Nevok’s Keep

Alright. A few people might have noticed already that I use song titles as headlines for my blog-entries. Song titles, hopefully, that kinda relate to the day’s events. Now, I also understand that not everyone is quite as much into music as I might be. So here’s today’s explanation: It’s a song by Iron Butterfly, kinda an ancestor song to my beloved Heavy Metal genre of music, and should have been named ‘Garden of Eden’. For some reason or other, there are many stories around, either through alcohol or other substance abuse, Doug Ingle was unable to pronounce the title in a way that anyone could understand him, and ‘In the Garden of Eden’ turned into ‘In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida’. Reckon you have to be pretty intoxicated for that…anyhow, this mondegreen stuck (a ‘mondegreen’ being a mishearing or misinterpration of a phrase, enough educational blogging for today, promise) and thus ‘In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida’ was born, laying roots together with ‘Voodoo Child’ and ‘Born To Be Wild’ for Heavy Metal.
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