"No it merely points out to me something I think I already knew, alot of folkes simply have no sense of humour, actually I wasn't joking the reverence the MacColl and Lloyd are held , well you may as well apply to the Vatican for canonization."

Now try substituting 'Elvis Presley' for MacColl and 'Bob Dylan' for Lloyd and you might get closer to a situation that many more people would agree with and recognise. As for 'lacking a sense of humour', well, I for one, don't find petty and mean-minded mocking of the dead very funny! And compared with the the moronic and unthinking adulation heaped on many popular music stars, over the last few decades, most people who enjoyed MacColl and Lloyd's music treated them with respect and admiration rather 'reverence' or anything more extreme. After all they weren't remote 'Stars' but living, breathing human beings who you could chat to when they were booked as guests at your local folk club.

Actually, though, it's that parting shot: "I think I'll plug in the Strat" that's most revealing. I suspect that the real reason why 'Jamming with Ollie Beak' (JWOB) didn't like Lloyd or MacColl was that they didn't conform to the stereotype of the popular musicians of their day i.e. at the height of their fame they weren't youthful and didn't play electric guitars (or take drugs or smash up hotel rooms). I suspect that JWOB sees himself/herself (not sure which he/she really is) as some kind of 'rock n' roll rebel' - but, in actual fact, he/she is an insecure conformist who can't bear to see anyone doing it differently and brands them as 'heretics' if they do.