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Iron Butterfly - Fillmore East 1968 (2011)

2012-02-29T19:29:17Z

Iron Butterfly - Fillmore East 1968 (2011)

Disc 1: Friday, April 26, 1968
    Fields of Sun
    You Can’t Win
    Unconscious Power
    Are You Happy
    So-Lo
    Iron Butterfly Theme
    Stamped Ideas		play
    In-a-Gadda-de-Vida
     So-Lo
    Iron Butterfly Theme

Disc 2: Saturday, April 27, 1968
    Are You Happy
    Unconscious Power
    My Mirage
    So-Lo
    Iron Butterfly Theme
    Possession
    My Mirage
    Are You Happy
    Her Favorite Style		play
    In-a-Gadda-de-Vida
    So-Lo
    Iron Butterfly Theme

Line-up:
    Doug Ingle – vocals, organ
    Erik Braunn – guitar, vocals
    Lee Dorman – bass, backing vocals
    Ron Bushy – drums, percussion

Iron Butterfly made its New York City debut at the Fillmore East in the spring of 1968, recording all four shows from April 26 and 27. The tapes reveal the Los Angeles quartet – singer/organist Doug Ingle, bassist Lee Dorman, guitarist Erik Brann (just 17 at the time) and drummer Ron Bushy – on the verge of its defining success, mixing tracks from its first album Heavy, with songs that would appear two months later on the band’s multi-platinum magnum opus, In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.

The well-defined sound heard on these previously unreleased recordings is the result of the quality of the original tapes and the meticulous restoration used to prepare them for this project. Original recording engineer Lee Osborne recorded all the shows using a ½” four-track recorder running at 15 ips. Unfortunately, audio signal issues made the first two songs from the second set on April 26 unusable. What remains, as veteran music journalist David Fricke writes in set’s the liner notes, “is the sound of hard-rock immortality in the making…” For the performances, Iron Butterfly drew material primarily from the just-released album Heavy, playing the tough yet nimble “Unconscious Power” in the early show both nights, and closing all four sets with the potent one-two punch of “So-Lo” and “Iron Butterfly Theme.” The band also used the Fillmore concerts to showcase three songs from what would become Iron Butterfly’s second album, including “Are You Happy,” “My Mirage” and its title track, “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida,” which the group deployed to great effect in the second set both nights.

Fricke writes: “[T]hese recordings, from that spring weekend in 1968, catch Iron Butterfly – and “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” – at a transformative point and ferocious pitch: a great acid-garage band with sharp pop instincts, hardened and tightened by long service on the Sunset Strip, about to establish a lasting definition of heavy rock.” --- rhino.com

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Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (1968)

2013-04-30T16:17:56Z

Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (1968)


1. Most Anything You Want - 3:42
2. Flowers And Beads - 3:06
3. My Mirage - 4:52
4. Termination (Brann/Dorman) - 2:50
5. Are You Happy - 4:28
6. In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida - 17:06
7. In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (Live Version) - 18:48
8. In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (Single Version) - 2:52

Personnel:
- Doug Ingle - organ, vocals
- Erik Brann - guitars, vocals
- Lee Dorman - bass, vocals
- Ron Bushy - drums, percussion

With its endless, droning minor-key riff and mumbled vocals, "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" is arguably the most notorious song of the acid rock era. According to legend, the group was so stoned when they recorded the track that they could neither pronounce the title "In the Garden of Eden" or end the track, so it rambles on for a full 17 minutes, which to some listeners sounds like eternity. But that's the essence of its appeal -- it's the epitome of heavy psychedelic excess, encapsulating the most indulgent tendencies of the era. Iron Butterfly never matched the warped excesses of "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida," either on their debut album of the same name or the rest of their catalog, yet they occasionally made some enjoyable fuzz guitar-driven psychedelia that works as a period piece. The five tracks that share space with their magnum opus on In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida qualify as good artifacts, and the entire record still stands as the group's definitive album, especially since this is the only place the full-length title track is available. --- Stephen Thomas Erlewine, allmusic.com

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Iron Butterfly – Heavy (1968)

2013-04-24T16:25:56Z

Iron Butterfly – Heavy (1968)


01. Possession (Ingle) – 2:43
02. Unconscious Power (Ingle, Weis, Bushy) – 2:29
03. Get Out Of My Life, Woman (Allen Toussaint) – 3:55
04. Gentle As It May Seem (Weis, DeLoach) – 2:25
05. You Can't Win (Weis, DeLoach) – 2:39
06. So-Lo (Ingle, DeLoach) – 4:02
07. Look For The Sun (Weis, Ingle, DeLoach) – 2:11
08. Fields Of Sun (Ingle, DeLoach) – 3:10
09. Stamped Ideas (Ingle, DeLoach) – 2:06
10. Iron Butterfly Theme (Ingle) – 4:34

Personnel:
- Doug Ingle - vocals, organ
- Darryl DeLoach - vocals, tambourine, percussion
- Danny Weis - guitar
- Jerry Penrod - bass, vocals
- Ron Bushy – drums

Iron Butterfly's 1968 debut album, Heavy, established the band's trademark sound, relying on plodding, heavy guitar riffs and thundering drums. Most of the album was not particularly well written -- the riffs were the songs, not their foundation -- but the band's overwhelmingly loud sonic attack occasionally made up for the weakness in the material. --- Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi

The heavy, psychedelic acid rock of Iron Butterfly may seem dated to some today, but the group was one of the first hard rock bands to receive extensive radio airplay, and their best-known song, the 17-minute epic "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida," established that more extended compositions were viable entries in the radio marketplace, paving the way for progressive AOR. The track was written by vocalist, organist, and bandleader Doug Ingle, who formed the first incarnation of Iron Butterfly in 1966 in San Diego with drummer Ron Bushy. After the group moved to Los Angeles and played the club scene, it secured a recording contract and got national exposure through tours with the Doors and Jefferson Airplane. Following the release of their 1968 debut album, Heavy, original members Jerry Penrod (bass), Darryl DeLoach (vocals), and Danny Weis (guitar) left the band and were replaced by guitarist Erik Braunn and bassist Lee Dorman. Weis went on to join Rhinoceros. The new lineup recorded In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida later that year, which sold four million copies and spent over a year in the Top Ten. (The title has been translated as "In the Garden of Eden" or "In the Garden of Life.") A shortened version of the title track, which contained extended instrumental passages with loud guitars and classical/Eastern-influenced organ, plus a two-and-a-half-minute drum solo, reached number 30 on the singles charts. The follow-up, Ball, showed greater musical variety and went gold, but it also marked the beginning of the band's decline. Braunn left the group and was replaced by guitarists Mike Pinera and Larry "Rhino" Reinhardt, but the group's success was largely over. Iron Butterfly broke up in 1971; Braunn and Bushy re-formed the group in the mid-'70s without success. --- Steve Huey, allmusic.com

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