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Florian -> Tonight has been the best night of my life ! (Mar. 6 2004 15:15:23)
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Ballet National de Espana is in town atm doing a show which i will see on Friday.
My girlfriend did the dance workshop with them today and some of the singers were asking where theres a flamenco bar on Saturday nights close to theyr Hotel, without thinking some pple said the place where I play.
I wasent there so i didnt think too much of it when she said that they might be coming and sure enough just before we about to go onstage look out the door and there they are !
I fricked out !!!!! first dance i was scared like hell i never been so nervous in my life.
SO after the first number where i was so so nervous i flufed a couple on notes, i was able to relax a litlle bit.
Second halv was better because i flufed a couple of notes in the first halv in my head i was thinking of just playing it safe, because i had some falsetas that i do that are very risky. Sometimes you do that like if you are really nervous and make a mistake than it plays on your confidence so you play it safe and just do chords. But for some reason i did it anyway and it worked out ok, I am glad i took a risk, I have relearned a lesson i have always known " Never walk away after a mistake , walk away on a high note if you have to".
Antonio Canales said something so nice in one of his interviews " - Never be afraid of failure cause it makes succes taste so much better" makes so much sense.
Anyway the exciting bitt that i am talking about happened after the show , we were introduced to the guitarists , I got someone to translate to them : "That i have never been so nervous in my hole life cause they were there my fingers were shaking", I mean this guys are IT. ( I have looked everywhere on the net to try and find out that guitarists name he is the second guitarist in the Torrero Dvd David, or Davida or something along those lines ) "This guy was the nicest most humble guy in the world, he looked at me smiled and said "IT dosent matter if is in your heart thats all that matter"
So we got to talking and he asked me what guitar i played , I said Matsuoka, he looked around like he didnt understand me so i repeated he had the look on his face like hes never heard of it so i went and took the guitar out to show to him to hand it to him, he looks at it and just starts playing the most incrediblle buleria with the most amazing Picado , rasqueado , alzapua you name it it was there .
I could not shut my mouth, i mean i have seen this before but never this close, his style was very similar to Jose Jimenez infact untill tonight i was convinced that he was his brother.
So than he starts passing the guitar around the table and a big crowd forms all around the table and everyone is doing palmas, so he passes it to the other guitarist Enrique ( i will get the proper names before the end of the week ) this guy plays again out of this world, than the 3rd guitarist than he passes it to me, i am like OH no no , he goes please cmon, so i had a turn i did a Paco Serrano falseta than , Warner the other guitarist in our group plays one , they were so encouraging and nice about all this i could not belive what was going on.
After they asked me if the falseta was Habicuela , I said no Paco Serrano, I must have pronunced Serrano wrong because they went "OH Paco de Lucia" and i did not want to correct them a second time not that it mattered I was having the time of my life.
After that this guitarist told me that the bridge of my guitar is way way too low and that i would get more volume if i raise it and I will first thing monday morning :)
When they left they told a lady that spoke Spanish that he liked us and that me and Warner can go to theyr Hotel whenever we want ask for him at the reception and jam or hangout, and i was like WOW i could belive it expecially since i cant speak much Spanish and he cant speak much English.
The reason this is so exciting for me is because down here is not like where you guys are, here we get Paco Pena come every 5 & 6 years and for a show like Carmen (with Elmestela) and this Ballet national de Espana every 9 years thats it. SO when someone comes here is a big big think.
Anyway this was my night and i just had to tell someone about it , thanks for listening.
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