About Iron Butterfly
Iron Butterfly is an American rock band formed in San Diego, California, in 1966. They are best known for the 1968 hit "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida", providing a dramatic sound that led the way towards the development of hard rock and heavy metal music. Although their heyday was the late 1960s, the band has been reformed with various members with varying levels of success with no new recordings since 1975. Their second album, In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (1968), remains a best-seller, and Iron Butterfly was the first group to receive an in-house platinum album award from Atlantic Records. According to music critic Manish Agarwal of Time Out, "Iron Butterfly blended hard rock with ordinate, acid-friendly textures." Mark Deming of AllMusic stated that they were one of the first musical groups to fuse the two styles in this way, and described their sound as a "blend of trippy musical exploration and open-ended jams with a hard, distorted attack".
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Discography
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Heavy (1968)
In‐A‐Gadda‐Da‐Vida (1968)
Ball (1969)
Metamorphosis (1970)
Live (1970)
The Best of Iron Butterfly Evolution (1972)
Scorching Beauty (1975)
Sun and Steel (1975)
Light and Heavy: The Best of Iron Butterfly (1993)
Hits (1997)
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (1998)
Scorching Beauty / Sun and Steel (2008)
Fillmore East 1968 (2011)
The Triple Album Collection (2012)
Members
Mike Pinera
multi-instrumentalist
Kevin Karamitros
multi-instrumentalist
David Love
multi-instrumentalist
Bobby Hasbrook
multi-instrumentalist
Luke
multi-instrumentalist
Tim Von Hoffman
multi-instrumentalist
Charlie Marinkovich
guitarist
Ken Conlinpnik
multi-instrumentalist
Bruce Morris
multi-instrumentalist
Ron Bushy
drummer
Larry “Rhino” Reinhardt
multi-instrumentalist
John Leimsider
multi-instrumentalist
Tom Kislan
multi-instrumentalist
Doug Bossey
multi-instrumentalist
Danny Weis
multi-instrumentalist
Bill DeMartines
multi-instrumentalist
Jan Uvena
multi-instrumentalist
Lenny Campanero
multi-instrumentalist
Alexander “Ace” Baker
multi-instrumentalist
Denny Artache
multi-instrumentalist
Erik Barnett
multi-instrumentalist
Jack Pinney
multi-instrumentalist
Manny Bertematti
multi-instrumentalist
Larry Kirna
multi-instrumentalist
Sam Johnson
multi-instrumentalist
John Shearer
multi-instrumentalist
Glen Rappold
multi-instrumentalist
Damian Bujanda
multi-instrumentalist
Larry Rust
multi-instrumentalist
Martin Gerschwitz
keyboardist
Darryl DeLoach
multi-instrumentalist
Nathan Pino
multi-instrumentalist
Guy Babylon
multi-instrumentalist
Kurtis Teal
multi-instrumentalist
Burt Diaz
multi-instrumentalist
Dave Meros
multi-instrumentalist
Jerry Penrod
multi-instrumentalist
Philip Taylor Kramer
bassist
Randy Skirvin
multi-instrumentalist
Jerry Sommers
multi-instrumentalist
Kenny Suarez
multi-instrumentalist
Derek Hilland
multi-instrumentalist
Greg Willis
multi-instrumentalist
Erik Brann
multi-instrumentalist
Howard Reitzes
multi-instrumentalist
Starz Vanderlocket
multi-instrumentalist
Steve Fister
multi-instrumentalist
Doug Ingle
multi-instrumentalist
Rick Rotante
multi-instrumentalist
Robert Tepper
multi-instrumentalist
Jimi Henderson
multi-instrumentalist
Keith Ian Ellis
multi-instrumentalist
Kelly Reubens
multi-instrumentalist
Steve "Mick" Feldman
multi-instrumentalist
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