OK as a semi pro I quit because,
I remember it well, I was last on and getting a fiver and a bed for the night (usual for late sixties early seventies)everyone who went before I thought were better than me and I did not not enjoy it one bit, the evening went disastrously and I decided to call it a day, I didn't want to put myself through anything like that again i had humiliated myself cos I really didn't want to be there. thirty five years on and with the "boys" I feel comfortable enough to do the odd gig but that night has stuck with me and haunted me for the last thirty five years. Not only that, on the strength of that one disaster the phone stopped ringing, good thing really I couldn't face an audience for a long time after that.
Peter