Dick can't be bothered quoting in an intelligible way but yes, I wrote that. Whether I wrote what Dick thought I wrote, I wouldn't know.

What I had in mind was players who know a ton of tunes and either make no effort to get a listening audience to value them, or huddle together so their backs say it all - "this is our music and not yours". Being in a separate room doesn't make so much of a statement of exclusivity but it's not a setting I see much point in.

The only time I've seen Michael playing was before they reorganized the seating in Bell's. Like it or not, he was positioned to be a performer playing to the punters as an audience. And they liked what they heard.