Wow!!! Mike & Robin, my heroes, with Julie Felix. I used to listen to their albums "5000 spirits" and "Hangmans' beautiful daughter" constantly. Thanks to Youtube for such gems.
ISB é um grupo sui generis. O que mais me atraiu neles foi esse "ar" de saltimbancos, a mistura de sons e estilos. Além do toque de mistério, é claro. Músicos extremamente simpáticos e talentosos, únicos. Sua discografia é vasta, diversificada e evoca o melhor da era hippie.
Once nursed a person who was mentally ill. He talked about this band and all these years later I've looked and listened It great music perhaps he was not so mad
Hi again monsqeeky, thanx for sticking up for me, sort of a silly arguement, really, of cousre the music theen beats the music today, no one had Autotune then, and there was no hip-hop, so even the Jefferson Airplane were as they still sound, ---real. Lots of great musicians today, I mean Trent Resnor just won an oscar, yeehaw, I just happen to like some of the old ones. But really, give a listen to PJ Harvey's new album, great freakin stuff
hi monsqueeky, did I go to woodstock? I actually set out to do so, but the lady friend I was with became ill, so we had to return to Toronto. The couple we set out with went, though, and said yeh, it was fun, but it was always raining and they never got close to the stage. We all watched the movie, and figured it was probably better. I used to love festivals, though, went to a lot of them, even saw Zappa and the Dead. Lots of weed, too.
@fubar50cat wooww man. you're inspirational man. you're a good guy for staying with her. thats cool man. and lexleebold you dont have the right to say anything to him because he lived through a time where music actually meant a lot. socially and politically and about one another. ive given music now a chance and it sucks. its garbage. no meaning. maybe some do bt most suck. it doesnt compare to this music. he doesnt need to take a chance to this music anyway he already has an incredible taste.
monsqeeky, this is in reply to you, none of us can go back in time, unfortunately, but yes, it was a great ime, if you ignored litttle problems like the war in Vietnam, the impeachment of the president, Cambodia, civil rights issues etc. I would guess that we had reason to be upset then, and expressed it. The hidden message behind Paintig Box is the race issue, just the same as in Melvana Reynold's great song Little Boxes, although it was more directly about conformity. I love your opinion, ty
@fubar50cat you're welcome. i like to learn about how it was in the 60's. the 70's werent bad either. well in what ive seen. i just wish music now was as meaningful and amazing as 60's and 70's music. music now a days is meaningless. i mean whats the point of techno and house. its got no meaning. its not music. all i got to say is that i respect you for what you've been throuugh. lucky :D by the way..did you attend woodstock?
For all you people who complain and complain on how terrible music is listen to animal collective. Thats how i found this song, an animal collective mix.
Hey fubarcat50. This is a little late (1 year) but check out Hanne Hukkelberg. Her representation on youtube is a bit limited, but her work is fantastic. Maybe you'll like it.
saw ISB live at both Filmore East and Filmore West and have been sharing them with my friends and students ever since....they are among my all time favorites
This music reminds me that music sucked in every era. The only difference is now it's promoted.
This is what happened to sound after Christ has decided it should be punished for sins on earth, because this is fucking purgatory.
This music is anti-Stones. This is a shrieking wife after you wake up, hung over. A caterwauling cat waking you in the middle of the night. If there is a place where good music exists, this song is in the part of the Universe farthest from that point.
I just discovered this group and I don't think you can be any more wrong. This is real music compared to what was being promoted in the 60s; and yes, music (good and bad) was in fact being promoted in the 60s (Including the Stones). I feel sorry for you if you honestly don't think it's possible to appreciate music like this, as well as the Rolling Stones.
Then again, you listen to AC/DC, so anyone with good taste would ignore your opinion anyway.
@ToniToronto man i always know where i am and i know what youtube is. but thar doesn´t necessarily mean that one accepts evry bullshit, for example that from user I03296 i have an iq of over 120, am well educated, historically oriented .and over 50, which means i have some life experience. still i couldn´t find any connections between ISB and adolf hitler. maybe you could be helpful, better than to write generalities?.
@friederich66 ehm... you know that all of the mentioned people are dead? and that hitler died before the members if ISB were even born? himmler etc. as well. that´s why i call this bullshit.
if hitler loved music it was wagner, ever heard of him? i think not :-)
@friederich66 You wanna know why? Everybody likes to get stoned to the ISB. Göring, Goebbels, Himmler. But also non nazis like, Fidel, Joseph, Kim, Mao. Everbody
I caught the ISB in Detroit at Ford auditorium as a 4 piece back in 69 or 70 and interviewed them for the Ann Arbor Argus afterword. They were a treat to experience.
I remember seeing them at an inordinately grey Crayford Town Hall - their manager must have had a sense of humour or just a wish for a few bob. Wonderful stuff. I just prefer the first album to the second, having got stoned on whisky mac. That's certainly Julie Felix. She also did a version of Masters of War!
@enthusedbythisstuff Robin Williamson has recorded many more albums after ISB broke up (1974 or so) the last of which came out in 2008 and is still performing. Mike Heron (the other pillar of ISB) is also alive and well and still performing.
