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sonikete

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Paco Interview

Interesting interview with paco de lucia i found;

http://www.guitarplayer.com/story.asp?storyCode=4225

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 27 2006 21:40:25

duende

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RE: Paco Interview (in reply to sonikete)

oh cool! I got that Mag actually. i stole it from my school when i saw Paco in there

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 27 2006 21:46:11

JBASHORUN

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RE: Paco Interview (in reply to sonikete)

INTERVIEWER: When you broke from strict flamenco tradition back in the ’60s, your Nuevo Flamenco style was criticized by purists. These days, that term is being used to describe a whole variety of hybrid flamenco styles that have become very popular throughout the world. How do you feel about that?

PACO: There are many opinions about so-called “new flamenco,“ which includes things such as pop-flamenco, flamenco-rock, and flamenco-jazz. This is all bulls**t! The only evolution of the flamenco comes from inside the traditional flamenco guitar players and singers and dancers, and not from somebody who comes from another world. You know, yesterday someone was a rock player, and today he wants to be flamenco, so he makes a “new flamenco.” Many of these guys with their rock-star hairstyles and clothing are mostly just bluffs. That’s okay, and I accept what they are trying to do, but to make myself perfectly clear: I tell you that to create a new flamenco, you have to begin as a flamenco.

Jb

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 27 2006 22:20:10

TANúñez

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RE: Paco Interview (in reply to JBASHORUN)

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You know, yesterday someone was a rock player, and today he wants to be flamenco, so he makes a “new flamenco.” Many of these guys with their rock-star hairstyles and clothing are mostly just bluffs

What the?!#%@ Is he talking to me?

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 27 2006 22:34:03

koella

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From: holland

RE: Paco Interview (in reply to sonikete)

I wonder if there's something about cante in that magazine ?

Uhm...what is it called ?
Oh yes "guitarplayer". Maybe they should change their name to the benefit of the real flamenco's.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 27 2006 22:43:32

sonikete

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From: Sweden

RE: Paco Interview (in reply to koella)

I was wondering more about what the "great American flamenco guitar master" Sabicas would say about the "cajén" and using old recordings of "Camerén de la Isla" to play his "falsettas" on a computer.

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What the?!#%@ Is he talking to me?

No i think he meant things like this;
http://benise.com/home.htm

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 27 2006 23:36:48

mrMagenta

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RE: Paco Interview (in reply to sonikete) 1 votes

hahaha! benise.. and the trailer on that website. iaagh.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 27 2006 23:59:48

sonikete

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RE: Paco Interview (in reply to sonikete)

Nice to see that someone sees the humor in it

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 28 2006 0:01:24

JBASHORUN

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RE: Paco Interview (in reply to sonikete)

The funny thing is, you don't hear Al Di Meola saying that "a Flamenco player can't play innovative Jazz" just because he happens to specialize in another genre...

Jb

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 28 2006 17:26:19

sonikete

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RE: Paco Interview (in reply to sonikete)

But i dont see how a flamenco guitarist would be able to innovate jazz if he knew as little about it as ottmar or benise knows about flamenco.

Flamenco comes from Andalucia and i think people are getting fed up with seeing the tradition prostituted by clueless guitarhero wannabes and greedy marketing people.

I think ottmar sold more records in the u.s than paco has.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 29 2006 10:06:35