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  • I need acid... XD

  • ..............sbaglio o il cantante è Matteo Renzi, sindaco di Firenze?!

  • The best version...

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  • I guess we just have to imagine the psycodelic colors...

  • the drummer looks like charles manson

  • damn... this song its old as fuck... BUT IT STILL BEAT JUSTIN BIEBER'S MUSIC!!!

  • 12 march Posen Poland concert :)

  • Great song,,I grew up in the sixties ,..Love the music , but hate the cameramen..They seemed to think we were more interested in looking at the musicans noses than actually seeing them play..

  • @dynodon1000 ... The song is great and I love the cameramen... especially at 2:13... there's nothing wrong with the 'views' and u can always listen to the music even if u can't actually see how they played it... ;-)

  • <3 the singer looks amazing..

  • If you want to travell 17 mins in time, just listen very focused on this song.

  • hey spence,lets trip out!

  • I'm not high but I'm tripping just listening to the bass line and drum solo.

  • men i'm so hiiigh right now, and this is soooo good!

  • IN The Garden OF EDEN

  • any body no how this song was named , i do

  • ron bushy...still the best drummer ever in my mind.

  • Man, this is the f*ckin' coolest song EVER. It really is.

  • Strangely, Wikipedia doesn't list the genre as "Rock and/or Roll"

  • I had headphones on during this and my right ear was either a bit fuzzy and the guitar sounded horrible..lol They were really high man

  • @nightshyn I'm listening with headphones and the guitar is coming from the left side, were you connecting the two, or stating two separate issues?

  • Muito mais d'que uma viajem... É som n'caixa !!! tem tudo história, melodias, Guitarra entaum !!! isto posto, digo !!! Não se mais como dantes... Estamos afunilando... Aproveitem portanto, e pode viajar no tempo aqui e agora pois jamais aparecerá conjunto igual !!!!

  • just watching the simpsons episode where they sing it in the church :D

  • @snowskateibk ich auch und du bist bestimmt aus deutschland :D :D

  • @ChRiSbOxXx

    fasst ;) österreich

    aber schaue gerade auf prosieben germany

  • Thanks for sharing!

  • the keyborads ana instearmeantal are out standy.were are thea now?

  • They just dont make ehm these days anymore...

  • Saw them in Los Angeles...I've never been the same. I still have all the ALBUMS! hahaha

  • I saw them in Boston back in 1970. Two nights in a row at a place called The Boston Tea Party. (I don't think the new tea party would approve). They did this song for over 30 min and then invited anyone in the audience to come up on stage and jam with them. Played this full blast on my 8 track in my 1970 Olds 442. Yeah baby.

  • I remember dancing to this. But, what the heck does "IN A GADDA DA VIDA" mean anyway? Anything at all?

  • @lifeiznuts I hear it means In the Garden of Eden. They were so stoned on something that the singer could not say it right and it came out In a Gadda Da Vida. Makes sense..

  • @thegreatokie

    Box#1.

    You might be right on the money!.

    I've just been looking at a site called 'Cracked.com', it puts up loads of stuff that, if remembered, would make you a continual winner in any quiz game, but maybe not real popular.

    Iron Butterfly get a mention in the category, - 'The 5 most inspiring things ever accomplished, (while drunk). (Cracked.com).

    True or not, it sounds pretty good to me, here goes. (go to Box#2).

    (when our two boys first heard this, they were blown away)

  • @twinstu50 Box#2).

    This is the text of what Cracked... posted.

    '1968 was not a good year for Iron Butterfly - their first album, 'HEAVY' had just been released, and it was doing so well that their drummer, Ron Bushy, 'was supporting the band by making pizza'.

    When Ron came back from work one evening to find Doug Ingle, Iron butterfly's primary Composer, drunk (er, than usual), after pounding an entire bottle of Red Mountain wine, Ingle was "Playing this song (Go to Box#3).

  • @twinstu50 ...on the keyboard and singing it". He was so drunk that it came out 'In-a-gadda-da-vida' instead of the intended "In the Garden of Eden".

    Fortunately, for Iron Butterfly and the entire narcotics industry, Bushy kind of liked how his bandmate's inebreiated lyrics slurred out.

    The new rechristened song and album, In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, went on to sell 25 million copies, making it the 31st-best selling album of all time.

    Iron Butterfly became rich and famous, (to Box #4, and final).

  • @twinstu50 (Box#4, and final).

