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BarkellWH
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 RE: Manitas de Plata (in reply to jg7238)
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Manitas de Plata's crowning moment was around 1969 when he played for Brigitte Bardot while she played with her hair, sucked her finger, and gave Manitas the most adoring looks one can imagine. (No girl ever looked at me like that while I played my guitar!) The video can be accessed by typing in the key words "Manitas de Plata and Brigitte Bardot." It really is worth a look, just to watch Brigitte Bardot's reaction. Apparently, Manitas was BB's lover (or at least one of them) during this period.
Cheers,
Bill
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Date Mar. 14 2012 9:59:46
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BarkellWH
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RE: Manitas de Plata (in reply to Cervantes)
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Well Paco Pena probably my favorite is 73, I think he is not playing as sharp as when he was younger but he was the very top and still is probably the top 0.1%. It seems he has other priorities these days as well.
Paco Pena has been my favorite of those running the circuit for many years now. I like his more traditional style of play. It's not that he hasn't evolved. He has, but less so than others, including Paco de Lucia, Vicente Amigo, and others who probably are more popular. Paco Pena is much more steady and old-school in his approach. I hasten to add that mine is a minority opinion among Foro members, but there it is.
Bill
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And the epitaph drear, "A fool lies here,
Who tried to hustle the East."
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Date Mar. 30 2016 16:37:59
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Cervantes
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RE: Manitas de Plata (in reply to BarkellWH)
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ORIGINAL: BarkellWH
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Well Paco Pena probably my favorite is 73, I think he is not playing as sharp as when he was younger but he was the very top and still is probably the top 0.1%. It seems he has other priorities these days as well.
Paco Pena has been my favorite of those running the circuit for many years now. I like his more traditional style of play. It's not that he hasn't evolved. He has, but less so than others, including Paco de Lucia, Vicente Amigo, and others who probably are more popular. Paco Pena is much more steady and old-school in his approach. I hasten to add that mine is a minority opinion among Foro members, but there it is.
Bill
Bill,
I agree with you 100%. I know Vicente is popular and his technique is over the top, but his music is so abstract I can't really even listen to it.
I think Antonio Rey has a good balance of traditional and modern and his technique is every bit as good.
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Date Mar. 30 2016 16:48:29
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BarkellWH
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RE: Manitas de Plata (in reply to Grisha)
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That video with Bardot is obviously staged. There is no way guitar playing can have that effect on young women. They basically don't care about it.
I don't think it was staged, Grisha. For one thing, my understanding is that at the time (around 1969) the video was made, Manitas was Bardot's (or at least one of Bardot's) lovers and she was his paramour. So it may have been more than just the guitar.
Additionally, I have seen young women really swept away by flamenco guitar, and not just flamenco but Spanish guitarists playing other Spanish genres as well. It never happened to me the way BB is reacting to Manitas, but I do think a well-played Spanish guitar does have an effect on many (if not all) women.
Bill
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And the end of the fight is a tombstone white,
With the name of the late deceased,
And the epitaph drear, "A fool lies here,
Who tried to hustle the East."
--Rudyard Kipling
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