Don't you hate open Mic nights at Coffee Houses?

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4. Dude

It's not new. As a former bar musician let me reiterate that if most music depended on concert hall levels of attention there would be no pop music industry. No blues. No rock. No country. And thus no sensitive poet type singer songwriters who wish for audiences to hang on their every word and no coffeehouses.

Because worse than people chatting is no people paying.

You're free and unproven entertainment at an open mic. No one owes you their univided attention.