No idea if you are refering to me but if you are can I say no, not American born Sheffield, UK. God it feels old when you talk about ' your era '. Anyway must boil up the cocoa and roger the wife
Sayw these guys many years ago when I was in University before they 'made it'. Good to see so many responses from ypounger people. Now I must go put on the slippers and light a splif.
hi, this vid so reminds me of the way we used to regard ourselves, beautul and always correct. Somehow, the magic has been lost, we are all older now, but it is a truly wonderful thing that so many young people like this song! In a way that actually brings the magic back to me, so thank you for your choice to listen to this song and compliment it!
You can't expect the spoonfed morons of the Facebook Generation to understand this kind of music. Future historians will look back at videos from the pre-internet era as a kind of 'end of renaissance', with everything that comes post-internet being a recycled pastiche or ironic fad. Culture homogenized is culture killed.
@agamemnon60 Why can't you expect the young generation to appreciate and create good music. You really have a very biggoted and blinkered viewpoint. Get out more and open you ears.
@agamemnon60 you are a huge idiot. And clearly you don't understand the true timeless quality of a good song and its ability to have a timelessly potent meaning. I have seen youtube comments of 8 year old kids freaking out over a Hendrix riff, or a Bob Dylan harmonica jam. Man you are the wrong kind of music lover, and clearly were not a member of the culture that devoured this music in the 60's and early 70's
Some of the things i'm reading on here are pretty against now times. i believe peace, love and positivity can be found in any era/ place/ moment/ person. that's the beautiful vibe i get from this band. not some heir-achy way of living that can't ever be accessed again. peace!
neohip and markswales, thanx for your interest in what i said. I agree with you that there is much good music today, I was mainly commenting on the american idiot commecial crap, but i am still really happy that even courtney love is comming out with hard rocking shit again. Maybe I have just been justin biebered to death, dammit! So then I put on Be Good Tanyas doing Townes song about sitting there just waiting to die, and hell, thatt cheers me up--- it does seem that there is hope!
simply i can say that when i heard and saw them in the 1970s my life ended they where so wonderful nothing that has happen to me since matters they were everything
I've loved The I.S.B. since '68 when their album "The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter" came out. Saw them perform full-length shows thrice in late '60s-early '70s & have never stopped listening to them, for their music's never dated. About 3 yrs ago ISB came to USA on tour again! After the show they came out & sat down w/the audience. I ended up chatting w/Mike for about 15 min. & -- no surprise -- he's the NICEST, dearest man! So radiant, genuinely friendly, kind & easy-going. Thanks, Mike!
i remember this, when songs were fun, and we listened to dylan and the beatles, life seemed simpler then, the music had meaning. Now it is just american idol, and music sucks, unfortunately
@fubarcat50 I love 60s and 70s music, but I'm sick of hearing people whinge about how modern music sucks etc etc. Sure, most music in the charts sucks, but you're looking at this video on the internet. Why don't you use it to go check out some of the amazing music that's not being spoon fed to you. There's just as much good music around today as there ever has been. People will look back at 2010 some day and say "god there was some good music around back then!"
@markwales:'cause it's all about the time we live and everybody is greedy for money man. Would you rather see this on youtube or be at woodstock? + al the politicians and comercials make the choices nowadays and in the 60s, some people tried to stop what was upcoming which is what the world became nowadays. Comercial raps about ass and sex +Rocknroll has no more soul nowadays, tokyo hotel sum 41 .. It has no more sense, and whats the most scary is that people for the most part cant even see that
I'm afraid i don't agree. i'm not from your era but i appreciate music from it. music nowadays is purely 'american idol' if thats all you open your eyes to but I can assure you that there is 'new folk' music. I take it that your american, but i welcome you to listen to some of Uk's folk talents of recent years. Mumford and sons, Laura Marling, Johnny Flynn, Noah and the whale, Emmy the great to name a few. We too suffer from the same american idol culture but there are some real gems out there.
@fubarcat50 There isn't just American Idol. There's a lot of good music around, but if your lazy you won't find it. I hate when I come to a video and the first comment is some idiot complaining about how music today sucks. Shitty music has always existed.
@fubarcat50 You touch upon a very delicate point relating to human nature. As a rule, people consider 'good' what they came to know in their early years. In 30-40 years from now, your children will consider today's music 'tip-top', and despise the path(s) which music will have take by then. I see your point (and, to a large extent, I do endorse it). My point is: Dylan and the Beatles (most probably) were not among our fathers' favourites. The norm is time-dependent.
@fubarcat50 what are you talking about man? there will always be good music on this earth! none of us have any obligation to listen to "american idol" or for that matter any music that we inherently dislike. you dont have to look all that hard to find the music you enjoy
@EtherialMoon sorry but i disagree. in the sixties the music was rich, authentic, and original, qualities that could define what "good" music is (in my mind, music can be defined objectively as good, beethoven, the incredible string band and S&G are "good" music, katy perry & justin bieber are bad music, and it's not a matter of opinion simply because the latter is derivative, doesn't express anything, and is solely designed to be profitable for the companies that exploit it)
@UnitedNewThinkers I understand your point about some music being inarguably "bad" (i would go as far to say that some music is actually damaging to our perception of sound), but your argument seems to revolve around the idea of popular music being the epicenter of music itself. Really whether one billion people or just one has heard a piece of music, it means nothing in relation to that musics' overall sound and whether you or I enjoy listening to it.
