G'day all,

I have one direct Goons / Folk link: Throughout the '70s and '80s, when I played regularly with a Bush Band (Australian Folk Music), it was an extensive collection of Goon Shows, 3 shows end to end on each C90 cassette, that kept me awake and aware driving home from gigs at ungodly hours of the morning.

Many musos crash their cars after spending hours setting up, playing and then packing everything away again, to drive for hours to get back home. I credit the weird zany humour of the goons with saving me from the soporific effects of late night 'easy-listening' music.

We will all miss Sir Harry - but, thank God, their shows are recorded ... and I have 109 of them to keep me sane in a crazy world.

Regards,

Bob Bolton