Well, in fairness to Paul Sartin, I think his act was a deliberate "o'marge" (and not spread too thick) to Sachs. I saw it in that light and thought it worked perfectly for the mood of the event, but perhaps if you're not familiar with the old Good Old Days show (and lets face it most will not be) it might have misfired.

Jim, you do yourself a disservice. To expand on what I said up there, I always find the application of your very individual delivery style to traditional songs makes one think twice about the lyrical content - and it did so again with Emanuel, even if you hadn't planned it.

As for this issue of sound quality, I'm flummoxed. I can only repeat that I had it turned up nice and loud and it ALL sounded really REALLY good on my TV (couple of minor issues with the balance at times, but that's all). The only thing I can think of is some phasing issue around the stereo transmission which presented on some systems, or possibly in some regions, and not others - but I'm at a loss to explain how such a thing could happen.

I do know that Bellowhead suffer from the same audio disease as I do - they just don't come across on recordings as well as they do live, but that wouldn't explain any problem with the other acts. I think we must be taking about personal likes and dislikes here. I preferred some songs to others, but they all went over the bar in terms of quality.

A friend of mine told me that they did turn it off - but only because it was about God and stuff.

Tom