guitar sound of I.B . Other guitarists where not so good. @@theeddorian
First album I ever bought. Would lay in bed listening with my headphones every night . My room was lit with black lights and walls covered with psychedelic posters .
Love this song ... i thought by now it would be like a classic but seems nobody knows it.. im old. This song represents a period that no one will ever be able to put down with a pencil and paper.
My local (small town) radio station would play this track (full version) every Friday night at 11pm on the dot. This was the early 90s. It takes me back to a better time - decades after it was released. That's the staying power of a damn good song
2023’……..34 years old and I blast this through every speaker I can find!!! Was that “In the garden of Eden?” Sir!? Fuck it, “In a gadda da vida” 😂 just rolls off the tongue better anyways!!! Love it!! Rock and fucking Roll!
Yes, the 60’s And 70’s were a great time for young people, but it was a horrible time for so so many young men and women right out of high school who were forced to go to a jungle country so far away and who lost theirs lives every single day. A war that the U.S. called a “police action”. Doesn’t matter what the Government called it , we still lost so many young lives, And , we lost that “Police Action “ in Viet Nam .😢
I bought this Vinyl LP Album in 1984 and still have it. It's Sacred. 55 years have passed since Iron Butterfly produced this Masterpiece and still beats all the Crappy Music we have to put up with today. Long Live 60's Psychedelic Music!
Why can't people appreciate the soundtracks to their lives without denigrating the music that younger generations adopt to accompany theirs? If you don't like newer music, it's probably because it wasn't created for you.
I bought it when it came out and still have it. There was a lot of crap back then too, but this one sprang out of it, which is why we remember it. Doug Ingle has now died, so it's all over now. We still have the records to listen to though!
The year was 1968. I was 15 and 1/2. There I was in a semi-dark room, where we were all sitting or reclining on the floor ---- laying back on huge embroidered and tasseled pillows. The doorway had a beaded curtain. Tapestries hung on the walls. There was incense burning and several lit sand candles, atop low tables. I was smoking pot for my very first time, with the older kids. This song was playing. It doesn't get any cooler than that.
Jerome Arizona. I experienced the same. About 1970 summer or so,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,flower power, hippie chicks, weed,,,,I was in, Heaven?
My brother knew these guys. I used to listen to them practice in a garage on Gaffey street in San Pedro Ca. They had a black van with yes, an Iron butterfly on it.
Only 63 years old..all the older kids had this album..we used to listen to it via older kids bedroom windows..back when a caniving early teen could pull that stunt off...we never really understood what we were listening too..since we were just " AM RADIO" kids..we understood it was important....when you go from the " Archie's " singing " Sugar Sugar" on " AM RADIO" to the Iron Butterfly on " FM RADIO" ..during the " "Marchoni Experiment " in Philadelphia..93.3 Philadelphia..there is no summarization...fill in the blocks..I just happened to be there by accident..I was just a kid
I turned 113 years young last month, and every time i hear this song it brings back memories of a time when except for one liquor store guy once, I never lied to anybody about how old I was.
That’s the most decent thing I’ve heard which is to tell the truth about one’s age. If you’re a 113 years old, Keep Rocking my Friend!!! When the Doors performed the song, “When The Music Is Over” They sang,” The Music Is Your Only Friend.” Jim Morrison was right if you’re down and out turn to music and that applies to all genres, Jim was right. As I mentioned before…Keep On Rocking My Friend!!!
Well see, I was underage when that song was out, which is why I had to lie to the liquor store guy. I mean that plus I did have a sorority girl in my car who kept saying she wanted me to. A redhead. But I don't know, half the commenters here seemed to be competing to see who could be the oldest, and I thought gee, that liquor store incident was a long time ago, so maybe I'd just try again, sort of. But see, if you do the arithmetic, somebody who was underage in 1968 won't be 113 quite yet. Still kind of a dick move on my part, I guess. Nobody likes doing arithmetic after all. Including me. Sorry about that. :(
I was in the navy when this song came out. My favorite bar in Olongapo,Subic Bay had a band that played this just like the album. Those P.I. Bands would listen to an album and practice til it was down 100%. Loved when they played this. I was born in ‘51 so I saw the rise of great music and the decline of music into the shit they call music today.
When I was in Olongapo in 1968 with the Navy, I asked the band's bass player how they could learn these 'American' songs. He said that he had a friend in San Francisco who sent him albums. And speaking of Olongapo, I could go to one bar and hear Four Seasons music; another and hear the Beachboys; another and hear acid rock like the Dead, Jefferson Airplane, et al. The talent of those musicians in PI were amazing and I'm a musician myself.
Yeah, same here friend. Decline into the shit they call music today-- on the corporate delivery channels, that is. There is good independent music, but you have to seek it out.
For real! No **it! Did I just listen to an AD in the middle of THIS! I mean, I know I’m STONED. But this is getting FREAKING SCARY! Maybe I’d better ease up, take it easy, for a little while. I must be hallucinating or else having a bad trip. Has anyone got contact details for ADVERTISERS ANONYMOUS! If I go I promise to leave my gattling gun at home. I’ll try to understand all the AD PEOPLE there and help them know and correct the errors of their ways gently and with kindness. Honest Injun.
Erik Brann was a child prodigy, and had been studying the Violin throughout his childhood. However, he was into Rock and wanted to explore the possibilities of the electric guitar. Well, that was a success, and he joined Iron Butterfly at 17 years old. This was certainly an exciting time for Erik, but he had a rather serious secret. He had a serious congenital heart condition, dying too young at age 52. A truly gifted person who fell in love with Rock 'N- Roll. Thank you Mr. Brann!!❤
I have a cousin that played the drums & he would play that drum instrumental just like what is in the song & this was in 1971 when his family was visiting for Christmas from another state!!
My older brother was a DJ in the local radio station when I was in my teens, (born 1960) he introduced me to all the music from 1960's on. Miss my bro. God blessed him in music and the arts.🎉❤
When my brother returned home from Vietnam July 1969 he had this vinyl album with him. It was probably the first time I really listened to Iron Butterfly. In 2023 I still have his album even though he has long departed . Many memories of days gone by listening to this.
I am playing this for my Fifteen year old Grandson who lives in Hawaii! I wanted him to hear what is 78 year old grandmother played and loved years ago and still do! Love love this!!♥️
I know most here know this, but, for those that don’t know, the name of this song is what it is because the singer was ‘lit’ and couldn’t say the words. “In the Garden of Eden”. The band members thought it was funny so they left it as it is.
