Well, back when I was a kid I met Jeannie Robertson quite a few times, also the Stewarts of Blair. I met Elizabeth Stewart when I was about 7 or 8, Lizzie Higgins as well. Stanley Robertson too. Mind you, they were all my relatives, and I was hardly in awe, so I suppose that doesn't count. Does it??

In 1974 I met a fine banjo picker and played bass with his band when they visited Aberdeen. He asked me to play with them the next night too at Glenrothes in Fife, and at the end of the night invited me to join them for the rest of their European tour. I turned him down. To me he was just some American guy who played the banjo. It was only months later that I found out Bill Keith was a big name in the blugrass world.