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I would like to take this opportunity to say hello from the Flamenco hotbed that is Laramie, Wyoming. After having spent most of my late teens and twenties playing groove driven, guitar drenched rock and roll at clubs and festivals around the Rocky Mountains (and farther from time to time) I have fallen hard for Flamenco. I have been teaching myself out of Dennis Koster's book "The Keys to Flamenco Guitar" as well as taking lessons from Rene Heredia. I am still at a low level beginner, as I have never really spent any time learning how to fingerpick. I am taking it slow, though paracticing a lot, and trying to let the techniques solidify in my body and soul before I move on so as not to overwhelm my feeble brain. I have enjoyed this forum over the last few days as an interlude to my practicing. I expect to learn much from all of you over the next several months. If I get the nerve up, I will make a recording of the Farruca and Soleares I have been working on. I am planning on attending Festival Flamenco in Albuquerque this June if I can afford it. I would like to say thanks for having such a great online community. As with many of you, I seem to be the only one in town at the moment.
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"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." -- Aldous Huxley
Wow, I passed through Laramie once, many years ago. [edit - twice; on the way back, too] But I wasn't heavily into flamenco in those days, so I didn't stop.
Stu, I have seen those on the Simpsons many times. The box looks vaguely like a Marlburo Box. Marlboro has always marketed their product as a "tough guy" ciggarette with a weathered old cowboy as their poster boy. In fact one of the original "Marlboro Men" lived in Wyoming his entire life. Maybe somebody working on the show lived in or traveled through Wyoming at some point in his/her life and thought it would fit as a good spoof on that constructed image.
Thanks you all for the warm welcome. If any of you get snowed in here in Laramie this summer (yes, it can happen) look me up for some homebrew and flamenco!
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"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." -- Aldous Huxley
Wow, I had no idea! It seems like I may have seen some Cheyenne cigs around somewhere too! Thankfully, I have been 100% cig free for six months. I smoked my last one and decided I dind't want to go get any more. This, after trying to quit for years with every aid possible. My mind pleasantly suprises me from time to time.
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"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." -- Aldous Huxley
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