One of the greatest anthems of a generation. A senior brought a small record player into a study class in high school and played this. Hooked me instantly !!! Pretty good for 1968. Luckily the teacher was fresh outta college and only a few years older than us. Pretty good for a small town in New England.................................
Maybe in Rock, but when I started listening to jazz, oh my! By 1975 I had left rock, as it became too much about being a show. But I agree about this song being a classic.
I saw this drum solo live in 68 in a small club and danced to the whole song. Pulsating colors on the walls, strobe and black lights ( predates Laser shows). I will say I think the long drum solo by Robert Palmer in an ASIA Omega tour concert ranks up there.
This song was revolutionary because most songs before it were designed for radio play and were about 3 minutes long. This started a trend for bands to put “epic” songs as the last song on their albums. A perfect example is Grand Funk. All of their albums always had a long song on their albums and became a signature for many bands.
This was a radio dj favorite. The famous bathroom break for dj LOL. Great band often lost to time but not by us who were lucky to experience them in their Prime. Also for Nam vets often played to count your days down to zero. Still love the drums to this day.
Saw them in Tampa and this was the only song they played that I liked. Of course we were quite wasted,everyone was in those days. I still have this song on my phone and play it all the time.
Knowing this song will go down in history as one of the greatest rock songs , there is not hardly anyone who can not remember this,,,it was great and haunting but beautiful and had a drive to it that would drive you crazy 🥰🙃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃
I was trekking in Nepal in Annapurna Region in 1994. I woke early one day to a festival starting up, and heard distant drumming, that I swear sounded very much like this beautiful piece. Da da da da dum dum- dum dum fantastic.
I'm 75 now, but back in the day every party you went to would eventually have this playing on the stereo or someone's record player. I remember in the 90's my 14 year old son and I went into a record store so that he could buy this and another album. An older gentleman was waiting at the counter as well and when he looked down at my son's albums he smiled and told him "good choice".
I didn't mention that I named my daughter DAVIDA (after her dad David) and I got so tired of friends asking me if her first name was "In A Gadda". Sigh.
Jefferson Airplane, and others.......Tho A whiter shade of pale was a theme.....We also had status quo, and other groups covering the gaps with psycodelic stuff
Crazy times, yes. But way more optimistic than now. We were full of hope for a better world, and we were close. Then came Reagan, and ow here we are, with a govt that is essentially non-functioning , hatred reigns Supreme and the top contender fir office is a thug who has been indicted on 91 charges. Who woukd have thought???. So depressing
Awesome song, I blast it whenever I hear it on the radio! Back when bands made real music! I am so grateful that I grew up with this music! I just love the beat of this song!!!!!
I'm 72 in 2024. When I was a freshman and DJ at my college radio station (WIIT Chicago), I played this tune for my 'bathroom breaks'! [P.S. it's a travesty tha YT throws ads into these songs - waaaaaaaah!]
@@keithwatson6963this drum solo is more elegant and suave than anything Bonham has ever done… being technically better doesn’t translate into better drum solos
Drank a whole lot of codeine, infused, cough syrup, lay down in a very comfortable beanbag chair in a dark room and enjoy this song over and over and over. I hated to be the guy who had to get up and started. Occasionally someone would say they wanted to listen to something else, but they really didn’t. Best rock song ever!😅
Loved this song back in the day! This was my wedding song, I danced the whole 17 minutes in my wedding dress with a hoop and long train. Hubby wore his black jeans and tux jacket. That was almost 26 years ago!
I'm 66 also, and I wish I could go back to that time period, LIFE WAS SIMPLE, no damn internet and phones. Just friends and family. I was young and it was fun!
All these years and I can still listen to this one hit wonder. But what a masterpiece n 17:00 + of it. This wasn't your pop Beatles n Elvis Presely music. This was psychedelic n hard Rock n roll. A new era n direction in music.
As far as I'm concerned, this song is the epitome- the apex of all psychedelic music!! There is no better song, and the drum solo is the very best melodic type of solo. While there may be other drum solos that may have more technical flair, NOBODY ever did a better drum solo! As a 12 year old, beginning drummer in 1967, I worked hard for 3 years to learn it!!I'd liked to have seen Neal Peart of Rush, or John Bonham of Led Zeppelin do the song. I love it!
This song as it appears on the album is a 4 piece live recording, meaning that it was recorded in one take, with the exception of the addition of the "Butterfly Screams" as overdubs.
Such a great song. In - A- Gadda - Da - Vida , a part of my life ! I listen this song more than 1000 times....now I am 64 and tomorrow I will listen again.....
Hello they are not a bad tool. But the 70s rock was electric guitar at its finest. You can't compare that. They can't do that anymore today.@@yvettenoland5500
Iron butterfly was just before my generation. Well my brother is 71 I’m 65. This was his stuff. When I was a young teen it was bto Chicago bread. America and others but not long after was classic rock. More in my mid teens. I love the old stuff. My brother listened to Beatles. It’s a wonderful day Jethro Tull, Joe Walsh he introduced me to all of the older stuff, whereas I was listening to stuff about six or seven years later at his age, and it changed a lot. I remember listening to Rolling Stones even in the early 70s at my friends house and I thought it was fantastic. Her brother had all these records.
That's great! For this video I used a vinyl rip, but it's the remastered record from 2020. That warm vinyl sound seems appropriate for these old tracks
My friends and i would hitch hike down the mountain to the Swing Auditorium to see these guys ( with the rest of the incredible bands) back in the day. At least 8 times. Why i became a Drummer! 🌲🌲 🌲🌲 🎼🎼
I remember this song, with full bass, strobe lights, and black lights. My date wearing dark green crushed velvet bell-bottoms and when weed was sold in "lids." And each musician in a band got a solo to show what they got! When I was 13... good times.
My dad was a WW2 vet and a pretty staunch conservative. Back in my hippie days I came in and here he is in the living with the stereo cranked up and listening to my Iron Butterfly Album.....he loved this song and the drum solo.....
What a joke. 8 year olds used to bang that "drum solo" out on tables. Buddy Rich farted out better solos. Your opinions will mature and change once you finally hit puberty.@@osakarose5612
No one had done anything like this before and no one did afterwards. Supernatural, just like an alien had come to Earth to give this tune to these guys. It's all bass and drums, with some keyboards, guitar is of minimal relvance, really uncommon in classic rock music. Half a century inside my brain and never tired of listening to it.
