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

One of my favourite moments just happened on the Simpsons...when they're in church and Bart substitutes the hymn papers with 'In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida' by Iron Butterfly. Most viewers don't get the whole relevance of the song.
Homer- "We used to make out to that hymn, remember, Marge?"
Rev. Lovejoy- "This looks like rock and/or roll."

The real relevance here is that even though Inna-Gadda-Da-Vida was a great piece of prog-rock and most probably served as background smoking music for many, its origins were actually in Church. A member of the band was tripping out of his head and wandered into one of his father's sermons, which was on the Garden of Eden (slur to Inna-Gadda-Da-Vida).

The title is linked to IB's web site, but to try to get any indication of why they rocked so hard, you would be disappointed, or at least, mislead. The site is very 2005 and they are obviously still cranking them out.

I have every reason to believe their music that once captured something almost magical, would now be as lost a cause as listening to the new generation of Pink Floyd, Astro-boy, Sesame Street, David Bowie, Yes, Jefferson Airplane(Starship), etc etc etc...