He's been a big influence on my playing, I think he may even be the reason I picked up on the sound of double bass as being something I wanted to do some day, back when I was a kid digging out my parents' Pentangle LPs. He had such a big, confident sound, yet always managed to complement whoever he was playing with when guesting. Always remarkably in-tune too, it took me a while to appreciate how much of a magic ingredient that is. And I've never heard anyone with a bad word about him personally, clearly he was doing things right!