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ToddK

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charming the ladies

Well, i know Manitas de Plata is often the source of
alot of hoodoo and whatnot, but i found this great video.

Sure, he does some really awful rasgueado in the begining,
but he has a nice tremelo.

BUT, the great part is, he's playing to a very pretty lady, and
he's right up in her face, playing to her.

The look on her face is classic. She looks like she can barely keep her
clothes on halfway through.

This is the Power of the Guitar Gentlemen!!!!

Use it , dont abuse it!!!

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duende

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RE: charming the ladies (in reply to ToddK)

ok ok did he get laid that night or what!!

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Mar. 10 2006 7:20:52

flyeogh

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RE: charming the ladies (in reply to ToddK)

Now where has that "play like manitas " book gone

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Francisco

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From: SW USA

RE: charming the ladies (in reply to ToddK)

I can't watch it while I'm at work, but is this the one where he's playing for Brigitte Bardot (I probably slaughtered that name)?

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Mar. 10 2006 8:02:45

Doitsujin

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RE: charming the ladies (in reply to ToddK)

Pffffff.....

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henrym3483

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From: Limerick,Ireland

RE: charming the ladies (in reply to Doitsujin)

well he aint sabicas thats for sure

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gerundino63

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From: The Netherlands

RE: charming the ladies (in reply to Doitsujin)

OFF TOPIC!!

Once a man was a big fan of Brigitte Bardot ( BB).
So his wife tatoed for the birthday of her husband one B on her lefft butt, and another B on her right but.
When the birthday was there she undressed and bent over to show her tatoo present.

The man was waching.....and said.....BOB? BOB? who the f**k is BOB??

Have a nice day!
Peter

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duende

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RE: charming the ladies (in reply to gerundino63)

pfffffffffffffffffff LOL!! tell us another one Peter!

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Mar. 10 2006 9:18:24

henrym3483

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RE: charming the ladies (in reply to duende)

dat joke sucked more than a dyson hoover

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Mar. 10 2006 9:25:52

Francisco

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From: SW USA

RE: charming the ladies (in reply to ToddK)

BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!

Good one Peter.

BOB!!! LOL

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Mar. 10 2006 10:57:44

Jim Opfer

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From: Glasgow, Scotland.

RE: charming the ladies (in reply to ToddK)

Jeez! that's my mum!

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Mar. 10 2006 12:25:32

rick

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RE: charming the ladies (in reply to ToddK)

if i was playing for bb I would forget how to play too

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Mar. 10 2006 12:46:03

henrym3483

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From: Limerick,Ireland

RE: charming the ladies (in reply to rick)

manitas looks at her the way a perv would.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Mar. 10 2006 14:03:12

edgar884

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RE: charming the ladies (in reply to ToddK)

Ok now I've heard Manitas, never heard it before and never want to hear it again.

Seriously that was the worst flamenco air I have ever heard.
What the hell was that it wasn't even music eggggggggg ha hhah hh crapp.

No wonder people cringe when his name is mentioned.
Sorry man I havn't said anything so mean in a long time, but that was really really bad in all ways that it could be bad. He is an ugly ****er too.

Do flamenco guitar players mob this guy if he comes in to town.

Beam me up scotty theres no intelligent life on this planet.

That was entertaining to say the least though Todd. Thanx now I know not to buy anything from that guy.

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XXX

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RE: charming the ladies (in reply to ToddK)

Nothing wrong with his playing. There are better players sure, but this wasnt bad at all...ok maybe a little.

What I did not like was the girl. I dont like blondes...

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edgar884

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RE: charming the ladies (in reply to ToddK)

Sorry I don't no, I just hated it, it's not like me,. please forgive.

I guess it just wasn't flamenco

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XXX

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RE: charming the ladies (in reply to ToddK)

HA! Now I know: You just envy him!

Just kidding. I didnt like it too much either, but I am not able to say his playing is bad. Its ok imo

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Mar. 10 2006 19:19:56

Ron.M

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From: Scotland

RE: charming the ladies (in reply to edgar884)

Actually Manitas has a great tone from time to time that is really hard to describe, but is very captivating IMO.
It's definitely not Andalucian Flamenco though.

cheers

Ron

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Mar. 10 2006 20:02:35

Doitsujin

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RE: charming the ladies (in reply to ToddK)

quote:

BOB!!! LOL

Hey samwise are you a fan of Lois Lane? hehe

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Mar. 10 2006 22:06:06

Thomas Whiteley

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RE: charming the ladies (in reply to ToddK)

quote:

Manitas de Plata

"Manitas De Playa is considered to be the World's Greatest Flamenco Guitarist". Imagine that! This is recent.

http://www.altnet.com/store/album/43185/index.aspx

In 1960 they said of him, "Greatest Flamenco Guitarist Ever"!

