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Posts: 2697
Joined: Jun. 7 2010
From: The South Ireland
Why are people so easily taken in ?
Problem ....1........posting when drunk ..and yet here i am .. Problem ....2........looking for something new on you tube ..spanish , flamenco stuff .. you know ..
and i find ..huge claims ..like 'Best flamenco guitarist ever' 'most astounding spanish music' etc etc you know what i mean ..
Oh yeah and please note this goes with the ''BUY THE ALBUM ''link ..etc etc
and what i hear is ... 1..rumba or Am ..G..F..E..with drums and bass and all 2..F# .G thing and then ..no particular palo .....for most of the video ,, but the face is expressive so the guy actually belives he is making a difference and putting out Spanish music ,,,without even studying ...
Great .........
and yet on the site is ..
.Views ....180.256 subscribers ...879
comments like ...
''the best ever flamenco player I ever heard .... OMG he is so fast i need him to teach me ..... 'What are those weird Spanish chords ,,can i learn them ...? I wish i had a teacher like him near me ...
thumbs up ...so fantastically brilliant i watch this video over and over .... -------------------------------------- and yet when i find someone ..that really would get the approval of the foro......because i know and I am not an idiot ...(strike the idiot bit ) OK
I find ...2 comments 1...Ole .... 2...well done
14 subscribers
and no real info....
i mean WTF ....this is a lot of work ....a life changing ammount of work it is .......
a guitarist once said to me '' I wish I could just pick up the guitar and play like you ..so easy ''
because i obviously have done no work whatsoever ...as have any of you lot ...and it is all so natural ..that we dont actually do anything at all ........
Flamenco = gypsy Kings Flamenco = some weird chords .
and thats basically all you need to know if you want to really succeed in this world of music , or get big youtube numbers ....
I finally realised where we are going wrong .......
I submit a vid from 2010...of what should be classified as .....
''Amazing flamenco guitarist ''' ''fastest guitarist in the world '' ' cleanest flamenco kitchen .. and greenest top ever ... ever etc etc ....
RE: Why are people so easily taken in ? (in reply to El Kiko)
Awesome, dude, OMG you're the best, can I download your album etc.
Seriously, the crappiest books sell the most, the stupidest films make millions and win Oscars, the dumbest Rock bands have the biggest followings . . . what else is new. And add in that flamenco is already a complex and 'exotic' art form for the vast majority of human beings, at least the ones on this planet. Anyway YouTube posters seem to be a pathetic bunch -- some of the comments about classical music clips are beyond belief. You don't do flamenco for the YouTube hits or platoons of groupies; the reward comes almost completely from inside ourselves -- OK, girls loving us is good too.
RE: Why are people so easily taken in ? (in reply to El Kiko)
People like what they can relate to
Spaniards like traditional flamenco, because its part of their culture, guitarists and dancers like it, because they can relate to the artistry and have a frame of reference they tap into, but most people don't relate to it
The rumba stuff follows structures they're familiar with and understand and there's nothing wrong with it and it doesn't make people ignorant, flamenco just isnt their thing
RE: Why are people so easily taken in ? (in reply to mark74)
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Spaniards like traditional flamenco, because its part of their culture,
That's a generalisation. My experience about it : that's not true. Most of the spaniard I know (living outside spain) if they enjoy flamenco (believe me it's far from being automatic), they can't stand 'tradicional' stuff. At least the few ones I know told me that in spain flamenco and fusion aka flamenquito (pop, light...) is far more appreciated than the Jondo. In fact they told me that foreigners enjoy much more tradicional stuff than the lambda spaniard (outside of the aficionado circle I guess).
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and yet when i find someone ..that really would get the approval of the foro......because i know and I am not an idiot ...(strike the idiot bit ) OK
I find ...2 comments 1...Ole .... 2...well done
14 subscribers
and no real info....
I don't know what happen with YT, but I cannot see comments anymore. I used to receive some couple of comments from my uploads on a regular basis but now, they did not reach my mail anymore. I guess this have something to do with G+ suck1ng policy... I was close to delete my account on this plateform but then I see I reach something near 700 000 views, so I thought 'let's see if I could reach 1 million' ...and decided to not delete!
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RE: Why are people so easily taken in ? (in reply to mark74)
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Spaniards like traditional flamenco, because its part of their culture
oup oup. Actually the huge majority of Spaniards does not like flamenco and its never been part of their culture. Even in Andalucia, the huge majority are not really interested in flamenco and especially not in Cande Jondo, which most people strongly dislike.
Posts: 2697
Joined: Jun. 7 2010
From: The South Ireland
RE: Why are people so easily taken in ? (in reply to Anders Eliasson)
This is true | remember when i lived in Cordoba all the 'young ' people like groups like Queen and Gary Moore and a few of the biggest Spanish rock bands that were basically copies of these and sung in English anyway .. although flamenco was somehow revered by them , it was just not used .
Until it was time for the local fiesta or verbaena and then a lot of Traje Gitanas would be around and there would mainly be a lot of Sevillanas to dance ..albeit the Sevillanas that have a lot of synthesizers and trumpet stuff on it ...
after a while the young would end up in a rock caseta and the older in a more trad place ....
Flamenco is something you grandfather does ....not me .....
RE: Why are people so easily taken in ? (in reply to El Kiko)
Kids are actually very flexible. They want whatever they see on TV, and anything which they haven't seen on TV is 'weird'.
What we need is to get Disney on the case, perhaps in conjunction with Macdonalds.
'An eight year old girl who is a flamenco dancer works part time at a Macdonalds to earn money to support her brain damaged parents and buy new shoes. Every week she seems close to buying new shoes but some mistake by her hapless younger brother soaks up the excess funds. Still in a heartfelt epilogue the whole family get to relax and enjoy delicious burgers together in front of the TV. Our kindly heroine only mildly scolds her father for drooling in his fillet o fish.'
The soundtrack however saves the day, it's Almoraima on electric guitar in four four with a vocal.
YAY !
Here is the chorus.
'Culture cannot die please listen to our sponsors and they will tell you why.'
RE: Why are people so easily taken in ? (in reply to El Kiko)
Not so sure about that, my kids are 8 and 10, and listen to mostly Johnny Cash which I happen to have some of, but don't personally listen to that much. There's none of his stuff on TV ... They listen to a lot of other music as well, but pretty much refuse to listen to Flamenco of any sort ...
Jeff
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Kids are actually very flexible. They want whatever they see on TV, and anything which they haven't seen on TV is 'weird'.
RE: Why are people so easily taken in ? (in reply to El Kiko)
I'm not surprised that the majority of Spaniards don't like flamenco, but I still think flamenco is more popular in Spain than in any other individual country. On the Canal Sur flaemnco radio site they used to have a pie chart that showed who was listening worldwide and over 50% was in Spain with France coming in second with like 10% and unfortunately I don't remember seeing any Latin American countries at all
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Joined: Aug. 9 2006
From: Iran (living in Germany)
RE: Why are people so easily taken in ? (in reply to n85ae)
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ORIGINAL: n85ae
Not so sure about that, my kids are 8 and 10, and listen to mostly Johnny Cash which I happen to have some of, but don't personally listen to that much. There's none of his stuff on TV ... They listen to a lot of other music as well, but pretty much refuse to listen to Flamenco of any sort ...
Jeff
Maybe this is the only way to get todays kids listen to flamenco
RE: Why are people so easily taken in ? (in reply to El Kiko)
What more about it do you want to know? Singing, dancing, guitar? Or just a general knowledge more? If you're just looking for a general over all primer that's probably okay, if you're interested in something in particular there's better places....
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