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If somebody asked me to describe 1968, I would play this song.
71 yr old Californian here. When you listen to this song it is recommended you have had some weed and have a very comfortable chair!!!
Eric Brann, the guitar player was 17 when they recorded this.
And a classically trained violinist.
This vintage classic is psychedelic hard rock. Both contemplative and visual imagery yet absolutely a rocker. Even 55 years later.
Pure psychedelic rock. The longest song EVER at that time, and a stoners delight. This was always played when weed was around.
We were all blown away by this in 1968. And left with a big smile on our faces. I was a junior in HS.
Seventeen year old with a
mind blown away. Stoner music.✌
I was in 7th grade when this came out. Our math teacher over the school year used a 16 mm movie camera and filmed all sorts of stuff through the year, then used this as the soundtrack. At the end of the year we had an assembly and we got to watch the movie in the auditorium. It was AWESOME, thank you Mr. Cooper ❤
This really stands up, if young people can just get into the psychedelic sound, which many of them can’t seem to stand. I’m glad YOU like it, John! 😁
Another drum solo that absolutely smokes: "Jump Into the Fire," Harry Nilsson.
Plus the bass intro by Herbie Flowers sets the tone for this classic!
" ambush " is another one on the same album by Harry.
What did we think? We were NOT listening to this with our families!! 😂. This was the soundtrack for get-togethers with friends, if you were part of the counter-culture and weed was a part of your life. Which it was for me and my crowd. ✌️ this was played in a dark room with black-light posters on the wall. Floor pillows. Incense.
Lmfao. Im only 47 and lived like it was 1967. Im a old classic rock fan to death
What makes this track one the gold standards of epic tracks is that when the band showed up to record,..the engineer Don Casale said he wanted them to do a run through for a sound check. What the band didn’t know is that he pressed the record button. When they were done,.. he said “come in, i want to show you😢 something. Thus….. “one take”. They did overdub the vocals and guitar. But the majority is a one take. You hear. someone toggling pedals or mics in the 2nd half. Raw,.. Classic,.. Timeless. Grand reaction. Thankyou.🔥🎸🤘✌️😀
John, the drum solo was famous even before the song got much radio play. It was not a surprise - but it was great! Everyone was beating the drum riff on their desks at school.
This whole version never made it to AM "Rock" stations in the day. This came out in the advent of album rock played on FM stations. Only place you could listen to full versions of songs, without buying the album, was FM radio. AM was left to shorter versions and the teenyboppers. FM was for the serious listener. This song was used to great effect in Micheal Mann's "Manhunter" closing scene. Great memories. Thanks for the vid.
Drum solo reaction? Every kid learned the beginning to the drum solo using their fingers on a tabletop. I was 13 at the time.
Saw them do this in concert in Denver in 1969. It was in the round so the stage slowly rotated. Needless to say the air was blue from the smoke of a certain substance. ☮️✌️✌️
Poor Iron Butterfly: nobody wanted to hear anything else from them but this. It stands alone as perhaps THE greatest pure psychedelic opus from that period.
There's nothing like an organ going through a Leslie cabinet.
The elephant sound is a pick being dragged along a wound guitar string.
Acid Rock (as in Lysergic acid diethylamide - LSD) was a term used in the late '60s to describe harder-sounding psychedelic Rock music. The band, Iron Butterfly, (whose harder tunes were thought to be Acid Rock) were contemporaries of, and had even toured with Blue Cheer, who were another type of Acid Rock band.
Blue Cheer was also considered to be a proto Heavy Metal band (inspired by Hendrix's Monterey Pop debut). Listen to Blue Cheer's 1st album, Vincebus Eruptum.
My first concert was Blue Cheer, and Mr. Tinnitus has lived in my ears ever since. Them boys were LOUD.
The 45 rpm record was 2 minutes away 52 seconds long, it hit number 30 in the top 40, the album hit at number 4 in Billboards top 200
The psychedelic anthem of my youth. Amazing song.
Iron Butterfly is listed among the earliest pioneers of Heavy Metal in the Heavy Metal Encyclopedia. They are also the first to kick in the door on the 3 minute radio format paving the way for other longer songs by other groups that followed.
I was in HS marching band from 1972 to 1975 and this was my pregame ritual. We would go to the school on Saturday morning, around 9 AM and rehearse and have a run through of our half time show. I'd get back home by 10:30, take a shower and lie down in bed with headphones and listen to this. It had the right combination of hypnotic relaxation followed by adrenaline. If get up, have lunch , put my uniform on and get back to school for 1 PM kick off!
