'Are you saying that you know that other artists agree with you but are just too polite/scared to say so? That's quite a claim.'

yep, and its true! but surely that's true about any business. You don't tell your clients what you think about them. Well you think so, but when you get some particularly cavalier treatment from a tradesman - you can't help thinking I wish I had that sort of business where you could just afford to tell people to get stuffed.

But Tom has natural good manners, I'm pretty sure he wouldn't say anything anyway however atrociously he was being treated. Most folksingers are used to accepting graciously hospitality(in whatever form it comes).