'Les in C', I suppose I just don't like mixing genres ('comedy thrillers/westerns' etc. - yuck!). It seems to me that the trouble with Steeleye is that they had a really fantastic repertoire but then went and spoiled it with those electric guitars. Also, in my opinion, blending traditional song and rock music just leads to more rock music - and our culture is saturated with the stuff already - do we really need any more?
I suppose the ambition was to bring trad music 'up to date' - and I was never very happy with the result. I'm sure that a large percentage of their fans still think that they 'wrote' those songs!