Sat Dec 22, 2012, 08:47 PM

sheshe2 (5,445 posts)

Iron Butterfly – In A Gadda Da Vida...Bassist Lee Dorman passed away in California.

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Sad news this morning about the band.http://news.yahoo.com/iron-butterfly-bassist-lee-dorman-dies-age-70-005219358.html Bassist Lee Dorman passed away in California. He was only 70, which is much too young for someone to die. Iron Butterfly was best known for the psychedelic sound of their hithttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida In A Gadda Da Vida. The story goes that the song was supposed to be In The Garden of Eden but somehow between alcohol and drugs it didn’t quite come out that way. Haven’t we all been there at one point? It was the ’60s after all.

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I remember dancing to that song in high school!

http://americablog.com/2012/12/iron-butterfly-in-a-gadda-da-vida.html

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14 replies	Author	Time	Post
Iron Butterfly – In A Gadda Da Vida...Bassist Lee Dorman passed away in California. (Original post)	sheshe2	Dec 2012	OP
I just left Marvin Gaye over at Youtube	kitt6	Dec 2012	#1
Sorry to hear his death, sincerely.	kitt6	Dec 2012	#2
Keep rockin'	bmbmd	Dec 2012	#3
Still rockin - baby BOOM 1950!	xtraxritical	Dec 2012	#4
sometimes it seems just like yesterday	zeemike	Dec 2012	#5
The Simpsons at church...	LuvNewcastle	Dec 2012	#6
I was thinking the same thing...	awoke_in_2003	Dec 2012	#12
Seems like only yesterday that	Unknown Beatle	Dec 2012	#7
Did Ted Nugent have clean underware Ten Years After?	xtraxritical	Dec 2012	#8
Ten years after what? The Amboy Dukes?	marble falls	Dec 2012	#11
orange sunshine...	Vestigial_Sister	Dec 2012	#9
Orange Sunshine, Purple Micro-dot, and Windowpane were some of those I did back in the 70's.	AAO	Dec 2012	#10
It hasn't killed me	liberaltrucker	Dec 2012	#13
I'm also the 1954 model. Maybe it wouldn't kill me, but it could fuck me up (in a bad way).	AAO	Dec 2012	#14

Response to sheshe2 (Original post)

Sat Dec 22, 2012, 09:31 PM

kitt6 (369 posts)

1. I just left Marvin Gaye over at Youtube

to come here. Hard Rock, Chicago Il, 1971. O.K. but not......

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Sat Dec 22, 2012, 09:35 PM

kitt6 (369 posts)

2. Sorry to hear his death, sincerely.

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Sat Dec 22, 2012, 09:54 PM

bmbmd (2,635 posts)

3. Keep rockin'

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Sat Dec 22, 2012, 10:06 PM

xtraxritical (3,236 posts)

4. Still rockin - baby BOOM 1950!

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Sat Dec 22, 2012, 10:22 PM

zeemike (11,093 posts)

5. sometimes it seems just like yesterday

And at other times it seems so remote...like maybe it never happened at all and it was all just a dream.
Are we men dreaming we are Iron Butterflies or Iron Butterflies dreaming we are men?
I think I had a flashback...
May he rest in peace.

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Sat Dec 22, 2012, 10:30 PM

LuvNewcastle (3,479 posts)

6. The Simpsons at church...

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Response to LuvNewcastle (Reply #6)

Sun Dec 23, 2012, 11:07 AM

awoke_in_2003 (18,751 posts)

12. I was thinking the same thing...

from the OP though, why is 70 far too young to die? You do know he was in a rock band in the late 60's and early 70's? It is amazing he made it as long as he did.

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Sat Dec 22, 2012, 10:47 PM

Unknown Beatle (402 posts)

7. Seems like only yesterday that

I was tripping to Iron Butterfly. The first concert I attended was Ten Years After, the second concert I attended was Iron Butterfly. Wow! Time flies.

RIP Lee. See you on the other side.

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Sat Dec 22, 2012, 11:24 PM

xtraxritical (3,236 posts)

8. Did Ted Nugent have clean underware Ten Years After?

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Sun Dec 23, 2012, 10:37 AM

marble falls (2,103 posts)

11. Ten years after what? The Amboy Dukes?

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Sun Dec 23, 2012, 04:34 AM

Vestigial_Sister (93 posts)

9. orange sunshine...

or some purple haze and Iron Butterfly took me places I haven't seen since. I religiously listen to their music, even now...it takes me back to a time that no one would understand if they hadn't experienced it. Thanks for the continued memories Lee. Your music will sound for eons.

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Sun Dec 23, 2012, 07:18 AM

AAO (1,586 posts)

10. Orange Sunshine, Purple Micro-dot, and Windowpane were some of those I did back in the 70's.

It was hard to separate the music from the intense electric current I was awash in. You became the music. It was inside you and wrapped you in a cocoon of color and sound and vibration. Good vibrations anyone? I think if I dropped acid at 58 it would probably kill me.

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Sun Dec 23, 2012, 08:30 PM

liberaltrucker (7,408 posts)

13. It hasn't killed me

1954 model homo sapiens myself.

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Response to liberaltrucker (Reply #13)

Sun Dec 23, 2012, 09:22 PM

AAO (1,586 posts)

14. I'm also the 1954 model. Maybe it wouldn't kill me, but it could fuck me up (in a bad way).

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