I was troubled by the fact that a local open stage I went to for years continued allowing performances by some teenage kids who showed up in the later years. They called themselves "The Weasel Brothers". Their only intention was to be really loud and obnoxious and get attention, because there was no craft whatsoever in their "musical" performances, and they knew it. They couldn't play or song worth a damn, didn't care, and were just there to raise hell. They strictly wanted to show off, bug people, and make a spectacle of themselves...kind of like a kid who hurls spitwads in a study hall or knocks over garbage cans on Main Street.

I didn't like the fact that they were allowed to do that over and over again by the host, whose response was that he couldn't refuse anyone the right to "perform" at an open stage.

The Weasel Brothers were one of the reasons that place slowly declined and began to lose some of its faithful attendees. In my opinion, an MC has to know where to draw the line, and I'd have drawn it there.

I'd have said, "You guys aren't real musicians. You're not trying to play real music. You don't get to play here."