Metamorphosis is a Rock album by Iron Butterfly With Pinera & Rhino, originally released in 1970. On Gatefold: 79 pressings tracked, owned by 10 collectors.
About
Guitarist Erik Brann had left the group before <i>Metamorphosis</i>, replaced by Mike Pinera and Larry “Rhino” Reinhardt. Those two were originally given equal billing with the remaining group, known as “Iron Butterfly with Pinera and El Rhino.” This album would fare commercially less well than <i>Ball</i>, but it did feature the No. 66 single “Easy Rider (Let the Wind Pay the Way),” the group’s second-highest-charting single. (“In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” had been their biggest hit at No. 30.) Singer/organist Doug Ingle remained the band’s chief singer, but the songs here are mostly composed by the band’s core members: Ingle, bassist Lee Dorman, and drummer Ron Bushy, with Robert Woods Edmonson writing the lyrics for four songs, including the anti-smoking-industrialization ballad “Slower Than Guns,” the hippy-trippy love song “Soldier in Our Town," and the “Easy Rider” single. The extended jam of “Butterfly Bleu” features Pinera on vocals and is the heaviest jam the band had attempted on album since “In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida.” The addition of the two guitarists (with two more guitarists guesting on 12-string guitars) makes <i>Metamorphosis</i> the group’s most musically adventurous album and, arguably, their best.
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Tracklist
Side A
- A1Free Flight0:40
- A2New Day3:08
- A3Shady Lady3:50
- A4Best Years Of Our Life3:55
- A5Slower Than Guns3:37
- A6Stone Believer5:20
Side B
- B1Soldier In Our Town3:10
- B2Easy Rider (Let The Wind Pay The Way)3:06
- B3Butterfly Bleu14:03
Sound DNA
- Rock
- Psych Rock
- heavy
- driving
- psychedelic
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Bill CooperGUITAR PERFORMER , TWELVE-STRING GUITAR TWELVE-STRING GUITAR
- Doug IngleLEAD VOCALS, ORGAN ORGAN, LEAD VOCALS PERFORMER , LEAD VOCALS, ORGAN
- El RhinoFEATURING GUITAR PERFORMER , GUITAR
- Lee DormanBASS PERFORMER , BASS
- Mike PineraFEATURING GUITAR, LEAD VOCALS LEAD VOCALS, GUITAR
- Richard PodolorPERFORMER , SITAR, TWELVE-STRING GUITAR SITAR, GUITAR SITAR, TWELVE-STRING GUITAR
- Ron BushyDRUMS PERFORMER , DRUMS
10 collectors on Gatefold own this · 79 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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