Robin Williamson and Mike Heron were founder members of which influential, but commercially unsuccessful, 1960's/70's band?
"to a new extreme, blending rock, folk and world music into an atmospheric whole. Contributing musicians included Pete Townshend, Keith Moon, Duncan Browne and Ronnie Lane (as ""Tommy & the Bijoux""), John Cale, Richard Thompson, Dave Mattacks, Simon Nicol, Dave Pegg, Dudu Pukwana, Elton John, and Steve Winwood. The Incredible String Band broke up in September 1974. With three other members of the final ""electric"" ISB lineup – Graham Forbes, John Gilston, and Malcolm Le Maistre — he formed the band Mike Heron's Reputation, later known simply as Heron, with whom he recorded and toured until 1977. In 1977–78, while"
"a solo album, ""Myrrh"", which featured some of his most extraordinary vocal performances. The group's changing lineup, adding Stan Schnier (aka ""Stan Lee"") 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 were received disappointingly, and the label dropped them in 1974. By then, disagreements between Williamson and Heron about musical policy had become irreconcilable, and they split up in October 1974. Williamson soon formed Robin Williamson and His Merry Band, which toured and released three albums of eclectic music with a Celtic"
"emphasis. Within a few years, he went on to a solo career, moving between traditional Celtic styles and more avant-garde material. He also produced several recordings of humorous stories. In all, Williamson released over forty albums post-ISB. Notable in this output are the Grammy-nominated ""Wheel of Fortune"" (1995, with John Renbourn) and four records on the jazz/classical/avant-garde ECM label: ""The Seed-at-Zero"" (2000), ""Skirting the River Road"" (2002), ""The Iron Stone"" (2006), and ""Trusting in the Rising Light"" (2014). Heron formed a rock group with Malcolm Le Maistre, called first Mike Heron's Reputation, then just Heron, and later released occasional solo"
"Blind Melon Blind Melon (stylized as BLind MeLoN) is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles, California by two musicians from Mississippi and one from Indiana. They are best known for their 1993 hit ""No Rain,"" and enjoyed critical and commercial success in the early 1990s with their neo-psychedelic take on alternative rock. After releasing two albums on Capitol Records and touring extensively, the band came to an abrupt halt in 1995 by the fatal overdose of lead vocalist Shannon Hoon on the band's tour bus in New Orleans, going on hiatus until officially disbanding four years later. In"
"relationships between Mike and Rose and between Robin and Licorice had ended. In April 1970 they released the album ""I Looked Up"". The ISB's performances were more theatrical than those of most of their contemporaries. In addition to the spectacle of their exotic instruments and colourful stage costumes, their concerts sometimes featured poems, surreal sketches and dancers, all in the homegrown, non-showbiz style characteristic of the hippie era. In 1970, Robin Williamson (with little input from Heron) attempted to fuse the music with his theatrical fantasies in a quixotic multimedia spectacular at London's Roundhouse called ""U"", which he envisaged as"
"Rock"" in 1956, ""Hier bin ich - hier bleib' ich"" (Here I Am, Here I Stay) in 1959, and ""Jóvenes y rebeldes"" and ""Besito a Papa"" in 1961. Williamson left the Comets in early 1963 and reportedly never played another note, declining invitations to join Comets reunion groups that formed after Haley's death in 1981. He died at the age of 71 in 1996. In 2012, Williamson was inducted as a member of the Comets into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by a special committee, aimed to correct the previous mistake of not inducting the band with Bill"
"and his girlfriend Licorice McKechnie went to Morocco with no firm plans to return. Heron stayed in Edinburgh, playing with a band called Rock Bottom and the Deadbeats. However, when Williamson returned after running out of money, laden with Moroccan instruments (including a gimbri, which was much later eaten by rats), he and Heron reformed the band as a duo. In November 1966 Heron and Williamson embarked on a short UK tour, supporting Tom Paxton and Judy Collins. In early 1967, they performed regularly at London clubs, including Les Cousins. Joe Boyd became the group's manager as well as producer"
"failed to chart. The group never recorded after this, having only released five singles, and broke up in 1960 when lead vocalist Roberta Haymon married. The group reunited in 1986 and continued with an altered lineup into the 1990s; some of the original members died in this decade. Phyliss Carr managed the band in the 1980s and 1990s after retiring from performance; she died in 2006 from breast cancer. The Quin-Tones The Quin-Tones were an American doo wop group from York, Pennsylvania. The group's members all attended William Penn High School (York, Pennsylvania), and originally formed in 1957 under the"
