Mixed feelings. Sometimes listening to a “local talent” is like fingernails on a backboard. But I know I wouldn’t have the courage to put myself out there like that, talent or otherwise. But sometimes, puhleese!I also remember being in a bar in SFO in the early ’60’s—I think either the Purple Onion or the Hungry I—and hearing a young warm-up singer named Barbra something-or-other.
Mixed feelings. Sometimes listening to a “local talent” is like fingernails on a backboard. But I know I wouldn’t have the courage to put myself out there like that, talent or otherwise. But sometimes, puhleese!I also remember being in a bar in SFO in the early ’60’s—I think either the Purple Onion or the Hungry I—and hearing a young warm-up singer named Barbra something-or-other.