Actually I heard Mike Cooper say that he was in fact contacted by the makers of the documentary, but their budget couldn't stretch to flying out to Rome to interview him, or to paying for him to fly to the UK.

A great shame. Mike was a stalwart of the all-niters at the Cousins, as was Ian Anderson at that time, along with such great but lesser-known bands from the Weston-Super-Mare area as The Pigsty Hill Light Orchestra. I was playing a 1961 Epiphone Texan at the time and Mike offered to do a swap or it fwith his National steel guitar - an offer I turned down because I couldn't (and can't) get on with steel guitars. Great guitar but, I think, limiting in what you can play.

Anyway, a shame that he couldn't have added his thoughts on the acoustic blues scene of that time.