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RE: The Last Station
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Pedoviejo
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RE: The Last Station (in reply to Ron.M)
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Wrong number. "El número quarenta y trés significa…” un boracho muy mal. Or as the Gypsies might have said, “Es muy boracho mio.” 43. The number is 43. That’s the name of that dreadful yellow liquor that they would mix with orange soda (Seltzer? Gas? I can’t keep up with the colloquialisms for a carbonated liquid.) The preferred orange soda was “Fanta”, so this concoction was referred to as a “Fantástico Quarenta y Trés”. The one and only time I had it was at some sort of disco close by the Rio Darro and the Sacromonte, up the hill a bit following the Carrera del Darro; in Granada, of course. And “río" used generously, of course. I once asked Arcángel why all the streams in Spain were called “rivers,” and he said, “Son ríos de broma.” (“They are joke rivers.”) “So is your toilet paper,” I replied. “And by the way, have you ever tried it for refinishing older guitars? Works great. About the same it does on your…” “I do not use sandpaper,” said Arcángel with finality. And he was right. He only used scrapers. Academic, actually, as scrapers probably wouldn’t have felt any different.
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Date Dec. 17 2003 1:54:44
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Pedoviejo
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RE: The Last Station (in reply to Conrad)
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Arcángel never told me which albums, but at the time “El Duende Flamenco de Paco de Lucía” had just been released. So it had to be that and/or any albums prior to that. Arcángel had told me that Paco had asked if he wanted his guitar acknowledged on the albums somewhere, but Arcángel politely declined. He certainly didn’t need the PR because even then, thirty years ago, his waiting list was over ten years long. (He even had a letter from Gen. Omar Bradley requesting a classical guitar for his new trophy wife. Of course, Bradley didn’t say “trophy wife.” I wonder how Karl Malden would have played that part of Bradley’s life?) There’s lots of variations on the stories about Paco and the Condes, Paco and his father, etc. Lots of rumor. What I heard that seemed to hold more weight than anything else was that Paco’s father, Antonio, was buds with the Condes. Paco, being a good son, followed his father’s wishes that he be seen with Condes. But even that’s not entirely true because there’s an album showing Paco with (if I remember correctly) some super fancy Ramirez made just for him. Truth is that Paco did have an incredible Conde, so why not be seen with it? First Conde negra I ever saw was shown to me by a Japanese guitarist who hung out at Amor de Diós. And Paco had signed the Conde label next to the “Conde Hmnos” signature. It probably now rests in some Shinto shrine, right next to the ceremonial Samurai sword, incense burning in front of it.
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Date Dec. 19 2003 1:56:46
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