"Robespierre ad Danton for godsake."
Two shade of revolutionary philosophy, and not a bad comparison, as it happens.
Don't know about breaking bread with him, but I tried drinking with him once, (with my friend Tom Munnelly at a folk song conference), and couldn't keep up with either of them, so I retired thoroughly defeated.
By the way - one of the early picture postcards of The Padstow May procession features Hamish in the middle of the crowd - not a lot of peaple know that
Jim Carroll