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Ruphus -> RE: Paco de Lucia has passed away (Feb. 26 2014 9:40:55)
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With the sixties / seventies of last century as golden age of popular music and music as a whole in the time frame of these years musicians are passing away who used to shine on the sky firmly as if immortal.
And when they leave it makes you sad as if it has been a personal friend. Not just because they essentially contributed to the beautiful part of your life as a passionate music lover, but also because of the general truth that their output has been one of a kind, and will not be paralleled anytime in this universe.
Maybe Paco´s work has not been as fundamental to his genre like say the Beatles´ to theirs, or J.J. Cale´s invention of laid back who passed away too months ago, but he was a great absolutely and inseparable from flamenco and what we contemporaries heard of it.
It is these guys´ legacy when todays and future composers will find pretty much any groove they stumble uppon created before already, and typically even amazingly perfectly developed. The legacy of the great that composers appreciating beauty and originality have only a very scarce line left over to balance on.
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Yes, there will be times afterwards still, but not musically comparable. Not nearly as rich and vivid.
It really saddens me to see you one-of-a-kind artists go, Maestro.
Thank you for the music.
Ruphus
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