― blackmail.is.my.life (blackmail.is.my.life), Saturday, 25 September 2004 16:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Saturday, 25 September 2004 16:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jedermann sein eigener Fussball (Dada), Sunday, 26 September 2004 15:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 26 September 2004 16:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jedermann sein eigener Fussball (Dada), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 09:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 15:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jedermann sein eigener Fussball (Dada), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 15:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 18:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 18:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 19:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jedermann sein eigener Fussball (Dada), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 19:13 (nineteen years ago) link
"The Incredible String Band will be doing some downsizing for their forthcoming US tour, their first in thirty years. The economic constraints of transatlantic touring mean the ISB will be going over as a three-piece in September - Mike Heron, Clive Palmer and Lawson Dando. This also opens the way for a more acoustic and intimate approach, well suited to the spirit of their classic 1966-70 albums from which they will be drawing the greater part of their concert repertoire. Lawson will accordingly be playing less keyboards, concentrating instead on guitar, mandolin, harmonium, percussion etc."
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 19:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jedermann sein eigener Fussball (Dada), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 19:20 (nineteen years ago) link
confirmed that otto's from rochester. he claimed that we'd met at a party once. i have no recollection of this [swigs vodka from glass]!
― blackmail.is.my.life (blackmail.is.my.life), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 23:18 (nineteen years ago) link
i got 5000 spirits today. it's great. yeah.
― Ian John50n (orion), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 04:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 04:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ian John50n (orion), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 17:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 17:20 (nineteen years ago) link
better than the c.o.b. lps, which are just ok.
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 12 August 2006 06:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 12 August 2006 06:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 12 August 2006 06:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 12 August 2006 06:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― timmy tannin (pompous), Saturday, 12 August 2006 15:20 (eighteen years ago) link
Hey! What the hell is this: http://www.amazon.com/Tricks-Senses-Incredible-String-Band/dp/B001K859PCAnybody heard it? Worth the $$$?
― tylerw, Thursday, 12 February 2009 01:19 (fifteen years ago) link
haven't heard it yet, but 'All Too Much for Me/Take Your Burden to the Lord/Let It Shine on Me' was previously on some versions of the Chelsea Sessions CD, was recorded at the same time as Wee Tam & Big Huge and is just as good as anything on those albums.
― zappi, Thursday, 12 February 2009 01:37 (fifteen years ago) link
I'll sing you this October song,Oh, there is no song before it.The words and tune are none of my own,for my joys and sorrows bore it.
Beside the seaThe brambly briars in the still of evening,Birds fly out behind the sun,and with them I'll leavng.
The fallen leaves that jewel the ground,They know the art of dying,And leave with joy their glad gold hearts,In the scarlet shadows lying.
When hunger calls my footsteps home,The morning follows after,I swim the seas within my mind,And the pine-trees laugh green laughter.
I sed to search for happiness,And I used to follow pleasure,But I found a door behind my mind,And that's the greatest treasure.
For rulers like to lay down laws,And rebels like to break them,And the poor priests like to walk in chains,And God likes to forsake the.
I met a man whose name was Time,And he said, "I must be goin,"But just how long that was,I have no way of knowing.
Sometimes I want to murder time,Sometimes when my heart's aching,But mostly I just stroll along,The path that he is taking.
― ian, Saturday, 17 October 2009 04:26 (fourteen years ago) link
every cell in my body has it all writ down.
― Trip Maker, Saturday, 17 October 2009 14:28 (fourteen years ago) link
one day when the moon was full i thought i might settle downfound myself a pretty little girland i stopped all my running aroundbut just when the preacher come alongand he's just gonna pop on the ringthis funny little hedgehog comesrunning down the aisleand i don't have to tell you what he did sing
― kamerad, Saturday, 17 October 2009 15:38 (fourteen years ago) link
highly recommend this radio bcast from 1968. http://ow.ly/eBVVJ
― tylerw, Friday, 19 October 2012 16:15 (eleven years ago) link
The Clive Palmer book through Helter Skelter was a very interesting read. Not sure if it would be remotely available now. I got it for a couple of pounds a few years ago, think literally £2, probably from FOPP.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Empty-Pocket-Blues-Music-Palmer/dp/190513925X
right you can get it then.
