Yes and I think Snail if you read my posts you will find that they aren't actually contradictory.

Traditional music is a good idea - someone should try it. preferably in a style that doesn't insult your intelligence. I damn well know whether something is my family has been involved in the last hundred and fifty years ago. it is emphatically NOT what was handed down to me, or many other people.

Richard is brighter than both of us wrapped up together, and I take his nitpicking appraoch as a concession that I am 'onto' something. Thatcher was bonkers, who knows what her intentions were. And who gives a shit how many legs were better.

the broad thrust of the argument is the same. I have a feeling if I saw Richard perform I wouldn't forget it in a while, unlike the lot I alluded to earler, whose degrees were their most memorable feature.