The Incredible String Band (ISB) was a largely acoustic band formed in Scotland in 1965 which (in the words of one of their early songs"Way Back in the 1960s" (Williamson) ? On The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion 1968.) "way back in the 1960s" built a considerable popular following especially within British counter culture before splitting up in 1974. The members of the group are considered musical pioneers in psych folk and, by integrating a very wide variety of traditional music forms and instruments, in the development of "world music". The group reformed in 1999 and continued to perform until 2006. History Formation as a trio, 1965-66 In 1963, acoustic musicians Robin Williamson and Clive Palmer began performing together as a traditional folk duo in Edinburgh, particularly at a weekly club run by Archie Fisher in the Crown Bar which also regularly featured Bert Jansch. There they were seen in August 196

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