PERCUSSIVE? HOW ABOUT THIS!
IRON BUTTERFLY – IN A GADDA DA VIDA – 1968 (ORIGINAL FULL VERSION) CD SOUND & 3D VIDEO
And then, just to follow up with something so your brain is fully reset this final Sunday in November:
JEFFERSON AIRPLANE – WHITE RABBIT & SOMEBODY TO LOVE – from American Bandstand, 1967 (!)
So there’s some serious percussion — “In A Gadda Da Vida” was THE percussion solo in its day. Followed by Grace Slick and Jefferson Airplane doing “White Rabbit” … on American Bandstand, no less. With Dick Clark. A minor conflict of cultures in bloom.
Happy Sunday!
LET’S HAVE ANOTHER PIECE OF PIE 
THE GOOGLY TROOTH 
CHAIN OF FOOLS – ARETHA FRANKLIN 
AUTUMN LEAVES 
SERENDIPITY - SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 
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Just read this one today. I love Marilyn’s blog but I had so much fun with this one. I must have needed a Post-Thanksgiving weekend LIFT!
Hope you enjoy!
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Wow, did I ever learn a lot about some of your Followers (and MINE) by reading all these comments while listening to the songs. Whew! What a time, eh?
The percussion solo, well, how could anyone sit still…swaying, head bobbing, or up and spinning around the room!
This was great!!
By the way, the comment above on the old folks home 20 years from now? (I can’t find it now…too music-stoned I guess) made me think of this amazing Sundance Documentary called…well, I can’t think of that either…the song is at the part where someone is sawing on a guitar with a kitchen knife or something…anyway, I guest-posted about Music recently and at the end, have a news clip about Music and the elderly…
https://theseekersdungeon.com/2017/11/10/rage-against-the-machine-day-10-by-kathie-arcide/
Now, if you could not follow all that, well, uh, you are probably still listening to this music as you read comments it also.
I’m re-blogging this right now, Marilyn, if I can just remember how…
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I’m glad it’s not just me. I can’t remember anything. I used to forget either before I did “it” or after I had done “it,” but NOW I forget while I am in the middle of doing “it.” Whatever “it” “is.”
By the time we are all incarcerated in the home for the entirely lost, the only thing we WILL remember is the music!!
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That’s what this documentary is about. Using music of their youth with checked out elderly nursing home residents. Snaps them right back out of it for a while. Reminds me of the Oliver Sacks story, Awakenings.
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I lived with a guy who used to play that Iron Butterfly thing all the time. I couldn’t take it anymore so I stuck it in the oven and warped it. Then hung it on the wall. Looked pretty good there.
I never got tired of the Airplane tho.
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All the time would be a lot of times too many. I liked it, but I didn’t play it — or anything, really — all the time. Some people don’t know when to call it quits.
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I loved that song. Remember trying to dance to it…and make it to the end?
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It is a very long song. I remember being too stoned to dance. But it was great listening 🙂
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Always loved White Rabbit, still do!
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What’s not to like? Grace Slick was amazing.
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Thank you Marilyn- I can just picture my 16 year old self sitting in my best friend’s bedroom, smoking pot, getting stoned and listening to this …
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Ah, those memories, eh? Me too.
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Blink, Grace! She does, but not enough, and my eyes water for her… I think she (back in ’67 at least) would say that I’m not doing enough acid or I’d know whey she wasn’t blinking. Should parents worry? Yes. (Love the honest answer 😉 ) All of that said, White Rabbit is one of my favorites from that time period.
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it’s one of those amazing songs. Even if you didn’t like anything else the group did, that song was so outstanding, how can you NOT like it? i feel that way about most of Credence’s stuff.
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I agree, it’s one of the greats.
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I’m always looking for a reason to post one of the great songs. My gen was so lucky. We had GREAT music.
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i loved this song
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I had the record. And it was on the radio ALL the time.
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I had heard that too. Well, we were ALL pretty wasted.
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Weird. In a godda Davida was run in thru my head yesterday. Trivia note the song was supposed to be called In The Garden Of Eden but the lead singer was so wasted it came out Inna Godda Davida. Ah the good old days.
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Gracie Slick had one of the most amazing voices out there. It still takes my breath away. There’s a fascinating interview with her, and she said she couldnt even sing softly, that was the only way she knew to sing, was belt it out.
Thanks, Marilyn. For a little while, I was 20, going somewhere in someone’s car, with the radio up full blast. Maybe I still am, in another life.
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That’s just how I felt. Suddenly, I was in my twenties and my friend and I were at the Fillmore East … stoned and awed by the sound. Music takes me back like nothing else on earth.
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I remember the White Rabbit. I think the Cheshire cat would make a good song. Must keep that one in mind.
Thanks Marilyn.
Leslie
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I’ll bet there IS a song about him somewhere.
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Probably is Marilyn.
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If not, you can write one. Even if there IS one, you can STILL write one 🙂
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I could indeed.
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I never did drugs, but the music took you away!
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The music still takes me away 🙂
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Me too, with happy memories or just enjoyment.
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This is so familiar to the days in the winter/spring of 1967 when Don and I first met at Minot State…. Memories. Played it loud enough for Don to hear it in our living room…
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Love this. Great percussion…I can just hear this music 20 years from now blasting out of the Old Folk’s Home!
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Well, it blasts out of THIS old folks’ home. Though it’s more likely to be Credence 😀
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Or out in space in our time capsule
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Great stuff! Jefferson Airplane faves that still get played in the Farrell kitchen around dinner time.
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Good working music. Jefferson Airplane and Credence? Twice the energy — without the drugs!
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Ah, blasts from the past. I almost feel stoned listening to these songs again. Almost.
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Makes me yearn for the stoned old days. Were I to take drugs of that type today, I think my refurbished heart would explode … but what a way to go!
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Of course the percussion king to me was the drum solo by Steve Gadd in the middle of Steely Dan’s “Aja”
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Yes!! There was nothing like listening to this song totally stoned….. thanks for the memory!
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