Ah, but it was a long time ago, Murray, and it was in Hammersmith, and, as in Noel Murphy's notorious parody of "The Boxer", I fled "...with the imprint of a Guinness bottle just behind my ear"!!

I bear the scars (physical and mental) to this day!

But for that one traumatic gig, and a few decidedly so-so ones, there have been many more that were pleasurable for me, and, by all appearances, for the audiences, too.

Things never got as bad for me as they did for one singer that I once roadied to a gig in Glasgow. He'd had trouble with some of the audience last time he had played there, so he carried a pistol in his guitar case! It was only a replica (this being the UK and 1969 and not the US) - but they weren't to know! Fortunately the gig went well, but I had a few anxious moments that night.

"You win a little, lose a little, sometimes you sing the blues a little."

Alan