--- product_id: 39064657 title: "Smiling Men With Bad Reputations: The Story of the Incredible String Band, Robin Williamson and Mike Heron and a Consumer's Guide to Their Music" brand: "paul norbury" price: "152.21 DT" currency: TND in_stock: true reviews_count: 10 url: https://www.desertcart.tn/products/39064657-smiling-men-with-bad-reputations-the-story-of-the-incredible store_origin: TN region: Tunisia --- # Smiling Men With Bad Reputations: The Story of the Incredible String Band, Robin Williamson and Mike Heron and a Consumer's Guide to Their Music **Brand:** paul norbury **Price:** 152.21 DT **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Smiling Men With Bad Reputations: The Story of the Incredible String Band, Robin Williamson and Mike Heron and a Consumer's Guide to Their Music by paul norbury - **How much does it cost?** 152.21 DT with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.tn](https://www.desertcart.tn/products/39064657-smiling-men-with-bad-reputations-the-story-of-the-incredible) ## Best For - paul norbury enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted paul norbury brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Smiling Men With Bad Reputations: The Story of the Incredible String Band, Robin Williamson and Mike Heron and a Consumer's Guide to Their Music ## Images ![Smiling Men With Bad Reputations: The Story of the Incredible String Band, Robin Williamson and Mike Heron and a Consumer's Guide to Their Music - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51jc3r2NlbL.jpg) ![Smiling Men With Bad Reputations: The Story of the Incredible String Band, Robin Williamson and Mike Heron and a Consumer's Guide to Their Music - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51u96SmSETL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Prompt delivery and great condition for a rare import book! *by P***E on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 3, 2022* Some fascinating research! ### ⭐⭐ Presumes Too Much *by J***D on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 4, 2019* Open this book and the first thing you are presented with is a run-on sentence peppered with dates and numbers that takes up fully one third of the page. The other thing that immediately becomes obvious is the writer's premise: that Mike Heron and Robin Williamson have "fallen from grace."This is both absurd and an incredible (to borrow an adjective) disservice to the book's subjects, who, it must be remembered, practically singlehandedly gave birth to a distinct genre of music and stage art. The simple fact that they did so half a century ago does not in any way lessen the achievement.Nor, as this book, in its heavy-handed and tacit way, seeks to imply, is the Incredible String Band's achievement in any way dated. The book damns with faint praise, and is itself a painful read, with awkward prose that does not flow, presents not so much fact as the author's pre- and ill-conceived conclusions, and a textual and typographic presentation badly in need of several passes by a good copyeditor. No editor worth an editor's salt should be content with using hyphens as dashes, with letting slip such egregious errors as saying that Heron and Williamson "comprised the core duo at the heart of the Incredible String Band" (anyone can look this up; the meaning presented here is backwards, the common mistake of substituting "comprise" to convey the meaning and sense of "compose" — "comprise" referring to the whole that makes up (embraces) the separate parts, not the other way around; it was the Incredible String Band that comprised the players, and any responsible editor — or writer — should know this) and using two-word constructions in place of terms that have long since passed into single-word usage. But this book, it is clear, never saw the eyes of an editor, for either copy or content.There is historical content here, and that alone may be enough to make a devotee want to suffer through it — keeping in mind that the lack of professionalism and taste present elsewhere throughout is enough to throw its factual content into question. Page three makes the claim that the aim of the book is to prompt a reevaluation of the subjects' collective and separate bodies of work — but it does so from the starting premise of a "fall from grace" — a particularly graceless and unjournalistic way to craft a tribute. It is an insult, both to the publisher's art and to its subjects. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Incredible String Band Guidebook *by C***S on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 8, 2017* Thorough, current (2017) and well-written. Enlightened my understanding and increased my appreciation for the Incredible String Band. Also includes the music made after the ISB was no more. 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