The flat was probably Judith Piepe’s, Henryp? Haven for many waifs and strays including myself and my late wife just before we found a flat. Al was a great guitar player and songwriter who made some interesting albums down the years when he took his music out from the confines of ‘folk.’ Good to see he’s still rolling. On a nostalgic synchronous note I bought a copy of the Incredible String Band’s second album a while back and it brought back memories of hearing them down at Cousins just before they broke bigger. Incredible indeed. For me they summed up the potential of such a creative place to expand in many directions. I first went there in Autumn 1975 and we used to frequent sporadically for several years. Saw and heard a load of great musicians, a few spoofers and idiots but they were part of the acoustic fabric. All the usual names and other creatives like Mox and Steve Bromfield ‘s duo, slightly more obscure maybe but just as vital. I’ve lived a long life to arrive in the realms of the coffin-dodgers and seen and heard a lot of great music in that time, but those experiences back in the dim and distant still hold strong.