    (or enough for Bushy to quit his old Pizza job), and it was all thanks to Doug Ingle's drunkeness.

    Thanks, crippling disease!.

  • I am wondering why a simple song had such a great success in those years ? If i compare with other songs of thet period...

  • @NEAPULA In 1968 this type of music was called "acid rock," forerunner of heavy metal. The Beatles were going in more melodius directions, as they always did. But this type of music was great to just sit and bob your head to. Especially if you were high on something, I suppose. Until the word became a cliche', this would have been called, "groovy." Grooooooovy......

  • Yes, we need this in our life...

  • MY favorite song of all times they better play this at my funeral as I leave to go be interned or I will haunt them forever

  • fell asleep.

  • always drawn to this, weird, but love the music!

  • that band WAS OFF THE HOOK..... WOW

    

  • yeah man, i gotta go to the bathroom. put this across the air waves. peace.

  • I LOVE THE RIFF

  • i'm so glad Captain Beyond evolved from this.

  • This was ghost written by The Doors!

  • You must be high on drugs in da gadda da vida because this is the album version. NOT LIVE!

  • @super8m0nsters - Live, why not just an album cover, right?

  • @pauloget

    It's misleading. It's not the song "live in concert" but live tv performance footage set to the album version.

  • @super8m0nsters - You're right, was recorded for TV. Excuse me Friend.

    Hugs From Brazilian Friend - Paulo.

  • @pauloget

    I think an apology is in order here to the 243,882 viewers. LOL I'm just fuckin' with you.... Great band and clip. My fav song by IB is Possession.

  • @pauloget Be a good friend and change the words at the top to reflect your admission

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  • @super8m0nsters You're right....just wanted to the plays .. I saw theses guys live in '65 on Acid at The Galaxy Club, next to the Whiskey on the strip. Holly Shit, blew me away.

  • I need good music like I need air to breathe!

  • i can imagine this was the sickest thing back in the 60's. parents went crazy!

  • Thanks .. I couldnt find better sound quality than ur upload .. amzing music with amazing sound quality

  • or Xhosa ... really any language that you can't understand even in a rudimentary sense ... so the sermon sounded really strange

  • Wouldn't it be a trip if you like walked into the Crystal Cathedral or something with millions of hippies and people from weird countries and planets all over the place, and the organist was jamming on this number? Then the preacher gave a sermon in Mandarin Chinese and passed around a plate filled with strange party favors? I'd start attending church I think.

  • @0819kirby Thank your Brother for serving. Glad he made it. Thank all you Vets. Dave 3/67th. A.D.A. Giebelstadt, W. Germany '75.

  • Man, I hate to bum you all out, but, man, the real name of this song, man, is "In the Garden of Eden". One band member was so wasted, man, that he slurred it to it's popular name. Now, does "inna gadda da vida" really make any sense, man? Sorry if I brought you down, man. Drop another hit, man.

  • @47485ksc I heard the same thing regarding this song. The name "In A Gadda Da Vida" adds something to the music itself.

  • My oldest brother was in nam he had been hit pretty bad. When he came half ass to, he was on a Medivac chopper and on the ceiling was a butterfly psycadeically painted , he was all jacked on morphine and blairing in the speakers was In the Gadda Da Vida...and the chopper was called the Iron Butterfly...

  • @0819kirby That's a cool story. Man, those guys in the military just did not give a fuck about military SOP back in that war. I think they had the attitude that "hey, fuckface, you sent me here against my will, I'll do, say and act as I please as long as I kill some fucking dinks"...seriously, that was a prevailing attitude of, especially, ground troops. My dad was one and he had some crazy stories. Tripping on LSD there? Fucking crazy. Please don't mistake my words for negativity.

  • I've heard this song a zillion times and never noticed "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" starting at 11:21 until just now.

  • IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN!!!!!! ROCK ON!!!!!!!!

  • Unfortunately it's NOT live, it's the version from the record.

  • @NOPdat Unfortunately, hell. Live versions rarely sound as bad-ass as the record. Regardless of what decade they were recorded.

  • @earthygreen The live version of Gadda Da Vida is one of the rare exceptions. The solos are much better.

  • @Arioch161 I actually recalled a man's comments after I posted that. He was the father of a girl I was hanging around. I brought this cd, skynyrd, zepplin, etc. with me to her place. I put Iron Butterfly in and he came outta nowhere at sat at the d/r table with us. We were 16 and 17. He was (?). All smokin' cigarettes and chillin'. After the song finished he got up and started talking about the concert he went to where they played this for a half-hour. He said it was *amazing*.

