DJ's used to play this long version when they needed a bathroom break...among other things!

The guitarist Eric Brann was 17 when this was released. Iron Butterfly influenced many others including the likes of Black Sabbath and AC/DC.

The pinnacle of psychedelic rock. Does not get anymore lost in the sauce than this, Now wheres my dang bong!

@alansmith7626

11 ай бұрын

I have mine 😁handy bro if you need...

@judyhuurman1237

7 ай бұрын

@@alansmith7626 LOL!!

Great song! The title stands for "In the Garden of Eden," and even sounds like it, but, due to a translation error, it actually means In the Garden of Life.

@dennish3032

10 ай бұрын

The story I read by a band member was that he got too wasted on multiple things the night before and showed up a bit late still unable to walk or talk too well. When he started to sing in the garden of eden it became in a gadda da vida and by the time he straightened out the band liked it better.

This is before prog-rock, and probably the reason for it. An epic drum section, much on the toms.

@nancymjohnson

11 ай бұрын

Not before prog.

@cjgeel1

4 ай бұрын

A lot considers this song the birth of heavy metal

It's in the garden of Eden. One of the band members was drunk and said In a dadda da vida instead.

I was stoned when I saw them live long ago. Psychedelic! They had Hell's Angels for bodyguards.

@dennismccormick7521

11 ай бұрын

I had heard that, about the Hell's Angels, but didn't know how much truth there was to it. wow cool.

@StevesFunhouse

11 ай бұрын

You sure you weren't at a Rolling Stones concert ???

This sure brings back good memories. Imagine dancing to this entire song, which we were definitely into doing. Also remember buying the album - this song took up the entire second side, and we were happy to set the needle and let it rip. Of course, there was no internet or cell phones back then, so we had the time. 😉 Really enjoyed this, thanks.

Psychedelic Rock.

@36karpatoruski

11 ай бұрын

Yes indeed. Not Prog rock. Not Metal. Organ is Vox Continental (Doors, Animals, Paul Revere & the Raiders, Strawberry Alarm Clock). Deep Purple used a Hammond B3 organ (with a Leslie rotating speaker) completely different sound. Prog Rock is Yes, Genesis, Rush. Different feel.

@36karpatoruski

11 ай бұрын

@dr.leslieorgelpfeifersyndr5143 I think more like Psychedelic Rock with Hard Rock elements. Only ones doing Prog Rock at the time were the Moody Blues, and even then the term would be unknown yet. Pink Floyd at the time was pure Psychedelic Rock before blending it with Prog. later on.

Iron Butterfly, in my opinion this was Psychodelic Acid Rock . Great jaundra of those far out 60's… Along with Steppenwolf "The Pusher" *. Strawberry Alarmclock, " Incence and Peppermint".. Vanilla Fudge, "You keep me hanging on",' Rare Earth, "I know I'm losing you"

@debbieplato5107

11 ай бұрын

Great list of songs!

Both deep Purple and Iron butterfly were out at the same time-1968. iron Butterfly from the US and deep Purple from Britain. Check out the album version of the Chambers Brothers-The Time Has Come Today-similar song full of drums, solos, cowbells and cool lyrics being "psychedelicized" which came out in late 1967.

Saw them live at my college in '69! When the drum solo started, everyone else left the stage! Blew our young minds!😂❤

Bought a used copy of this for $1.25 at a record store, remember those?. Still have the LP. The four members of Iron Butterfly at the time were Doug Ingles-Keyboards and Vocals, Lee Dorman-Bass, Eric Brann-Guitar and Ron Bushy-Drums. 17:05 of pure psycedelia from the 60's. Melts in your mind, not on your turntable.

@guidosarducci

11 ай бұрын

🙂🙂🙂👍👍👍

I believe the organ player is the lead singer. Fantastic reaction. Made me think of the first time I heard it

Excellent that you reacted to this!!! I grew up in the 60s with The Beatles, but I remember traveling with my parents to see my godparents in Michigan. Their daughter had left some albums in their basement, and this was one of them. When I listened to it my immediate reaction was, "what is this"??? This album was the musical door opening beyond The Beatles, and then into the Woodstock era!! What an impact it had!!!! This was considered "heavy" music. Again, great reaction!!

@ShawnSalvadori

11 ай бұрын

Oh yeah, this is definitely heavy 😁 and a fun ride!

Summer of '68, HS awaiting Senior yr. Many older friends were being drafted and off to Viet Nam. Every going away beer/pot party played this. It was a genuine ANTHEM. And you're right, we all tapped out the drum solo in school. Hell, even some of the younger teachers tapped it out as well. Diggin' all your reactions to all my old music - timeless and still the best. Salute !

