FIRST TIME HEARING "Magic Carpet Ride" & "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" (Reaction)
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- Опубликовано: 5 авг 2024
- FIRST TIME HEARING "Magic Carpet Ride" & "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" (Reaction)
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0:00 Intro
0:35 Magic Carpet Ride
8:32 In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida 
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A magicly trippy and dark pair of songs today! What a week it's been so far...Thanks so much for watching!! 🥰
This song always makes me think of a story an ex told me once about waiting in front of the house for his brother to pick him up. He stood there and watched his brother and his gf drive by about eight times before they finally stopped. It was because this song, which was new and that they'd never heard before, had come on the radio and they didn't want to interrupt it so they just kept circling the block. Lol
Haha, nice! Thanks for sharing that story.
Fabulous pairing of 2 songs! Thank-you. The Golden Era indeed!
You're welcome and thanks for watching!
You can really get lost in the sauce in these two songs. You can imagine what it might be like to be high while listening!
Oh the vivid imagery would be heightened tenfold no doubt!!
For several years, when you went to buy speakers, they put on Magic Carpet Ride to test the speakers…….it tests the full range of sounds, especially that amazing bass line! 🤘
Sweet!
Great song, great reaction. Took me way back to some great times when music was talent!
Thank you so much. Nothing like the 60s/70s music....and never will be...
"A lousy candle was all I found" what a geat line :)
Yes. Thanks for watching!
The "5 minute drum solo" (actually more like 2 1/2 minutes) in In a gadda da vida was what all my friends were talking about back then. Two great songs from my youth! Thanks for the memories.
I can see why. Such a striking moment in any rock song. You're very welcome, thanks for watching and being first today! 🥇
A memory about precisely these two songs from back in the day...
Very late into the night at a big party, I closed my eyes (I thought just briefly) to listen to a song. Feeling groggy when I opened them, I asked how long I'd been out. One of my friends responded, "A LONG time. I cant believe you slept through Magic Carpet Ride AND Inna-Gadda-Da-Vida!"
Haha, wow! Thanks for sharing that memory..
You hit my wheelhouse with these two songs! Touched exactly in the grove of my 60's youth music awakening. When In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida came on our AM radio, I think every kid became an 'air-drum' expert (including me). Even today I get the urge to start playing air-drums, but I'm afraid my wife will commit me to some institution. 🤣 These songs will forever be in my DNA. 😁 Thank you!
Haha. You're welcome!
In A Gadda Da Vida was the first album I bought at AJ Korvettes in the Detroit area at age 9. I memorized the drum solo. What a great jam!
Wow, you knew great music at a young age! That's a long solo to memorize, congrats!
Wow, you brought back some great memories of Detroit for me too! So much fun during 60s and 70s!
AWESOME!! ...Brings back my 60's groove!...Thanks for the great reaction!
Hello! Nothing like a groovy 60s groove! You're welcome and thanks for watching 🙂
That's an absolutely awesome listening room you landed in this time. It couldn't fit the psych mood more perfectly. I wish Magic Carpet Ride were longer, but what a "ride" while it lasts!
Thanks! I loved it too. Nice and dark to enjoy this type of music 🙂 Loved both songs!
Thanks for watching
Excellent combo: Dawn and Dusk. IRON BUTTERFLY, what a hypnotic riff!!! Dirty sound! Great. And by the way, beautiful mural! All that's missing is the colored liquid projections or the animated pouring paint. Thanks.
Thanks. Such a memorable song! Glad you liked my "far out" room... Had some help from Helene choosing the mural.
Iron Butterfly brought out the "air drummer" in most of us.
Haha I bet....what an epic solo!
Peace, Love and Flowers!!!!!!!!!! Dig that backdrop, groovy, man. : )
Haha thanks, this is my favorite room in my 60s house because it's dark and perfect to listen to this music in!
I like the bedroom. I would totally have that 60's bedroom right now!!😆
Haha, awesome!
Every teenage drummer in America learned learned to play the drum solo.
I can see why!
