Iron Butterfly's biggest hit, “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida,” was a 17-minute psychedelic epic that epitomized 1960s rock indulgence. Jerry Sanders, San Diego's former mayor and chief of police, was a big fan.
Doug Ingle, the lead singer and organist of Iron Butterfly, the San Diego-bred band that turned a purportedly misheard lyric into “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida,” the 17-minute magnum opus that propelled acid-rock into the outer reaches of excess in the late 1960s, died May 24. He was 78. His death was confirmed in a social media post by his son, Doug Ingle Jr. The post did not say where he died or specify a cause. “Dad passed away peacefully this evening in the presence of family,' Ingle Jr.
’ They loved it.” While the song is an enduring artifact of its times, its legacy remains complicated. “With its endless, droning minor-key riff and mumbled vocals, ‘In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida’ is arguably the most notorious song of the acid-rock era,” Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote on the website Allmusic.com. He noted that the song rambles on for what “to some listeners sounds like eternity.
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