We were blown away by this in '68. I bet Ray Manzarak of the Doors loved this keyboard guy. And the great, great Lee Dorman (Captain Beyond) on bass guitar!
I was 12 when this came out and knew it as the song FM DJs played when they wanted a long bathroom break and/or a smoke, and/or some snacks. I didn't like it much until I had my first smoke, wrapped in strawberry rolling paper, soon thereafter. Then I liked it, a lot. The song, and the smoke.😉
We wore out many copies of this album!
Mom had a rule: One rock/roll album, one 'show tunes' record, one Classic piece.
Because this was so long, it counted as three rock/roll albums!
She like the drumming...reminded her of Gene Krupa.
Every kid I knew was memorizing the drum solo!
Your Mom sounds cool! 😊
I remember playing this in a coverband I was 18 at the time . I was always hopeful that the drum solo would turn out ok because I was the drummer. 😊
Every garage band in North America played some version of this, depending on their ability.......
Great reaction 😁 This song was my introduction to rock when I was 6 yrs old, later I found out that they are from my home town San Diego California. This was my favorite song back then, and it's still one of my favorite rock tunes. Speaking of haunting, 👻side B of the 45 rpm to this song is so spooky🕸🕷 that we use it for Halloween 🎃 every year. Thank you Peace!
The Simpsons' made a joke of this when, in church, the organist played it and the congregation sang the original lyrics. I think Bart changed her sheet music and all the lyric sheets passed out to them, if I remember right.
Also, being on of the first really long songs, DJ's LOVED it because it gave them a way to take a crap during their shows, if need be. :)
Puff,Puff pass ! Mom yelling "turn that hippie music down !"
This song is called acid rock for a reason, Whole different sound , and gives you visions of wonder. lets your imagination run wild.
This is the song that introduced heavy metal to many of us when it hit the radio, it would be a couple years later that Sabbath came out with Paranoid and Iron Man
Introduced my adult nephew and wife to this about 8 years ago. They were pretty stoned. They LOVED it and I bought the vintage album for them as a Christmas present. 😁✌️
This tune is simply BADASS and the engineering is superb! The first concert I ever went to was the Butterfly...my ticket cost me $2.50., and I was blown away by Ron Bushy's drum solo. All in all, one of the greatest memories in my life. By the way, the Butterfly's "Ball" album may be of interest to you. I, for one, surely hope so. Great reaction, man.
Yes. Soul Experience from Ball was super.
@@erdossuitcase7667 Absolutely!
Those were the days. I could see great bands from anywhere from a buck to 5 bucks. I saw so many concerts back then but never got to hear Iron Butterfly. This song will always stand the test of time.
Drum solo ,..he's like a shaman...I have goosebumps. When the organ comes in like from afar. It feels like walking through the desert or the East...like the fall of Adam and Eve... it's dark and sexy. . The musicians really put their feelings into it and controlled the direction of the story. I feel like I am walking through it..
Eric Braun was only 17yo at the time! Wow. Iron Butterfly Theme is a kick ass instrumental. Check it out.
I was 18 in 1968 the first time I heard it on the radio. They never played the LP version because Radio Stations were required to play 3 minute, more or less, songs so they can talk and do their commercials. I was not aware of the drum solo until years later after I was discharged from the Army and purchased the full length album, falling in love again with the genius of this performance. The common knowledge at the time was that the band (which most musicians were) on drugs (LSD, Quayluds, Marijuana, etc.) and wrote the song originally named "In the Garden of Eden". If you want an idea of what genius 1968 produced listen to Vanilla Fudge "You keep me hanging on" performed on the Ed Sulivan Show or the Rascals "Good Lovin".
When this song came out we had many psychedelic bands....Vanilla Fudge and Moby Grape....all music was well received
To really "get" this song from the perspective of those of us in the 60's experiencing it- we were blown away. The setting: a room with shag carpet, beanbag chairs, incredible artistic psychedelic posters covering the walls and lit up by black lights. You did not listen with your parents, you listened with your friends. You grabbed your vinyl record, set it on the turntable and placed the needle down. Then you let the music take you away. And for many of us, we smoked weed, ate magic mushrooms or dropped acid. Whether you were high or not, this song transported you into a completely new space. You can't listen to this from a perspective of trying to analyze it. Put that aside and just let the music creep into your depths. Let it soak into your soul. It is a mind/emotion/body journey because you can't separate the parts of yourself if you are truly experiencing it. The drum beat, the organ, bass and guitar all reverbate through you. The unexpected twists and turns of the various instruments just keep leading you further away from everyday reality into a new reality and you are changed. There were great bands and performances in the 60's but this was on a different level entirely. It was THE psychedelic experience.