So many new sounds and ways to incorporate them into the music. And also the LSD and THC played a big role in the sounds. Hop in the car smoke a fat one and crank up tunes. Peace ✌️
I said same thing even though I had not read your comment. To funny
Epic memories no doubt! Peace and great tunes forever!!
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The lead guitarist was Erik Brann, born in August of 1950. He was only 17 at the time they recorded "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida". Masterful work and created one of the most iconic guitar pieces of all time. The lead vocalist and organist, Doug Ingle, had a great voice. His father, a church organist, introduced him to music at an early age and you can hear church-like cord runs in this song. I always called the scratchy sound affects by Brann as the 'electric elephant'. But later realized it represented the snake (devil) entering The Garden of Eden. Cool stuff!
Thanks for the info!!
The story behind the song title was originally In the garden of Eden .The DRUMMER wrote it as In a gadda da vida and music 🎶 history was made in 19-68
Light the incense and turn of the black light - it's time to get really, really trippy. I think the drum solo in In A Gadda Da Vida by Ron Bushy is one of the most rhythmic and melodic I've ever heard - no hot dogging, no showing off, just good music. And I love the phasing effect on the drums near the end of the solo.
I think that at times there has to be 2 drummers. I was around when this song came out and I still love it.
Iron = Heavy
Butterfly = Light and floaty
Iron Butterfly was the first rock concert I had ever been too.
1968 Veterans Memorial Coliseum Phoenix Az.
There is a video of that that concert was recorded by radio Kaos.
Their other song off of their metamorphosis album is
Butterfly Bleu
It's a little longer there is a video of them performing that live on television. They went commercial free for well over 20 minutes just to get the whole song in.
It was also the first hearing a talk box for for most.
And what he does with that? Oh my.
Thanks
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Oh, BB is from 1970 so I can do it on my normal channel window! Spotify shows it to be a length of 13:57. Does that sound right?
@@retroreactions.... yes it does for the album. The video is almost 6 minutes longer. And it was also longer when we seen I.B. in the early 80s as well. But... the studio version has a little more ear panning. And cleaner.
Just prepare yourself. It's one of the first uses of a talk box. Only other one I heard at the time used one was from Glen Campbell, of all people. Lol
He was guesting on a variety show. So there's probably no recording available.
Other than that don't recall one used until Peter Frampton.
The metamorphosis of the song is a journey of sound.
Back to work.
thanks much.
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Glad I was in the mood for Iron Butterfly. If you like trippy acid rock, well, if In-a-gadda-da-vida doesn't scratch that itch, I don't know what will. I remember an episode of " Home Improvement " featured bits of the song, the main character ( played by Tim Allen) had some sort of weird thing he'd do while the song was playing
I've heard Magic Carpet Ride so many times on the radio I take it for granted. Great composition, well performed
Yes, a great song to jump into the deep end of acid rock for sure! Never really watched HI, but not surprised to hear this was used in TV and movies...Loved hearing Magic in all its glory and entirety!
Ha! Fond memories of a kid at about 9-10yo, driving with my family & friend visiting us in BFLO NY, and we headed to Niagara Falls- on a hot summer day, in a convertible White Cadillac-with this song Loudly Jammin as we drove around the Falls! ❤❤Forever happy memories!
For a kid of 10!
Sounds far out.
Hello! Wow, that sounds like an EPIC memory. I adore waterfalls. Thanks for sharing that, and for watching! 🙂 🌊
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida was used in the movie Manhunter. The first movie with Hannibal Lecter.
Haha, makes perfect sense. Thanks for watching!
There are parts where that screeching guitar (sounds like a wild animal to me) is like an audio assault….and I just focus on the bass line. It’s a real life raft …..just steady and calming….
Strangely enough…after literally decades of listening to this song (I had the album)….I have never once thought “Halloween” or “scary”. That would make for a bad trip. Never had a negative experience with it….people just blissfully zoned out and went with the changing rhythms….love the drum solo and then the organ coming in very mellow with that Eastern melody…..that’s the true “psychedelic” part for me. And the main riff is so cool.
