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Mark2
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 RE: Why do you love flamenco? (in reply to ernandez R)
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I was inspired by Diego's personna as described by Pohren. I was focused on earning a living playing guitar and would take any paying gig. I'd play with people I didn't respect as musicians if the gig payed. I even backed an Elvis impersonator at one point.
Then I read about Diego as I was involving myself in flamenco, and the fact that this man was uninterested in the business of music was refreshing. It gave me a new perspective, and although I continued to pursue paying work, I reconnected with the idea that what really mattered was the music, and my relationship to it, to the exclusion of everything else.
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Ethan,
Thanx for sharing these… these moments in your life that off little windows to a world long gone. And ya, weren’t we all invincible at that age?
Diego Del Gastor is my flamenco hero, I won’t say he was any better or any worse then any of his contemporaries, and what do I know anyway, but he seemed so real and so full of life, yet he didn’t seem full of him self only when he did you could tell he was putting everyone on.
You mention unthread having taken a few lessons with Diego, what do you recall from them?
HR
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Date Oct. 11 2022 16:53:54
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constructordeguitarras
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RE: Why do you love flamenco? (in reply to Ricardo)
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I guess this was right before they filmed Rito y Geografia over there in 1971. Just curious if you had any insight into Diego’s guitars etc. Maybe you were too young then, but, for example, we read the story about the “santos Hernandez” that his friends bought for him and he supposedly sat on it, etc. In Rito he is using an Antonio Marin with 19 frets, and some other guitar with white golpeadores. Any insight into those instruments? You say he was very simple at home, so I am wondering if he wasn’t just using other peoples guitars in those videos?
I don't know what make of guitar he owned, but it wasn't very good. He sometimes borrowed my guitar for performances! It was a Contreras that I got new through Pohren. I found it hard to play and never liked it very much. When he borrowed my guitar he would say, "No te pasa nada la guitarra"--maybe because I looked a little apprehensive. Diego had very strong hands (and thick nails) and could play any guitar. He liked my guitar. I also saw him like other guitars that were not very good and very hard to play, but from which he could produce a good sound. The guitar with the extensive golpeador was his own guitar; he tended to dig his fingers in down below the treble end of the bridge, and sometimes thumped guitars so hard that he went through the soundboard.
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Date Oct. 11 2022 20:30:07
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constructordeguitarras
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RE: Why do you love flamenco? (in reply to BarkellWH)
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More stories, Ethan!
Before I ever thought about going to Spain, an adult friend lent me the book, "The Gypsies," by Jan Yoors. It is my favorite book. I've read it at least three times. (I named my son after Jan Yoors.) It chronicles Yoors' experiences with the Rom, whom he ran away from home to travel with when he was 12 years old. I highly recommend it to everyone. Yoors also wrote "The Gypsies of Spain" and he was in Morón when I was there. We were practically rubbing shoulders, he in a deep conversation with Pohren, all of us at the bar at Casa Pepe. I wanted to say something but couldn't find an opening; I was shy. He also wrote "Crossing," a sequel to "The Gypsies," which describes his experiences with the Rom during WWII.
I don't know all the details but Yoors, originally from Belgium, ended up living in New York City with two wives--at the same time; they would take turns being the legal wife. When I saw him in Morón, he was traveling with a much younger, beautiful Asian-looking woman with whom he was clearly intimate. Long after he died, I had an email exchange with his son Kore, who invited me to see him in NYC, but unfortunately I never made it back there. (I had lived in NYC for a year in 1975.)
Some bargain copies of "The Gypsies" here: https://shop.alwaysreview.com/alwaysreview33/jan+yoors?utm_source=Bing&rmgcid=316735730&rmgagid=1353499248467429&rmgkid=a3a733a08e0f11b5335550e7b3c488f8&msclkid=a3a733a08e0f11b5335550e7b3c488f8
And see: http://janyoors.com/life/personal-history/
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