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Originally Posted by Mr. Jelly
I look at it this way. If all the guitarists wanted to sound like Charlie Patton where would guitar be today? They didn't all start out learning to play like Charlie and then after they learned it said to themsleves now I want to do it this other way.
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Having only started identifying as an "acoustic player" just a few years back, I'm sort of becoming disenchanted with how much the acoustic scene just seems to want to chase its own tail. The electric guitar never felt like that, but once you pick up an acoustic all the sudden if you dont fit into a handful of genre's, or specialize in one of only a few different techniques then by default you must be a hack. Just think where acoustic music would be if we all just happily explored whatever musical avenues we liked on the acoustic guitar, rather than worrying about what the purists think.