Risque?? Where's your head at?? It's a simple love song with beautiful allusions to beautiful things. If I could have written just one song in my life I would have painted the colors of this.
This would be circa--1968. Incredible String Band had a big following in Melbourne around 1970 [The ELTHAM Super Shows - in the bush] and around Belgrave and Hurstbridge on the very outskirts of Melbourne. Colourful clothes, capes and hippie dress and ISB were the vanguard minstrels. We all listened to them at the music library at Melbourne University and then we would hitchhike off either to the CROSS [Kings]
This is from the Julie Felix show around 1970. She was the British Joan Baez/Judy Collins. I saw it then and never I would ever get to see it again someday! Quite eerie!
all that discucions, boys, in argentina we have the chance of only 2 LP´s of ISB, but that mead as fly far away, still, today, when we are over 50. Just somoke on and enjoy de beauty
Obviously artistically great. A folkie element, a hippie element, musicians with great inspiration and influence - even to the Rolling Stones. Given underground FM radio in that time period, I'm surprised that they were not more well known and successful.
Julie Felix - ISB were guesting on her show, I think. C'mon, where's your history of Hippy music at?! She's still performing today and looking good for someone older than me! (60+)
@EtherialMoon the second part of my argument is that this "bad" music is so prominent nowadays that people lose a sense of what quality is, and so good music becomes quite difficult to find. in the 60s everybody liked the beatles and jefferson airplane, it was both popular and authentic, but the same cannot be said for popular music today. I find you need to dig deep to find music that will really satisfy you today.
neohip and markswales, thanx for your interest in what i said. I agree with you that there is much good music today, I was mainly commenting on the american idiot commecial crap, but i am still really happy that even courtney love is comming out with hard rocking shit again. Maybe I have just been justin biebered to death, dammit! So then I put on Be Good Tanyas doing Townes song about sitting there just waiting to die, and hell, thatt cheers me up--- it does seem that there is hope!
Hi again monsqeeky, thanx for sticking up for me, sort of a silly arguement, really, of cousre the music theen beats the music today, no one had Autotune then, and there was no hip-hop, so even the Jefferson Airplane were as they still sound, ---real. Lots of great musicians today, I mean Trent Resnor just won an oscar, yeehaw, I just happen to like some of the old ones. But really, give a listen to PJ Harvey's new album, great freakin stuff
hi monsqueeky, did I go to woodstock? I actually set out to do so, but the lady friend I was with became ill, so we had to return to Toronto. The couple we set out with went, though, and said yeh, it was fun, but it was always raining and they never got close to the stage. We all watched the movie, and figured it was probably better. I used to love festivals, though, went to a lot of them, even saw Zappa and the Dead. Lots of weed, too.
@PorchDogPondering I don't actually know anyone who has heard of them and when I have played an old tape no one enjoyed it. It's the words I like more than the tunes. Can;t play the tape now so was good to find stuff on you tube
@fubar50cat wooww man. you're inspirational man. you're a good guy for staying with her. thats cool man. and lexleebold you dont have the right to say anything to him because he lived through a time where music actually meant a lot. socially and politically and about one another. ive given music now a chance and it sucks. its garbage. no meaning. maybe some do bt most suck. it doesnt compare to this music. he doesnt need to take a chance to this music anyway he already has an incredible taste.
or to a supershow and sometimes seminal rock festivals. Ourimbah; Walhala and the first Sunbury before the 'living end' types showed for the second. See my video THE SINGING JOURNALIST and spot the influence or not. I caught up with Mike Heron in 1975 with the MIKE HERON BAND [Rock] at a pub. in Camden Town -- we passed as he went for a break and I did feel an accomplishent of sorts [better than the phony TOM WAITS
As an open minded, experienced musician I am trying very hard to like this song after a friend recommended. I give up dear friend. Some of the guitar playing is okay but the melody is truly awful & oversimplistic. ISB fans, tell me why this song works for you. Does it remind you of something or is it the song itself you find so attractive?
