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ToddK
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RE: Paco singing??? (in reply to Guest)
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In Light and Shade, Paco talks about how he wanted to be a singer, but felt like he was too fat and thought he'd better hide behind the guitar instead. I thought that was very interesting. Paco is, in my opinion, very cerebral in his composition, and often doesnt so much dig into fretboard shapes, and much as just pulling things from his imagination, much like a singer, whom doesnt fall back on shapes or formulas as much as guitarists tend to. But my favorite part is when Paco talks about how Camaron would often pick up the guitar, and attempt to play little things here and there, and he would say to Paco "hey, this is cool right?" and Paco says, " No way man, that sucks" Then Paco says he's only kidding of course. I laugh out loud everytime i watch.
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Date Mar. 29 2007 9:16:09
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a_arnold
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RE: Paco singing??? (in reply to Guest)
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I've got an hour-long tape a friend of mine made from a Georgia Public Radio program called "World Tour" that featured PDL. It probably played on lots of public radio programs. Started with his youth, told his whole story from his earliest years in Algeciras, explored his years with Camaron, his meeting with Sabicas, and analyzed his exploration of (and fusion with) jazz, all the while playing cuts in chronological order to illustrate the points made. They spent some time discussing his father's strong influence on his development. I think it was a celebration of his 59th birthday, but the moderator/analyst was interesting and did mention that PDL wanted to be a singer, but didn't feel he was good enough, and so hid behind the guitar. No mention of him being too fat. In fact, in his youth he was quite thin, judging from the cover art of the (ancient) 45 rpm records I bought of him while in Spain in the 70's. There was a cut of him singing on the radio program. He wasn't Camaron, but he wasn't exactly terrible, either. Did anybody else hear it? It must have been played on NPR everywhere . . . Tony Arnold
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