August 11: Erik Braunn, lead guitarist for Iron Butterfly, would be 60 today...

... he died in July 2004.

Brann was only 17 when Iron Butterfly recorded their R&R classic, I-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, which, un-slurred, means "In the Garden of Eden."

"I-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" (1968)