The Simpson's did a funny parody in church , this is one long song it last a whole church service , I'm not so sure about , in the garden a 20 Min hynm , no don't think so
Saw them at the Fillmore West in 1968 Its so wonderful to see young folks enjoying the songs from an era of time that their elders lived.....
As a drummer, hearing this the first time, I freaked out. The tune became an instant classic. The mind groves and moves throughout. These dudes really cranked one out. All the places they go in this.
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida the beginning of the psychedelic era in music. I'm 73yrs old and i remember when i first heard this song. Back then there was an underground radio station called, The Velvet Underground. That was the only way you could listen to it in the 60's. I thought that it was beautiful and iconic. My own dad, who was a huge music-lover of all kinds was mainly stuck on 50's music but the first time he heard Iron Butterfly and this song, he absolutely fell in love with psychedelic music. He even stole this album from me and i ended up having to buy another one for myself! He absolutely loved In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida! I was so mad at him for stealing it from me. My dad passed away in February of last year. I remember him every time I hear this song.I also remember my friends and i doing magic mushrooms and listening to this beautiful psychedelic song! Lol!! Out of this world for sure. As i used to say, "Far out, man!"
I bought this album when I was 14 years old in 1968 and I still have it in my vinyl collection.
Still as fresh as the first day it was released.
Love it then and I loved now ❤ awesome ✌️
Me too i'm 62 😅
Me too. First listen with best friends at neighbors house on Admiral stereo!!! We took a trip, without leaving the living room.
One of my favorites from that era. I was 16, and I often listened to the song with my home built light show. Black lights, strobe, colored flashing lights helped to make it a total sensory experience. A couple of others to experience. The long version of Time Has Come Today by The Chambers Bros. and Omaha by Moby Grape, which is a band often overlooked when talking about 60s music.
The attitude and dirt on this song is an element that separates it from other psychedelic bands that were phony. This and Strawberry Alarm Clock were legit-you could see the roots for prog in a song like this.
I was at a party in Honolulu in 1968 where most of Strawberry Alarm Clock showed up to party.
I heard this for the first time in the early 2000s in it's full form, and it blew me away. Still does. It's conceptually amazing and executed with cool, funky rhythm and technically perfect playing. I mean... hard to beat it, honestly. You can jam to it, dance to it, rock out to it.
I was all of 16 back in 68 & when this "Mindbender" of a Tune debuted EVERY1 was psyched out with all the Instrumentation.. IF this Band never had another hit this tune cemented their place without a doubt.
This album sold 30 million copies worldwide!!!
Seen them at the ASU Activity Center in 69. And again in '82 at the celebrity.
Iron Butterfly was also the first to introduce the talk box.
Song is
Butterfly Bleu
and it's a little longer than this one as well.
There is a video of them performing it on live television.
And they went commercial free for the band to play Non-Stop.
🤠🏞️🐂
A couple comments to make. First off, FM radio really didn't come around till about 67. So all you could hear back them was AM radio songs. AM radio played 3 to 4 minute songs, that was it's format. So this song blew peoples minds that had been listening to Beatles and Beach Boys type stuff. The drum solo, for old farts like me, will always be the most iconic drum solo. I can remember kids in school playing that drum solo on their desktops. The organ after the drum solo has a section where it's playing an X-Mas song called, Tidings of Comfort and Joy. Go back and listen carefully you'll hear that. Most of the organ playing has an Egyptian feel to it. Remember guitar players back then didn't have all the electronic devices that are available now. Computers weren't around to clean up stuff either. They had to be great musicians. I still listen to this song on occasion and it really was ground breaking for music back then. Glad you enjoyed it. I still do.
The Guitarist Eric Bran was 16 years old......
You said it best.....WOW!! I was 16 when this came out and I remember the whole school just buzzing about this song. If you were in a garage band (remember them?) back then, this was the song you tried to master.
This was referred to as "Acid Rock" back in the day.
Oh, I remember hearing this the first time at 15. It was SUCH an exciting time for music. This song could only be heard on (brand new) FM radio as commercial AM wouldn't play it. Sooo revolutionary. Soooo exciting. Soooo fun.
