The Incredible String Band
email post, attributed to Ian Anderson

Lordly Nightshade #2, 1996


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From: Ian Anderson (xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxx.co.uk)
Subject: Re: Incredible String Band: where to begin?
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1995

Dan Segal (dansegal@xxxxxxxx.xxx.com) wrote:

What are some of your recommendations for starter albums?

I prefer the early songs where Robin plays solo acoustic--things like "October Song" and "First Girl I Loved".

To be honest I can't think of a better way than starting at the beginning with the original ISB trio album with Clive Palmer and the second one, 10,000 Spirits. Then go on chronologically until you reach a point where they start to lose you. That's what we all did at the time, though obviously over a longer timescale than is possible now!

I.A.

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 This comes from Lordly Nightshade #2, an Incredible String Band ezine; the editor got it from a newsgroup or mailing list. I can’t vouch for its authenticity one way or the other, but I blanked out “Ian’s” email address all the same.

(The actual album title referenced above is The 5000 Spirits or The Layers Of The Onion. Perhaps Ian owns two copies.)

If you enjoy the celtic/acoustic side of Tull, Led Zep and/or Fairport, the String Band (who directly inspired much of that) may provide you with years of amazement. There was (is) a genre of, well, incredible underground eclectic UK folk of which the Incredibles are the best-known example. (They never had a hit, but they did play Woodstock.) I can’t say enough nice things about them, so I’ll just call them delightful, fascinating and essential listening, and hope that one day soon you too will say the same.

The Minstrel


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