Without Alan Lomax we'd have lost most of the legacy of the people whom he's supposed to have exploited. Thanks to him we can learn to appreciate them, and learn from them.

Ewan MacColl had his dark side, and so did Woody Guthrie. So do we all, if the truth were told, but mostly it's well hidden, or there's no reason for anyone to go round digging it up and putting it on show.

But without them we would be a lot poorer, and so would the world.

(And that "assault against Bob Dylan's sound system at Newport" never happened the way it's been written up in folk legend anyway, as I understand - though I wouldn't gve a monkeys' if it had anyway; whatever happened didn't do Dylan any harm - in fact the reverse once it got recycled into legend.)