Genre: Acid rock
Places I remember: Amoeba Records (LA)
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Evil Temptation
Gear costume: So-Lo
Active compensatory factors: I have previously covered three Iron Butterfly albums, including a live one. This live concert recording from 1967 has only two tracks from that official live album from 1970.
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Evil Temptation
Gear costume: So-Lo
Active compensatory factors: I have previously covered three Iron Butterfly albums, including a live one. This live concert recording from 1967 has only two tracks from that official live album from 1970.
It was hard to turn down the chance to hear this one but I knew going in it was potentially going to be a disappointment. It's from 1967 after all and it's unofficial (i.e. a bootleg).
It features the first, original line-up of the band, performing their early singles and songs from their debut album Heavy which was released a little more than six months later (January 22, 1968). So, no In A Gadda Da Vida baby.
Given all that, it's groovy, in a late sixties heavily psychedelicised what-a-fearsome-racket kind of way. Sound wise it's a pretty good bootleg quality (amazing given it was recorded by an audience member with one microphone), with the vocals mixed low, but it doesn't detract from the enjoyment of this slice of history. It's very much of its time in all regards.
Where do they all belong? That's enough Iron Butterfly though.
Where do they all belong? That's enough Iron Butterfly though.
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