John played a couple of times at the Golem, the club that I ran in Montreal in the '70s and '80s. Late one night, we got into a very long political discussion that lasted well into the wee hours.

Flash forward to the Winnipeg Folk Festival. John walks up to me, doesn't even say hello, just picks up the discussion exactly where we'd left it. It was as if the conversation had just stopped for a minute or two. But it was 1500 miles away and seven or eight months later.

Mike Regenstreif