In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida - Iron Butterfly

...time of its release. In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida starts with the ridiculously happy Most Anything That You Want, where Dorman puts down a fabulous sliding bassline that works to great effect with Dorman's B-movie baritone singing. A really fun bouncy song that remains one of the forgotten classics of the 1960's, followed by the quaint tripe of Flowers And Beads, a dippy surf/pysch love song with cringe-inducing lyrics "flowers and beads are one thing, but ...
...it properly, and thus In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida it was. Again the lyrics are nothing special "don't you know that I love you, don't you know that I'll always be true, girl won't you come with me, and take my hand, girl won't you come with me, and walk this land....." that 's basically it.....but the music makes up for it. A blues riff in Fmaj (it is!! it is!!) all the members of the band get to have a solo: Brann, after some earlier featherweight guitar ...

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Review of In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida - Iron Butterfly

Released in 1968, this is one of the albums that bridged the gap between the 1960's pop sounds and the heavier blues that came later on. It's very much an album of two halves, Brian, side one being hippie-dippie flower power stuff, but no worse for it, and side two consisting of the title track alone, in all its majestic seventeen minutes. The US FM stations loved it, and it opened the record company's eyes to the sheer huge financial prospects of ...
...platinum, and to date has sold something like 27 million copies! Waddya mean, you've never heard of it? The band, coming out of Los Angeles in 1968, were Doug Ingle (keyboards, vocals), Lee Dorman (bass), Ron Bushy (drums) and the late Erik Brann (guitar), who sadly died not too long ago aged only 52. In A Gadda Da Vida was the bands second album. Reputedly so named because Doug Ingle was so wacked out during recording that he couldn't sing the ...

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Review of In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida - Iron Butterfly