M. Halyard,
If you sang at Traynor's in the "late '60s" (convenient time frame, that), then I might have heard you. I wonder who you could be, with your naughtical name?...whoever you are, I put it to you that you don't have a clue about either Spooner or Parkhill. Peter's academic credentials are genuine for a start, and his collecting, begun in Melbourne in the early '70s, of migrant music (especially the Greek stuff) invaluable to contemporary Aus.Kulcher ('scuse I). Ironically it was "not feeling welcome" in what some referred to (light-heartedly) as the "Danny Folksong Spooner Club" that necessitated him finding another outlet for his intelligence and creativity, and great love and respect for traditional music and musicians. So there! All this is of course comparatve drivel, based on hearsay, highly subjective and I'm not signing my name either.
Beam me back up now please, Scottie,
A Friend (but not to all)