Performed live in 1968 on the TV show Once More With Felix (hosted by Julie Felix
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@georgeprice34925 жыл бұрын
This is the spirit of the `60s that I remember and probably my favorite band. When the corporate media seek to dismiss us who were hippies as all hedonists and drug-crazed (sure, there were some like that) they have to deny the existence of this spirit. This spirit brought so much good to the world: return to respect for and love of nature, healthy food and medicine, rejection of the socio-economic system that has now brought us to near extinction, and the efforts to create new, better societies. Also, an enormous sense of what might be possible and the will to go there.
@arno-luyendijk47984 жыл бұрын
...and that spirit you mention is exactly what makes me love that generation and especially its music so much (mind you I was born in 1968).
@lucycorey9468 Жыл бұрын
in 1968 I was 16. I was a hippy who never did drugs. Made my clothes, made my own bread, hung the laundry. when one opens the senses, nature comes alive. When the imagination is willing, music and poetry is a rich feast! 70 now - and feel the same way.
@artredoubt3629 Жыл бұрын
@@arno-luyendijk4798 that was a rough year, very close to 2020
@GerardoMcCabe Жыл бұрын
What a load of tosh
@SpeegBJ Жыл бұрын
@@lucycorey9468 To kindly echo: Made my clothes, the bread, ground the wheat..watched ducks on a pond. touched nature and lived with it...seeing the ISB was so very powerful.
@anitadincesen47127 жыл бұрын
You only had a few friends who listened to the Incredible String Band, they were too close to 'some other world' even back in the day. When I play their music now, I often skip the tracks because I know most people just scratch their heads. I love their music so much.
@christinewilliams36423 жыл бұрын
you got it right.....it is such a special kind of music not everyone understands the magic of it
@keithmoister34772 жыл бұрын
Exactly
@davidoran1232 жыл бұрын
Yes I still live that Uther Wyrld. The music still lives and mountains come out of the sky.
@jupitermoongauge40552 жыл бұрын
Hello my sister.
@winedesign2 жыл бұрын
I am listening with you as what is it that we are part of and what is it that we are...
@alanfenwick14356 жыл бұрын
The meaning of life may be found in their lyrics.....("the opposite is also true"!)... I (still) love this band...from the age of 15 to now at 65....so glad to be born into a generation when such music was created. So often, the ISB music has lifted me up and out of many miserable maya moments.
@j0eX5 жыл бұрын
They are incredible. Saw them at the Filmore when I was 15 also.
@johnlannikk27013 жыл бұрын
maya, praise be its just a shadow
@myearsloveit2 жыл бұрын
Me2 only it's now & im 60😊💗💐
@johnwilkinson91362 жыл бұрын
Hi Alan. Wow! I could have written those sentiments.
@alanfenwick14352 жыл бұрын
@@johnwilkinson9136 Hello John. Thank you for your reply. Great to know that there's someone out there still who can relate! May the long time sun shine upon you. 😊
@egonl.46582 жыл бұрын
An unforgettable band with authentic lyrics that nourishes the soul
@carsickmick55947 жыл бұрын
I saw Robin last week, we were talking about this performance and he said that he had met up with Julie recently. Both are now in their mid-seventies and still making great music..................................
@lotharroberts59785 жыл бұрын
Are they in the U.K? I'd like to visit them sometime.
@dan0donnell4 жыл бұрын
Do you have a link to any of that stuff, their current music? would love to hear thier current work and I know a lot of people who would love to as well.
@allensucks37213 жыл бұрын
@@lotharroberts5978 email me: @allenander7000@gmail.com i have info, if u want to visit them or give them mail.
@coolmum472 жыл бұрын
Julie has since died unfortunately :'(
@artredoubt3629 Жыл бұрын
@@coolmum47 but at least there is a great legacy
@sandragrace46136 жыл бұрын
It was a special time. And the ISB were simply unique.
@davidoran123 Жыл бұрын
we had a golden dream back then of a healed world ecosystem, justice and equality, and peace. a world where all could express their best potential. the music such as this was an inspiration and an ideal.
@YewLogs02612 жыл бұрын
When I saw this performance for the first time it changed my life. I now have every string band cover on my walls, and I found my eternally favorite band.
