Serious thread creep: is the obsession with technical speed and perfection in this music (and the Bluegrass machine) partly a guy thing? I was wondering because I notice in a completely different field -- birdwatching -- that the guys all seem obsessed with getting every bird who ever lived, like some postage stamp album, while the women can by and large take it or leave it. A bit like video games: you get locked into tiny incremental improvements, conquest, numbers games and so on. This is of course essential for practicing and so on, but when it takes over???
yours, Peter T.