John Renbourn was a massive influence in my late teens...

First hearing the Pentangle LPs that were the background music in a druggy smoky squat
where we started to hang out with some older musicians [in their early 20s]

Then when I was 19 I left my west country home to move up north
in the middle of a bitter cold dark winter;
I'd be out at night at new wave agit pop punk gigs,
then back home to my damp bedsit listening to John Renbourn cassettes.
"Bert And John" was a favourite.

.. and a live gig of his 'Medieval' tunes I taped off the radio...

But the biggest influence of all his instrumental virtuosity
was he played electric guitar through a real nasty fuzz box
on Pentangle folky recordings !!!😎