The Incredible String Band
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Edinburgh, United Kingdom (1965 – 1974)
The Incredible String Band was formed in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1965 by folk musicians Robin Williamson, Mike Heron, and Clive Palmer. They recorded their eponymous debut album in 1966, a lighthearted affair which revealed only the merest hint of the psychedelic adventures to come. After that, the band broke up. Palmer decamped for the Trail to Afghanistan and Williamson visited Morocco from where he returned laden with exotic instruments like the famous gimbri, which was, much later, eaten by rats. In 1967 Heron and Williamson recorded ‘The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion’, an audaciously eclectic mix of bookish folk music, hippy love songs and Eastern modalities. They soon became the-name-to-drop-in-interviews for luminaries such as Paul McCartney and Bob Dylan, and in their annum mirabilis of 1968 they practically defined the hippy counterculture in the extraordinary albums ‘The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter’ and ‘Wee Tam and the Big Huge’. By then the group consisted of Williamson, Heron, Rose Simpson and Licorice McKechnie - the same line up played at Woodstock in 1969 at the wrong time, having refused to play in the pouring rain the previous day (seen by manager Joe Boyd as a great missed opportunity).
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JaredMackie
It's more of a mental state it definitely implys a sense of weirdness and unconventionality from freedom of barriers but it usually incorporates spirituality and mysticism and metaphysics also. It's rather difficult to describe with words you'll just have to get psyched up to dig the wavelength.
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frisbeer
Does the word 'psychedelic' mean just weird, or is the weirdness specific in some way?
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applepoison
We are a Turkish folk-duo called The Hogweed And The Aderyn and a Boutique Press called Wounded Wolf. You can listen the preview from here: http://www.woundedwolfpress.co.uk/-the-hogweed-and-the-aderyn
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JaredMackie
three is a green crown is as psychedelic as it gets
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XmarciusX
This music is psychedelic in it's very own way, take some time, feel it.
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boehj
highly psychedelic imho. doesn't matter tho' because psychedelic or not, it's awesome raw music.
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ashleyrobb
oh hush up you twat.
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boehj
lovin' this shit.
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Availen
First girl I Loved gave me an acid flashback
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moni_fernandez
ur msuic is really amazing,
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eSpinoza88
I can tell by the sadness in your eyes that 5000 is the best
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RussellChap
Hippies? You betcha!
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JaredMackie
But what really blows me away about these guys, I guess, is their ability to convey happiness organically.. Like they have searched every crevasse of the human soul and found that what lies at the bottom is pure joy. No other artist in any other medium has ever made me feel that very specific way. [2]
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JaredMackie
Yes 5000 is one of the greatest albums ever made, not just ISB's best. Hangman is also amazing though, and also there debut is a beautiful gem that gets overlooked.
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Lautreamont
GREAT PSYCH!!!! https://www.facebook.com/pages/THE-WHIRLINGS/206935879343447
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Beerkiss
"Listening to ISB made me a better person" - My brother. HAHAHAHA, that's how you sell a band.
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Confuse_A_Cat
Incredible. Men turns into Scotsman. :)
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VelvetMesgue
Magical and very beautiful :)
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eblink
Incredible indeed
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TrashAGoGo90
What good dreams sound like...!
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