different music

JohnMiller3 · Jan 12, 2003

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Ok Pete... In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

MikePA · Jan 12, 2003

In July of 1968, Iron Butterfly released the monumental LP, In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, featuring the 17:05 minute side-long track that shook the entire music industry with its phenomenal reception. 'Vida outsold every record in the history of recorded music within the first year of its release (over eight million copies sold) and therefore outgrew and outsold the standard of the music industry's "Gold Album" award. For this achievment, Iron Butterfly was subsequently awarded: The Industry's Very First "Platinum Album"! This historic award was created and presented by then-president of ATCO Records Ahmet Ertegun, who went on to become the current CEO of the WEA Group. Most recently, 'Vida received the " Multi-Platinum" award.

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, stayed on the charts for 140 weeks, with 81 weeks in the Top Ten. To date the album has sold in excess of 25 million copies and remains an undisputed classic in the archives of rock with DJ's and audiophiles worldwide.

Within a year of releasing In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, Iron Butterfly had charted a third album, Ball, - which surpassed 'Vida (still in Billboard's Top 10) turning "Gold", and climbed to No. 1. Ball remained on the charts for 44 weeks, followed by two more album releases in 1970 - Live, and Metamorphosis, each charting respectably in the Top 20.

I think I have most of these albums, somewhere in the basement, but no turntable to play them on. /w3tcompact/icons/sad.gif

BTW, <A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.ironbutterfly.ws/index.html>Iron Butterfly</A> was also the name of River Section 544 and River Division 593, both were part of Operation Gamewarden, during the Vietnam War.

cstocks · Jan 12, 2003

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

Yeah!!!/w3tcompact/icons/cool.gif/w3tcompact/icons/cool.gif/w3tcompact/icons/cool.gif/w3tcompact/icons/grin.gif

JohnMiller3 · Jan 12, 2003

...In July of 1968, Iron Butterfly released the monumental LP, In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida...

Hummm...

very interesting facts... 17 minutes long... and very very sensual music... /w3tcompact/icons/blush.gif

P.S.... Did I mention 17 minutes long...? /w3tcompact/icons/grin.gif

RoyJackson · Jan 12, 2003

In July of 1968, Iron Butterfly released the monumental LP, In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida...

Hummm...

very interesting facts... 17 minutes long... and very very sensual music..

And a drum solo to die for...

(best listened to with headphones, by the way...at night...no lights or just a candle)

cstocks · Jan 12, 2003

Now I've got the song in my head and it won't go away!/w3tcompact/icons/eyes.gif But that's okay.../w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Chuck52 · Jan 12, 2003

Gotta make a three hour each way trip today to take youngest son back to college. Radio's broke in the van, but the tape player still works fine. What to do? Most of our music is on CD, and includes some of everything anyone has listed in this thread so far. So....last night I taped the Forest Gump CD, Mama's and Papa's greatest hits and some CCR before running out of tape. I figure I've got enough to get me there and part of the way back before I start doing replays.

I've never been able to figure out why some music appeals so strongly to me and other leaves me cold. I like lots of the classic rock stuff. Perhaps it brings back memories, but I'm not sure they're mine! I really like Segar's "Like a Rock", but the closest I came was maybe a really stale marshmallow. We just passed the holidays, and "Little Drummer Boy" had it's usual effect on me of inducing severe, but transitory thank goodness, melancholia. The boy is into Irish and Scottish music, and I really like that too. Wish I'd taped some of that for the trip. Darn.

Chuck

chim · Jan 12, 2003

Robert Plant, Enigma, Phil Collins, baroque classical, Heart, Creed, Doors, Cars, Sting. OK, I'll even admit to some Duran Duran and others on occasion..................chim

cstocks · Jan 12, 2003

Another one I like is the soundtrack from Oh Brother Where Art Thou!

Oh, yeah... I liked the movie and loved the music. Been saying I was gonna get that soundtrack but haven't yet...

cstocks · Jan 12, 2003

I guess us rock n rollers will still be rocking and rolling when we are in our 70s and 80s!

A co-worker plays trumpet w/ Calvin Owens Blues Orchestra here in Houston... told me a couple of years ago that I needed to mature in my musical tastes. I told him that I had... I listened to 60s music in the 60s, 70s music in the 70s, etc, etc, etc. and now I listen to the alternative rock that comes out in the 00s! As rock has changed I have changed w/ it... isn't changing with the times a sign of maturity? If not, oh well. To thine own self be true!/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif