I’m not generally impressed with the aging FanBoy contingent of folkies about the Trio these days, who have proven willing in the past, on several websites, to overpraise in exchange for contact with their heroes. There is a strong element of people never cool in their youth who have become the remaining stalwarts on behalf of the Trio, and are re-imagining those bygone years so that now, somehow, they were. My impression is that the original Trio would have smiled, nodded, and backed away
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The Trio went from Innovating Gods to Nostalgia without ever having been given the critical analysis – and acclaim - that they deserved. They were an important group, and I get burned now seeing the fate of their historic remembrance in the hands of petty manipulatives whose sole use for them is to compete in a contest of Drop That Name and be able to post “…as I was telling Bob Shane last week…..”
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