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Florian
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From: Adelaide/Australia
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RE: Funny Performance Disasters? (in reply to at_leo_87)
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haha both of your stories are funny..srshea i am loughing expecially cause i can just imagine how stressed out and worried you must have been considering our past conversations about this dancers thing ....and the stress i heard some beauties and been in some beauties.. one where Manolo Snlucar kicked his whole group off the stage one by one lol because they made mistakes or so he he was convinced....the mistakes werent obvious to anyone else... just a matter of time before hes gonna make his musiceans go and stand in the corner of the stage with the back to the audience starring at the wall And R.Riqueny who is making a comeback was at a concert and keped messing up the same scale and keped going for it and he keped messing it up until he sat the guitar down on his chair got up light up a cigarete and was walking around on stage smoking and talking at the guitar....while the audience were just ... there was a festival outdoors and this girl was dancing an alegrias..first off her sawl got cought on the chair as she was coming out ...they untangled her, then 2 minutes later the electricity went out..noone could see her ( was at night) or hear her or the musiceans for about 2 minutes but she keped going , then when the electricity finally came back on a fight broke out into the crowd and someone pulled a knife on someone..the whole crowd cleared and ran off in all directions and wasent even looking at her anymore.. but she finished absolutleley with no emotion or without even raising a eyebrow.. me i told a group of girls who were sitting at the front to fu*k off once for talking during my intro..it was a spare of the moment thing...not in front of everyone.. i went and set at their table after the show and said why would you take the front table if you arent interested in the show...etc. etc..they really pushed my patience...there was a whole show happening on stage, there weere spotlights, dancers, singers, everyone else was quiet they were talking about god knows what ...really loud without even looking around for a second or wondering why everyone else is so quiet....if we had a mirror on stage they might have looked at us..its not so bad when we were all loud but during the more quiet parts..etc silencio, intros falsetas...its really distracting kills everything.. i have done background music too were people talk and the music is just ambience in the background, no problem with that, as long as i am prepared for that and thats what it is ...this wasent background, Dont Judge me!! ...u might have done the same..every now and than i do or say what i wish i would have done or said when i think back on an incident ...while thinking about it at home...not often but every now and then on a full moon
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Date Apr. 25 2009 5:44:39
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RE: Funny Performance Disasters? (in reply to Florian)
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her perls broke in the midlle of her escobilla..and she sliped on them and her legs flew out from under her and she landed on her ass HA hahah ahaha hahahah MUAAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA.... to this day, that situation STILL cracks me up
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Date Apr. 25 2009 16:50:09
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RE: Funny Performance Disasters? (in reply to Guest)
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Flo forgot to mention that she did land her ass on the ground right on 10 (she was doing a break at the time too) her compas was impeccable. Its possibly one of the most dramatic breaks i have ever seen, or probably ever will.
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Date Apr. 25 2009 16:53:42
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a_arnold
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RE: Funny Performance Disasters? (in reply to srshea)
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Okay, here's one: During Soledad Barrios' group (Noche Flamenca) here a few months ago to an audience of 1500: The 2 guitarists used miniature wireless lapel microphones inside the soundholes of their guitars (rather than pickups or stand mics). The mic transmits to a receiver that is jacked into the amp, and will transmit up to 100 feet. The cantaor was doing an a palo seco (a capella) mineras on stage, standing all alone, leaning on a chair, and one of the guitarists started tuning up back stage. But he had forgotten to turn off his mic. It was transmitting all his tuning noise to the audience. It DIDN'T sound like accompaniment. Even a little bit. The cantaor put up with it for a few phrases, thinking someone backstage would hear what was going on. Nobody did. Finally, he picked up the chair, threw it down, and stamped off. Heated words were spoken stage right. Long silence. Cantaor comes back out, deep breath, starts over. BTW I once had a professor make the same mistake in a classroom of 200 students. He excused himself to take a leak and forgot to turn off his wireless lapel mic. The bathroom was within 100 feet of the classroom. Interesting noises and sighs of relief were transmitted to the entire class. When he got back, the class was rolling on the floor.
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Date Apr. 27 2009 14:15:51
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Florian
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From: Adelaide/Australia
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RE: Funny Performance Disasters? (in reply to mark indigo)
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yeah, that's really, really, really bad.... i'm trying to decide whether this is a really tasteless conversation to be having, and if i'm just i'm a sick and moronic gossip-bag.... or if this is ok.... i heard some other stuff about Riqueni, and the thing is, it would be good to know if it's true or not, but maybe i should just shut up and not repeat any of it true or not.... but when an artist that you admire and respect and love their music disappears from the scene completely and stops recording and performing, you can't help wondering what's happened yeah i took a second before i wrote it, wondering about that..i dont wanna disrespect the guy, hes had it tough..but it happened, its not a secret a few tousand people in the audience saw it, it did fit the thread title perfectly..its not the end of the world just a funny performance story, he may be doing just fine atm dont let it be more than that in your mind then its cool as i said..if anyone has a valid excuse for beeing weird is Riqueny..it dosent affect the way i feel about them or their music, lets be realistic, they are human..and so am I... filled with flaws and a lifetime of stupid things i have done lol i am enjoying this thread, some very funny stories , its nice to mix some funny stories into our flamenco discussions
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Date Apr. 28 2009 3:53:38
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