Posted on 05/28/2024 6:03:49 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
Doug Ingle, who sang, wrote and played organ on “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida,” the haunting 1968 hit by rock band Iron Butterfly, died Friday, as previously reported by Ultimate Classic Rock. Ingle was 78. A cause of death hasn’t been released.
On Facebook, the musician’s son, Doug Ingle Jr., wrote, “It’s with a heavy heart & great sadness to announce the passing of my Father Doug Ingle. Dad passed away peacefully this evening in the presence of family.”
Ingle’s son concluded his Facebook tribute with, “Thank You Dad for being a father, teacher and friend. Cherished loving memories I will carry the rest of my days moving forward in this journey of life. Love you.”
A mix of psychedelia, blues, hard-rock and witchy folk, “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” was the perfect theme as the hippie era grew increasingly dark following ‘67′s Summer of Love.
Ingle is said to have composed “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” after consuming a gallon of wine. Iron Butterfly drummer Ron Bushy transcribed Ingle’s lyrics as Ingly drunkenly sang and Bushy misheard the passage “in the Garden of Eden” as “in-a-gadda-da-vida.” The rest is rock history.
The title track to San Diego band Iron Butterfly’s sophomore album, “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” clocked in at an elephantine 17 minutes. A single version edited to less than a fifth of that running time gave Iron Butterfly their sole top 40 hit.
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I had to look that one up, otherwise I might have given you an impudent reply.
I remember a holiday weekend at a college dorm. It was almost deserted and i had the front desk put that song on the lounge speakers and just loop it. A girl that “liked” me sat in my lap in a secluded overstuffed chair and we decided that each kiss had to last for the full track.
Played it the other day and it is amazing how 58 years just washes away.
I jest...
KFMK in Houston was the best radio station ever to exist, some stations back then played albums and KFMK let the DJs run their own time, there was no format, or play list.
KFMK-FM Was Houston’s ‘Mother Radio’
https://theragblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/ivan-koop-kuper-kfmk-fm-was-houstons.html
““We called ourselves ‘free-form radio’ and ‘progressive radio’ because the term ‘album-oriented radio’ hadn’t been invented yet. The whole thing was completely DJ-programmed. I don’t ever remember attending a programming meeting where I was told what I had to play. That was the whole idea; it was ‘free-form’ and there was no format I had to follow,” said Nagel.”
90’s Simpson was the best
Yep, I was about to bring that up. First Hannibal Lector movie with a young CSI actor in it.
RIP. Apparently that Ina Gadda album sold so many copies that it outsold every album ever made up to that point. When sales and charts meant something. Now no one cares. The kids have a choice today...blow your mind with the old music or torture yourself with the new garbage.
Maybe a great two-fer would be Inna-gadda-da-vida and Close to the Edge by Yes.
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I minda got sick of hearing IGDV, but never tired of listening to that Yes album. I used to drive around in my 1970 Mach 1 Mustang with it’s factory installed 8 track player blasting that album. I don’t know actually how good the stereo was in that car but to my 21 year old ears I thought it sounded amazing.
in his honor...will play this song all night long
I was fortunate to see the classic lineup of that band in 1969. Unique sound. Doug was a great organist. RIP Doug.
********************* In saw the too on a bill with Jefferson Airplane. The venue had a 360 degree rotating stage. I thought it was Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, MD, but just researched and found no mention of rotating stage.
That song nearly got me thrown out of my apartment. I hated it, but roomie #2 would play it over and over at high volume when I was in class. I kept the apt by throwing out roomie #2.
What a great memory.
A different time.
A different time.
Friend of mine lived in a townhouse years ago. Guy next door liked to party into the wee hours of the morning and sleep during the day. After multiple appeals, the guy refused to stop so my buddy went to Goodwill, bought an 8 track player and the album with In a Gadda Da Vida on it. Got ready for work, turned on the 8 track on full blast & went to work. Said it cured his neighbor partying all hours of the night.
I lived in Subic Bay in the Philippines at the time. Some songs, like or hate them, cannot fail to be evocative of a time.
I was 12 years old at the time, and when I hear it, my heart feels what it was like back then, even if only for a second.
Kind of the same way, that, even today, when I smell jet exhaust, for a fleeting second, I go back to my early days in the Navy at A-School in Memphis, learning to be a jet mechanic as all of us students stood watching as they turned up an elderly A-4 Skyhawk to show us how it was done.
Amazing how our senses can transport us, even if only for a fraction of a second.
What an iconic song. Iron Butterfly has some really impressive arrangements and many great songs.
RIP
what a song for its time...Everybody recognized it, whether they liked it or not.
Those were the days! Do you remember the old X-Rock 80 station blasting out music from Juarez back in the 1970s? I used to listen to it every night on my little transistor radio growing up in a small town in northern Arizona.
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