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Douglas Lee Dorman ( September 15 , 1942  December 21 , 2012 ) was an American bass guitarist best known as a member of the ___MASK53___ band Iron Butterfly . He also played in the band Captain Beyond . Dorman was from St . Louis , Missouri , and moved to San Diego , California in the 1960s . He began playing bass guitar in his teens . While recording " In - A - Gadda - Da - Vida ", Dorman assisted Erik Brann with the arrangement of Brann ' s ___MASK1___ " Termination ," and was given a co - writing credit . Dorman died of natural causes in his car in Laguna Niguel , California . Erik Keith Brann ( born Rick Davis ; August 11 , 1950  July 25 , 2003 ), also known as Erik Braunn , was an American guitarist with the 1960s acid ___MASK53___ band Iron Butterfly . He is featured on the band ' s greatest hit , the 17 - minute " In - A - Gadda - Da - Vida " ( 1968 ), recorded when he was 17 . A fret is a raised element on the neck of a stringed instrument . Frets usually extend across the full width of the neck . On most modern ___MASK19___ fretted instruments , frets are metal strips inserted into the fingerboard . On some historical instruments and non - European instruments , frets are made of pieces of string tied around the neck . The gittern was a relatively small gut strung round - backed instrument that first appears in ___MASK7___ and pictorial representation during the 13th century in ___MASK19___ Europe ( Iberian Peninsula , Italy , France , England ). It is usually depicted played with a quill plectrum , as we can see clearly beginning in ___MASK3___ illuminations from the thirteenth century . It was also called the guitarra in Spain , guiterne or guiterre in France , the chitarra in Italy and quintern in Germany . A popular instrument with court musicians , minstrels , and amateurs , the gittern is considered ancestral to the modern guitar ; possibly other instruments like the mandore and gallichon . Douglas Lloyd " Doug " Ingle ( born September 9 , 1945 in Omaha , Nebraska , US ) is a founding member and , formerly , organist , vocalist , primary composer and lead vocalist for the band Iron Butterfly . He also had a short stint with the ___MASK21___ group Stark Naked and the Car Thieves in the early 1970s after he left Iron Butterfly . Iron Butterfly is an American ___MASK53___ band best known for the 1968 hit " In - A - Gadda - Da - Vida ", providing a dramatic sound that led the way towards the development of hard ___MASK53___ and ___MASK68___ . Formed in San Diego , California , among band members who used to be " arch enemies ", their heyday was the late 1960s , but the band has been reincarnated with various members with varying levels of success , with no new recordings since 1975 . The band ' s seminal 1968 album " In - A - Gadda - Da - Vida " is among the world ' s 40 best - selling albums , selling more than 30 million copies . Iron Butterfly is also notable for being the first group to receive an RIAA platinum award . An electric guitar is a fretted string instrument that uses a pickup to convert the vibration of its strings  which are typically made of steel , and which occurs when a guitarist strums , plucks or fingerpicks the strings  into electrical signals . The vibrations of the strings are sensed by a pickup , of which the most common type is the magnetic pickup , which uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction . The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker , so it is plugged into a guitar amplifier before being sent to a loudspeaker , which makes a sound loud enough to hear . The output of an electric guitar is an electric signal , and the signal can easily be altered by electronic circuits to add " color " to the sound or change the sound . Often the signal is modified using effects such as reverb and distortion and " overdrive ", with the latter being a key element of the sound of the electric guitar as it is used in ___MASK34___ and ___MASK76___ . Hard ___MASK53___ is a loosely defined subgenre of ___MASK76___ that began in the mid - 1960s , with the garage , psychedelic and blues ___MASK53___ movements . It is typified by a heavy use of aggressive vocals , distorted electric guitars , bass guitar , drums , and often accompanied with pianos and keyboards . Captain Beyond is an American / ___MASK25___ band formed in Los Angeles , California in 1971 . Nylon is a generic designation for a ___MASK60___ of synthetic polymers , more specifically aliphatic or semi - aromatic polyamides . They can be melt - processed into fibers , films or shapes . The first example of nylon ( nylon 6 , 6 ) was produced on February 28 , 1935 , by Wallace Carothers at DuPont ' s research facility at the DuPont Experimental Station . Nylon polymers have found significant commercial applications in fibers ( apparel , flooring and rubber reinforcement ), in shapes ( molded parts for cars , electrical equipment , etc .), and in films ( mostly for ___MASK64___ packaging ).< ref name =" Materials / Polyamide "></ ref > " Ride Captain Ride " is a ___MASK1___ recorded by the American rock band ___MASK34___ Image . The ___MASK1___ was co - written by the band ' s singer - guitarist Mike Pinera and keyboardist Frank " Skip " Konte . It was included on the group ' s 1970 album , " Open ". Released as a slightly shortened single in the spring of 1970 , it shot up the charts , eventually reaching No . 