❤️ Thanks for playing this!!!

Pre: Sees the title, gets up to empty bladder and refresh coffee cup, refreshes newly-legalized bowl of weed, dons headphones, sits back to enjoy. Post: Oh, my! It just never gets old, even after five and a half decades! And, it's always the same, the head-bobbing, the foot tapping, the swaying and then the grinning, and even bigger grinning, and then the finale! And that's all just me! You appeared to enjoy it too, I noted. Great song, fun reaction.

the story is that the lead singer was so high he couldn't say, in the garden of Eden, and so it came out as Inna gadda da vida, if you listen closely, the first time through the verse, it sounds like in the garden of Eden, the 2nd time through, it's definately in a gotta da vida.

i am an Air Force brat, was living in Hawaii when this came out, we called the radio station and they told us how to pronounce it, KPOI radio back then, epic time

Their live album version of that song is over 19 minutes long ,it was really called IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN

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, Weed, 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 just keep me hangin' on" performed on the Ed Sulivan Show or the Rascals "Good Lovin".

I got this record from a second cousin back in 1969/70. Everybody got a solo in this guitar, bass, keyboard and drums. There's a 20+ minute live version out there too. And yes, back in 6th grade I could pound out the drum solo with a pencil.

There is a Two Minute Fifty radio friendly version of this song out there, N-E-V-E-R PLAY IT!!!

@yeshayahuhomberger2079

11 ай бұрын

I discovered this song through the radio version, the very next day I went for a hunt of the album, I just found a pirate cassette of Metamorphosis, amazing album, on the second side was The Jeff Beck Group greatest hits. A very nice finding. Afterwards I bought the album, but always there’s a place for a radio version. The long version is the best for sure.

@brenthenderson3983

11 ай бұрын

That is so wrong on so many levels... sacrilegious..

@brenthenderson3983

11 ай бұрын

@@yeshayahuhomberger2079... Sorry, There is NO place for the radio version, ever! Playing 2:50 of a17:00 song is just astounding, there's no point playing it.

@bobschenkel7921

11 ай бұрын

I agree 100%.@@brenthenderson3983

@bobschenkel7921

11 ай бұрын

As above, I agree 100%.@@brenthenderson3983

The story goes as the other band members approached Ingle, as he was drunk, he muttered the title as "In-a-gadda-da-vida" when he was attempting to say "In A Garden Of Eden".

This is acid rock completely.

Psychedelic rock/ Acid rock

Loved the psychedelic 60s ✌🏼🫶🏻🌸🌼❤️‍🔥☮️💟

Back when this was released in 1968, it was considered "Acid Rock" And/Or Psycodelic. Needless to say it was overwhelming to listeners of that era (Such as myself). I had the album because my older brother bought it first and eventually gave it to me. Very inventive piece of music.

P.S. Chambers Brothers Time Has Come Today predates this. Amazing.

"Ina gadda da vida"... it was supposed to say "in the garden of eden", but it came out garbled or something when they made this song, so they went with "Ina gadda da vida" and it stuck. No, this was way before progressive rock, it's called psychedelic rock... imagine listening to this song and watching the "effects" (if you were lucky to see it somewhere, or else you just heard the short version on the radio) while tripping on acid or stoned out of your skull.

I call it Primal San Fransisco Psychedelic Jam Band Rock.✌️❤️🎶

@stevemccooleq

7 ай бұрын

Except IB was actually from San Diego, not SF.

@alpetrocelli4465

7 ай бұрын

@@stevemccooleq Just to be clear, my reference to SF was more about the sound of the bands promoted by Bill Graham at his Fillmore West in SF - bands like Quicksilver, Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Santana, Cream, among many others - than they city were they were born. These weren’t your average pop groups churning out ballads, but highly capable musicians exploring their own music. JMHO✌️❤️🎶

It was supposed to be in the garden of Eden but at rehearsal the singer was so stoned he got the words wrong

JUDAS ISCARIOT by SPHINX,1977, this song is 19 minutes and 16 seconds long, it takes up one side of the album, it's a disco song, side 2 is SIMON PETER over 16 minutes long from SPHINX

Weren't we cool back in those days!

