The most iconic drum solo ever

Back when musicians actually played their instruments in the studio without cuts

The drummer Ron Bushy, in addition to doing probably the greatest drum solos ever, never gave up the beat in the whole 17 minutes. What a freaking beast.

Guitar player only 17 years old here! Amazing! Real music. Beginning of heavy metal. These guys started it!

I'm 68 years old. When I grow up I want to play this drum solo. Drummers: this is the greatest solo EVER! You don't have to play so fast it all melts together in a blur. You don't have to pound like a gorilla. Create your own solo that flows and keeps my feet tapping and my head bobbing.

To my brain, this song is as fresh today in 2023 as it was in 1968 when I first freaked-out to it! Even tho it's 17 minutes or so, there's lots of key changes, rhythms altered, suspense built, and other musical treats done so it does NOT get tired ... or tiring to listen to it. Nice job, fellahs! Glad you liked it.

I sat in a concert hall and watched them do this live. They had Hell's Angels for body guards roaming up and down the aisles but I didn't care because my friends and I were all stoned. Surreal.

I served in Vietnam, 1968…every other Cobra gunship had Iron Butterfly painted on its belly. That’s how popular this song was 54 years ago.

Baby I was born 1955, LOL I remember playing this song over and over, also played spin the bottle to this wonderful song, going into a closet and kissing the guy, OMG LOL what fun the 60's and the 70;s were, yes indeed!!!

@fuzzedoutwjon8608

4 ай бұрын

My father was born that same year. I grew up listening to IB because of him. He only really dug this album, but I went on to discover their whole discography on my own. It’s a shame that Iron Butterfly is known by most as a one-hit wonder! Tremendous group. RIP to Ron Bushy the drummer...I believe he passed a couple of years back.

Probable one of the first songs known as "Acid Rock". Good back then and still good today!

Hours spent sitting on the floor with my head hung over the turntable, in between the speakers (way before headphones), listening to this over and over! Took me back! So enjoyed seeing your reaction!

@karenj3611

2 жыл бұрын

Me too!!

@spadams999

2 жыл бұрын

Yep. I probably listened to this song 100 times. It's indelibly etched into my brain.

@psmolek7438

2 жыл бұрын

Me too!

@joonzville

2 жыл бұрын

Been there, done that, too!!!

@zimjun7

2 жыл бұрын

I remember my older brother, Richard would take the headphones across the hall to the bathroom (long cord) and sit there and listen to this! Our father would creep into his bedroom and turn up the volume sky high from the player!!!! Hilarious!!!! circa 1970, actually.. I was 18 and he was 23 then.

On Saturday, March 16, 1968 Iron Butterfly played In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida in a concert at my high school, South High, Torrance, California. No one in attendance had ever heard this song before. It was not recorded until May 27, 1968 and released on June 14, 1968. They played this for at least 20 minutes and everybody was enthralled by this song. It was a fantastic concert !!

@deantait8326

3 ай бұрын

About the same time, they played the Rec-Center in the Sepulveda basin in the SFV. I was going to Pierce college at the time…. Well except this would have been summer vacation….

Yes, Iron Butterfly. I still have the original lp.

Possibly the greatest psychedelic song ever! IMO.

I was 15 when this song came out, right in the middle of peace, love, flower children, pot, hippies, Vietnam war, draft dodgers. It really made an impression on me, and I bought the album (and still have it). Especially the iconic drum solo. I played air guitar and air drums to this song thousands of times in those days. Thank you for reacting to it. You made my day!

Best way to enjoy this is just close your eyes and let the music wash over you! Beautiful !!

