yes it does, his comment is unqualified, as is yours.
I WAS OLD ENOUGH TO BE DOING GIGS AND PLAYING FOLK CLUBS.
many of the people playing music then are still doing it now including Martin Carthy,John Kirkpatrick, Dave Burland, Bob Davenport, Tom Paley,Bonnie Shaljean, Peggy Seeger, Brian Peters,Jez Lowe,Richard Grainger,Wilson Family,Dick Gaughan,Roy Bailey, Leon Rosselson, June Tabor, Martin Simpson,Dick Miles,Louis Killen,BillCaddick, Peter Bond,Pete Coe,Chris Coe, Roy Harris, Peter Bellamy.
both you and Colin Irwin belittle all these performers with these unqualified generalised comments.
Colin Irwin does not compare eighties folk music with sixties, this is some red herring that you have brought in.AS FOR YOUR REMARKS ABOUT RECORDINGS THIS IS MORE CRAP, and i speak from experience i made
5 recordings during the 80s and did not use any of the recording techniques you said were the order of the day.
here is one, so much for being barren, cop on young man
http://www.eafa.org.uk/catalogue/5148