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Ruphus -> RE: Paco de Lucia has passed away (Mar. 1 2014 16:28:58)
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Been watching Paco videos and so moved once again; then had to go and portion chicken scraps that we get from poulterer for the dogs.
You should see what toffs here order to be cut and thrown away. Head and feet anyway, then the neck, the the rib cage with all that´s inside and around it, all of the skin, the rump, all of the fat and the wings. ( That at around 7 bucks /kg, mind you.)
With both hands in the mess, thanks to the water that´s been injected into the poor animals, once again wondering what makes consumers waste like that, I thought to be nearing the answer as to why everyone is being so personally taken by Paco de Lucias passing away.
His musical legacy can only to a degree explain the emotional effects on the people.
You know that cliché about the decadence of the aristocrats?
Many among those people can be disgusting indeed, but the stereotype about decadence is not accurately weighted that way.
The most decadent actually prove to be parvenus.
Usually under complex about their humble descent, they want to make up for all that they envision as lacking sophistication and background. And that all at once.
Buying whole chicken and letting thrown away most of it, is only one example of the uneducated startup. Notoriously gold plated bathroom fittings, or weirdly treated luxury vehicles of oil sheikhs are further examples of trying to emulate style where there only is material potency. Other typical symptoms are treating personel like sh!t and behaving like moron in public.
All intended to distance oneself from the actual cultural origin.
Paco lived things exactly opposite. Understating.
There was no holding court, no appearance of a majesty ( You should have seen a local flamenco guitarist hero in Hanover / Germany whom I tried to approach in the early eighties wanting to receive lessons! He made me run after him through the night life. I was just not worthy without him having even checked me out first) no snobism, not even moderate status symbol anywhere.
Paco remained the guy Lucia had raised. Not even aiming to mingle with celebrity glitter and metamorphing into chic set.
He was not lofty, but attentive to the people.
Even his skills could not make a snob of him. ( I have noticed that no little number of musicians with their rising know-how and proficiency will develop intolerant against beginner´s / mediocre´s performance. Some become even insensitive to actually sonor sound fields.)
Obviously he was a philanthropist, the opposite of a pretender and always at the core of what counts in life.
That must be what touches the world now way beyond its loss of a unique artist.
The friendly personality of this man, despite of his achievements.
Ruphus
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