I was 16-17 in high school, we were listening to this with large Speakers psychedelic posters with black lights and strobe lights. Some incense, fun times and great 🎵🎶

"IIN A GADDA DIVITA" was the first album I bought when I was little(15yrs old) Absolutely loved it. Remember me and some friends all sitting around in my bedroom with the lights out. I had some lights that would move across the walls and a "Lava Lamp", revolving, smoking a joint and listening to this song. It was so much fun then. Until my dad heard it and to my surprise, he loved it, too! He actually stole it from me and listened to it all the time. I had to just buy another one for myself. So long ago. But I love it still today.🥰🥰🥰

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 "Set me Free" performed on the Ed Sulivan Show or the Rascals "Good Lovin".

This was a hard and heavy take on psychedelic rock that got a lot of people's attention.

you'll never experiences these incredible long epic songs again. I'm So glad I was born in this era 😊👍🎧

You guys didn’t know but while performing the song, the drummer was fully immersed in Acid… That is how the greatest music was created… Actually, if you were not on acid or shrooms or molly or a combination there of… You would never understand how this music was created… Period.

Cant wait until you fellows get around to doing Spill The Wine by Eric Burdon and War -- Nobody reacts to it and its such a fun mood

@willasacco9898

2 жыл бұрын

Yes 🙌

Talk about "Founding Rock! "In A Gadda Da Vita" was originally "In The Garden Of Eden" but it comes out "funny" when you've "had a few"! (Gotta hand it to the drummer! He *NEVER* had a break!)

Thanks for having the huevos to react to full length version! Can never get tired of this incredible tune.

I think there's only a handful of songs that could ever be considered true masterpieces. This is definitely one of them!

@guidosarducci

2 жыл бұрын

I totally agree!

Listening to 60's stereo technology on today's modern stereo is mind blowing, especially on headphones. Erik Brann (guitar) was only 17-18 yrs old, was later a decade or so labeled as the original Eddie Van Halen of the 60's.

That take was a sound check and the band went to lunch and were ready to do a "real" take but they came back and no other take was required. First platinum album ( I think). Not in the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame.(I'm pretty sure). Eight years old when my big brother (RIP) took me down the street to a guy who had the record. The flipside is amazing. Their follow up album "Ball" is also fantastic! Nice one brothers. My mom was twin. Best from Denver, Colorado, USA

Just remember...it was the Sixties! We used to say, "better living through chemistry." 😎

Saw Iron Butterfly live in October 1968 in Phoenix. They extended the drum solo by about 12 minutes. Incredible performance. Was my 1st concert at 15 years old.

I knew you love this bros. One of the iconic rock masterpieces. The ethereal organ, insane bass line, smashing guitar from a 17 year old, and OMFG the drums that would have made Keith Moon cry. Thank you thank you for doing this my men! 👍👍👍 Hup hup!

Duuuuude! These bands were a response to the hypocrisy of the war. And yes, it was groovy and deep…Tune in, Turn on and Drop out! Abby Hoffman and Timothy Leary and the slow moving groove into the percussion into the CODA. It’s cool you guys are exploring American rock. Thank you youngbloods. Please keep on keeping on this profundity.

“ In the Garden of Eden” is where the title came from. Those guitar sounds after the Bachian organ solo sound like dinosaurs going down in the mud. There’s an entire Creation vibe about this piece! Rock’s “ The Rite of Spring”.

Doug meant to say in the garden of eden. Thank goodness it came out as it did this way. He and Ron and the band tapped into a CA 60s psych era that some of us were fortunate to enjoy and capture as it traveled through the west cost

The first riff I learned how to play on guitar. Cool senior in high school taught me on the first day of school. This was in 2001 lol. This song transcends generations.

Saw them live back in college in '68! All of us young whitebreads had NEVER heard anything like this before ! BLEW OUR MINDS!🤣 When everyone walked off stage during the drum solo we had no idea what we were about to experience! 🙂

Bought a used LP copy in 1974 for $1.25 at a real record store, remember those?. I still have it and i still listen to it. Thanks to Doug, Erik, Lee and Ron for making it happen.

OMG - I had the biggest smile watching this!! It's crazy that I remember every part of that song and was "air-drum playing" right along. Thanks for the trip!

