Ricardo -> RE: Asian Flamenco (Apr. 14 2010 13:27:01)
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I am bumping up this thread. I just returned from California. I had the great opportunity to stay with and hang out and jam with Jose Tanaka. He is a great guy with cool musical ideas, and very similar tastes and concepts to mine regarding cante accompaniment, and accompaniment in general. Also we had a similar rock guitar background, in fact he admitted moving to hollywood from Japan to study electric guitar with Paul Gilbert, my guitar hero as a teen. The reason I bring it up in THIS thread is because I was specifically asked to have a special meeting with Jose by our mutual friends, people that we both have worked in flamenco independently from each other. The reason? Apparently there were some bad misconceptions on my thoughts of Asian players and specifically HIS playing, based on supposed comments I have made on the internet. I could not recall anything, and my own feelings not knowing jose AT ALL, were just memories of videos and that he was a fantastic player. I searched my comments regarding him and Asians, and found this thread. Reviewing my comments, I still can't understand why one would misinterpret my points, and in fact I thought it was clear I was saying Jose was a good example of an Asian that was NOT a stiff player, and in fact very advanced and charismatic. The first group were a lower level, so I did not, and still dont' think it fair, to blame their racial background on their lack of stage confidence. To me Romerito seemed to be saying, with his japanese wife's blessing, that those guys were stiff because they are asians, not just because they were nervous and lacking confidence. I was saying the opposite of that....and somehow, it seems, this all got BACK to jose as "Ricardo does not respect asian guitarists". [8|] I am just curious if anyone has any info regarding this misunderstanding? (Romerito?[;)]) It is actually very serious thing to me to be misunderstood when it affects me and my professional and personal relationships. Ricardo
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