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[niallgregory]

sounds good windhorse ! you look like a bunch of crazy men

[windhorse]

Thanks Niall,
Yep, I'd say it's definitely a group of crazies..
Someone on this board once said, "It looks like you're playing with a bunch of homeless guys!"

[Congadelica]

Its not what you look like its how you play that counts . you guys seem pretty tight. nice singing Dave.

M

[congamyk]

A very entertaining video featuring the Schlagwerk Yambu; a conga-esque cajon and the marimbula.
This cat shows some tremendous independence toward the end when he plays both instruments while also playing clave with a pedal.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3U5C-X_B2OQ

[Tonio]

His Independence is good!

I like the sound of the cajon here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UguZNfT8wms&NR=1 Perhaps a good recording?

T

[windhorse]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3U5C-X_B2OQ

Thanks! Good one Mike! There's something good to be learned there..

[SalseroBoricua71]

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[akdom]

Very nice, I loved it!

Thanks for sharing


B

[JohnnyConga]

New Yawk in da house!....this is the bench in front of the lake i would spend up to 11 hours just jamming all day, for the Sunday Rumba...here is an example of my experience growing up in NYcity...."JC" Johnny Conga

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxMlYdRzHcA

[SalseroBoricua71]

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[JohnnyConga]

Hi Steve u know Bronx dont go to Brooklyn, or Brooklyn to Bronx, back then...so i never really knew any rumberos in Brooklyn...I know they used to jam out of Reese beach as well.. I was one of the early rumberos to play Orchard beach Section 1 back in the day.. Now you have to play off of the beach , inside the park area...but they still jammin !.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpqlfRCnAfA y las mujeres?....OVIDATE!!!.... if ur in NYC in the summer try and make it to Orchard beach in the boogie down Bronx, for the drumming and the women...CHACHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Miss those days!..."JC" Johnny Conga -Orchard Beach Alumni-Section 1

[FidelsEyeglasses]

Mathew Smith making a set of timbales.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MurJWpNn4g

Beautiful copper plated drums... with real skin.
Much respect to anyone who respects and maintains Tradition.

"Cuero na' ma'"

[FidelsEyeglasses]

My absolute favorite bongosero of this current era... 'Franciso "Frank" Oropesa'.
This is the style that absolutely "floats my boat"! (as opposed to N.Y.C. styling)
Currently Director and player for Septeto Nacional.
For me.. Frank is "Da' Man".

4 videos of him when he was a much thinner and much younger man.
(weren't we all once?)

http://fidelseyeglasses.blogspot.com/2008/08/video-cuba-el-bongosero-cubano.html

"Cuero na' ma"
Markito

[Thomas Altmann]

Hi Mark,

thanks for posting! I had never heard of him to this day. I don't know how they are playing in New York, and I'm not sure whether there aren't some manufacturers outside Cuba who can build first class bongos; but this man surely plays the way I love it, and the sound of his drums is superb, too.

Greetings from good (c)old Germany,

Thomas

[JohnnyConga]

http://www.thirteen.org/soul/2009/02/04 ... r-15-1972/

here is a show that was around in 1972 in NYcity...i never saw it myself but you can chek it out..."spoken word" is a new title for an old word "poetry"..chek my man out..and to think Felipe Luciano was the gang leader of the Young Lords in the late 60's who became a Newscaster in NYCity...miss those days!...X gang member of the "Turban Lords"...a cousin gang to the Young Lords...."JC" Johnny Conga