I've enjoyed great gigs from Ry Cooder, Chuck Berry, Gary Moore, the Everly Brothers and (yes!) 1960's Dylan, whose total audience communication between them hardly amounted to a minute of my life, and I've also seen many lesser lights whose messages from the stage were a lot more interesting than their music. Oh, and a special mention for an octeganarian Les Paul, whose music formed an occasional interruption to a seemingly non-stop stream of hilarious jokes and anecdotes.

'All I suggest is that a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.....'