I’m used to listening to this on vinyl…and today I heard it fir the first time with earbuds. It actually did make that guitar sound even more “scratchy” than I remember……and more of an audio assault…..and that part kinda put me off. Kudos to you Brandon for just going with it. Couching it in dark terms made those guitar assaults part of a larger whole, which was a new way of looking at it for me.
Altogether an amazing reaction day here at RetroReactions! Well done! 👍✌️
Ah yes, the hypnosis factor of this music is right up your alley. Yes, earphones always make the difference, especially with the mixing and effects. I welcomed all the ear assaults in this one haha... Thanks for all the great comments today 🤗
Yes, this song was played in the climax of the movie Man Hunter (Michael Mann director).
Surely it was during a horrifying scene! Thanks for watching..
Now there's a couple of great songs I haven't heard in awhile! And you're right...listening in an altered state really enhances the experience. LOL If you're a fan of the "Simpsons", (or even if not), you might want to check out the episode featuring "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida". It's hysterical with the old lady church organist playing it. This week is going too fast!!
Haha, just watched, that was hilarious! Time for a dedicated 60s channel LOL....impossible of course but that's what Patreon will be for!
I am feeling so groovy-love your pad! Magic Carpet Ride has always been one of my faves, both songs are classics. EDIT: Yes, they edited Carpet Ride on the radio, they cut a large part of that instrumental part out to keep it near that 3 minute mark, or whatever their actual timeframe cutoff was. And, I have never heard this full version of In-a-Gadda-I am impressed, really enjoyed it.
Yo! Best 60s house ever!! I figured that they edited for radio as often happens. Glad you liked both picks today!!
2 of my teenage favs
Perfect! Thanks for watching..
2 greats for sure ! Loved ina godda vida
Perfect! Thanks for tuning in...
Have OG copies of both of these on vinyl! (Thanks Dad!)
Awesome! Thanks for watching...
Radio stations back then wanted songs to b between 2:30 and 3 minutes. There was exceptions. The first time I heard Magic Carpet Ride I knew it would be a big hit, sure was. Born to be Wild is a great song also To me 68, 69 and 70 were the best yrs for music. Never cared for In a Gadda but it's a good song much much better than what's on the radio now. Best of success on yr channel
Thanks so much for watching and for the kind well wishes!!
That was the version of MCR that they played on the radio….
Iorn Butterfly.....Led Zepplin I maintain the reason it's called "Heavy Metal"
Loved Magic Carpet Ride the moment I heard it. You had to be listening to FM radio to hear this version. The instrumental section always felt like being underwater hearing the calls of whales and other marine life.
Nice take on the song!
In case you like to read, the novel Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse is one of the best novels I've read.
Plus a fantastic 1974 film interpretation of the novel with actors Max von Sydow, Dominique Sanda and Pierre Clementi.
By virtue of all the rules this song broke, particularly regarding the length, but also the Gilmour Echoes-style guitar and organ heaviness...this song paved the way for the prog masterpieces that soon followed. We may have been the first Charlotteans to have heard it, by virtue of my brother having won a trip to NYC, where he met Ali, and brought back a Peter Max Manhattan phonebook, and In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida...which his best friend, a DJ, played on air. I listened with speakers to the head, on the floor, tripping out, in the eighth grade in '68, when we lost Martin and Bobby.
Wow, can't imagine hearing this as a 12ish year old. You must have been blown away!
@@retroreactions.... I had some good music teachers for several years at that point, and we had no restriction on music at home, so there was classical, a little jazz, Beatles, Zombies, Cream, Vanilla Fudge, Yardbirds, Byrds, and such going on, but Butterfly changed everything, and I was drawn to long song bands thereafter. I think I was 13 or 14 at the time, so fully mature. I discovered "Om" and altered states in the ninth grade. Moody Blues, In Search of the Lost Chord and Cat Stevens' Peace Train was playing. Trippy time.
So cool man!
