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Iron Butterfly
1966-1971; 1974-1975
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Artistfacts:
| Ingle's father was a church organist in Omaha, Nebraska, passing on the interest and talent to his son. |
| The band, in their early years, had regular gigs at the famous L.A. music clubs, the Whiskey-a-Go-Go and the Galaxy. |
| They gained success by opening for the Doors and Jefferson Airplane. |
| Weis and Penrod would later be members of the late Sixties "supergroup" Rhinoceros. |
| Penrod, DeLoach, and Braunn all formed Flintwhistle after Braunn left the first time. |
| Pinera was from Blues Image (he would later play with Alice Cooper) and Reinhardt's claim to fame was living with Gregg and Duane Allman. |
| The group can be seen in the film Savage Seven. So can Cream and Duane Eddy. |
| Several lineups have appeared over the years. |
| The album In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida was by far their greatest success, selling over four million copies and staying on the charts for 140 weeks. It was Atlantic Records' largest selling album until Led Zeppelin. |
| They were the first band to fill an entire side of an LP with just one song. |
| Phil Kramer had an odd death. He was a computer genius, and after leaving the band was working on a way to find missing children simply by popping a piece of a picture into a computer. But one day he called 911 to tell the operator he was going to kill himself. He vanished in 1995 and in 1999 hikers found his van in the desert mountains. This story was featured on the Unsolved Mysteries TV show. (thanks, Lilly - Fayetteville, NC) |
| Larry Reinhardt and Lee Dorman left in 1971 to form Captain Beyond with original Deep Purple vocalist Rod Evans and drummer Bobby Caldwell. (thanks, Jim - Morgantown, WV) |
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Comments:
| "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" was No. 10 in Oct 1968 top album list, source; Billboard Oct 8, 1988-the 20 years ago list. - Donna, College Station, TX |
| 'Scorching Beauty' is a great song off their last album 'Sun and Steel'. It's odd because their next-to-last album is titled 'Scorching Beauty', but the song isn't on that album. - Lester, New York City, NY |
| The bassist who was found dead in the bottom of a gorge was Phil Kramer, who was not the original bassist, as you can see from the timeline above. - Chris, Bluffton, SC |
| the original bassist was found in his car at the bottom of a gorge. he was a cimputer gennious and the final report was suicide
- Sam, Philadelphia, PA |
| They were not the first band to fill an entire side of an LP with just one song. Frank Zappa's 1965 album 'Freak Out!' has 'cream cheese' filling the complete side 4 of the double album (12 minutes 40 seconds). - Daan, Leicester, England |
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