Flamenco Music

Subject: RE: Flamenco Music
From: GUEST,Desi C
Date: 10 Nov 15 - 06:05 AM

Other than on a Spamish holiday it has tobe one of music's more irritating sounds

Subject: RE: Flamenco Music
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 Nov 15 - 06:32 PM

Flamenco music is serious stuff, however this thread is a HOOT. Dangerous to read at public computer stations in the local library branch.

Funny how flamenco polarizes people. There are flamenco fanatics about and although they are knowledgeable, the attitude is off-putting. I understand them being defensive when confronted with vulgarity or over-commercialism, to both of which flamenco is sadly vulnerable. But the purist thing can go too far in the opposite direction.

I'm going to start a new thread. Somebody important deserves an obit, and your site doesn't have one....and this thread isn't the place for it.

Subject: RE: Flamenco Music
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 21 Dec 04 - 03:55 AM

Subject: RE: Flamenco Music
From: dianavan
Date: 17 Dec 04 - 10:40 PM

There is Flamenco in Vancouver, B.C. at Kinos.

I once took a workshop in Flamenco dancing. First rule: a Flamenco guitarist.

Flamenco used to be regarded as the poor man's music of Spain. It is now more mainstream, somewhat like the Blues in America.

One other thing - Apparently, women over 40 are the best Flamenco dancers because they have acquired 'duende'. Younger women just haven't lived long enough - or so I was told!

The first time I saw Flamenco was in a cave in Spain. It was 1969 and I was impressed (maybe shocked is a better word). I was, at that time, a young American girl who thought she had seen it all. I was very wrong.

Subject: RE: Flamenco Music
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 17 Dec 04 - 11:54 AM

Got it one dude! It's simply the folk music of Southern Spain.
                  the true path!

Subject: RE: Flamenco Music
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 17 Dec 04 - 11:46 AM

I always think flamenco and folk playing has a fair bit in common. If you see someone like Paul downes play, he plays scales to a sort of rythm rather than the way a jazz or classical player does - giving eachnote its full value.

Of course flamenco is a sort of folk guitar so thats a silly point really, but anyway I thought I'd make it.

Subject: RE: Flamenco Music
From: s6k
Date: 17 Dec 04 - 08:19 AM

hello wahts all this about then?

Subject: RE: Flamenco Music
From: Sttaw Legend
Date: 17 Dec 04 - 07:42 AM

Flamenconry is an acquired taste

Subject: RE: Flamenco Music
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 17 Dec 04 - 04:32 AM

I didn't know they made music. How do you stop them from shitting on your car windscreen?

:D

Subject: RE: Flamenco Music
From: M.Ted
Date: 17 Dec 04 - 01:32 AM

There are a lot of people around who look to be applauding their own ass, Spaw--I think we should try not to encourage it--

Subject: RE: Flamenco Music
From: catspaw49
Date: 16 Dec 04 - 10:01 PM

The guys who do the flamenco dancing always crack me up. They strike those poses where they look to be applauding their own ass.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Flamenco Music
From: ThreeSheds
Date: 16 Dec 04 - 03:02 PM

Juan Serrano doesnt that translate to John Ham (dry cured)

Subject: RE: Flamenco Music
From: Sttaw Legend
Date: 16 Dec 04 - 11:57 AM

Ted, I can indeed also see many qualities of Juan Serrano in your good self. He is one of the best flamenco guitarists in the world and his incredible musical execution has been witnessed and enjoyed by millions around the world.

His mastery of flamenco not only comes from his many years of discipline and study of guitar, but also because he was born and raised in Cordoba, Spain, the birthplace of this rich and dazzling music. At age nine, Serrano was studying under his father, a professional guitarist, and learning the traditions of flamenco, which is a fusion of Jewish, Moorish, Christian and gypsy musical elements between the 8th and 15th centuries in southern Spain.
His hometown was so proud of the guitarist's accomplishments, that they replaced the bell in the town clock with recordings of his guitar playing. Will this be happening in Beverley?

Subject: RE: Flamenco Music
From: Hand-Pulled Boy
Date: 16 Dec 04 - 11:49 AM

Shit I meant 19!

Subject: RE: Flamenco Music
From: Hand-Pulled Boy
Date: 16 Dec 04 - 11:49 AM

18!

Subject: RE: Flamenco Music
From: Sttaw Legend
Date: 16 Dec 04 - 11:48 AM

You may wake up with slippery string solution on chest.

Subject: RE: Flamenco Music
From: Hand-Pulled Boy
Date: 16 Dec 04 - 11:48 AM

O/K but what about the strings?

Subject: RE: Flamenco Music
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 16 Dec 04 - 11:47 AM

I veer more to the Juan Serrano school Dave, with a hint of Paco del Gastor.

Subject: RE: Flamenco Music
From: Hand-Pulled Boy
Date: 16 Dec 04 - 11:45 AM

Yeh I know, but the strings are slippery.

Subject: RE: Flamenco Music
From: Sttaw Legend
Date: 16 Dec 04 - 11:42 AM

There is an evolutionary tree of certain falsetas that can define the progression of a flamenco style of guitar that we can define as 'modern.' It shows how today's modern flamenco guitar style developed from the styles of the last century of geniuses who preceeded it. Specific examples are drawn from the family tree of Ramón Montoya – Sabicas – Mario Escudero – Paco de Lucia. No claim is made that this is the only possible evolutionary true pathway for the development of modern flamenco. It is however, one of the true pathways by which I believe Flamenco Teds style has developed.

Subject: RE: Flamenco Music
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 16 Dec 04 - 11:32 AM

Yeah I know.

Subject: RE: Flamenco Music
From: Sttaw Legend
Date: 16 Dec 04 - 11:31 AM

A serious study of Flamenco Guitar has to include the normalization of its melodic, harmonic and formal aspects, so that its traditional concepts must be learned first, with the consequent understanding of true Flamenco, its history, and where it's at today.

Subject: RE: Flamenco Music
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 16 Dec 04 - 11:25 AM

Something tells me that there is unlikely to be any informed debate about Flamenca on this thread. Am I right ladies?

Subject: RE: Flamenco Music
From: Sttaw Legend
Date: 16 Dec 04 - 11:20 AM

Flamenco Ted in action

Subject: RE: Flamenco Music
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 16 Dec 04 - 11:17 AM

dunno.

Subject: RE: Flamenco Music
From: Hand-Pulled Boy
Date: 16 Dec 04 - 11:13 AM

Can nylon strings be made rougher to stop my fingers slipping off them?

Subject: RE: Flamenco Music
From: ThreeSheds
Date: 16 Dec 04 - 10:51 AM

True what? Ted

Subject: RE: Flamenco Music
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 16 Dec 04 - 10:14 AM

I don't even like pink feathers, let alone Flamingoes!

Subject: RE: Flamenco Music
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 16 Dec 04 - 09:56 AM

jOhn,
    This is the nearest club to you that I know has a website - google this - leedspena.co.uk

Subject: RE: Flamenco Music
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 16 Dec 04 - 09:25 AM

Wonderful Spanish Gipsy folk dances. Not in this man's town.

Subject: RE: Flamenco Music
From: Leadfingers
Date: 16 Dec 04 - 09:24 AM

Flemenco !

The True Path ???

Subject: RE: Flamenco Music
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 16 Dec 04 - 09:22 AM

flamenco, what's that then?

Subject: Flamenco Music
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 16 Dec 04 - 09:16 AM

What you think about flamenco then, and is there any flamenco clubs in your city/town?