I won a single.... Magic Carpet Ride, in an art contest in the 8th grade 🤣🤩
Haha, cool memory! Thanks
Although I'm already quite advanced in age, "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" was too early for me too. When the album came out I was only nine years old and the popular charts were all I knew. I heard the piece for the first time in the mid-70s when I discovered my love for prog and experimental rock (my initial experience was "Lark's Tongues In Aspic Pt. I" by King Crimson, which I heard on the radio and was completely blown away). But "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" is one of the jewels of acid and psychedelic rock, along with "White Rabbit" by Jefferson Airplane, "Eight Miles High" by the Byrds and "The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn" by Pink Floyd. "In-A-Gadda" I didn't hear often but I highly value its importance for the music at that time.
Seen Steppenwolf and Iron Butterfly when I was in grade school
These albums where not easy to get back in the day. Especially when they first came out. First you had to hear about it. Usually word of mouth and a song or two on the radio, from the album.
Then you had to ride your bike to the record store only to find out they sold out. A few more attempts landed you an album.
Definitely different than today....
Wow, interesting...such different times....thanks
In the 1960s I didn't listen to the radio much. My parents were not into rock-n-roll. They didn't care for country music either. They preferred Hawaiian music, Bert Kampfaert, and polka. Once in a while while driving, the car radio would be on and the songs that got my attention were Blood, Sweat and Tears - Spinning Wheel. Well, and my heart dug that organ music especially when The Animals were playing House of the Rising Sun. Other than the Monkees who had a regular show on TV and whom I adored and of course the Ed Sullivan Show on TV, the only other music that lifted me up were the comedic songs of the greats: Roger Miller (You Can't Rollerskate In A Buffalo Herd), Homer and Jethro, Larry Verne, and Little Jimmy Dickens. Dad brought home a 45 rpm record of LJD's "May The Bird Of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose." I have memories of my Dad and me laughing together while listening to this song. (Weird Al was still learning how to play the accordion back then.) Ray Stevens was out there too, but he didn't catch my attention until the 1970s after Dad got me a stereo for my 12th Birthday - and a couple of Beatles 8-Tracks.
Hi, thanks for sharing some of your musical history/experience! I don't know most of those artists you mentioned, but I LOVE hearing stories from the past from my viewers...🙂
Really love your background. Great insights.
Hello! Thanks so much...I love picking my backgrounds. Appreciate your support and compliments 🙂
The entire instrumental section of Magic Carpet Ride doesn't appear in the radio version. I've heard guitar tones described as creamy, but not bass, so you're first there I think. Steppenwolf is so much better known for "Born To Be Wild" that I always forget this song was also theirs.
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida feels more like a jam than a song. I know people love jammy bands like Phish and the Grateful Dead, but that's not my thing.
Thanks for confirming. I knew I hadn't heard that section before. Haha creamy bass. Likely a 1 time only description by me. Ah yes, I've heard Born to Be Wild here and there. I'm sure it's infused in popular culture. Thanks for watching!
Yes... US ABC Dunhill Recs made a very short chopped up single edited version. Back in the day most of the AM Top 40 stations aired the edited version. At night some AM stations played the longer version. Early FM album rock stations played the longer LP mix.
Talk about a terrible hacked up verison...US Atco Records released a very short single version of the Iron Butterfly song. The radio jocks loved this long version from Iron Butterfly...gave us a bathroom and smoke break.
Yea, pretty certain that my radio station played the chopped up mix in the 2000s. Oh no, it is sacrilegious to butcher In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida!! Thanks so much for watching..
You asked "what did I just experience"? I had the same reaction when I first heard it as a 10 year old in the late 60s!
Haha 10? Would love to have watched you hear it back then for the first time....
@retroreactions.... Yes, Brandon! Up to that point I was growing up with The Beatles and The Byrds. We visited my godparents in Michigan and their oldest daughter was storing her albums there after she had just moved out. Iron Butterfly was one of them and my godmother saw how much I liked it. About 2 weeks after we got back to Texas I received this box in the mail from my godmother, and it was a new copy of this!! My godmother was religious, like my parents, and although not zealous we had a great church and great friends. So to receive that album from my godmother is something I'll never forget!!
