I remember laying in bed in 6th grade not moving barely breathing. I bought cassettes. I was already into the Van Halen Emmet Blackmore. But Montoya seemed directly from God my gospel. I can not explain the freedom he creates. I still can't believe that his sound is beyond anything.just amazed everytime
Blow's the Persians away. Missiing a string., 5 only. Carlos was excommunicated by his Uncle. Found this music in the od vinal cabinet from my dead parents.. Montoya Rocks.
That's what i thought myself when i watched the video for the 1st time. I thoughg he played with 5 strings only. Yet, at a closer inspection, you will see that the string is there. It is of a diffetent gauge and material than the others, so it appeats invisible to the camera. It is there, and it is played. Montoya is a giant!
I saw Carlos perform shortly before he passed away. Even at his advanced age, he was truly an amazing performer. I have played guitar since 1982, and have seen hundreds and hundreds of performances by many of the worlds top rated guitarists. Mr. Montoya was far and away the best I have ever witnessed, by a very large margin.
I used to attend U of Miami and one evening I found this fabulous guitarist playing in a lecture hall along with a female bass player. I snuck into the hall every evening I could to listen to him...Just totally amazing to see him in person with his hands and fingers moving so fast. Very hard to equate the movement of his fingers to the sound . Have never forgotten my experience of listening to and watching him. I always sat silently there watching and listening.... Never told a sole because I wanted his performances to be all mine and not interrupted by anyone.
What a wonderful story. I am so glad that you were able to find this video which stimulated you to share your story. My name is L E and I have the distinct joy and responsibility of posting over 2300 hours of video tapes that include over 300 live music performances on my web page www.imasportsphile.com.....and as I continue to do so, I also listen to the music while working on the posts.....for Carlos Montoya's work here has been watched and listened to many times over.....and since I still have a couple of years of posting still ahead of me before I complete my task.....I will listen to this incredible piece by this simply awesome guitarists. If you go to my music section of my web page, you will probably find other music artists work that you will enjoy....and I have much more to post. Thanks again for your story.
He played at UCLA, Royce Hall when I was a student in the early eighties, and afterwards I snuck in backstage and he had a small group of admirers hugging, kissing, and being very nice to him in any way they could, since he did not speak english very well. When my turn came, I slowly bowed in front of him, and he saluted me and bowed his head. He was supposedly very nice, and once said he fought in one of the wars against the Morrocans, and in the evening, the guitar players from the other sides would cross over the battle line and play with each other, and the next day they would be fighting each other.
thank you for uploading this, the drama Carlos could create with his skill has never been close to matched, even among the "best" rock guitarists, just mindblowing
As good as it gets. It's amazing how the masters of this greatest of all instruments make it sound as if a symphony of guitars are in play. Mr. Montoya is impeccable.
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I sort of agree, though Sabicas may be more incredible, if that is possible. Strangely, both Montoya and Sabicas...as well as Andre Segovia for classical guitar...were panned by some purists that they strayed away from strict flamenco or classical technique, while these same critics admitted they were among the greatest guitarists of the century. Seems a bit schizophrenic to me...and probably stems more from jealousy than anything.
Монтойя, Рикардо, Эскодеро, Сабикас и другие старый школы всегда впечатляет чем сегодняшние музыканты которые добавили барабан и ещё кучу вспомогательных средств другие музыкальные инструменты флейта и так далее .Самое лучшее это когда гитарист один играет за исключением если произведения написано для гитары с оркестром например композитор Родриго но это уже классическая тема
I saw Montoya perform live at the Philadelphis Academy of Music in the mid 1960's -- it was an amazing experience! The master Famenco guitarists of the past mid-century, such as Carlos Montoya, Mario Escudero, Esteban Desanlucar, Sabicas, and Manita de Plata were beyond incredible. I miss themes much.
I had the privilege of seeing Montoya play at the Capitol Music Hall in Wheeling, WV back in 1978. He was able to make an effect that made his guitar sound exactly like a snare drum. Haven't seen it done since.