@enthusedbythisstuff Robin Williamson has recorded many more albums after ISB broke up (1974 or so) the last of which came out in 2008 and is still performing. Mike Heron (the other pillar of ISB) is also alive and well and still performing.
Yeh??? What are you talking about? You refer to the song as far too risque (and something about the Presbyterian Church) - are you taking medication? Do you know what risque means? Jesus. . . !
I don't care how good or respected Julie Felix is. This song just isn't right without Licorice. No fucking way! This group was a bunch of nymphs. Can't be anything else.
This is badly out of sync -- and it is pretty clearly lip-sync'd in any event. They're playing the record. Nevertheless, this was one great, great band.
When you have a musician (Julie Felix) presenting a music programme - rather than a talent scout (Simon Cowell) - you get a different kind of music. It is more musical.
@fubar50cat you're welcome. i like to learn about how it was in the 60's. the 70's werent bad either. well in what ive seen. i just wish music now was as meaningful and amazing as 60's and 70's music. music now a days is meaningless. i mean whats the point of techno and house. its got no meaning. its not music. all i got to say is that i respect you for what you've been throuugh. lucky :D by the way..did you attend woodstock?
Haven't heard this since I was 18. Didn't think they would be on you tube even. I have the lyrics to most of their songs somewhere in my attic. Must dig them out. I used to love this particular song. I didn't know anyone else who liked them at that time.
@TheGB1950 I just listened to the orig on layers of onion there so close but different, who is the woman who introduced them and than sang and played ?
I have always had a soft spot for the Incredible... In fact for short time I was performing some of their tunes with a musician in the early 70's. We called ourselves Chameleon. I remember one song we did was Ducks on a Pond. Joy to ya.
I'm into all kinds of music and i've heard of this band for years without checking them out. I bought 5000 Spirits just a week ago and have bought their debut and Wee Tam & The Big Huge already. They are brilliant. Can't believe i fought the punk wars for this but , hey ho, you change !
Mathematics: it was a real cool time and I lived near San Francisco and it was the bomb! I always said back then that you could walk down the street there wearing a clown suit and no one would care! It really was magical for some of us and I'm not looking through rose-colored glasses
I hitch-hiked 12 miles as a 16 year old in 1969 to see this episode of the Julie Felix show...they had a stage covered with string instruments...and over the evening played them all...my eyes leak from the memory...good times !!
How amazing.. I remember watching it on TV Where was it held? at .. Julie did a great job in presenting her shows.. fishes stop and ask me where I'm bound
I bought "The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter" LP as a teen. Hooked from then on. Genius British woodland folk. One of the best, most melodic bands ever. Love them more every listen. Also check out the phenomenal Pearls Before Swine. How about the band Forest from around 1971? Similar.
@@superkatarsis I found the Forest LP on UA-cam again. I gave my vinyl copy to a high school buddy, Ryan Tolls, then wished I had kept it. Not sure if they ever did a second album or not.
@EtherialMoon oh yeah of course. it's just that in addition to the fact that pop music today is terrible, i find that actual good music is generally quite hard to find. it happens quite rarely for me to stumble onto a piece written in the last 10 years that will really satisfy me, whereas most things i listen to from then are a pleasure. if you have any bands from today you think are worthy, please share (don't think i'm saying they don't exist, i just know too few and would love to know more)
saw ISB live at both Filmore East and Filmore West and have been sharing them with my friends and students ever since....they are among my all time favorites
Hey fubarcat50. This is a little late (1 year) but check out Hanne Hukkelberg. Her representation on youtube is a bit limited, but her work is fantastic. Maybe you'll like it.
I used to buy their early albums in New Zealand, so when I was in London in 1970 I went to their concert at the Royal Albert Hall. One of the strangest events I have been to- all seemed very impromptu & unplanned. Fun music though.
