"Hey wow-this reminds me when I went to Goa to find myself in '68. We all sat on a mountain side when the sun came up smoking hash.And in that moment,everything crystalized and made sense and I became at One with the Universe" lol!
I would love to be part of that era,travel in the Himalayas,places like Wakhan,Pamir,Hindu Kush,Karakoram,Lo,Mustang,Guge, Kashmir,Himachal Pradesh,Uttarakand,Ladakh,Tibet, Bhutan,Nepal,sacred and beautiful lands,also cities like Kathmandu and Bangkok,ruins like Angkor and Bagan
It's October again - 2024 this time around - and I don't even know if you're still with us since we're all getting on a bit now, but your post has reminded me to go out and listen to that green laughter. Even though I'm currently in Australia and it's Spring here of course...and the gum trees have their own songs to sing, and messages: "Where ancient guardian gums throw showers Of water-green spears onto holy ground..."
@@papercup2517 I'm still here and now living in the desert of Arizona, but I can drive an hour and be among the pines at 7,000 feet. Have a happy spring!
"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" floors me every time.
their music has been in my life for many years mostly due to my sister, she played their albums around the house and we saw them on a cold night '71? in Oxford. Recently they've been my main musical interest/life soundtrack. Right now I Know You is at the top of the mix. (that, Water and Maya get me to work) No one who saw them went out and started their own bands like them because no one could, they absolutely had that musical world to themselves, whatever it is. I don't believe in the astral plane, reincarnation or even that each moment is that much different. But there's really something deeply compelling, drawing me in about the Incredible String Band and this performance of the October Song is stratospheric. These lyrics are perfectly timeless, if genius weren't a dead term ...
The ISB's attitude to science is to coin a phrase "quite interesting" and clearly more poetic than actually thought through. Then of course there was the catastrophic involvement with Scientology... but it is strange how they seemed to tap into an imaginative reign that for me has endured for 50 years. Perhaps everyone's relationship with the "real" is mediated by our rather imperfectly evolved minds... and they managed to capture some of the best of that ambivalence, the wonder, the creativity and the love we are all capable of showing.
A beautiful song about autumn, loss and the pain of time passing. I had the EP 50 years ago in my youth, and I am now in the October of my life so the words take on an even deeper meaning. Ah, everything seemed possible then........
A quite beautiful song, radically and transcendently re-interpreted. One of the best things by the ISB I've ever heard (and their highlights are many).
I love how they briefly go into the bridge from "The Half Remarkable Question" towards the end. Gorgeous performance! There is film footage of this concert somewhere but to my knowledge it's never been released commercially. I tried to get a copy from a stock footage company but they would only sell to libraries and non-profits and wouldn't budge for a crazy ISB fan like me!
i was a lad from birkenhead what a difficult choice slade or the incredibles i went with the isb and still enjoy them now remember seeing them at the phil in liverpool just thought they were brilliant still do seen all the that were around the who elp the nice led zep zappa family the isle of wight bickerstaf but the isb still make me feel good and i go to another world and time in my thoughts thank you isb from john boyd now living in holland
Those first 14 words perfectly sum up an stage of life and a point in time! Although you were spared the agony of ISB vs punk some five years later as the band had of course broken up by then...
I hope that Robin and Mike decide to do one [1] more reunion as the ISB Accoustic duet just the 2 of them. Thank you for posting this, it's a brilliant re-invented version. I'm not in the Autumn of my years just yet, but I can see it out the window
i love the incredible string band,love this robin song which was on the 1st album, woundrous sitar from mike ,gorgeous ,takes me right back ,wonderful pics too
A fabulous rendition. I saw them once in Cambridge in the early 70s. I’d love to have been in New York for this. It’s one of my go to RUclips listens. That and Joe Bonamassa/Beth Hart (live at the Baked Potato - in New York again). Time … mostly I just stroll along the path that he is taking.
Mike Heron, one of the few folk/pop artists who actually went serious on the sitar. He played better than our beloved Brian Jones , our beloved Hari Georgeson, and Donovan's sidekick , the wonderous Shawn Phillips. Even better than Mike Deasy on the west coast. ISB , their music never grows weary.....Peace
But he just gave it up. Maybe too much criticism that he wasn't following Indian tradition. I say bs to that, instruments are not bound to certain cultural rules, witness the Indian-style guitar. I agree, Mike had it down just right, I loved its addition to their songs.
this rendition has a chorus from The Half-Remarkable Question- O long O long e're yet my eyes Braved the gates enormous fire And the body folded 'round me And the person in me grew
"The Beatles are British I suppose," said Bob Dylan in the first of his two post-accident interviews, "but you can’t say they’ve carried on with their poetic legacy, whereas the Incredible String Band who wrote this ‘October Song...’ that was quite good."
I've only recently found out about this superb band and I'm not finding any live performances, I'll keep looking but is there not many live clips of the band? I know how long ago they performed but I'd be grateful if anyone could point me to a concert performance or even a live song thanks
Wonderful - thank you! There was a recorded copy of October Song on RUclips some years ago accompanied by a lovely slide show - please does any one know what happened to it?