@EtherialMoon oh yeah of course. it's just that in addition to the fact that pop music today is terrible, i find that actual good music is generally quite hard to find. it happens quite rarely for me to stumble onto a piece written in the last 10 years that will really satisfy me, whereas most things i listen to from then are a pleasure. if you have any bands from today you think are worthy, please share (don't think i'm saying they don't exist, i just know too few and would love to know more)
@UnitedNewThinkers Yeah for sure man. But I guess that depends totally on your music taste. Id be interested to hear what bands you are into at the moment. It'd help me recomment to you some modern bands you might dig. As for me i'm into such a wide variety of music it makes finding good artists really easy.
@EtherialMoon well i feel the same in the sense that i love many types of music, but what i would specifically like to discover involves good rythm or/and melody, and actual instruments and voice (i know enough electronic synthetic stuff). So bands i like on the top of my head are BRMC, Parlor Mob, Black Keys, Beach House. I'm not much into the indi experimental stuff, but i like some yeasayer for example, so i'm not entirely exclusive to it. So what would you recommend?
@EtherialMoon the second part of my argument is that this "bad" music is so prominent nowadays that people lose a sense of what quality is, and so good music becomes quite difficult to find. in the 60s everybody liked the beatles and jefferson airplane, it was both popular and authentic, but the same cannot be said for popular music today. I find you need to dig deep to find music that will really satisfy you today.
People still make good music like this! It's just not on TV anymore. You're going to have to dig a little deeper to find it, because music like this doesn't make anyone money. Chances are, it's being played in a shed down the street, or in an art gallery somewhere nearby.
yeah by dig a little deeper you mean spend hours researching and internet searching until you can hardly see straight then, yeah you're right. It's not easy to find good stuff these days
@fubarcat50 Just American Idol? How musically uncurious do you have to be to think that? Come clean; your tastes calcified a long time ago and you haven't actually given today's music a chance.
I'm 19 and have loved them since I discovered them whilst rumaging through my dad's old lps and found Liquid Acrobat as Regards the Air when I was 16. Since then I've introduced alot of my friends to them so TISB have a small young fanbase in Ireland.
I used to buy their early albums in New Zealand, so when I was in London in 1970 I went to their concert at the Royal Albert Hall. One of the strangest events I have been to- all seemed very impromptu & unplanned. Fun music though.
I bought "The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter" LP as a teen. Hooked from then on. Genius British woodland folk. One of the best, most melodic bands ever. Love them more every listen. Also check out the phenomenal Pearls Before Swine. How about the band Forest from around 1971? Similar.
This amazing song brings me back to that painting box of my youth, hitching a ride on the clinker boat with cows, and the mail, over to Rathlin, and no one knew I was there
Wonderful memories of the 1960's. I saw the Incredible String Band at the Royal Festival Hall, London, in 1968. Such great lyrics and wonderful musianship with lots of unusual instruments. I think they were the first to use a Sitar in a modern music context, although I may stand to be corrected on that.
Wow!!! Mike & Robin, my heroes, with Julie Felix. I used to listen to their albums "5000 spirits" and "Hangmans' beautiful daughter" constantly. Thanks to Youtube for such gems.
laconic94 3 weeks ago
Mimi Farina?
leetomboulian 1 month ago
Takes me back.....to my hippy days. Such a happy time (Still got all their LP's..!!)
mikayleee 2 months ago
Don't they all three look so beautiful!
erroll147 2 months ago 3
I want her.
1m2a3t4t5 4 months ago
Joan Baez..not at all!
AMAC48 4 months ago
This song just made me feel good.Thanks.
Rahoorkhuitable 4 months ago
Julie Felix.
johnnyrobb2000 4 months ago
I love what she's wearing :D
IncredibleStringBan1 6 months ago
They're all....beautiful <3
Musique2BeDreamer 6 months ago
Rather than evict your ocular orbits, just take a puff of this or that and the words will make perfect sense.
johntechwriter 6 months ago
Nice sounds and all but sheez their words make me want to gouge out my eyeballs.
minwav 6 months ago
Who is the lady?
hansmichelsson 6 months ago
@hansmichelsson Joan Baez? Just a guess.
dougiezerts 4 months ago
sigh...camera spends too much time on the faces and not enuff on the guitar action,,,the really interesting viewing.. ...
bobbystahr 6 months ago
ISB é um grupo sui generis. O que mais me atraiu neles foi esse "ar" de saltimbancos, a mistura de sons e estilos. Além do toque de mistério, é claro. Músicos extremamente simpáticos e talentosos, únicos. Sua discografia é vasta, diversificada e evoca o melhor da era hippie.
decupero 6 months ago
classic track !!!!
lambertroberts 7 months ago
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TheGB1950 9 months ago
Thanks for the answer. I thought it sounded like the the orig.album version. Its real close!