We didn't do much labeling of songs back then, it was just music.
This song makes me feel like I am entering a haunted house. Love it❤
In the late sixties/early seventies, there were two branches of rock. The popular AM station rock and what was called "underground" rock which was covered by "underground" channels on FM which just let songs like this run for 15 20 minutes...😊
Can you imagine having songs of three minutes on the radio and then it becomes to light with 17:05 minutes breaking all the rules of commercial radio (sure they made a shorter version for the radio) but there were special programs at night which used to air this very special song (at least in my country). Every band I knew in my town wanted to play this song, including mine (me being the drummer at the age of 14); I think we did it well but most of the other bands failed miserably with their poor versions. I sold all of my comics to buy a copy of the album and I still have it until now at the age of 69. Great review and reaction, John. I like you appreciate these bands (not so popular as others). Thanks a lot for having a stop and listen. Greetings to you wherever you are from Puebla, Pue., Mexico.
The original title was IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN
I WAS 15 YEARS OLD IN 1968…..THIS SONG SHOWED US HOW DYNAMIC MUSIC COULD BE. MY PARENTS TRIED TO LIKE IT, BUT, THEY LIKED CHICAGO, PINK FLOYD, PROCAL HARUM AND THE MOODY BLUES….OH WELL….THIS SONG GOT ME INTO DRUMMING…..
I was 20 years old in 1968 and in college. If this song blew you away now, you can imagine what it was like then 55 years ago. There was nothing like it. I had a pretty decent stereo and we would get high and listen to this in a trance.
A couple of interesting things.....the guitarist was only 17 years old when this was recorded. The name of the song originally was "In the Garden of Eden" but "In-A Godda-Da-Vida" was what came out of a bandmember's mouth when they were drinking heavily one night. I'm think I read somewhere that the version that you hear was recorded by an engineer in the studio without the band members even realizing he was recording them.
I think they classify this now as psychedelic rock. I believe it is considered the first of the genre.
Psychedelic rock started a couple years earlier in San Francisco with groups like The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Moby Grape, the Charlatans, and others. By this time, Jimi Hendrix, The Cream, Country Joe & the Fish, Big Brother & the Holding Company with Janis Joplin were all headlining together at places like the Filmore (later called West) into shows that lasted hours into the early morn.
It must have been so cool to hear for the first time. This band started heavy metal. It's dark and light.. cool
Most teens were trying to play " Wipeout " on airdrums then this came along and everyone wanted to be a drummer.
Saw them play this live in '71in a small rural club in the woods. Epic song of the psychedelic times. Usually well over 20 mins when played live.
So much great MUSIC late 60s
There were long jams a lot in the late 60s. They would jam out a song live that was recorded shorter for an album, so it was common to hear a live album with your favorite song jammed out for a whole vinyl record side. Grateful Dead, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, Santana, even the Moody Blues did several songs in parts that blended and returned back to the beginning part.
The song's original title was "In the Garden of Eden." Reportedly, during a studio session someone said the name of the song and whoever heard it responded with "In-a-Gadda-da-Vida?" And the rest is history as they say...
I was fresh out of the Navy in '68 and this was very much a "psychedelic" tune. The "fuzz box/WaWa Peddle" was relatively new and people were looking to find out how to fit it in. People would drop some acid and trip out to this. (I never touched the stuff) It was definitely an FM radio song and AM had you limited to 3 or 4 minutes max and FM didn't care. (FM radio was really new at that time)
It is the most popular psychedelic song and main staple of the late 60s genre that was at the peak of popular interest by 1968 . They did have that heavy gloomy sound far ahead of what Back Sabbath was doing about 2 years later and too bad they did not make a short cover version of it in the 1970s ....
That drum solo was THE THING about In-a-godda-da-vida that just wowed everybody. I mean, it was all great, but the drummer just carried the whole thing. Some/many drum solos have weak parts, but not this one... The length of the song was quite unique at the time. It was the first rock song I had heard at that time that was so wonderfully long. I think because they did _such a great job_ at it that it inspired others to start to see what they could do...
Yes, In A Gadda Da Vida does have a dark sounding, and exotic theme to it. Like a sort of mini-horror movie, it takes you on a mysterious journey through strange and forbidding places, and then brings you back. When the recording came out, people loved it The track was fun to dance to, or just to listen to and take a psychedelic journey with.
