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gato

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Joined: Jun. 9 2007

FLAMENCO IS!

Flamenco is so many things to so many people, perhaps you can share your thoughts with us on this thread........

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The Life Everlasting/Oswald Utopia

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 18 2007 8:57:03

Guest

RE: FLAMENCO IS! (in reply to gato)

first i think we should have a group hug

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 18 2007 8:59:33

duende

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From: Sweden

RE: FLAMENCO IS! (in reply to gato)

it can also be a pain in the butt...thats why ive been listening to AC/DC for a month!

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Florian

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From: Adelaide/Australia

RE: FLAMENCO IS! (in reply to gato)

Flamingo is my life, but is much deeper than that, i love the sombreros and fans, and red shirts and castanets and the sangria.

And its great because its very exotic and people always sound impressed when i tell them i play flamingo guitar.

And i dont like the screaming but i like the dancers and the wodden box ( all my friends say they could do that).

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 18 2007 9:07:28

koella

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From: holland

RE: FLAMENCO IS! (in reply to gato)

I envy you Flo.
I'm with Henrik. It can be a real pain.
Sometimes it all seems so aimless.

I feel like a soldier who's learning to fight and shoot, but there's never a real war going on.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 18 2007 9:22:42

Florian

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From: Adelaide/Australia

RE: FLAMENCO IS! (in reply to koella)

this was all just last year, i think i played along like a nice member with all of them but no more i am boring myself repeating the same thing:

What is the essence of flamenco

What is your deep and personal interest in flamenco

Flamenco Puro

no disrespect to you Gato

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 18 2007 9:37:03

Florian

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RE: FLAMENCO IS! (in reply to koella)

quote:

I envy you Flo.

lol I was joking koella

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 18 2007 9:39:01

Jan Willem

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Joined: Feb. 21 2007
From: Belgium Halle

RE: FLAMENCO IS! (in reply to gato)

Flamenco for me, expresses the tragical and dramatical excistence of men, with all it's joy and sadness. I see it as an expression of how humans experience there life. This what real music should do and that's why most of us live flamenco and not just hear it. But indeed the music is very difficult en hard to listen to for a long time. But man what a joy if you, for some reason, had to miss your flamenco recordings and than hear them again.....

Flamenco is also a very powerfull something and lots of aficionado's around the world have to experience it alone, that's very frustrating imo. (I'm from belgium by the way )

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 18 2007 9:42:03

Ron.M

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From: Scotland

RE: FLAMENCO IS! (in reply to gato)

Just..Humanity I suppose...
I find that when it gets too fancy, it loses that feeling and morphs into something else.

My opinion only!

cheers,

Ron

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 18 2007 22:21:16

ToddK

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RE: FLAMENCO IS! (in reply to gato)

I thought it was that spanishy stuff Al Dimeola plays.

Or maybe its those bolero hats with the little balls hanging from the brim.

No wait, i got it, its polka dot shirts and skirts.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 18 2007 22:31:28

JBASHORUN

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RE: FLAMENCO IS! (in reply to gato)

i think flaminco is playin your gitar as hard and loud as you can, then shoutin ole aftrwards but its not that easie you got to know 2 or 3 cords and if u dont cross yor legs the rite way ppl will larf at u and if u play 4 cantay the singa will shout and scream so loud that noone will here u and i dont undrstand y the dancin womin stamp they feet so much like they havin a fit but yes flaminco is like that i think thats wot i like about it anyways

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 18 2007 22:58:25

Florian

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From: Adelaide/Australia

RE: FLAMENCO IS! (in reply to JBASHORUN)

flamenco is like one of those things like space or something :-)

like " Where is the end " and what is stopping it ? and what is behind whats stoping it ?

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 18 2007 23:05:27

Ron.M

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RE: FLAMENCO IS! (in reply to ToddK)

I heard this on shortwave radio about 35 years ago...

www.btinternet.com/~flamenco/TerremotoMorao.wma

And my chin just dropped!
I'd never heard anything like it before...
(I thought it was maybe Arabic or something)

This was the first Flamenco I'd ever heard.

Since then, I've never lost THAT sound in my head.
Morao is a tremendous guitarist IMO.

It encouraged me to buy a nylon string guitar and try to search for THAT sound!

But it kept moving...with Paco...Tomatito etc.

Great Artists, but THAT sound is the one that means most to me...

Terremoto and Morao...

Ah! ...my final Desert Island Disc..

cheers,

Ron

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 18 2007 23:12:23

Patrick

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RE: FLAMENCO IS! (in reply to gato)

This is Flamenco!

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 18 2007 23:16:23

Ron.M

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RE: FLAMENCO IS! (in reply to Ron.M)

Oh..sorry all..
I never realized this was a comedy/joke thread...

(Forgive an old man)
Apologies,

Ron

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 18 2007 23:21:28

JDiaz

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RE: FLAMENCO IS! (in reply to gato)

Flamenco IS what you make it!

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 18 2007 23:59:04

Patrick

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From: Portland, Oregon

RE: FLAMENCO IS! (in reply to gato)

quote:

I never realized this was a comedy/joke thread...(Forgive an old man)
Apologies,

I don't think it was meant to be, it just worked out that way.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 19 2007 1:18:45

Ricardo

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RE: FLAMENCO IS! (in reply to gato)

Electric bass, flute, cajon and djembe, keyboard strings, and harmonica. Puro.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 19 2007 4:08:24

musicmaker

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Joined: Jan. 23 2007
From: Lincoln,NE

RE: FLAMENCO IS! (in reply to gato)

It is also a free feeling like one gets riding along on a motorcycle and on a lonely road able to see hear and smell life all around!

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 19 2007 4:59:16

Ron.M

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RE: FLAMENCO IS! (in reply to Ricardo)

quote:

Electric bass, flute, cajon and djembe, keyboard strings, and harmonica. Puro.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 19 2007 10:20:34

Florian

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From: Adelaide/Australia

RE: FLAMENCO IS! (in reply to Ron.M)

quote:

quote:

I never realized this was a comedy/joke thread...(Forgive an old man)
Apologies,

I don't think it was meant to be, it just worked out that way.

Sorry gato..

Again no direspect, and i dont wanna speak for anyone other than myself but man we have covered that subject to death, only too recently.

I think we need about 6 months still just to recover from the arguments and hurt feelings and name callings

dont let the polite conversation foul you, this place is pretty wild.

just hang around for the next Juan Martin thread and cancel your daily activities, its great, its like a car accident, you dont wanna see it but you cant look away

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 19 2007 10:32:39

JBASHORUN

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RE: FLAMENCO IS! (in reply to gato)

Yeah, instead of what "Flamenco IS", this thread has turned out to be what "Flamenco ISNT".

Jb

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 19 2007 12:36:23

andresito

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From: New Holland

RE: FLAMENCO IS! (in reply to gato)

Did someone already say it's leaving your homeland forever, having only your (extended) family to rely on, living in squalor and being persecuted under a fsacist regime, being treated as a subhuman outsider and finding solace in folk music? Sorry if they did, don't mean to flog a dead horse

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