Total 60's classic! I got to see Iron Butterfly and Led Zeppelin back in 1970 when I was 16. ✌️🌼

Iron butterfly was a four member (organ, bass, drums, & guitar) band. Deep Purple's 1st incarnation (Mk 1) was based on Vanilla Fudge (a New York more or less Psychedelic, & early Prog Rock band) whose 1st album (untitled) came out June 2, 1967. Iron Butterfly was a more or less CA Psychedelic band, whose 1st album, Heavy, came out Jan. 22, 1968. Iron Butterfly's 2nd album, In A Gadda Da Vida, came out June 14, 1968. Deep Purple (Mk 1) (an English early Prog Rock band) was formed in March 1968. Their 1st album, Shades of Deep Purple, came out July 17, 1968.

Very first rock album I ever heard, thanks to my older brother...Blew my 7 year old mind! I followed his musical journey throughout my childhood and it had a huge influence on me down through my life!

You should check out the live version, its awesome. ☮🥁☘

Woot! Psychedelic Era!! Late 60’s! LSD and Maryjane! Listening to some of the greatest Rock groups EVER!🤘✌️❤️🎼🎸🥁🎹

This was categorized as acid/psychedelic rock. There was a seriously chopped and shortened version done for AM (FM didn't surface widely for a number of years later) radio. The common practice at the time was to keep songs at around 3-1/2 minutes or less). A lot of great classic songs from that era suffered the same treatment, like the Doors "Light My Fire". The title was about Adam and Eve planned to be titled "In the Garden Of Eden", but writer/keyboardist Doug Ingle was so drunk when he told it to the rest of the band, it came out "In A Gadda Da Vida". FYI, the guitarist (Erik Brann) was just 17 at the time of the recording (the same age as Justin Hayward when he penned the monumental epic "Nights in White Satin").

You just took me back to 1968, the year I graduated High School. 😆

Deep purple HUSH came out in 1968 also

This came out in 1968 - I was a freshman in college in 1972 and one of my dorm mates created an interesting story to go along with this tune. Wish I had written it down back then.

Psychedelic rock! This song always had a wicked light show with it. Either tie dyed patterns or colored oil in water projected on the wall!

@suecook1326

11 ай бұрын

Light show example. This would pulse on the full wall behind the band. kzread.info/dash/bejne/hotrlZWOpJjgdZM.html

DJ bathroom break song! This is just a pure psychedelic rock JAM. Head-banging before head-banging was a thing. MANY heavy metal bands drew their inspiration from early bands like Iron Butterfly & Iron Maiden. Thanks for your reaction.

OMGOSH the memories! I think I was about 9yo and being with my family in a white convertible Cadillac- 1968-69, on a hot summer day cruising around Niagara Falls for the day and jamming to this song Loudly!❤❤❤ Dam! 9 yo!!😂😂

@ShawnSalvadori

11 ай бұрын

Hey, that's a nice memory to have there 😅

I have the original vinyl it's psychedelic hippie trippin music like magic carpet ride and lot of other cool music, in the late 80s I got into sixties psychedelic rock music as a guitar player so it opened up so much for me it can be mind bending

It was the precursor of prog-metal. 🙂

This sounds like rock and/or roll!

I was 16 sitting in my bedroom black lights.. the scent of patchouli... 2:08 stero blasting...unhappy parents lol! Yes. The boys loved the drum part. The ultimate stoner song...especially the longezt version. Psychadelic!✌

The song that defined "Acid Rock", 1968 style.

Psychedelic Rock, about a decade before Prog was a thing. But built on the same artistic aesthetic.

The band member who wrote this came home to their apartment with a gallon of wine, sat at the piano. Another band member member got home and the composer played it for him. He asked what he called it and the drunken composer tried to say, In The Garden Of Eden.

Played this when i was a rock star many years ago

I hope I'm not repeating what other people have already said but I believe both bands came out about the same time. The Deep Purple cover Hush came out in 1968 and that was off of their first album I believe.

We didn't have our noses to our phones, we had our heads over the turntable between the speakers! Lol Can't tell you how much time I spent on this one!

I bet Ray Manzarak loved this keyboard player

Rock n roll + marching band + church music 🎶

great psych freakout...love the tone of the guitar....hope you had a right proper buzz on mate!....peace

VH1 called this 1968 "prog Rock" song the 24th greatest hard rock song of all time. It is also widely acknowledged as a heavy metal music influence and one of the genre's forefathers. This was a meditative sonic trip to close your eyes, relax and dive deep unto the song. There really wasn't anything like this in 1968, I'm sure it influenced many musicians to create long jams.

@ShawnSalvadori

11 ай бұрын

Definitely feels like they created a footprint for others to follow

IAGDV is a masterpiece

Bart simpson pranked the organist at church as she thought it was a hymn on The Simpsons. She played the entire song and collapsed at the end

cool but best heard in a black ballroom lit with black light and a light show. sf had an underground fm station which would play the whole thing, ditto the end and the chambers brothers time.