"he met acoustic musicians Robin Williamson and Clive Palmer who were performing together as a traditional folk duo. Mike Heron later auditioned to play rhythm guitar and the trio became The Incredible String Band. By 1964 the Edinburgh Fringe could boast a folk festival in its own right. An album of the participants was released on Decca. It was called ""Edinburgh Folk Festival vol 2"" and contained tracks by Ray Fisher, Archie Fisher, Anne Briggs and the Ian Campbell Folk Group (including Dave Swarbrick). Bert Jansch and Briggs performed together but this was never recorded. At an early stage Fisher"
"which to this day remains unreleased. Ultimately the group left the label and joined Capitol Records, where they recorded songs by Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman, the writing/producing team behind the UK act The Sweet. Lead singer and trumpeter Mike Gibbons died on 2 April 2016. Bo Donaldson and The Heywoods Bo Donaldson and The Heywoods are an American pop music group, known mainly for their 1970s hit singles, ""Billy Don't Be A Hero"" and ""Who Do You Think You Are"". The band was formed in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1965 by their leader, Robert Walter ""Bo"" Donaldson. They were first"
"was an exploring era in the Sixties and people were rebelling from the boring pop stuff into folk and blues and world music. You couldn't sit down and listen to Buddy Holly and pass the joint around. So we tried to make the kind of music we felt was missing from our lives, that fitted with the hippy lifestyle."" Heron has also released a number of solo recordings, mostly more rock-oriented than the Incredible String Band material. The first of these, ""Smiling Men with Bad Reputations"", released in 1971, when he was still a member of the ISB, took eclecticism"
"Trevor Herion Trevor Herion, born John Trevor Herion, (c. Apr. 1959 – October 1988) was an Irish singer, born in Cork who formed part of the punk and new wave scenes in the 1970s and 1980s. He later tried to be successful as a solo artist, but failed, and died shortly afterwards. During the late 1970s, he was lead singer in a locally successful pub band called ""The B-52s"", who later changed their name to ""The Puritans"" on discovering the existence of the similarly named US band. Failure to land a recording contract meant the band’s dissolution but shortly after"
"The Dennisons The Dennisons were an English Merseybeat band, that emerged from the Liverpool scene in the early 1960s. Despite their background, and a couple of minor hit singles, they failed to achieve more than a local following and were unable to find a footing on the British Invasion. However, in 1963, Bob Wooler stated that ""The Dennisons have created the biggest impact in Liverpool since the Beatles"". The band's drummer, Clive Hornby, later became the actor best known for portraying Jack Sugden in British soap opera ""Emmerdale"". The Dennisons were formed in July 1961, at Liverpool Collegiate and took"
"records of varying quality, and having no commercial success. The group broke up in 1961, with the members taking regular jobs. The surviving members of the group reunited in the 1970s, with Pearl McKinnon of the Kodaks (who sounds remarkably like Lymon) singing lead for a time. But by 1978, Garnes had died from a heart attack and Negroni from a cerebral hemorrhage on September 5, 1978. Santiago and Merchant continued on with various new members including most notably Jimmy Castor, Lewis Lymon (Frankie's brother), and Timothy Wilson of Tiny Tim & the Hits, their most recent lead singer. As"
"tracking some eight songs for the album since last December at his studio in Silver Lake, but added that there is currently no date set for release. Blind Melon Blind Melon (stylized as BLind MeLoN) is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles, California by two musicians from Mississippi and one from Indiana. They are best known for their 1993 hit ""No Rain,"" and enjoyed critical and commercial success in the early 1990s with their neo-psychedelic take on alternative rock. After releasing two albums on Capitol Records and touring extensively, the band came to an abrupt halt in 1995"
"of the group occurred (without Templeman) to record an album, ""As Time Goes By"", that is often overlooked in Harpers Bizarre discographies. Drummer John Petersen, husband of Templeman's sister Roberta, died suddenly on November 11, 2007 of a heart attack. Harpers Bizarre Harpers Bizarre was an American sunshine pop band of the 1960s, best known for their Broadway/sunshine pop sound and their remake of Simon & Garfunkel's ""The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)."" Harpers Bizarre was formed out of the Tikis, a band from Santa Cruz, California, that had some local successes with Beatlesque songs in the mid 1960s."
