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buleria

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Annoying people.com!

Got the idea for this thread from Romanza's Tomatito post! (And need an excuse NOT to do the work I initially turned this computer on to do) Anyone like to share their most annoying people moments in flamenco situations? Here's two for starters:

1. The drunk woman who threw up all over the stage just as I was about to start dancing tarantos at a boozy club in Nottingham where, for some reason, they had booked a flamenco set.

2. The 'obviously foreign tourist' who clapped very loudly and out of time all the way through a cante set in a very small bar in Madrid leaving me (the only other obviously foreign tourist) to try and indicate through facial expressions alone that HE WAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ME!

Karenanne

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Nov. 20 2006 16:40:52

sonikete

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Joined: Jan. 9 2004
From: Sweden

RE: Annoying people.com! (in reply to buleria)

There was this flamenco forum where everyone got along just fine until a really annoying guy came and started talking about totally irrelevant things like singing and dancing and everyone just hated him.

Seriously;

Sound engineers can be a real pain, either they havent got a clue about mixing acoustic music and pretend that they do, or they think you are a primadonna when you dont want it to sound like the classical guitar they are used to mixing, and use up their time trying to get it right.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Nov. 20 2006 20:12:59

Florian

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From: Adelaide/Australia

RE: Annoying people.com! (in reply to buleria)

heh the 2 girls that sat at the front of table and were talking all the way trough the dance even tho the light were off, and the spotlight was on stage and everyone was quiet. and in the orst places like after a displante when theres quiet place before silencio. really obvious.

after the show i went from stage straight to theyr table sat down and with a smile said What the F** was that ? did u not notice there was a F**in show on ? why the F** sitt at the front ? congratulations you are the rudest f***in people i ever playd in front of in my life.

everyone in my group was like " Yeah good on you florian !!! tell em !! I am glad you did it !!! that should teach em a lesson.... until we got in trouble with the management ... lol then i was on my own, " -That was wrong florian, shouldnt have done that"

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Nov. 20 2006 20:19:52

sonikete

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From: Sweden

RE: Annoying people.com! (in reply to buleria)

Another thing about sound engineers

Sound engineer: - "You want to have a microphone for the floor????"

Me: - Yeah, to pick up the feet when theyre dancing.

Sound engineer: - Are you crazy?? Come and listen to this, guys, he wants a mic for the floor, BWUAHAHAHA

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Nov. 20 2006 20:32:11

Fergusito

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Joined: Jul. 11 2003
From: UK

RE: Annoying people.com! (in reply to buleria)

If I could only count the times that people say to me 'oh are you Spanish, Oh you're not. We were having a bet to see if you were!!!'
I'm really sick of the one!!

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 8 2006 10:39:52

JBASHORUN

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Joined: Jan. 23 2005

RE: Annoying people.com! (in reply to buleria)

Actually, Karenanne, the "obviously foreign tourist" clapping out of time was me, and the woman who threw up on the stage was my girlfriend. But we know when we're not wanted...

Jb

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 8 2006 18:42:42

ToddK

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RE: Annoying people.com! (in reply to buleria)

My favorite was when i used to play a weekly restraunt gig, solo,
just doing some flamenco solos, and classical pieces.

Went over great.

But once every few weeks, i would get "that guy". You know "that guy".

He comes up to me, when im in the middle of playing, and starts
waving his hand at me,

"Hey!! You!!! playing the guitar!!! HEY!!! EXCUSE ME!!
YOU!! With the guitar, HEY!!! DUDE!! Play something i know for Gods sake!
Hey man!! Can you hear me!!??""

As if we're in a loud sports bar. And we're actually in a VERY quiet little
restraunt. We're talking a formal place too. The staff is in Tuxedos.
He expects i'll just stop playing, and carry on a conversation with him i guess.
Of course, he's dead wrong

I just keep playing, and not making any eye contact.
He's eventually escorted back to his table.

He's very quiet and polite to everybody else there.

