Ah Diz - What a great time you gave us all.
First saw him at the Farnborough Folk Club in 1967 when I think he started with Handy Household Help. I was just amazed at the way the jazz guitar progressions lifted the material and of course made it much funnier.
Never played with him but shared the bill on many gigs throughout the 70's when he was incredibly friendly, supportive and always very enthusiastic.
The liberated guitar was surely his Maccafferi...which he seemed to get to be able to sound like just about anything. Remember the line in the parody of English Country Garden - "You've never seen the beetles that have been in my English Country Garden" followed by a pop riff that sounded just like George Harrison's Gretch.

I also remember sharing a Capital Radio recording with him and my dad ringing up to ask why my bit didn't sound as good as the other bloke. I just admitted that it was because the 'other bloke' was about eight times better than me.

I think that many of his one liners were influenced by W.C. Fields and probably Groucho Marx - his gift was to make them sound so British.

My favourite line was the collapsed Arctic explorer, two miles from the North pole who wakes up to see an iceberg floating towards him with a St Bernard sitting on it, a large barrel of barrel of brandy strapped to its collar.
'Ahhhh! man's best friend.... and there's a dog tied to it'.

Brilliant Diz. Pip Pip!