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    The Ocean That Only Begins: The Incredible String Band for Newcomers
    The Ocean That Only Begins: The Incredible String Band for Newcomers
    The Ocean That Only Begins: The Incredible String Band for Newcomers
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    The Ocean That Only Begins: The Incredible String Band for Newcomers

    By Norman Lamont

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    The Incredible String Band can seem a little, well, strange to the uninitiated listener. Songs that leap from one genre to another in the course of two lines, long mystical poems and schoolboy humour, wayward harmonies and soundscapes beyond the wildest dreams of a synth. You might think it's just a dream that died when the last flowered kaftan went to the charity shop. But to open your ears and mind to them is to discover a band of unique beauty and depth. This short book hopes to introduce you first to their masterpieces then to the other treasures that their albums of the 60s and 70s offer. It's not a biography or a book for committed fans. If you've ever wondered what they were about and were just a bit curious - it's for you.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNorman Lamont
    Release dateMar 22, 2014
    ISBN9781311379153
    The Ocean That Only Begins: The Incredible String Band for Newcomers
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    Norman Lamont

    Norman Lamont went from becoming a String Band fan to a String Band nerd in two stages. Stage 1 was when Licorice McKechnie gave him a kiss for his 18th birthday backstage at Glasgow Kelvin Hall. Stage 2 was when he went to the first Incredible String Band fan convention in Hebden Bridge twenty years after the band’s demise and surprised himself by winning a String Band trivia quiz.Among other things he is a singer/songwriter. His 2014 album tracks and lyrics are at http://www.allthetimeinheaven.com. Some of it was described as 'Nick Cave meets Robert Fripp'.But he has never been a government minister. That was an imposter.

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      The Ocean That Only Begins - Norman Lamont

      The Ocean That Only Begins:

      The Incredible String Band for Newcomers

      Norman Lamont

      Copyright 2013 by Norman Lamont

      Smashwords Edition

      Table of contents

      Intro

      Start here (The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter)

      Where to now? (Wee Tam and the Big Huge)

      The road to the gallows (First album, 5000 Spirits)

      Coasting to the 70s (Changing Horses, I Looked Up, U)

      Set course for the mainstream (Liquid Acrobat, Earthspan)

      The mainstream isn’t all it’s cracked up to be (No Ruinous Feud, Hard Rope)

      Filling in the gaps

      Live albums

      The 70s solo albums

      The reunion

      Enjoy the trip

      Rivers that run to the sea (further reading)

      About the author

      Intro

      This is how I first discovered that the Incredible String Band was ‘an acquired taste’:

      As a 17-year-old I was invited to the house of a prospective girlfriend. As you did in those days, I brought along a few favourite albums; among them Robin Williamson’s solo album Myrrh. I dropped side two on the turntable, excited at sharing my newest musical enthusiasm with someone with whom I hoped to soon be sharing more. As we chatted it trundled innocuously through the first few songs, then it hit The Dancing of the Lord of Weir. I leapt out of the conversation and turned it up. ‘You must hear this!’ The track unfolded its delights but I could see her interest in me as a future partner decline as surely and visibly as a thermometer placed from a sauna into a fridge. Then her mother came through to investigate the disturbing noise and I knew it was over.

      Over the years I’ve seen this repeated a few times with other friends and musicians. Yet, come the 80s and 90s I was part of the huge rediscovery of

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