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Ricardo -> RE: Melchor to Enrique (Aug. 8 2013 5:37:35)
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ORIGINAL: mark indigo
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Would love to know some of your reactions
I like the way that this vid pisses all over the pointless and tedious "old versus new" arguments. I like seeing the "old" and "new" hanging out on the sofa together listening to, appreciating and respecting each other.....
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if I had to choose "My" flamenco, I would choose the last 30 seconds of this video.
if I had to choose "my" flamenco it would be the whole vid, right there on the sofa, not either/or, not versus, but the all of it (cante too), moving through time, from generation to generation (and don't forget neither of these guitarists are with us any more).
I get choked up when I watch this, reminds of my father and myself when I was a kid. Sure young people play a lot of notes, so eager to impress and do well and advance, but the cool thing is the pride his father has and his awe of what his son was doing... it is not about technique vs feeling BS again...his dad simply was tiping his hat there at the end as he knows full well how much further along the next generation was going. The clip does not show the part right before this where he says " I won't say my son is the best in spain, but I will say there is not really anyone better"....and that is sort of true. Enrique ended up right at the top with the best ever in spain, playing shoulder to shoulder with Cepero and PDL etc. Obvious Enrique was into PDL, and to be honest he was alway under rated IMO. To say his dad had something over him is silly when you consider his age and all he accomplished after this. I love melchor too, but you can't compare them in terms of level. This video was simply beautiful and shows family, tradition, and evolution all at once.
Ricardo
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