― Stevolende, Friday, 19 October 2012 17:21 (eleven years ago) link
huh didn't know that existed. looks good. i need to get those COB records too.
― tylerw, Friday, 19 October 2012 17:28 (eleven years ago) link
They or at least Moyshe Mcstiff was the main impetus for the setting up of Sunbeam records thanks to Richard Morton Jack having worked for the rip-off artists at Radioactive.RMJ wanted to do the release as well as he could and make sure royalties were paid, Radioactive weren't so hot on the royalties.
Anyway, I'd recommend the Sunbeam Moyshe, haven't seen if they have a Spirit Of Love & can't find one mentioned.I have one on another label, not sure which.
There was a live set from '72 on Dime in May. think it was pretty good.
― Stevolende, Friday, 19 October 2012 17:43 (eleven years ago) link
I couldn't make it through that Clive Palmer book. Must still have it around somewhere. I paid top whack (well - £15) for the Sunshine Possibilities album a few years ago and didn't think much of it. Consequently I've got a bit of a downer on Clive.
Saw Robin at the Half Moon Putney a couple of years ago and he was excellent.
― Bob Six, Friday, 19 October 2012 22:54 (eleven years ago) link
would love to see williamson sometime. i saw the robin-less ISB a few years ago in the US w/ Palmer looking very amused/ancient.
― tylerw, Friday, 19 October 2012 22:56 (eleven years ago) link
While my students were working on album-cover art the other day, one of them--triggered by having seen the covers for Cheap Thrills and After Bathing at Baxter's--asked to hear some actual hippie music. So I played "Dark Star" and "China Cat Sunflower" off YouTube, and then, just on a whim (it's not really hippie music, but it's strange, and great hippie music is almost always strange), I switched over to "A Very Cellular Song." My twenty-something student teacher: "What is that? That's awful."
― clemenza, Friday, 19 October 2012 23:06 (eleven years ago) link
Couldn't take the gimbri?
― timellison, Friday, 19 October 2012 23:58 (eleven years ago) link
haha i put on A Very Cellular Song at work a couple weeks ago, my co-worker couldn't deal.
― searching for sug woman (JoeStork), Saturday, 20 October 2012 00:13 (eleven years ago) link
I tried playing a tape of the HGB lp on camp in the early days and it was viewed as unlistenable by Levellers fans. Gorlumme, how does one deal with people with poor taste?
― Stevolende, Saturday, 20 October 2012 08:39 (eleven years ago) link
don't know where I got the initials HGB for HBD but anyway, would have thought that it would be more popular and even something that people would be familiar with. But no, people's noses turned up at one of the greatest lps of all time in favour of post-commercialisation Levellers. bleurgh.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 21 October 2012 10:04 (eleven years ago) link
I thought you must be referring to something esoteric that only 'Stringheads' would know.
I think Wee Tam and BIg Huge are more 'accessible'.
― Bob Six, Sunday, 21 October 2012 11:13 (eleven years ago) link
less magical though
― Stevolende, Sunday, 21 October 2012 13:56 (eleven years ago) link
If asked to play hippie music I'd put on some "Gift from a Flower to a Garden"-era Donovan.
ISB is wonderful. Anyone that doesn't think so is lacking soul.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 21 October 2012 15:13 (eleven years ago) link
I've turned a lot of people on to ISB. I think set and setting are important to the enjoyment of music. I'm usually not working when I listen to them. Listened to Hangman's in its entirety on New Year's Day this year, that was good.
― Trip Maker, Sunday, 21 October 2012 15:59 (eleven years ago) link
there's something strange and kinda spooky in the air while listening to ISB for the first time.
