Iron Butterfly Guitarist Erik Braunn Dies at 52

[profdlp]

For you old farts (like me) out there, some sad news from the world of rock 'n roll:
LOS ANGELES — Erik Braunn, lead guitarist with Iron Butterfly during the two years of the heavy metal band's greatest success, has died. He was 52.

You can read more here (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,93057,00.html).

More of the memories of my youth slipping away.:(


Prof

[MachineGunKelly]

That's a bummer prof. The first album I ever bought was Iron Butterfly's Ina-gadda-da-vida album. Did you know I met Ron Bushy (the drummer) back in the late 70's and shook his hand and bulls--tted with him when our band (Blazze) was rehearsing at Gold studios in No. Hollywood Ca., owned by Ron Bushy's wife (because he was in trouble with the IRS at the time).
I felt like a kid in a candy store talkin' to him...Too bad. Another memory gone........:(

Here's more:
Braunn and Doug Ingle, Ron Bushy and Lee Dorman, left their mark on musical history with the psychedelic, 17-minute "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida." The album went platinum and stayed on the national sales chart two years, and a three-minute version also became a Top 40 radio hit.