Nice! Best godmother ever!!
Two psychedelic rock anthems indeed. Steppenwolf had seven gold albums, many songs that never get reacted to. Try "Monster" for a song that's as relevant today as it was back then.
I see they have at least 5 albums in the 70s. Would you say those are all great. They sure do have some hilarious song titles haha! (hippo stomp, chicken wolf etc)
@@retroreactions.... short answer is yes, both those songs you mentioned are great. I'd put John Kay up there with John Fogerty as a genius singer songwriter. They were controversial at times with songs like "The Pusher" or "Don't Step on the Grass Sam" but there were lots of controversial songs during the viet nam war, counter culture revolution days.
thanks!
Brandon, I don't know if you have already determined all the songs from the 60's for this week, if not, it would be wonderful if you included a reaction from the fantastic Los Gatos (The Cats) who were the pioneer rock band in Argentina, the day that you listen to the short but super beautiful "Viento dile a la lluvia"... you are going to want more from this band.
The rest of the songs have been set, but I added it to my 60s spreadsheet for the next 60s week! I am allergic to cats, but hopefully not to the song haha...
1968 was the year I graduated High School.
Awesome, what a time for music....happy 55th reunion! 😁
Musical, sandpaper goodness?? hahaha LMAO
Hey Brandon I've been with you for a while but I've only just come across this reaction and it's right up there with the best. I'm 70 years old and have listened to this sort of music throughout my adult life. It's so good to see someone of your generation enjoy it so much. Can I suggest another couple of acts from the sixties that you might want to consider listening to? (My apologies if you've already done so - I'm still catching up with your back catalogue). First up is Vanilla Fudge, a band from Long Island. They did brilliant cover versions of songs by the likes of The Supremes and The Beatles. But please listen to 'Break Song' from their 1969 album 'Near The Beginning'. It's about 23 minutes long with solos (breaks) from all 4 band members. Guitar, bass, keyboard and drums. It's the first album I ever bought. And please try to make time for The Nice - Keith Emerson, Lee Jackson and Brian Davison - the first band I ever saw live in 1969. Loving your work, man! 👏
Hello! thanks for the great compliments. I will rarely be doing 60s on this channel but I have added the Vanilla Fudge song to my spreadsheet. Thanks for your support!
Interesting reaction! Of course I have heard both many many times. Two songs which reached over the Atlantic while so much music was circling about the UK. What strucks me with In a gadda-da-vida (50 years later) is the influence from free (US) jazz. While British rock (and other European rock) was more mixing with classical music. Zappa (US) used both.
Halloween rock music of the 60s includes Arthur Brown's hit "Fire" (you need to see the video to understand the impact! - I didn't see it until internet but I heard from radio that he almost burnt himself) It was a hit in both Europe and US in 1968 (predating Black Sabbath and Alice Cooper). He is actually rather a performance artist, still active (81 years).
Zappa also made dark music in 60s, seemingly also psychedelic - but he didn't use other drugs than cigarettes and coffee - and disliked hippies. Check "Dog Breath, in the year of the plague" (1969) (this is before his more rock oriented music)
Thanks! Appreciate you watching, sharing all the info and for the suggestions...Peace
This is going to be good.
From Yorkville Toronto Baby
Nice...Thanks for watching Annie...
The first 15 seconds of the drum solo is very reminiscent of Ringo's solo in The End. Hmm.
Organ cutting in about 18:45 - bit of early Floyd. Trying to figure out which song it reminds me of. At first I thought it might be "Set the Controls" but that's not quite right.
Actually the whole thing has a very Syd Barrett-y feel.
Ringo did a solo on The End????
Yes, surprised I didn't make the Floyd connection till you said it. Maybe because I'm not familiar with much 60s Floyd yet..
Ringo says that his solo on The End was directly inspired by Ron Bushy's drum solo.
LSD 🎉
In a gadda da vida was used in one of those Freddy Krueger movies.
A place that used to go called the Spectrum
Had this on vinyl.