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in a gadda da vida
August 2009 
In A Gadda Da Vida
Annemieke
Did my son take me back in time with the Dire Straits yesterday, today I got even further back in time. I had to think of the Iron Butterfly drumsolo in their ‘In A Gada Da Vida', which was one of my favorites a long time ago.
Well, I found it on Youtube and I really loved hearing it again, although it is a whole lot more noise than what I uploaded here before. And it was very interesting to read that the title of the song was originally ‘In the Garden of Eden'.
Wiki gives some possible explanations of why it got ‘In A Gada Da Vida'.
"A commonly related story says that the song's title was originally 'In The Garden Of Eden' but at one point in the course of rehearsing and recording, singer Doug Ingle got intoxicated and slurred the words, creating the mondegreen that stuck as the title. 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 clearly distinguish what Doug Ingle answered when Ron asked him for the title of the song. An alternate explanation, as given in the liner notes of the 1995 re-release of the In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida album, is that Ingle was drunk when he first told Bushy the title, and Bushy wrote it down. Bushy then showed Ingle what he had written, and the slurred title stuck."
Here it is uploaded in two parts, the drumsolo starts after about 6 minutes in part 1.
You should use a headphone at that point, it is so amazing!
For the rest you might want to keep the headphone on but have it unplugged, it really is a lot of noise. But still amazing.
(Videos no longer available on Youtube)
Here you can hear the track by Deezer.
Access: Public
Oh my, oh my, oh my, oh my, I haven't listened to the entire seventeen minutes since I had it on 8 track back in the seventies. What a trip down memory lane this has been. It's worn surprisingly well, or is that just me talking. At the time before digital efffects they used to get sounds like the drums in this solo slightly out of phase by physically grabbing the edges of the magnetic sound recording tape and stretch them ever so slightly. Absolutely trippy my friend and it absolutely made my day. I just love this song. Hugs Michael.
Yes, I also thought is has worn surprisingly well. But I had to search a little harder with this one to find a good recording on Youtube. Maybe, as you say, it is because this is all so on the edge and it is easy to go over it.
And I just find it such a pity that the drumsolo, which I love the most of the whole piece, is interrupted. So I guess I will have search for the record now to hear it in one piece.
That might be also a great improvement, to hear it over the speakers instead of on my computer.