― nostormo, Sunday, 21 October 2012 19:35 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W_Pk4cqGGo
― i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Sunday, 21 October 2012 22:43 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HN9y1z1Z9A
"Be Glad for the Song Has No Ending", a really incredible film originally made for BBC's Omnibus.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 22 October 2012 00:56 (eleven years ago) link
Every time I see a photo of a group of ragtag people standing in front of some trees, I think of ISB. I almost tagged this picture ISB but I thought it was unnecessary
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbwjiq8HcM1rcq6xho1_500.jpg
― these albatrosses have no fear of man (La Lechera), Monday, 22 October 2012 00:59 (eleven years ago) link
I'm reading their Wikipedia page. I had forgotten they became Scientologists!
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 22 October 2012 01:07 (eleven years ago) link
Listening to "Wee Tam" tonight. I really love the song "Air", so so beautiful.
Breathing, all creatures areBrighter then than brightest starYou are by farYou come right inside of meClose as you can beYou kiss my bloodAnd my blood kiss me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXtKESEZQLg
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 22 October 2012 01:43 (eleven years ago) link
I haven't seen it confirmed anywhere, but Clive Palmer has died according to twitter
― john wahey (NickB), Monday, 24 November 2014 13:21 (nine years ago) link
As for Chick Corea, yup, still a Scientologist.
― jaywbabcock, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 22:19 (five years ago) link
(xp) OTM on ISB and LRH. They never hid the fact they were Scientologists, and from '69/70 onwards their songs are peppered with Scientology references, I think their albums often carried dedications to 'the Commodore' (guess who) - Robin Williamson's solo albums certainly were - and there's even a picture of LRH on the sleeve of "Earthspan" if you look for it.
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 00:00 (five years ago) link
http://philippe.andrieu.free.fr/concerts/Affiche/009024.jpg
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 00:02 (five years ago) link
Wow on that video, just wow.
^^
― timellison, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 00:07 (five years ago) link
I hope all the downvotes on that video are scientologists.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 1 February 2019 18:51 (five years ago) link
Changing Horses is a good album! There are no bad songs, it's just that the writing isn't quite as tight and the performances aren't quite as magical.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 1 March 2019 18:21 (five years ago) link
Can't find a Clive palmer or C.O.B. thread. Just seen that somebody has upped the live C.O.B. set from 1972 to Dime.THought some of you might want to know.
― Stevolende, Monday, 16 September 2019 21:37 (five years ago) link
As a follow-up to that scientology video posted upthread, there have been a number of posts on the "Amoeba's Are Very Small" facebook page since then, saying with confidence that Likky is alive and living in Northern California.
I was contacted by an individual, a writer for a music publication, who wanted to do an update on her. He saw this FB page and that I knew her years ago. He had some leads on where she was, he sent me photos of various people wondering if I thought they were Likky. We went back and forth for about a year. None of them looked right to me. Finally, he hired someone from law enforcement, and working with that person they found her. The law enforcement person was very friendly, he spend a few hours with Likky at her home in California. They went through old photo albums of her with the band, talked about "the old days" etc. She was shocked that anyone cared. The journalist relayed this all back to me. As far as I know Licorice didn't actually say "don't disclose my location", but out of respect we are just not doing it. When I knew her, the ISB was something she was very sad about. I just don't want her to be flooded with people. I don't know if she's in touch with any of the former members. My guess is no, but I could be wrong about that. Things change. The breakup of the band was not good. They really splintered off into different ways. But time can heal these things so maybe its all ok now. I was Likky's friend for a while. That doesn't grant me access into her life or the band. I'm just reporting what I found, what I know and what I think based on knowing her. The person who found her said it was actually pretty easy, it just took a little digging and there she was.
― everything, Friday, 24 September 2021 17:51 (two years ago) link
not ISB but incredibel
https://blogthehum.com/2016/03/02/ellen-fullman-her-long-string-instrument-and-three-archival-films/
― | (Latham Green), Friday, 28 October 2022 11:32 (one year ago) link
I just listened to 5000 Spirits for the first time ever and this is cracking me up:
Yutututututut-yutututututut-yututututata-ta-tawowowow!
I heard it as "bow wow" which is even funnier imo.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Friday, 28 October 2022 15:34 (one year ago) link