You young men are leading the Rock Army as Generals! You react to the greatest rock music ever! Thanks! And keep it up!

Doug Ingle,,the organ player and vocalist, his father was a organ player in a in a church and taught him how to play at a young age.. Doug has been taking us to church for over 50 years ..

@alansmith7626

2 жыл бұрын

well said dawg!

@VIDSTORAGE

2 жыл бұрын

@@alansmith7626 Yo BIG AL SHOUT OUT /*********

Eric Brann on guitar. He was just 17 there. Hard to believe he would be about 70 now.

I remember playing this for the first time to my son's so they could hear what tripping music from my time was like. They busted out laughing and just didn't get it. They are in their 40s now and I don't even try to explain it to them...lol.

I was 7 years old when this came out!!! Love this song, this was played alot in the Vietnam war

It is almost like they combined most genres of music in one song😀

Guys strap yourselves in for the ultimate mind tripping song!! Lol

This fantastic song is the best of psychedelic/progressive rock. I was 12 when it came out and I still listen to it regularly. If you want to do another Iron Butterfly classic, listen to Soul Experience. Thank you for the reaction.

I had to be on acid to discover it was about "In the Garden of Eden". Blew my mind forever!!!

Eric Bann the lead guitarist was 17 when this was recorded.

Takes you one place, brings you back, then you can't remember where you went 🎶🤗

When it first came out my older brother got the album. He go for a weekend often somewhere and us 10 to 12 year olds would listen to it, just us kids at home on a summer day and we’d play it loud on his stereo. So loud the construction workers working on our school across the street would ask at the end of their day if we were a church in our place because all they heard was the organ. Good times, great memories.

If I ain't mistaken, you fellas have just reacted to this song. Which just happens to be the second longest song behind "Dazed and Confused" in MSG. Truly epic! Thanks for sharing 👍

First album I ever owned, I begged for it and got it for christmas when I was 7 or 8 years old. Doug Ingle's organ and vocals with Ron Bushy's drums.

This was the radio DJ'S bathroom song.

That was so funny when the guitarist starts making those weird sounds at around the 12 minute mark and Patrick says "It's just to wake up". I've been listening to this song since it came out and I never thought of that. Laughing out loud now. Good insight.

First of all, you guys are awesome, love the way you appreciate the music of earlier times / my youth. It is probably impossible to fully realize the impact and significance this song had back in the day - I was a beginning guitarist who was greatly influenced by the bands of the late 60's (Iron Butterfly, Doors, Cream, CCR, Steppenwolf, Janis Joplin). A year after this came out, at 16 years old, my first band played this song and others from the aforementioned groups, and we did a pretty decent job considering the equipment and technology of the day (I did have a fuzztone and wah-wah pedal, tho). We would also 'drag Broadway' of the nearest large town (Fargo) with the drum solo blaring through the 8 track sound system of our cars trying to pick up girls. All of the songs on this album are fire, if you would like to explore more of this group.

Just subscribed. My uncle's favorite song. He just passed away. .Never heard this version before. I love that one guy was closing his eyes, while the other one was watching. Just thank you, so much! Appreciate that you let your audience listen and hear you talk without interrupting. That, to me, was impressive. Keep up the good work.

I used to hear my brother play this in his room when I was a kid. I used to make that album out and play it in my own room. I would sometimes skip to the drum solo and learn to play it in the air. My brother and I knew how to play it in the air. LOL

FM DJ's, [back in the day when they had real DJ's who spun actual vinyl], loved this song because it gave them plenty of time to take a leak and slip outside to smoke a cig [or whatever] without risking dead air time before the song ended, unlike a 3 and 4 minute song.

I was stationed in Germany in 1968 when this song came out. If I recall we heard it on Radio Luxemboug. In the states there was a shorter version that was played on the radio as this version was over 17 minutes. The title means "In The Garden Of Life "

Gosh, one of the rare long song on the radio. Played lots. I was young, but this song was amazingly crafted. Drummer was 17byears old. Songs were full stories with words cd s or just instruments or both. This one and magic carpet ride. George, this song will be in your head for a long-time....