TheGB1950 9 months ago
my auld pal Tam knew Mike Heron pre ISB .. I was right into isb collected all there albums.. unique ..
larrbeez 9 months ago
nice!
dswarlus 11 months ago
What show is this?
johnandrewism 11 months ago
@johnandrewism
Julie Felix Show On UK tv
captainsoul1953 9 months ago
Such a masterpiece!
psychOroach 11 months ago
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This is quintessential ISB, three people singing, just not together. I really miss this band.
Vidiocy 11 months ago
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Vidiocy 11 months ago
Once nursed a person who was mentally ill. He talked about this band and all these years later I've looked and listened It great music perhaps he was not so mad
rothwellss 11 months ago 32
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clazza01 9 months ago
@clazza01 Don't understand your response to my comment seem a bit excessive but still you have your views and I have mine
rothwellss 9 months ago
@clazza01
Totally uncalled for.
BurningSky93 9 months ago
Great lyrics! An old favorite of mine
friendlyisle 11 months ago
Nice version, the sync (or lack thereof) is a litle disconcerting, but pretty good audio.
LBDumont 1 year ago
Hey Tobias: chúpame la pinga. This is fantastic!
osopolar61 1 year ago
Incredible, in fact.
osopolar61 1 year ago 2
dirty hippies
Tobiasz123 1 year ago
Disco Sucks!!
BigJonBone 1 year ago
Hi again monsqeeky, thanx for sticking up for me, sort of a silly arguement, really, of cousre the music theen beats the music today, no one had Autotune then, and there was no hip-hop, so even the Jefferson Airplane were as they still sound, ---real. Lots of great musicians today, I mean Trent Resnor just won an oscar, yeehaw, I just happen to like some of the old ones. But really, give a listen to PJ Harvey's new album, great freakin stuff
fubar50cat 1 year ago
hi monsqueeky, did I go to woodstock? I actually set out to do so, but the lady friend I was with became ill, so we had to return to Toronto. The couple we set out with went, though, and said yeh, it was fun, but it was always raining and they never got close to the stage. We all watched the movie, and figured it was probably better. I used to love festivals, though, went to a lot of them, even saw Zappa and the Dead. Lots of weed, too.
fubar50cat 1 year ago
@fubar50cat wooww man. you're inspirational man. you're a good guy for staying with her. thats cool man. and lexleebold you dont have the right to say anything to him because he lived through a time where music actually meant a lot. socially and politically and about one another. ive given music now a chance and it sucks. its garbage. no meaning. maybe some do bt most suck. it doesnt compare to this music. he doesnt need to take a chance to this music anyway he already has an incredible taste.
MONSQUEEKY 1 year ago
monsqeeky, this is in reply to you, none of us can go back in time, unfortunately, but yes, it was a great ime, if you ignored litttle problems like the war in Vietnam, the impeachment of the president, Cambodia, civil rights issues etc. I would guess that we had reason to be upset then, and expressed it. The hidden message behind Paintig Box is the race issue, just the same as in Melvana Reynold's great song Little Boxes, although it was more directly about conformity. I love your opinion, ty
fubar50cat 1 year ago
@fubar50cat you're welcome. i like to learn about how it was in the 60's. the 70's werent bad either. well in what ive seen. i just wish music now was as meaningful and amazing as 60's and 70's music. music now a days is meaningless. i mean whats the point of techno and house. its got no meaning. its not music. all i got to say is that i respect you for what you've been throuugh. lucky :D by the way..did you attend woodstock?
MONSQUEEKY 1 year ago
is this the woman interviewer, cynthia gooding, that is on the dylan cd " folksinger's choice"
stevekusha 1 year ago
For all you people who complain and complain on how terrible music is listen to animal collective. Thats how i found this song, an animal collective mix.
mrcannabis94 1 year ago
Hey fubarcat50. This is a little late (1 year) but check out Hanne Hukkelberg. Her representation on youtube is a bit limited, but her work is fantastic. Maybe you'll like it.
rrbold 1 year ago
THATS good!
brendinha000 1 year ago
Oh my god those legs are so amazing. Too bad she's old now.
sunsplash1980 1 year ago
saw ISB live at both Filmore East and Filmore West and have been sharing them with my friends and students ever since....they are among my all time favorites
rkscon1 1 year ago
This music reminds me that music sucked in every era. The only difference is now it's promoted.
This is what happened to sound after Christ has decided it should be punished for sins on earth, because this is fucking purgatory.
This music is anti-Stones. This is a shrieking wife after you wake up, hung over. A caterwauling cat waking you in the middle of the night. If there is a place where good music exists, this song is in the part of the Universe farthest from that point.
menckencynic 1 year ago
@menckencynic
I just discovered this group and I don't think you can be any more wrong. This is real music compared to what was being promoted in the 60s; and yes, music (good and bad) was in fact being promoted in the 60s (Including the Stones). I feel sorry for you if you honestly don't think it's possible to appreciate music like this, as well as the Rolling Stones.
