If you are a guy that sits in the corner on a bar stool banging on a 12 string while staring at the guitar, you may be right, but to "hold the audience" it doesn't matter what kind of guitar you have. You have to be an ENTERTAINER. Check out an old Roy Clark video. After telling a couple jokes he makes faces while playing like it's the hardest thing any human could attempt...even though he could do it one handed while eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich with the other. ,,,, Same with Steve Martin. or Cheech Marn. All use hollow body electrics on stage, And on that subject the last guy I know of that had a crowd singing along and really being into it with an UNPLUGGED flat top box was me,,,,at a beach party,,,, when I graduated high school in 1966,,,,,and everybody was stinking drunk.
You will never find someone even in a coffee house playing an unplugged standard or singing without a PA. (With reverb and God knows what other effects) ,,,,, The average person likes the LOOK of a flat top, but without seeing it can't tell the difference between a Gibson ES355 and a guitarrón argentino (look it up)
If you are a guy that sits in the corner on a bar stool banging on a 12 string while staring at the guitar, you may be right, but to "hold the audience" it doesn't matter what kind of guitar you have. You have to be an ENTERTAINER. Check out an old Roy Clark video. After telling a couple jokes he makes faces while playing like it's the hardest thing any human could attempt...even though he could do it one handed while eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich with the other. ,,,, Same with Steve Martin. or Cheech Marn. All use hollow body electrics on stage, And on that subject the last guy I know of that had a crowd singing along and really being into it with an UNPLUGGED flat top box was me,,,,at a beach party,,,, when I graduated high school in 1966,,,,,and everybody was stinking drunk. You will never find someone even in a coffee house playing an unplugged standard or singing without a PA. (With reverb and God knows what other effects) ,,,,, The average person likes the LOOK of a flat top, but without seeing it can't tell the difference between a Gibson ES355 and a guitarrón argentino (look it up)
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