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RE: If for chicks, you might have to think big deal of yourself in the first place
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Richard Jernigan
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From: Austin, Texas USA
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 RE: If for chicks, you might have to... (in reply to Ruphus)
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Of course, I took up the guitar for purely serious artistic purposes. It was no longer practical to continue with trumpet, and I needed a musical outlet.
It was my friend Pat H. who turned me to the darker side. We were University students. On Friday or Saturday night we would go to a neighborhood where a lot of more prosperous students had apartments. We would scout around for a place where a good party was going on, walk up to the door with our guitars in their cases and knock. When someone answered, Pat would say, "We're the guitar players." Almost invariably we were admitted.
Pat played steel string acoustic pretty well, and sang blues and folk. I accompanied. When Pat took a break, I played flamenco. Flamenco was a lot more popular in the USA in those days, the late 1950s and early 1960s. Carlos Montoya sold a lot of records. I had discovered Sabicas and Mario Escudero.
I wouldn't say it was necessarily our musical skills which impressed the girls, though of course the girls said they did. But it got us into the party, broke the ice, and gave us a chance to size up the talent and strike up conversations.
Often enough to keep us at it, we went home with a new girl.
RNJ
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Date Feb. 11 2011 16:39:08
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Richard Jernigan
Posts: 3433
Joined: Jan. 20 2004
From: Austin, Texas USA
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RE: If for chicks, you might have to... (in reply to Ron.M)
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ORIGINAL: Ron.M
Yeah Arash,
Ruby Wax said a lot of girls want a tall, handsome, well-built guy running his own successful company who drives a top end car, is totally committed and faithful and is head over heels in love with her.
After they've been around the block a bit, then any joker under 45 with his own teeth and a day job will do... 
(I bet a lot of the girls who gave Bill Gates the "sorry I'm busy" line are regretting it now.... )
cheers,
Ron
I was 49 when I got divorced. Had all my hair, ran 5 miles a day, fairly prosperous. Made the pleasant discovery that there were pretty girls in their early 20s who wanted a combination Daddy and boyfriend, and who didn't want to get married.
On our second date one of them asked me, "Richard, do you have a boat?"
At the time I didn't. "No," I replied.
"OK"
"OK what?"
"I never go out with a man whose age exceeds the length of his boat."
This was in the USA, so length was in feet. But after that I never owned a boat whose length exceeded my age ...
RNJ
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Date Feb. 11 2011 22:19:22
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avimuno
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Joined: Feb. 9 2007
From: Paris, France
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RE: If for chicks, you might have to... (in reply to Doitsujin)
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On the subject Ruphus started... I picked up playing guitar after seeing Slash play 'Sweet Child of Mine' on TV... I was 13 and I sat there thinking 'I need to do this!!'.
It's been a love story with the instrument ever since... taste and style have changed but the love, passion and respect for the instrument, and the players who dedicate their lives in playing it right, have never diminished.
Ever since I'm 13, I've had a guitar in my lap for an average of 5 hours a day. I went through periods where I would practice 10-11 hours a day, and to this day, I still keep a good 3 hours a day, despite a very busy professional life.
I have never taken the attitude where I started thinking that I was good... Despite all the sacrifice and effort, I'm not a good guitarist, there's a world of improvement to be had.
I remember a BB King interview where he said this: 'There's still so much to learn and so little time...'. In a nutshell, that's really how I feel about playing guitar in general and flamenco in particular... so much to learn and conquer and not enough time in one lifetime.
I attended York University in Toronto. I graduated with a minor in music... I was lucky to discover flamenco there as it was offered as a course. From there I seeked out other people teaching flamenco in Toronto and was lucky enough to take lessons from someone who's dedication and generosity in teaching and transmitting his passion are only matched by his incredible talent and knowledge of flamenco (no... it's not Ruben!  ).
I've met a lot of 'flamenco guitarists' at York... for some reason ,they thought that taking a couple of lessons with someone who can barely play a rasgeado made them Paco de Lucia... they had no technique, no compas, no tone (for some reason, they all played 'Andalucian Guitars') and worse, no knowledge of the artform... people like that really make me angry because they advertise themselves as flamenco guitarist but haven't even listened to a Paco de Lucia album.
I even met someone who told me that he never listened to the great flamenco guitarists because he didn't want to 'soil his inspiration'... it's like a writer saying that he has never read Shakespeare or Celine, quite simply unthinkable and ridicule.
The great French philosopher Gilles Deleuze writes this beautiful sentence in his book on Francis Bacon (the painter): 'Staring at a blank canvas is like staring at the entire history of painting... it's like staring at every brush stroke, every colour and every shape ever painted. That's the kind of severity every genius imposes upon himself'.
I think that this applies to every area of art and science. As flamenco guitarists, we have the weight of flamenco history upon us and it requires a very long and painful learning process to even think of starting to create something new.
When we consider this... it doesn't leave us a lot of time to woe chicks! hahaha
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