4 in the USA and Canadian charts , making it ___MASK34___ Image ' s first ( and only ) Top 40 chart hit . The guitar fills and main solo were performed by Kent Henry . Pinera plays the guitar solo at the end of the ___MASK1___ . Acid ___MASK53___ is a loosely defined type of ___MASK76___ that evolved out of the mid - 1960s ___MASK43___ movement and helped launch the psychedelic subculture . The term , which derives its name from lysergic acid diethylamide ( LSD ), is sometimes deployed as a synonym of " ___MASK5___ ", but it may also refer to a more musically intense subgenre or variation of the ___MASK5___ style . Acid ___MASK53___ is generally defined by distorted guitars , lyrics with drug references , and long improvised jams . Distinctions between other genres can be tenuous ; it may also encompass certain garage ___MASK53___ , 1960s punk , proto - metal and heavy , blues - based hard ___MASK53___ . The ___MASK10___ guitar ( c . 1600  1750 ) is a string instrument with five courses of gut strings and moveable gut frets . The first ( highest pitched ) course sometimes used only a single string . Alice Cooper ( born Vincent Damon Furnier ; February 4 , 1948 ) is an American singer , songwriter , and actor whose career spans over five decades . With his distinctive raspy voice and a stage show that features guillotines , electric chairs , fake blood , deadly snakes , baby dolls , and dueling swords , Cooper is considered by ___MASK15___ journalists and peers alike to be " The Godfather of ___MASK17___ ". He has drawn equally from ___MASK41___ films , vaudeville , and garage rock to pioneer a macabre and theatrical brand of rock designed to shock people . Mike Pinera ( born September 29 , 1948 ) is an American guitarist who started professionally in the late 1960s with the group ___MASK34___ Image , which had a # 4 hit in 1970 with their song " Ride Captain Ride ". After the breakup of that group , he joined Iron Butterfly , and later formed the group Ramatam . Pinera was then the founding member of the band New Cactus , a later incarnation of the band Cactus . He was the lead guitarist for Alice Cooper from 1980 to 1982 . He is currently performing with the Classic Rock All Stars . Pinera met the band Renegade through their manager , Kim Richards , who also managed Pinera at the time . They remained close friends and appear together in the television special " Renegade Live @ The House of ___MASK34___ ", which was filmed before a sold out audience at the Hollywood House of ___MASK34___ . ___MASK34___ Image was an American rock band . Their most successful song was " Ride Captain Ride " in the last half of 1970 , which reached No . 4 on both the " Billboard " Hot 100 and the Canadian RPM magazine charts . The guitar is a ___MASK98___ instrument classified as a string instrument with anywhere from four to 18 strings , usually having six . The sound is projected either acoustically , using a hollow wooden or plastic and wood box ( for an acoustic guitar ), or through electrical amplifier and a speaker ( for an electric guitar ). It is typically played by strumming or plucking the strings with the fingers , thumb and / or fingernails of the right hand or with a pick while fretting ( or pressing against the frets ) the strings with the fingers of the left hand . The guitar is a type of chordophone , traditionally constructed from wood and strung with either gut , nylon or steel strings and distinguished from other chordophones by its construction and tuning . The modern guitar was preceded by the gittern , the vihuela , the four - course Renaissance guitar , and the five - course baroque guitar , all of which contributed to the development of the modern six - string instrument . Ron Bushy is the drummer of the ___MASK53___ band Iron Butterfly . He is the only member of the group to appear on all six of their studio albums . Metamorphosis is the fourth studio ___MASK93___ by Iron Butterfly , released on August 13 , 1970 . Butterfly stalwarts Ron Bushy ( drums ) , Lee Dorman ( bass ) and Doug Ingle ( vocals , keyboards ) were accompanied on the ___MASK93___ by Mike Pinera ( guitar , vocals ) and Larry Reinhardt ( guitar ) . Though not as successful as its predecessor Ball ( 1969 ) , it reached number 16 on the US charts . . Erik Brann , who left because of band disputes , was replaced by four session guitarists . Two of them , Mike Pinera ( ___MASK34___ Image frontman ) , and Larry `` Rhino '' Reinhardt ( called El Rhino on the sleeve ) , would become members of Iron Butterfly shortly after the ___MASK93___ ' s release . Officially , the ___MASK93___ is credited not to Iron Butterfly , but to `` Iron Butterfly with Pinera & Rhino , '' in reference to the two aforementioned guitarists . The ___MASK93___ spawned the single `` Easy Rider ( Let the Wind Pay the Way ) , '' which reached number 66 on the Billboard chart , making it the band ' s biggest hit aside from `` In - A - Gadda - Da - Vida '' . The ___MASK93___ is noted for having one of the earliest uses of the Talk box on a rock ___MASK93___ . Ramatam was a 1970s ___MASK53___ band featuring Mike Pinera on guitar and vocals , April Lawton on lead guitar , and , for a short time , Mitch Mitchell on drums . A chordophone is a ___MASK98___ instrument that makes sound by way of a vibrating string or strings stretched between two points . It is one of the four main divisions of instruments in the original Hornbostel - Sachs scheme of ___MASK98___ instrument classification . String instruments , stringed instruments , or chordophones are ___MASK98___ instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when the performer plays or sounds the strings in some manner . The ___MASK8___ was a period in European ___MASK42___ , from the 14th to the 17th century , regarded as the cultural bridge between the Middle Ages and modern ___MASK42___ . It started as a cultural movement in Italy in the Late Medieval period and later spread to the rest of Europe , marking the beginning of the Early Modern Age . A guitarist ( or a guitar player ) is a person who plays the guitar . Guitarists may ___MASK85___ a ___MASK99___ of guitar family instruments such as classical guitars , acoustic guitars , electric guitars , and bass guitars . Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar by singing or playing the harmonica .