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We get this US TV program here called "Mythbusters", which has a couple of crazy (but smart) guys who have spent a lot of time working in the Special Effects industry in Hollywood. The aim of the program is to prove or disprove if certain "Urban Myths" are true or not... Like...
"Somebody poured petrol down a toilet..and the next guy who sat on it and threw his cigarette end down between his legs got completely blown up..."
or..
If you fire a gun in a high flying jet aeroplane, then the bullet-hole will cause catostrophic decompression and everybody will get sucked out the hole.
or
Some guys out hunting came back to their truck, but it wouldn't start. They eventually traced the cause to a blown fuse. Since they had no car fuses, they found that a 0.22 bullet would fit, so just used that instead. As they were driving along, the bullet overheated and the driver was shot.
It goes on and on....
It's great fun and the two crazy guys really do go through pretty rigorous testing!
Anyway, my point is... Can't we have a Flamenco Mythbusters?
Like .."All the best players keep their foot going in steady time..."
or
PdL has the best Flamenco guitar ever made...
or
To play solo you must spend 20 years accompanying Dance, then another 20 accompanying Cante.
or
Pegs are lighter and sound better than machines ...
I could go on and on.. Would be good to put such stuff to the test. I've always maintained that if a guitarist was playing behind a curtain, I'd find it difficult enough to tell if he was playing on even a Blanca or a Negra, let alone what make it was, or what kind of strings he was using...
cheers
Ron
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We get that show here too Ron, its funny did u ever see the one where the myth was that during the civil war some guy was whot thru the testicles and the bullet continued to go and shoot a women in the ovaries and impregnated her? They busted it The flamenco mythbusters is a good idea, ill try think of some.
Here's another one: You know that stuff ? Superglue ? In the manual it says to avoid contact with skin or eyes ! Well, it seems there are guitar players who bring it on there nails on purpose to keep their nails from wearing out !
People say once there was this scottish flamenco player who sat down in front of a camcorder, put on a wig and spread it all over the internet. Just to deal with the young guys and their so called modern flamenco.
HA Hhahaha o.k Koella now u just getting carried away, we all now he can play with the mittens on.
Heres another one; apparently paco refuses to drinks orange juice unless it was squeezed fresh, no more than 30 seconds prior to being poured into his glass.
hey fellas, I don't often post here, mainly because anytime I come for answers there's usually a post with my question in it already, but I reckon this is a good idea.
I think a lot of the myths are true for the people who come to those conclusions based on their own experiences. But there's often someone who's just as good and believes the total opposite - eyes of the beholder or something
anyway - I heard superglue was originally made for army applications to glue flesh wounds together.
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