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RE: Antonio Rey play Andalusian Guitar....!!!
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BarkellWH
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 RE: Antonio Rey play Andalusian Guit... (in reply to Flamencito)
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Related to the cooking thing.. imo it fits very well on a flamenco forum. Food is very important in Spain as well as talking about it. It's probably the #1 conversation in spain...
Right up there with Spain, in terms of the importance of food, are Malaysia and Singapore. I have spent many years living and working in Malaysia, and some of us foodies would argue that Malaysia and Singapore have the finest food in the world, in terms of taste and variety. Culture has something to do with it, as Malaysia and Singapore are a microcosm of Asia, with populations consisting of Malay, Chinese, and Indian. Each brings its own food to the table, but in many cases it has been influenced by the others. And then there is "Nonya" food, which is indigenous "Straits Chinese" food, a category in itself. The Straits Chinese were the original Chinese who settled in the areas of Malacca and Penang, and they intermarried with local Malay women. Their food is exquisitely delicious.
As one who has played his guitar until the early morning hours, while sitting on the sea wall at Malacca (the old 15th century Malay entrepot, later taken by the Portuguese), after a night of eating and drinking with friends, allow me to join the "Flamenco Eating Society."
Cheers,
Bill
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Date Nov. 29 2012 17:36:27
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estebanana
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RE: Antonio Rey play Andalusian Guit... (in reply to Richard Jernigan)
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Some back ground for those who have joined since the last episode of 'The Prof.' : Posts about him or by him directly caused a lot of trouble here because he started protracted fights with long term members and and it caused a lot of strife on the foro. After being rejected for being aggressive on the Foro this character sought retribution by posting hateful and negative comments on the personal websites of some foro members who are players and guitar makers. There was a lot of internet cleanup to do after his last assault.
When you say this cooking stuff is a subject for Off Topic or a bar, well this is to me my online bar and these are my real friends, albeit we meet on line and not in person. The foro has a few "broken record posters" who mount the same exact topic over and over to the exclusion of the feelings of the majority of tolerant foro members. If someone walks into my bar, whether the one I go to three nights a week in Emeryville CA on my way home from the work shop, or this bar called Foro Flamenco, and starts talking about stuff that most of us are sick of I think it's fair start conversations about food, Leica cameras, travel, the majesty of playing Bach fugues on the Indonesian nose flute. Many others seem to get the drift and the result is the foro has less divisive chatter in the air.
The world is messy, posts go off topic, that is the way conversations work.
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Date Nov. 29 2012 18:20:56
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Sean
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RE: Antonio Rey play Andalusian Guit... (in reply to Richard Jernigan)
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If Yojimbo wants an honest opinion of these videos and can except it, here goes.
The guitars sound better then in the past; perhaps it is because they're using fan bracing now, or maybe it was just Rubens playing that I never cared for all along. To me his playing has always been about speed and snapping the strings as hard as humanly possible. The best way I can describe Rubens playing is skilled, but cold sounding.
I can buy he gave Antonio lessons once upon a time, just barely, but for me Antonio's playing is far more appealing to listen to. I think Rubens personality shows in his playing, a little to high strung; I'd bet my life he would be more enjoyable to listen to after 8 beers in him.
Undianumo threw me off, I thought it was spanish for un-identifiable, apparently it's Sapele.
To conclude my review:
Rubens playing is still cold and un-appealing.
Reminds me how much I dislike Flamenco guitar mixed with the piano.
Antonio is the vastly better guitarist, because he is far more enjoyable to listen to.
That two-tone guitar, is the ugliest thing with strings I've ever seen, and judging by Antonio's body language he concurs (I swear I saw him swallow his own vomit back down)
It did at times smell a little to infomercial to me, but that is what it really was after all.
Ruben will now sell more guitars, good for him.
There is enough Ruben on youtube, so no need for any more redundancies here.
And now back to our regularly scheduled cooking program
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Date Nov. 29 2012 19:11:08
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. Closest I've been is Sevilla. I have had good fresh shrimp before and they're great but I feel like most shrimp they give people(everywhere) is not the greatest. Being as I'm not a big seafood fan to begin with anything not super fresh is not very appealing to me. 
