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# Just wistfully imagining the numb 21st-century cyber-poignancy of all those people buying Bert Jansch tracks off iTunes today...
Bad AIDS, though? You think so? Hmm. Usually, people dying of the bad AIDS tend to develop a kind of gaunt appearance, and look like their jeans are a couple of sizes too big for 'em.

Ah! I see wot u dun there!

Also: why is he holding up the new Flaming Lips ltd edition single?
(I helped save b3ta! Sea Tramp the thinking woman's 8 Ace, Thu 6 Oct 2011, 3:36, archived)
# Have you tried finding Bert Jansch online?
Bizarrely unpopular. Spotify has about 14 tracks in total. What's that all about?

Can't comment on itunes because it's evil and I don't use it.
(I helped save b3ta! 4Q just lurking, Thu 6 Oct 2011, 3:42, archived)
# Never one to push himself forward, or even care all that much for his records after they were finished.
Frustrated today, wanting to play some, but all my BJ / Pentangle stuff's on tape in a cardboard box at the bottom of a pile of cardboard boxes.
Still, Needle of Death from his 1st LP is my favourite of his:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-HkBak9lmM
(I helped save b3ta! Sea Tramp the thinking woman's 8 Ace, Thu 6 Oct 2011, 3:48, archived)
# I saw him at the junction in harborne once: sublime guitarist and his voice seemed to have held up surprisingly well
(I helped save b3ta! 4Q just lurking, Thu 6 Oct 2011, 3:57, archived)
# Although the spandex tights and "foot on the monitor" antics were, I hear, slightly jarring.
(I helped save b3ta! Sea Tramp the thinking woman's 8 Ace, Thu 6 Oct 2011, 4:02, archived)
# Yes. They made it clear audience participation was unwelcome and told me to just sit down and stop trying to draw attention to myself.
(I helped save b3ta! 4Q just lurking, Thu 6 Oct 2011, 4:06, archived)
# Pity. Cos in those pre-laptop days, lugging yr computer to gigs was a right chore.
(I helped save b3ta! Sea Tramp the thinking woman's 8 Ace, Thu 6 Oct 2011, 4:14, archived)