Then again, you listen to AC/DC, so anyone with good taste would ignore your opinion anyway.
americathesn 1 year ago 2
@menckencynic Loved the vid & also your pain and poetry,like a singing missionary in the pot!
MrWitchtrials 1 year ago
@MrWitchtrials Like this song, you don't even bother to make sense.
menckencynic 1 year ago
ARRRRRGGH, I want a red scallop-edged cape!
Mithering 1 year ago
you know who loved getting stoned to these guys? Hitler.....
I03296 1 year ago
@I03296 what kind of bullshit are you writing here? what do they have to do with hitler?
friederich66 1 year ago
@friederich66 you seem to forget that this is youtube
ToniToronto 1 year ago
@ToniToronto man i always know where i am and i know what youtube is. but thar doesn´t necessarily mean that one accepts evry bullshit, for example that from user I03296 i have an iq of over 120, am well educated, historically oriented .and over 50, which means i have some life experience. still i couldn´t find any connections between ISB and adolf hitler. maybe you could be helpful, better than to write generalities?.
friederich66
friederich66 1 year ago
@friederich66 just enjoy the music, it´s good for your IQ <@:-)
ToniToronto 1 year ago
@friederich66 ehm... you know that all of the mentioned people are dead? and that hitler died before the members if ISB were even born? himmler etc. as well. that´s why i call this bullshit.
if hitler loved music it was wagner, ever heard of him? i think not :-)
friederich
friederich66 1 year ago
this above was meant to h user i03296, the one with hitler, you know, i clicked the wrong response button
friederich66 1 year ago
@I03296 still waiting for an explanation from you what connection you see between ISB and hitler. or is it that you know no connection yourself?
friederich66 1 year ago
@friederich66 You wanna know why? Everybody likes to get stoned to the ISB. Göring, Goebbels, Himmler. But also non nazis like, Fidel, Joseph, Kim, Mao. Everbody
I03296 1 year ago
I LOVE the guy's outfit. I'm talking about the guy on the left of the screen just so you know.
AmberRock7 1 year ago
SO GOOD(!) Again, Again(!!) (Anyone care to drop by for some covers of ISB, Donovan, Dylan and REM?) ;-)
grabbitphonya 1 year ago
I don't care how good or respected Julie Felix is. This song just isn't right without Licorice. No fucking way!
This group was a bunch of nymphs. Can't be anything else.
49kasey 1 year ago
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agreed, sincere good music is hard to find nowadays...but this arty-farty crap is horrible. I hope they died a slow and painfull death.
goosing 1 year ago
I've loved that album since 1967. It is still one of my top five albums ever. Thanks for the vid. Fabulous.
MartinDn1001 1 year ago
amazing concert here in Iceland thank you!!
erlingurt 1 year ago
Nice legs.
riverdale999 1 year ago 30
@riverdale999 And yet, what must those legs be like today? This song evokes in me an overwhelming feeling of regret, a lost love of my youth perhaps.
ucsteve 8 months ago
@ucsteve I have both responses to this material sad and nice memories of my best friend and I burning incense and grooving on the album.
TheGB1950 7 months ago
Mike has such a positive and uplifting soul. Whenever I'm down I listen to one of his songs and it always helps.
jubilaz 1 year ago
Harmony, guitar that dances like mandolins, this song and band bring to a place when I believed that I had true love. thank you so much. Lorraine
Rainy55 1 year ago
I uploaded it : youtube.com/watch?v=0JupI1fNc1I
trojanlol 1 year ago
someone has to upload "the song has no ending". I'll do it when I could
trojanlol 1 year ago
Julie Felix clearly hasn't the faintest notion.
pmonaghan3 1 year ago
I caught the ISB in Detroit at Ford auditorium as a 4 piece back in 69 or 70 and interviewed them for the Ann Arbor Argus afterword. They were a treat to experience.
justbeamensch 1 year ago
I used to enjoy playing this one and lots of others after they let me have a copy of their music sheets back in the 1970s
ou53uea 1 year ago
When you have a musician (Julie Felix) presenting a music programme - rather than a talent scout (Simon Cowell) - you get a different kind of music.
It is more musical.
thallassocracy 1 year ago
I remember seeing them at an inordinately grey Crayford Town Hall - their manager must have had a sense of humour or just a wish for a few bob. Wonderful stuff. I just prefer the first album to the second, having got stoned on whisky mac. That's certainly Julie Felix. She also did a version of Masters of War!
Pitsku 1 year ago
I wonder who's forcing anyone to listen to or watch American Idol. What's wrong with "Black Keys" - they are simply amazing!
vertlime 1 year ago
Think the girl might be Julie Felix. She might have had a BBC series they were guesting on.