Is this the one you mean? ruclips.net/video/KN84ld5xM9M/видео.html Oh - sorry, I just realised it doesn't have a slide show. Still, I'll leave the link for anyone who might be interested. I prefer the record version to this live version.
@@martifingers I love this music but that movement was naive in the extreme. Of course following through didn't work out. If anyone could have followed through with it it was the boomer generation, but they chose not to and (unfortunately) went corporate, leading to what we have now.
"Hey wow-this reminds me when I went to Goa to find myself in '68. We all sat on a mountain side when the sun came up smoking hash.And in that moment,everything crystalized and made sense and I became at One with the Universe" lol!
I would love to be part of that era,travel in the Himalayas,places like Wakhan,Pamir,Hindu Kush,Karakoram,Lo,Mustang,Guge, Kashmir,Himachal Pradesh,Uttarakand,Ladakh,Tibet, Bhutan,Nepal,sacred and beautiful lands,also cities like Kathmandu and Bangkok,ruins like Angkor and Bagan
I listen to this every October then go off into the woods to listen to the pine trees laugh green laughter.
what a lovely comment. thank you
yes thank you
It's October again - 2024 this time around - and I don't even know if you're still with us since we're all getting on a bit now, but your post has reminded me to go out and listen to that green laughter. Even though I'm currently in Australia and it's Spring here of course...and the gum trees have their own songs to sing, and messages:
"Where ancient guardian gums throw showers
Of water-green spears onto holy ground..."
@@papercup2517 I'm still here and now living in the desert of Arizona, but I can drive an hour and be among the pines at 7,000 feet. Have a happy spring!
@@bwanna23 Good to know you're still around and your situation sounds beautiful. Blessings and light to you and to all the ISB fans here.
Nobody sounded like this group, they take me back to a time I never knew.
Perhaps time passed before we knew it?
'October song' by the Corrie's is superior by a long way.
@@CORBIE69 Clownspeak ...........................................
"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"
floors me every time.
Good poetry has a way of doing that, and the ISB is full of good poetry...
Every line of this song...
their music has been in my life for many years mostly due to my sister, she played their albums around the house and we saw them on a cold night '71? in Oxford. Recently they've been my main musical interest/life soundtrack. Right now I Know You is at the top of the mix. (that, Water and Maya get me to work) No one who saw them went out and started their own bands like them because no one could, they absolutely had that musical world to themselves, whatever it is. I don't believe in the astral plane, reincarnation or even that each moment is that much different. But there's really something deeply compelling, drawing me in about the Incredible String Band and this performance of the October Song is stratospheric. These lyrics are perfectly timeless, if genius weren't a dead term ...
The ISB's attitude to science is to coin a phrase "quite interesting" and clearly more poetic than actually thought through. Then of course there was the catastrophic involvement with Scientology... but it is strange how they seemed to tap into an imaginative reign that for me has endured for 50 years. Perhaps everyone's relationship with the "real" is mediated by our rather imperfectly evolved minds... and they managed to capture some of the best of that ambivalence, the wonder, the creativity and the love we are all capable of showing.
Magical then. Still is NOW✨
You must be a teacher
A magickal song that has been part of my life since the late 1960's
A beautiful song about autumn, loss and the pain of time passing. I had the EP 50 years ago in my youth, and I am now in the October of my life so the words take on an even deeper meaning. Ah, everything seemed possible then........
just went to a friends funeral. i know what you mean
Susanna Farley me too
@@savoirgai Were all doing that now, some have one foot in the barn, but all of us that were there , can at least see the barn.
Magic from an age long ago... in our defence I can only say some of us knew it was magic back then...
i feel so fortunate that I got to see them live a couple of times...pure magic
i mean, i love yes and zappa, but these guys are the best ever!!
A quite beautiful song, radically and transcendently re-interpreted. One of the best things by the ISB I've ever heard (and their highlights are many).
BEAUTIFUL TO HEAR THIS MORNING, SO FAR FROM THE FIRST TIME I HEARD IT !!! :)
I love how they briefly go into the bridge from "The Half Remarkable Question" towards the end. Gorgeous performance! There is film footage of this concert somewhere but to my knowledge it's never been released commercially. I tried to get a copy from a stock footage company but they would only sell to libraries and non-profits and wouldn't budge for a crazy ISB fan like me!
i was a lad from birkenhead what a difficult choice slade or the incredibles i went with the isb and still enjoy them now remember seeing them at the phil in liverpool just thought they were brilliant still do seen all the that were around the who elp the nice led zep zappa family the isle of wight bickerstaf but the isb still make me feel good and i go to another world and time in my thoughts thank you isb from john boyd now living in holland
John Boyd
Those first 14 words perfectly sum up an stage of life and a point in time! Although you were spared the agony of ISB vs punk some five years later as the band had of course broken up by then...
If you're from Birkers you could have the decency to call Bickershaw Bickershaw !"£$%^&*()_++_)(*&^%$£"!
