I hear you talking, John. One splendid aspect about Planxty was that they played at such lovely, controlled tempos.

They were in Edinburgh playing incidental music for a play, Finn MacCool, which was part of the Festival. They performed 4 late night concerts at the Haymarket. I was there as a guest of Paul Brady whom I had met in New York and whom I had helped a few months earlier so I got a little band-talk every now and then.

The pipes appeared in the play a little after the other instruments. Liam was driving the others crazy because he would "warm up" in the pub across the street and he had it timed perfectly to enter the stage door, find his seat, strap on the pipes, inflate the bellows and play his first notes with zero time to spare.

All the best,
Dan