Bob in Palmdale - Actually, Iron Butterfly was a disappointment, but Blues Image was really good. I went out and bought their album the next week.

I saw Iron Butterfly again a year or so later after they had added Mike Pinera and Larry Reinhardt on guitars. I mainly went to see Larry, who had played in a local (Jacksonville, FL) band called "The Second Coming". That band had broken up after three of its members, Dickey Betts, Berry Oakley, and Butch Trucks had decided to join Duane Allman's new band. Larry moved to LA and wound up playing for the Butterfly. The group's organist, Reese Wynans, who Duane couldn't hire because he'd promised the organ job to his brother Gregg, eventually wound up playing for Stevie Ray Vaughan's band "Double Trouble".

I also saw Mike Pinera again after he'd left Iron Butterfly and formed the group "Ramatam" with former Hendrix drummer Mitch Mitchell and phenomenal female guitarist April Lawton.