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  • Groovy sound!

    I saw these cats on concert once, they're unbelieveable on stage. Thanks for the flashback.

  • Just got onto this band, starting to stray from the very mainstream psych, space and acid rock. These guys are amazing! Anyone got suggestions for bands I should look into? Cheers

  • @MilitaryAircraft101 If you've never heard the album Disraeli Gears by Cream, you're in for a treat. Just order it online and put it on loop. I could listen to that album for days! Another one is Grand Funk Railroad. Check out their Live Album. Peace!!

  • @Slohand1993 Cheers for the heads up!

  • @MilitaryAircraft101 blue cheer, sir lord baltimore, captain beyond, randy holden population ii, vanilla fudge, the stooges (not exactly psychedelic but they are pretty bad ass heavy rock band), mc5 (again, not exactly psych but a bad ass heavy rock band) and if u want modern bands with a similiar style of rock then i highly suggest u look up radio moscow and graveyard. Hope that helped.

  • @MilitaryAircraft101 If you like Iron Butterfly, check out Captain Beyond, some of their members were in I. B. The lp "Sufficiently Breathless" is one of the best albums ever recorded.

  • a true little-known classic-and great bass guitar line. Amazing energy in this song.

  • ego death is awesome

  • @IntoxicatedPvP I had to go one year without using the word "I", went mute.

  • LSD is amazing

  • THIS album almost fell through the cracks sitting unreleased for 2 years . Always liked this song

  • ☮ ☮ ☮ ☮ ☮........FLOWER POWER.........☮ ☮ ☮ ☮ ☮

  • @alaxyoung1 wow you are fucking nuts

  • This song is my very Favorite!!! It sticks in my head...

  • This is just amazing *_*

  • This great tune was a "sleeper"...In a gadda da vida took the times by storm...I can remember hearing "Unconscious Power" for the first time on a turntable...Blew me away...Can't remember if I was stoned at the time...More than likely....

  • @DRGONZO714

    Yes. I remember this song on the L.A. airwaves, very briefly. It was in the spring of 1968. I remember that because I was playing my first year of Pony League baseball in Azusa, Ca. That made it the spring of 1968.

    It's too bad most people just think of In-a-gadda-davida and not any other of their wondrous songs. There's lots more to enjoy.

    As Jimi Hendrix once said, "music is the safest way to get high".

  • This sounds like a psychedelic and heavier Day Tripper. Solid song.

  • I really like the video and have known of this song since I was a young teen and spent some time thinking about what it meant . I am glad it survives with a decent video attached at that .who are the people towards the end pictured ?

  • Great images on this video!

  • thank you.

    take care

  • Well then, my hat's off to him, as that is one he'll of a bass line on the bridge of this song. I use it to warm up with before I perform. Is your uncle still playing?

  • @TheSeafarerPaul no not anymore actually hes a bus driver for mts.

  • this video is amazing!

  • I saw them twice in 1968 in a a small venue in the LA/Carson area called the Blue Law ... I was 16 ....

  • Well, whoever played bass on this cut was a monster. Go ahead, try to figure out, note for note, the bassline on the 'bridge'. It will kick your ass. I got it down, but it took me a while.. It may have been Jerry Penrod, but it sounds like a Lee Dorman line, who incidently, is a 'still' a great player and a heck of a nice guy. I met him while I was still in high school, back in 72, when he was backing up Spencer Davis. I let him play through my SVT for his show. He was an exceptional player.

  • @TheSeafarerPaul it was jerry penrod and i have proof because he is my great uncle and he is still alive to this day so no it isn't lee dorman

  • @die420x They were both incredible on the bass. The US wasn't known for producing great guitarists back then, but I always thought that we had a lot of notable bass players, possibly because Paul McCartney and Motown bassist Jamie Jamerson were major influences at the time on US radio.

  • Please return from outer space...........