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I not only saw him; I met him! He performed (I believe premiered) one of his own compositions for guitar and orchestra at a summer music festival/camp I attended as a teenage student (studying piano). After the performance I went backstage and spoke to him via an interpreter and he seemed very down to earth and fun loving and just a great person; zero ego. I told him how my uncle had been inspired to learn guitar after hearing him play, and he laughed with delight and happily signed programs for both my uncle and I. A great memory of an awesome, and way cool, genius.
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He vuelto a este vídeo después de 2 años, y volví porque me gusta demasiado el estilo, el timbre y el sonido de Carlos Montoya. Al escuchar y ver la imagen de la guitarra del maestro Montoya tengo la siguiente conjetura: la guitarra de este maestro debe ser fabricada en forma especial para él; tal vez él la requiere así; creo que las medidas en general son un "poquitín" más grandes que las de una guitarra estandar; hay mucha profundidad, resonancia y belleza en los sonidos. Muchas gracias.
Glad you enjoy Carlos Montoya! You might also enjoy Sabicas, as he is the guitarist since WW2 that all the great flamenco guitarists name as a major influence, and is/was known as El Rey del Flamenco.
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Como he dicho en otros vídeos de Carlos, cualquier guitarrista de hoy puede tocar piezas de otros guitarristas del flamenco, pero nadie puede tocar una pieza de Montoya. Es muy original, complicado, pero es genial en todo sentido (EPD).
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@@manuelcarrasco100 : ¿Por qué arpegio88 está equivocado?... Yo creo que está en lo cierto. Sus dedos de la mano izquierda parecen una araña. Why erpegio88 is wrong?, in fact, the Carlos Montoya fingers are spider-like.
@@rufinosanchez2703 Porque tiene un concepto erróneo de lo que es realmente el toque flamenco. Lo que hace este señor, no es tocar la guitarra, sino más bien impresionar a los incautos.
I am a fan of guitar music, and following performances of all great musicians. By watching maestro Carlos Montoya playing I only can say : he is so good , he is so perfect in every note he strikes by his right or left hand with a tremendous speed. To achieve such a high class playing guitar a person must love music, must love guitar, must by all means be self discipline and stubborn . Thank you for being this way maestro !
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THANK YOU for posting this. I remember seeing this in my formative days. I play crap flamenco (and other styles) but Carlos just inspires me....so what if you suck...enjoy yourself...
Un guitarrista relativamente poco conocido y que sin embargo está, por merecidísimo mérito propio, en el Olimpo de los mejores maestros de la guitarra española. Y en cuanto al propio instrumento, la guitarra española, y en cuanto a la música, la música española, creo que ambos son la viva imagen de una nación llena de personalidad, con una cultura profunda que huele a verdad, como también ocurre con la tauromaquia, y que nace desde lo más hondo del alma.
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José: Este guitarrista es muy conocido y reconocido. Yo lo conozco (como admirador) desde los años 66. Él, después de haber recorrido España, se instaló en USA y allí hizo una infinidad de grabaciones, que son las que se escuchan hoy día. Fue un genial guitarrista flamenco (EPD).
I have tried t play 'Huelva' from Montoya's sheet music for years which I thought impossible to reach even though my fingers have and 11 inch thumb to small finger reach. Now, I see that he uses a capo which reduces the length requirement as well as 'hammering on' and pulling-off' [probably the wrong terminology coming from my group who never had the formal & proper music instruction] without using his right hand. Also, with the capo, the height of the string to the fingerboard is significantly reduced which would increase the 'play-ability of the instrument. It took decades to run across this video that has most of Carlos Montoya's songs that are in his small collection of sheet music. It will be good to use this video to learn again with neuropathy my only barrier. I hope that my daughter can use the book, guitars and video for her culture & pleasure. I had the pportunity to attend Andre Segovia's concert shortly before he died in his late 90's and I was never able to get to Carlos Mntoya's performance.
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He also used to tune his guitar about two tones lower to facilitate his left hand ligados. Btw those sheet music were all incorrect as back then they didn't know how to write flamenco into music!
