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RE: Taking flamenco in exciting new ... (in reply to Ramirez)
AAAAHHHHH......I am 14 years old again!! Back in the days when i thought shred was real guitar playing, malmsteen was one of my first guitar heros. Painful as it is to admit, i thought incredibly fast arpeggio solos were cool!
But you know......if i hadnt been into shred and admired complex guitar playing, I may never have discovered flamenco guitar. I may not have had that sincronous episode where I turned on the TV and saw paco de Lucia for the first time and just sat with more jaw dropped, vowing from that moment on to learn flamenco.
How many of us (honestly ) started with shred. How many of us are ex-rock stars? Ricardo accidently let an old malmsteen riff out last time I saw him. Dont deny you are an ex shred head dude!!
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RE: Taking flamenco in exciting new ... (in reply to Pimientito)
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How many of us are ex-rock stars? Ricardo accidently let an old malmsteen riff out last time I saw him. Dont deny you are an ex shred head dude!!
An understatement. This diablo tune proves that Malmsteen was into Aldimeola/Mclaughlin all along, despite his contrary claims. So weak on acoustic, wimpy, sloppy. When he is NOT soloing, his music on his first 3 or 4 albums was pretty cool. Keyboad guys he highers allways soloed better than him.
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That Ricardo guy really is funny. The similarities are amazing too like you say.
RE: Taking flamenco in exciting new ... (in reply to Ramirez)
i see electric guitars as toys after starting flamenco. my electric guitar never gave me a stuggle like my nylon does. theres no sustain etc you have to play more to fill out and stuff it also seems to take more of an effoert to keep the technique up.
im not saying electric is bad or crap, just that i find ackustik much harder
now im gona run 6km then lift some weights, thats also realy good for guitar practice
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