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Points: 2585 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 19 2011 at 03:33
Originally posted by giselle giselle wrote:

Originally posted by jean-marie jean-marie wrote:

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Many people say that Prog as a musical form began long before King Crimson. I don't agree, but one of the interesting strands that was going on was Iron Butterfly. I thought they were Canadian? I misstook, thought you say IB is canadian Embarrassed

I said I thought they were. I was wrong of course! But I found them to be a band that was trying to do something different and interesting at the time.
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Originally posted by jean-marie jean-marie wrote:

Originally posted by giselle giselle wrote:

Many people say that Prog as a musical form began long before King Crimson. I don't agree, but one of the interesting strands that was going on was Iron Butterfly. I thought they were Canadian? I misstook, thought you say IB is canadian Embarrassed

I said I thought they were. I was wrong of course! But I found them to be a band that was trying to do something different and interesting at the time.
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Points: 2585 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 18 2011 at 15:46
Originally posted by giselle giselle wrote:

Many people say that Prog as a musical form began long before King Crimson. I don't agree, but one of the interesting strands that was going on was Iron Butterfly. I thought they were Canadian? I misstook, thought you say IB is canadian Embarrassed
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Points: 2585 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 18 2011 at 15:35
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Originally posted by jean-marie jean-marie wrote:

Why is this American Band such underlooked through an American site? As a french pop teen fan ( like so many as me) Iron Butterfly has been such a high time, can't understand , so what ? HEAVY , IAGOE( same live) are just rubish? Disapprove
 
Hey Jean-Marie,
 
I know Gisèle already answered you but the sirte is even Québecois, M@X and Proglucky being both French-speaking....
 
 
As for IB, well, I find that their best album is the StarStarStarStar debut (Heavy), because In A Gada Da Vida is way over-rated.... the shorter tracks are VERY average and the title track is plagued by a boring drum solo...
 
as for Ball, it's more of a a soul album.... Metamorphosis is OK, but no more,IMHO    quite agree about heavy Hugues, stll listen to IB theme whith great pleasure, well about the drum solo.....probably now days it sounds a bit .....Ermm  but i confess i still sometimes listen to Sweet Smoke too LOL  See you soon
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Originally posted by jean-marie jean-marie wrote:

Why is this American Band such underlooked through an American site? As a french pop teen fan ( like so many as me) Iron Butterfly has been such a high time, can't understand , so what ? HEAVY , IAGOE( same live) are just rubish? Disapprove
 
Hey Jean-Marie,
 
I know Gisèle already answered you but the sirte is even Québecois, M@X and Proglucky being both French-speaking....
 
 
As for IB, well, I find that their best album is the StarStarStarStar debut (Heavy), because In A Gada Da Vida is way over-rated.... the shorter tracks are VERY average and the title track is plagued by a boring drum solo...
 
as for Ball, it's more of a a soul album.... Metamorphosis is OK, but no more,IMHO
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Points: 2585 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 18 2011 at 03:07
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They also helped spawn Captain Beyond.
Yes !  i know the first album, good music Wink
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Points: 2822 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 17 2011 at 20:21
They also helped spawn Captain Beyond.
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Originally posted by Dick Heath Dick Heath wrote:

Clever deconstruct and rearrangement of IN A GADDA DA VIDA on latest Nguyen Le album, Songs Of Freedom, check it out
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Somewhat the only song I like from them is In A Gadda Da Vida and it's for the main riff. Sometimes I find it a bit long though.

 
Yes great riff. Bears many similarities with that of  Cream's Sunshine of Your Love.    it didn't click on me until today but , listening back to the two tracks....well, not wrong Wink
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Clever deconstruct and rearrangement of IN A GADDA DA VIDA on latest Nguyen Le album, Songs Of Freedom, check it out
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Originally posted by The_Jester The_Jester wrote:

Somewhat the only song I like from them is In A Gadda Da Vida and it's for the main riff. Sometimes I find it a bit long though.

 
Yes great riff. Bears many similarities with that of  Cream's Sunshine of Your Love.
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Points: 2585 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 15 2011 at 15:00
Originally posted by hobocamp hobocamp wrote:

Someone was bound to post this eventually ...


        It's a sight !   This band is good, Wink
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Points: 2585 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 15 2011 at 11:37
I'm ok, ther's average stuff through the albums ( but in the sixties several great bands did the same ) and ther's very good psycherock too
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Somewhat the only song I like from them is In A Gadda Da Vida and it's for the main riff. Sometimes I find it a bit long though.
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Originally posted by gr8dane gr8dane wrote:

Originally posted by jammun jammun wrote:

The only problem with Iron Butterfly, for those of us who enjoyed them and actually considered them to be a decent band back in the day, is that listening to them in 2011 borders on an excruciating-type experience.

Well,I don't have that problem.The good tracks then are still good now.But of course they had some turkeys then,that are still turkeys now.
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Originally posted by jammun jammun wrote:

The only problem with Iron Butterfly, for those of us who enjoyed them and actually considered them to be a decent band back in the day, is that listening to them in 2011 borders on an excruciating-type experience.

Well,I don't have that problem.The good tracks then are still good now.But of course they had some turkeys then,that are still turkeys now.
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Points: 3449 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 14 2011 at 18:58
The only problem with Iron Butterfly, for those of us who enjoyed them and actually considered them to be a decent band back in the day, is that listening to them in 2011 borders on an excruciating-type experience.
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Points: 2585 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 14 2011 at 11:33

Well , so here you are butterfly fellows !
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