Next question, what happened to this singer Robin(?)
enthusedbythisstuff 1 year ago
@enthusedbythisstuff Robin Williamson has recorded many more albums after ISB broke up (1974 or so) the last of which came out in 2008 and is still performing. Mike Heron (the other pillar of ISB) is also alive and well and still performing.
vertlime 1 year ago
who's that girl ?
obnebur 1 year ago
i love this song its simply beautiful!! thanx
Bigbitgirl 1 year ago
To Thomas1walker
No idea if you are refering to me but if you are can I say no, not American born Sheffield, UK. God it feels old when you talk about ' your era '. Anyway must boil up the cocoa and roger the wife
davmccorm 1 year ago
Sayw these guys many years ago when I was in University before they 'made it'. Good to see so many responses from ypounger people. Now I must go put on the slippers and light a splif.
Have a nice evening
davmccorm 1 year ago
Used to think about drugs,sex and rock and roll now its just different drugs,sex and rock and roll
1canyonguy 1 year ago
i think humans have a natural tendency to like what they've always liked.
you love the scene you grow up in and then compare it to the new generation and of course you come to the conclusion everything was better back then.
there's plenty of good music out there. you just have to sift through the crap. just like you always had to. open your mind and start looking.
Dissilience 1 year ago
hi, this vid so reminds me of the way we used to regard ourselves, beautul and always correct. Somehow, the magic has been lost, we are all older now, but it is a truly wonderful thing that so many young people like this song! In a way that actually brings the magic back to me, so thank you for your choice to listen to this song and compliment it!
fubar50cat 1 year ago
The guy on the left looks like robin hood
TheDrunkMunk 1 year ago
how cool is that guitar
thestrtingline48 1 year ago
This song is so amazing!
relentlessneurotoxin 1 year ago
Listen to fleet foxes, all you fools complaining about "these days".
earnestmorrissey 1 year ago
You can't expect the spoonfed morons of the Facebook Generation to understand this kind of music. Future historians will look back at videos from the pre-internet era as a kind of 'end of renaissance', with everything that comes post-internet being a recycled pastiche or ironic fad. Culture homogenized is culture killed.
agamemnon60 1 year ago
@agamemnon60 quote of the month man good job
rjvalentine28 1 year ago
@agamemnon60 Why can't you expect the young generation to appreciate and create good music. You really have a very biggoted and blinkered viewpoint. Get out more and open you ears.
hairysharpness 1 year ago
@agamemnon60 you are a huge idiot. And clearly you don't understand the true timeless quality of a good song and its ability to have a timelessly potent meaning. I have seen youtube comments of 8 year old kids freaking out over a Hendrix riff, or a Bob Dylan harmonica jam. Man you are the wrong kind of music lover, and clearly were not a member of the culture that devoured this music in the 60's and early 70's
addercool 1 year ago
Some of the things i'm reading on here are pretty against now times. i believe peace, love and positivity can be found in any era/ place/ moment/ person. that's the beautiful vibe i get from this band. not some heir-achy way of living that can't ever be accessed again. peace!
kesporp 1 year ago 9
neohip and markswales, thanx for your interest in what i said. I agree with you that there is much good music today, I was mainly commenting on the american idiot commecial crap, but i am still really happy that even courtney love is comming out with hard rocking shit again. Maybe I have just been justin biebered to death, dammit! So then I put on Be Good Tanyas doing Townes song about sitting there just waiting to die, and hell, thatt cheers me up--- it does seem that there is hope!
fubar50cat 1 year ago
music died in 1995
TRaddcliff 1 year ago
The girl with the beautiful voice is "Licorice" (Christana McKechnie).
The song where she makes one`s flesh creep is "The Banks of Sweet Italy". You can find it here on YouTube.
Psykelic68 1 year ago
This world has gone to shit, and videos like this are ghosts of a better time.
agamemnon60 1 year ago 2
@agamemnon60 really
matt749 1 year ago
simply i can say that when i heard and saw them in the 1970s my life ended they where so wonderful nothing that has happen to me since matters they were everything
jeffas100 1 year ago
Who is the woman singer ?
vonroon23 1 year ago
@vonroon23 Julie Felix
agamemnon60 1 year ago
@vonroon23 The girl with the beautiful voice is "Licorice" (Christana McKechnie).
The song where she makes one`s flesh creep is "The Banks of Sweet Italy". You can find it here on YouTube.
Psykelic68 1 year ago
It's really beautiful man!!! Like wow Mike and Robin are like so far out and this song is like really boring.
Still it's good she got her teeth back
birdstuckinchimney 1 year ago
incredable energy
master10734 1 year ago
Oops! -- -- PS: Thank you, "SeaOvJapan", for posting this unique video of Robin & Mike!
Love from,
.....Swift-As-The-Wind xoxoxox
LesBuisonnets1 2 years ago
I've loved The I.S.B. since '68 when their album "The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter" came out. Saw them perform full-length shows thrice in late '60s-early '70s & have never stopped listening to them, for their music's never dated. About 3 yrs ago ISB came to USA on tour again! After the show they came out & sat down w/the audience. I ended up chatting w/Mike for about 15 min. & -- no surprise -- he's the NICEST, dearest man! So radiant, genuinely friendly, kind & easy-going. Thanks, Mike!
LesBuisonnets1 2 years ago
Mike Heron wrote this song, - and he is Michelangelo of Folk Music !
