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The middle of the song features a two-and-a-half-minute Ron Bushy drum solo. A 2-minute-52-second 45-rpm version of "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" was Iron Butterfly's only song to reach the top 40, reaching number 30, [7] while the album itself reached number four on the album chart and has sold over 30 million copies.
Iron Butterfly was an American rock band formed in San Diego, California, in 1966. They are best known for the 1968 hit " In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida ", providing a dramatic sound that led the way towards the development of hard rock and heavy metal music.
Iron Butterfly had amassed a considerable body of material by the time Heavy was recorded, much of which was held over for later albums. In addition to the ten songs on Heavy, songs from this era include "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" (later recorded for the album of the same name), "Lonely Boy", "Real Fright", "Filled with Fear" (all later recorded for Ball), "Evil Temptation" (an instrumental version ...
This re-release includes three versions of "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida": the 17:05 studio version; the live version from Iron Butterfly's Live (which includes a short organ intro); and the single edit. The deluxe edition also includes a new cover, similar to the original, but with a moving butterfly flapping its wings and the band members jamming to ...
Doug Ingle, who co-founded the heavy rock band Iron Butterfly and was the singer and organist on songs including their signature hit, “In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida,” died Friday at age 78. He was the ...
Fred Thomas of AllMusic called the album "grainy" and that the band was captured "in their earliest, roughest form, working out songs heavy on organ stabs and blues riffing". He described it as "spirited jamming" and a "particularly sharp" club performance. The performance of the "Iron Butterfly theme" was regarded "a high point" on the record.
Fillmore East 1968 is a live double album by Iron Butterfly, [1] released on 17 October 2011 by Rhino Entertainment. [2] It was recorded on 26 and 27 April 1968 in Fillmore East in New York City. [3] The albums featured songs from their first album Heavy and three songs from second album In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (released three months after these ...
Evolution: The Best of Iron Butterfly is the fifth and first greatest hits album released in 1971 by American rock band Iron Butterfly. Songs come from four of their albums: Heavy, In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, Ball and Metamorphosis.