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You Know What You Could Be - Tuning into the 1960s (Paperback)
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You Know What You Could Be - Tuning into the 1960s (Paperback)
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'Mike Heron, as part of the Incredible String Band, changed the way
I looked at music. Read it!' Billy Connolly 'Mike Heron's lyrics
always sparkled with wit and warmth and his prose is a delightful
continuation. The book evokes a smoky, unheated eccentric Edinburgh
that was a crucible for so much creativity.' Joe Boyd, author of
White Bicycles This singular book offers two harmonising memoirs of
music making in the 1960s. Mike Heron for the first time writes
vividly of his formative years in dour, Presbyterian Edinburgh.
Armed with a love of Buddy Holly, Fats Domino and Hungarian folk
music, he plays in school cloakrooms, graduates to rock, discovers
the joy of a folk audience, starts writing songs, tries to talk to
girls, wishes he was a Beatnik all while training as a reluctant
accountant. When asked to join Robin Williamson and Clive Palmer,
the Incredible String Band are formed - and their wildly
innovative, astounding music became indelibly linked with the
latter Sixties. Andrew Greig was a frustrated provincial schoolboy
when he heard their songs. It changed everything. Undaunted by a
lack of experience and ability, he formed a band in their image.
Fate & Ferret populated back-country Fife with Pan, nymphs and
Apollo, met the String Band and caught the fish lorry to London to
hang around Joe Boyd's Witchseason office, watching at the fringes
of the blooming Underground scene. It was forty years later that he
and Mike became friends. These entwined stories will delight anyone
who has loved the Incredible String Band; and their differing
portraits of that hopeful, erratic and stubborn stumble towards the
life that is ours will strike a chord with everyone.
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