I am much more familiar with Pete as a solo artist than with the Weavers. And I'm American -- it's not just Brits who "missed" the Weavers, it's more of an age issue.

I first became interested in folk music in about 1963 or so, at which time the Weavers were already a thing of the past, at least as far as I knew, but Pete Seeger was a huge presence as an individual. As time I went by, I heard *about* the Weavers, but never really *heard* them.

At some point, I realized that the hit recording of "Goodnight Irene" that I heard on the radio as a very young child was undoubtedly by the Weavers, but I never heard them first-hand in "real time," neither in concert nor on a contemporary recording.

Pete was, and still is, a unique performer with an uncanny ability to involve his audience. Unfamiliar as I may be with his early career as a Weaver, I can't see that there would be any important difference between Pete-as-solo-act and Pete-as-group-member. I think thespionage's analogy to John Lennon is pretty apt.