yeh you're right sometime I bore myself shitless.

However I think what I was saying about the performer having to develop some sort of inner mental strength is just common sense that every performer knows. I bet when one of these guys Jim Carrol is talking about was singing at home, the whole family didn't sit in rapt attention. Doubtless his Mum started talking about the price of margarine while he was halfway through a dazzling account of a pit explosion or the battle of Watreloo.

Noisy, ignorant audiences really upset Django Rheinhardt - as far as I'm concerned the greatest guitarist ever. His biographer said - its never really the audience's fault: most musicians know that's not the case!