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I have just seen what could well be the most amazing flamenco fingerstyle performance that I have ever witnessed on youtube! The guy is playing a Chapman Stick which I have never seen before but the multi-layered sound is quite beautiful.
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I have run into that guy here in Phoenix and also up in Edmonds, Washington. Has a cool jazzy album, I think it's called Cafe San Francisco. Yes, here's his website. http://stickmusic.com/ The first time I saw him, I had just run into George Benson for the nth time.
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RE: Amazing Classical Fingerstyle on... (in reply to fingerstyle)
This is not flamenco. While his playing on this instrument has a certain capacity to "amuse," it belongs more in the genre of cheap parlor tricks that might go over at a party attended by frat boys looking forward to their first backpacking trip to Spain.
Cheers,
Bill
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..the username is fingerstyle and talking about amazing fingerstyle...made 1 post ...this video...
I have seen it a few times before here...it just dosent pay to post a video of yourself here pretending u are some neutral party who likes it ..to see the reaction....u end up getting your feelings hurt...its better to say this is me...people would be tactful
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I have just seen what could well be the most amazing flamenco fingerstyle performance that I have ever witnessed on youtube! The guy is playing a Chapman Stick which I have never seen before but the multi-layered sound is quite beautiful. and tell me if you agree.
probably the best one i have ever seen too...its the only one
personally i think its fascinating ...nice enough sound...a nice novelty
That aside..
I dont understand why anyone picks up this instrument when its just trying to copy the guitar (from what i am seeing), and play stuff for guitar on it and dosent have as many benefits, its not a practical, not as esthetically pleasing... (like a skinny woman with no breasts...or a giraffe penis) not as versatile, not as established, not as romantic, probably not as easy ...the guitar is a the perfect design...i dont see the point other than to be different...for the sake of being different...guitar is king of instruments (or up there)...this is the type on instrument u expect to see on the side of the road busking as a novelty..people are fascinated, curious ...but eventually put a coin in the bag and walk away...
i am sorry fingerstyle if this is you, not looking to offend you...had you said that before of course i would have been more gentle and tactful about it
RE: Amazing Classical Fingerstyle on... (in reply to Florian)
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I have seen it a few times before here...it just dosent pay to post a video of yourself here pretending u are some neutral party who likes it ..to see the reaction....u end up getting your feelings hurt...its better to say this is me...people would be more gentle
Exactly Flo!
Like, sometimes I get emails from a "friend" of Dr. Nkumna Abongo from Nigeria asking me if he can "borrow" my bank account to get £10,000,000 out of his country.
Why doesn't Dr. Abongo just contact me himself?
That kinda stuff always makes me suspicious, myself.
Hey...thought some new folk here might have commented on the 21 year old Paco de Lucia's Malagueña!
You won't hear it anywhere else!
(and not really "cheesy" methinks?")
Recorded straight off the TV set in 1969.
(He looked that real "spotty" way like the pic on "La Guitarra Fabulosa...." )
RE: Amazing Classical Fingerstyle on... (in reply to Ron.M)
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hy doesn't Dr. Abongo just contact me himself?
oh good old Abo...i told him if he gets my bank account back to +0 rather than in the minus what it is now...he can do whatever he likes...i must the the only guy the Nigerian scam wont work on ...even with my bank account number and password
how the hell did they get £ in Nigeria ? why not $ ?
have you meet Miss.Amanda Rose yet ? its the new one
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Good Day?
I have been waiting for you since to contact me for your Confirmable Bank Draft of $500,000,00 United States Dollars, but I did not hear from you since for a couple of weeks now. Then I went to the bank to confirm if the draft has expired or getting near to the expiring date and Dr. Wilson the Director United Bank for Africa told me that before the draft will get to your hand that it will expire..Again, don't be deceived by anybody to pay any other money except $85.00 US Dollars for the Security Keeping Fee. I would have paid that but they said no because they don't know when you will contact them and in case of demurrage.
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I am winning so much money and free subscriptions to Viagra on the net its crazy
and so many women want to meet me !!
maybe i should be called Mr Lucky
why just this week i won £10.000.000 $500,000,00
and
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Dear Friend,
Greetings and compliments of the season,
I Know This Message Will Come to You as a Surprise. Please due welcome the letter and help me out as you finish reading. I Am (Larsan Barro) secretary to the Foreign Remittance Manager. (Bank of Africa)B.O.A.Here in Burkina Faso. West Africa, I Need Your Urgent Assistance In Transferring The Sum Of ($5.2) Million To Your Account.
Larsan Barro.
no Larsan is not a surprise at all :-)
people ask me what i do, i tell em i am a professional winner ...i cant believe someone sits down and thinks up this weak scams ...
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RE: Amazing Classical Fingerstyle on... (in reply to fingerstyle)
I think the stick, being a strange looking and sounding instrument, is best suited to a more "out there" musical environment ala Tony Levin in King Crimson. Years ago I jammed a few funky tunes on stage with a stick player, they can be a lot of fun in the right context.
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RE: Amazing Classical Fingerstyle on... (in reply to Ron.M)
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Change your name from "Florian" to "Goodluck".
Hey, Ron,
Coincidental to your and Flo's encounters with Nigerian scams, and your suggestion that Flo change his name to "Goodluck," the current president of Nigeria is named Goodluck Jonathan. I don't know if that was what you were alluding to, but it's a fact.
Cheers,
Bill
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Wasn't a clarinet always known as a "stick"?
In the States we referred to it as a "licorice stick."
Cheers,
Bill
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RE: Amazing Classical Fingerstyle on... (in reply to Ron.M)
apparently its like a whole other world the chapman stick world, quite fascinating...just did some google searching...
this is their like their Paco...cause why use one stick instrument only 10 strings when u can have 20...honestly ...forget the wood and frets...just give this guy a sea of strings...its quicker to learn guitar than change the strings
I am sorry i am being very immature about a different instrument
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ause why use one stick instrument only 10 strings when u can have 20...honestly ...forget the wood and frets...just give this guy a sea of strings...its quicker to learn guitar than change the strings
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I am sorry i am being very immature about a different instrument 
a million apologies fingerstyle i got carried away with jokes 
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