In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
| In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida | |
|---|---|
| Iron Butterfly | |
| publication | 1968 |
| length | 17:03 |
| Genre (s) | Psychedelic rock , hard rock |
| Author (s) | Doug Ingle |
| Publisher (s) | Atco Records |
| Award (s) | RR-HoF |
| album | In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida |
| Cover version | |
| 1980 | Boney M. |
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida is a 17-minute rock piece by the group Iron Butterfly from 1968 from the album of the same name , the entire second page of which it occupies. The rather simple text can only be heard at the beginning and at the end of the song, the long middle section of the song consists of various instrumental improvisations.
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame . The song is number 24 on VH1's list of the greatest hard rock songs of all time .
Title interpretations
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Various stories have spread about the origin of the title. A known version says that the song title, in fact in the Garden of Eden ( "In the Garden of Eden was said to be"), but during rehearsals and recordings of the singer vernuschelte Doug Ingle this line under the influence of LSD in the nonsense phrase In-A -Gadda-Da-Vida . In the booklet for the re-release of the associated album in 1995, it says that Ingle pronounced the title after enjoying more than two and a half liters of wine; the drummer Ron Bushy found the onomatopoeia to be catchy and therefore wrote it down. The group's best-of CD claims that Bushy heard the track through headphones and so simply misunderstood it when Doug Ingle told him the title of the song.
song
The song consists of a catchy guitar - and bass - riff that repeats itself over almost the entire song continuously. The riff is used as the basis for extensive organ and guitar solos , which are interrupted in the middle by an extended drum solo . This is remarkable in that up to this point, drum solos played only a very minor role in rock. This makes it one of the first drum solos on a rock recording and is probably also one of the most famous in rock history .
Single version
The usual single version of this song only contains Ron Bushy's drum solo (and a little more) and just under three minutes of music; it stayed in the US charts for 17 weeks.
Cover versions
The piece's popularity continues unabated. Numerous cover versions are still made. As early as 1970, a (heavily shortened) version of the piece appeared on James Last's LP Non Stop Dancing 10 . The best-known versions come from Blind Guardian (2006 on their single Fly ), Slayer (1987 on the film soundtrack for Unter Null ), Boney M. (1980 under the title Gadda-Da-Vida , 12th place in the single charts in Austria), 16 BIT (1987 on the album "Inaxycvgtgb"), Weird Al Yankovic and Frank Zappa (1988 on the album Guitar ). Helge Schneider , the rapper Nas and the German hip-hop band Freundeskreis sampled the song prominently. There's a 1976 version by The Residents on The Third Reich 'n Roll .
Film music
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida was also often used in film and television , mostly in relation to the hippie or '68 movement and often in a parodic sense. The song is mentioned in Listen, Who's That Hammering , the Simpsons , Seinfeld , the 70s , Dr. House and Futurama . In the films Blutmond , Freddy's Finale - Nightmare on Elm Street 6 , Resident Evil: Extinction and The New Sorrows of Young W. the song is used to build up tension.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: The Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll
- ↑ VH1's 100 Greatest Hard Rock Songs . stereogum.com. Accessed on March 13, 2017 (English)
- ↑ Chart sources: US1 US2
- ↑ Gadda-Da-Vida (Boney M.) in the Austrian charts