Also relating to Dave Guard, do you know anything at all about a Richard MacLeod (aka "Dark Cloud", a social commentator/writer out of Boulder, Colorado) a one-time folk group performer and long-time fan of Bob Shane and the Kingston Trio? From what he's written about the Trio it sounds like he was more or less of a post-Dave Guard, hang-around guy, a sometime/onetime booking agent. The reason I'm asking is that not too long ago he wrote a particularly viscious, 20-page character assasination of Dave Guard, titled "Dave Guard and the other two ...". His article appeared in the "Boulder Lout" section of his website (www.darkendeavors.com), with the note that it was part of a book he was writing on folk music performers in the U.S. Oddly enough, after 16 pages of mud-slinging, he says "I never met the man, but ..." followed by more mud slinging and more fawning admiration of Bob Shane. What MacLeod says about Shane's skill level with the guitar (and that Shane taught Guard how to play the guitar) doesn't at all seem to fit the picture -- with all due respect -- that it seems to me you painted of Bob Shane being what I would call basically a strum-along, sing-along chord player (which was what Bob was when I knew him -- and Dave Guard -- at Punahou). Again, any help?
I was curious about when it was that you met Dave Guard in New Hampshire. Guard died there in 1991, and your KT bio says you were occasionally filling in for Nick Reynolds between 1988 and 1999. I'm doing some editing of Dave's Wikipedia bio, and an article on the Whiskeyhill Singers, and that little bit of information about Dave in your reply to Ruiz would be nice to have. Any help?
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