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RE: Paco de Lucia Legacy Festival - shall we go as a group?
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JasonM
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Joined: Dec. 8 2005
From: Baltimore
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RE: Paco de Lucia Legacy Festival - ... (in reply to Ricardo)
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This was such a great show and I feel fortunate to have been able to see all of these guys in one place, close to home. The program was a nice balance of Paco’s music with some their own personal material thrown in with a good amount of variety. It’s funny because going in, I was excited to see a lot of these guys I’ve never seen live, like Toni Rey for example. But my favorite performances were from the Paco’s old band. Jorge, Ruven, and Carlos trio did an awesome bulerias together. Ruven was so fun to watch because he was so into it! Carlos ripping Paco falsetas on his bass. Like Ricardo said, I did not except to enjoy Nino Josele as much as I did! Another highlight was Yerai. For me, the best sound and aire. Jose Merce did a Siguiriyas and that was a highlight for me too Back to Toni Rey, he did a solo and started off with Tio Sabas. Sounded good, and then after the intro just went into his usual Toni Tarranta, and Ricardo and I are like come on man what happened? Lol
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Date Feb. 22 2024 16:02:52
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zendalex
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Joined: Sep. 4 2010
From: New York area
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RE: Paco de Lucia Legacy Festival - ... (in reply to JasonM)
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Wow I just saw this thread - a consequence of the fact that for whatever reason I dont come here often. It was nice to bump into you guys, finally saw JasonM, Ramzi and Ricardo in person, also Don Soledad from whom I actually purchased my AF25 Conde and Jose Romero guitars. Although briefly, it was nice to meet you guys. Indeed that was one hell of a crowd in that concert, I doubt there was ever such an event so tightly packed with star figures. I did see most of these guys before of course, but never them all together. While the program was amazing and most of the numbers went well, but I could not NOT notice some of things that totally looked like train wrecks to me - when artists of such caliber meet, I am pretty sure the show is very much improvised on the spot. They are busy with their own schedules, then they meet and rehearse for 1 hour or so (as we saw in the clip of Rey, Sanchez and Al Di Meola). Thus I could not NOT notice that El Sigala was singing completely out of key for a good part of his number, and reading letras from the sheet. I was also totally dumbfounded with complete mess that Bandera made out of la barrossa, ultimately I think Yerai saved by starting to play his own alegria which had nothing to do with the original - maybe that was the plan (as we saw with Rey) but the few falsetas that Bandera did play were totally out as they sounded to me. Finally I think Carnegie Hall is the worst venue to hold such performances - I am wondering if anybody really saw anything sitting on the first or second row. I only could see heads of the performers, some were totally blocked by the stage elevation + the speaker monitors that they put on top. That was very disappointing and reminded me why I always hated NYC - everything is done to make money on the crowds, but not for people's enjoyment. I thought I was buying the best possible seats, but they should be sold as "partial view". So ultimately my impression from the concert was very much tainted by my frustration with the view that I got from my seat.
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Date Feb. 25 2024 14:21:52
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