The day METAL was born...and noone ever seem to recognize it...DAMN!! I LOVE that piece of music (and have an original Vinyl pressed record in my stack)...one MASTERPIECE of modern Music!!!
68 was an insane time to be alive the war the draft the riots Bobby Kennedy killed Martin Luther king also killed. I was just graduated from high school and my loser friends and I volunteered for the draft. Buddy system! We were not the sharpest tools in the shed! But always loved this song ICONIC!!
Absolutely love that Hammond organ sound, and that guitar work sounds like a prehistoric monster calling. The transition from one instrument to another is magical.
This song brings back a lot of memories of my teen years, how I survived it, I do not know. Then here I sit over 50 yrs later, listenng to this tune, and almost every note is ingraned into my memory of it. Buddy got reprimanded for doing the drum solo on a railing in the courtroom one day, judge wasn`t too impressed.
I love this song whenever I hear it I think of my father who’s been gone for decades this was one of his favorite songs whenever it come on the radio he would always call my brother and I into the room and we were just dance to the music it is one of the best times I have with my father thank you 😊
I remember the first time I heard it on the radio, and it was the short 'commercial' version. I guess the station I listened to caught wind of the long version and one day they said they were going to play it that evening at a certain time. I was ready. Laying on my bed in the dark with the door closed. It came on and I was blown away. My room was vibrating, and my parents probably thought they lost me!
I saw this wonderful band play "live' at Kessler AFB in Biloxi, Mississippi in about January 1, 1968, this song was popular on all the radio stations at that time. Great memories.
I used to jam with a few of the guys in the 802nd Airforce band at Kessler back in 68. Had friends who went to that concert, but unfortunately I missed it. I was kind of a jazz/classical snob in high school.
A crazy memories of that event, I was a soldier at Kessler AFB and a few days before that show our unit had an assembly and our commander announced that he had twenty tickets to the New Years Day Sugar bowl donated to the soldiers at the base by one of the schools team that was in that years Sugar Bowl, so we had a drawing for the tickets. I won a ticket to the Sugar Bowl, but I had not signed up for a weekend pass and the Captain had already left for the weekend. I had a ticket but not pass to leave the base to go to New Orleans, so I returned to the barracks disappointed, later a person came by that knew of my problem and offered to buy the ticket, I sold it for $20. which was a lot since our pay was $55. a month, as he left he said there was a rock n roll band playing at the auditorium on New Years day I could see since I could not leave the base, the band was Iron Butterfly, they played many hours , a great show. Strange how memories happen.@@thinkingoutloud6741
Keyboardist-lead singer-leader of the band had such a distinctive voice. I still remember the explanation for the band's name on the back cover of the album: "Iron is heavy, butter fly is light and elusive." The lead guitar player was the young comer superstar. The drum solo is among the best ever recorded. Required of every rock drummer ever. We were in HS when the album came out. We listened to it hundreds of times. That over 50 years ago.
I remember when everybody in my high school was playing this drum solo on anything available, I saw them live in 1968 and thought they were the greatest ever !
Whenever I listen to In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, so do my neighbors.
Yeah baby, share the love as loud as you can! I remember blasting this on my Dad's Zenith console stereo back in the 70's. I am so pumped having found this video tonight!
Lucky neighbors! This was the first album I ever bought! Nearly wore it out! ☮️🌺🌼🌸🌼🌺🌸
😂 Epic
Mine are about to
Spread the love.
RIP founder and lead singer Douglas Ingle. Died 5/24/24 at age 78. Wrote this masterpiece of psychedelia. Thanks for the music.
First rock concert I ever went to. Pasadena CA , 1969. 10th grade. An experience, to say the least.
Heavypsych!
I think he was 78
No 😢 I can’t take too much more. 😭😭😭
I saw them in SLC when I was 19. It seems like just yesterday I'm 74 now. I feel so fortunate to have lived a life in such amazing times.
Saw them with my parents when I was 9 and still have the album. I'm 64 and had cool parents. Lol.
Yeah man! Seen a lot of concerts but I missed them, would have been so cool 😎
A few years ago i was in a bar with a friend. She had an app that let her control the Juke Box. She asked what song she should play. I suggested this song, so she played it. The reactions from the people in the bar was hilarious. Many didn't get it, but others were happy to hear it. Another experience, i stayed with a friend at Myrtle Beach. There was a nearby restaurant that had a good breakfast. She went to play the Juke Box and i told her to play In-A-Gadda- Da- Vida. This time most people got excited and talked about how long it had been since they heard this song. I think this song has a place in the hearts of those of us that are a certain age. I don't feel they got all the attention they deserved for their talent.
Been tripping on this for a very long time.
It's fantastic for so many reasons, first of all a rock tracks with a drum solo, and what a solo it is. Arranged like a jazz piece, funk bass and even a friendly greeting to oriental music. And then the title and how it came about.
In the Garden of Eden!
Classic Rock, one of the best for its time.
Of course you did, Billy bullshitter is your name
Loving it at 43 🙂
I’m an old black granny. We all partied to this song back in the day! Had this on vinyl, then CD. Now listening on my boom and iPhone. Great rock will never die!
Совершенно согласен!!!
I'm an old white granny lol! I was only 8 when this was made. But I've loved it as long as I can remember. My oldest grandson and I would listen to all the "old style" rock. From Jimi to Deep Purple to tons of 80s stuff. Funny too, my fam is mixed so we're into everything! Rock on sister granny🤘🏼🌹
Good for you and all other Grannies 👏👏
Forever Young 🇦🇺
And Valorie wins the best comment award!
I'm 69 now, but I am 14 again when I hear this music. There is absolutely magic anywhere, anytime you want it. Love you , Boomers, and you younger folks, too.
i started to hear this song in the 1980s but it hasnt ended yet
Love you too
My 72 year old body is in my 15 year old bedroom with headphones staring at the ceiling right now. Great time to be alive.
Volume at full blast of course!
I did that too! Laid on my bed in the dark, had a color wheel on the ceiling and headphones, so I could listen loud without disturbing my parents! They were cool with my music and me playing in a rock band! I listened to all of Grand Funk’s early albums too! Hendrix, Zeppelin, Deep Purple…. All the greats!
Remember, with the headphones on, the sound rolling left to right through your head, you’d feel high just listening to this.
