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Estebanana, Jason at gj
Estebanana, Jason at gj
I had the great pleasure to finally meet Jason McGuire in person, earlier today, as he visited along with the kindest Stephen Faulk to help me figure out how to adjust my new German Vazquez Rubio blanca. Jason is playing (in the picture) a Stephen Faulk’s blanca, a lively and lovely instrument, as was the company.
As much as videos are contributing to our learning curve, nothing can replace the overwhelming presence Jason’s performance radiate. Thank you for playing for my wife. The house is still shaking…!!!
Stephen, I am impressed by your competence and knowledge, but your personality, kind, patient, insightful and bright is a rare blessing.
Thank you, gentlemen.
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RE: Estebanana, Jason at gj (in reply to gj Michelob)
GJ,
A pleasure to have met you today and I hope we will continue these conversations.
Thank you for all your hospitality. It's not often Jason and I get a chance to drink good wine between noon and 4pm! I had to take a little siesta when I got home.
Thank also for the mini lesson in ancient numismatics.
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RE: Estebanana, Jason at gj (in reply to at_leo_87)
Thank you for your compliments, Kavachian and At_Leo. It is my little home-office away from NY, in San Francisco.
That chair under the painting, where Jason was sitting holding the Stephen Faulk’s blanca, is my “spot” where I sit and play “stealing” time throughout the day, between phone calls, books and contracts. As Jason and Stephen noticed, the room has proper acoustics, possibly the best room I had thus far. Although not armed and dressed as a recording room, a wall of books, the old wooden furniture and carpet seem to compliment sound handsomely.
Jason and Stephen tried my Conde Negra, now nearly six months after German V. Rubio removed the layer of plastic (lacquer) and French polished it. It never sounded as good as she did under Jason’s taming hands. Just to add more doubts on whether I should sell it….
The gentleman in the painting is an attorney from a more elegant époque –and he is holding a cigar (too distant a shot to appreciate the detail), lightly burning a curly wave of white smoke. Hence the “smoking lawyer”, a now rare encounter, as I have become.
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RE: Estebanana, Jason at gj (in reply to gj Michelob)
i don't like red walls.
i couldn't live or work in such a room. that would make me aggressive and restless. i wouldn't feel any harmony in such an enviroment. thats just me.
but of course, this has nothing to do with everything else. the red color completely fits to the rest and the decoration, the furniture. its all very nice, and kind of antique look and feel. very elegant. a white wall or any other color would not be suitable for this kind of enviroment for sure.
anyways, nice pic. seams like you had a good time together.
i don't like red walls. but red is the color of flamenco!
well, yes, what can i say? then, i don't want flamenco on my walls
Witty exchange.
The Chinese contractor who painted (stucco) the walls "red" did so most reluctantly.... even though "red" is the color of good luck and fortune in China(and of a little booklet made famous by a local leader).
He replied as Arash did.. no need for good luck on the walls.
However, the red walls are juxtaposed to the white wood of library, French doors and window frames, along with dark old furniture. The room has (I feel it doea have) a distinguished, club-like feel to it, evoking the tones of the main lobby of the University Club in New York, which unfortunately does not allow photographs I could share to persuade Arash .
However yet, not everyone likes red.... bulls apparently get really exercised over it
RE: Estebanana, Jason at gj (in reply to gj Michelob)
Great to see that meeting. ^^ I like the wooden furniture. Old school is great and warm it reminds me on my parents house. Also the paintings. Very nice.
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RE: Estebanana, Jason at gj (in reply to gj Michelob)
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ORIGINAL: gj Michelob
However, the red walls are juxtaposed to the white wood of library, French doors and window frames, along with dark old furniture. The room has (I feel it doea have) a distinguished, club-like feel to it,
yes i understand and fully agree.
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evoking the tones of the main lobby of the University Club in New York, which unfortunately does not allow photographs I could share to persuade Arash
is it one of these rooms ?
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RE: Estebanana, Jason at gj (in reply to gj Michelob)
I think you guys have an unhealthy preoccupation with GJ's decor. I can assure you the red is not overpowering as the room is bathed in bright natural light streaming in from ground floor windows. Outside the windows are plants and grasses kept deliciously verdant by the ocean mists of the West side of San Francisco city. This interplay of hot red walls and cool green biomass serves to create a pleasing dialectic of retinal stimulation and calm cerebral contemplivity.
Please gentleman, refrain from further abuse of my friend GJ's interior decor or this shall come to fisticuffs!
I love the main dining room, in your second pic (the first is the entrance of the club).
The lounge -Dwight Room (?) has red velvet walls, punctuated by golden framed dark portraits and similarly colored columns and arches. I could only find a detail, below. I also attached a pic of the library… when I can afford one like it I will let go of any red walls
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RE: Estebanana, Jason at gj (in reply to estebanana)
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I think you guys have an unhealthy preoccupation with GJ's decor. I can assure you the red is not overpowering as the room is bathed in bright natural light streaming in from ground floor windows. Outside the windows are plants and grasses kept deliciously verdant by the ocean mists of the West side of San Francisco city. This interplay of hot red walls and cool green biomass serves to create a pleasing dialectic of retinal stimulation and calm cerebral contemplivity.
Please gentleman, refrain from further abuse of my friend GJ's interior decor or this shall come to fisticuffs!
Sorry i missed your strickingly eloquent post. Quite an advocate you are, Esteban... perhaps you should join a law firm
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RE: Estebanana, Jason at gj (in reply to estebanana)
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perhaps I could be brought in as a Special Consultant to Council in fraudulent Caviuna cases?
For a moment a sighed a "yeah" of sincere relief... It may not seem so at first, but we could make it a lucrative practice "Wood, Label & Country of Origin Fraud". However, only a few would survive
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RE: Estebanana, Jason at gj (in reply to gj Michelob)
Guys. Living room guitar samplings are quaint, and nice, but I would have forced you ALL out to a nice bar with beer and smoke and got a good juerga going with dancing girls and stuff, had I been there. Sheeeesh.
RE: Estebanana, Jason at gj (in reply to gj Michelob)
hehe so cool, gj and guests i like member-meeting threads, i thought such furniture with red walls can only be found in old series like the persuaders or the avengers, but no! it really exists! i really like it... even if my playing doesn't really improve since i'm member here, at least i learn something everyday 'bout english and american culture, great!
Guys. Living room guitar samplings are quaint, and nice, but I would have forced you ALL out to a nice bar with beer and smoke and got a good juerga going with dancing girls and stuff, had I been there. Sheeeesh.
Nice you guys met up!
Ricardo, on that thought, the litte "red" room is in fact the "smoking" room [industrial smoke filter] and we also more than indulged in sampling of wines... When you will come visit, however, I count on you forcing us to hit them bars
Michel, I wouldn't want to mislead you on cross-cultural affairs and taste, see I spent 24 years in Venice, Italy and 24 in New York City; finally, this summer, I moved to America!!
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RE: Estebanana, Jason at gj (in reply to gj Michelob)
Kind of hijacking the post, though it's great to meet forumites in the real world - sadly the INS won't let me back into the US at the moment (long story).
Lovely room gj, you might appreciate this place. It's my buddy's house in Amsterdam where we stayed last October. It was a 17C tobacco warehouse and offices. All original panels and marble and this is just the lobby! That's the wife, looking shy
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RE: Estebanana, Jason at gj (in reply to Escribano)
Oh, and Peter (gerundino63) spotted me in Leidseplein and came over for a beer with his son. He said he recognised me from my videos. We had quite a lot of that beer and talked for ages. How cool is that?
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