@basedsouljah4 жыл бұрын
Holy shit its past me. I still love ISB so much. I was OBSESSED with them back then. This performance certainly did change my life forever.
@alabasta022 жыл бұрын
Based on your avatar, you have a wide range and excellent taste in music.
@renwalda2 жыл бұрын
They all have the most amazing faces, like elves & wizards from an old English tapestry. Just beautiful to hear & watch.
@ARIZJOE8 ай бұрын
That's a very good point. The early video, albeit crude, communicated that 60s Dionysian feel.
@mixaliskokkinos14967 ай бұрын
The fellowship of the String..❤
@lauravitale80079 ай бұрын
I've loved the Incredible String Band since I was 14! They were absolutely magnificent and miles above the rest.
@jimandlizhudson25012 жыл бұрын
The first truly world music band. Brave music that any musicians would not write and perform for fear of ridicule and rejection. I've been following them and their solo adventures since a friend told me about them in 1967 in Scotland when Clive Palmer was with them.
@andygray4 жыл бұрын
I saw The String band play many times in the late 60's and early 70's. What a great band, thanks for uploading.
@amrl19914 жыл бұрын
How great would be being able to watch them live. I was born many years after they stopped being together so that's imposible for me. So jelous!
@rishardlampese8947 Жыл бұрын
This brings me back to a beautiful place. "There's something forgotten I want you to know. The freckles of rain they are telling me so." So grateful we have this recorded live testimony. This moment in time proves it was real and true. Thanks for posting!
@papercup25175 жыл бұрын
Who moved the white Castle? Who moved the black Queen When Gimel and Dalet were standing between? And out of the evening, was growing a veil, That pined for the pine woods and ached for the sail.. There's something forgotten I want you to know - The freckles of rain they are telling me so - Oh, it's the half remarkable question: What is that we are part of? And what is it that we are? An elephant madness has covered the sun, And the judge and the juries still play for the fun. They've torn all the roses and washed all the soap, And the martyr who marries them dares not elope. Oh, it's the never realised question... What is it that we are part of And what is it that we are? Oh long; oh long e're yet my eyes Braved the gate's enormous fire, And the body folded 'round me, And the person in me grew... The flower and its petal, The root and its grasp, The earth and its bigness, The breath and its gasp. The mind and its motion, The foot and its move, The life and its pattern, The heart and its love... Oh, it's the old forgotten question! What is it that we are part of What is it that we are?
@A_Pa-Plainjane Жыл бұрын
Many thx to you for putting the proper words/lyrics to the conversation about the song
@papercup2517 Жыл бұрын
@@A_Pa-Plainjane You're very welcome, A Pa! Just a cut and paste from the interwebs, IIRC, with punctuation and verse divisions I added to help make the meaning(s) clearer and bring out the shape of the poetry - hopefully..! :-)
@A_Pa-Plainjane Жыл бұрын
Well, i do appreciate it. I tend to take it for granted that so much is at our fingertips, and i forget it takes a deliberate effort. (Which may seem easy to you, but may not be easy for my Aunt Bettie, may her great soul rest in peace, who never learned to cut and paste) i feel like the great arrogance of our era is we know everything. We can search it and all info is available and i don't believe that is true.
@larsdybvad4789 Жыл бұрын
The Incredible Stringband. From 1966 - 1968 they where among the greatest artist in the music of the 60s. First Album. 5000 spirits .... The Hangman´s Beautiful Daughter. Wee Tam. 4 albums - and then it all changed. I still enjoy these 4 Albums. I can´t live without them💚💙💜
@paularduns10 жыл бұрын
Excellent to see ISB in their youth. Why do we not have such good music shows on TV today. Thank god for bbc4
@lordelpus20994 ай бұрын
It is 2024 and I am still pondering.
@linnmusic8 жыл бұрын
25 and 26 years old at the time. and the talent....
@EverythingRisk7 жыл бұрын
I was born in June of that year on the first day of summer.
@geokaker96304 жыл бұрын
so fully grown people doing something competently is impressive to you?
@duncefunce15133 жыл бұрын
Old bastards
@jimthompson6069 ай бұрын
One of the greatest songs ever. I'm still moved after 55 years.
