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Saturday, November 01, 2025

The Incredible String Band - BBC Sessions Volume 7: In Concert Golders Green Hippodrome London UK 1974 | Albums That Should Exist

 The Incredible String Band - BBC Sessions, Volume 7: In Concert, Golders Green Hippodrome, London, Britain, 5-17-1974

Paul says: Here's the seventh and last of the BBC albums I'm posting from the Incredible String Band. This one is a 1974 concert.

This concert came near the tail end of the band's first time together. Here's some info from their Wikipedia entry: "The group's changing lineup, adding Stan Schnier on bass, Jack Ingram on drums, and Graham Forbes on electric guitar, reflected moves toward a more conventional amplified rock group. Their final albums for Island [Records] were received disappointingly, and the label dropped them in 1974. By then, disagreements between [singer-songwriters Robin] Williamson and [Mike] Heron about musical policy had become irreconcilable, and they split up in October 1974."

After that, there was a reunion much later, from 1999 to 2006. That seems to have been the final split.

Only two songs from here were released on the band's official BBC album, "Across the Airwaves." Those are "1968" and "Log Cabin Home in the Sky." But everything else comes from a bootleg that sounds so good, you can't tell the difference on the sourcing.

This album is an hour and three minutes long.

01 Ithkos 
02 talk
03 Log Cabin Home in the Sky
04 talk 
05 1968 
06 talk
07 Jack Straw's Wishes [Instrumental] 
08 talk
09 Maker of Islands 
10 talk 
11 Dear Old Battlefield 
12 talk 
13 Jigs [Good Morrow-Crawley's Reel-Small Coals for Nailers-Katie Hill] 
14 This Moment

 (all songs Incredible String Band) 

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