Yes,I agree with all the other comments whole heatedly. I live in Alabama which is a super conservative place.But when I saw the hip covers of ISB I just knew it was for me. And when I listened to the music I was not disappointed. It was something different that reminded me of the elves singing in Tolkien.
+Bibiana Miller I think I know all the words too. And I'm sure I must've sung all the notes, at one time or another in my life. But somehow, I never quite learned the song.... Sigh.....
Mike was really on another plane with the amazing lyrics and imagery he came up with for 5000 spirits. Painting Box, Chinese White, Little Cloud, and The Hedgehog Song are all his, and are my favorite ISB tracks.
monsqeeky, this is in reply to you, none of us can go back in time, unfortunately, but yes, it was a great ime, if you ignored litttle problems like the war in Vietnam, the impeachment of the president, Cambodia, civil rights issues etc. I would guess that we had reason to be upset then, and expressed it. The hidden message behind Paintig Box is the race issue, just the same as in Melvana Reynold's great song Little Boxes, although it was more directly about conformity. I love your opinion, ty
I'm a fellow veteran of the punk wars, I love ISB, and I don't see a contradiction. I think punk is being true to yourself regardless of what TV and peer pressure and religion and everything else say you are supposed to be... even when they state their case quite (*ahem*) forcefully. In those terms, ISB was punk. (So were the Kinks.) You don't walk down the street in a velvet cape, knowing you're about to get your ass handed to you, if it's not vitally important to you that you be yourself.
Cykic that's a really cool post. I totally agree (esp about The Kinks). I was in the classic rock crowd and my friends tried to shape my musical tastes but I still went to the Mabuhay in S.F. and pogo'd to punk music.
This is just so heart warming. Had the good fortune to meet Julie Felix last year. Even when she was in her 80s she remained a very beautiful woman and continued playing and performing. I will never forget her
Risque?? Where's your head at?? It's a simple love song with beautiful allusions to beautiful things. If I could have written just one song in my life I would have painted the colors of this.
Beautiful Julie xxx
This would be circa--1968. Incredible String Band had a big following in Melbourne around 1970 [The ELTHAM Super Shows - in the bush] and around Belgrave and Hurstbridge on the very outskirts of Melbourne. Colourful clothes, capes and hippie dress and ISB were the vanguard minstrels. We all listened to them at the music library at Melbourne University and then we would hitchhike off either to the CROSS [Kings]
I'm almost certain (!) that this was recorded in October 1967 and broadcast early 1968...
This is from the Julie Felix show around 1970.
She was the British Joan Baez/Judy Collins.
I saw it then and never I would ever get to see it again someday! Quite eerie!
all that discucions, boys, in argentina we have the chance of only 2 LP´s of ISB, but that mead as fly far away, still, today, when we are over 50. Just somoke on and enjoy de beauty
Obviously artistically great. A folkie element, a hippie element, musicians with great inspiration and influence - even to the Rolling Stones. Given underground FM radio in that time period, I'm surprised that they were not more well known and successful.
Love ya!!
Julie Felix - ISB were guesting on her show, I think. C'mon, where's your history of Hippy music at?! She's still performing today and looking good for someone older than me! (60+)
@EtherialMoon the second part of my argument is that this "bad" music is so prominent nowadays that people lose a sense of what quality is, and so good music becomes quite difficult to find. in the 60s everybody liked the beatles and jefferson airplane, it was both popular and authentic, but the same cannot be said for popular music today. I find you need to dig deep to find music that will really satisfy you today.
neohip and markswales, thanx for your interest in what i said. I agree with you that there is much good music today, I was mainly commenting on the american idiot commecial crap, but i am still really happy that even courtney love is comming out with hard rocking shit again. Maybe I have just been justin biebered to death, dammit! So then I put on Be Good Tanyas doing Townes song about sitting there just waiting to die, and hell, thatt cheers me up--- it does seem that there is hope!
