When I produced events that I also participated in, there was never time to rehearse, and people tended to come up on stage with questions while I was performing--and there were always those who were resentful because they thought that I should have booked their band instead of my own.

Thank God for those few who love the music, but do not play, and choose to do all the unrewarding stuff just to be close to the music. The reason that there aren't more folk venues is that there aren't many like that.

I am thinking that Abby Sales' Psuedo-Marxian rant is a parody of the discussions that I sat through too many times in the 60's and early 70's before the war ended and disco brought fun back into music again--