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:''This article is about the song. For the album, see In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (album).
{{Infobox Single
| Name = In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
| Artist = Iron Butterfly
| Cover = In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.jpg
| from Album = In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
| Released = June 14 1968 (album)
July 21 1968 (single)
| Format =
| Recorded =
| Genre = Psychedelic Rock, Acid Rock
| Length = 17:08 (album version)
2:53 (single edit)
19:51 (live version)
| Label = Atco Records
| Writer = Doug Ingle
| Producer = Don Casale
| Chart position =
★ #30 US[1]
| Misc =
'"In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida"' is a seventeen-minute rock song by Iron Butterfly, released on their 1968 album ''In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida'', occupying the entire second side of the album. The lyrics are simple, and heard only at the beginning and the end. One of the most memorable parts of the song is the guitar riff, which is also one of the most recognizable guitar riffs in rock music. In almost all of Doug Ingle's other songs, the guitar part was subordinate or equal to the keyboard part, however "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" is a rare exception to this, as the song's chorus is centered around the guitar's distorted riff.
The song is significant in rock history because, together with Blue Cheer and Steppenwolf, it marks the point when psychedelic music produced heavy metal. Later 1970s heavy metal and progressive rock acts like Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin owe much of their sound, and even more of their live acts, to this recording. A commonly repeated story says that the song's title was originally "In the Garden of Eden" or "In the Garden of Venus" but in the course of rehearsing and recording, singer Doug Ingle slurred the words into the nonsense phrase of the title while under the influence of LSD. However, the liner notes on 'the best of' CD compilation state that drummer Ron Bushy was listening to the track through headphones, and couldn't hear correctly; he simply distorted what Doug Ingle answered when Ron asked him for the title of the song (which was originally In-The-Garden-Of-Venus). An alternate version of the story, as stated in the liner notes of the 1995 re-release of the ''In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida'' album, states that Ingle was drunk when he first told Bushy the title, so Bushy wrote it down. Bushy then showed Ingle what he had written, and the slurred title stuck.
The song features a memorable guitar and bass riff which functions as an ostinato repeated for almost 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 so unique was its surreal tribal sound. Bushy had his drums miked and fed into a rotating Leslie speaker to give them a phasing sound and also took the bottoms off his toms to give them a more heavy 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 minutes and 10 seconds). There are then interludes in cut time and a reprise of the original theme and vocals.
A live version reaching over 17 minutes long was released as part of their 1970 live album. This version, however, has evidence of heavy editing from the actual live recording. The guitar solo, for example, seems to have been recorded in a studio or somewhere else where there was no audience in attendance. The live version also lengthens the drums solo by roughly 4 minutes and the organ solo by about 1 minute. The version also omits the bass and drum solo jam (heard from 13:04-15:19 on the studio recording). The version that was edited and released as a single omits the instrumental solos and leaves roughly three minutes of music.
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 Ingle's organ solo remained the same.[2]
★ In 1984, "Weird Al" Yankovic included a portion of this song in his "Polkas On 45" medley, which can be found on his second album, "In 3-D."
★ In 1987, thrash metal band Slayer, covered this song on the soundtrack of ''Less Than Zero''. This cover version ran 3:20.
★ In 2006, German power metal band Blind Guardian, covered "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" on their "Fly" single. Blind Guardian's cover is around 3:40.
★ Also in 2006 Larry Rust, Iron Butterfly's keyboardist from 1999-2005, did an 8 1/2-minute version of this song and can be heard on his MySpace page. It is not clear if it will be released on any upcoming album.
★ In 2007, radio station WFMU ran a contest for listeners to re-edit songs down to 60 seconds. A truncated version of ''In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida'' was entered.
★ Also in 2007, the Welsh drum and bass producer and DJ High Contrast released a drum and bass version of the song.[1]
★ The song was referenced in the episode of ''The Simpsons'' called "Bart Sells His Soul" when Bart tricked the entire congregation of a church into singing it by passing it off as a hymn called "In the Garden of Eden" by one "I. Ron Butterfly". The church organist plays the guitar solo to exhaustion, while Homer whispers to Marge, "Hey, Marge. Remember when we used to make out to this hymn?". The church organ player then collapses of exhaustion, a nod to the incredible length of this track (17 minutes).
