One more aging folkster who will dearly miss the man. For whatever their faults, the KT of the 50's and 60's had a lot of fun and spread a lot of fun. And I personally believe that one reason the Beatles caught on so quickly when they came to the US in 1964 was that they came to a nation of young people who already played guitar, and who quickly adapted to the Beatles' three-chord songs. There wouldn't have been that pool of guitarists (remember: the previous generation played accordians and pianos) but for the folk music boom, and there wouldn't have been a folk music boom but for the Kingston Trio.