yeh literature had Leavis, Tillyard, Wilson Knight. In folk music we had Karl Dallas and Colin Irwin.

Was it Eliot said, the critics job is to isolate quality? I guess we were of such quality GSS that we were isolated by those two - so that the barren wastes of English folk music could be presided over by their favourites.

It was their view of English folk music that was barren and ill informed.

I think it was me who said to Martin that open tunings were cheating. He didn't headbut me, but looked quizzically, then I said, what I really mean is that it becomes a substantially different instrument - when you move away from the EADGBE tuning. And he agreed.