Yep, he's,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, "That Guy"

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 8 2006 19:14:36

JBASHORUN

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RE: Annoying people.com! (in reply to ToddK)

That was me too... I get around!

Jb

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 8 2006 19:48:44

ToddK

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RE: Annoying people.com! (in reply to JBASHORUN)

quote:

That was me too... I get around!

Jb

I knew it!!!!

You bastard!

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 8 2006 20:02:47

koella

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Joined: Sep. 10 2005
From: holland

RE: Annoying people.com! (in reply to buleria)

Once I played with a rock band.
Then all of a sudden a bunch of "those guys" lifted the PA system and turned it towards the stage.
Very funny. Of course we quit playing.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 8 2006 20:04:40

Mark2

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Joined: Jul. 12 2004
From: San Francisco

RE: Annoying people.com! (in reply to buleria)

Oh, I've got a few of them, but my favorite was the homeless guy who crashed an upscale party in a retail store and whipped out his business right in front of me as I was playing. The same night a rather attractive woman offered to do me all night. Guitar must have sounded good that night.
Flo, I wish you had a you tube of you telling off those rude ladies.
Here's my revenge-I'm playing for a wedding reception and as the party comes in, I start playing the only thing I know they will know-the malaguena riff. They start dancing and clapping in time, doing a sort of conga line as they are coming in. Feeling a bit annoyed, I transition right into bulerias-it was hilarious how the clapping just fell apart and the dancing sputtered to a halt.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 8 2006 20:30:51

Florian

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From: Adelaide/Australia

RE: Annoying people.com! (in reply to buleria)

sounded like a nice gig Todk except for the guy

what are you up to this days ? what u got coming up ?

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 8 2006 20:31:29

Florian

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From: Adelaide/Australia

RE: Annoying people.com! (in reply to Florian)

hehe Koeall & Mark thats funny

Mark , you did her ofcourse ?

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 8 2006 20:33:27

Florian

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From: Adelaide/Australia

RE: Annoying people.com! (in reply to Florian)

heheh some girls once stuck food into my friends canjon while he was playing at a gig restaurant, (he didnt know it was happening)

OMG he wanted to kill em then and there when he found out, we had to phisically restrain him and calm him down.

then hes holding the food that he took out in his hand and i can see him contemplating to throw it in theyr face over the stage, but we were like .

nnoooOOOO

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 8 2006 20:42:14

ToddK

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RE: Annoying people.com! (in reply to Florian)

quote:

what u got coming up ?

For gigs?
Nothing. I dont gig anymore. I may do another solo concert at
Maryland Hall next year, but no more Bars and Restraunts for me.
Its too depressing. :) Im getting enough studio work to pay the bills,
and its great, becuase now, technically, i play guitar for fun only.
Wich of course, makes it, more fun!!

Tonite?
Not too much. So i might make some silly guitar videos or something.
Ive been working on this picado run run run run run echo echo echo..........................

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 8 2006 20:44:11

Florian

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From: Adelaide/Australia

RE: Annoying people.com! (in reply to ToddK)

quote:

Im getting enough studio work to pay the bills

thats brilliant

i dont do anything that i know i am not gonna have fun with anymore unless ofcourse its really good money

i turned down 3 shows for one this weekend, because i knew i would have more fun with this one show on sunday.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 8 2006 20:47:00

Mark2

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From: San Francisco

RE: Annoying people.com! (in reply to Florian)

Sorry to say I didn't. Couldn't figure out how to explain to the wife why that silly gig took all night

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 8 2006 20:50:07

Florian

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From: Adelaide/Australia

RE: Annoying people.com! (in reply to Mark2)

ohh

thats understandable

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 8 2006 20:52:10

Mark2

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From: San Francisco

RE: Annoying people.com! (in reply to ToddK)

That's a shame Todd, because as well as you play, it's a crime your not out there all the time. What sort of studio work do you do? Production for others or guitar stuff?

