Old Movies

[Blaise (imported)]

I am using this long holiday weekend in sultry Louisiana to watch old movies. The flaws in them sometimes scream. Watching some movies I once admired but now see in a different way amazes me. Yet, other old films strike me as being even better than I recall. I'll have to watch In the Realm of the Senses.

[Gil (imported)]

I am using this long holiday weekend in sultry Louisiana to watch old movies. The flaws in them sometimes scream. Watching some movies I once admired but now see in a different way amazes me. Yet, other old films strike me as being even better than I recall. I'll have to watch In the Realm of the Senses.

Don't know how this relates at all, but your post brings to mind an experience I had a couple years back while ripping my vinyl LP collection to MP3. I was forced to sit through Iron Butterfly's "Ina Gada Divida" in it's opprobrious entirety. Could be that this was the first time I'd listened to the tune when the levels of psychotropic compounds in my blood were not measurable on the viscosity scale, but the tune is really doesn't suck as bad as I remembered. In fact, it's really not all that bad. Darned clever arrangement... for a Rock band.

[Blaise (imported)]

Don't know how this relates at all, but your post brings to mind an experience I had a couple years back while ripping my vinyl LP collection to MP3. I was forced to sit through Iron Butterfly's "Ina Gada Divida" in it's opprobrious entirety. Could be that this was the first time I'd listened to the tune when the levels of psychotropic compounds in my blood were not measurable on the viscosity scale, but the tune is really doesn't suck as bad as I remembered. In fact, it's really not all that bad. Darned clever arrangement... for a Rock band.

Yes, exactly what I am experiencing.

[Dave (imported)]

I haven't thought about that song since October of 1970 when I learned the music for keyboards by ear from a friend with a guitar.

There is a story to "ina gadda da vida" ... The real line is "In the Garden of Eden" which makes a hell of a lot more sense than ina gadda da vida. However at the recording session, the Iron Butterfly was SO drunk and stoned out that they never got the words out right. And after they heard the tape, they let it be. For a few years they tried to explain what the real words were, but then they gave up. This is like gag me with a spoon who really cares... anyway the lyrics are erally simple for such a long song. Lots of jazz like solos in the music.

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, honey,

Don't you know that I love you?

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, baby,

Don't you know that I'll always be true?

Oh, won't you come with me

And take my hand?

Oh, won't you come with me

And walk this land?

Please take my hand!

[Repeat]

[Solos]

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