People's Historian: The Incredible String Band
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- čas přidán 21. 07. 2024
- People's Historian Daniel Gray tells the story of The Incredible String Band, an experimental Edinburgh outfit who played Woodstock and influenced many musical greats.
Filmed and edited by Graham Forbes.
I was listening to a radio program called Peel's Pleasures in July 17th 1982 hosted by John Peel. He played a song by the ISB called "The Half Remarkable Question" and I decided to buy the album straight away. One of the best decisions I have made in my life.
Some of the most evocative and melodic music of their era, and beyond..Beyond being the operative word.
Be glad for the song goes on forever. Wonderful times never to be forgotten. All love to all
Heron, Williamson and Palmer are just pure genius, one of the best things that ever happened to music
I heard about them, and listened, in san Francisco in Fall 1968. There were a lot of extraordinary bands around; lots of competition for earspace. But the Incredibles stood out as genuinely different - puzzlingly so. They fit no genre - exactly. Songs of innocence? Of experience? Childhood memories? All and more. They happened in a very musically tolerant time; I doubt they'd be possible now. Bu a wonderful legacy, and (for those of us still around to remember!) a 'sign of their times.' Do I still listen? Of course!
Melanie Safkas fav band. They played with Melanie often.
I grew up on these guys. My dad would play them every Sunday. They're majik they had something else!
Interesting but why only photographs from their last incarnation? (And Graham Forbes only appeared on their last album and tour). Good to see brief glimpses of Malcolm but a longer and far more in-depth film is surely needed to tell their story better. I have loved them since 1967 and still play their music often. I saw them live four or five times between 1968 and 1974 and I wrote a piece on them for Record Collector No. 93 in May 1987. I have met Robin many times, have communicated with Mike and Clive and interviewed Joe Boyd. They are, as far as I'm concerned, one of the most important bands to come out of that era and I know that my life would have been very different without them in it. Thanks for acknowledging them though as they are too often ignored and dismissed as "whimsical hippies".
Agreed. In fact the core of the band must always be Robin, Mike, Liquorice and Rose in their acoustic incarnation. These are the songs that live in the memory and the heart and for some of us will never be forgotten.
Good effort. Not long ago, I started to try to explain The Incredibles to a young person. In the end, I just said, "Well, you had to be there".
Well done overview. Became a fan in high school in the late 60s. A fan to this day.
With all my love to you all. Remarkable times, remarkable group
Seen a lot of times in the 70 s
Fabulous times wonderful music❤❤❤
All love to you all
Psychedelic ballrooms is a phrase I will never forget!
always love em
I love the stage of all their albums with their core members with Robin, Mike, Lic and Rose (1967-1972). Lic, we miss you!
P.S. Classic rock had these things, everything was really fantastic and very clever.
The women were hardly "core members." It was game over when they came on board.
When you find out who you are beautiful beyond your dreams!
Skating on happy valley pond....magic.
Won't mean much to Edinburgh folk perhaps but this Welshman now knows where Happy Valley Pond is!
@@neilparry4390 I've skated on Happy Valley Pond....I was a schoolboy back in the 1950s...smile.
Mike and Robin are friends of mine from way back in the 1960s
Their songs are full of local references.... I still play their music...almost every day.
@@brucefindlay Hi Bruce, pleased to make your acquaintance. I don't play them every day I must admit but I do go back to them regularly and have done since 1968. I've only been to Edinburgh a couple of times but love what I've seen of it, as I also love the music of the ISB. Where would we all have been without them?
@@neilparry4390 yeah Mike and I were pals from his earlier rock band days and I was around when the ISB formed and in fact was at the first recording session they did at a mutual friend's house in 1965. Their first 5 albums are absolutely wonderful. It all began to unfold for them in the early 70s although ironically I even promoted them in 1973 as part of my Edinburgh Pop Festival ...Great gig actually but they split up shortly after.
I still see Mike from time to time ( not since covid19 ) and last December was asked to present him ( on behalf of the ISB) with a lifetime achievement award at the annual Scottish Music Awards ( Tartan Clef) in Glasgow.
They are my absolute favourite band... ps I was born and brought up in Edinburgh as were Mike and Robin
@67psych3 Hi, yes, thanks. As you can see, other people have "put me straight" on that! I was surprised to find it 4 months ago, that's all, because I didn't know that it was an actual place but now I do so, thanks again.
What a fantastic doco. Captures some of the real magic although not much good footage to work with. Thank god for the clips that survived and the brief but strange interviews.
October 2006 ISB played Missoula, Montana
I loved them back in the days.Once saw them in copenhagen beautifull consert.
Excellent . They lived in a cottage on Glen Estate near Innerleithen for a time. Glen is worth researching, quite a family.
Certainly
The children have seen them
Robin Williamson went to Morocco, but he didn't go to the Far East. I know because that's what he told me!
This is wonderful, thank you. Any fellow americans in here? You know how I heard about The Incredible String Band? From listening to The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band on spotify and just letting their albums play out. I don't like to talk up huge companies like spotify, but their recommendations have been excellent. Steeleye Span and TISB are among the best that have been recommended via spotify that I was unaware of until a few years ago. It's strange because the avant garde is what I have sought out for 30 years, but I had never heard of The Bonzos either until...you really want to know?...Mike Williams and 'The Memoirs of Billy Shears'. I fell in love with the Bonzos though. It was 'The Hedgehog Song' that first piqued my interest from TISB. And my God, Painting Box is superior to Pink Floyd's 'Paint Box' by leaps and bounds. Yeah, and the Woodstock thing. I suppose I must have seen their name in print over the years, but I had no idea who they were or what they were about. I'm very grateful that changed. Happy Thanksgiving!
Have you tried Fairport Convention... czcams.com/video/R-ezy2WaM24/video.html&ab_channel=CarolineHogan
@@edeledeledel5490 Yes definitely. Do you know the story behind the French lyrics that match up perfectly with Bob Dylan's 'If You Have to Go, Go Now'? You love your Edels, I see!
@@edeledeledel5490 I didn't know Richard Thompson was in Fairport Convention. He and Linda are another example of excellent U.K. musicians I was led to by way of the Bonzos.
@@illuminotmereloaded6896 Have you heard of the Punch Brothers, with Chris Thile and Noam Pikelny; they are brilliant musicians, and do some traditional and some a bit more avant-garde stuff
I'm so old, I've actually seen a lot of these people live. I saw TISB at the Albert Hall in London in 1970; in 1968 I saw a touring show with Pink Floyd, The Nice, The Move, Amen Corner, and headlined by Jimmy Hendrix. I saw Steeleye Span in the 70's, and before that, Tim Hart and Maddy Prior at several folk clubs. I saw Richard Thompson and his band about 10 years ago. My wife saw the Beatles, the Stones, Cream and whole lot of other British bands in the 60's and early 70's.
The greatest folk group ever
it's nice, it takes a little patience
The Lilac Time is another group tipping their hat to ISB.
I remember hearing a recording of a song ABOUT the ISB. Does anyone know what this is called and who recorded it?
had heard it was clive who brought the instruments back from north africa.