Sorry Will - that is exactly how I took the quotation.
Nobody has ever suggested that only the best should sing, and the suggestion that somebody has is one of the constant smokescreens used by Bryan and others to avoid the question of applying BASIC standards to singing at clubs. It also avoids the resposibility that I believe should be adopted by all serious clubs to provide assistance to new singers rather than throwing them in at the deep-end by putting them in front of an audience before they have mastered the basics (singing in tune, and remembering and understanding the words enough to be able to share a song).
This is very much a part of "to dumb down or not to dumb down2 argument that Bryan and I have been embroiled in over the last millenium or so; that's how it feels anyway.
Jim Carroll