Just turned 80 today and this song is still knocking them down
yeah this vid kind of captures what it was like in a dark ballroom surrounded by people with face paint that showed up under black light dancing away. glad i am old, don't see any new bands i like as much as these. well bruce dickinson is touring with the mandrake project. great but he is 65.
My ex was stationed in Vietnam. He was leaving the bar area when this song came on. He stayed to listen to it. His sleeping barracks were attacked and destroyed. He would not have lived nor would I have my children. Long Live rock and roll and thank you Iron Butterfly ❤
AMEN!!!Praise God!
you would have other children likely
stupid crap junk
Thank fore service sir xm
Thanks for the service
I love being old ..all this fantastic music we got to listen to..been a great musical ride ..
BEST COMMENT EVER!
Yessir....you had to be there we'll never experience this again.
Awesomely said....😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
I am 79 and I never get tired of this masterpiece. No other band has ever come close too the beauty of this composition. It is a sacred song of Rock history. I hope they play it in the afterlife.
Mushrooms at his best! delicious...but not nutritious! no hair left in my head nowadays!
@rubengomez133 "In" your head? Not "on" suggests to me you may have experienced a disturbing psychosis brought on by a chemical compound inducing an adverse psychiatric reaction to psilocybin, a naturally occurring hallucinogen in certain types of fungus. This compound works by activating serotonin receptors in the brain most often in the prefrontal cortex. A region that regulates arousal and panic responses. I have a vague notion that these band members particularly the drummer may have ingested some form of this fungus. Ruben, you may have also done the same.
What is a Gadda da Vida ? Im French.
@@johannebernier3089 It is derived from; "In the Garden of Eden," the song was released by Iron Butterfly in 1968. Was almost 17 minutes long. Too long for it to get Radio play. Although some stations that were "alternative" would play it.
The wild years - that’s all I can say. Thrilling!
I’m 73
We lived in the time of love party and rock and roll
Saw many concerts
Wouldn’t change a thing
Except it would be nice to be able to revisit this time
Those of my age were so lucky to have lived when we did
God bless all of us !!!
Right on Dude! ✌️☮️
AMIN.
Cool 🤘🏽
Well said
He already has ... He made us witnesses of a Unbelievably Magical Time.
LOVE, MUSIC, and Fantastic Friends...
I'm 74 and still love this after so many years. Those drums take me back to a place and time I miss.
I do share same feeelings like you
I am also 74..this album totally grab my mind from the first time I listen to it..and it probaly will remain so until my daying day..
Same here mate
I will be 74 in Nov. Yes, that song takes me back to a time and place I miss as well. But rejoice in the fact that you were able to experience a time that many only dream of.
Solo de batería sencillo…
hello !! ....this was THE Acid-song....it never gets old....
72y-old-Hippie-and-Yogi from Austria....Love, Peace-&-Happiness ☮~el~🕉~mar~✝
I feel sorry for the youth of today with so few songs worth remembering as they get older.
Very true
In 1968 I was doing my AIT after Basic Training in the Army at Ft. Leonard Wood, Missouri. We were in old WW2 barracks. Every night at 9pm the local radio station would play this masterpiece, the long version. We were on the second floor, 24 of us , and this song would rock us to sleep for 8 weeks. For quite some time after that I would need to play it on my 8 track so I could go to sleep. Geez that was a long time ago.
Thanks for your service, fort dix listening to stairway to heaven😄🎧👍🏻
Only Doug Ingle is alive now of this version of the Iron Butterfly line-up. Ron Bushy died Aug 29th 2021, Lee Dorman died December 21, 2012 and Eric Braun was the first to depart us on July 25th, 2003. May God bless them all. Some of the greatest music ever created.
Didn't know that. Thanks for the info.
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God rest their souls. They brought us great music and entertainment.
Still have the original album . I used it to drive my parents nuts. Full volume.
This song brings back a lot of memories for me , I seen them in concert a longgggggg time ago and they were fantastic !!! Boy , those were the days !!!!! ❤️
Фигасе, сколько нас, стариков, любящих classic rock. Спасибо, что мы еще живы и слушаем такую музыку.
@sergeychernykh2571 Ни чО мы и не старички!...А эти "чертята"...слушают тоже самое,только в другой интерпретации!!!Мне всего лишь 53.С уважением!!!
TRUE ,classic rock...😊😊😊😊😊😊
I'm 65 years old. I'll never forget playing this song in the bar, a guy come up to me in his 30s the song already been playing for about 7 or 8 minutes asking me how much longer this song is going to last. I told him about another 10 minutes he just shook his head and walked away. I don't know why but I thought it was hilarious..
When music was still music ❤️🙏🏽
76 y/o granny here who in her 30s sat at a drum set and for the heck of it tried to do the drum solo and got some of it right!! I was crying my eyes out just feeling the beat going through me. The only thing better than that to ever happen to me was to have my son play the guitar solos perfectly with his band. No I didn't play the drums that time. How I love this music. ❤❤❤💌
We were so lucky to grow up with all these great bands. They all played fantastic new music that mesmerized us. The louder the better.
I’m a 71 year old great grandpa, I still love this song and the band. Always listening to it!!!!!!! I also still love playing the drum solo on my set of drums…….what great memories 😎🥁🎸😎
You’re in good company !! I’m also 71 and still love the memories that this song brings back. First time I ever saw them live was in 1970 at Garden State Arts Center in NJ.
71 here too! Love this stuff! @@nawoyskifamily8875
I saw them in person in San Jose back in 1969. When they ended the concert with In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, everyone rushed the stage. I was close to the front for this song. A soul experience I'll never forget. Yeh, I'm old too...76 and I'm glad I was young during the 60's and 70's when some of the best music was going down...Beatles, Rolling Stones, Beach Boys, Moody Blues, et al. As Joe Walsh put it, "I'd rather be 20 in the 70's than 70 in the 20's."
Funny you mention Joe Walsh's quote...Guess what???
Joe IS in his 70's and it IS the twenties!!!! hahaha
Funny. When you think about it, our parents (I'm 72) despaired over that racket we called music, and we had a hard time even imagining being their age. And now we are grandparents. But . . . I let my kids listen to my LPs, I had a fair collection of Jethro Tull, Grand Funk, The Stones, Credence, the Grateful Dead, and quite a few others. They still really like Jethro Tull.
