Unfortunately many beginning guitar players buy huge stacks, then think that the only way to get "their tone" is to crank the master volume all the way up. Granted, a Marshall stack cranked wide open does sound pretty nice, but running full volume just isn't practical or necessary IMHO....And on stage, such overwhelming stage volumes make monitor mixing a nightmare.
So the big thing around here has been a minimal, almost non-existent backline, with in-ear monitors. (The band I'm in now makes pretty good money, but not enough to afford IEM's, we still use traditional monitors.) Some people say "sure Nashville is only country" but even country now is basically 60's rock, only sung with a twang. Guitars can be just as distorted as they were in any 80's hair band...only instead of big stacks, they're using small combos or even modelling preamps going straight to the board.
Hence my opinion...I guess I'm getting old when I say "it's too loud"!!!!!
So the big thing around here has been a minimal, almost non-existent backline, with in-ear monitors. (The band I'm in now makes pretty good money, but not enough to afford IEM's, we still use traditional monitors.) Some people say "sure Nashville is only country" but even country now is basically 60's rock, only sung with a twang. Guitars can be just as distorted as they were in any 80's hair band...only instead of big stacks, they're using small combos or even modelling preamps going straight to the board.
Hence my opinion...I guess I'm getting old when I say "it's too loud"!!!!!