Iron Butterfly - Easy Rider (Let the Wind Pay the Way)

This is a live performance from 60's band Iron Butterfly. They play the song "Easy Rider (Let the Wind Pay the Way)" often shortened to "Easy Rider". The song appears on the band's 1970 album "Metamorphosis". This live performance is from 1968 which means that they are playing the song prior to recording it. This song was released as a single, but didn't do that well in the charts, it topped at no. 66 on the Billboard Charts and was considered a minor hit. The album is also famous for being one of the first to ever feature talk box on a rock album.
On this song one of the guitarists use slide and the other doesn't. The song has that 60's/70's Middle Eastern sound combined with a more traditional rock sound. Doug Ingle is the lead singer on this song and he also plays the organ on it.
I think it's a pretty good song, and I've always enjoyed it and I hope you will too.

Enjoy ; )

Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

This is a live performance from 1999 by the band "Iron Butterfly" playing their classic 1968 song In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (a play on the saying "In The Garden of Eden", probably what it sounds like on an acid trip). It was released in 1968, and it is famous for being one of the longest songs ever recorded on a studio album. The album version runs longer than 15 minutes, and most of it is musical breaks. It has been hated for this by many, but it was the 60's, so give them a break. It isn't a bad song, but listening to 15 minutes of playing is a little long. Not saying that I hate long recordings, I mean Stevie Ray Vaughan and Albert King's version of "Blues at Sunrise" is also about 15 minutes long, and I love that, but a little more is going on during that performance. Any ways, sidetracked.
This live version is 10 minutes, and cuts off a little at the end, probably uploaded when the youtube limit was 10 minutes for non-partners. The list of members this band has had is endless, and I don't feel like getting in to it, but all I can say is that this isn't the original line-up. They do a good job though.

Enjoy ; )
(Click here for a funny little gag from The Simpsons including this song)