The Incredible String Band (sometimes abbreviated as ISB) were a British psychedelic folk band formed by Clive Palmer, Robin Williamson and Mike Heron...
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The Incredible String Band is the debut album by the band of the same name, released in the United Kingdom in October 1966 by record label Elektra. It...
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Fairport Convention, Sandy Denny, Richard Thompson, Nick Drake, The Incredible String Band, R.E.M., Vashti Bunyan, John and Beverley Martyn, Maria Muldaur...
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is the fifth album by the Scottish psychedelic folk group, the Incredible String Band (ISB), and was released in November 1969 on Elektra Records (see...
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Licorice McKechnie (category The Incredible String Band members)
is a Scottish musician. She was a singer and songwriter in the Incredible String Band between 1968 and 1972. Her whereabouts have been publicly unknown...
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studio album overall, by the British psychedelic folk group the Incredible String Band (ISB) and was released on Elektra Records in October 1970. The majority...
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Robin Williamson (category The Incredible String Band members)
singer, songwriter, and storyteller who was a founding member of the Incredible String Band. Williamson lived in the Fairmilehead area of Edinburgh and attended...
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My Train A Comin'" "Spanish Castle Magic" "Red House" (Hendrix's high E-string broke while playing, but he played the rest of the song with five strings...
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The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion (category The Incredible String Band albums)
the Incredible String Band (ISB). It was released in July 1967 on Elektra Records. The album was recorded following the reformation of the band as a...
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The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter (category The Incredible String Band albums)
psychedelic folk group the Incredible String Band (ISB), and was released in March 1968 on Elektra Records (see 1968 in music). It saw the band continuing its development...
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Mike Heron (category The Incredible String Band members)
songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, best known for his work in the Incredible String Band in the 1960s and 1970s. Heron was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and...
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Clive Palmer (musician) (redirect from Clive's Original Band)
folk musician and banjoist, best known as a founding member of the Incredible String Band. Born in Edmonton, North London, Palmer first went on stage at the...
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Liquid Acrobat as Regards the Air (category The Incredible String Band albums)
by the Incredible String Band. It features Mike Heron, Robin Williamson, Licorice McKechnie and Malcolm Le Maistre. The album was the band's first almost...
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I Looked Up (category The Incredible String Band albums)
U.S. LP: EKS-74061) is the sixth album by the Incredible String Band. Recorded at a time when the band was busy rehearsing for their ambitious upcoming...
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Woodstock (category Jam band festivals)
detailed account by a band member, see Rose Simpson, Muse, Odalisque, Handmaiden: A Girl's Life in the Incredible String Band (Strange Attractor Press...
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Rose Simpson (category The Incredible String Band members)
former musician. Between 1968 and 1971, she was a member of the Incredible String Band, with whom she sang and played bass guitar, violin and percussion...
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foreword for the book Be Glad: An Incredible String Band Compendium (Helter Skelter Books). He had previously chosen the band's track "The Hedgehog's Song"...
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"A Very Cellular Song" is a song by the Incredible String Band, written by Mike Heron, released on the 1968 album The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter. The...
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1960s, including tracks from Canned Heat, Richie Havens, and The Incredible String Band. In 1972, disenchanted about the dreary conventions of English life...
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T. Rex (originally Tyrannosaurus Rex) were an English rock band formed in London in 1967 by singer-songwriter and guitarist Marc Bolan, who was their leader...
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Wee Tam and the Big Huge (category The Incredible String Band albums)
is the fourth album by the Scottish psychedelic folk group the Incredible String Band, released in 1968 by Elektra Records as both a double LP (in Europe)...
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Be Glad for the Song Has No Ending (category The Incredible String Band albums)
is the eighth album by the Scottish psychedelic folk group, the Incredible String Band, featuring Mike Heron, Robin Williamson, Licorice McKechnie and...
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were attracted by the club's reputation. Amongst them were The Incredible String Band, Arthur Brown, Tomorrow, and Procol Harum, the latter of which played...
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Woodstock – Back to the Garden: 50th Anniversary Experience (section Disc four – The Incredible String Band, Canned Heat)
Anderson — guitar, vocal; Gary Thain — bass; Keef Hartley — drums The Incredible String Band Mike Heron — vocal, guitar, piano, various; Robin Williamson — vocal...
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"Happy Land" uses a sample originating in "The Yellow Snake" by The Incredible String Band from their 1968 album Wee Tam and the Big Huge. The album spent...
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Tony, Caro and John (section Band history)
in 1972. The threesome took much of their inspiration from the Incredible String Band's eclectic strain of psychedelic folk, although songwriter and singer...
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Moose Heron Oblivion Robyn Hitchcock The Holy Modal Rounders The Incredible String Band Jan Dukes de Grey Lavender Diamond Midlake Father John Misty Nagisa...
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the San Francisco band It's a Beautiful Day from the album It's a Beautiful Day "White Bird", a 1969 song by the Incredible String Band on their album Changing...
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Malcolm Le Maistre (category The Incredible String Band members)
experimental artist and theatre director, who was a member of the Incredible String Band in the 1970s. He was born in England; his father a French-born journalist...
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Swarbrick of Fairport Convention and Robin Williamson of The Incredible String Band, and string arranger Robert Kirby. She later discovered that she had been...
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