"Walton, Liverpool, Lancashire died 7 February 2001). Scragg's death from lung cancer in February 2001 ended all final attempts to relive former days. The Dennisons The Dennisons were an English Merseybeat band, that emerged from the Liverpool scene in the early 1960s. Despite their background, and a couple of minor hit singles, they failed to achieve more than a local following and were unable to find a footing on the British Invasion. However, in 1963, Bob Wooler stated that ""The Dennisons have created the biggest impact in Liverpool since the Beatles"". The band's drummer, Clive Hornby, later became the actor"
"YouTube.com. The Chevrons The Chevrons were a United States pop group who recorded the hit record ""Lullabye"" in 1960. The band featured lead singer Terry Cashman, best known for his baseball songs, notably ""Talkin' Baseball"", then known as Dennis Minogue. The group disbanded when John ""Marty"" Trautman, co-founder of the group, was drafted by the U.S. Army on December 11, 1962. The Chevrons formed in the Inwood Section of upper Manhattan in 1958. The group consisted of tenor lead singer Dennis Minogue (Cashman), lead baritone/baritone John ""Marty"" Trautman, second tenor Gary Giordan, first tenor Frank Williams, and bass, Raul Al"
"1970. In 1971, Rose Simpson left the ISB, and Le Maistre, who had been living with the band and their friends on the Tennant estate near Innerleithen in Scotland, replaced her. He learned to play various musical instruments over the next few months, and contributed as a musician, songwriter and singer to the ISB albums ""Liquid Acrobat as Regards the Air"" (1971), Earthspan (1972), ""No Ruinous Feud"" (1973), and Hard Rope & Silken Twine (1974). After the ISB split up in 1974, Le Maistre stayed with Heron as a member of his new band, Mike Heron's Reputation. In the late"
"in the 1960s. The Hesitations were an R&B group from Cleveland formed in 1965. Motown artist Sandra Tilley was born in Cleveland. Soul singer Ruby Winters was raised in Cincinnati. During the 1970s, southwest Ohio, and Dayton in particular, was known for its stable of funk bands, including Bootsy's Rubber Band, The Ohio Players, Lakeside, Slave, Aurra, Heatwave, Sun, Dayton, Faze O, and Zapp featuring Roger Troutman. Walter ""Junie"" Morrison, is a musician and producer born in Dayton. Morrison was a producer, writer, keyboardist and vocalist for the funk band the Ohio Players in the early '70s, where he wrote"
"The Mighty Wallop! The Mighty Wallop! was a short-lived band from Jamestown, New York formed by Dennis Drew, Steve Gustafson, and Jeff Erickson of the band 10,000 Maniacs in 2001. It was quickly a sextet, which included Ryan Seekings on drums, Stan Barton on fiddle, and another guitar player. Drew and Erickson recorded around 50 songs as demos, and the band played a handful of shows as a sextet through Summer, 2001, most notably the well-received performance at The Great Blue Heron Music Festival in 2001. Shortly after that performance, the band restructured itself into a trio (Drew, Gustafson, and"
"The Chevrons The Chevrons were a United States pop group who recorded the hit record ""Lullabye"" in 1960. The band featured lead singer Terry Cashman, best known for his baseball songs, notably ""Talkin' Baseball"", then known as Dennis Minogue. The group disbanded when John ""Marty"" Trautman, co-founder of the group, was drafted by the U.S. Army on December 11, 1962. The Chevrons formed in the Inwood Section of upper Manhattan in 1958. The group consisted of tenor lead singer Dennis Minogue (Cashman), lead baritone/baritone John ""Marty"" Trautman, second tenor Gary Giordan, first tenor Frank Williams, and bass, Raul Al Conde."
"which eventually overcame him, leading to his tragic suicide on 1 October 1988. Trevor Herion Trevor Herion, born John Trevor Herion, (c. Apr. 1959 – October 1988) was an Irish singer, born in Cork who formed part of the punk and new wave scenes in the 1970s and 1980s. He later tried to be successful as a solo artist, but failed, and died shortly afterwards. During the late 1970s, he was lead singer in a locally successful pub band called ""The B-52s"", who later changed their name to ""The Puritans"" on discovering the existence of the similarly named US band."
