Iron Butterfly – In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (Used)

Title: Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1968, Psychedelic Rock, Heavy Psych, Proto-Metal, San Diego, California 10/26
Matrix #: SD 33-250
Condition: EX, sounds great; scuffed but marks don’t affect play (CC) | Members: Iron Butterfly (N/A) | Producer: Jim Hilton
Cultural Facts:

1. A Drunken Mispronunciation Named the Album: Doug Ingle intended the title to be “In the Garden of Eden,” but when he played the song for drummer Ron Bushy, his slurred pronunciation sounded like “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.” Bushy wrote the strange phrase down phonetically, and it stuck.
2. One Song Took an Entire Side: The title track runs for more than 17 minutes and fills the whole second side of the LP. Its extended organ passages, heavy riff and famous drum solo helped establish a blueprint for the heavier psychedelic and hard-rock bands that followed.
3. A Landmark Heavy-Psych Record: In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida became an enormous seller for Atco and helped push distorted guitars, pounding drums and long-form jams into the mainstream. Its success made Iron Butterfly one of the key bridges between late-'60s psychedelia and the emerging sound of heavy metal.