I don't know who Shimrod was addressing that to.
I've heard most of the people in that list, some live, even been on the same stage in a concert with one of them.

William Kimber, Alistair Anderson, John Kirkpatrick, Bob Cann and some of the old boys from Norfolk and Suffolk like Percy Webb and Oscar Woods are the ones that made me sit up and listen when I first started learning all this stuff.

Anahata