I think the whole argument about the right and wrong way to play play tunes and the correct and incorrect way to play tunes, while not actually dealing in absolutes, is a fundamental pragmatic reality.

I love the phrase, "you've got it all wrong". As in, "Sheesh, oh no no no no no ... that was bloody awful ... you've got it all wrong."

It doesn't mean, of course, that every note was wrong, or even all the notes were wrong. It could even mean, for example, that all the notes were actually right, and in the right order. But while not being specific, there can be no doubt in anyone's mind what the phrase actually means.

Steve has said a few times that he "likes to play he music right". And anyone who understands Irish music, its simplicity, its complexity, its contradictions, its conundrums knows exactly what it means