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History of Paco de Lucia?
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Ricardo
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 RE: History of Paco de Lucia? (in reply to mark74)
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ORIGINAL: mark74
Can anyone give me a brief synopsis of Paco's career...what he did in terms of guitar music and at what time..what were his innovations and why he's almost universally considered the greatest flamenco player of all time?
I'm also curious about when he switched to the flamenco negra and his rocky relationship with the Conde family.
Sure, his bro won the jerez cante contest in 1962 he was 14 or so, pepe was 16, and with prize money they made Chiquitos de Algeciras. A great record, Paco was a little dirty and missing a thumb nail, but very advanced for kids. Pepe hit the big time and Jose greco grabbed him, but his dad forced them to take Paco too. So Paco got to travel the world, and long story short it changed his playing a lot. Before he was a N. Ricardo clone, after he learned about synchpation in South America an brazil, inspired to create by Sabicas/escudero/esteban de sanlucar (spaniards abroad), and much more. He recorded an ep when he was 15 in 1964, pretty dirty but fast playing including a note for note of Montoya's Rondeña. He recorded 3 ablums with his touring partner Ricardo modrego of duets, then finally came his solo LP "Fabulosa" in 1967. Contrary to popular written statements, my gut tells me this record was made with the NEGRA conde that he is seen on video with as a young man. (See impetu/panaderos vids on youtube).
From this time onward he seems to swap back and forth between negra or blanca for solo recordings, sticks to using blancas for cante mostly, and his innovations are too numerous for one post. Each recording can be looked at as a sign o the times if you look at the date, regardless if they contain paco's unique idea or simply the typical edgy directions of the players of those generations as the changes occurred rapidly from 1970 on to the 90's when the modern sound finally took a solid shape. He remains at the Vanguard IMO. The conde family business has more to do with his brother (Ramon's) concern about them using paco to advertise when in fact the builders of the guitar he used died in 1988-9.
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Date Apr. 11 2013 22:54:02
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Mark2
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Joined: Jul. 12 2004
From: San Francisco
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RE: History of Paco de Lucia? (in reply to mark74)
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I bought Paco Sevillas book when it came out, and was not all that impressed. Many things I had already read elsewhere or knew just from being a fan. I did learn some new stuff, but it was mostly a run down of when he recorded this or that record, and other history about his concert tours, etc.
There was also some analysis of the playing, which was interesting.
My main gripe is how do you write a bio of a living person, who at the time of the publication was in his prime, without extensively interviewing the subject?
I mean, if you can't get Paco to sit down and talk, why write a bio? It's like writing about the bottom of the ocean without going underwater. If he could have spent some time with him, that would have made it a very interesting book IMO.
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