My bona fides are solidly established, GfS, by the fact that I have been a regular on these threads since 1999, and am well-known by many Mudcatters, including a fairly large number of people here whom I have met in person, and even more who, on one occasion or another, have been present when I performed somewhere (such events as the Northwest Folklife Festivals, one of which is currently running). Some of these people also know my wife, Barbara.

In fact, one regular Mudcatter is the daughter of late John Dwyer, a former guitar student, good friend, and the best man at our wedding in 1977.

And who might you be? You haven't even registered, and word has it that when you wear out the credibility of one identity with your deplorable ideas, you simply bail out and come back with a new identity.

So who, exactly, is the "phony" here?

Don Firth