Well, unbelievably, it's been over eight months since any SS post so I thought it about time that somebody broke the silence.

In my view, SS were very well served by their producers during their classic era, notably Ian Anderson and Mike Batt. I suspect that they were at least partly to thank for such innovative arrangements as eg on "Edwin" and "Fighting for Strangers". And does anyone have any idea who Jerry Boys was? Presumably he played some part in the success of the "Salt" and "Rogues" albums. In contrast, it seems that Fairport struggled to attract a suitable "name" producer once Joe Boyd left. (By all accounts Glyn Johns managed to sow a lot of discontent during the "Rising for the Moon" sessions.) Does this difference help to explain why SS were more successful than FC in the mid-70s?