Charlie Appleyard can be anybody; but Ive used him sometimes in chat pieces, and these are all chat pieces about the history of Charlie Appleyard.

I think the blues is fine for blues players, but free blues has never made much sense to me.

In fact its quite gratifying for me to see some of the people who really objected to this method of working now being quite so profligate in their use of it.

But that methodology where players are pitted against other unfamiliar players has been so widely adapted now that anybody plays with everybody.

In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison.

I don't research anything.

Even if it is difficult playing with other people - sometimes it's great, sometimes it isn't, but that is kind of the point of it. It loses its point playing solo.