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The Electric Amish started out as a "one-hit wonder" comedy bit on The Bob & Tom Show,
a comedy morning radio show heard on stations across the country.  Originally meant to fill an
open slot in the annual "Tipton Pork Festival", a sort of outdoor "county-fair-gone-wild", a fake band was created and given the ludicrous name The Electric Amish.  "Barn To Be Wild" was produced (obviously a parody of the classic rock song "Born To Be Wild" re-written with Amish-oriented lyrics) and expected to run one or two times before being banished to the bottom of the throw-away comedy bit bin; however, radio listeners began requesting the song - even during non-Bob & Tom Show hours.  The song made it into the regular music rotation of WFBQ, and the three faux-Amish decided to produce a second song.  Without ever explaining who the Electric Amish were, where they were from, or why a trio of "renegade" Amish men would be on an Indianapolis radio station in the first place, the listeners of WFBQ and the Bob & Tom Show (numbering in the hundred's of thousands at the time) recognized a truly clever and humorous novelty act.

Many listeners, growing up in various parts of Indiana, know of the simple, hard-working
ways of Amish life. They realize the utter silliness in seeing three men with obviously fake beards and part-time pseudo-Amish accents playing and singing songs written to the melodies of Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Cash, Queen, and Aerosmith (and many more), all songs for which the Electric Amish take credit for writing. 

Obviously, there is no hidden agenda to harm the Amish, nor is there any intent to try to "reform" the Amish by pointing out the error of their ways...after all, most members of the Amish community are probably not listening anyway...

At this point in your life, you have three options regarding the Electric Amish.

1) You can continue believing they are really Amish-gone-bad, and pray for their souls.

or

B) You can continue believing the Electric Amish are working for the devil, and that these three
men are single-handedly out to destroy the entire Amish community worldwide by making jokes
about churning butter and black floor-length dresses.

or

3)  Realize what virtually all of the people who have heard the Electric Amish have
realized...these guys just aren't good enough to get in real bands.  The live shows they do
get them out of the house, away from their wives, and lots of free beer on a Saturday night.  

Oh yeah, if you really listen closely, you'll also find out the songs are pretty funny, too...