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Have you ever seen artists that you might normally associate with electric/amplified bands play an all acoustic tour?

I can think a few off of the top of my head that I have seen in the last few years: Peter Frampton, Joe Bonamassa, and Greg Allman (just a couple of months before he passed). All three shows were just incredible, and really forced you to look at their music in a new light.

Anyone else?

 

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Larry Coryell also went through an exclusively acoustic period, about the same time as Mclaughlin and Shakti.  It started very well with "The Restful MInd", a great album with Ralph Towner and I still have Coryell/Steve Khan "Two For The Road", which is the LP of their once-only acoustic tour.  I saw that and Coryell/Mclaughlin/De Lucia at the Albert Hall in London which was one of the most exciting concerts I have ever seen, even though we were seated 'up in the gods'.  But I gave up buying Larrys stuff after a couple more acoustic LPs, when he started recording Ravel's 'Bolero' and Stravinsky symphonies on acoustic.

I've seen Mclaughlin many times, both acoustic and electric.  I have tickets to see him in London next May.

 

BTW.....Muddy Waters..."Folk Singer" LP.....[thumbup]

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16 hours ago, jdgm said:

Larry Coryell also went through an exclusively acoustic period, about the same time as Mclaughlin and Shakti.  It started very well with "The Restful MInd", a great album with Ralph Towner and I still have Coryell/Steve Khan "Two For The Road", which is the LP of their once-only acoustic tour.  I saw that and Coryell/Mclaughlin/De Lucia at the Albert Hall in London which was one of the most exciting concerts I have ever seen, even though we were seated 'up in the gods'.  But I gave up buying Larrys stuff after a couple more acoustic LPs, when he started recording Ravel's 'Bolero' and Stravinsky symphonies on acoustic.

I've seen Mclaughlin many times, both acoustic and electric.  I have tickets to see him in London next May.

 

BTW.....Muddy Waters..."Folk Singer" LP.....[thumbup]

So then this  1970 collaboration  might be of interest....?  [wink]

W/ John McLaughlin  Not all tracks with John, but this is one and acoustic.

Whitefang

 

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11 hours ago, themarkwilkinso said:

I have a silly question in regards to this thread: How does one take out the guitar pick if you accidentally dropped in the guitar hole. I can't get it because the bindings of the inside of the guitar just makes it so hard to get it out. Please help, the rattle noise is making me lose my mind. 

Easy, Gibson now has 2 holed guitars which make it easier to get your pick out of the inside of the body.

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When that happens I just hold the guitar over my head with the sound hole facing down, and keep jerking it upward in quick, short  movements until I finally get it to drop out of the sound hole.   That is, if you're talking acoustic.  If you dropped(somehow) a pick into the "F" hole of a semi-hollow electric, I got nothin'.

Whitefang 

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