I've no axe to grind with Ian Levine, I've only had dealings with him once & he was extremely polite & respectful.Just because some people aren't falling over themselves to lavish praise on the podcasts is nothing to do with an Anti Ian Levine agenda & more a case that in some peoples opinions the music is fairly poor. I will also admit I'm not that interested in 70s, but from a purely 60s Northern view I find his podcasts a waste of time, as Rod mentioned it's padded out with a lot of uptempo pop, some of the more soulful tunes are ok but I don't think I've heard one that made me sit up & think i must get one of these. I'm not saying that there isn't good stuff on them but like others I don't have time to spend 3 hours listening to stuff I don't like in the hope of finding one or two good ones so tend to listen to about 1 & half hours before I give up. Maybe if he cut them down to an hour & put the best of three hours on they would be more enjoyable ?