OK. Here's one that stoked up my ego a couple of years back. I was doing a project of about a dozen gigs with a few local musicians. The unknowns were myself and a couple of local girls who did a harmony duo. Next on was a rather better known local duo, "The Magic Street Voices" and our bill topper was the magnificent Klaus der Geiger with his trio. In my book he is one of the world's greatest folk musicians. I have mentioned him on a couple of other threads already. To give him a two line history, I'll tell you that he studied under Stockhausen in Cologne in the sixties, went on to play violin with the Boston and LA Philharmonic orchestras (becoming a recognised new music composer on the way) and then threw it all in to become a street protest singer and busker in the early seventies. He made a name for himself because of the astonishing vigour of his live performances and the uncompromising morality which underpinned his commitment (causing him to see the inside of prison cells and courtrooms on many occasions). Had he worked in English, his renown might have approached that of Woody Guthrie, but you don't know him because he sang in German. When he came to rehearse with us, he had missed a couple of meetings because he'd been away doing a theatre group tour. (He gets hauled out to do Paganini from time to time). We practised the a capella number, "Men of Steel" which I'd offered as a closer. We thought it would give us a chance to sing together and to do something a bit different. When Klaus came he declined to conduct it because he did not want to miss the chance of singing a harmony himself. Then when he said, "Right, so I introduce this song by Woody Guthrie or is it Pete Seeger..." Your red faced correspondent mumbled, "Actually, it's one of mine." The look of surprise on his face was something I'll never forget. It was almost worth working in a foundry for!