Hi again monsqeeky, thanx for sticking up for me, sort of a silly arguement, really, of cousre the music theen beats the music today, no one had Autotune then, and there was no hip-hop, so even the Jefferson Airplane were as they still sound, ---real. Lots of great musicians today, I mean Trent Resnor just won an oscar, yeehaw, I just happen to like some of the old ones. But really, give a listen to PJ Harvey's new album, great freakin stuff
hi monsqueeky, did I go to woodstock? I actually set out to do so, but the lady friend I was with became ill, so we had to return to Toronto. The couple we set out with went, though, and said yeh, it was fun, but it was always raining and they never got close to the stage. We all watched the movie, and figured it was probably better. I used to love festivals, though, went to a lot of them, even saw Zappa and the Dead. Lots of weed, too.
Julia Felix ant the Increadable String Band, What more can we ask for. Anyone who does not get this should not be listening to any kind of music.
feisty z is 'baby raindrops incarnate" saiz lsdmadman in all his most wonderous glorryy.
@PorchDogPondering I don't actually know anyone who has heard of them and when I have played an old tape no one enjoyed it. It's the words I like more than the tunes. Can;t play the tape now so was good to find stuff on you tube
So great that this performance was preserved. They were extraordinary.
It would be nicer if the video and sound were in synch.
I believe so...or at least where he came from
saw ISB SouthBank Theatre, London 1970.....fabulous
Well she lives in Hertfordshire now.
@fubar50cat wooww man. you're inspirational man. you're a good guy for staying with her. thats cool man. and lexleebold you dont have the right to say anything to him because he lived through a time where music actually meant a lot. socially and politically and about one another. ive given music now a chance and it sucks. its garbage. no meaning. maybe some do bt most suck. it doesnt compare to this music. he doesnt need to take a chance to this music anyway he already has an incredible taste.
or to a supershow and sometimes seminal rock festivals. Ourimbah; Walhala and the first Sunbury before the 'living end' types showed for the second. See my video THE SINGING JOURNALIST and spot the influence or not. I caught up with Mike Heron in 1975 with the MIKE HERON BAND [Rock] at a pub. in Camden Town -- we passed as he went for a break and I did feel an accomplishent of sorts [better than the phony TOM WAITS
As an open minded, experienced musician I am trying very hard to like this song after a friend recommended. I give up dear friend. Some of the guitar playing is okay but the melody is truly awful & oversimplistic. ISB fans, tell me why this song works for you. Does it remind you of something or is it the song itself you find so attractive?
@enthusedbythisstuff Robin Williamson has recorded many more albums after ISB broke up (1974 or so) the last of which came out in 2008 and is still performing. Mike Heron (the other pillar of ISB) is also alive and well and still performing.
Yeh??? What are you talking about? You refer to the song as far too risque (and something about the Presbyterian Church) - are you taking medication? Do you know what risque means? Jesus. . . !
I don't care how good or respected Julie Felix is. This song just isn't right without Licorice. No fucking way!
This group was a bunch of nymphs. Can't be anything else.
This is badly out of sync -- and it is pretty clearly lip-sync'd in any event. They're playing the record.
Nevertheless, this was one great, great band.
@PorchDogPondering i love them!!
Way better than IBS
i love this shit. this is great.
@clazza01 Don't understand your response to my comment seem a bit excessive but still you have your views and I have mine
Mike has such a positive and uplifting soul. Whenever I'm down I listen to one of his songs and it always helps.
Very nice song, this is the first time I've heard it. Too bad they can't harmonize like, say, Peter, Paul and Mary.
tim buckley, fairport convention, pentangle, tyrannosaurus rex, nick drake, john renbourn, bert jansch
Used to think about drugs,sex and rock and roll now its just different drugs,sex and rock and roll
is this the woman interviewer, cynthia gooding, that is on the dylan cd " folksinger's choice"
When you have a musician (Julie Felix) presenting a music programme - rather than a talent scout (Simon Cowell) - you get a different kind of music.
