give me Bix before his time in outfits like Whitemans. And django before he bothered his pretty little head with writinga gypsy mass and playing an electric geetar and Renbourn before he had that bloody silly midi machine that turned his and Jansch's noodlings into notation.

Probably a milllion others, whose lives have attentuated and whose enthusiasm for playing has been quenched by some dopey pedant with 'a musical education'.

And anyway, have you ever had your music published and turned into flyshit - its flattering? But its nonsense - let yhose who would know the secrets bloody well watch me, it wouldn't kill them.

Look! if you need it fair enough. But its not for everyone. And if Robert Johnson wasn't a musician - your God is too small.