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here are some cool things from trey about the pause...
Steve: How did you start doing things like the big pauses during Divided Sky? What do those moments feel like to you?
Trey: We had this bluegrass guy out on the road with us, the Reverend Jeff Mosier, and we talked about this a lot. The reason he likes acoustic bluegrass is that it's very, very personal. The way we've been doing the bluegrass tunes - with that two-mic setup, instead of being individually miked - is the most personal you can get. Jeff feels that every step of the way, when you separate the players with individual mikes, you're distancing the audience from the humanness. You're hiding behind microphones. Those things, like the pauses, developed from a general desire to merge with the audience as much as possible. If a set's been going on for a while, I might suddenly feel that we've got to make some really organic connection again. Those a cappella things, when we go out front, are a time to get the bearings straight again