Yes of course, and rarely has a fine artist made such an ass of himself as when Pete Seeger (allegedly) tried to literally axe the power supply to stop Bob's heresy. But I was not referring so much to well-known musicians and their fans as to the people I used to meet and remeet at festivals and local friends that got together to play and occasionally do a "coffee house" thing somewhere, or put on a dance or God knows what. Some of them are still around me, but most went on to something else. My lament is that the current old-time or traditional or "rural-acoustic" crowd gets so unnecessarily uptight about things that are meaningless to me. I guess maybe these are just uptight times. I got memories.

Chet W.