  • @earthygreen Try listening to live vs. album versions or "Reasons" by Earth Wind and Fire or "Do You Feel Like We Do" by Peter Frampton.

  • @SamBlob Peter Frampton Live was the FIRST CD I ever bough. $25. When the typical CD was $11. And I bought it JUST for "Do you feel like we do." I think I gave it to my brother for safe keeping. He's ocd about his movies and CDs.

    So, okay. There *ARE* some bands and musicians that are good, if not better LIVE than studio.

  • @earthygreen Bought* 

  • das beste was ne schiesbude hergibt

  • 10 people ruined their lives with justin bieber U_U poor....

    long live Iron butterfly!! XD

    one of the bands that made the psycolelic rock more than a style... a way of life for the people in the 60's! XD

  • genial

  • free spirit meaning... drug addict>?

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  • R.I.P Larry Reinhardt

  • RIP Larry Reinhardt

  • mermaidcandy: I'm right with you! Probably the most imitated drum solo ever.

  • old like me and LED ZEP KORN VANHALEN DISTURBED AEROSMITH WHOMEVER GOT NOTHING ON THIS MUSIC.

  • Let the music lasts. I never cease to play...

  • I think Bushy was Jim Henson's inspiration for Animal!

  • I still have my 1968 Cuda fastback 340 w/3-2's and a 68 notch w/383+.060 that I race.My 1992 b4c1le is a supercharged Camaro cop car.My 1972 Duster is upgraded to a HP engine in Petty blue 4:30 gearing.SOOO much fun,remember big kids never die!(I'm past 60)

  • @dynodon100 WoW! Those MoPars would be a blast to drive and your Bow Tie is sweet! I'm a big kid too. I satisfy my thirst for speed by working pt for 3 Goodyear race tire distributors since 1980. I work 9 NASCAR races, 2 World of Outlaw dirt shows, 2 drag races and a sporty car race every year. Nothing smells sweeter than a hot race car and spent fuel. I've met "Dyno" Don Nicholson at some early match races and at later NHRA events. What a cool dude! He always had younger guys turning wrenches.

  • @Haywoodsmp1 I went to school in PA. with a Haywood (Phelps) a long time ago he liked cars also! I race in NE Ohio and win about 20% of the time but it is still fun.There was a writeup on my 1990 IROC in Moter Trend June 1990 pg.78 ending pg.149.I have one of 28 the others are 34 305-5 speeds.Mine is a 350 auto.

  • @dynodon100Hey Buddy - I found your IROC @ thirdgen.org/secret_chevys_mt_­june_1990. I enjoyed the interesting read on a very rare Camaro.

    btw, Haywood is just my handle & I live in America's breadbasket. But just like you and Phelps, I'm a MAJOR gear head. I've got 50 weight running in my veins, seen a lot of racing (I hate seeing crashes), smelled lots of tire smoke, broke bread with many movers 'n shakers in the racing world and can bench race like a pro!

    And this song rocks!

  • @Haywoodsmp1 I thought that I should check first so we lost "Dyno Don" in 2006 and he never owned a dyno just used one.He was a great racer and is missed.

  • i love this song my dad used to play it for me when i was a little girl. did you know that this song was supposed to called 'In the garden of eden' but they were so high it came out as 'In A Gadda Davida'

  • god save bart simpson

  • To my FAVORITE band, Finally got me a piece of that land your singing about, well sort of.....

    at least I get to enjoy all 350 acres of it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Man, doesn't get any better!!!

  • A piece strange and inventive for the time, off the beaten track of Brit rock - The climate is cutting with a chainsaw!

    Attention to the recovery Brothers and Sisters!

  • this song is awesome and cool

  • I was a teenager when this group played this song on TV. I was in high school and in college during the 60's and 70's. My generation produced the greatest Rock bands and most awesome Rock N' Roll music of all times and in the complete history of Rock N' Roll! Our Rock music was and still is fucking fantastic!

  • I heard this the first time in the snack bar in Ft. Ord Calif. it was "AIT" training which followed basic training. I soon bought a fairly decent transistor radio which I kept in my locker. Myself and a few of the guys would relax and listen to this and other good stuff after the activity of the day and "chow time". that was 1968 and now it,s almost 2012. I would trade today for those days, but that,s just me.

