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Location: Farmington, MO. 63640 | My wife and I will be going to the Mexico Riviera Maya next Wednesday for some much needed R+R. While we are down there I would like to find one of those big, fat guitars that is played in the mariachi bands but I don't know what to ask for or where to look. How about it all you worldly travelers, anyone know the name of this type guitar? Also is there any hassle getting one thru customs? I've been practicing drinking adult beverages this week in preparation for the all inclusive vacation. I think in a few more days I'll be ready as I can tell I've gotten better at drinking just this week. Practice does make you better.
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Location: Farmington, MO. 63640 | Don't know why this posted twice and I haven't started practicing yet today.
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Location: puerto vallarta, mexico | where is the mexico riviera maya? we have the mayan palace here. if you are near puerto vallarta let me know and i'll help you find a "guitarron". almost all of them are made in michoacan in a town called paracho. |
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Location: NJ | Hola, Russ!
I shoulda' come down to see you this weekend as it was probably pretty "quiet" in Mexico......
.....because it seemed the entire COUNTRY took over the Mandaly Bay in Vegas (where I was staying) for the Vargas/DeLaHoya fight!!!
(I coulda' SWORN that I heard a chicken in the room down the hall at 4a.m. Sunday morning!)
On the aforementioned "topic":
Back in '77, I went to a concert at Radio City Music Hall in NYC to see the band Renaissance.
The opening act was rather bizzarre British band called "Sailor". The lead singer played a guitarron. First time I'd ever seen/heard one, but I was completely bemused by it. The rest of the band's instrumentation/repertoire had absolutely NOTHING even REMOTELY analagous to a guitarron, but I guess it was just the "bizzarreness factor" that it added.
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | cliff d
The chicken you heard was Gallo De Cielo, written by Tom Russell (lives here in El Paso) on Joe Ely's CD, "Letter to Laredo".
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Location: NJ | If that was the case Bailey, then Joe's got the first CD that's "scratch & sniff"!! |
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Location: puerto vallarta, mexico | cliff, it was a wild weekend here on the beach as it was mexican "4th of july". the ricos must have gone to vegas to see their campeon. how was it? a vegeterian who likes boxing? you're weird. i like that; wanna join our band?
your chicken noise at 4 am probably was a last attempt at consciousness laugh after a two worm night. it reminded me of a time we were driving on a remote beach road in oaxaca looking for the playa paraiso escondido. this was a road that would cause severe orifice puckering in most gringos far from the city, but we had experience and were fortified with local refreshments, so why not take the mercedes diesel where even spock wouldn't go.
after an hour or so of first gear we ran into an old woman leading a burro with a young girl on it. we stopped to ask her about playa paraiso and she replied "i live there, i'll show you". she told her daughter something in machine gun spanish, opened the back door, and before i could react she threw two big spanish mackerel on the back seat and put a couple of large mexican shopping bags on the floor. oh well---------. afew minutes later i heard what i swore was a chicken and sure enough a head popped out of the bag and let out what was i'm sure was a plee for it's head. it about scared me into reality, but the gusano had imparted it's effects and we all laughed long and hard.
she did indeed live at hidden paradise beach along with a couple of other families and an american couple with two naked kids playing on the beach. the spanish mackerel was great grilled on charcoal and our ample beverage supply turned this curious stop to ask for directions into a mini fiesta. i'm sure the chicken was at its freshest for sunday's meal (who in their right mind would haul home a DEAD chicken. it would spoil on the way home.) if i ever get down there again i will go to my "other casa" and visit this very primo hidden spot and our amigos. you always have a casa anywhere you travel here. mi casa tu casa amigos. |
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Location: NJ | Russ;
I am indeed weird (you have NO idea!) but not THAT weird. I had absolutely NO idea the fight was scheduled until I was checking in. I'm not a fight fan. Nor do I even GAMBLE!!
My girlfriend is an executive muckety-muck with a big eyewear company out here and she had to go to Vegas for the big VisionWest eyewear show. Her company put her up at Mandalay Bay (who's big shining jewel is a man-made beach repleat with huge wavepool that she'd never have the opportunity to use). I figured SOMEBODY had to do an extensive study on the effects that perfect, four-foot waves every 1.5 minutes have on an alcohol-marinated body, and I was JUST the person to do it! Yes, I'd MUCH prefer the moon-driven waves of the ocean surf, but "if it's for free, it's for me", so from 10am until 6pm every day I alternated between being a pickled lizard in a beach chair to a grunnion in artificial "surf".
Also got to catch the "Blue Man Group".
PHENOMENAL show!!!!!
I highly recomend it! |
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Location: puerto vallarta, mexico | i was having a hard time picturing you at ringside, cliff, ordering a tofu pup on a sprouted 7 grain bun and asking if the onions were organic. ..........8-9-10....he's out! hold that hotdog.......it'll be cold by the time he wakes up anyway. i grew up in detroit and have had my fill of fist fights. zip guns at 50 yards are much safer. if someone got hit it was more a matter of bad kharma than good aim. ever wonder what happened to your car antenae al? |
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Going to Mexico 9/18, mariachi guitar?
