Iron Butterfly Pt 1 In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida Original Music Video 1968

NOTE: THANKS for the wonderful comments. I’ve also made a revised Digital Remaster Audio version www.youtube.com (2-part Video Continuous Playlist) . It’s (LOUDER TOO) I hope you enjoy the best I can offer on a great song. At age 14, I had never heard ROCK DRUMS before this … … In July of 1968, Iron Butterfly released the monumental LP, In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, featuring the 17:10 minute side-long track that shook the entire music industry with its phenomenal reception. ‘Vida outsold every record in the history of recorded music within the first year of its release (over eight million copies sold) and therefore outgrew and outsold the standard of the music industry’s “Gold Album” award. Iron Butterfly was subsequently awarded: The Industry’s Very First “Platinum Album” The song features a memorable, “endless, droning minor-key riff,” a guitar and bass ostinato, which is repeated throughout nearly the entire length of the song. It is also used as the basis for extended organ and guitar solos, which are interrupted in the middle by an extended drum solo, one of the first such solos on a rock record and one of the most famous in rock. What made this particular drum solo unique was its surreal tribal sound. Bushy removed the bottom heads from his tom-toms to give them less of a resonant tone, and during the recording process, the drum tracks were subjected to a process known as flanging, producing a slow, swirling sound. It’s then followed by Doug Ingle’s ethereal polyphonic …
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