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and Cisco Houston.
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A lot of the old Woody Guthrie crowd
was still hanging out there.

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We just watched and we picked out
the performers that were doing it for real...

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and tried to pick up what the essence
of what they were doing was.

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All of us were interested in seeing
what the other guy was doing onstage...

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because there was
a lot more to be learned...

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than just songs or picking styles.
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Dave Van Ronk,
he had that big gruff thing...

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but he had this very sweet, sensitive thing
going on at the same time.

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He was a dichotomy of a performer.
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He could take the essence of the song...
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and only go after that,
not go after the frills.

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On Monday nights,
Bob Dylan used to come over there...

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and he would always, like...
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He was always just hanging around.
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Sometimes you wanted to say, "Go away".
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Liam was profound.
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Besides all of his rebel songs...
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and his acting career,
he would have these incredible sayings.

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Like once he said to me
after about 30 pints of Guinness...

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he was saying, "Remember, Bob, no fear...
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"no envy, no meanness".
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I said, "Right".

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