  • Actually that's Jerry Penrod on bass for this tune - Lee Dorman joined later.

  • 6 people can't trigger the unconscious power.

  • My regional incepcion of an original AOL station up the road never got around to playing this. I have my own ideas about why. Shhhh....

    (

  • The most epic bass song ever. Lee Dorman is such a hero.

  • @TheSportSatellite There were several great American bassists recording back then. Lee was maybe the best. Also Jack Cassady of the Jefferson Airplane. The big influences at the time were Jamie Jamerson who was the bassist on all the Motown records and of course, Paul McCartney. With those two dominating the airwaves you couldn't help but absorb it unconsciously.

  • im not a fan of this song but i love the band :D

    now im gonna get high and listen to this then ill know if its good ;)

  • peace and conscience love to all life~~~

  • About a year ago I was listening to this song late at night and a big blue spark jumped out of my record player and hit me in the middle of the forehead, knocked me on my ass. Since then I've had near-constant hallucinations of demons, angels, and other astral entities around me. On that night I feel like Satan forced me to eat from the tree of knowledge. Beware the "unconscious power" of rock music, because it's really a Satanic power.

  • @negrosaurus You mean this happened to you too. I thought I was the only one.

  • this is five-stars rock and roll. (or pre-heavy metal)

  • wat album is this one..?

    send me a private message if u can plz.

    thanks.

  • @landfild This song is on the first Iron Butterfly album called "Heavy".

  • best butterfly song

  • Thanks man! They don't have the awesome Butterfly tunes on spotify :)

  • Beautiful vid. maded by this great song!! Respect!!

  • Great Song !! Great band !

  • I wish I was born to see this band, along with other 60's and 70's stuff. Instead I get Justin Bieber and Lady GaGa. Woo...

  • @anonymouslolxD true dude , so true

  • qienes fuerin los 6 bldos qe pusieron qe no les gustaba?

  • voc sounds a bit like bowie? or am i wrong?

  • Never mind. I saw it on the album label. Took me 10 years to replace my stolen 8 track copy with a CD of the HEAVY album.

  • Isn't this from the HEAVY album?

  • @Tabstarbelle Yes it is.Amazing how many people do not know that or have even heard of the Heavy album.Great music.

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  • @koolbossjock Yes, you are right. Many I asked had never heard of it. I played my 8 track.....an awful lot. More than In A Gadda Da Vida ! Someone stole it from my car along with other 8 tracks. It took years of asking at local record shops, looking for vinyl or 8 track or even cassette. NOTHING! FINALLY ....(maybe my requests paid off)....It was released on CD !!! YEP...I bought it ! Still love the music!

  • trippiest guitar solo ever.....hands down....pure music that actually meant something

  • Great bass line!! Lee Dorman. Supurb bassist and a nice guy....

  • @kauipaul my fave bassist.

  • I cannot upload this music here. WMG tells me even my 'private' trial video is "blocked worldwide." Youtube's upload rules seem to make absolutely no freakin' sense. And they might accuse US of taking some trippy drugs. Insane people in charge have the 'power' but are unconscious except of self. Nice video, great band and lyrics, thanks!

  • which album is this from?

  • @BlackBunch Heavy.

  • Thanks. I welcome all comments pro and con. All my videos are amateur. The darn job takes up all my time now but at least I'm not unemployed.

  • Yeah, this is a good tune! I have a video of these guys doing this song on TV back in 1968-69. Good post! And there is nothing wrong with your video. These videos take a lot work. It's good. What does that other guy prefer, a blank screen with print on it?

  • @monkeeman1966 Have you posted the video? I would love to see it.

  • nice lead, too.

  • never heard this iron butterfly song before, thanks for posting, was a good listen, listened to it probably 6 times, lol.

  • never was too much into this band, but i love this song

  • RT: yep you can convert this clip into an mp3 or mp4 on that site mp4ify. search on any search engine for mp4ify! killer!

