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Don Firth	Obit: Manitas de Plata, old 'silver fingers' (43)	RE: Obit: Manias de Plata, old 'silver fingers'	07 Nov 14
Al, this is not to put him down as a guitarist. He was fantastic! But even though he used the same technique as flamenco guitarists, he played fast and loose with the forms that make it flamenco. [A twelve-bar blues that contains fourteen bar phrases is no longer a twelve-bar blues.] Carlos Montoya got the same flak from flamenco guitarists when he stopped accompanying dancers and started doing solo concerts--and diddled with the forms themselves. Dig up some old Sabicas records. Or one primarily classical guitarist who can play some damned fine flamenco is Pepe Romero. Don Firth

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