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  • I remember riding down the road in a 1969 Camaro with the 8-track playing this combined with the sound of an open 4 barrel carb.WHAT A BLAST!!Aha..the good old days!Gas was .39 for prem. the skirts were short and the ladies all said yes...oh so long ago..I still have the 78 AND the 8-track...gee i'm old..

  • @dynodon100 - Oh so long ago! I had my new 1969 GTX 440 and lots of ladies who said YES! I also played this song for hours. One free spirit told me her understanding of this song:

    A fella lives his life between 2:00 & 6:00 and dies (presumed dead).

    6:30 to 9:00 - Body prepared for burial.

    9:15 to 10:30 - Pall bearers walk to grave sight and casket lowered into grave.

    11:00 - Dude wakes up and screams inside casket!

    11:30 to 14:00 struggles to escape and has a last scream1

    Dude expires @ 15:15!

  • @Haywoodsmp1 Don't you wish you still had that car?(440-375 HP) I still have my 1968 Cuda and a 1990 1LEIROC cars are still cool AND they don"t get preg.BAD side they don't keep ya warm at night unless the engine is running.

  • @dynodon100 Hey Buddy - Luv your cars - I bought my GTX new 12/68 for $3,000 - Sold the car in 1976 to visit Hawaii - Loved the trip but missed the car - Went looking for another GTX and became aware quickly I should have kept the car - in 1978, a GTX 440 in excellent condition was priced @ $4,000. HEMI cars were scarce & pricey but obtainable - B4 kids I've owned a '59 Vette, '62 Vette, '67 GTO, '68 Cuda 340 Fastback, '70 Vette, '73 Ply Duster 340 and the GTX. Now it's 4 bangers & 6 poppers.

  • @Haywoodsmp1 You're on to something! My band teacher told me years ago the story was on the B side of the record. It was a girl who tripped acid and she was having these visions about what you said. Guess I should google it heh heh. Good times. I loaded this song because I'm fixing to get stoned and do some nitrous. I never tripped acid to this song though and I wish i would have!

  • @Haywoodsmp1 awesome car man thats the first car i worked on in highschool. and this song is so awesome.

  • @Haywoodsmp1

    Pretty good analysis. It is a very funereal sounding song. But wheres the part where the dude crashes through the window?

  • @dynodon100 I never had an 8 track player that didn't eat my tapes.many days of pulling the ribbon of tape out of the bowels of the 8 track player.Long live CD's!

  • @daddywoofdawg AMEN to that I still have a doz. or so of the old guys settin' round C D's sound so much better! As long as they do not skip when pulling 2G's!! My Camaro is supercharged.

  • Those lovable mop tops!

  • LOL...8 people were not stoned while listening...that's a shame really

  • esta cancion fue la entrada a nuestra ceremonia de graduacion de la escuela de comercio alla por los 68 o 70 uhuhuhuhuhuhuh y me trajo bellos recuerdos

    

  • @cinthiacervantes Nahhhhhhh no te la puedo creer, qué copado y loco pensar en este tema como el de entrada a una fiesta de egresados. Anoche fue la mía y entramos con Danza Kuduro... La verdad se me hace extraño imaginarme una fiesta no con esa música de ahora (cumbiancha y reggaetonera), sino con temas de rock ácido...

  • MOSRITE (GUITARS) FOREVER!!!!!

  • I love how a lot of the music videos from that day were layered like this.

  • Timeless classic , still hauantingly relavent today .

  • the best 17.02 minutes i always remember in my life

  • I have this albbum a clasic forever BG

  • But talk about your one hit wonders! Every other track I heard from their first two LPs was pseudo psychedelic west coast bubble gum. Amazing they could lay down a rack like that and never come close again.

  • Funny, I never saw this footage until now. In 1968, having heard the LP, did a TV script in college based on a hypothetical Iron Butterly appearance. So this is how it would have turned out!

  • hermersite hermasite gladimaire glonass k owronski putin junior o6point5sextr1ll10nsk0wr0nsk1j­un10ratyahoodotcom code o52565285 oh harry pontie career specilist not has no idea what himself is doing putin runns the mother earth planet thanks

  • Simply Awesomely Brilliant !

