Thanks Bo. One way to get more versed in this is just watch the tube a bit, 'specially Nashville network videos. What are they playing? A hell of a lot of amplified Taylors, (the current hip guitar) amplified (new) Gibsons, which were given out to "name" artists en masse, and Tak upon Tak upon Tak. They all sound adequate and all the same.

I used a thin body acoustic-electric Ovation during the "bad old days" when I played a lot of bars to pay the rent, and being the acoustic snob I am, I was a trifle embarrassed when an actual "folkie" ventured in. The number of times I let other people play that guitar was probably in the thousands. I'd be a lot more selective in who plays my Lowdon, Larrivee, Maccaferri or '46 Epiphone Triumph. Funny thing though....I have tapes of that old Ovation (now in the possession of someone far less "acoustically anal" than myself, and it sounded great!