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Iron Butterfly: In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
« Reply #15 on: July 29, 2021, 03:28:26 am »
Iron Butterfly:  In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

This was a very special song growing up.  It came out when I was in Jr High School, and I was playing in the Jr High School band.  It is very likely that this is the song that influenced me the most to become a Rock Drummer.  So, I asked my dad to buy my friend Bill Seaman's used drum set.  Bill's father was the math teacher in our Jr High School.  Bill was in my class, the same grade.  I remember trying to learn this drum solo, which starts about 6 minutes, 24 seconds.  And, it goes just about 3 minutes.  The hardest part for me was keeping the the bass drum beating out the constant beat.




From the video description:
The song is considered significant in rock history because, together with music by Blue Cheer, Jimi Hendrix and Steppenwolf, it marks the time period when psychedelic music began to form heavy metal. In 2009, it was named the 24th greatest hard rock song of all time by VH1. A commonly related story says that the song's title was originally "In the Garden of Eden", but at one point in the course of rehearsing and recording, singer Doug Ingle got drunk and slurred the words, creating the mondegreen that stuck as the title. However, the liner notes on 'the best of' CD compilation state that drummer Ron Bushy was listening to the track through headphones, and could not clearly distinguish what Ingle said when he asked him for the song's title. An alternate explanation given in the liner notes of the 1995 re-release of the In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida album, is that Ingle was drunk, high, or both, when he first told Bushy the title, and Bushy wrote it down. Bushy then showed Ingle what he had written, and the slurred title stuck.
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