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I have been improving my spanish all day while enjoying each 'T T T' signifying the return of another missing miner...
...I touched Vicente's Zapateado in celebration of the first, my own Zapa. for the next...
--------------- Funny thing is that I started on my own Taranta this weekend having listened to Tomatito's one from 10 years ago ,, and having really enjoyed its toque libre (as opposed to the structured TarantO).
Anyway, I was chatting to my partner on skype and whittering away trying to name this piece this afternoon having forgotten that: Saturday night it was called "Taranta del Arachnidas", which I wrote at 5am in in my repertoire list file.
It was only as the miners were lifted that I thought I would check that my ageing memory hadn't got the better of me:
I saw maybe 4 secs in TV today about that... So they rescued some miners? Nice. Scary pictures I saw during these 4 sec... What a ****ty job they have..And i thought mine sucks..
In fact when I mentioned it to my 17 year old daughter (getting herself ready to go out for an evening and playing pop music on her computer), she said "Miners?...What miners?...I don't even know what you're talking about?"
Guess that's life these days...
(In the same way that Flamenco is not about expressing human emotion anymore...but expressing great technique and virtuosity in the hope of fame, fortune and celebrity...)
Scary pictures I saw during these 4 sec... What a ****ty job they have.
It's terrible. Yet, strangely, according to the short biographies in the newspapers, there are a couple of these guys who actually like working underground, and one of those has been trapped twice before!
For the rest it's just a very scary and dangerous way for poor guys with few options to make some money. One of them refers to the mine as "the slaughterhouse".
Fortunately (with regard to being rescued, anyway) Chile is a modern high-tech country. Things are much worse next door in Bolivia:
Fortunately (with regard to being rescued, anyway) Chile is a modern high-tech country.
Chile had help from NASA and the company from Somerset County that drilled the hole to rescue the Quecreek miners. They also used the same type of basket and a specially designed drill bit manufactured by Center Rock. A few of the Quecreek rescuers were in Afghanistan drilling water wells when they heard about the trapped miners and the likelihood they would be stuck in that mine until December. These guys were convinced they could get them out a lot faster and they succeeded. Some of the details are in the story below.
Plenty. So why not spend that time enjoying the rescue live on the internet? I know you MAKE time Ron...for you are a Time Lord!
The pleasure of overhearing David Cameron talking on El Presidente's moby was awesome...but nothing compared every loving interaction between the community at the mine head.
The whole experience has been enormously inspiring and I look forward to performing "Taranta del Mio" to genuine people like yourself Ron, but only if we have a proper juerga in the UK someday....
...you know....a family affair where we all join in and do our bit...and NO STAGE!...and ONLY FLAMENCOS + extended family (cf. definition of juerga)
p.s. been a long time..got frightened off about 5 years ago by all the flaming ...cheers for taking on the torch from Escribano. *lurks*
I thought that I read you had stopped supporting the forum a few years ago due to being busy...no? I have been away...
Sorry if I published something incorrect :-/
my ramblings seem coherent: Taranta is the miners compas, and I have spent all day listening to them winching those poor souls and trying to compose said piece...have I done something to offend you?
I heard that at first they were thinking of leaving the 33 miners down there because it was too much money to build the drill that can make a hole 2,500 feet deep. In the end countries from all over the world pitched in parts, the drill came from US and Germany i think.
This story was a nice piece of optimism in every day pessimistic news.
I do hope that David Cameron is going to be talking with El Presidente and The President of how we in global culture can make amends for forcing these people down that hole in the first place....
I heard that at first they were thinking of leaving the 33 miners down there because it was too much money to build the drill that can make a hole 2,500 feet deep. In the end countries from all over the world pitched in parts, the drill came from US and Germany i think.
This story was a nice piece of optimism in every day pessimistic news.
If what you say is really true, then i cant see any positive in such a thing.
for forcing these people down that hole in the first place....
Well...no one forced them. I did an equally dangerous job in my twenties when the offshore oil industry was in it's infancy and practically unregulated. There was no such thing as Health & Safety....you just looked out for yourself and others and prayed to God, or carried a black cat bone and a mojo too.
The money was good and that's all we cared about...end of story.
As far as the 33 miners are concerned, you can be certain now that everything ended well that the British tabloids will be working night and day to try to dig up the dirt or anything iffy on these guy's personal lives. Anything more positive or happy on these guys is no longer best selling news.
Truth is ugly, I would rather hear lies as they are much more pleasant.
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I heard that at first they were thinking of leaving the 33 miners down there because it was too much money to build the drill that can make a hole 2,500 feet deep. In the end countries from all over the world pitched in parts, the drill came from US and Germany i think.
This story was a nice piece of optimism in every day pessimistic news.
If what you say is really true, then i cant see any positive in such a thing.
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