How to Line Dance to In a Gada da Vida

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida is a seventeen-minute, ten-second rock song by the group Iron Butterfly. It was originally released on their 1968 album titled In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, taking up the entire second side of their album. The lyrics are pretty simple, and heard only at the very beginning and the end. Musical composition: The song features a memorable guitar and bass riff which functions as an ostinato repeated for almost the entire length of the song. It is also used as the basis for extended organ and guitar solos, which are interrupted in the middle by an extended drum solo, one of the first such solos on a rock record and one of the most famous in rock. What made this particular drum solo unique was its trippy tribal sound. A live version reaching over 17 minutes long was released as part of their 1970 live album. This version, however, has evidence of heavy editing from the actual live recording. The guitar solo, for example, seems to have been recorded in a studio or somewhere else where there was no audience in attendance. The live version also lengthens the drums solo by roughly 4 minutes and the organ solo by about 1 minute. The version also omits the bass and drum solo jam (heard from 13:04-15:19 on the studio recording). The version that was edited and released as a single omits the instrumental solos and leaves roughly three minutes of music.