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Ron.M -> Blues and Flamenco (Apr. 23 2004 17:09:27)

I just mentioned in another post (from a paper by John Slobada) about Martin Scoserse's series of films about the Blues, and how to me, there seemed to be so many parallels with Flamenco.
One thing that made me laugh was Georgie Fame's story about going to the Southern United States and finally getting a chance to play with authentic Blues singers.
He said that it was a pretty unsettling experience for him since these guys would suddenly change chords in unusual places and sometimes cut the 12 bars short.
He said " It was really hard to keep up with them...I mean these guys weren't observing the rules....But I wasn't going to tell them they were wrong!"

Sound familiar?

LOL!

Ron



Miguel de Maria -> RE: Blues and Flamenco (Apr. 23 2004 20:28:18)

That's good. Well, it's all folk music, guys, this isn't science.



Ron.M -> RE: Blues and Flamenco (Apr. 24 2004 10:29:25)

quote:

Well, it's all folk music


Definition of English Folk singers...

"People who sing through the nose by ear" (Billy Connolley)



Kate -> RE: Blues and Flamenco (Apr. 24 2004 12:34:54)

Isaw a great programme with Keith Richards playing with Chuck Berry. At first Richards looked like a kid in a fairground. Berry kept telling Richards what to play and Richards kept argueing that he knew the chords off by heart and had played them all his life, copied them note for note from Berry's records. Berry looked at him in such a way I felt embarrassed for him.

Kate



Ron.M -> RE: Blues and Flamenco (Apr. 24 2004 15:36:43)

Yeah Kate,
I saw the same programme. Keith Richards kept turning down Chuck's amp, saying that it was too loud and the balance wasn't right, and Chuck kept turning it back up again, saying it was his amp and he'll set it at any level he wants to!
He was getting pretty annoyed!
Funny stuff.

cheers

Ron



Jim Opfer -> RE: Blues and Flamenco (Apr. 27 2004 12:31:11)

Ron,
I did a bit of reading in prep for a gig last Sunday.
I flicked through the sleve notes of some LP's I've got and read that when the K+Q of Spain forced the Moors out, one of the things they also did was to stop the Gitanos from leaving Andalucia.
I guess they were just kept captive, I mean I don't know exactly how this was enforced, but It made me thing that it must have been a bit like Afro Americans back then, being slave labour and made to work in the fields (or tin mines in Tierra Minera).
It sort of makes a neat comparison regarding your parallel with Blues and Flamenco.
Cheers
Jim.



Richard Jernigan -> RE: Blues and Flamenco (Apr. 27 2004 21:33:06)

...and we have on record (Holwlin' Wolf, The London Sessions) Wolf's failed attempt to teach the accompaniment of Li'l Red Rooster to Eric Clapton...."Nawww, man---you gotta stop at the top,...like this...."

Instead of Wolf's fakey rhythm they end up playing some square white boy stuff.

RNJ



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