Rodrigo Y Gabriela Make Acoustic Guitar Playing An Orgasmic Act
Wednesday, April 18th, 2007 while thinking about eating a Bastardly Mercado Certified lunch by Moe
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Holy God!
Some of you readers in NYC who saw Rodrigo y Gabriela a couple nights back @ Webster Hall can probably relate to my amazing experience last night. I had no idea what I was getting myself into heading into the gig, but it turned out to be a surreal experience. Yes, I understand that sounds kind of lame, but I shit you not, you bastards!!
To tell you the truth, I didn't think two acoustic geeetar players could satisfy a sold-out crowd @ the Roxy in Boston, but they went above & beyond than simply appease, my friends. All through the night, they tirelessly moved between strumming, pounding & gentle fingerpicking of their guitars as they covered famous songs from Rock & Roll legends like Slayer, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Metallica & others. From what I noticed, the crowd relished in every strum!
The sensational duo is comprised of a technical genius in Mr. Rodrigo, who probably makes chicks around the globe orgasm w/ his unique fingerpicking abilities & the extremely beautiful Gabriela (looks a little like Jessica Alba from 30 feet away), who plays her guitar like she's high on crack cocaine---there's really no other way to put it.
Since mere words cannot describe their live act, I would highly suggest anyone in the path of their USA tour to CHECK THEM OUT!! It cost me only $20 for a very intimate & jaw dropping experience, so from a value standpoint, it's a no-brainer!
UPDATE: Since their site is currently flooded & down, here's a list of their upcoming shows...
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their website is down b/c their damn servers aren't responding! faaaack.
definitely check them out, people!!
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WOW!, the vid sounded good even on my cheesy laptop. Too bad they are sold out in my city or I would go see them.
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the fucking coolest thing I've ever seen.
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They're very good (and by that I mean they're better players than I am), but after they were so hyped up to me, I wasn't really all that impressed. Compared to acoustic guitarists like Don Ross, Antoine Dufour, Andy McKee, etc, they're not even in the same league.
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They had me at the percussive interlude.
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no 4 makes a good point. they're not the very best at what they do but its still kick ass to see real people with rockin' out with acoustic guitars with no gimicks. i wonder if they ever jam with Esteban?
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Ya, whatever number 4....? These two are great.
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No. 7-- look, I'm not dissing them. They are excellent, and the flemenco stylings on a song like "Stairway to Heaven" are very unique, interesting, and fun. But go to Youtube and check out the people I listed...add Tommy Emmanuel to the mix while you're at it. No disrespect to these two...but when someone starts going on about orgasmic acoustic guitar playing (and I heard about them before this post), I imagine them matching up with truly incredible players. If you're into guitar playing, go check out the people I listed. They're truly mindblowing.
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