  • Que rolòn tan chingòn

  • i remember as a child my father would have me play this on his reel to reel for him. id start it then run for my room cuz i was so afarid of this song. lol but as i got older i understand the song and more importantly, i understand him

  • hoot hoot

  • moluvsage...are you in the band? I'm jazzed, I want to hear more music like this & drum solos like from 9:10 on, Lee Michaels & Frosty, keyboards like 11;10 & oh yeah, Velvet Underground. I remember it all & want to hear it again, NOW + TODAY. I'm 58 & my grandkids don't appreciate B+W films. They really need to get into our music & films. Any hints on how to make it happen? Thank you for your input & god vibes!!

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  • Guitarist Eric Bran was 16 years old at this time and so was I.I probably lost half of my hearing because of this song.

  • Thanks for posting this, it really doesn't get old.

  • lol, who thinks im nut dubbed this whole album to 8 track?

  • Imho, the drum solo is one of the best solo of all the times .

    Prehistoric but full of feeling

  • Ron Bushy was headbanging before even HE knew what it was!!! What a badass!

  • Legendary Iron Butterfly .... I was eleven and I got to know them in black and white rock ... I listen to them today as in 1968 but color ...!!! thanks Iron Butterfly

  • I first heard this song when I was 5 years old when my father used to play this and I was told to sit still and not move while he played the whole song... at 11:00 when Erik plays those guitar riffs, my dad told me those were dinosaurs... aaah memories... still love this song to this day

  • @Gina97xls ..awesome detail about the dinos thx for sharing your experience.

  • je les ai vus sur scène à Bordeaux en 1968, c'est toujours aussi planant

  • que pedo con el baterista a de quedar con un dolor de cuello intenso

  • @djketamaniacar se me hace ke por eso se murió.

  • fuck yess to the drum solo

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  • Grazie è splendida

  • covers everywhere

  • canzone fantastica vi era anche che all'epoca l'hanno ballata tra il cha cha e il samba mischiati, peccato che non vi erano telecamere a riprenderli

  • @MrAndreina1990 Questa è una canzone circa il hippie era nel '69 a los angeles. In realtà non sono un mix di movimento che ha dimostrato espressione latina. abbiamo chiamato Psychaedelia. Pace e amore :)

  • que transe chido

    

  • Hey Marge do you remember how we use to make out to this one XD

  • I am just so excited to see the guys actually play/sing this song - I saw them in concert way back when, but I didn't know any one had this on ytube!  Thanks!!!

  • LOVE IT!!!!!!!!

  • Magnificent !

  • Oh the memories. One Halloween we had a party...

  • I was brough here for the simpsons but i stayed for the awesoness of the song

  • nicht zu toppen....

    stark.

  • Das ultimativ geilste Schlagzeug-Solo, das es gibt!

  • "In The Garden Of Eden"

  • This video was uploaded on 4/20...

  • a song for the ages !! classic

  • exelente!!

  • Every time you have 17 minutes free listen this song

  • 15 minutes of glory !!! What's not great about this song. It is one of a kind. Just think that in 40 years it has not lost one ounce of its power. I hasn't dated at all even though it really defined an era

  • Thank you for a video of the entire song!!!!! I loved to dance to this...

  • What kind of guitar is that? The headstock looks kind of like a Mosrite, but I know it's not. Looks like one of those "cheap" Japanese guitars that were out at the time. Any ideas?

  • @BCRSIX I want to say reichenbacher from the way I see the headstock

  • @kd5icr1967 Hey - Thanks for responding. After I saw this video, I saw others, and learned that he did play a Mosrite, through a Vox Super-Beatle. I was amazed. The sounds he coaxed out of that set-up were nothing short of incredible. Thanks again

  • @BCRSIX They are Mosrites. They used a Mosrite Fuzz too. Opposite of cheap Japanese guitars, now they are worth thousands. It's strange, my Teisco (cheap Japanese guitar from the '60s) sounds perfect playing this type of stuff, but for anything else you'd think it's crap.

  • Fucking badass!

  • Thanks Pauloget for posting this. This has to be one of the more inventive riffs in rock music. There are so many good things about this song: the almost operetic vocals, the Baroque counterpoint on the keyboards, pounding floor toms and whigged out electric fuzz guitar solos that sound like pterydactyl cries.

  • FUCKING BRILLIANT!!!!!!

  • This song is legend I was 16 when it came out and saw them do a show with Steppenwolf at the same time. Funny people who have or might not have heard it all the same know of the song.