Glad to read all of these tributes to Seamus as a person and as a player...he's a rock star to me as the man who kept the Irish and the nyah in the music ..there was no separation between his life and his music, he talked and acted as he played..the wit, the kindliness, the appreciation of life's ironies, twists and turns, the trueness and depth of his playing..wish he could have lived to be a hundred so we'd still have that connection to the best side of traditional music, culture...