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estebanana -> RE: Diego del Gastor essay by Brook Zern, have a read. (Apr. 5 2013 0:58:47)
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I don't think he dumped on anyone. I think he was saying there are some who say the Zee Americans, the Yanks were deluded by thinking Diego was important. I thought it was an interesting essay, I also have been reading his essays for several years, and those of his fathers.
Brook Zern's dad used to write for Field and Stream magazine, his name was Ed Zern. He wrote a kind of ironic humor on the last page every month called Exit Laughing. I read it as a teenager when I was more into fly fishing. Zern Sr. was also an environmentalist who was very active. I can't remember what his specialty was, but it had to do with preserving trout habitat I think.
Once in while my mind gets quiet for about 4' and 33 seconds and I read essays. I like Brook Zern's funny, candid and insightful musings of flamenco. He was the opposite of the Dr. John song, he was in the right place at the right time. Whether you agree or not, he's got a blog page with lots of cool essays.
I've known a lot of folks who knew Diego, heck I refer to him on a first name basis and I was about ten when he died, I never met him. Sometimes I prefer Marote's accompaniment of Fernanda, but I never met either of them either. But to cut to the chase, what I gather from older folks who were there is that it's not like Gertrude Stein speaking of her hometown Oakland California from her perch in Paris; "There is no there there." There was a there there and the there was Moron. Although it was not the only there, there were other there's there.
I gleaned that Diego was great a communicator. I really like the few video clips of him playing for Perrate, another who was a somebody.
But what do I know, I was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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