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Ramirez

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Joined: Apr. 16 2005

Taking flamenco in exciting new dire...

Wow.

The speed. The complete mastery of the art form. The speed. The duende. The compas. The speed. The fool.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Sep. 19 2007 9:09:27

Pimientito

Posts: 2481
Joined: Jul. 30 2007
From: Marbella

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!!

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Sep. 19 2007 10:29:45

duende

Posts: 3053
Joined: Dec. 15 2003
From: Sweden

RE: Taking flamenco in exciting new ... (in reply to Ramirez)

of course malmsteens been played a lot, both on my electric and on my vinyl player.

Did you see that Ricardo fella in the other vids. looked a lot like "our" ricardo"
i dont think its him but it looked a bit like him.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Sep. 19 2007 13:07:13

Gummy

Posts: 495
Joined: Nov. 27 2005
From: North Carolina, USA

RE: Taking flamenco in exciting new ... (in reply to duende)

That Ricardo guy really is funny. The similarities are amazing too like you say.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Sep. 19 2007 13:23:13

Ricardo

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Joined: Dec. 14 2004
From: Washington DC

RE: Taking flamenco in exciting new ... (in reply to Pimientito)

quote:

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.

quote:

That Ricardo guy really is funny. The similarities are amazing too like you say.

Come on guys, my hair is WAY COOOOOLER!

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Sep. 19 2007 14:37:05

Stu

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Joined: Jan. 30 2007
From: London (the South of it), England

RE: Taking flamenco in exciting new ... (in reply to Ramirez)

quote:

How many of us (honestly) started with shred

I didn't.
But those of you that did...... How do you see these shred guys now since flamenco has taken you over??

Stu

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Sep. 19 2007 14:48:30

duende

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Joined: Dec. 15 2003
From: Sweden

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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Enjoy the ray of sunshine that comes with every new step in knowledge.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Sep. 19 2007 15:26:49

guitarbuddha

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Joined: Jan. 4 2007

RE: Taking flamenco in exciting new ... (in reply to duende)

Not really flamenco but someone has to stand up for shredding and who better than the young Greg Howe. (sorry about the bad comedy intro ).

I'm off to sew a Paco patch on my denim jacket and squeeze my spots.