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I came across this record in a time I was deeply into the psychedelic music scene. I found a second hand vinyl copy and was attracted by it's colourfull album cover which is some kind of collage of hippies and hippy attributes. Since In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida was without doubt Iron Butterfly's biggest succes this long side-filling track is included in this liveshow. With the first halve consisting of shorter tracks this show follows the same approach of the In-A-Gadda-Da- Vida record. The question arises if this record is better or worse then the original one?

The shorter tracks on the first side of the record do please me. The tracks are -although live recorded- better produced then the IAGDV record and also of better quality if we look from the effective songwriting point of view. Iron Butterfly became never one of my favourite psychedelic bands, but their hard rocking psychedelia with a sound between The Doors and Vanilla Fudge does succeed on some moments here. The keyboard-guitar-drum and sang have all there great moments. The vocalist sings at best at "Filled with Fear" where he has some spooky vocal sessions. However, some of the outcry's of him (especcially during the song of the IAGDV record) are terrible and sounds like granny yawning into the microphone. Besides this point the band is playing quiet good and sounds professional. I don't have a preference for the live or the original version of the IAGDV titletrack and because of the better first side of the record this record as a whole is somewhat better.

3,5 stars for this legendary band.

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