I thought you would get a kick out of this one - I'm glad you enjoyed it. Another classic psychedelic rock track to check out is "Time Has Come Today" (full version) by The Chambers Brothers.

I'm sure someone mentioned this already, the lead singer was so high when they 1st recorded the song that when he started the opening lyrics " In the garden of Eden" well came out they liked the trippyness of the song and kept it .

And you did this one... I am absolutely loving you two!!!!!

Another one I requested for you guys! I knew you would enjoy it - an incredible song which is highly ignored. I'm glad you watched the original 17 minute classic version. I grew up listening to this album it brings me right back to my Dad's love of all kinds of music. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!

@RicoBurghFan

2 жыл бұрын

I requested it too! Great music minds think alike! 👍😂👍

@KJ-4321

2 жыл бұрын

So did I! 😀💜

The organ coming in slowly after the drum roll, always reminds me of a Vincent Price movie.

Saw them live in 1969. Awesome

This kind of music you just absorb into your soul

If I knew that I only had seventeen minutes left to live I would probably use them to listen to this one last time.

Great reaction to a groundbreaking song when it was released I was a teenager. We were mesmerized listening to this... It's a great album by the way

First Atlantic Records platinum album in US. 1,000,000 copies sold by 1976.

I loved this on The Simpsons, Bart played a prank on his church and printed up the music and lyrics for the song and they performed it. It was so good lol

My dudes, y'all made it through the whole song! 😄👏👏

Then there was acid rock...I actually heard this in 1969-70. A neighbor that was 5 years older than me had it. I remember that he had a black hearse as his car.

Psychedelic music of the 60's....LOVE IT!!!!! So many memories!!!💜💜🎶🎼🎵🥁🎸🎤🔥🔥🔥🔥🤟🤟🤟🤟

Gamarjoba madloba, gentlemen. This is the song that opened the flood gates of longer rock compositions, which was emblematic of the early 1970s. "Close to the Edge" was an evolution of this idea. Other Iron Butterfly songs you might like are "Easy Rider" "Butterfly Bleu". Thanks again. Peace.

This was far out back in the day. Was 17 years old when this album was released. Probably the most famous drum solo in rock history. Loved when rock bands jammed an entire side of their albums. Another band called Love does 18 minutes on their Da Capo album. Maybe not a very famous band, but definitely another great psychedelic1960's California band that I still listen to. This was fun. Loved that you didn't interrupt it. I think you guys get contact highs from this music!😉

acid rock at it's finest. they played at my high school and we went nuts.

Geez I can't say what we did when we listened to this music. We weren't on earth, that's for sure.

Can remember head'n to the beach with the windows down wind blowing and this on the 8 track blair'n as we went down the road! Good ol days! lol 🥰😍

😃😃😃😃😃😃😃 THANK YOU SOOOOOOOO MUCH!!!!!!!! I am sooooo HAPPY you did this!!!!! When I saw the alert that you were doing this I dropped everything to watch you! You made my day!!!!! 😁😁😁😁😁 Yes everyone… just push the subscribe button and the bell so you will be alerted when our guys post another great reaction!! When you subscribe it puts it all in one place too so it’s easier to get at all the content. Again… Thank you for this amazing reaction!!! 😍 Ps… The singer/organ player Doug Ingle is the only surviving member of the band.

I got this album from my second cousin back in 1969 or 1970. I was about 12 and when I flipped it over to side 2, side 1 had about 5 songs on it, there were no breaks in the grooves, none. This song took up the whole side. Now as I grew older I ended up collecting a lot of records, some psychedelic, some progressive rock albums and 17 minutes turned out to be on the shorter side, compared to some that were 20, 25, even 35 minutes long.