Psykelic68 2 years ago
robin williamson is Leonardo da Vinci of folk music
parfumedtree 2 years ago 11
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@parfumedtree Mike Heron wrote this song, - and he is Michelangelo of Folk Music !
Psykelic68 2 years ago
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I have 8 of their albums on vinyl, and just found out all their 13 studio-albums are released on CD, - so I´ve ordered 2 of them !
Thanks "SeaOvJapan" for posting ISB to us old Hippies.
Psykelic68 2 years ago
yay and then some, fellow zanies....bless all the hearts involvled....nay,,,,each and every ONE AND ALL
lsdmadman 2 years ago
Incredible to see them live after listen to the vinylAlbums for 35 years !
Psykelic68 2 years ago
Legend
teleroylichtenstein 2 years ago
Two of My all time heroes the incredible string band are awesome.
RobRogers1968 2 years ago 2
this is one of the lovelyest songs ever written and mum says Mike is looking particularly handsome
beckirsian 2 years ago 4
i remember this, when songs were fun, and we listened to dylan and the beatles, life seemed simpler then, the music had meaning. Now it is just american idol, and music sucks, unfortunately
fubarcat50 2 years ago 36
@fubarcat50
Music only sucks if you listen to the radio or "watch" it on television.
Great music is still being made,believe me!.
Try listening to Fleet Foxes or Espers. Two very good young bands who are in the same spirit,if not as pioneering as ISB.
neohip 1 year ago 2
@fubarcat50 I love 60s and 70s music, but I'm sick of hearing people whinge about how modern music sucks etc etc. Sure, most music in the charts sucks, but you're looking at this video on the internet. Why don't you use it to go check out some of the amazing music that's not being spoon fed to you. There's just as much good music around today as there ever has been. People will look back at 2010 some day and say "god there was some good music around back then!"
markwales 1 year ago 3
@markwales:'cause it's all about the time we live and everybody is greedy for money man. Would you rather see this on youtube or be at woodstock? + al the politicians and comercials make the choices nowadays and in the 60s, some people tried to stop what was upcoming which is what the world became nowadays. Comercial raps about ass and sex +Rocknroll has no more soul nowadays, tokyo hotel sum 41 .. It has no more sense, and whats the most scary is that people for the most part cant even see that
flexabust 1 year ago
@fubarcat50 Well, you should get away from the TV and get out more. There is still so much good music around.
hairysharpness 1 year ago
I'm afraid i don't agree. i'm not from your era but i appreciate music from it. music nowadays is purely 'american idol' if thats all you open your eyes to but I can assure you that there is 'new folk' music. I take it that your american, but i welcome you to listen to some of Uk's folk talents of recent years. Mumford and sons, Laura Marling, Johnny Flynn, Noah and the whale, Emmy the great to name a few. We too suffer from the same american idol culture but there are some real gems out there.
thomas1walker 1 year ago
@fubarcat50
look harder, you just find music that sucks
alliant 1 year ago 4
@fubarcat50 There isn't just American Idol. There's a lot of good music around, but if your lazy you won't find it. I hate when I come to a video and the first comment is some idiot complaining about how music today sucks. Shitty music has always existed.
michael918273645 1 year ago
@fubarcat50 You touch upon a very delicate point relating to human nature. As a rule, people consider 'good' what they came to know in their early years. In 30-40 years from now, your children will consider today's music 'tip-top', and despise the path(s) which music will have take by then. I see your point (and, to a large extent, I do endorse it). My point is: Dylan and the Beatles (most probably) were not among our fathers' favourites. The norm is time-dependent.
Uperiwv 1 year ago
@fubarcat50 what are you talking about man? there will always be good music on this earth! none of us have any obligation to listen to "american idol" or for that matter any music that we inherently dislike. you dont have to look all that hard to find the music you enjoy
EtherialMoon 1 year ago
@EtherialMoon sorry but i disagree. in the sixties the music was rich, authentic, and original, qualities that could define what "good" music is (in my mind, music can be defined objectively as good, beethoven, the incredible string band and S&G are "good" music, katy perry & justin bieber are bad music, and it's not a matter of opinion simply because the latter is derivative, doesn't express anything, and is solely designed to be profitable for the companies that exploit it)
UnitedNewThinkers 1 year ago
@UnitedNewThinkers I understand your point about some music being inarguably "bad" (i would go as far to say that some music is actually damaging to our perception of sound), but your argument seems to revolve around the idea of popular music being the epicenter of music itself. Really whether one billion people or just one has heard a piece of music, it means nothing in relation to that musics' overall sound and whether you or I enjoy listening to it.
EtherialMoon 1 year ago
@EtherialMoon oh yeah of course. it's just that in addition to the fact that pop music today is terrible, i find that actual good music is generally quite hard to find. it happens quite rarely for me to stumble onto a piece written in the last 10 years that will really satisfy me, whereas most things i listen to from then are a pleasure. if you have any bands from today you think are worthy, please share (don't think i'm saying they don't exist, i just know too few and would love to know more)
UnitedNewThinkers 1 year ago
@UnitedNewThinkers Yeah for sure man. But I guess that depends totally on your music taste. Id be interested to hear what bands you are into at the moment. It'd help me recomment to you some modern bands you might dig. As for me i'm into such a wide variety of music it makes finding good artists really easy.