Psychedelic

Before prog, but contributing the liberty of length, as their main innovation, Iron Butterfly could float like a butterfly, but be hard and heavy like iron. So definitely protometal. The prepared guitar sounds, for lack of better term, and the drum solo, were also innovations of this song. Neologizing a word for the title yet another. Even the very long hair was brand new at the time. At the time, my brother, here in the South, won a Science honor and was flown to New York City, where he got to meet Muhammad Ali and shake his very large hand, and see the top of the Empire State Building, then the world's tallest. When he returned, however, he brought a copy of that record, and a Peter Max Manhattan phone book. Groovy was a go-go going. As his chum was a DJ, he then played the whole thing for Charlotte to hear, and so we were among the first cities to be apprised of the new way. I could play the drum solo with my feet, it was that familiar...and easy really...but persistent, like tribal drums. Great memory, thanks man.

Great song!!! It's on the "ManHunter" Soundtrack. Check out the movie. 😄

Dropping off another artist that is also considered "The Godfather of Grunge rock" Neil Young is one of the most influential rock musicians of all time. While his influence is far reaching, the genre of grunge, which is linked so closely to Seattle grunge in the 1990's. And because of Young's willingness to be politically outspoken and socially conscious made an impact on up-and-coming bands such as Phish, Pearl Jam, and Nirvana. Kurt Cobain and Eddie Vedder both were quick to point out how much they owed their success to Young. Here's a live performance, if interested. "Neil Young - Long May You Run (Unplugged)" and if you'd like to checkout Pearl Jam then give this one a listen "Pearl Jam - Black - Acustico - Unplugged - HD" Eddie Vedder is the lead singer and is known for his powerful and deep baritone voice. Peace out, bro

Flash back😅 This takes me back to my college days. It would be playing in the snack bar on campus constantly. Radio stations wouldn't play it much because of the length. Some AOR stations played it...AOR is album oriented rock. Glory days❤❤❤❤

You have to check out the video! Ron is on FIRE!!!!!!!!!!

Parts of this song served as a great backdrop for the climatic scene in "Manhunter" the 1986 movie.

In-A-Godda-Da-vida +LSD = in the garden of edam

Saw these guys in concert Nov. 1968 at Drew Univ, Madison, NJ. Great show, as good as the album. Of course the mescaline that we dropped might've had something to do with it. Met the band after the show, but they were more interested in the girls we were with. They're also partially to blame for my tinnitus, thanks to my laying my head down on the floor right between the bookshelf speakers and cranking it up.

In the garden of eden by I Ron Butterfly

☮️💙💙💙🔥😎

Not much here in the way of lyrics but this band sure set the stage for psychedelic rock and extended jams. They've got listening sense, too; like Quentin Tarantino in his movies, this band knows when to stop with the repetitive or stretched-out sections and move on to something entirely different but equally enthralling. If you're adventurous and hunt around on KZread, there's a "live" performance (it might be a video performance with the song overlayed), but it's nice to see the guys synch up with each other. Let's go to church with that organ. It morphs into a Middle Eastern mode in another section. Definitely a nice composition with each instrument getting some highlights and focus. I'm usually happy listening to this tune, but you, CR, are eatin' it up!!! Good choice. Have a look for that "live" version if it sounds interesting.

what they really meant was: 'In the Garden of Eden'...just sayin':)

Acid rock

Im guessing this song and Frankenstein were songs where drugs were used.

As a companion to this reaction, I highly recommend Germany's Sina Doering and friends' KZread cover of In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida. 18-year-old (at the time) Sina duplicates the late Ron Bushy's drumming to perfection and the rest of the band is great too. See kzread.info/dash/bejne/qq16l6NwcqnUodo.html.

We seen them perform in 68 at the coliseum in Phoenix. It was a sellout. Then seen them in 80 as well. ✌️🤠🏞️🐂

also, this isn't so much prog, as they were just a one hit wonder, don't remember anything else they ever put out. But this was a monster.

@JimReem

11 ай бұрын

probably more acid rock, now that I think about what we called stuff back then.

hey rush had only 3

one of the first albums that i bought as a kid. you're probably thinking of the bart simpson version.

@realitybytez

11 ай бұрын

come to think of it, this just might be the first time i've listened to it with high-quality headphones. a newfound respect for this recording.

Back in the day, my friends and I thought this song was lame crap. Especially that drum solo. We were listening to the Beatles, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Jazz Fusion. I can appreciate it now though.

They were practing with tape on