xirdneH_imiJ -> RE: How old am I here on the foro? (Mar. 24 2009 8:25:11)
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we're in the same boat, Aleksi, i'm 29, 30 in august...my 20s are almost gone... my love with flamenco came too late...in fact, my love with guitar came too late, i would've loved to have started earlier, but i only picked the guitar up when i was about 17...i had been listening to guns n' roses before, but it was jimi hendrix's hey joe that convinced me i want to do this...i got a classical guitar and took lessons for half a year, i didn't find it very useful so i stopped, had my mom buy me a red strat then i started playing jimi's stuff, led zeppelin, pink floyd...i played 8 hours a day then!...then in my early 20s i stopped completely, i very rarely picked the guitar up...i was aware of the guitar trio then and loved that stuff, but one day i got some extra cash and wanting to explore this kind of music more, i bought some cds of paco de lucía and al di meola...i really wanted to get into jazz, but all the theory behind it made me shy away...then i stopped again and it had to be a trip to granada and losing my life's love there to pick the guitar up again and start to get into flamenco...that was about 2005, i bought my first flamenco guitar for my birthday in 2006, that's when i started to take it really seriously...i went to accompany dancers and have been doing that since...recently i was invited to join in to the only serious flamenco "band" here and will have our first gig next friday...i'm going to open with a solo bulería, i'm nervous! but being recognised feels good, i love flamenco, it's given me so much and want to give something back to it... hopefully next year i'll get the chance to visit jerez, a friend of mine (dancer) lives there and it'd be a great opportunity to learn some more...
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