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 8 2006 20:54:05

ToddK

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RE: Annoying people.com! (in reply to Mark2)

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That's a shame Todd, because as well as you play, it's a crime your not out there all the time. What sort of studio work do you do? Production for others or guitar stuff?

Production for a number of things. From TV spots, to local musicians.

Ricardo has been doing some recording here. At the moment, im producing
demos for 2 country artists. Wich is alot of fun. Playing lots of different
instruments etc etc...
Its great not having to gig, unless i feel like it. I actually feel like playing
guitar much more, than when i used to gig 5 nights a week.
Ive been very fortunate, and im having a blast.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 9 2006 17:30:04

John O.

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From: Seeheim-Jugenheim, Germany

RE: Annoying people.com! (in reply to ToddK)

I hate flamencos who act as if they're the wisest around and that they're in a league above everyone else and able to tell who's really "flamenco" and who's not. People who put themselves and flamenco on an unreachable pedistal because they want to feel special for doing something nobody else can.

I know people who do this and they all have massive problems with their self-esteem. Could be they're good as musicians, but they suck as people and colleagues. You can usually tell the really good musicians because they're the ones you're most likely to get along with best, no matter which level you or they are on.

And I do know "That guy". He comes up to me on the street and ask me to play something he knows and I either just ask him for money up front or talk with a fake southern accent: in Germany that scares people off real quick

"That guy" and people talking during a performance are why I now only play for money or people who know and have an interest in flamenco. My company asked me to play at the Christmas party but I politely declined...

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 12 2006 10:48:09

JBASHORUN

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RE: Annoying people.com! (in reply to buleria)

"Hey buddy, can you do Stairway To Heaven?"

Jb

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 12 2006 11:29:36

John O.

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From: Seeheim-Jugenheim, Germany

RE: Annoying people.com! (in reply to JBASHORUN)

The modern song is "Nothing Else Matters". It's then even cooler when they sing along...

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 12 2006 14:57:44

JBASHORUN

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RE: Annoying people.com! (in reply to buleria)

In all honesty, I have to admit to really being one if these "annoying people". At least on one occasion. after leaving an Eduardo Niebla concert at the Barbican (London), I met 2 Spaniards busking outside the tube station. Having had a few drinks that evening, I struck up a conversation with the guitarist and asked him if he knew how to play and PDL or Sabicas songs. Surprisingly, he did- I think it was "Rio Ancho" and some of the other ones. The singer with him also did some palmas. I was so impressed (and drunk) that I gave him my personal copy of PDL's "Fantasia Flamenca" CD, which he claimed was "better than getting money". It was surprising because his set-list of songs was mainly stuff like "Blue Moon", etc. So perhaps our little diversion was a positive one (or perhaps not?). Anyway, there you have it. I'll try not to interrupt musicians in future.

Jb

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 12 2006 15:39:18

JBASHORUN

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RE: Annoying people.com! (in reply to buleria)

LOL, he was playing an ALHAMBRA, and I joked with him: "Es un Conde?"... he must've been glad to see the back of me!

It WAS real Cypress though...

Jb

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 12 2006 16:32:41

Mark2

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Joined: Jul. 12 2004
From: San Francisco

RE: Annoying people.com! (in reply to ToddK)

Hey Todd,
That's awesome. From hearing your uploads and reading your posts, it's clear you have a lot of knowledge and skill with recording and it's nice to know there are guys out there like you who are getting to tweak in their studios and make money doing it. One guy wrote on a recording forum that he wished his copy of pro tools came with a million bucks, so he could stay home and mess with it all day. I can relate, as I have a copy of logic and a g5, but little time to mess with it. The tools out there today are incredible.

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ORIGINAL: ToddK

Production for a number of things. From TV spots, to local musicians.

Ricardo has been doing some recording here. At the moment, im producing
demos for 2 country artists. Wich is alot of fun. Playing lots of different
instruments etc etc...
Its great not having to gig, unless i feel like it. I actually feel like playing
guitar much more, than when i used to gig 5 nights a week.
Ive been very fortunate, and im having a blast.