Incredible String Band - The Half-Remarkable Question

[Ghoopty]

A little simpler than the studio version, but no less magical.

[butterybiscuits67]

My favorite ISB song!

[megaEDWIN3]

worth a million boy bands

[LdyChatterleysPlover]

Never gonna be another band like them

[russianpostman]

hello, can anyone tell me which is the chord at 2:33 please

[andypandywright]

williamson's playing in a C open tuning with capo on fret 1 so the song's in C sharp (heron's tuned the sitar up a semitone to match), but, taking the key as C, which is what's being played, the chords around 2.33 are - "(C) oh long (G) oh long (Cm) 'ere yet (F) my eyes (Cm)" - martin.

[russianpostman]

@andypandywright most interesting, may try that. Many thanks Nick.

[puddypuss]

I remember this show which was shown on a sunday night. also remember jimmy page appearing one week. julie felix was in the audience for the recent incredible string band retrospective at the barbican london. rose also appeared, but I really thought it was dot cotton at first

[12347771]

Mike sure knows his way around the sitar. Great meend tech for an anglo boy.

Renbourn was inventive on it as well.

[bobksf]

Wonderful to see them. I have their music on vinyl only and I doubt I've listened to it since the early 70's. I got to seem them perform at Woodstock (which I don't remember) and again at Carnegie Hall about a year later (which I do remember).

[snorhoofd]

19 and lovin it

[flamencoprof]

There's something forgotten I once used to know

[TheMarymc]

what song's that from?

[flamencoprof]

Wee Tam. May I recommend allmusicdot com, you could find that out in a flash

[flamencoprof]

er... from this very song, but misquoted because I had forgotten something I used to know :-) Correct quote is : - "there's something forgotten I want you to know"

[bobgreen623]

This is great, truly. I am just too young (53) to have really been there first time around, but I remember in my innocent pre-pubescent way having a big 'popstar' crush on Julie Felix! I thought she was lovely, and she played a guitar too!!

[jazmaan]

Yes! I dig it! I like the way the singer uses microtones. But the sitar player should have took his watch off before the cameras rolled!

[alcoholichealer]

utter gods

[Jarrahnut]

They weren't half-remarkable - they were bloody brilliant! Greetings to one and all of you, from Colin (Jarrahnut) in wonderful Western Australia.

[DoorofPerception60]

Greetings man, from San Fransisco in California! The Incredible String Band indeed were brilliant. The best blend of folk and psychedelic I've ever heard.

[lsdmadman]

thanky mucho..i need reminders that our species / western culture DID ONCE make amazing music

[savoirgai]

wonderful......even saw them do this

[jimbaker87]

The ISB are not folk music, some folk roots, but they are the ISB, never been anything like them.

Led Zeppelin were fans of the band, as were the Rolling Stones.

I still listen to them, over 40 years on.

Jim

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[nudeone34]

Robin...your musicial journeys are better than life as we know it...love.

[AYEculture]

I remember the original 3 of them them singing in the old folk club in Glasgow 'back in the 1960's' when I was a young boy!

Thanks indeed for posting!

[snouty1]

They are incredible. It makes me think of my childhood. Even now, they are so relevant. In my life, in yours.

[randomteen314]

Whenever I listen to the ISB I hear things I've never heard before even when I listen to the over and over again . . . you'll never find anything like this

[bradondo]

There's got to be a bunch of ISB video/live material out there that simply hasn't surfaced. It's a treat to see these vids on here.

[FunnyHaHaFunnyHaHa]

great stuff. thanks.

[sidsideways]

really superb. shame more ISB footage hasn't survived

[LotusLight7]

Great song!

[Nicatroubadour]

huhhuhhhu

[muthas69]

Crivens!!

[leloby]

This is a Vic & Bob style gag - right?

[xtcxtc123]

amazing this was prime time tv in the 70's

thanks for this

[paintedchariot]

This music is timeless

[junkdrum]

I'm not really a fan of folkie music per se, but some artists and groups transcend genre, doncha think?

[ColtraneGilg]

this is probably my favorite incredible string band song. thank you so much. i love this. the poetry is just so beautiful

[Starmandala]

Now if this be not a half-remarkable blast from de past I ain't aged a single day since I first heard ISB in 1968 and was totally blown away! Curious about the audo sync problem - was the soundtrack reinserted from a reissued CD or did the misalignment occur when digitizing the original film? Thanks very much for this fantastic treat, Al59reconstituido!

[Leodorus]

Very beautiful.

[sidsideways]

Remakable -- I'd forgotten how good Mike was on Sitar

[CarnaticConnection]

Totally. Especially since he was never a full time student under a guru. He sounds amazing!

[FirstBassman13]

Boy does this bring back memories.

Thanks for posting!

Great stuff.

[Islwynpaul]

I agre with U without reservation.

[deusinad]

What is it that we are part of? An elephant madness has covered the sky. The essence of my early days that lives with me in my subconcious, waiting to be re-awakened and to calm my turmoiled and cluttered mind.

[Israfvel]

A round world we partake in, dearie, one growin' ever more convoluted by the second.

[Hanksalot]

Thanks for this-these are awesome songs-daring beauty and full of nerve-

I saw them a few years ago and it was so sweet...

Nice to hear Julie Felix sanging Painting Box...

[eyeball226]

I dunno, I don't think her voice suits it very well and kind of spoils it...

[Hanksalot]

A-Ha!ISB purism, eh? Rose and Licky supporter ahoy? These be arguments & discussions that I could not have with many people-before YouTube. I wonder what is it that we are now part of. It ain't half remakable, ain't it?

[eyeball226]

Not so much a purist necessarily, more that I just think her voice is too strident. And ISB lyrics are suitable for quoting on all occasions.

[Hanksalot]

"And ISB lyrics are suitable for quoting on all occasions..." Aye! Upon this, we can concur - but tell me Eyeball person, wot doth thee, or anyone else reading, make of my theory that "Stairway to Heaven" is but an ISB song with Heavy Metal knobs on? LOL!

[eyeball226]

I've never really listened to it a lot to tell the truth. I do think that weird indie band Neutral Milk Hotel have a certain String Band-ishness about them. The whole Elephant Six philosophy really...

[WmReinhardt]

A unique cultural and musical collaboration unmatched anywhere! They captured the true essence of the hippie era.

[noor8]

the one band who captured the essence of 60's return to natural order in the chaos of masterful creativity

[solosteven37]

Absolutely stunning.

[harmonioushand]

Thanks so much for this I've been wanting to see it for so long, just curious what is the source?

[Al59reconstituido]

Which DVD?

[ISB]

this clip is from my DVD

always give credit when you download a vid from a blog

[Heinrich552002]

wonderful! more please, please!

one of my all time favourit band since today