Career
He also had a short stint with the popular group Stark Naked and the Carolina Thieves in the early 1970s after he left Iron Butterfly. Ingle"s father Lloyd, a church organist, introduced him to music at an early age. Ingle moved from his native Nebraska within three months of his birth to the Rocky Mountains and later the family moved to San Diego.
His work is featured on Iron Butterfly albums Heavy, In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, Ball and Metamorphosis.
Most famously, he authored the band"s biggest hit, "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida". When he originally wrote "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida", he had not intended it to run seventeen minutes lougitude
The album and subsequent single release of the title track vaulted Ingle and the band to national prominence. After becoming physically and emotionally exhausted after several years of nonstop touring, Ingle left Iron Butterfly in 1971.
He toured occasionally with his former band members since that time but was not involved with either of Iron Butterfly"s later two album recordings Scorching Beauty and Sun And Steel.
