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| From | "Michael Bennett" <mrhonorama@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: Not exactly power pop, but a loss nonetheless... |
| Date | Tue, 29 Jul 2003 11:55:01 -0500 |
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Isn't another member of Iron Butterfly still missing. I saw something on TV
about this awhile back...
Mike Bennett
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>From: "Harris, Will" <wharris1@bcharrispub.com>
>Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
>To: "Audities (E-mail)" <audities@smoe.org>
>Subject: Not exactly power pop, but a loss nonetheless...
>Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 12:52:12 -0400
>
>'Iron Butterfly' Guitarist Erik Braunn Dies at 52
>Mon Jul 28, 7:50 PM ET
>
>LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Former Iron Butterfly lead guitarist Erik Braunn,
>who led the acid rock band to the heights of their success with the 1968
>anthem "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida," has died at age 52.
>
>Braunn, a San Diego native who joined the Los Angeles rock group in 1967 at
>age 16, died on Friday of heart failure, the Los Angeles Times reported on
>Monday. His death was later reported on the band's official Web site.
>
>Braunn stayed with the band just two years, long enough to experience
>superstardom at the release of their 17-minute opus whose title was
>translated as "In the garden of Eden."
>
>"In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida," featuring Braunn on lead guitar, sold four million
>copies and spent more than a year as a Top Ten record. During a 1988
>comeback attempt, Braunn told the Times that the mega-success and a heavy
>touring schedule so early in his career took a toll on his personal life.
>
>"My first vacation I bought a car, a Jaguar, and parked it outside the
>hospital where I spent two weeks for ulcers and gastroenteritis," Braunn
>told the newspaper.
>
>He also believed the band never got the recognition it deserved. "Our sound
>paved the way for all the heavy metal bands that are popular today," he
>said. "Yet our records rarely get played, and most people regard us as a
>joke."
>
>In the years since he left the band, Braunn occasionally reunited with his
>former bandmates for a gig or two but worked independently as a songwriter,
>music industry officials said.
>
>The band's bassist, Lee Dorman said he and Braunn were tour roommates
>before
>Iron Butterfly hit the big time.
>
>"I remember him growing up with the band," Dorman said on Monday. "It was a
>pretty tight-knit group ...when he left everyone just sort of drifted."
>
>Regards,
>WiLL
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