"And what's wrong with entertaining yourself" Well it's a bit like masturbation, best not done in public.
I posted the previous to Declan but it came up as Guest, so I've got my cookie back now
The point I'm trying to get across Declan is that music is a pleasure, and like sex a pleasure best shared. You seem to be putting across the idea that giving pleasure at the highest level is in some way selling out.
This smacks of the attitude I've come across in my musical life that asks "you don't want to be successful do you?", as though being successful at what you enjoy is some kind of crime.
I know many people in many walks of life who have been successful and have not compromised what they do for commercial purposes, and that includes many of the great names in folk music. Martin Carthy(M.B.E.) has been a prime example.
I don't understand this attitude and never will.The more people who enjoy what I enjoy the better. I wish the radio was swamped by it, I wish it was the whole of the Top Ten, I wish it was on television every night! But I fear that would drive the anti-commercialists into sessions of whatever it had replaced.
Joy is what it's about. Joy to the world!!!