Not sure what's meant by 'prissy'. Just for the hell of it and to try to ease my stiffening fingers, I sometimes go through a frantic session of 'Freight Train' with melody and counter-melody, bass runs, double thumbing - the whole works. But I can't keep it up for long these days (ooooh, matron!!). I don't play this style usually as more melodic styles of fingerpicking tend to suit my songs. If that's 'prissy', tough.

The thing is to develop your own styles that suit your music and that you enjoy playing. Why would any one style of playing be a turn-off to youngsters? Would Martin Simpson, John Martyn or Bert Jansch's way of playing be a turn-off? More an inspiration, I'd say - but then, I'm no youngster.