Comments on: Rodrigo y Gabriela

By: Deanna Hoak

Deanna Hoak — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 11:01:54 +0000

I’m glad you all enjoyed it so much! I’ll look for the “Juan Loco” video, Tar. I did check out the “Diablo Rojo” video, Jason, and I do love it. It’s also my daughter’s favorite song by them so far!

By: Jason Erik Lundberg

Jason Erik Lundberg — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 10:43:47 +0000

Oh, also, see if you can find video of “Diablo Rojo.” It’s my favorite tune on the album, and sweet jeebus but it flies!

By: Jason Erik Lundberg

Jason Erik Lundberg — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 09:57:51 +0000

I love Rodrigo y Gabriela. First saw them on Leno (?) earlier in the year, and almost immediately bought the album afterward. I learned acoustic guitar for a couple of years, and wanted to start learning flamenco-style, but finances got tight at that point and I had to quit; I sold my Spanish guitar before we moved, and I think it was the hardest thing that I had to sell.

So watching Rodrigo y Gabriela is a joy for me. Even knowing much of the mechanics of how they play, I’m still astonished at how good they are.

By: WilliamEpic

WilliamEpic — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 02:47:45 +0000

This is an awesome post. I enjoyed it so much. He is excellent. But she is the Lioness! Sometimes , it sounds like she is playing three instruments. I listen to a lot of smooth jazz and the best songs often feature more than one award winner. These too can be amazing, still I’m sure most of the smooth jazz greats would be astounded by her talents.

By: Robert Legault

Robert Legault — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 23:36:04 +0000

So that’s who that is…been hearing that version of StH in Starbucks on a fairly regular basis, and liked it. I get pretty much what she’s doing with her right hand, though I don’t know if I could do it without practicing quite a bit. But that sort of thing–it takes a while to learn, but often once you finally get it, then you’ve got it.

I’m a great fan of finger-style guitar, from the classic masters to the early bluesmen to jazz pioneers to the American school of John Fahey through to all sorts of modern people. If you like them, you might check out the California Guitar Trio or Kaki King, who is odder but who I really like.

By: 'Tar

'Tar — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 19:22:00 +0000

See if you can get a video of Gabriela in “Juan Loco”……….

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:27:47 +0000

I discovered them a while back using Pandora and purchased their album. The album has several videos of them doing their stuff and it is simply amazing (much better than the grainy YouTube.) The music is wonderful, I really enjoy the fast-paced guitar strumming style they have. New Flamenco music can be a lot of fun to listen to and it actually works really well for me as background music when I write, there are no words to distract the thought process..though RyG tends to be fast and energetic enough that its actually distracting and I end up just listening to them.

By: Sophia

Sophia — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 12:27:52 +0000

Wonderful! Thank you so much for posting these.

By: Imperatrix

Imperatrix — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 12:05:57 +0000

It was my lucky day coming here today! Thanks so much for this. I was turned on the RyG a few months ago thanks to radioparadise.com.

Gorgeous.

(I love how they have a bottle of wine between them. I think I saw Gabriela drink from her glass in the live show — but they both have water bottles by them, as well.)