@lizzymanning50922 ай бұрын
to where
@thamestravel828911 жыл бұрын
not a day has gone by since 1970 without their lirics in my ears
@humblepie86388 жыл бұрын
I agree with other comments. No one writes lyrics like this nowadays. How sad is that? The big questions that music and art can explore are missing in much of what is put forth by young musicians raised by years of conformity.
@SpeegBJ2 жыл бұрын
I was this close to them in the small club they played in in 1969. Was it incredible? Yes, very.
@Royaloakgraham2 жыл бұрын
I played in the folk club upstairs in the Crown Bar, Edinburgh alongwith Robin Williamson and Clive Palmer (and later Mike Heron, Licky & Rose). Special times.
@A_Pa-Plainjane Жыл бұрын
@@Royaloakgraham you were extremely blessed. .not everyone gets the marrow bone.
@Royaloakgraham Жыл бұрын
@@A_Pa-Plainjane You don't realise what you are part of at the time ... that only comes later. I'm in my 70s now and long for those times. Much love.
@A_Pa-Plainjane Жыл бұрын
@@Royaloakgraham thank you very much, love and respect to you.
@A_Pa-Plainjane Жыл бұрын
@@Royaloakgraham im not a musician tho i love music beyond reason..im in the same era with you and it took most of my life to get a wider notion of what i was part of. forgive me for promoting myself but ive been putting some poems up, on yt kzfaq.info/get/bejne/np5xYKl-y9DTnGg.html
@stringologymchugh42453 жыл бұрын
Robin asks the most existential half-remarkable questions.
@trevorhawkins20132 жыл бұрын
Wonderful to hear again, I remember going to the Roundhouse to see their musical 'U"
@debs4mysweetbaby3 жыл бұрын
this is so amazing!! so happy this still exists for us to enjoy!! thank you very much!! :)
@konohatengu12 жыл бұрын
Wonderful - takes me right back to Gandalf's Garden, World's End, Chelsea late 60s...
@irishelk38 жыл бұрын
What a great song i love the Lyrics and very catchy Guitar and Sitar.
@shiftnative10 жыл бұрын
I love singing along with this song, so lovely
@Nerkin6104 жыл бұрын
Rest in peace, lovely Julie
@craigward2710 Жыл бұрын
Quite possibly my favourite thing on the entire interweb.
@jimcooper64008 жыл бұрын
I was lucky enough to see them about 8X in 1968 1969 and NO they did not use drugs, they were talented, thoughtful artists who were immersed in their lives and present in the moments, that were the late 1960's.
@henrique68078 жыл бұрын
about the drugs thing, I've read that they stopped after converting to Scientology. but apparently at the time of this video they were still using them (not sure which ones)
@mikewilliams87137 жыл бұрын
Henri Galvão You might try being more selective over your reading.
@Ghoopty6 жыл бұрын
I've read (from Robin himself and Dolly Collins) that they were definitely smoking many a 'jazz cigarette' and tripping as well during this time.
@j0eX5 жыл бұрын
Psychedelics, including cannabis, are not drugs. Something else entirely.
@RustyGulley Жыл бұрын
It might not have been to everyone's taste but television programmers were certainly far more courageous and imaginative than nowadays. Bravo! Mike Heron was one of the few Western musicians who joined the 'sitar club' around that time and seemed to be reasonably proficient, though I'm no expert in spite of owning one for a short time.
@mellifiedman78628 жыл бұрын
This is amazing!!!! I was one year away from birth at that time.Wish my mom n dad would have had this in their record collections!
@lilianoaktree71017 жыл бұрын
Just as magical as when i first heard it, ❤
@kanariesla6 жыл бұрын
ooooh I am still in love. brilliant ones thpiough I was born 20 years later.
@potrezeb113 жыл бұрын
yes a wonderful band ......well worth discovering their music
@philfletcher34342 жыл бұрын
In my perfect personal paradise this song would incorporate the mood therein. (The studio version.)
@genesclean12 жыл бұрын
So glad I have never outgrown my appreciation for theses values.