Royal Albert Hall 1969 ish...packed..we had a box....unique night🙏
Except that this is amazing & transcendent & completely timeless.
loved these so much , went to see them in the late sixties FANTASTIC still sounding great
This is so different from the original, it is like i'm dreaming the song on my own accord, so very nice to hear.
I hope that Robin and Mike decide to do one [1] more reunion as the ISB Accoustic duet just the 2 of them. Thank you for posting this, it's a brilliant re-invented version. I'm not in the Autumn of my years just yet, but I can see it out the window
One of the better bands to come out of Scotland they even played Woodstock pretty cool for a Edinburgh Glasgow underground band
Ahh. October Song.....♥️✨
could only have come from scotland,peace, love and get it up ye.
i love the incredible string band,love this robin song which was on the 1st album, woundrous sitar from mike ,gorgeous ,takes me right back ,wonderful pics too
Absolutely brilliant. Great way to start a Saturday morning 😎
A fabulous rendition. I saw them once in Cambridge in the early 70s. I’d love to have been in New York for this. It’s one of my go to RUclips listens. That and Joe Bonamassa/Beth Hart (live at the Baked Potato - in New York again). Time … mostly I just stroll along the path that he is taking.
GREAT COLLECTION OF PHOTOS!
this is perfect!
Fantastic! I love this
I swim the seas within my mind, and the pine trees laugh green laughter.
Mike Heron, one of the few folk/pop artists who actually went serious on the sitar. He played better than our beloved Brian Jones , our beloved Hari Georgeson, and Donovan's sidekick , the wonderous Shawn Phillips. Even better than Mike Deasy on the west coast. ISB , their music never grows weary.....Peace
But he just gave it up. Maybe too much criticism that he wasn't following Indian tradition. I say bs to that, instruments are not bound to certain cultural rules, witness the Indian-style guitar. I agree, Mike had it down just right, I loved its addition to their songs.
In Mike's defence, it is a very painful instrument to play if you don't spend the whole of your waking life playing it.
John Renbourn played nice bit of Sitar with Pentangle.
Justin Hayward of The Moody Blues played sitar on IN SEARCH OF THE LOST CHORD.
Dave Mason played sitar on Traffic's "Hole in My Shoe."
The sitar on this is amazing!
What a lovely slow and slightly animal performance, rough pitch meandering in melismas. Marvellous
its a lovely song
Sometimes I want to murder time
Sometimes when my heart's aching...
...But mostly I just stroll along
The path that he is taking
+noslohcinkin Ah, we would all like to murder time - sometimes!
Love those lyrics & so true😱👍
The best lyrics of the song, imho!
Forgotten just how good .....
this rendition has a chorus from The Half-Remarkable Question-
O long O long e're yet my eyes
Braved the gates enormous fire
And the body folded 'round me
And the person in me grew
I medley these lines into the end of The Iron Stone, as part of the Dragon soliloquy whenever I sing/strum that song...
sublime
"The Beatles are British I suppose," said Bob Dylan in the first of his two post-accident interviews, "but you can’t say they’ve carried on with their poetic legacy, whereas the Incredible String Band who wrote this ‘October Song...’ that was quite good."
Indeed. Now Robin Williamson quotes this with dry humour "Bob Dylan thought one of my songs was "quite good".
Bob always an arrogant overrated little devil.
No, he was a true genius.
@@karlkellar8614 An arrogant overrated big little devil genius
@@papercup2517 and he literally said that he'd sold his soul to that pathetic fallen angel..
I will go to Robin`s funeral with a heavy heart ....and a tearie eye .....
oh!
Hell yeah ! XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
they know the art of dying
I do it every day but I'm not sure if I've perfected it yet....
I've only recently found out about this superb band and I'm not finding any live performances, I'll keep looking but is there not many live clips of the band? I know how long ago they performed but I'd be grateful if anyone could point me to a concert performance or even a live song thanks
transcendent
Wonderful - thank you!
There was a recorded copy of October Song on RUclips some years ago accompanied by a lovely slide show - please does any one know what happened to it?
Is this the one you mean?
ruclips.net/video/KN84ld5xM9M/видео.html
Oh - sorry, I just realised it doesn't have a slide show. Still, I'll leave the link for anyone who might be interested.
I prefer the record version to this live version.
Thank you PaperCup. It is the void that makes a cup so….
Mimi and Mouse - a couple of dancers who performed with them in the early days.
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High as !
Reminds me of the flower power shite we were all in to then
Yes indeed and failing to follow through on those ideals has worked out just dandy, hasn't it?
@@martifingers I love this music but that movement was naive in the extreme. Of course following through didn't work out. If anyone could have followed through with it it was the boomer generation, but they chose not to and (unfortunately) went corporate, leading to what we have now.
The good things about that period are the music, the interest in the East,Yoga and the ecological values
If you give me an email add i can send you a copy. not sure where I got the copy from.
Innerleithen rocks
a lot of green went into creating this song