"Amazing how a disucssion about radio has turned into a pissing contest about the state of affairs about folk clubs in the UK"
Not really Ron - this and related discussions can be a hypothetical 'what if we could have a choice of how our music is broadcast' ones, or - 'how do we improve the situation in order to get greater access to the media'.
Personally I would prefer the latter - you decide what you want to talk about.
Bryan - I apologise for my Goebells comment - made in the heat of a particularly bad-tempered discussion. In my own defence, it pisses me off no end to have what I say and believe to be persistently misrepresented - but on this occasion I went over the top - sorry.
"you will live on in people's memories as that embittered old man "
Not a fair assessment, and made in the spirit of nastiness I described above - there's an example for you. Certainly not the way we are treated here by those we work and associate with , but I'm not really interested in how I'm remembered as long as the people who we recorded are given the respect they merit.
We can argue the rest of your points here or elsewhere, depending on the tolerance or otherwise of the other contributors to this thread.
Jim Carroll