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The Story of the Incredible String Band The short biography taken from Making Time. A longer version will be added in due course. One of the more unusual groups to come out of Britain in the 1960s, the Incredible String Band were highly influential in their day with the likes of Robert Plant and the Rolling Stones citing them as references. The String Band is one of those groups that are very difficult to categorise, sometimes described as psychedelic folk music, they were certainly an early exponent of World Music in the UK. The group came together in the mid-1960s. Clive and Robin had been playing together at Clive's Incredible Folk Club, a small folk club in Saucihall Street in Glasgow. They built up quite a following including Billy Connolly and Mike H More... (Submit New The Incredible String Band Lyrics) (Submit New The Incredible String Band Lyrics) Review about The Incredible String Band Long time ago.... | Reviewer: Mike Carter ------ About the song The Hedgehog's Song performed by The Incredible String Band ..... 1968, to be precise, and I'm in an all-night hoot in Steinfurth bei Bad Nauheim, Germany. It's well into the lantern hours, and we're starting to run down on things we've not already sung. One of the Kura brothers (Klaus Peter, I think) starts the Hedgehog Song, did it a couple of times with what I remember as some splendid harmonies from the bunch (well, the ones who were still awake and/or capable). I'm humming the thing all the way home (was stationed in Wiesbaden) and used to do the first verse and chorus as a sort of warm-up for the fingers. Times passes, and I'd pretty much forgotten the song, then somebody heard me playing the thing and was delighted that somebody remembered ISB. So we sang the first verse and the chorus (neither one could remember the rest) a couple times, I explained why I sang it in a German-person-doing-slightly-Brit-accent, and that was about all there was to it. It's now much later .... now, in fact .... and I'm trying to get as much of the 60's and 70's down on paper before everything fades. Trying not to get old is pretty pointless, but don't get freaked when a lot of stuff gets erased or merged with other, similar things. My solution is to try and gather the lyrics and music to what I remember singing (found a couple of gig lists a while back, so that helps) and trying to get photos or whatever to help me sort out the whole thing. Enough exposition. THis is one of those songs you sing through once, and half the people n the room are singing the chorus by the end of the first verse. Sing it through a second time, and they're picking up parts of the verses. That, kid, is folk. Maybe not Alan Lomax and CERTAINLY not the neo-Celtic stuff, and I strongly suspect it wasn't intended as such, but it works. What the Holy F was that ? | Reviewer: Raven Blackwell ------ About the song October Song performed by The Incredible String Band October Song by the incredible string band is the most beautiful Recorded Song I have ever heard sang by a man. brilliant | Reviewer: Anonymous ------ About the song Puppet Song performed by The Incredible String Band like most ISB songs, this one is amazing. i was already a fan when i turned on this newly acquired album as background music to my reading one night. this song, along with the jugglers song, jumped out at me. fun, groovey, great rhythm and licks, and of course amazingly insightful spiritually resonant lyrics that hit me just where i needed it right at that particular moment. Hedgehog Revisited | Reviewer: Andrew Bolton ------ About the song The Hedgehog's Song performed by The Incredible String Band Ive loved this song for over 35 years. Recently, rediscovering how good is Cat Stevens, I realised he sounded like ASB at times. Suddenly the Hedgehog Song sprang back to mind and I bought a double ASB album from Amazon.I havent stopped playing them since and the Hedgehog Song has taken its place back in my top 10. Now, older and wiser, I realise at last what its about and often lapse into tears as I listen to it:its the prodigal son, humbly acknowledging the arrogance of his youth. Enjoy it. That Old Sweet Song | Reviewer: Brian Fitzsimons ------ About the song The Hedgehog's Song performed by The Incredible String Band John Peel played 'The Hedgehog's Song' on Radio 1 one night when I was about 17 and I immediately loved it. A couple of months later, someone was selling a copy of 'The 5000 Spirits' at work, so I bought it because this track was on it. I was warned that it was not typical of the ISB's work, but I took it anyway. 'The Hedgehog's Song' was still the beautiful, innocent, little song that I remembered, but the rest of the album made me a fan for life. (Not many people know that it was one of the tracks requested by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Wiliams on 'Desert Island Discs', whatever that proves.) Bad Sadie Lee | Reviewer: Sadie Lee VaSchouwen ------ About the song Bad Sadie Lee performed by The Incredible String Band i have yet to read the lyrics of your song of which contain my first and middle name, but I am curious. everything's fine right now | Reviewer: scott salzman ------ About the song Everything's Fine Right Now performed by The Incredible String Band Such agreat song. I'm finally trying to get the lyrics so I can learn it.er. Sorry Mike, shouldn't have been jealous of the telepathy between you and my girfriend in Boston 1969....Love you.......Scott A cut above heaven... | Reviewer: Cressida Gaukroger ------ About the album Liquid Acrobat as Regards the Air performed by The Incredible String Band This is possibly one of the greatest albums released by one of the most influential, beautiful, and originally talented bands ever formed. Robin Williamson and Mike Herron moved their music even further with their later releases, still keeping the originally hippie and almost psycadelic sounds that made their first releases great, but with a new complexity of sound partly due to an even bigger range of instruments which create even more layers to an already unique and moving form. I strongly suggest that when listening to "Tree”, a re-recording of an earlier song that has been improved upon with a new utter fierceness that it emits from every point, you turn the volume up to full during the chorus. -Buy the album, and you'll have no trouble knowing what I mean. You could review the artist/band The Incredible String Band in Biography page You could review The Incredible String Band album by visiting Albums page and selecting an album You could review The Incredible String Band song by clicking the song which you like  Download "The Incredible String Band" Music | |
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