@concienciametafisica12 жыл бұрын
simplemente hermoso, que energia de paz y amor despide esta cancion y los ojos Robin Wlliamson bastante profundos y en quietud. Gracias a la siempre maravillos e inolvidable ISB
@inlandonline2 жыл бұрын
Wow, I didn't know you could still play guitar in that particular state of consciousness! This is the whole universe in a soundscape.
@davidkaufman25538 жыл бұрын
....what a beautiful song..what is it that we are part of.....😀🔯🗽✌♋😊...
@markkubiak82967 жыл бұрын
I'v always loved them too, Anita. Saw them perform this tune at the Fillmore West in 1969.
@A_Pa-Plainjane Жыл бұрын
Do you know a Ted Kubiak from Pa ?
@markkubiak82965 ай бұрын
No, but perhaps I should.@@A_Pa-Plainjane
@steveberry63617 жыл бұрын
This is from another world/galaxy. Beautiful.
@50lbsofheadlines11 жыл бұрын
Was there ever a band less afraid of being themselves?
@bobsbigboy_3 жыл бұрын
Swans
@johnlannikk27013 жыл бұрын
Lovely comment! and no I dont think so.
@peterlivingstone8 ай бұрын
I can genuinely see what you mean. @@bobsbigboy_
@bonniesolomon93738 жыл бұрын
Loved them at Woodstock little stage
@deanmoriarty11328 жыл бұрын
in 68 i was lost, and loster still i was in this music that said of things i dint know
@THE0MAIN0STRAIN14 жыл бұрын
I love this performance!
@mistafab94058 жыл бұрын
Far out and Cosmic! So deep! Thanx for posting
@Catamariner2 жыл бұрын
Wow, playing that thing looks like a full upper-body workout...!
@marceloezara3 жыл бұрын
I love it!
@kleinerna19802 жыл бұрын
are there other songs of this concert available in YT? This is unbelivable great, finding no words, only tears of being touched...
@philoats17382 жыл бұрын
Amazing stuff, what a different time.
@stuartgodfrey68986 жыл бұрын
Just wonderful.... I have this on a limited edition VHS tape, obtained through the Be Glad fanzine 😀
@kirrevipp14 жыл бұрын
Simply wonderful!! Thanks for sharing.
@joecopeland9986 жыл бұрын
BEST BAND EVER!!!!!
@BillChild2njoy10 жыл бұрын
Mesmerizing and inspiring.........wonderful!
@psychupmelodies3 жыл бұрын
Awesome and rare footage of them, thanks to the poster *+1*
@LenMarlow6 жыл бұрын
absolutely my favourite band and saw them loads Robin can still be seen telling stories and playing harp, still a joy to see and of course hes had a nice life. They reformed a few years ago, that wasn't too good. They are great songs and great times for them to be played now they probably need to be in the hands of new young people, like much of the 60's music. Always seems sad to resurrect the past, we are not there now - sadly the world is currently a much worse place but still a joy to find this TV recording, very gentle was more dramatic live
@Johnclewes2 жыл бұрын
More nostalgic than sad, and watching performances like this is almost like re-living the experience, transported back to a special time. The world is a sad place compared to the 60s/70s, or at least far sadder, and personally speaking, I find a pleasant evening listening to my ISB favourites is a form of theraputic escapism ,
@SpeegBJ Жыл бұрын
@@Johnclewes Listening now...one can still tap into that 'feel' of what they talk and sing on. 'Air' comes to mind...I can fill my head and space with the lyrics and everything's fine right now.
@harrykey24489 ай бұрын
The first album I ever bought was 5000 Spirits...I still love listening to it and everything the ISB have done.
@lightningspirit2166 Жыл бұрын
The moral truth of anti capitalist ,industrialised,consumer, society cannot die !
@klanggnomvideo--sound---pr24358 жыл бұрын
ja unglaublich schön
@pinstripedclips8 жыл бұрын
Blissful perfection!
@13xicatTS12 жыл бұрын
Wonderousliness
@phatcat37053 жыл бұрын
Gotta love that sitar.
@lordlomanagh5966 Жыл бұрын
Brilliant magic beautiful song
@shirleycipri7518 жыл бұрын
Wonderful !
@joebruhin209811 ай бұрын
My favorite band in the 70's.
