... "Ball" by Iron Butterfly is a mix of seriously mellow hippy sounds, wacked-out trippy stuff and naïve but sweet pop and all the better for it. Sadly there's no 17-minute composition on this album, nor does Ron Dorman get another 3-minute drum solo either, but overall this CD is kinda ... Read review
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Released in 1969 following the massive success of the fourteen-hour long (OK it just seemed like it) rock epic In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, this was the third offering from those Cali hippie heads known as Iron Butterfly. Gave them a US no 1 album too, spending nearly a year on the charts.
The Butterfly have sometimes been credited (wrongly, in my opinion) with inventing heavy metal. True, they did have Erik Braun's scratchy guitar sound, but dominating ... ...Lee Dorman's walking basslines. "Ball" by Iron Butterfly is a mix of seriously mellow hippy sounds, wacked-out trippy stuff and naïve but sweet pop and all the better for it. Sadly there's no 17-minute composition on this album, nor does Ron Dorman get another 3-minute drum solo either, but overall this CD is kinda cute.
The big, rumbling Butterfly epic In The Time Of Our Lives opens things up, all deep and meaningful, leading into the trippy, bottom-end ...
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