""I am interested in hearing what other people think, especially in the light of comments I have heard that more or less made it feel players have an obligation of sorts to go out and entertain those already interested in their particular type of music and do missionary work among the unenlightened masses.""

Those comments say more about the controlling nature of the people who made them, than about the the people to whom they were addressed, and why should anybody be co-erced into doing something with which they are not comfortable.

Ignore them, would be my advice. They do not own shares in your life.

Don T.