★ The song was featured at the beginning of an episode of ''Medium'' entitled ''1-900-Lucky''
★ The song's familiar riff was borrowed by the group Chase for the end of their one-hit wonder "Get It On".
★ The song itself was notably featured on an episode of ''Home Improvement'', played by Tim during a fake alien landing he staged to scare Randy and Brad.
★ It is also featured prominently in the climax of the film ''Manhunter''. An edited 8:20 version is featured on the soundtrack album.
★ In the movie ''Killers'' (aka ''Real Killers'') the song features very heavily, almost being the only score throughout the film, and was often split up; with various pieces of the song being used for dramatic effect.
★ Also, in the Simpsons episode "Stark Raving Dad", after the radio station announces that Michael Jackson is coming to Springfield, they announce they will play "the extra-long version of 'In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida'" (presumably to fill time while they go to see Michael for themselves).
★ The song is also present in the sixth ''Leisure Suit Larry'' game, ''Love for Sail'', in which the main character undergoes a severe hallucination after consuming a spiked drink.
★ The song is also featured in the motion picture '' when Spencer (played by Breckin Meyer) smokes a joint, passes out, and gets sucked into the TV.
★ In an episode of ''Bobby's World'', a stone-age Uncle Ted sings the song in a thick caveman accent during one of Bobby's Mittyesque fantasies.
★ In a Christmas episode of ''Wings'', Lowell is out in the hangar beating on a set of drums, not to any particular song. Fay calls him into the terminal and asks what he is doing. Lowell answers: "That was the drum solo to 'In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida'."
★ Hip-hop artist Nas has done two songs that have sampled this same song: first was "Thief's Theme", the bonus track from his 2004 album ''Street's Disciple'' and the second was the title track of his 2006 album ''Hip Hop Is Dead'' using the guitar riff and bassline in the single. (Both songs sampled the cover version performed by the Incredible Bongo Band). "Thief's Theme" can be heard during a scene in the movie The Departed when Leonardo DiCaprio's character is driving around with his cousin while making a drug run.
★ In an episode of ''The Angry Beavers'', Treeflower's doorbell is the main riff of this song.
★ In the Fun Lovin' Criminals' song, "The Grave and the Constant", Huey Morgan states, "I got more endurance than In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida".
★ In ''Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2'', when Chop Top first confronts Slim in the radio station he asks to make a request. Before he suggests the "Lefty record" he asked to hear "In-a-gadda-da-vida".
★ In the comic strip ''Zits'', one of Jeremy Duncan's friends, Pierce, has Ron Bushy's drum solo as his cell phone ringtone. In the strip, the first syllable of the song is misspelled "Inna."
★ The song is played in an episode of ''Supernatural''
★ The song is played during an episode of the TV series ''House M.D.'' when a patient is given Psilocybin mushrooms.
★ Lyrics of ”Paradise of Sin”, a song by German band Die Krupps starts: ”In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, baby, God is dead. He lost the battle.”
★ Every Saturday Night, on the XM Satellite Radio Station, Deep Tracks, the full length studio version is played at 11:00 PM
★ On the show "That '70's Show" Fez sings the song's title, "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" while listening to the song via record, with Hyde.
★ In the ''Seinfeld'' episode ''The Slicer'', Elaine plays "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" to drown out a crying cat in her neighbor's apartment.
★ In the ''Family Guy'' episode ''Mr. Saturday Knight'' the song is heard while Peter Griffin is flashing back on an acid trip in his younger days.
★ The song is played in the second episode of ''Quantum Leap''.
★ It appears in the ''Space Ghost Coast to Coast'' episode ''Sleeper'', where Space Ghost sings "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida Baby, don't you know that I'll always be true. In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, Zorak." After which he notes that Hulk Hogan and Zorak are similar.
★ In the ''Cory in the House'' episode ''Bahavian Idol'', part of Cory's spell to get rid of Meena's curse contains the words, "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida ".
★ The song is used on an episode of The Wonder Years, on the episode "Night Out", when Kevin and Winnie enter the make-out room.
★ The song is heard in the background of a party scene during the movie Superbad.
