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Camaron es el voz del mundo. I watched that Camaron movie yesterday. It was mmmm....OK. I have this clip on Video; it's on one of those archivos de RTVE vids I believe.
The majority of Ramón de Algeciras's artistic career has seen him playing from behind, that is, accompanying dancing or singing. He was one of the first guitarists that accompanied Camarón, and he also accompanied many great flamenco singers: Antonio Mairena, La Niña de los Peines, Pepe Marchena, Pepe Pinto, Fernanda and Bernarda de Utrera, La Perla de Cádiz, Adela La Chaqueta, Fosforito, and so on. But what I most like of him is his humility; I had a drink in his house in Algeciras with him, his wife and his son —my friend Ramoncito— last summer, and I have to say that he is a really straighforward man. Ole for you Ramón!
i also think its intressting to compare Ramon and Paco. In these days they played a lot of the same falsetas and its amazing to hear paco play the same stuff.
Ramon sounds like a great flamenco guitarist while paco sounds like a great edited flamenco recording. so clean and with such power, amazing.
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Great clip Jim! I had the pleasure of sitting with him backstage and having a coffee during a small concert in Madrid way back (featuring Manuela Vargas the dancer as the star.) Apart from the Spanish language, I was struck by his style of Eddie Cochrane/James Dean era of string ties, drainpipe trousers and bop hairstyle. You could honestly have been talking to someone outside "The Barrowland" in Glasgow at the turn of the 60's! What David says was my impression also...a very "together" person, very soft spoken and someone who really enjoyed the professional Flamenco scene just for the music and the fun. He no way felt his personal career was in second place to his brother's great international success. During the show he played a couple of solos too! All Paco falsetas, which he brought off perfectly! Altogether a very nice person.
cheers
Ron
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Ron's right, Ramón no way felt his personal career was in second place to his brother's great international success; far from it, he was one of the most important masters for Paco. In fact, Paco took several falsetas from him. For example, did you know that the falseta from 1:54 to 2:16 in Fuente y Caudal was composed by Ramón?
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