 According to the group's producer, John Schroeder, who wrote the booklet notes for the 3-CD compilation "The Early Years", Lynes was "the quietest member of the group" and "somehow always seemed to be the odd one out".Parfitt has said Lynes was "a bit laid back, the Open University type who liked tinkering and finding out about things", and Rossi remarked that, when Lynes showed up at a gig in New Zealand about ten years later to say hello, "he seemed a much happier bloke.