Temple as Distress Call

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srshea

Posts: 833
Joined: Oct. 29 2006
From: Olympia, WA in the Great Pacific Northwest

Temple as Distress Call

I just put on an Agujetas cd which starts with a martinetes. Two seconds after I pressed play my girlfriend called out from downstairs "What happened? Are you alright?", assuming that Manuel's opening "aaayyy" was the sound of me injuring myself or getting pissed off because I broke something.

Folks, you just can't make this stuff up.

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Doitsujin

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Joined: Apr. 10 2005

RE: Temple as Distress Call (in reply to srshea)

Similar thing happened to me maybe 10 years ago. I was lying in my bed listening to flamenco espagne the carasco family. The a singer shouts pretty crazy... the headphone came out just a little bit that I still had the sound in the phones but at the same time through the speakers in the room. My sister had guests in the other room and rushed over angrily... "What the heckk???? What is that ****?? WHY? turn it off!!"

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jul. 7 2012 10:25:57

NormanKliman

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Joined: Sep. 1 2007

RE: Temple as Distress Call (in reply to Doitsujin)

Haha, like strong cheese.

I once had a friend who wanted to hear flamenco so I put on one of Camarón's better recordings. This guy was normally very open minded and cool about everything and liked Spanish culture (his mother was Spanish), but from the first notes of singing his face changed. He actually got upset and said with great contempt, "You mean he actually gets paid to do that?"

Our friendship ended soon afterward.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jul. 7 2012 11:52:41

Sr. Martins

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Joined: Apr. 4 2011

RE: Temple as Distress Call (in reply to srshea)

Thats funny. Here in Portugal if you tell someone that you're into flamenco, the first thing they say is actually "ay ay ayyyy"

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jul. 7 2012 12:55:17

aarongreen

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Joined: Jan. 16 2004

RE: Temple as Distress Call (in reply to srshea)

Not flamenco but similar to srshea's story

When I was a kid my parents hired a local carpenter to do renovations to the upstairs of their house. His name was Leon and he looked like Jim Croce, had a massive head of curly hair with a yalmuka perched on the top, as he was an orthodox jew. The first day he is working upstairs we hear this howling and my Mother runs up to find whats the matter. Nothing was the matter, he was just singing at the top of his lungs some yiddish songs or something like that.

Months later I'm at school and I come home and find out that during the day my Mother was working downstairs when Leon came down with every hair on his head standing completely straight out and he was twitching. "Didn't you hear me screaming" he asked? "What are you talking about?" was the response. "I was working in the wall and hit a live wire and was screaming at the top of my lungs for 5 minutes before I managed to throw myself across the room"

My Mother then looked at him with all sincerity and said "I thought you were singing"

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jul. 7 2012 17:09:52

srshea

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Joined: Oct. 29 2006
From: Olympia, WA in the Great Pacific Northwest

RE: Temple as Distress Call (in reply to aarongreen)

quote:

"Didn't you hear me screaming" he asked? "What are you talking about?" was the response. "I was working in the wall and hit a live wire and was screaming at the top of my lungs for 5 minutes before I managed to throw myself across the room"

My Mother then looked at him with all sincerity and said "I thought you were singing"

Perfect!

Once, as a teenager, I was listening to a record in my room and I could hear my mom approaching. I knew that the "F word" was about to be sung in the lyrics and so, for some dumb reason, instead of just turning the sound down I turned the record player off which only streeeeeeetched and exaggerated the offending word precisely when she walked into my room. Whoops!

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jul. 7 2012 18:03:16

Ricardo

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Joined: Dec. 14 2004
From: Washington DC

RE: Temple as Distress Call (in reply to srshea)

my bolivian friends have a very good gypsy kings cover group. They do very well both with guitars but also the singing style, they make the same gipsy rajo sound. When they started giging in their country it was tough as the people from the andes are very musical too and the singing style of the indians is very clear and melodic sustaining harmonies...very unlike flamenco .

They did a gig in a restaurant club and packed the place with people dancing, very successful. They came back the next day to collect their pay from the woman owner. She said "What? I have to pay for that singing? ARe you serious? You guys said you were professional but you sing like a frog!!!!"

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jul. 7 2012 18:43:45