Fapy unleashed

thickpick

Ah! Sorry I missed the title in your previous post. But where to find it? Not here: http://shoppingcart.djangobooks.com/eco ... _star.html

Any suggestions?

Elliot

I think it might be way OOP - PM me, we'll do a trade.

klaatu

Craig Bumgarner wrote:

Anyone know anything about the guitar Fapy is playing in the video above. Sounds great.

Craig

It's a Di Mauro Spécial Chorus. Check out the ones in the Di Mauro archive here:
http://www.di-mauro.fr/musee.htm

frater

Pat Metheny has got one too..!

klaatu

frater wrote:

Pat Metheny has got one too..!

That he does:
http://www.di-mauro.fr/Images/artistes/METHENY.jpg

Bones

Is the Dimauro a carved arch top or a pliage like a Selmer?

Great volume and tone on Fapy's clip.

Thanks

stubla

Elliot[There's no doubt Django was incredibly creative with an amazing range of ideas, but Fapy plays early Django every bit as good, no, better, like Django with a full left hand.}

Sorry but thats got to go down as one of the most ridiculous comments i've ever read on the GJ forums
Aside from the fact that Django invented the style that Fapy imitates its simply not true to say Fapys technique is better than Djangos--and to say he plays 'like Django would have done with a full left hand' seems to imply that Djangos handicap was in some way an impediment to his playing
In many ways Djangos technique was aided by the two finger approach--it gave him a consistency of tone that you can't get with 4 fingers and the two finger technigue declutters the fingerboard.If youve tried to learn any of Djangos solos note for note you realise that.
As Ben Givan states in his superb book on Django,Django made his handicap ''spectacularly irrelevent'.
Admittedly his chordal playing WAS affected by his handicap but his genius allowed him to devise an incredibly efficient system to get round those limitations

Listen to the solo of Django on China boy particularly the superhuman chromatic gliss at the end;Listen to Mystery Pacific in fact listen to ANY solo of Djangos from any period and its obvious his technique is still unrivalled even today nevermind mentioning his endless stream of melodic invention particularly in ballads.For me perhaps the greatest example of Djangos transcendental technique is the chromatic gliss in the 1942 version Of "Nuages" recorded in Belgium---no one has begun to approach that level of technical perfection--not Fapy,Not Bireli not anyone.
--i'm a big fan of Fapy hes a brilliant player obviously but he would be shocked and a little embarassed to think someone thought he was as good let alone better than Django.
stu

rimm

Limehouse Blues. Nuff said.

Teddy Dupont

stubla wrote:

Elliot[There's no doubt Django was incredibly creative with an amazing range of ideas, but Fapy plays early Django every bit as good, no, better, like Django with a full left hand.}

Sorry but thats got to go down as one of the most ridiculous comments i've ever read on the GJ forums
stu

I could not agree more Stu. I thought the statement was so ludicrous it did not merit a response.

patrus le sommelier

patrus here, it was for sure amazing to meet Fapy for the 1st time that way
Got almost 1hrs of footage with him!

DiMauro he mention that it was from the early 70's

Don't miss the 2 part videos interview here:

http://www.patrus53.com/2010/07/04/fapy-lafertin/

also 3 more videos here of him
1st main stage with Lollo Meier
2nd Fapy playing Baro Ferret Selmer #788
3nd amazing young player Gismo Graf playing with Fapy

http://www.patrus53.com/2010/07/14/fapy-lafertin-2/

I will be making more video in September at DFNW