"My first mistake was to say it at all, my second to imagine that the irony would be appreciated by anyone in the audience."
Thanks for that Bob - have to say that, as a member of the audience, it rang true at the time - silly me!
There was nothing personal in my bringing up your comment, as I know there was none in Trevor Fisher's borrowing your remark as an inspiration for his pamphlet; it seemed to me/us a perfect summing up of the attitude of the Mickey Mouse contingent (opposite end of the folk spectrum to the 'tight-arsed purists' brigade).
Nothing that followed did much to change that opinion; the bottom dropped out of the electric market, some of the participants drifted back to the clubs, others settled for being fifth-rate pop performers, the clubs vegetated and 'Crap continued to beget crap' as somebody exquisitely put it in Folk Review.
Your 'Folk' book did little to persuade me that your not being "interested in folk" statement was anything but an honest opinion, and your somewhat Grand Guignol 'Bones' ballad pastiche - suggests that this continues to be the case; but maybe I take it all too seriously.   
Jim Carroll