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Incredible String Band and Scientology - 1968

Joe Boyd, in his book "White Bicycles - Making Music in the 1960s" and elsewhere describes how he was inadvertently responsible for their "conversion" to Scientology when he introduced the band to David Simons (Jim Kweskin's Jug Band). who, having become a Scientologist himself, persuaded ISB to enrol in his absence. The band's support for Scientology over the next few years was controversial among some fans, and seemed to coincide with what many saw as the beginning of a decline in the quality of their work[citation needed]. In an interview with Oz magazine in 1969 the band spoke enthusiastically of their involvement with it, although the question of its effect on their later albums has provoked much discussion ever since.