1. AllMusic
2. ''In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida'' Deluxe Edition (Compact Disc liner notes)
{{Infobox Single
| Name = In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
| Artist = Iron Butterfly
| Cover = In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.jpg
| from Album = In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
| Released = June 14 1968 (album)
July 21 1968 (single)
| Format =
| Recorded =
| Genre = Psychedelic Rock, Acid Rock
| Length = 17:08 (album version)
2:53 (single edit)
19:51 (live version)
| Label = Atco Records
| Writer = Doug Ingle
| Producer = Don Casale
| Chart position =
★ #30 US[1]
| Misc =
'"In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida"' is a seventeen-minute rock song by Iron Butterfly, released on their 1968 album ''In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida'', occupying the entire second side of the album. The lyrics are simple, and heard only at the beginning and the end. One of the most memorable parts of the song is the guitar riff, which is also one of the most recognizable guitar riffs in rock music. In almost all of Doug Ingle's other songs, the guitar part was subordinate or equal to the keyboard part, however "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" is a rare exception to this, as the song's chorus is centered around the guitar's distorted riff.
| Contents |
| Overview |
| Musical composition |
| Live version |
| Cover versions |
| References in popular culture |
| Notes |
Overview
The song is significant in rock history because, together with Blue Cheer and Steppenwolf, it marks the point when psychedelic music produced heavy metal. Later 1970s heavy metal and progressive rock acts like Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin owe much of their sound, and even more of their live acts, to this recording. A commonly repeated story says that the song's title was originally "In the Garden of Eden" or "In the Garden of Venus" but in the course of rehearsing and recording, singer Doug Ingle slurred the words into the nonsense phrase of the title while under the influence of LSD. However, the liner notes on 'the best of' CD compilation state that drummer Ron Bushy was listening to the track through headphones, and couldn't hear correctly; he simply distorted what Doug Ingle answered when Ron asked him for the title of the song (which was originally In-The-Garden-Of-Venus). An alternate version of the story, as stated in the liner notes of the 1995 re-release of the ''In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida'' album, states that Ingle was drunk when he first told Bushy the title, so Bushy wrote it down. Bushy then showed Ingle what he had written, and the slurred title stuck.
Musical composition
The song features a memorable guitar and bass riff which functions as an ostinato repeated for almost 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 so unique was its surreal tribal sound. Bushy had his drums miked and fed into a rotating Leslie speaker to give them a phasing sound and also took the bottoms off his toms to give them a more heavy 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 minutes and 10 seconds). There are then interludes in cut time and a reprise of the original theme and vocals.
Live version
A live version reaching over 17 minutes long was released as part of their 1970 live album. This version, however, has evidence of heavy editing from the actual live recording. The guitar solo, for example, seems to have been recorded in a studio or somewhere else where there was no audience in attendance. The live version also lengthens the drums solo by roughly 4 minutes and the organ solo by about 1 minute. The version also omits the bass and drum solo jam (heard from 13:04-15:19 on the studio recording). The version that was edited and released as a single omits the instrumental solos and leaves roughly three minutes of music.
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 Ingle's organ solo remained the same.[2]
Cover versions
★ In 1984, "Weird Al" Yankovic included a portion of this song in his "Polkas On 45" medley, which can be found on his second album, "In 3-D."
★ In 1987, thrash metal band Slayer, covered this song on the soundtrack of ''Less Than Zero''. This cover version ran 3:20.
★ In 2006, German power metal band Blind Guardian, covered "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" on their "Fly" single. Blind Guardian's cover is around 3:40.
★ Also in 2006 Larry Rust, Iron Butterfly's keyboardist from 1999-2005, did an 8 1/2-minute version of this song and can be heard on his MySpace page. It is not clear if it will be released on any upcoming album.
★ In 2007, radio station WFMU ran a contest for listeners to re-edit songs down to 60 seconds. A truncated version of ''In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida'' was entered.
★ Also in 2007, the Welsh drum and bass producer and DJ High Contrast released a drum and bass version of the song.[1]
References in popular culture
★ The song was referenced in the episode of ''The Simpsons'' called "Bart Sells His Soul" when Bart tricked the entire congregation of a church into singing it by passing it off as a hymn called "In the Garden of Eden" by one "I. Ron Butterfly". The church organist plays the guitar solo to exhaustion, while Homer whispers to Marge, "Hey, Marge. Remember when we used to make out to this hymn?". The church organ player then collapses of exhaustion, a nod to the incredible length of this track (17 minutes).
