You see, Deli Lama, you yourself said it.

"There were about 17,673,821 trios exactly like that back about then."

But The Kingston Trio were the first to influence that many. No one else came close to what they accomplished for folk music even if that was an exagerated number. Plain and simple, they turned on people to guitars, banjos, and folk music. Where people went from there is like exits off of an Interstate Highway.

Bill t'bodger, you sound like kind of a moron who likes to make up his own rules. Go ahead and start your thread. You will win. Next time come up with something to say in a thread before waiting 274 posts and a month to say what you think this thread isn't.