On Thu, 22 May 2014 01:09:27 -0400, wrote:

On Wed, 21 May 2014 16:36:29 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

On 5/21/14, 3:09 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 21 May 2014 13:51:23 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

I like and liked pre-amplified bluegrass.

I am confused by "pre amplified bluegrass"
Do you mean hearing a group in a venue so small that they did not need
amps? I guess TV is out for you totally.
Everyone likes a small room performance. I even enjoyed Barry Manilow
at Shady Grove in Gathersburg (small dinner theater) and I hate the
dude. He did work pretty hard to put on a show. You have to when you
go from Mandy on the radio everywhere to dinner theater.



D'oh. Do you work at this?

This is unamplified, or preamplified bluegrass.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RvI6ZI2JWc

I believe this track from The Stanley Brothers is also
*pre* amplified bluegrass.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOXpWuzT9oY

My favorite group was The Dillards, who I saw several times in person
decades ago, and at the concerts I attended, all their instruments were
un-amped.

The terms are not esoteric. They have nothing to do with stage mikes,
and everything to do with using "acoustic" instruments only...you know,
non-electric guitars, non-electric basses, non-electric banjos,
non-electric mandolins, non-electric dobro guitars, et cetera.

Bluegrass got "electrified" or "amped" pretty heavy in the mid to late
1960s, and that's when I lost interest in it. The themes also became
more "country music-ish" and less traditional.

Do you understand now?

Not really. I do not think electric guitars are bluegrass at all.

I notice you did not give us an example.


There was a group last year with an electric guitar - that looked like this:

http://images.guitarcenter.com/products/optionLarge/GibsonCustom/DV016_Jpg_Large_515256.015_antique_vintage_sunburs t.jpg

When that thing showed up about half the audience left. Most of the remaining audience left soon
after. I doubt that group will ever be at Gettysburg again.