Some really resonant electric guitars spend a lot of their time being played 'unplugged'.... to those who love doing this sort of thing, the sound is every bit as enjoyable as playing an acoustic guitar.... you have all the comfort and familiarity of playing your electric guitar, and none of the hassles of carting around an amp and all those pedal boards and stuff....and cables. How many people out there live with non-guitarists... who ask that the living room not become a permanent gig-room? We are quite happy to have pedals everywhere, amps on standby all day... their little red lights on, variacs dialed-in and on the floor, cables tangled everywhere, and loose picks and other paraphernalia as far as the eye can see. Because we have to set up everything before we play... and then put it all away again afterwards (...people are coming over... and might want to use the room...as...er... a diningroom/ livingroom... or kitchen). Meanwhile it can take us ages to set up and then put it all away again. I start to feel like someone's roadie! But my acoustic.... as great as it sounds, just doesn't have a neck I like to play for long periods of time, and even with the steel strings on it...it is NOT my electric... and it digs into my ribs. Let's hear it for being unplugged.... leave the acoustic in the corner, and forget being your own roadie.
