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

So many videos about the travesty that is about to happen this Friday.

I love the line in the Stephen Colbert video: "We're just 3 days away from Donald Trump's inauguration and... just 2 days away from all of the time travelers coming back to stop him."

YouTube (Stephen Colbert): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3xL8K74Tkw

I really like the points Jon Stewart makes in this discussion:

YouTube (Jon Stewart): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1tTsmNJMvE

The Donald trying to delegitimize CNN:

YouTube (Jake Tapper CNN): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1tTsmNJMvE

Closer Look at repealing Obamacare:

YouTube (Seth Meyers): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1tTsmNJMvE

Five reasons you are an idiot for supporting Trump

YouTube (Idiot): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUrPvUHQqAU


So I've been on a Iron Butterfly kick all week.  The last couple of days I've had this song stuck in my head.  Especially the run up riff on the organ.  Maybe that was part of the urge I had today to go and dig my MIDI keyboard out of the garage.

I remember back when this song came out everybody was so stoked, it was so cool to have a song that lasted like 17 minutes.  All the solos of each band member just groovin' and "doing their thing".

It was decades later when I found the story about how "In a Gadda da Vida" came to be.  For those that don't know, it was supposed to be "In the Garden of Eden" but I heard somewhere that Doug Ingle was so stoned when he was first singing it, he slurred the words and the stuck.  It doesn't describe it quite that way in the Wikipedia article:

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

Note that Lee Dorman passed away after the 2012 video, so that was their last performance with the original line up.

YouTube (Topic): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tfpn3wHoNGA
YouTube (3D?): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIVe-rZBcm4
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCkHanF4v1w
YouTube (single+lyrics): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7vVOV_C3Lw 
YouTube (live 2012): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pA7V68w5hiA