I was a junior in high school and was at that concert too. They picked up two girls and let them dance on stage when they played this song. My best friend and I were those girls.
Awesome, Vicky. Some good memories. Glad I grew up during that time. I have many record albums in frames in my music room. In-A-Gadda_Da Vita is one of them. @@vickyanderson1453
Grand Funk: Caught in the act, their greatest album, and for me best rockalbum ever. It was especially Eric Brann that made that typical guitar sound of I.B . Other guitarists where not so good. @@theeddorian
This song defined what Psychedelic music was all about in the late 60’s absolutely groovy
A CLASSIC FROM THE 60’S. THE DRUM SOLO , HECK , THE WHOLE SONG IS A ROCK MASTERPIECE.
First album I ever bought. Would lay in bed listening with my headphones every night . My room was lit with black lights and walls covered with psychedelic posters .
You know the story behind the title of the song?????
@DHatch-wl8tl yes , and there's several variations in the comments.
I didn't have headphones. I put speakers on each side of my head and cranked it. I was around 8 to 10 years old.....
Oh you’re the one?
Same thing first album……and a big J
Love this song ... i thought by now it would be like a classic but seems nobody knows it.. im old. This song represents a period that no one will ever be able to put down with a pencil and paper.
My local (small town) radio station would play this track (full version) every Friday night at 11pm on the dot. This was the early 90s. It takes me back to a better time - decades after it was released. That's the staying power of a damn good song
Year 2023 and I'm still listening. They're genius making music in purest form🎉
2023’……..34 years old and I blast this through every speaker I can find!!! Was that “In the garden of Eden?” Sir!? Fuck it, “In a gadda da vida” 😂 just rolls off the tongue better anyways!!! Love it!! Rock and fucking Roll!
I Actually own the lp....Was into Iron BUTTERFLY back in the 70's.
@markdowney5505: Reportedly, "vida" is a word for "life", in Spanish.... In the garden of life...
16 yr old Eric Brann on lead guitar. Way ahead of the curve. The Origin of Psychedelic Rock.
He gets younger every time some millennial posts about him.
The the late 60's and 70's were a great time to be alive, the music was the best.
Yes, the 60’s And 70’s were a great time for young people, but it was a horrible time for so so many young men and women right out of high school who were forced to go to a jungle country so far away and who lost theirs lives every single day. A war that the U.S. called a “police action”. Doesn’t matter what the Government called it , we still lost so many young lives, And , we lost that “Police Action “ in Viet Nam .😢
I had the time of my life....love, peace and harmony
Allought of govt. big wigs got filthy rich { pres johnson for one } off that
" police action "
All about $$$$$$$$$$$$❗🎯💯🖕🏻 $
The 70s sucked muledick!
I bought this Vinyl LP Album in 1984 and still have it. It's Sacred. 55 years have passed since Iron Butterfly produced this Masterpiece and still beats all the Crappy Music we have to put up with today. Long Live 60's Psychedelic Music!
Why can't people appreciate the soundtracks to their lives without denigrating the music that younger generations adopt to accompany theirs? If you don't like newer music, it's probably because it wasn't created for you.
I bought it when it came out and still have it. There was a lot of crap back then too, but this one sprang out of it, which is why we remember it. Doug Ingle has now died, so it's all over now. We still have the records to listen to though!
The year was 1968. I was 15 and 1/2. There I was in a semi-dark room, where we were all sitting or reclining on the floor ---- laying back on huge embroidered and tasseled pillows. The doorway had a beaded curtain. Tapestries hung on the walls. There was incense burning and several lit sand candles, atop low tables. I was smoking pot for my very first time, with the older kids. This song was playing. It doesn't get any cooler than that.
Jerome Arizona. I experienced the same. About 1970 summer or so,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,flower power, hippie chicks, weed,,,,I was in, Heaven?
Truth!
Damn, that’s exactly how I was experiencing it.
It would have been if Jim Morrison and Hendrix, and the Beatles were their.....well you said it couldn't been cooler !!!!!!!
Interesting times weren't they
My brother knew these guys. I used to listen to them practice in a garage on Gaffey street in San Pedro Ca. They had a black van with yes, an Iron butterfly on it.
That's great!! Any more stories you can share? I was born late seventies, so the 60s are something I can only learn about second-hand
We're from Long Beach CA. Didn't know the band was local. Thanks for that info. Pretty cool for you. I well remember this song. We all had the record.
Doug learned organ on a big church organ. His solo expresses the heaven of our Vets who made it home and the glory of those who did not.
Only 63 years old..all the older kids had this album..we used to listen to it via older kids bedroom windows..back when a caniving early teen could pull that stunt off...we never really understood what we were listening too..since we were just " AM RADIO" kids..we understood it was important....when you go from the " Archie's " singing " Sugar Sugar" on " AM RADIO" to the Iron Butterfly on " FM RADIO" ..during the " "Marchoni Experiment " in Philadelphia..93.3 Philadelphia..there is no summarization...fill in the blocks..I just happened to be there by accident..I was just a kid
I turned 113 years young last month, and every time i hear this song it brings back memories of a time when except for one liquor store guy once, I never lied to anybody about how old I was.
That’s the most decent thing I’ve heard which is to tell the truth about one’s age. If you’re a 113 years old, Keep Rocking my Friend!!! When the Doors performed the song, “When The Music Is Over” They sang,” The Music Is Your Only Friend.” Jim Morrison was right if you’re down and out turn to music and that applies to all genres, Jim was right. As I mentioned before…Keep On Rocking My Friend!!!
Well see, I was underage when that song was out, which is why I had to lie to the liquor store guy. I mean that plus I did have a sorority girl in my car who kept saying she wanted me to. A redhead. But I don't know, half the commenters here seemed to be competing to see who could be the oldest, and I thought gee, that liquor store incident was a long time ago, so maybe I'd just try again, sort of. But see, if you do the arithmetic, somebody who was underage in 1968 won't be 113 quite yet. Still kind of a dick move on my part, I guess. Nobody likes doing arithmetic after all. Including me. Sorry about that. :(
I'll bet your ID said you were born in 1928. Rock ON brother. The only thing better than this, Is JESUS!
Lol, I was wondering why (and how) a 113yr old would be commenting on a psychedelic rock video
@@scotennis609Jesus is my gardener and mows my lawn every Thursday
I will never part with my album...it is a piece of my soul! God, I love this! Still..at 75.
i have the album on vinyl, CD, and 8 track
Me too!
