A laugh a day...

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For the sake of all those not in the know, the following may or may not help you get the joke:

Jon Abbey: label owner/record producer
Erstwhile: Abbey's label
Keith Rowe: English table guitarist
Abbey's relationship to Rowe: when Abbey says "I'm his biggest fan in the world," for once it's a verifiable fact rather than adolescent hyperbole
the ongoing volleys of insults that have taken place on Jazz Corner: too long to go into

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This may be too much of an in-joke for all but a very few to get, but what else is a blog good for?

I found this diplomatic comment by Dan Warburton in his amazingly long
review of Erstwhile's Amplify 2002 7 CD + 1 DVD box set, which has got the electro-acoustic improvisation world in a tizzy, absolutely hilarious:

Likewise, I'm not convinced that the DVD's final image, one of Mr Abbey himself sitting contentedly in the audience after being acclaimed for his bravery from the stage by Keith Rowe, is the best way to go out