"the band. As a result, the band would lose much of their trademark style that made them popular in the British counterculture of the 1960s. Most of the tracks on the album take inspiration from European and American tradition. Past albums included such a theme alongside eastern culture. ""Black Jack David"", then called ""Black Jack Davy"" had earlier been recorded by The Incredible String Band on their album ""I Looked Up"" on Elektra Records in 1970. Earthspan Earthspan is an album released by The Incredible String Band in 1972 on Island Records. It features Mike Heron, Robin Williamson, Licorice McKechnie,"
"All songs written by Robin Williamson, except ""Strings in the Earth and Air"" by Ivan Pawle. Myrrh (album) Myrrh is a folk album and the solo debut of Robin Williamson, released in 1972. Robin Williamson is noted as being a founding member of The Incredible String Band. ""Myrrh"" was subjected to a low budget and placed on the Island label's lowest sub-label, ""Help"". The album was downgraded by poor-quality sound mixing and a single-sleeve cover design. As 1971 came to a close, it was evident that The Incredible String Band was drifting into commercial-orientated rock. Williamson was the second member,"
"Work !! Category !! Result Hanson (band) Hanson is an American pop rock band from Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States, formed by brothers Isaac (guitar, bass, piano, vocals), Taylor (keyboards, piano, guitar, drums, vocals), and Zac (drums, piano, guitar, vocals). Supporting members include Dimitrius Collins (keyboards, guitar), and Andrew Perusi (bass) who have toured and performed live with the band since 2007. They are best known for the 1997 hit song ""MMMBop"" from their debut album released through Mercury, Polygram, ""Middle of Nowhere"", which earned three Grammy nominations. Despite the enormous commercial success of ""Middle of Nowhere"", the band suffered from"
"""Just The Way You Look Tonight"" and a remake of the 1935 Bing Crosby hit ""Red Sails in the Sunset"" did not chart at all. The group continued to perform throughout the 1960s, recording a remake of ""Come On, Girl"" in 1963. There were several personnel changes, notably the addition of Major Harris, who would later go on to join the Delfonics. Smith, the last surviving original member, continues to tour as of January 2011 with four new members as the Jarmels. Included is his longtime Richmond friend, Tyrone Thomas, who in 1975 founded the funkadelic band Tyrone Thomas and"
"top 60 on the Kent Music Report Albums Chart. Tinson and Screen left the band early in 1977; Barry Lytten joined as drummer and Tinson was not replaced. A cover version of Paul Revere & the Raiders' 1969 hit, ""Let Me"", was released by Rabbit as a single in July 1977. Evans left the group in October and soon after Rabbit disbanded. Porteus, Screen and Tinson formed a hard rock group, Heroes, back in Newcastle, which released their self-titled album in October 1980; they broke up in 1982. Hinds had joined a Sydney-based hard rock group, Finch in 1977.<ref name=""Holmgren"
"Rhino 39 Rhino 39 was among the wave of punk bands originating in the Los Angeles, California area in the late 1970s. The band was notable for recording an early hardcore punk single (""Xerox""/""No Compromise"") on the Dangerhouse label. Members Mark R. Malone (bass), Larry Parrot (guitar), Tim Carhart (drums) were with the band throughout its tenure. Original singer Dave Bratton (also known by his stage name, Dave Dacron) died in an auto accident in April, 1980, after which his younger brother Joel Bratton took on the role of vocalist and sang on their self-titled LP. Later Jason Scharback took"
"time. The band continued to tour and record. Rose Simpson left in 1971 and was replaced by Malcolm Le Maistre, formerly of the Stone Monkey troupe. Mike Heron took time out to record a well-received solo album, ""Smiling Men with Bad Reputations"", which, in contrast to the ISB's self-contained productions, featured a host of session guests, among them Pete Townshend, Ronnie Lane, Keith Moon, John Cale and Richard Thompson. The following year, Licorice left, and was replaced by Gerard Dott, an Edinburgh jazz musician and friend of both Heron and Williamson who had contributed to ""Smiling Men."" Williamson also recorded"
"the Top 100 in the US and was not released in the UK. Highlights according to some included original songs by Leckenby, Whitwam, Hopwood, Green and Noone, including ""Ace King Queen Jack"" and the psychedelic ""Moon Shine Man"". When Noone left the group in 1971, the Hermits continued on, first with singer Pete Cowap. They signed with RCA Records in the UK and, as ""The Hermits"", recorded two singles at Strawberry Studios and an unreleased album (under the name ""Sour Mash"") produced by Eric Stewart. They subsequently cut singles for Buddah, Private Stock and Roulette, with little success. After a"
"their name from a Liverpool street. They were inspired by another early Merseybeat band The Ravens, who later became Faron's Flamingos. The Dennisons advanced from learning the Ravens' chord patterns, to building a local reputation at the BICC club in Melling, Liverpool. They signed with Kennedy Street Enterprises in 1963, which ensured that they appeared at The Cavern Club, sharing bills with other aspiring acts such as The Beatles. Their original bass guitarist, Alan Willis, was then replaced in December 1962 by Terry Carson (1946–1991). Their debut single was ""Be My Girl"" (1963), written by group members Steve McLaren and"
"year. In November 1969, at the Hotel Chelsea in New York City, the ISB met two ex-members of David Medalla's kinetic art group the Exploding Galaxy, after the troupe unsuccessfully tried to negotiate a recording contract with MGM Records. Former members Malcolm Le Maistre and Rakis, as well as their newly formed dance ensemble the Stone Monkey, took residency at the ISB's commune in Glen Row to help the band, especially Robin Williamson, realize their vision for a multi-media stage act. Described as a ""surreal parable in song and dance"" by Williamson, ""U"" was ""neither a pageant, a play, dance,"