Today the word unplugged is most often used to promote a “stripped down” performance by an artist who usually exploits the wonderful world of technology. When watching such performances look at what is used; the instruments, recording equipments, promotion, transmission; they may be stripped of their mass of pedals and knobs but there is always an electrical air surrounding this unplugged state.
The problem that lies within this question is where the line of unplugged is drawn. Through the invention of the microphone to enhance sound recording and radio industry, to the invention of the amplifier allowing us to fill music venues and share the sound; the music we listen to and how it reaches us is shaped.
Arguably a true unplugged state would be a bunch of hippies jamming around a camp fire, or even possibly Opera performances, but in reality there is a reason why this technology has advanced; to give us the high quality sound and experiences that we demand. Whether that content is acoustic or being beat out on a Gibson SG even to be unplugged depends on being plugged in occasionally.
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