This was REALLY HEAVY for it's time compared to what was on the radio. There is of course a much shorter version,or else it wouldn't have been released.

@philpennington826

2 жыл бұрын

I heard a funny story about that. They recorded this LONG version, which a large part of was an improvised jam session. THEN they recorded a shorter version for the radio, but not JUST for the radio. They recorded the shorter version because when they played'/recorded the full version, they were so freakin HIGH that they literally couldn't remember HOW they'd done it, and so weren't able to recreate it for live performances.

After this you have to do the long album version of the Chamber's Brothers song Time Has Come Today

@ptrlxc

2 жыл бұрын

Most definitely

@alansmith7626

2 жыл бұрын

and I TOTALLY agree! Also Fire by Arthue Brown! Oh my the memories of that time will never leave me!

Wow. That's incredible. Had no idea.

That drummer looks like a wildman but he has so much control. The organ was playing God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen. I never heard that in there before. He probably started playing church organ.

Haha, wore this record out back in the day. I still have it on cassette tape.

Remember, this was made during the acid generation. Puts things into perspective.

A psychedelic mind blowing experience, for sure. Awesome, awesome tune.

What’s crazy bros,..is what you just heard was a sound check and rehearsal to make sure the balance and the sound levels was correct. The group had no idea they were being recorded. Don Casale pushed the record button and the rest is history. When they finished he said come in here, I want you to hear something,.. thus,…..one take. If you listen closely even though it’s easy to get lost in the track,…you can hear the musicians toggling switches and microphones or something. It’s raw and classic . Great reaction bros. Thank you !!!!

@artbagley1406

Жыл бұрын

I've heard numerous professional musicians espouse the recording philosophy that there can be TOO MANY takes. These folks feel every studio session can water down the musicians' "edge," their "into-it-iveness." Capture the sound "fresh" instead of a warmed-over 2nd recording. Here's an historic example if IH66's story is in the history books.

😘😘😘😘😘'68....10 Years younger then my age BEAUTIFUL friends!!!So, when will you come to the Dominican Republic and have some fun with me, taste my brownies?.Oh!!! & yes, I like the song , them lyrics.👌Buena musica .

I’ll apologize in advance for being patronizing, but please name for me one band that is this adventurous and creative today! 55 years ago, with limited tech to create music, just four guys doing balls-to-the-wall music. It was so mind bending then, still is!

Suggestions: Argent - Hold Your head up. Atomic Rooster - Death walks behind you, The End of the Day, Devil's answer. Gun - Race with the devil. James Gang - The Devil is singing our song, Standing in the Rain. Alice Cooper - Generation Landslide, Cold Ethyl, Department of Youth.

This song caused a massive sudden weed shortage in many towns when it came out...

The timing of the drumming was tighter than a metronome. Its the best Rock Song / Smyphonoy ever.

As a teen, 14, I found this song quite cathartic.

When the sound travels left to right it's called Stero all sixties and on were recordeded that way

Bro`s - there is no synthesizer, no sampels - this is good old handmade music. Outstanding the fantastic riffs, the unique voice of the lead singer AND the legendary "Hammond organ". Striking characteristic - the rotating speakers in the organ base - by rotating a tremolo is created. Another important thing: the band members were asked if they had a new title and what it should be called. Lead singer's answer - a bit too much alcohol and mumbling: "...in a gadda da vida...!". He actually said "In The Garden of Eden" - but because of the mumbling it came out that way. And has kept until today.

Bwahahahaaaa! My mind is expired AWESOME..TOTALLY AWESOME..(Jeff Spicoli) I’m McLuvin’ this…so imagine listening to this on microdot…You guys are the collectors of cool and oft forgotten music and you have a childlike appreciation for it which is friggin so lovely. Stay Golden ponyboys!

This was the epitome of psychedelic in the sixties, must be listened to with headset to truly appreciate it.

They played this on Playboy After Dark. Really great with Barbie Bentin dancing.