★ The song was featured at the beginning of an episode of ''Medium'' entitled ''1-900-Lucky''
★ The song's familiar riff was borrowed by the group Chase for the end of their one-hit wonder "Get It On".
★ The song itself was notably featured on an episode of ''Home Improvement'', played by Tim during a fake alien landing he staged to scare Randy and Brad.
★ It is also featured prominently in the climax of the film ''Manhunter''. An edited 8:20 version is featured on the soundtrack album.
★ In the movie ''Killers'' (aka ''Real Killers'') the song features very heavily, almost being the only score throughout the film, and was often split up; with various pieces of the song being used for dramatic effect.
★ Also, in the Simpsons episode "Stark Raving Dad", after the radio station announces that Michael Jackson is coming to Springfield, they announce they will play "the extra-long version of 'In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida'" (presumably to fill time while they go to see Michael for themselves).
★ The song is also present in the sixth ''Leisure Suit Larry'' game, ''Love for Sail'', in which the main character undergoes a severe hallucination after consuming a spiked drink.
★ The song is also featured in the motion picture '' when Spencer (played by Breckin Meyer) smokes a joint, passes out, and gets sucked into the TV.
★ In an episode of ''Bobby's World'', a stone-age Uncle Ted sings the song in a thick caveman accent during one of Bobby's Mittyesque fantasies.
★ In a Christmas episode of ''Wings'', Lowell is out in the hangar beating on a set of drums, not to any particular song. Fay calls him into the terminal and asks what he is doing. Lowell answers: "That was the drum solo to 'In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida'."
★ Hip-hop artist Nas has done two songs that have sampled this same song: first was "Thief's Theme", the bonus track from his 2004 album ''Street's Disciple'' and the second was the title track of his 2006 album ''Hip Hop Is Dead'' using the guitar riff and bassline in the single. (Both songs sampled the cover version performed by the Incredible Bongo Band). "Thief's Theme" can be heard during a scene in the movie The Departed when Leonardo DiCaprio's character is driving around with his cousin while making a drug run.
★ In an episode of ''The Angry Beavers'', Treeflower's doorbell is the main riff of this song.
★ In the Fun Lovin' Criminals' song, "The Grave and the Constant", Huey Morgan states, "I got more endurance than In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida".
★ In ''Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2'', when Chop Top first confronts Slim in the radio station he asks to make a request. Before he suggests the "Lefty record" he asked to hear "In-a-gadda-da-vida".
★ In the comic strip ''Zits'', one of Jeremy Duncan's friends, Pierce, has Ron Bushy's drum solo as his cell phone ringtone. In the strip, the first syllable of the song is misspelled "Inna."
★ The song is played in an episode of ''Supernatural''
★ The song is played during an episode of the TV series ''House M.D.'' when a patient is given Psilocybin mushrooms.
★ Lyrics of ”Paradise of Sin”, a song by German band Die Krupps starts: ”In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, baby, God is dead. He lost the battle.”
★ Every Saturday Night, on the XM Satellite Radio Station, Deep Tracks, the full length studio version is played at 11:00 PM
★ On the show "That '70's Show" Fez sings the song's title, "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" while listening to the song via record, with Hyde.
★ In the ''Seinfeld'' episode ''The Slicer'', Elaine plays "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" to drown out a crying cat in her neighbor's apartment.
★ In the ''Family Guy'' episode ''Mr. Saturday Knight'' the song is heard while Peter Griffin is flashing back on an acid trip in his younger days.
★ The song is played in the second episode of ''Quantum Leap''.
★ It appears in the ''Space Ghost Coast to Coast'' episode ''Sleeper'', where Space Ghost sings "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida Baby, don't you know that I'll always be true. In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, Zorak." After which he notes that Hulk Hogan and Zorak are similar.
★ In the ''Cory in the House'' episode ''Bahavian Idol'', part of Cory's spell to get rid of Meena's curse contains the words, "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida ".
★ The song is used on an episode of The Wonder Years, on the episode "Night Out", when Kevin and Winnie enter the make-out room.
★ The song is heard in the background of a party scene during the movie Superbad.
Notes
1. AllMusic
2. ''In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida'' Deluxe Edition (Compact Disc liner notes)
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