Oddly enough, I only met him on that one occasion and that was because Pete Morton put me in touch with him. We had lots of friends in common, in particular Phil Free, who will be devastated by his passing. Seeing Don busk a street in the UK you would find it hard to imagine the young man, who used to pull huge crowds all over the continent. His hero was Jessie Fuller, whose one man band ideas he modified to his own needs. Among buskers he was a legend. He saw himself as just one part of a very old tradition, but there can be little doubt that for a man of his generation, he represented a whole new way of looking at life. He was well equipped for it too. He was funny, cheerful, tough and a very much better musician than you realised at first. He was one of the guys I most looked up to when I started out and I am very sorry to hear of his passing.