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To: JakeStraw who wrote (19341)	3/17/2000 11:32:00 AM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 49844

I agree with this totally: What do you think of some of these jam bands that have been inspired by you and Old and in the Way and Bela and even Bill Monroe and Flatt & Scruggs, like Leftover Salmon and String Cheese Incident? I'm not a big fan of what I call electric bluegrass. Bluegrass, to me, with the drums and electric instruments, it loses its subtlety and beauty. Bela understands how to use his instrument. He's an electric group but he's not really playing the same music that he would acoustically. He knows how to adapt music to the instrumentation, whereas a lot of what these other guys are doing is pretty much playing bluegrass the way they play it on acoustic instruments but on electric instruments. That, to me, doesn't work. That music has a different sensibility and dynamic range. It's just not a question of plugging in and playing 'How Mountain Girls Can Love.' If you're going to plug in, you should play plugged-in music, music that works more with those sounds. And that's what Bela understands. I kind of do the opposite. I play a lot of music that's electric-based but on acoustic instruments.