True Purist, like any other term, means whatever you define it to mean.

A virtue of recreating old performing styles and techniques is that it's a good way preserving them, but one reason to preserve them is so we can build upon them and create new originals.

I doubt many of WYSIWYG's originals performed their songs exactly the same way every time. Reproducing the quirks from individual performances doesn't seem to add much preservation value, but it sure does sound like a heck of a lot of fun.

- Phil

"Words mean what I say they mean, nothing more, nothing less." - Humpty Dumpty