I also new and still know Al Young(Curently Poet Laureate of California) who taught me to play and steered me along wisely. We knew Bob McAdoo and Len Chandler, both in the Detroit, Ann Arbor area. Paul Prestopino, Bill Vanaver, Paul Geremia, Rolly Brown, Ragtime Rick Blaufeld, Eric Schoenberg, David Laibman, Roy Berkeley, Dick Rosmini, and three David Cohens.(David Blue, Big David Cohen in L.A., and David Cohen who played keyboards and guitar with Country Joe.

There was Janet Smith, MAYNE SMITH, BILL SWANOE, Mitchell Greenfeld, "12-String Billy" Roberts (wrote Hey Joe), John Morier, and Ray Chatfield.

By the way, one of your contributors was searching for a certain English singer...try ROY HARPER (not Parker) who is a very talented song maker. I lived in the downstairs flat on Somali Road in London in 1965 with Peter Bellamy, Royston Wood, and Heather Wood who had an acapella singing group, One Eyed Davey the Harmonica Whiz, Danny Kalb (NY City), and in the upstairs flat was John Renbourne, Bert Jansch, John Martyn and Beverly, Les Bridger, etc. Roy Harper would frequent Somali Road.

I also knew Buzzy Martin, Bob Neuwirth, Dave Fredrickson, Scott Hambly, Karl Dukatz, Miriam Stafford, and by the way T.A. TALBOT is the same as Steve Talbot or Richmond Talbot, etc.

I knew David Jones, Freddie Mejia, and David Rubio and still know the first two of these great flamenco players. David Rubio made top rated classical guitars in England most of his life, and died rather young. David Jones, originally from Berkeley,Calif., has lived in Spain for forty years and plays with first ratetrouops and is called "El Rubio" there. Feddie Mejijaisiving near Santa Cruz California, and we have been friends and co-workers off & on for many years and he helped do final set-ups on many guitars when I ran K & S Guitar Co. from 1991-1999 making hand-made guitars and ukueles and mandolins.
I was partners at FRETTED INSTRUMENTS in NY CIty with Izzy Young, WHO HAS LIVED IN SWEDEN FOR 30 YEARS OR MORE.
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more later, marc s.silber, berkeley,calif.