GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Will Fly, I just went to your two links, (earlier in this thread.."All of Me'....and all I can say was OUTSTANDING!...besides, that, you're playing a Larrivee, which I LOVE! Thank you!..for posting your links!!

Glad you liked them. The real point of me posting them was to make the point that "acoustic" and "electric" are not only descriptions of two quite different sounds - but that being plugged in or not also affects the way you play and your take on a tune in ways which can be both obvious and subtle. It's not just a question of volume or power. The "bite" and attack of trying to play like Eddie Lang - i.e. as acoustic as recording with just a mic can make it - is very different from allowing some power and amplification to take the strain and using - the instrument differently. You can see that the style and attack on the amplified Larrivée is quite different from that on the acoustic Martin.

So when venues advertise an "acoustic" session, they should mean "no amplification". The acoustic session I run means "no amps". If I go to an "open mic", I expect to see and hear PAs and mics. And "live" music means real people playing real instruments. There's nothing instrinsically "bad" about karaoke or using backing tapes - I don't care for them myself, I have to say - but they should be honestly advertised for what they are.

And, HH, I know at least one "Folk'n Blues" club like the one you're talking about. They have bloody good evenings there - with a PA and mics - but they've been going for many, many years and the folk and blues origins have withered slightly....