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RE: What other styles and/or instrum... (in reply to polishcomedy)
i still have an "elka" electric hammond organ from the 80's. sometimes i play some pop songs for fun, i played it as i was 10 years old, and it's amazing that i'm still able to play without practicing for 20 years, if i only had started the guitar at this age...
RE: What other styles and/or instrum... (in reply to michel)
I have played e-guitar, bass and drums with rock bands of various influence, mostly Hendrix/Zeppelin kind of stuff but some Yes/Rush progressive stuff too. Keys in a Gospel church group. I played jazz in high school with people like Roy Hargrove every day. I have played with other flamencos cajon, sitar, oud, drumset and other various percussion instruments. Played a little banjo and Irish tin whistle back when I was exploring my Irish heritage. I played and studied classical guitar for quite a number of years as well and even faired pretty well in some competitions in the late 80's. My first professional gigs were playing in the pit orchestra for musicals like Evita and Best Little Whorehouse. I have messed around with Brazilian guitar but I wouldn't say I have played it with any authority although I did win a Down Beat Magazine "Dee-Bee" for a solo guitar arrangement I did of "Triste" by Jobim along with another arrangement for "Days of Wine and Roses". Around '93 I was invited to go to New York by Roberto Castellon and from then on it has been only flamenco, except for a few little distractions along the way like Flametal (I played bass and did some drum programming for Ben Woods demo) and Sonikete..... oh yes there is the stuff Armik asked me to do for the Bolero records version of my CD.... much of that I wouldn't really consider flamenco. I did a cool session a few weeks ago for a Sephardic singer Kat Parra. One song was a pretty simple tanguillo and the other was an afro-peruvian thing. It was all done live in the studio with Wayne Wallace producing and Peter Barshay on upright bass and Paul Van Wageningen on drums. That was fun, those guys are great players. I have also done a little bit of collaboration with Michael Spiro and John Calloway here doing a latin/flamenco fushion sort of thing....... still I will take a singer and a dancer por Solea any day over any of that stuff. Flamenco is the best.
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RE: What other styles and/or instrum... (in reply to JasonMcGuire)
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oh yes there is the stuff Armik asked me to do for the Bolero records version of my CD..much of that I wouldn't really consider flamenco.
how many versions are there? don't tell me i got the wrong one!
i used to play drums during my highschool years. i played for various rock bands, the school band, i did a duo thing with this kid that played jazz piano once. during those years i also played electric guitar passionately with a group of friends playing weird stuff, i wouldn't know what to call it.
now i make and play a little cajon, but mostly play flamenco guitar. there's so much to learn, it takes up all my time!
RE: What other styles and/or instrum... (in reply to at_leo_87)
You have the Armik version. They pulled a fandangos, my Eb bulerias, a solea and my Rondeña off of that release. Some people around here have the old release. Martin does, maybe Florian. The new version has improved audio quality because it was mastered by Bernie Grundman. The original version was mixed by Cookie Marenco and I never was satisfied with the mixes or the mastering.
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RE: What other styles and/or instrum... (in reply to XXX)
HAHA. I'm Martin, but strangely, many people call me Mark. It's helpful to have an alias in my line of work :-)
I do have the cd, and as I've written on this forum in the past, it is a great record.
I'm surprised Jason that you don't like the mixes, but I haven't heard the new version. The bulerias tracks and the tangos are my favorites. I hope you make a follow up, but that record is going to be hard to top.
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omg, thats shocking dude! Now i am really curious in where to obtain the real album, hm! Whois Martin?
RE: What other styles and/or instrum... (in reply to KenK)
I played the Castelnueovo-Tedesco "Concierto No.1" and also his Sonata in homage to Bocherini and also Fernando Sor's Sonata in C. The Bach Lute Suite in E minor. I had done my own transcriptions for La Vida Breve and Dance of Terror by Manuel de Falla, The Sonata Pathetique (2nd Movement) by Beethoven and a duet arrangement of Pavane Op. 50 by Gabriel Faure that I used to perform with my teacher Enric Madriguera. I also loved playing Ravel's Pavan for a Dead Princess.
I taught some classical guitar lessons after high school. I got my jazz teacher Chuck Pangburn to get me hired at the music store he taught at. He gave me a list of 30 names from his waiting list. I had 25 half-hour lessons per week back then. Some were classical most were general guitar. I remember "Sweet Child of Mine" by Guns and Roses being the most requested song to learn back then. One of my classical students back then was blind and his seeing eye dog had to come into the tiny lesson studio with us. It was a challenge to teach him because of the inability to read music. I learned more from this particual student about guitar than he learned from me. It was an amazing and humbling experience.
RE: What other styles and/or instrum... (in reply to JasonMcGuire)
Wow-
Quite a list- I've recently been flirting w/ Capriccio Diabolico. For me the hardest part is the length. (I think I can get all the tricky parts- not entirely sure yet).
Do you ever teach CG anymore? I'm guessing you must've started w/ cg before Led Zep or Flamenco.
RE: What other styles and/or instrum... (in reply to JasonMcGuire)
That's funny, Jason...I teach guitar at a music center, myself, and one of my students is a young guitarist just going over basics, but at the end of every lesson he asks me to play Sweet Child.
So it seems the people here mostly listen to flamenco? I've been on a big rockabilly kick as of late. Duane Eddy is great!
RE: What other styles and/or instrum... (in reply to polishcomedy)
Why so linear, Jason? My development has been parallel...jazz fusion along with metal along with bossa nova along with ska along with Arabic, etc., and now adding an extra path for flamenco.
RE: What other styles and/or instrum... (in reply to polishcomedy)
It wasn't always linear. The jazz and classical and flamenco overlapped. In the end flamenco was what inspired me the most so I put most of my efforts there.
Playing around Roy all of the time was incredible. He was a powerful musician even back then. I remember the day when we were on stage playing with Wynton Marsalis who was visitng the school. As soon as Roy began to blow Wynton lit up. After that Roy was on his way.
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!!! that must have been a great time! WOW respect man!
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