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superficially it is fine but mr. personality is clearly not the center of attention of this video. I see Israel there as well, perhaps it is his number? I assume they are all family but that could be wrong as well, it could be just Israel's family. I will let the members of the Gitano community decide whether or not the depiction of this humble "gypsy picnic" is cool or not in this day and age. I will say it is amusing they have electric instruments that would require amplification, ie, a generator. Anyone that plays out doors knows that means a constant lawnmower noise going on so you have to crank the volume. Since it is just a music video I don't know why they don't just make it acoustic?
Battery powered amps. I know what you mean about the generator. I played in a latin rock band and we'd play on a float during an annual parade. The generator was super annoying but when we were playing the band was loud enough to drown it out.
I also did a gig on a beach at a paella cooking class every year for a few years. I thought it would be terrible trying to play without an amp on a beach. It was a duo gig and the violinist brought a rig powered by a car battery. He even had reverb. It sounded great and the paella and sangria was really good too.
The guy who ran the class was a physicist from Spain. He still owns a great Spanish restaurant near San Francisco. He said his father was disappointed when he decided to go into the restaurant business until he told his father that he was going to eat like a king every day. His food is really good.
superficially it is fine but mr. personality is clearly not the center of attention of this video. I see Israel there as well, perhaps it is his number? I assume they are all family but that could be wrong as well, it could be just Israel's family. I will let the members of the Gitano community decide whether or not the depiction of this humble "gypsy picnic" is cool or not in this day and age. I will say it is amusing they have electric instruments that would require amplification, ie, a generator. Anyone that plays out doors knows that means a constant lawnmower noise going on so you have to crank the volume. Since it is just a music video I don't know why they don't just make it acoustic?
Saw this 'audio remasterizado' video a few months ago. It's better than the usual youtube version with the weird slap back delay/reverb. Image is better too, maybe a machine learning clean up job?
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