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El Kiko -> RE: will you consider gypsy kings a flamenco or fakemenco?!! tell us why? (Oct. 6 2011 17:10:48)
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I dont even know if 'FAkemenco' as you call it exsits ,
Rumba is a valid palo and they play it , they do very well with it , .. I think saying this is fake and this is not is very pretentious and is merely a point of view , you can call any type of music anything you want , but this doesn't change anything , or any music ,
I would suspect if given a time machine and you went back to the 20's or before with Paco de lucia stuff , maybe people would say, very good, but it's not flamenco , notice I said "maybe" attitudes change with time , flamenco today is only what it is because of previous mixtures , it' s history is still developing ,
Bottom line , you get a guitar and you play anything, you want , anything , it's your guitar , your choice , call the music anything you want , remember the people who play it don't call it "'fakemenco ' that seems to be something developed here,
I say go ahead develop something , maybe it's good maybe its a waste of time , its up to the individual , I wouldn't be so narrow- minded, stubborn or unpersuedable as to suggest that fakemenco ,as it is know here, is any less valid than any other type of music,
Ben woods mixed sevillanas with metal , I really like it , I actually learned most of the first two bits anyway , It's fun and thats another thing music should be , fun to play and enjoyable
Flamenco has always been , in Spain, the music of the people , what the people learn , play and pass on to others ,
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