EtherialMoon 1 year ago
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UnitedNewThinkers 1 year ago
@EtherialMoon well i feel the same in the sense that i love many types of music, but what i would specifically like to discover involves good rythm or/and melody, and actual instruments and voice (i know enough electronic synthetic stuff). So bands i like on the top of my head are BRMC, Parlor Mob, Black Keys, Beach House. I'm not much into the indi experimental stuff, but i like some yeasayer for example, so i'm not entirely exclusive to it. So what would you recommend?
UnitedNewThinkers 1 year ago
@EtherialMoon the second part of my argument is that this "bad" music is so prominent nowadays that people lose a sense of what quality is, and so good music becomes quite difficult to find. in the 60s everybody liked the beatles and jefferson airplane, it was both popular and authentic, but the same cannot be said for popular music today. I find you need to dig deep to find music that will really satisfy you today.
UnitedNewThinkers 1 year ago
@fubarcat50
People still make good music like this! It's just not on TV anymore. You're going to have to dig a little deeper to find it, because music like this doesn't make anyone money. Chances are, it's being played in a shed down the street, or in an art gallery somewhere nearby.
thereekofsleep 1 year ago 13
@thereekofsleep
yeah by dig a little deeper you mean spend hours researching and internet searching until you can hardly see straight then, yeah you're right. It's not easy to find good stuff these days
Hangar18productions 2 months ago
@thereekofsleep It is so hard to find though...
Either way it is still cool to watch the old stuff
stewerts400000000000 2 months ago
@fubarcat50 i wish i lived at your time. im 14 and i HATE this time period and i was meant to be born 50 years ago
MONSQUEEKY 1 year ago
@fubarcat50 Just American Idol? How musically uncurious do you have to be to think that? Come clean; your tastes calcified a long time ago and you haven't actually given today's music a chance.
lexleebold 1 year ago
mike seems like a divine herald to me
HJarcher 2 years ago
Robin Williamson (the blonde one) is gigging in Langholme on 8 April 10 with John Renbourne, at the Buchleuch Centre
DamascusDrummerBoy 2 years ago
used to love getting stoned to these guys..........magical times...awesome songs :)
eightiesrarities 2 years ago 32
Good stuff for sure!
umbalaba 2 years ago
I'm 19 and have loved them since I discovered them whilst rumaging through my dad's old lps and found Liquid Acrobat as Regards the Air when I was 16. Since then I've introduced alot of my friends to them so TISB have a small young fanbase in Ireland.
glamamy 2 years ago 5
I used to buy their early albums in New Zealand, so when I was in London in 1970 I went to their concert at the Royal Albert Hall. One of the strangest events I have been to- all seemed very impromptu & unplanned. Fun music though.
catsworld 2 years ago
Julie Felix
marpete55 2 years ago
Who's the girl?
Deflectioneer 2 years ago
I bought "The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter" LP as a teen. Hooked from then on. Genius British woodland folk. One of the best, most melodic bands ever. Love them more every listen. Also check out the phenomenal Pearls Before Swine. How about the band Forest from around 1971? Similar.
vaspers 2 years ago
Great Post Met them still love them 40 yrs on.
crowmatic1 2 years ago
Great example of Celtic Folk music adapted to pop. Psichedelia was a Golden Age for all the music.
funkberto 2 years ago 3
She's hot.
riverdale999 2 years ago 6
I have hummed this song in my mind since the 60's...and now at last..l ca hear it again...such a 'colourful' song with many memories.
MsCrispyduck 2 years ago 7
This amazing song brings me back to that painting box of my youth, hitching a ride on the clinker boat with cows, and the mail, over to Rathlin, and no one knew I was there
fruitmuffin 2 years ago 4
wha wha realy god stuff, it can call shit song i think :D !!
swarajnis 2 years ago
2:26 i love robin's guitar
7upIsLove 2 years ago 2
AWESOME performance. I dont think this music is being played live anymore, sadly
Electrobox91 2 years ago
she has nice legs
HardcoreDancr 2 years ago 7
is that the burger king guy?
almackska 2 years ago 2
I believe so...or at least where he came from
HardcoreDancr 2 years ago
LOL
ticklechu 2 years ago
Блин,по русски пишите)
MrTarantule 2 years ago
Wonderful memories of the 1960's. I saw the Incredible String Band at the Royal Festival Hall, London, in 1968. Such great lyrics and wonderful musianship with lots of unusual instruments. I think they were the first to use a Sitar in a modern music context, although I may stand to be corrected on that.
enndee2003 2 years ago
where have the years gone?i saw them in Newcastle 40 years ago, yes 40 years please bring back those years, it seems like yesterday
ibrosonkeers 2 years ago
I saw them at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco 40 years ago.
eurydicejones 2 years ago 3
So did I and they also were in Cotati - at The Inn of the Beginning
May550 2 years ago
I saw Van Morrison there once.
Just drove through Cotati recently. It's still there.
eurydicejones 2 years ago