z6 -> RE: Fakemenco you like (Nov. 28 2013 14:59:25)
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My strong memory is of Paco being dismissed as fakemenco. I had never heard the word (fantastic word) but that is clearly what they meant.... All those years ago. I almost fainted when I heard Almoraima. I never heard a flamenco player say such things - it being certifiably insane and all. If you can play then it doesn't even matter what the music is. But I was once in a pub and a guy was playing Quando Quando on a Les Paul and singing out of tune and out of key, into a huge, high quality, PA. That's fakemenco, to me, but I have wide and low standards. I can't listen to the trio because of de Meola and his self-conscious jibbering. I never could. Mc Claughlin is incapable of playing anything that doesn't sing like an angel. It was a stepping stone into flamenco, for me. That's what I want to play, thought I. Am I imagining things? Because it seems so unlikely but I'm sure I can remember the astonishment. And no wonder Paco offered di Meola a mild toon-up. It must have been the only way to shut him up.
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