  • One of my favorites!

  • The grandfahers of the haevy metal!

    I love them

  • @TheGiuele This is a cool tune and an awesome band - I had all there early albums way back when. The psychedelic '60's total. But ... not heavy metal I don't think. The grand-daddy of metal is Hendrix. It is said that Pete Townsend once said his musics sounds "like heavy metal falling". Whatever .... I should try to put some of my vids to IB tunes ..... later

  • @FractAlkemist This is psychedelic music but that's what all new music was back then because by 1967 the psychedelic movement had taken over. Everyone cool was tripping (now it's about being gay WTF). Iron Butterfly had a heavier sound and their 1st album was called Heavy. Their name says it all. They were the progenitors. In 1969 Led Zeppelin came along with the same flying metal idea with a British blues sound. Then it took off.

  • @49kasey Well said. I knew that. Those were the days. I think I am still tripping (gold windowpane) and all this BS world now is just a bad trip I can't get down from .....

  • @FractAlkemist Awful, I know...

  • I agree with RockemStockem - Iron Butterfly is vastly underrated. For some reason the music critics have labeled them negatively and there is a Vulcan mind meld there with the hoi polloi.

    Nonsense! They ruled in the 60's. They were very innovative. Unconscious Power is a great 60's anthem.

  • partyed with you guys Denver 1970 Mammoth Gardens w/Black Oak Arkansas 5 star I'll never forget it

  • It always amazes me that Iron Butterfly is so often overlooked as one of the most progressive and Great bands from the '60's. They accomplished what their name said, Heavy with shades of light and lilting texture. Great Band, Great song,..Love it!

  • One of my favorite songs off the first 1967 album title: Heavy.. & lyrics by: Ron Bushy.

    Love the lyrics, my wife & I sing it together when ever we listen to this song.

  • Hear the" Iron Butterfly theme"...

    Thats a overlooked classic !

    Heavy is a good album

  • iron butterfly,blue cheer,lsd 25 yeah!tho i wouldnt recommend it. hypocritical? yeah but i had the weak excuse of being a teen and rebellious. still do the music tho....

  • awesome song! Way to go Kramer where ever you are!

  • Jerry Penrod is the reason why I want to be a bass player!

  • Sitting in my wife 's ricefields in Thailand,250 miles from Nam its gives a good feeling to hear from IB and this time building sth nice in Asia. Oh, Phö launched a rocket to let it rain.

    Thank's Phithairat

  • RRRRRROCKK! Yeah, there will always be some people who listen to I.B., people who have taste and taste for originality.

  • "The first two tracks on this album hooked me (Possession and Unconscious Power)."

    -me, too!!! :)

  • i allways wanna go and dance when i listen to this song!!!! thanks my friend!

  • This entire album should be on here!!!

  • super

  • Saw IB in 1969 (?) at the Long Beach Sports Arena. They were unbelieveable. The were THE sound of the late 60's. I took my girl friend to the concert, I kissed her, took in the moment...and all was right with the world. Magic. Thank God I lived through those wondrous years.

  • @mwngw Lucky guy^^

  • @mwngw

    I am from the south. Sometime around 1967 summertime. I was at a mountain area in Tennessee called Swanee. They have cabins and the rich have their own homes vacation homes. We would listen to this particular album Heavy while jumping up and down on the beds, drinking cheap sweet apple wine. What a great summer. I still listen to this album on the bike, 60s style heavy metal. ha ha ha.

  • @mwngw I got to see them in early 67 in the Valley Music Theatre which was a round venue. This was their opener and it was mind blowing. This is a a great song but a shitty recording. Doesn't capture the sound. Too thin. In A Godda Da Vida was recorded property - just miking a big room with all their sound equipment like the Stooges Fun House LP. Captured their live sound better which was much thicker.

  • @mwngw wish i did... i grew up in the nigger era

  • anybody for some purple microdot .

