What a talent!!!

[wvfarrier]

I fell down the youtube rabbit hole and found this. You have got to see this kid play the guitar. Its supernatural

https://youtu.be/jaLKx4dA_Oc

[Blaine]

Flamingo to the nth degree...Wow.

[gamekeeper]

He certainly has talent I personally preferred the last performance as the earlier ones (to me) were a bit over the top...

[Grizz]

thanks for the link, maybe someone will film him with a high-speed camera so i can see what's going on. he is a prodigy. i hope he studies music for a while, and plays with some flamenco guitarists, and then plays classical music with an orchestra. to see if he elevates the playing of the others. or not.

[jeepnik]

When it comes to flamenco I’m a traditionalist. He’s talented no doubt. But the fusion and overtly showy style leave me cold. I’d rather hear the melody and feel the emotion that drives flamenco than have my ears assaulted by what he plays.

Flamenco is about emotion. Joy, tragedy, love and loss. Playing it like that strips all that away and you loose it’s soul.

[wvfarrier]

I watched an interview Dave Navarro did and he said the kid was the best player he had ever heard

[Ray]

Deleted.

[Grizz]

Many thousand of hours of practice/rehearsing there......

Do video searches for "gabriela y rodrigo" for something more traditional and "jim stafford" for same but with southern humour.

https://m.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEA&s ... +y+rodrigo+

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-UUvuW0NbLQ

scarlett rabanal.....

https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCRw3z5L- ... 4rg/videos

Thanks for the Scarlett link. Worship in the language of love. A treasure.

The other links sent me around half the globe listening to flamenco. Arab flamenco and Turkish flamenco and Gypsy flamenco and the fusion of them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TVWAuKcnQM

Scarlett is in my "do not delete" folder.

[octagon]

At its core, flamenco is dance music and the guitarist fills the role of accompaniment to the dancer. Among traditional flamenco players, Paco DeLucia is generally considered the Master, although he did a bit of fusion as well, with Al Dimeola and John McLaughlin on the album " Saturday Nights in San Francisco." I prefer the traditional stuff. Paco died on a beach in Mexico a few years back, not a bad end...RIP.

[jeepnik]

At its core, flamenco is dance music and the guitarist fills the role of accompaniment to the dancer. Among traditional flamenco players, Paco DeLucia is generally considered the Master, although he did a bit of fusion as well, with Al Dimeola and John McLaughlin on the album " Saturday Nights in San Francisco." I prefer the traditional stuff. Paco died on a beach in Mexico a few years back, not a bad end...RIP.

Flamenco, to me, is the combination of the cante, music and dance. The cante tells the story (it is after all folk music), the dance interprets the story, and the music is the glue that holds it all together.

By the way, how many have thought it cute when their little girls or grandkids do the Macarena? Now google it and discover what the song and dancer are really about. All I can say is the original Macarena supposedly looked pretty good naked.