From: kateh_1@charter.net   
      
   Mitch Dickson wrote:   
      
   >Well that is easy Vince although this is gonna fire up a lot of off pickers   
   >out there :)  You need a fiddle, banjo, mandolin, guitar and bass.  The   
   >band   
   >should be built around the fiddle, NOT THE BANJO!  The banjo should be   
   >considered a secondary instrument like the mandolin.  The guitar should be   
   >played like Charlie Waller or Lester Flatt or Jimmy Martin.  Until you can   
   >play rhythm like one of these 3, you cannot play bluegrass guitar!!!! All   
   >references to guitar lead should be abandoned with the exception of Earl   
   >Scruggs fingerpicking on Carter style spiratuals until you master rhythm!   
   >   
   >Would you like a demonstration?  Just drop in "The Bluegrass Album", it   
   >becomes real evident real quick :)  Even with Crowe and Lawson and Rice,   
   >these masters know exactly how it is suppose to sound!  Notice how Bobby   
   >Hicks rules the roost?  That my friend is the way it is suppose to be done.   
   >   
   >Mitch   
      
   "Vince" wrote ...   
   > Thanks for participating! While I agree that the ideal bluegrass band   
   > should have a fiddle, I'm not so sure it should be the lead instrument. In   
   > fact, I lean toward having the guitar as the lead instrument, the bass as   
   > the foundation (the bass is really in SO much control, if you think about   
   > it), and all other instruments being secondary. I've heard good bluegrass   
   > without fiddle, banjo, or mandolin (that is, with any two of those three   
   > present, but the third missing). But without a bass, it lacks substance.   
   > Without guitar, it lacks direction. Just my opinion.   
      
   I'm picturing the all-bass-&-guitar bluegrass band, now.   :)   
      
   We have the banjo, mandos and fiddles take turns being the lead instruments,   
   but the fiddles really do drive my son's band.  I know what Mitch is talking   
   about.  Just got the Tony Rice (58957) Collection and the thing I noticed   
   first was the crowd of excellent fiddlers on the CD.   
   KateH   
      
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