What was first hearing it like? People were telling everybody else "Aww, man! You've got to hear this! It takes up a whole album side. -But it's soo cool!!" I recall hearing strange theories like "the drummer played that solo on a whole array of tabla drums around him"!
DJs loved this one, always put it on when they needed a bathroom break lol. Album sold about 30 million copies, in a country of 200 million people.
The actual lyrics are In "The Garden of Eden" the singer was so platitude on alcohol and drugs he slured the words into Ina Gada Da Veda
First heard this track on a serial killer film called Manhunt ,the scene plus the music ,blew my mind.
1968, Vietnam war, sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Far out man, wow! Turn up the volume, pass the M & M's, and don't bogart that joint.
The DJs called it a "two donuts and a bathroom break" song.
We called it Head music i was amased that the drummer could play like that for 2 and a half hours non stop the lead singer had a speech inpairment and when he finished writing it the manager thought he called it in da goda da vida
That "speech inpairment" is scientifically called "drunk."
#2. Loved Guitar solo from a 17 yr. old! Elephant's trumpeting! Creatures in the Garden!
1968 we said, " Far Out!" Been decades since hearing the long version. Could almost taste the acid! lols
Listen for the unsettling "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" in the song.
You Will love the band APOLOGETIX,the number 1 parody band in the world
The Tooth Fairy’s favourite tune! Seriously, I first heard it on “Manhunter”, but fell in love with it!
When I was in... high school, I think, I hit my parents with 'in-a-box-a-Godiva.' They got a good laugh out of it.
The LP version of Time Has Come Today by The Chambers Brothers released in 1967 was over 11 minutes.
It gives you that natural high and that is so awesome ❤ amazing
The tune was limited to the length of one side of an LP, the longest mass media format at the time.
You ain't kiddin, WOW!! I grew up in this era. So, so great!!!😊
The actual name is In the "Garden of Eden". The album company gave it that name.
I was 14 when this came out and I had been playing the drums for 2 or 3 years and you HAD to learn to play it, if I wasn't playing it on my drums I was playing it with 2 pencils on a table
Aside from having heard shortened versions on AM rock radio back in 68, the first time that I heard the whole 17 minute song was when somebody brought the album to an end of 1st semester 12th grade party at a classmate's house in December of 1968. We were all entranced by the sound, being a bunch of academic nerds, not stoners. I remember that the girl's parents at the house where we were listening to this got a call from her parents asking if everything was okay, as apparently one of the neighbors called them to report the 'weird music' coming from the house.
Back then on AM radio, we would have heard a very chopped down version of the song that would have been no more than 3 minutes long. Also, the quality of the speakers on those radio sets would have made the bass almost nonexistent. A few years later, when FM album rock stations started popping up, this song would have been done justice on better audio equipment.
Some other long-format songs that got shortened on AM airplay back then would have been: the Doors' 'Light My Fire' in 1967 and 'The End', Traffic's 'Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys' and Grand Funk Railroad's 'I'm Your Captain'.
I think this was the first LP I ever bought. It started a long love affair with rock.
I was 10 when this came out, certainly a departure from the Beatles, Lovin Spoonful, and Herman’s Hermits. The musical interludes are stellar, still on my playlist ❤
The music fans of the day had speakers with big woofers. The thumping drums could get a room shaking!
I was12. Song was ground breaking. We were just coming off 3 minute radio bangers. FM radio was taking over, stereos and audio was better. Spent many hours zoned out on this. Every band added drum solos after this came out.
This was not a family get together song. This was me and my friends in my garage with incense burning and black lights dazzling the fluorescent posters on the wall and smoking $20 an ounce of Columbian or maybe some hits of windowpane. If any of you old people out there know what I'm talking about, this song still gives you chills.
Back then the parents were shrieking, "Drug music!"
They weren’t entirely wrong. 😝
I was lucky enough to see them live at Michigan Palace in Detroit in 1968. Small venue maybe 300 people. AWESOME. it was an old movie theatre.
Just go with it, John; it's one of those songs that takes you many different places, maybe even different times.
My reason was wow! I was 8 in 1968. This was crazy, because is was so long it never got played on the radio
The drum solo blew us away!! Had to fire up another one!!!
It really Blew my mind, it stills does to this day. I was 15 when I first heard it. So many emotions that you travel through with this 🎶 . Brilliant and Beautiful. It’s in my soul for ever.
Toke up a hooten sparky, spruder-fig and lock your wigs. This is a ride!
If memory serves me right, the guitarist was only 17 years old!!