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Ricardo
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Joined: Dec. 14 2004
From: Washington DC
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RE: what guitar playing in plaza de ... (in reply to Anders Eliasson)
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ORIGINAL: Anders Eliasson quote:
As far as I know, it was a Pedro Maldonado cedar top. Also called the "secret guitar" He mentioned it in an interview in canalsur radio not long ago. Its the guitar he has used the most on the recordings from that period. There are no pictures of it as far as I know. It was just a bad joke. I know very little about Paco´s guitars or his shoes. I figured your were messing with us when I read that on my phone last night. I was gonna quickly counter that I thought it sounded more like a Blackshear Reyes than a Maldonado. I think when Paco first started recording he was torn between the two sounds, because for accomp. singing it is or WAS always prefered to accomp with Blanca. And the same recording studio probably got used to the sound of those guitars too. I feel Paco's first album FAbulosa was Negra and the second Fantasia is Blanca, by the woody brightness of the first, and the midrangy dryness of the second. IN Rito y Geografia I think EVERY cante performance is accomp. on a blanca except for Morente by Sanlucar on his negra. THe solo playing on negras was only Pepe Martinez, Melchor de Marchena (wonder if that wasn't his son's guitar though) Manolo again, and PDL but only one cut, the zapateado stage shot. All intimate juergas were done with blancas of some sort. I think Paco got more used to recording with negras later, after Fuente y Caudal, as he was more comfortable with these guitars live too. I read once that he did not like to record with the mic close to sound hole (something you can get away with more on Blancas then negras I feel, and why his early recordings the guitar actually sounds very close up) and that difference shows on later recordings. I am sure the later recordings w camaron he snuck the blanca back in at times, and of course Cositas Buenas he used the blancas to promote the luthiers, but I would say, like many guitar players that love cante accomp and solo playing, he is 50-50 on the issue of prefered sound for recording. No doubt he prefers the one negra live for a LONG time.
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