no jim, you have misunderstood me, I am arguing the same as you for high standards professionalism or attempts at that.
i agree with you that the best sorts of clubs are clubs that have a good core of high qualityy singers such as the Wilsons club[ which just for the record I have been boooked at a number of times ,
what i have said that if that if the club does not have a lot of good residents perhaps only one or two then a professional guest will help bring the standard up, if you go back and check my posts you will find that is what i said.
I said "that if they did not have much in the way of home grown talent", not that booking professional guest was better than having a lot of good residents.