Iron Butterfly’s “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” opens in a cyclone of electric organs while bright keys whisk up a storm of treacherous drum hits and hypnotizing strings. The song is the definitive rock ...

It's been 58 years since Iron Butterfly changed rock music with the career-defining song, "In-A-Gadda-Da Vida." The monstrous track, which appeared on the June 14, 1968, album of the same name, ...

It started out as a slurred lyric misheard by a bandmate and morphed into one of the signature songs of the psychedelic era. Iron Butterfly’s 17-minute “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” took root in the American ...

Few songs set a mood better than Iron Butterfly’s “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.” Instantly recognizable, the 17-minute-long acid rock standard contains all the best aspects of the sub-genre—a psychedelic slop ...

One of the greatest drum solos of all time found its title accidentally, thanks to a few glasses of wine. When the band was living together in a house in Laurel Canyon in 1967 while gigging around Los ...

Any teenager growing up during the late 1960s, who had even a mild interest in rock music, most likely had a copy of In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida somewhere around the house. Several years later it was still a ...

If you grew up in the late 60s or early 70s, this was THE drum solo. One of first long drum solos in an album. Every drummer knew this song and we all measured ourselves by whether we could play.

Doug Ingle, who co-founded the heavy rock band Iron Butterfly and was the singer and organist on songs including their signature hit, “In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida,” died Friday at age 78. He was the last ...

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