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At age 14, I had never heard ROCK DRUMS before this ... Here's a link for my own connected PLAYLIST for parts 1 and newly allowed part 2 in Standar...
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At age 14, I had never heard ROCK DRUMS before this ... Here's a link for my own connected PLAYLIST for parts 1 and newly allowed part 2 in Standard 4:3 Full-Frame uncropped format.
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list...
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In July of 1968, Iron Butterfly released the monumental LP, In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, featuring the 17:05 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 organ solo (which resembles variations on "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen") to the accompaniment of drums (beginning around 9:20 into the piece). There are then interludes in cut time and a reprise of the original theme and vocals.
When Doug Ingle originally wrote the song, he had not intended for it to run seventeen minutes long. However, Ingle said that he "knew there would be slots for solos". As it turned out, during live renditions of the song, Erik Brann's (guitar) and Ron Bushy's (drum) solos varied from performance to performance, while only Ingle's organ solo remained the same.
The album In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida was by far Iron Butterflys greatest success, selling over four million copies and staying on the charts for 140 weeks. It was Atlantic Records' largest selling album until Led Zeppelin.
The band, in their early years, had regular gigs at the famous L.A. music clubs, the Whiskey-a-Go-Go and the Galaxy. They gained success by opening for the Doors and Jefferson Airplane. Led Zeppelin once opened for Iron Butterfly ... and heavier and bigger was the Zep ... roots here of heavy metal.
Ingle's father was a church organist in Omaha, Nebraska, passing on the interest and talent to his son.
This 17-minute song is number 24 of VH-1's "Best Rock Songs of All Time." The 17-minute version proved that listeners liked longer songs, even a whole side of a 33 or 8-track tape ... Enjoy!
- Doug Ingle / vocals, keyboards
- Erik Brann / guitar
- Lee Dorman / bass
- Ron Bushy / drums
Ron Bushy is the sole remaining in the band today, writer, and legendary for his drum solo in In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, with his primal drum patterns, that set the standard for generations of rock drummers.
Iron Butterfly is rejuvinated with a transfer of new treansfusion of bloodlines. It has sounds for the new millenium.
The band's website:
http://www.ironbutterfly.com/
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This is a Full-Frame 720x960, no additional cropping version of this file upload, High-Def video reproduction and Super High-Quality soundtrack. I posted the same in a slightly cropped Wide-Screen version with this, whatever format you like is yours here, each my best uploads of 300mb+.
Please try to hear the last 7 minutes (to heaven) if you buy the original 1968 album version 17+ minute song. The butterfly's 'return' segment is amazingly uplifting, so well worth it.
Fly on heavy ... Iron Butterfly.
~ 1236bigcat follows you
THANKS!
(comments welcome please)
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Link for my own PLAYLIST for parts 1 and 2 WIDE. See - 1236bigcat Related Videos - 2 format versions of 17 minutes full song original and colorize...
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Link for my own PLAYLIST for parts 1 and 2 WIDE. See - 1236bigcat Related Videos - 2 format versions of 17 minutes full song original and colorized video.
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list...
circa 1968:
written by Doug Ingle: Organ, vocals -
Erik Brann: Guitars, vocal -
Lee Dorman: Bass guitar, background vocals -
Ron Bushy: Drums, percussion -
This 1968 album was the first ever to require a new designation beyond Gold Records, this one was the first of Platinum. Today it's sold over 4x Platinum all over the world. Its 24th on VH-1's All Time Best Rock&Roll tunes. It was also Atlantic Records' biggest selling album until it was surpassed by Led Zeppelin IV.
... The band had been booked to play at Woodstock but got stuck at an airport. When their manager called the promoters of the concert they explained the situation and asked for patience. However, the manager demanded that the Butterfly be flown in by helicopter, whereupon they would "immediately" take the stage. After their set they would be paid and flown back to the airport. The manager was told that this would be taken into consideration and he would be called back. In truth, his demands were never given a second thought. Dorman later expressed regret at this turn of events, feeling the band's career may have gone further had they played the festival.[citation needed] According to drummer, Ron Bushy, "We went down to the Port Authority three times and waited for the helicopter, but it never showed up." ~wiki
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In my mind, this is spiritual music, very absract, music and visions that might touch a person simultaneously on many different levels.
Like a butterfly. Keep it alive.
THANKS WMG for allowing me to upload this music, and video, the rights to which I don't own and you allow me to share in showing for free.
(uploaded here in part 2 was at super HiDef @ 1080x1920 pixels with complimentary DVD audio quality for your 421mb upload pleasure. It makes it better in 'non-HD Quality' (default) for you too, all you need here, since YT has more detail to convert and compress, as they did here for us IMO extremely well. Standard Quality rather than HD here just serves us to soften some of the carefully copied imperfections from my best source of 'original', in my opinion. But if your modem can handle it ... go for it and enjoy!)
Thanks from me go to the Iron Butterfly band, the original video's producers, higher-up WMG dudes ... and YouTube's own visual wizardry giving us quality we want in videos new and old today.
A funny thing happened when I first saw this upload. ~ I asked myself, as a humble youtuber,
HOW WILL I EVER TOP THIS? ~
Maybe thats how a great band feels sometimes too ...
(1236bigcat smiles ;-) out at you)
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