Out of the blue (an article on the BBC pages about long beards) I thought of Jim "Fingo" Fingleton, who played in the Wild Colonial Boys back in the late 1960s/early 70s. Then I found a mention of him in Mudcat, in connection with with Alan's Anglo CD. He had a long beard and was a great Anglo player, but also played spoons, two spoons in each hand. You can see him here: The Wild Colonial Boys "From Glenrowan to the Gulf" This was probably the first LP I bought of Aussie music, with Jim Fingleton (concertina, lagerphone, spoons), Jacko Kevans (accordion), Tony Lavin (bush bass, i.e. tea chest bass), Bob McInnes (fiddle, banjo mandolin, tin whistle) Bill Morgan (6 & 12 string guitar). Bob lived just round the corner from me in Canberra and "encouraged" me to play the fiddle (just learning in 1971 I was nevertheless the only other fiddle player in Canberra for a while, except possibly for Tom Rummery, who was also a concertina player). Jim had studied law at the Australian National University and by the time I moved to Canberra he was in the Papua-New Guinea Legal Service, so I only ever met him once or twice. Ahhh! Happy Days, the days of my youth!