Mark2 -> RE: will you consider gypsy kings a flamenco or fakemenco?!! tell us why? (Oct. 7 2011 0:25:24)
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Ole! I've always loved the GK's-first time I saw them I got to open for them. Funny, many local flamencos turned out. I never heard any of them bitching that it wasn't flamenco. I saw them recently and the singing was still great, but truth is they pretty much phoned in the gig. Didn't matter. The crowd loved them anyway. I think Ottmar was the one who pissed everyone off, and it was because flamenco guitarists realized they could play as well as him or better, but that he was the one making the big dollar without having payed any kind of serious flamenco dues. Not that that makes much sense, since his music has little to do with flamenco. Truth is, he could have avoided it by not using the word flamenco in the title of his first record. I wonder if it would have made any difference in his success. Why didn't anyone cry foul when Miles recorded what he called a solea? Maybe because to be jealous of Miles, you'd have to be a better player? What many flamenco people who are pissed at the guys who can't play flamenco but play rumbas may not understand is that the average Joe who likes Estaban, Ottmar, et al, in many cases doesn't like Vicente, Paco, etc. Myself, I don't like the music of Ottmar, Strunz & Farrar, etc. I like flamenco guitar. But if someone starts waving hundreds at me, I'll fire up a GK's tune right now and stuff my wallet. Takes less practise time to boot. I completely agree about vegas-and to a lessor extent Branson. Those guys have it figured out. Soon as I get rich enough, I'm gonna retire from my day gig and find a nice gig in a warm beach town and play solo, or if there's another cat there , we'll play rumba and make three times the money. quote:
ORIGINAL: estebanana I should have gotten an Ole' for bringing up Liberace.....
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