Happy Birthday Doug Ingle born on September 9, 1945. He is an American musician best known as the founder and former organist, primary composer, and lead vocalist for the band Iron Butterfly. -en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Ingle
The first time I saw them perform live in Denver, Alice Cooper was the opening act. They performed on a round rotating stage and had a bunch of those big Acoustic amps in groups around the perimeter, facing inwards. At the end of their last song, Iron Butterfly Theme, Eric got a feedback going on his guitar then leaned it up against one of the speakers. Then the whole band left the stage and eventually a stage technician came and silenced the loud drone by switching off the amps. Next time I saw them live was at the Denver Pop Festival 1969, a 3-day stadium event a month and a half before Woodstock. That was also famous for being the final performance of The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Then later in the 80s I saw them at a large biker bar with two keyboard players, one was Doug Ingle. They were playing complementary different parts and it actually sounded pretty good. Can't say I ever heard any recordings of that lineup.
i was at the mile high stadium denver pop festival in 69. iron butterfly, 3 dog night, big mama thornton, the flock, frank zappa. zappa invented the ,crowd wave, at that concert.
The linked video about the "creepy death" of Kramer explains that his car and body WERE found four years after his death, while this video was apparently made three years after it. It does sound like suicide, except for the apparent statement that he told his father "a long time before" not to believe it if he ever said he was killing himself.
I got my ticket that after noon we were about row 15 on the floor, From the first songs people rushed the stage After the best Rock Group I've ever heard I made it down a got my autograph from Doug Ingle, he was warring his hat, he said you people in Amarillo were just fantastic, I saw Base man Lee Dormain He was setting on the stage, he was drinking a Cold Olympia Beer I asked him are they coming back He said if Amarillo wants them back. Well my Mother was working at the Amarillo Air Port as a Head Sheaf, the group wanted something to Eat my Mom fixed them a plate to east, My mom got Doug Engel on the phone and I told Doug Engel that they played good tonight I told them to come back soon they were heading back to San Francisco Great band to see and watch
Kramer will never join Iron Butterfly back on stage. “On May 29, 1999, Kramer's Ford Aerostar minivan and skeletal remains were found by photographers looking for old car wrecks to shoot at the bottom of Decker Canyon near Malibu, California.”
I saw them in a college gym in 1969; at 11:00 they announced they would play one more song and the crowd almost booed them off the stage. Then they went into IAGDV. They stopped at midnight due to city curfew. No boos.
I’ve always said if Iron Butterfly left IAGDV off a set list, the audience would riot. As kickass a tune as it is, it doomed IB to a kind of creative purgatory that they could never quite overcome.
When I was a Cadet at the Air Force Academy a long time ago they brought in an F-105 fighter jet that had been used in Vietnam . It was going to be a display aircraft in the Cadet area. They let the Cadet Wing vote on a name for the airplane. We chose Iron Butterfly, lol. I don't think they had any idea. The fighter is still there and as far as I know it is still the Iron Butterfly.
Essentially it was his band until he left in 1972..... Then only came back for a few years at a time in the 80s. And 90s.... He was way more talented than the average keyboardist but he decided to give it up.... It's too bad because I'm not sure if he realizes how much people love his style and songs.
@@royrice8021 Your right!I checked it on Google!The reason that i haven't heard before is that for me end it with Metamorphosis,so i didn't know ever since!They have on bass a greek(!) named Kevin Karamitros, witch is great because i am from Greece too.The case of Kramer must be Twilight Zone.. situation..
@@waynegram8907 Nothing has come up...all I have is accounts that the tape ran out and didn't get Vida complete so two shows were used to edit in the needed music to make it a live album. Its a great live album, despite " you can't win" having a slightly out if tune bass string...perhaps not even noticeable. The artwork on Live is also amazing
They haven't seen each other in many years. Danny is still very active on guitar, he's in Canada. Jerry and Doug retired. It would have been great for some kind of reunion....but that only happens with extremely popular groups who get offered big money to return. The Talking Heads were just offered 80million to reunite. The offer was turned down! The Iron Butterfly "heavy" line up is amazingly terrific line up....that will always be missed Thanks for commenting : )
everyone thinks in a gadda da vida is their best song but i beg to differ, get out my life woman flowers and beads are really good songs but butterfly bleu the live version from 1971 is the best from them
@@charleschauffe4350 i think i was 6-7 years old the first time my older brother played in a gadda da vida on his stereo in the bedroom we shared and i loved it from the first moment i hears that organ open
I agree that the other tracks on the album are sometimes better (even if some of them seem like small variations of IAGDV) but the majority will just want to skip them for the main course.
