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[ski3pin]

Pat Enright, "The 50 Megaton Voice"

 

 

 

[Wandering Sagebrush]

I hear a bluegrass version of John Denver in the that 50 megaton voice.   He’s good.

[Wandering Sagebrush]

Oregon Trail - Joni Harms (apologies for the pedal steel, it’s mostly acoustic  )

 

 

[PaulT]

Oregon Trail - Joni Harms (apologies for the pedal steel, it’s mostly acoustic  )

 

Why the apology?

 

I heard the pedal steel with my ears after the digital bits were processed by my iPad, electronically amplified, converted from electrical signals in the speakers to acoustic wave, carried by the air into my ears where they wiggled the fibers in my inner ears, were converted to nerve signals & finally were recognized by my brain as music.

 

Even the pedal steel signals started as string vibrations. What makes the pedal steel not acoustic? Only if you are hearing the performance live with no electronics can it be qualitatively a different experience than “acoustic” instruments.

 

Any music recorded & played back cannot be called “acoustic” if one is being pedantic about it

(Rant off)

 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

Paul

[ski3pin]

Today Doc Watson would have turned 100 years old.

 

 

[ski3pin]

............and Mark just posted this on the occasion of Doc's 100th birthday.

 

 

 

[Wandering Sagebrush]

Adrienne Young and Little Sadie

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[Wandering Sagebrush]

Sweet