@sandnfoam98452 жыл бұрын
I was at their concert in Genoa 1974 at teatro Alcione the band was great and the audience unbelievable... unfortunately no videos nor pictures available
@theglobaltiger13 жыл бұрын
They were the biz. So creative.
@stanedwards57611 жыл бұрын
my faves , the incredible string band, from my all time fave album , wee tam and the big huge [1968], beautiful robin song , mike sitar
@fantasypgatour11 жыл бұрын
Wow simply sensational.
@stefanoforcellini45695 жыл бұрын
wonderful
@rowanmorrison7022 Жыл бұрын
This is a Remarkarable High Water Mark of Humanity xx
@patrickbyrne35345 жыл бұрын
Listen to today's uniform mass-produced music and weep
@hildowoelders8 жыл бұрын
i love still the incredible string band
@ageofthecamera3435 Жыл бұрын
This is just great.
@lizzymanning50922 ай бұрын
you are just great
@onelove80625 жыл бұрын
Astonishing.
@stuhazle2 жыл бұрын
The face of a Saxon, if ever I saw one.
@humblepieproductions12 жыл бұрын
Yes, sweetness and light.
@serferten2 жыл бұрын
One of my few Woodstock regrets was not seeing the Incredible String Band live. Too much rain.
@JohnSmith-pd1fz9 жыл бұрын
1960's! No-one writes lyrics like these today.
@cooperhepburn27639 жыл бұрын
John Smith sure they do! just gotta find it! check out unknown mortal orchestra, or look up modern psychedelic folk bands. lots of good stuff out there right now.
@comradethoth96297 жыл бұрын
Unknown Mortal Orchestra is another pop-dropout. He traded quality music for popularity. His lyrics were never good, but his instrumentation was.
@TheRombo46 жыл бұрын
so fukin true
@arno-luyendijk47984 жыл бұрын
Guess you haven't listened to the Lemon Twigs yet.
@billyj88909 жыл бұрын
Wonderful
@graham36733 жыл бұрын
Enchanting
@keithnaylor1981 Жыл бұрын
How could anyone take a beautiful 4:3 performance and chop it down and distort it to 16:9 like this? Criminal.
@rolandlavengro7088 Жыл бұрын
Finest.
@kleinerna1980 Жыл бұрын
einfach nur zum Weinen schön -
@Wraggzee10 жыл бұрын
Very nice.
@JohnSelma12 жыл бұрын
The instrument is a sitar. Check it out on Wikipedia for an explanation.
@Jordanwsound13 жыл бұрын
complete unbounded innocence
@el_chief_dannyboy6 жыл бұрын
very innovative folk song nicely done! farr out man! fyi robin looks like my cousin! haha
@Oscar30112 жыл бұрын
I'd like to go with Julie Felix a first time, let alone once more
@paulocesaralmeida4012 жыл бұрын
☮️ peace and love
@weemalky6 жыл бұрын
People should wear more cloaks. Shame that's died out.
@amandaknopp90864 жыл бұрын
Alistair Rutherford I still wear one- Black with fake fur all around it. It’s gorge
@Krabadaque4 жыл бұрын
And Mike - to my amazement - wears a wristwatch playing his sitar!
@ellecampbell50674 жыл бұрын
George Takei still wears his all the time!
@brianbanks7033 жыл бұрын
I did, in 1970 London
@weemalky Жыл бұрын
I just looked at this again from 4 years later and I can see that this might have come across as a sarcastic comment. I promise it wasn't. It was supposed to be funny. I apologise, I forget that you just can't get the tone of things across in a throwaway comment in you tube. I love ISB.
@angusfraser35174 жыл бұрын
Nice,
@rikkiblythe84292 жыл бұрын
Freckles of rain 💚
@A_Pa-Plainjane Жыл бұрын
It seems this tune has got more comments than any other ISB tune i have seen on youtube.
@gilljames64855 жыл бұрын
when more men were beautiful
@angelamccreadie438910 жыл бұрын
tito loves this
@william260312 жыл бұрын
I want to learn the instrument that held by Mike! Can anyone tells me what's that instrument called?
@JP-lw4ci4 жыл бұрын
Sitar sir. Sorry it took 8 yrs to receive a response.
@philfletcher34342 жыл бұрын
Transports of delight. (I prefer the studio version, just.)