Although I no longer have a player, I have this on reel-to-reel tape.
LOL... the 8-track would click over during the drum solo.@@guyconnolly6926
Yes, I understand you, same for me with 71 years 🌠
I was in the navy when this song came out. My favorite bar in Olongapo,Subic Bay had a band that played this just like the album. Those P.I. Bands would listen to an album and practice til it was down 100%. Loved when they played this. I was born in ‘51 so I saw the rise of great music and the decline of music into the shit they call music today.
Same with the bands in Okinawa in ‘68-‘70. Listening to this now is the first time sober.❤
When I was in Olongapo in 1968 with the Navy, I asked the band's bass player how they could learn these 'American' songs. He said that he had a friend in San Francisco who sent him albums. And speaking of Olongapo, I could go to one bar and hear Four Seasons music; another and hear the Beachboys; another and hear acid rock like the Dead, Jefferson Airplane, et al. The talent of those musicians in PI were amazing and I'm a musician myself.
You got a problem with autotuned bimbos in their underwear that can't play any instruments? I think you're asking for too much.
Yeah, same here friend. Decline into the shit they call music today-- on the corporate delivery channels, that is. There is good independent music, but you have to seek it out.
For real! No **it! Did I just listen to an AD in the middle of THIS! I mean, I know I’m STONED. But this is getting FREAKING SCARY! Maybe I’d better ease up, take it easy, for a little while. I must be hallucinating or else having a bad trip. Has anyone got contact details for ADVERTISERS ANONYMOUS! If I go I promise to leave my gattling gun at home. I’ll try to understand all the AD PEOPLE there and help them know and correct the errors of their ways gently and with kindness. Honest Injun.
Erik Brann was a child prodigy, and had been studying the Violin throughout his childhood. However, he was into Rock and wanted to explore the possibilities of the electric guitar. Well, that was a success, and he joined Iron Butterfly at 17 years old. This was certainly an exciting time for Erik, but he had a rather serious secret. He had a serious congenital heart condition, dying too young at age 52. A truly gifted person who fell in love with Rock 'N- Roll. Thank you Mr. Brann!!❤
I'm 71 and still think it's the greatest rock song of all time. Just my opinion.
Ho 71 anni,adoro questa musica ballabile e inarrivabile al giorno d'oggi ❤
My grandson can play this just like them on his drums. I told him when i die he has to play this at my funeral.
I have a cousin that played the drums & he would play that drum instrumental just like what is in the song & this was in 1971 when his family was visiting for Christmas from another state!!
😢❤🎉 felicidades ✌️👽🤟🎸🎸🎸🎸
Taylor Kramer RIP
I can play it on my steering wheel,,,,
My older brother was a DJ in the local radio station when I was in my teens, (born 1960) he introduced me to all the music from 1960's on. Miss my bro. God blessed him in music and the arts.🎉❤
When my brother returned home from Vietnam July 1969 he had this vinyl album with him. It was probably the first time I really listened to Iron Butterfly. In 2023 I still have his album even though he has long departed . Many memories of days gone by listening to this.
Good story of your brother coming home from Vietnam with this album. We all needed this on our collective
❤️
I’m sure that lp is precious to you!
Is your brother still with us? He wasn't affected by Agent Orange, was he?
I hope your proud of your brother and the sacrifice he made for our country...too many Vietnam vets are passing on now.
I am playing this for my Fifteen year old Grandson who lives in Hawaii! I wanted him to hear what is 78 year old grandmother played and loved years ago and still do! Love love this!!♥️
I know most here know this, but, for those that don’t know, the name of this song is what it is because the singer was ‘lit’ and couldn’t say the words. “In the Garden of Eden”. The band members thought it was funny so they left it as it is.
I get lit and blast it
Absolutely true.
I did not know this. That's hilarious 😂
Interesting, I did not know this fun fact, thanks ✌
The best and most original drum solo ever!
One of the greatest anthems of a generation. A senior brought a small record player into a study class in high school and played this. Hooked me instantly !!! Pretty good for 1968. Luckily the teacher was fresh outta college and only a few years older than us. Pretty good for a small town in New England.................................
How many of us played that drum solo on a lunch table?
Maybe in Rock, but when I started listening to jazz, oh my! By 1975 I had left rock, as it became too much about being a show. But I agree about this song being a classic.
I saw this drum solo live in 68 in a small club and danced to the whole song. Pulsating colors on the walls, strobe and black lights ( predates Laser shows). I will say I think the long drum solo by Robert Palmer in an ASIA Omega tour concert ranks up there.
I did when I was 15 and still am at 70. Nowhere as good, but good enough to annoy my wife.
This song was revolutionary because most songs before it were designed for radio play and were about 3 minutes long. This started a trend for bands to put “epic” songs as the last song on their albums. A perfect example is Grand Funk. All of their albums always had a long song on their albums and became a signature for many bands.
This was a radio dj favorite. The famous bathroom break for dj LOL. Great band often lost to time but not by us who were lucky to experience them in their Prime. Also for Nam vets often played to count your days down to zero. Still love the drums to this day.
That’s how I remember it too,
Lite my fire. Doors.
FM was getting going in my area and late at night the cool DJs would play the whole thing. And other long cuts.
@@brianhanley1903 Hendrix Purple Haze, CCR Who'll Stop the Rain, Cream White Room. Those became anthems!!!
Saw them in Tampa and this was the only song they played that I liked. Of course we were quite wasted,everyone was in those days. I still have this song on my phone and play it all the time.
Me too…
Knowing this song will go down in history as one of the greatest rock songs , there is not hardly anyone who can not remember this,,,it was great and haunting but beautiful and had a drive to it that would drive you crazy 🥰🙃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃
This song is the essence of a generation, style, music, fashion, revolution.
Absolute masterpiece, the drum solo is amazing. Seventeen minutes of applause 👍👏👏👏every day since 1968!
whole album was 17 minutes 4 seconds.......but the radio's cut out the drum solo....just added a bit.
I was trekking in Nepal in Annapurna Region in 1994. I woke early one day to a festival starting up, and heard distant drumming, that I swear sounded very much like this beautiful piece. Da da da da dum dum- dum dum fantastic.
