Jim - Now then, hold on...

when have I ever proselytized that everyone should take up electric guitar,
and play them at every gathering...
..and that all that is good about trad should be replaced and discarded...???

Short answer - Never...!!!

Remember, we are mostly in accord above and below the BS line...
You are one of the remaining mudcatters I hold in high esteem.
We cannot agree about everything, that's healthy and fair enough...
But despite my tongue in cheek winding up of the old miseries,
my personal tastes in Trad are very austerely minimalist.

I enjoy a voice with character that engages with a song,
with sparse unintrusive instrumental drone accompaniment..
ie.. reed instrument/simple strings/such like.. nothing flash or fancy...

But I will never dictate what other folks should do to conform to my own peculiar personal tastes...

Nor refrain from experimenting with folk, recording for my own curiosity and amusement,
employing any kind of instrument/noise generator at my disposal..

..and that also don't mean I won't stop taking the piss out of the bland middle class toss the beeb serves up as 'folk'...

My ideal might be something like Ivor cutler and his harmonium, if he'd been a trad folkie...