I remember an encounter between a buddy of mine and a stranger in Newport during the Folk Festival, I think 1964...a bunch of us were jamming about and this guy was whining "Why can't we play together?" -- I forget why -- and this friend of mine looked at him and said "Because you're not good enough, is why!". Awful brutal, I thought, and not something I would have chosen to say -- but that was John for ya. And it was perfectly true, if cruel.

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