It is more musical.
Well said.. and she did it so well I also remember Joni Mitchell on the BBC was it the tonight programme Cliff Mitchelmore ??
Bowie said that ISB'S '5000 Spirits' (from which this is taken) was one of his favourite albums. No wonder
how cool is that guitar
@fubar50cat you're welcome. i like to learn about how it was in the 60's. the 70's werent bad either. well in what ive seen. i just wish music now was as meaningful and amazing as 60's and 70's music. music now a days is meaningless. i mean whats the point of techno and house. its got no meaning. its not music. all i got to say is that i respect you for what you've been throuugh. lucky :D by the way..did you attend woodstock?
trippy...i like it.
The ORIGINAL bardcore! :)
Haven't heard this since I was 18. Didn't think they would be on you tube even. I have the lyrics to most of their songs somewhere in my attic. Must dig them out. I used to love this particular song. I didn't know anyone else who liked them at that time.
Fab.
wha wha realy god stuff, it can call shit song i think :D !!
It isn't the record the girl can sing, and there is no recorder
Peter, Paul and Mary were poseur folkies, and always second-rate. They rode to fame singing Dylan's songs, and Dylan sang them better.
@fubarcat50
look harder, you just find music that sucks
wordsworth shakespeare schiller mcartney lennon dylan look out you have competition ............. jackanory :)
yeah! great stuff. it may be my parent's generation or even older, but it sounds fresh as ever to this young hippie girl!
The 60's! If you weren't there, I feel sorry for you. It was better than anyone is telling.
@friederich66 you seem to forget that this is youtube
@TheGB1950 I just listened to the orig on layers of onion there so close but different, who is the woman who introduced them and than sang and played ?
robin williamson is Leonardo da Vinci of folk music
is that julie felix???
too bad its not synced.
I have always had a soft spot for the Incredible... In fact for short time I was performing some of their tunes with a musician in the early 70's. We called ourselves Chameleon. I remember one song we did was Ducks on a Pond. Joy to ya.
julIE Felix
she turned seventy this year..
Who is the lady? Not Licky or Rosie....
The guy on the left looks like robin hood
vibes
Still astounding after all these years . . .
I'm into all kinds of music and i've heard of this band for years without checking them out. I bought 5000 Spirits just a week ago and have bought their debut and Wee Tam & The Big Huge already. They are brilliant. Can't believe i fought the punk wars for this but , hey ho, you change !
you're right, an amazing girl and an amazing song
liquorice went missing,,,this isnt her
@fubarcat50 i wish i lived at your time. im 14 and i HATE this time period and i was meant to be born 50 years ago
Mathematics: it was a real cool time and I lived near San Francisco and it was the bomb! I always said back then that you could walk down the street there wearing a clown suit and no one would care! It really was magical for some of us and I'm not looking through rose-colored glasses
Julie Felix hosting?
I hitch-hiked 12 miles as a 16 year old in 1969 to see this episode of the Julie Felix show...they had a stage covered with string instruments...and over the evening played them all...my eyes leak from the memory...good times !!
How amazing.. I remember watching it on TV Where was it held? at .. Julie did a great job in presenting her shows.. fishes stop and ask me where I'm bound
You sound like me and my sisters, anything for music!
You are my hero.
Lucky.
Awesome.
She should have parted her hair in the middle
Edinburgh Scotland
It is 2023, and I still get goosebumps from this song How many years has it been since this came out?
Me too. I get the same with 1968, First Girl I loved and Cold days of February.
It came out in 1967.
Love ISB !! Check out Frances Pylons, Vase .x
I bought "The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter" LP as a teen. Hooked from then on. Genius British woodland folk. One of the best, most melodic bands ever. Love them more every listen. Also check out the phenomenal Pearls Before Swine. How about the band Forest from around 1971? Similar.
Forest takes the cake!