I haven't heard this song for a long time nice to hear it again I am 70years old time flies
I'm 75 now, but back in the day every party you went to would eventually have this playing on the stereo or someone's record player. I remember in the 90's my 14 year old son and I went into a record store so that he could buy this and another album. An older gentleman was waiting at the counter as well and when he looked down at my son's albums he smiled and told him "good choice".
Beautiful priceless memory
I didn't mention that I named my daughter DAVIDA (after her dad David) and I got so tired of friends asking me if her first name was "In A Gadda". Sigh.
The epitome of psychedelia, 1968. Vietnam raging, riots, demonstrations, acid-tripping, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison...crazy times.
Jefferson Airplane, and others.......Tho A whiter shade of pale was a theme.....We also had status quo, and other groups covering the gaps with psycodelic stuff
And fast cars. Somehow I survived it all. Lost some friends to the war and drugs.😕 If I knew then what I know now.
I miss those days
Crazy times, yes. But way more optimistic than now. We were full of hope for a better world, and we were close. Then came Reagan, and ow here we are, with a govt that is essentially non-functioning , hatred reigns Supreme and the top contender fir office is a thug who has been indicted on 91 charges. Who woukd have thought???. So depressing
The best of times, the worst of times. Epic times.
We just played this at my father's funeral. Seriously.
Man, I'm sorry to hear; he must have been a unique person. Leave some stories here if you'd like.
It’s an Honor to be a hard core Rocker ❤
Really strange if you know what the songs about. This song was originally called "In the garden of Eden"
Awesome song, I blast it whenever I hear it on the radio! Back when bands made real music! I am so grateful that I grew up with this music! I just love the beat of this song!!!!!
I'm 55 and this is one of the all time best songs ever
There was a reason this sold as many records as it did.
It's a great piece of music.
I’m a sixties musician ! I’ve been playing for over fifty years! This is my favorite kind of music 🎶 Morris Lee Wilson
I'm 72 in 2024. When I was a freshman and DJ at my college radio station (WIIT Chicago), I played this tune for my 'bathroom breaks'! [P.S. it's a travesty tha YT throws ads into these songs - waaaaaaaah!]
Agreed. I wish I could do something about those adverts.
The best rock drum solo ever! Not the most difficult, just the best.
John Bonham from led Zeppelin.
@@keithwatson6963this drum solo is more elegant and suave than anything Bonham has ever done… being technically better doesn’t translate into better drum solos
Drank a whole lot of codeine, infused, cough syrup, lay down in a very comfortable beanbag chair in a dark room and enjoy this song over and over and over. I hated to be the guy who had to get up and started. Occasionally someone would say they wanted to listen to something else, but they really didn’t. Best rock song ever!😅
Loved this song back in the day! This was my wedding song, I danced the whole 17 minutes in my wedding dress with a hoop and long train. Hubby wore his black jeans and tux jacket. That was almost 26 years ago!
If this is true, that is amazing 😀
It's true!!!!
I still dance to this song when it comes on.
@@teresajohnson5135 Me too.. I'm gonna throw a hip one day ;-)
I have already replaced both knees and left hip. Still dancing!
Turned me on at 14 . 66 now and there is no off switch ! ROCK WILL NEVER DIE! Thanks for sharing
I hope you’re right.
Yeah 64 grew up fast , can't take the days away from those who lived it 🇦🇺
I'm 66 also, and I wish I could go back to that time period, LIFE WAS SIMPLE, no damn internet and phones. Just friends and family. I was young and it was fun!
66 and love this!
Almost 69 and I’m with you guys all the way
All these years and I can still listen to this one hit wonder. But what a masterpiece n 17:00 + of it. This wasn't your pop Beatles n Elvis Presely music. This was psychedelic n hard Rock n roll. A new era n direction in music.
I wanted to add that this was the BEST drum solo I ever heard to this day !!!!
Yes this music takes me back to such great places wish we all could go back ❤
Oh man, me too!
As far as I'm concerned, this song is the epitome- the apex of all psychedelic music!! There is no better song, and the drum solo is the very best melodic type of solo. While there may be other drum solos that may have more technical flair, NOBODY ever did a better drum solo! As a 12 year old, beginning drummer in 1967, I worked hard for 3 years to learn it!!I'd liked to have seen Neal Peart of Rush, or John Bonham of Led Zeppelin do the song.
I love it!
This song as it appears on the album is a 4 piece live recording, meaning that it was recorded in one take, with the exception of the addition of the "Butterfly Screams" as overdubs.
C’est toute ma jeunesse, j’ai actuellement 73 ans il faut faire découvrir ces musiques aux nouvelles générations Peace and Love❤
Sina does a really good cover with the drums promoted a bit in the mix
Uriah Heep did it better. This performance is too monotonous....😢
No way!!!!!!!
There was a boy in the Air Force. He explained Iron Butterfly 🦋 to me. I had his child. Beautiful! Love of my life!
Such a great song. In - A- Gadda - Da - Vida , a part of my life ! I listen this song more than 1000 times....now I am 64 and tomorrow I will listen again.....
A gigantic song still worth hearing after 55 years. ,
Unfortunately there is no such thing anymore
There are. Listen to TOOL, Pneuma. Or honestly, 90% of TOOL songs.
Hello
they are not a bad tool.
But the 70s rock was electric guitar at its finest. You can't compare that. They can't do that anymore today.@@yvettenoland5500
@@yvettenoland5500 i want to like this comment more than once, how can this be done plz ?
You know your living in a special time period, when you can come up with something this amazing outright.
Iron butterfly was just before my generation. Well my brother is 71 I’m 65. This was his stuff. When I was a young teen it was bto Chicago bread. America and others but not long after was classic rock. More in my mid teens. I love the old stuff. My brother listened to Beatles. It’s a wonderful day Jethro Tull, Joe Walsh he introduced me to all of the older stuff, whereas I was listening to stuff about six or seven years later at his age, and it changed a lot. I remember listening to Rolling Stones even in the early 70s at my friends house and I thought it was fantastic. Her brother had all these records.
RIP Doug Ingle - rock legend. Just heard he passed away. They'll all be rocking away together again on the other side. 🙏
The greatest drum solo ever.
Listen to Ginger Bakers solo on 'Toad' then tell me which one is the greatest. RIP Ginger!
The guitar solo doesn't suck either.
@@jeffphakenewz8556 Yea it does.
Dire Straits Terry Williams in Sultans of Swing (Alchemy) was my favorite drum solo. But this one ranks as one of the best.
