I was a humble folk club organiser in Exmouth in 1974 when this incredibly friendly individual came up to me to do a floor spot and said he and his wife Lesley had just come to live in the town. We became really good friends and he just happened to have a few mates who he suggested come and play at the folk club - just a few unknowns like John Renbourn and Bert Jansch. Our folk club which held about fifty people suddenly had queues a couple of hundred yards long for these guests who would do anything for Al. Over the next year he taught me how to sail and I spent hours with him and his very young family. It was at the time he was developing his electronics products - the first of these was a foot pedal called the reverser (I did the handouts for him on my then employer's Gesteetner!) When Al moved to Cornwall, initially I saw him fairly regularily and latterly kept in touch with him via John Bickford. I was really stunned when John called me today. He will be remebered for being one of the really good guys. My favourite Al Jones instrumental has a title that sums up his bizarre sense of humour - 'Most chickens are mild and friendly - or would like to be.'