Pedoviejo -> RE: The Last Station (Dec. 19 2003 1:56:46)
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Arcángel never told me which albums, but at the time “El Duende Flamenco de Paco de Lucía” had just been released. So it had to be that and/or any albums prior to that. Arcángel had told me that Paco had asked if he wanted his guitar acknowledged on the albums somewhere, but Arcángel politely declined. He certainly didn’t need the PR because even then, thirty years ago, his waiting list was over ten years long. (He even had a letter from Gen. Omar Bradley requesting a classical guitar for his new trophy wife. Of course, Bradley didn’t say “trophy wife.” I wonder how Karl Malden would have played that part of Bradley’s life?) There’s lots of variations on the stories about Paco and the Condes, Paco and his father, etc. Lots of rumor. What I heard that seemed to hold more weight than anything else was that Paco’s father, Antonio, was buds with the Condes. Paco, being a good son, followed his father’s wishes that he be seen with Condes. But even that’s not entirely true because there’s an album showing Paco with (if I remember correctly) some super fancy Ramirez made just for him. Truth is that Paco did have an incredible Conde, so why not be seen with it? First Conde negra I ever saw was shown to me by a Japanese guitarist who hung out at Amor de Diós. And Paco had signed the Conde label next to the “Conde Hmnos” signature. It probably now rests in some Shinto shrine, right next to the ceremonial Samurai sword, incense burning in front of it.
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