A little digging around Chiff and Fipple turned up this old thread with some interesting comments from Norman Holmes and Tom Mclevogue. The thread touches on whether he used the tongue or glottal / diaphragmatic rhythmic emphasis.
"His finger work was simply awesome producing a wonderful bubbly style of playing. I learned a huge amount from playing with Johnmostly from his fingering but also the rhythm which was ingeniously injected through combinations of cuts and tonguing.John's use of cuts and rolls from my memory was closer to the style of Seamus Tansey's in which Seamus Tansey also had fantastic big flowery rolls employing cuts in places nobody else seems to. They remind me of the exquisite rolls Joe Burke uses on the accordion quite unlike any other accordionist and maybe that is where these style of rolls and ornamentation come from? ."
I will have to ask Tom and Norman if they have any old stories of the man and his music.
Thanks to them.
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