@@superkatarsis I found the Forest LP on UA-cam again. I gave my vinyl copy to a high school buddy, Ryan Tolls, then wished I had kept it. Not sure if they ever did a second album or not.
Who is the woman singer ?
Will the circle
@EtherialMoon oh yeah of course. it's just that in addition to the fact that pop music today is terrible, i find that actual good music is generally quite hard to find. it happens quite rarely for me to stumble onto a piece written in the last 10 years that will really satisfy me, whereas most things i listen to from then are a pleasure. if you have any bands from today you think are worthy, please share (don't think i'm saying they don't exist, i just know too few and would love to know more)
saw ISB live at both Filmore East and Filmore West and have been sharing them with my friends and students ever since....they are among my all time favorites
Hey fubarcat50. This is a little late (1 year) but check out Hanne Hukkelberg. Her representation on youtube is a bit limited, but her work is fantastic. Maybe you'll like it.
Beautiful, but Julie Felix is no substiture for Rose and Likky.
As an 17 year old growing up in the (then) poor suburb of Portobello/Edinburgh/Scotland they changed my life for the better.
Heroes.
What show is this?
I used to buy their early albums in New Zealand, so when I was in London in 1970 I went to their concert at the Royal Albert Hall. One of the strangest events I have been to- all seemed very impromptu & unplanned. Fun music though.
Yes,I agree with all the other comments whole heatedly. I live in Alabama which is a super conservative place.But when I saw the hip covers of ISB I just knew it was for me. And when I listened to the music I was not disappointed. It was something different that reminded me of the elves singing in Tolkien.
she has nice legs
Who's the girl?
think poetry
I wonder who's forcing anyone to listen to or watch American Idol. What's wrong with "Black Keys" - they are simply amazing!
Lovely song. That guitar is just too big!
She's hot.
This is the scene on the Julie Felix show in the UK that made me want to learn the guitar so I could make the lovely jangley sweet sounds.
i love this and all the music they do. i think i know all the words. always enjoy singing all .....
+Bibiana Miller
I think I know all the words too. And I'm sure I must've sung all the notes, at one time or another in my life.
But somehow, I never quite learned the song.... Sigh.....
Just lovely
Mike was really on another plane with the amazing lyrics and imagery he came up with for 5000 spirits. Painting Box, Chinese White, Little Cloud, and The Hedgehog Song are all his, and are my favorite ISB tracks.
Freshest music I've ever heard. Love 'em.
monsqeeky, this is in reply to you, none of us can go back in time, unfortunately, but yes, it was a great ime, if you ignored litttle problems like the war in Vietnam, the impeachment of the president, Cambodia, civil rights issues etc. I would guess that we had reason to be upset then, and expressed it. The hidden message behind Paintig Box is the race issue, just the same as in Melvana Reynold's great song Little Boxes, although it was more directly about conformity. I love your opinion, ty
@TheGB1950 Julie Felix
That's some incredibly SERIOUS guitar playing!
Are you folks still around?
Theyd love to hear u say that
music died in 1995
I'm a fellow veteran of the punk wars, I love ISB, and I don't see a contradiction. I think punk is being true to yourself regardless of what TV and peer pressure and religion and everything else say you are supposed to be... even when they state their case quite (*ahem*) forcefully. In those terms, ISB was punk. (So were the Kinks.) You don't walk down the street in a velvet cape, knowing you're about to get your ass handed to you, if it's not vitally important to you that you be yourself.
Cykic that's a really cool post. I totally agree (esp about The Kinks). I was in the classic rock crowd and my friends tried to shape my musical tastes but I still went to the Mabuhay in S.F. and pogo'd to punk music.
Now. there's a good boy.
This is just so heart warming. Had the good fortune to meet Julie Felix last year. Even when she was in her 80s she remained a very beautiful woman and continued playing and performing. I will never forget her
One of my absolute favorite songs by one of my absolute favorite bands.
I saw Van Morrison there once.
Just drove through Cotati recently. It's still there.