Vastly wonderful backing guitarist. His style has gone out favour now, in favour of the strangely accented DADGAD "Celtic style", but his steady bass and damped chord style kept Shetland music powerfully rhythmic for years. He'd liked what he heard from the30's and 40's jazz boys, and he kept it that way. I think of him most days, because I try to play that way a lot of the time(not with his success)!
Last played with him very late in the festival club at Shetland festival, very late. He played piano, I was on guitar, and we played La Paloma as a change from the jigs and reels. Last saw him when I walked ashore after boating from Bergen to Lerwick, and there he was walking down the street. So we shot into a bar for a drink, as you do when you arrive in Lerwick from Bergen: the drink in SDhetland is half the price.
A fantastic man and musician. Perhaps the most impressive thing about him was his hair!
RIP