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A neighborhood skater kid came up to me with a bunch of questions about flamenco. Apparently there is a combined flamenco/skate tour out there.

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That skate video actually works, both skaters and gitanos spend alot of time on the streets and they are skating in spain so why not put some flamenco into it to make something new? About learning cante in conservatory, seems to be similar like learning to skateboard with a teacher.

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Are also the prices of vintage spanish flamenco guitars very high in japan? Seems like japanese work really hard if they are willing to pay such money for custom board.

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Love those Stephan!

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ORIGINAL: Leñador

Lol I don't actually know any Spaniards that surf and skate but the couple Spaniards I DO know max out on black table pepper and order tacos dry lol
Briseyda Zarate is pretty dern good singer for a 'merican. No videos online though.....

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ORIGINAL: estebanana

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Are also the prices of vintage spanish flamenco guitars very high in japan? Seems like japanese work really hard if they are willing to pay such money for custom board.

Vintage Spanish guitars, yes high prices.

Japan was hit hard by the world economic meltdown so they are still catching up. But yes they work hard. And Japanese people can be real lazy too, I catch city workers napping in their vans when they should be fixing streets and cleaning beaches. But mostly they work really hard.

Japan also does not import farm labor, they pick the radishes and lettuces themselves and a damn proud of it. And they pay themselves a fair wage for farm work so food is bit more expensive sometimes. If it is in season it's cheaper, but produce is more than in the US.

It all comes down to importing many kinds of raw goods too. Surfboard foam blanks come from Australia or China or Thailand, and some of the resin is imported, so costs are high due to import taxes etc. So used boards are less but a good shaper gets between $1000.00 and 2000.00 for a board depending on how complex.

There is one shaper who will glass with a light weave cloth and do two lamination coats and sand out the board leaving it light. Like many shapers in the US were doing by the late 1980's. It make a responsive board, but hard riding will pulp the deck of a board like that in a year.

The competitive surfers in the US used to have boards glassed like that when Clark Foam was still in business because foam blanks were not that expensive. Clark foam closed it doors about 7 years ago and cheap blanks are now a thing of the past. So back then even a non pro surfer could get a board made every year or more.

The boards here are made with really careful art work and super nice glassing, and I think slightly in the heavy side for more wear and tear. So they charge for it.

I can shape ok too, but you gotta doe it everyday for a year or two to become masterful. I don't want to breath that much foam dust.

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ORIGINAL: Stu

Clapton really said that? to his auidience? was he for real or making a socio political point??

Anyway

"In the first place, white people got no business playing the blues ever, at all, under any circumstances ever, ever, ever! What the **** do white people have to be blue about? Banana Republic ran out of khakis? Huh? The espresso machine is jammed? Hootie and the Blowfish are breaking up? ****, white people ought to understand their job is to GIVE people the blues, NOT to get them... and certainly not to sing or play them. Tell you a little secret about the blues; it’s not enough to know which notes to play, you gotta know why they need to be played"

George Carlin

Can this same idea be applied to non gitanos singing cante? or guitarists? I'd probably say yes about cante. (but not the guitar, I just try not to think anout that one too much :-) ) But who is anyone to stop anyone doing something they love?

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But those george's words are way deluded about the blues, sounds like a joke that white man can't have problems/be blue. I have to agree there are very few white blues greats but great blues doesn't come from problems only even when that's the main theme.
Gitanos sort of also sing the blues, there's lots of problems, which are similar to those experienced by african americans.

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For sushi and beer, no? HAHA

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ORIGINAL: estebanana

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But those george's words are way deluded about the blues, sounds like a joke that white man can't have problems/be blue. I have to agree there are very few white blues greats but great blues doesn't come from problems only even when that's the main theme.
Gitanos sort of also sing the blues, there's lots of problems, which are similar to those experienced by african americans.

George Carlin was being very sarcastic, I'll bet he liked Stevie Ray Vaughn-

Carlin also did a very funny riff on the idea that there is no food that is the color blue. I really liked George, he was a master twister of the English or American English language.