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RE: How old am I here on the foro? (in reply to michel)
49 learning flamenco for about 5 years. must be getting better, as the wife quit complaining, and even complimented my playing (once). also she quit complaining about the cost of the two Pedro De Miguel's I bought.
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RE: How old am I here on the foro? (in reply to RobJe)
That's so cool-great photo!
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ORIGINAL: RobJe
I would like to claim the prize for the oldest foro member - 69 - unless there is someone out there who can beat it. This is the earliest picture I can find - 47 years ago. My left hand fingers are a bit bent and painful, but still playing. Rob
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RE: How old am I here on the foro? (in reply to michel)
Man, all along I was reading this thread, thinking of my own reply and was about to reply with "19" when I noticed I actually turned 20 in February. Life sucks.
I've been playing flamenco guitar for roughly more than a year. Guitar since, uh, 4 or 5 years, not sure. I kind of regret I didn't start with flamenco from the beginning, almost feeling like I wasted that time now, and even though some might say that the path is just as valuable as the goal, it's kind of sad too.
Matic, I know exactly what you mean - that age when you see others of the same age starting to distinguish themselves, perhaps even become notable or famous etc. - makes you think of yourself quite a bit, perhaps in not too positive ways too. Though I'm really not depressed at all and have quite a few things to look forward to.
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RE: How old am I here on the foro? (in reply to duende)
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im going to be a DAD
Henrik what have you been doing?!!
No don't worry I know how it's done.
When your baby is born you should sign him/her up for a Foro account and then they can be the youngest Foro member, even if all he can say is, "waaaa, waaaa"
RE: How old am I here on the foro? (in reply to duende)
i'm 39, i hated my teens, was a total mess in my twenties and have spent most of my thirties sorting myself out.... i'm not doing too bad these days!
i started playing guitar on a crap electric i bought off a kid at school for a fiver and made a lot of horrible noise, and started playing flamenco in my early twenties.... not very well!
i did have some lessons at first, and was playing for a dance class with another guy within a year of starting playing flamenco, but i really had no idea what i was doing and didn't have proper lessons....
so i've been playing flamenco 15-20 years now, but i'm sort of stuck at an intermediate level, in theory i know a lot of stuff but mostly can't play any of it fast enough to make it sound convincing.
i know i'm never going to be as good as the players i like to listen to, but i want to be as good as i can, so 5 days a week i do a half hour of chromatic exercises to a metronome first thing in the morning, and a half an hour of scales in compas later in the day too. i actually really enjoy these! i read Eva Yerbabuena in interview say something like "technique is a process of knowing yourself and your body" and i find that actually what i'm practising mostly is a relaxed but focused state of mind.
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RE: How old am I here on the foro? (in reply to duende)
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im 33, 34 april 10.
....and im going to be a DAD around june 24. ...how cool is that? im so exited i can hardly sleep
Wonderful news, Duende. As often as it happens to anyone, anywhere, having a child is a true miracle, to be celebrated as such. And let me add, no matter how many there are, each mother is a Hero. Do not forget to cry when you will finally get to hug the beautiful thing and your wife.
RE: How old am I here on the foro? (in reply to gj Michelob)
gj, I think you burst your poetic bubble with the "beautiful thing"!
Regarding 69, I think there is a guy in his late 70's or maybe older on the foro, he may have drifted on to other things, he was having troubles with his fingers if I recall last year sometime...
Edit found him, he is "bb" and he hasn't posted in a while, I believe he is 71.
RE: How old am I here on the foro? (in reply to michel)
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If memory serves correctly, bb is the very member who took the foro over, before his 'super-strict-rules/secretly-editing-everyone's-posts' fiasco caused a massive disruption in the foro harmony (more like an earthquake).
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RE: How old am I here on the foro? (in reply to cathulu)
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gj, I think you burst your poetic bubble with the "beautiful thing"!
ha ha ha LOL....
It is too bad we don't get to read-in our posts. Certain lines would "sound" quite differently according to the intonation. I thought the circumstances called for a "country" song-like lyrics. So, if you please, will you re-read it with more of a slow Southern accent... as in "beau-ta-f'l thang".
RE: How old am I here on the foro? (in reply to kovachian)
That was bb, boy what a faux pas on my part!
Duende, I should have also said congratulations! The first 6 months is the hardest unless you have a girl - then it will be easy but you will pay in the teenage years.
RE: How old am I here on the foro? (in reply to gato)
Today is my 54th birthday. HIP HIP HORRA ... So far Ive been 10 years focus on Flamenco I got my first guitar in about 1966 played folk music in the 60s and early 70s heavy metal in the 80s, and of couse "classic rock" and fussion in the 90s I still play in a rock band ...mostly original hard rock I enjoy playing the drums once in a while ( I think flamenco has improved my timing) But Flamenco....Im crazy about it. I must play 2 or 3 hours a day.
RE: How old am I here on the foro? (in reply to c)
I'm 23, and turning 24 this coming June 7. I've been playing guitar for 8 years now (at least I think so ... Don't actually remember when I started exactly).
RE: How old am I here on the foro? (in reply to michel)
i am 41, 42 in june. i've been playing for four years but because of my profession, it meant a lot of time traveling with no guitar. for instance last year, i was able to practice for three weeks out of the first six months. so not sure how to measure how long i've been playing.
also, four years ago is when i really started to learn how to play the guitar. up until that point, i had always had a guitar but couldn't really play any complete songs, but i could make sounds on it!
was everyone else a guitar player first, then they discovered flamenco?
RE: How old am I here on the foro? (in reply to michel)
i´ve played for about 20 years, flamenco for 8 almost 9 years
Untill i started flamenco i played electric guitar. Punk heavy metal rock later on Jazz untill i found the flamenco thing and stopp playing electric over night.
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RE: How old am I here on the foro? (in reply to michel)
I am having my 37th birthday this weekend although I still feel 27. I have to eat better these days, be a bit more concious of getting some fruit daily, and I find myself waking up the same time most mornings despite what time I edventually get to bed, but I'm lucky. Time hasnt had too hard an effect on me. I still juerga till 5.00 in the morning, and can keep up with the 25 year olds. Mind you it helps that I dont have kids.
Like many other people who posted, I fell in love with the guitar long before I discovered flamenco. I played classical in high school and then at age 16 emptied my post office savings account to buy a sunburst strat copy. Did the whole heavy metal thing for a few years before the bitter discovery that I wasnt going to be the next Eddie Van Halen.
Age 21 I heard Paco de lucia for the first time and that moment changed my life. I immediately stopped electric guitar and switched to Flamenco. I was obsessed to the point that i edventually left my house, job, family in 1999 to move to Spain. I literally dropped everything one day and ran away to Spain. Since then I have lived in Almeria, Malaga, Nerja, Madrid and Granada.
I have never made the move to be a professional guitarist. I have another medically related business but I do gigs for weddings and parties. I met Gerardo Nuñez 5 years ago and have been studying with him in sanlucar every year since then. It was an ambition of mine to have the chance to learn his technique. I guess i just became obsessed with the music and still am obsessed. I feel lucky that i could move to the place where that music that i first heard came from
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...how cool is that? im so exited i can hardly sleep 
Life sucks. 
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