Ian Campbell once told me this story about when he was playing a folk festival in Germany. Ewan was there and totally forgot the second verse of Shoals of herring. this German bloke in the front row started prompting him, but it had still 'gone' into the 'gone' file..

I can understand all that. What shocked me about my case was - I really could not remember playing this solo - not a note of it. i didn't have ANY clue as to how the bloke on the record had gone about it. Its like someone else did it.

I suppose its one argument for listening to your own recordings - once every couple of years say - it would ensure some continuity.