Well, I dunno about all this prior history...and my first exposure to MG was on a Kingston Trio thread-an interest we obviously both share. I read, and read and kept reading (although I obviously missed some pretty awful stuff)...and I know lots of you have these axes to grind with the guy, and I'm not sayin' ya shouldn't! However lame, he was decent enough to me as a noob, and mostly we haven't crossed any swords so to speak. My point? I dunno. But it is amazing someone's absence is worthy of so much commentary.