Many of the artists that comprise the current wave of "experimental folk" consider the Incredible String Band as a crucial inspiration and influence. Devendra Banhart says (in typically Banhartian fashion) "Happy Birthday! not noodlemisters but Epic lizard man songs traversing the new universe holding sarods, our old hopes tightly, fiddles, chimes, udes, bagpipes, baby boars, banjos, mead, invisible ropes and on and on OH in this sweetcheese pond lies a perfect reflection of trueTRUE love! Happy Birthday Old Baby!"