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The Incredible String Band

With their quirky songs and left field approach to instrumentation and presentation, The Incredible String Band were one of the most colourful, challenging and influential groups to emerge in the psychedelic era of the 1960s. Their roots were in folk music with Clive Palmer and Robin Williamson first meeting at a folk club, the Crown in Edinburgh, in 1963. They originally formed an acoustic duo and took the name The Incredible String Band after the addition of rock musician Mike Heron, who ran the all-night Clive's Incredible Folk Club in Glasgow, where they played as the house b...