There is no finer flamenco guitarist than Manitas de Plata.

In defense of Manitas, he does not play flamenco. He plays folk music from Southern France.

Personally, I know of no one who would care to listen to him play. Technique and compas meant nothing to Manitas. What is a palo? Who knows?

I got the impression that this clip was more like Mexican Mariachi music. But then Mariachi’s are entertaining and have feeling.

If you have the impression that I do not like the music of Manitas de Plata - you are correct!

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fevictor

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RE: charming the ladies (in reply to ToddK)

I´d probably end up with a name like "Meñiques de Cobre" Ole!

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henrym3483

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RE: charming the ladies (in reply to fevictor)

copper fingers eh? btw whats his real name?

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photog

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RE: charming the ladies (in reply to Francisco)

Yes BB, a young BB. The guitarist to the 'S. Trop/jetset set'. M. de P. Picasso named him the greatest guitarist or something like that. Looks like early 1970's.

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Thomas Whiteley

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RE: charming the ladies (in reply to henrym3483)

quote:

copper fingers eh? btw whats his real name?

His real name is Ricard Baliardo. Manitas de Plata means, “Little hands of Silver”. If he is still alive he is 85.

Marketing is everything. Manitas had poor technique to say the least. He could impress the ignorant masses but not the Gitano’s!

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Richard Jernigan

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RE: charming the ladies (in reply to ToddK)

I was madly in love with my fantasy of Brigitte Bardot when I was 18 and she was 19. The opening scene of "And God Created Woman" was a lingering, minute exploration of the detailed geography of her 19-year old nude body. Heady stuff for the mid-1950s. Thirty-odd years later I drove down from Santa Barbara to see a screening of a restored print at the Directors' Guild in Hollywood. After the film someone read a short piece by the pioneering French feminist Simone de Beauvoir. She said Bardot was interesting because she refused to be simply a sex object. Despite her enormous sensuality and sexual magnetism, she always made you see her as a person in every film.

Yes. In "And god Created woman", despite intentionally and calculatedly destroying the lives of three brothers with her irresistible sexual attraction, she made you see that she was doing it almost out of fear, to protect herself. To protect herself not so much from the brothers, any one of whom would have married her and devoted his life to her. Not to protect herself from the brothers' parents, who took her into their house as an act of charity. But to protect herself, almost in retrospect, from the exploitation she had suffered just a few years before.

Would I have stooped to playing like Manitas to charm the pants off Bardot? When I was 18, in a New York minute! Make that a New York second!

But others say that taking on Manitas as a boyfriend for a while was of a piece with her campaign for kindness to animals.

RNJ

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sorin popovici

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RE: charming the ladies (in reply to ToddK)

I also like Brigitte Bardot.
There is smth sad about it though ....seen her a couple of years ago
when she came to Bucharest (she is into animal rights now ...and she was defending the rights of the dogs that wonder through Bucharest cause they wanted them to "euthanize" them(they wanna get rid of all them ...they are too many and some people have been bitten))
Anyway ,gee .. 50 years can ruin a beauty ..that's kind of sad.There was one funny moment then , when the mayor said to her smth like "Well ,dreams really come true..

"
Anyway,in the light of all this ...i'm really optimistic about meeting angelina jolie

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Kate

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RE: charming the ladies (in reply to sorin popovici)

My friend's dad, a British actor went to Hollywood however his career was cut short when he slept with the director's wife, Bridget Bardot, whereupon he was told he would never work in that town again. He said it was worth it :)

Kate

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Florian

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RE: charming the ladies (in reply to Kate)

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The look on her face is classic. She looks like she can barely keep her
clothes on halfway through

its not so much what he does with the guitar, as it is where his foot is

Its the first trick they teach u in the Manitas academy, is right up there with in a live performance find the prettiest girl in the crowd and pretend that the rest of the audience is not even there, just ignore them and make them feel uncomfortable for intruding on your time with this girl

I am just trying to picture other guitarists doing that with a girl and i am amusing myself,

Imagine Paco Cepero making those faces at a girl
Or Ricardo Nunez (poor girl would have had nightmares)
Or Vicente, i think in this case Vicente would push her back cause shes messing up his hair

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