Ginger Baker on "Do What You Like" with Blind Faith is his best.@@anagingrebel6229
I STILL have my original Vinyl copy in it’s original liner . Bought it when I was 8 years old ( Well actually convinced my Mother to buy it for me 😉)
That's great! For this video I used a vinyl rip, but it's the remastered record from 2020. That warm vinyl sound seems appropriate for these old tracks
My friends and i would hitch hike down the mountain to the Swing Auditorium to see these guys ( with the rest of the incredible bands) back in the day. At least 8 times. Why i became a Drummer! 🌲🌲 🌲🌲 🎼🎼
Oh yeah the good ol' Swing Auditorium in San Bernardino!
I remember this song, with full bass, strobe lights, and black lights. My date wearing dark green crushed velvet bell-bottoms and when weed was sold in "lids." And each musician in a band got a solo to show what they got! When I was 13... good times.
My dad had this album. We wore it out. Absolutely classic. Won't be another like it.
Best enjoyed with lights down low, no video, just loud late in the evening. Pure heaven. The nuances are amazing.
Así la estoy escuchando hoy 1/febrero/2024, disfrutandola, ya que por siempre será mi favorita❤️
My dad was a WW2 vet and a pretty staunch conservative. Back in my hippie days I came in and here he is in the living with the stereo cranked up and listening to my Iron Butterfly Album.....he loved this song and the drum solo.....
Arguably one of the best rock'n'roll songs ever. Definitely the best drum solo ever.
Now this is what you call good music i grew up listening to this awesome music soooooooo Cooooool😎💜✌️☮️🌠🌈🌹💜
The birth of the drum solo! Many have tried but no one has topped it!
What a joke. 8 year olds used to bang that "drum solo" out on tables. Buddy Rich farted out better solos. Your opinions will mature and change once you finally hit puberty.@@osakarose5612
😂🤣 NOT the birth of the drum solo. Not even kinda... not even close
Share with us when and by who.
@@r.p.mcmurphy6623
So, you’ve never heard Wipeout?
Yep, you got me there.@@jefferylabouski1152
I remember this song playing on my car stereo and when the drum solo played it went around the speakers. Love this. Oh my, those were some fun times.
No one had done anything like this before and no one did afterwards. Supernatural, just like an alien had come to Earth to give this tune to these guys. It's all bass and drums, with some keyboards, guitar is of minimal relvance, really uncommon in classic rock music. Half a century inside my brain and never tired of listening to it.
The day METAL was born...and noone ever seem to recognize it...DAMN!! I LOVE that piece of music (and have an original Vinyl pressed record in my stack)...one MASTERPIECE of modern Music!!!
I haven't heard this in it's entirety in decades! Wow, it was awesome to hear it again. Thanks 👍
One of the greatest songs of all time.
Charleston,SC 1968 speaker in each ear, over and over. still awesome right now. my 77th birthday today.the solo starts now !!!!
Happy belated Birthday!! 🎈🎂
68 was an insane time to be alive the war the draft the riots Bobby Kennedy killed Martin Luther king also killed. I was just graduated from high school and my loser friends and I volunteered for the draft. Buddy system! We were not the sharpest tools in the shed! But always loved this song ICONIC!!
Absolutely love that Hammond organ sound, and that guitar work sounds like a prehistoric monster calling. The transition from one instrument to another is magical.
Don't mean to sound contrarian, but I think Doug Ingle is playing a Vox Continental in the video (it's obviously dubbed). Cheers!
Sounds like a Farfisa organ to me.
Probably the only drum solo ever that you can listen to it without the rest of the song and STILL know it's In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
This song brings back a lot of memories of my teen years, how I survived it, I do not know. Then here I sit over 50 yrs later, listenng to this tune, and almost every note is ingraned into my memory of it. Buddy got reprimanded for doing the drum solo on a railing in the courtroom one day, judge wasn`t too impressed.
my bit the judge is long gone but this tune lives on .. out ...
I never followed Iron Butterfly but I could never get enough of this song. It brings back such good memories. And it’s a helluva good piece of music.
The song that defined a generation and changed rock 'n' roll for-ev-er. #Epic
I love this song whenever I hear it I think of my father who’s been gone for decades this was one of his favorite songs whenever it come on the radio he would always call my brother and I into the room and we were just dance to the music it is one of the best times I have with my father thank you 😊
I remember the first time I heard it on the radio, and it was the short 'commercial' version. I guess the station I listened to caught wind of the long version and one day they said they were going to play it that evening at a certain time. I was ready. Laying on my bed in the dark with the door closed. It came on and I was blown away. My room was vibrating, and my parents probably thought they lost me!
I saw this wonderful band play "live' at Kessler AFB in Biloxi, Mississippi in about January 1, 1968, this song was popular on all the radio stations at that time. Great memories.
I used to jam with a few of the guys in the 802nd Airforce band at Kessler back in 68. Had friends who went to that concert, but unfortunately I missed it. I was kind of a jazz/classical snob in high school.
Great memories of Kessler…. Wish I’d seen that performance.
A crazy memories of that event, I was a soldier at Kessler AFB and a few days before that show our unit had an assembly and our commander announced that he had twenty tickets to the New Years Day Sugar bowl donated to the soldiers at the base by one of the schools team that was in that years Sugar Bowl, so we had a drawing for the tickets. I won a ticket to the Sugar Bowl, but I had not signed up for a weekend pass and the Captain had already left for the weekend. I had a ticket but not pass to leave the base to go to New Orleans, so I returned to the barracks disappointed, later a person came by that knew of my problem and offered to buy the ticket, I sold it for $20. which was a lot since our pay was $55. a month, as he left he said there was a rock n roll band playing at the auditorium on New Years day I could see since I could not leave the base, the band was Iron Butterfly, they played many hours , a great show. Strange how memories happen.@@thinkingoutloud6741
Keyboardist-lead singer-leader of the band had such a distinctive voice. I still remember the explanation for the band's name on the back cover of the album: "Iron is heavy, butter fly is light and elusive." The lead guitar player was the young comer superstar. The drum solo is among the best ever recorded. Required of every rock drummer ever. We were in HS when the album came out. We listened to it hundreds of times. That over 50 years ago.
That VOICE. Nothing like it. Chills. Thank you🙏🤘🏼👩🏼🎤
I remember when everybody in my high school was playing this drum solo on anything available, I saw them live in 1968 and thought they were the greatest ever !