  • One of my all time favorites. Thanks for posting it.

  • I always liked this tune.

  • Para ti mi Mariposa de hierro, te amo.

  • Dude...this video is lame T___T but, this is one of Iron Butterflys, best jams, fucking great tune to trip out to, man

  • Thanks for your opinion bro. Everyones got one.

  • @cschurawel7 he video isnt lame, it captures the atmosphere really well, i like it

  • thanks for the hug!!! did that other remark actually say sick song or am i slang deprived and they actually meant goooddd!!!

  • sick is good

  • 54 yrs old. got some stuff behind me and some more in front of me. on the surface, the meaning may seem shallow and 'ol fashioned' but tell that to budda or christ or.....and even if these guys (or whoever wrote these lyrics) had been doing too much of whatever.... TRUTH ID TRUTH and ......consider yourself 'cuffed' little 'cub'

  • 21 yrs old. gettin ready for the getdown. rather, rephrase, been ready for the getdown. life in simplicity and happinesss. i'm giving you a youtube hug.

  • 14 yrs old. Studying. that's about it... school, school, school, sports. rephrased: school, music, test scores, sports. not totally understanding why the heck people aren't fixing worldwide problems. oh well. politics are crazy.

  • a huuuge problem is people's pride. if not the complete problem.

  • Pride is supposedly the worst of the seven deadly sins... and this century has way too many prideful people

  • you could argue pride is the root of every sin

  • You could, but then it'd be "the One Deadly Sin" and that just sounds kinda stupid. :P

  • it really depends on how you look at it. whether thats in a sense of dogma or furthering your own spirit personally

  • Well said.

  • I think vanity in this world is corrupting people's sense of self-image, Greed could be one too....But I'm not that religious so yeah......

  • watch hell ride ,written produced directed and starred in it aftr watchn the movie ul kno y i posted this lol sickkkk song

  • by LARRY BISHOP********

  • sweet i love this song! thanks for putting in on the web and keeping it alive!

  • Should have made a live album. Much better sound live. No comparison.

  • They did make a live album didn't they?

  • I heard them in LA before this album came out and their live sound was unbelievable for the time. The only band better was The Doors. The blend between the organ and the lead guitar made one piercing voice. Very eeeirie and psychedelic. Couldn't capture it in the studio. They had a "Mick Jaggeresque" singer that was perfect for their acid blitzed sound. After the first album came out, they changed the lineup and kind of fizzled out with In A Godda Da Vida. Never reached their full potential.

  • That's great! Thank you. With love

  • man this band rocks !!!!! WOOOT!

  • yeah... psychedelic rock vom feinsten ;D

  • I think you forgot and album cover, the one with the dude in the swing and coffins on the back. Somebody gave me that when I was young and my mother threw it out when I moved out..

  • in a gadda da vida ring any bell?

  • such a good band

  • its sposed to be phycadelic and it is

  • Todos queremos subir a la colina......

    Hay que estar muy preparado para luego bajar sanos y salvos. ¿no?

    O.K.

  • Gracias.

  • great solo cant find tabs... help

  • i still lisen to there stuff look check my page out

  • I was in a band that played all of their stuff.we even openened for them at the Blue Law in Torence Ca.We were a Blue Cheer type band with orig songs.Ron the bass player went on to play with Captain Beyond.after that never heard from again that i know of.

  • That is the coolest main riff I ever heard this year so far!!!

  • Thanks.

  • IB cool band getting cooler as the years roll on well done dude

  • I agree.

  • I like the Heavy album better than Ina Gadda Da Vida, though I know the second album is the most well known.

  • Me too.

  • great song,i only heard a couple of there songs before,now ive downloaded alot since i heard this song and others.

  • I remember the first time I ever heard Iron Butterfly when I was in high school... thanks for the walk down memory lane (not to give away my age or anything). Great vid

    D

  • Great song, great images.... well done ***** stars. AZ.

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