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tenia un picado excepcional y muy flamenco, el tremolo el de la epoca, pero ritmicamente perfecto y bien ejecutado, le faltan recursos armonicos, por lo demas excepcional. De aqui bebio Sabicas a tope...
Xisco: Este guitarrista, Carlos Montoya, no se debe comparar con nadie. Es demasiado original, complicado, genial en todo sentido. Su técnica (flamenca) es exclusiva de él, no imita a nadie. Montoya tiene alma, tiene llegada, tiene salero, etc. Repito, no se debe comparar con nadie.
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i use this expresion to refer that i've never seen a guitarrist that use this tecnic With this solture and brave way, that ligados are killer! !! ( sorry my english is too weak)
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If I was that good I would show off too. I saw Carlos at Carnegie Hall in '89 I think, it was his farewell tour. My date stood me up and I had an extra ticket so I called up my aunt who lived in NYC and my 13 year old cousin Jacqueline answered the phone and said Aunt Margo and Lindsay weren't there I said I had an extra ticket to see Carlos Montoya and she said "who is Carlos Montoya?", and I said Just get down here quick. So me and my cousin saw the Master and he was old but man did he play. Anyway, decades later she appreciated what she got to see and when she tells people she saw Carlos Montoya they say, "get out of town! You saw Carlos Montoya?!". I got stuck with an extra Bob Marley ticket once and a Stevie Ray Vaughan too.
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No se debe comparar Segovia con Montoya, porque son géneros muy diferentes. Sería como comparar un "salmón" con una "liebre". No tienen ninguna relación.
yes he is a good player, but not a great one! All his songs tend to sound the same. I have a collection of his records and it seems he just played the same few songs all his career. He lacked any sense of dynamics. He was a good dance band player for flamenco dancing, which is where he came from in spain, before migrating to america and letting his american wife invent him anew with her carefully crafted advertising jargon on all his record covers. He tried to match Sabicas in all he did, but didnt really have the finesse to match that true master.
He was a master a of it own style..he was far away from flamenco..he did what Paco did when he mix flamenco with rumba ..but Carlos did it first...a true master no matter what they said...
The trap ... The one who want to prove his technical mastery is completely losing musicality and frankly we arrive to some noises purely and simply ... the machine does it, but is incapable of musicality ... that's what I feel here and I find it deeply sad to spoil such potential in this way. Oh, but I forgot the Spanish pride ... it shines here a thousand lights but at the same time it shows me all the pitfalls in which it is better to never fall in if you want to claim to be really "musician"...
Sadness is like happiness....just on the other side of the table....as we all choose to sit at the table where we want....and judging potential can be quite confusing.
So true Mr. Aeschlimann! In Spain he was definitely NOT considered among the greats. He was lucky to have an american wife who knew how to write advertising waffle on all his record covers, and many westerners fell for it , hook, line and sinker!
If Segovia heard this he would cringe and so do I. Listen to Sabicas and if you have developed an ear over many years of listening to flamenco guitar you will understand why. Montoya should have been a drummer not a guitarist he beats his guitar to a pulp and is just so unmusical (no disrespect to drummers) I just can`t fathom who his influence was, certainly none of the greats.
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It`s true in part what you say but then any hack on the guitar to some might sound great to someone who has no ear or musical training when they are obviously just terrible. It takes education and experience to be a good judge of someone`s abilities and quite frankly Carlos Montoya has no musicality and his playing is just plain rough. I believe his reputation was promoted by the record companies as I don`t see him mentioned or compared to the greats like Sabicas, Ramon Montoya, Juan Serrano et al.
I doubt Segovia would have had any good comments about any flamenco guitarists! He was a classical guitar purist (having transcribed a ton of it for guitar). His view of proper guitar was rather narrow ... his master classes were all about how guitar should be played 'his way' ....still though I like Segovia .... but just like many other things as well .... quite frankly I'm finding Carlos Montoya to be totally awesome in a different way.
I totally agree. It's like he's got the "runs" - he goes on and on, and it seems like showing of. The music suffers. The only thing I'd say to those who disagree, is that all the great flamenco guitarists (since Montoya) prefer Sabicas by far!
