well they weren't my fellow performers - their choice.

I don't know where you're coming from at all - why are you standing for this gang of toffee nosed kids - the bullingdon club of the folk revival.

and what exactly was wrong with Ralph McTell. he was a hundred times more the voice of the working class than that crew.

Ralph (i imagine) would probably concede that he's not one the great divergent thinkers of folk guitar.like Davy Davy Graham or Martin Carthy. But he turns up when he's supposed to with his guitar in tune, he has worked out what he has got to say to present his music, he knows all the words in the lyrics and he sings in the right key for his voice. In short he has workingclass pride in his work, and a work ethic.

your mates in the Grey Cock....diletante would flatter their approach. and the fisherman's smocks are etched into my memory with venom, gall and wormwood - not to mention gnashing of teeth.