I remember the late Norm Gauch well. He was prickly, cantankerous, occasionally rude, and nearly always contentious. He also knew his stuff better than almost any of the rest of who post here - at least if it applied to the Guard era.

Gauch was - even with the aforementioned unpleasant qualities - a valuable member at Xroads. He would start several threads on a near-daily basis, always follow up on them, and manage to get a good many discussions going as a result of that rudeness.

If I could remember how best to use the Wayback Machine, I think we could dig up some of his remarks on Xroads. Google yields just this. Someone in Japan did preserve this page from a long-gone website - Clack's Cellar, maybe - and after the John Stewart memorial by his friend Tom DeLisle (another name that should stir memories around here), h
there'sa photo of GBR that is attributed immediately below it to Norm Gauch.

http://www.kingston.sakura.ne.jp/john/The%20Kingston%20Trio%20News.htm