i'm sorry Jim - i thought that was a given. i understood that from the first interviews i read. ten years before i met him. he came over as rigid with anger that Donovan etc were being described as the face of folk music.

i remember he thought it extraordinary that i had learned Nottanum Town from Bert Jansch. i didn't pursue it. i figured it was of cos of his dismissiveness of all the 60's crowd.

perhaps i misunderstood. its possible. perhaps you'ld care to elucidate. he certainly seems to have passed on his low opinion of other people trying to play folk music to you.

i take it he wasn't keen on Alex Campbell either.