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From: John Wright (johnwright@musician.org) Sun, 24 May 1998 19:06:09:

Subject: Your link is on my GK page

Let me know if I can be of any assistance, or vice versa !! I am also on Bob's Mailing list.

From: Dijauto Ltda (mgenius@lkn.com.br) Wed, 20 May 1998 10:48:59:

Eu gosto muito desta m徭ica e sem querer achei alguem do outro lado do mundo que tamb士 gosta!!

Very Good your page!

From: Eugenio Marques - Brazil

From: Tom Gleason (tgleason@ahoymatey.com) Tue, 19 May 1998 01:18:44:

Hello Chieko,

I was wondering if you could help me figure out a mystery. I just returned from a trip to Paris, where I heard in one store a cd playing what I could've sworn was the Gipsy Kings with a female vocalist. She may have been Algerian or Middle Eastern, and the music had a Middle Eastern flavor added to it, which I assumed was an evolution of the Gipsy Kings' sound. She sang on the majority of the songs, which were beautiful ballads. I fell in love with the music instantly and swore I'd get it when I got home. I discovered upon returning however that there is no female vocalist in the group after all, so I must've heard another like sounding group. Any idea who it could've been?

Thanks in advance,
Tom Gleason

From: Cidrei (Cidrei@aol.com) Mon, 11 May 1998 01:31:34:

Dear Chieko,

Thank you for the information and FYI I think you've done terrific work with the site. Good luck and if there's anything I can help you with please feel free to e-mail.

Grace and Joy Always.....
Alana

From: Richard Raymond (RJRaymond46@worldnet.att.net) Tue, 28 Apr 1998 19:13:53:

Last October my wife and I were very fortunate to be able to go to the southern part of France. We spent about 10 days in the Carnes area and were able to go to Arles and the Carmarque. While there we visited a music store called "Madison" which in August had a dedication of the Gipsy Kings latest recording-Compas. They were not in Arles at the time but the owner suggested we go to a place called El Patio which was the home base of Chico And The Gipsies. Chico was there and autographed a poster for me of their upcoming concert which unfortunately we could not attend. I know how much you like the Gipsy Kings and Chico And The Gipsies so I thought I'd send you copies of some photographs which we took. Keep up the good work. Thank you.

From: Shawn Oram (shanti.oram@PSS.boeing.com) Tue, 28 Apr 1998 11:10:22:

I am a hugh fan of the Gypsy's and I was wondering if they are a "Taper Friendly" band? My hobby includes taping and trading live shows that I've been to.
Thanks,
Shawn

From: Traja Brizani (Imer.Brizani@guest.arnes.si) Mon, 27 Apr 1998 14:01:02:

We are "Amala" gipsy group from Ljubljana, Slovenia. We have a new album which contains traditional gipsy vocal and instrumental tunes from the balkan, aswell as the modern arrangements. We would like to present our music on your festival and clabs. If you are interested in our participation, please contact this email adress for details and promotion materials.

　　　　　　　　　　　Amala, Brizzani

From: "Faisal Al-Awadhi" (director@idir.net) Thu, 23 Apr 1998 14:13:25:

Hello,

　　Thank you for this lovely GK homepage. I really enjoyed it and especially the lyrics translation. Please keep it up and running :)
　　I have one comment on the Hotel California song by GK, I've heared that this song is now featured on "The Big Lebowski" Movie sound track. This CD is available everywhere here in the USA. You can check a sample of the song in www.cdnow.com.
　　Hope this was helpful.

From: Derek Janszen (janszen@ciit.org) Mon, 20 Apr 1998 12:14:36:

Hi Chieko!

I really like your website. Thanks for providing a plce for world-wide interaction on a topic of interest to all of us. I've been visiting your site for quite a few months now, but I couldn't register or anything since I've been using Netscape Navigator, which had the mailing capability removed. I just upgraded to Communicator last week, so now I can do all these registrations and mail from the browser.

I have a question which you may be able to answer: I noticed on the '98 U.S. tour schedule that the band is off from the middle of June to the latter part of August. Do you have any idea what they're doing during this period? Just interested.

Thanks!
Derek

From: Richard Raymond (RJRaymond46@worldnet.att.net) Sat, 11 Apr 1998 08:46:58:

Interesting I bought a copy of Chico & the Gypsies "Nomade" in Japan but it wasn't the extended play version you mention in your site. I was hoping I would be able to get the longer play but maybe it was because it was from Tower Records. Don't know but thought you might be interested. Thanks.

From: Richard Raymond (RJRaymond46@worldnet.att.net) Tue, 07 Apr 1998 14:24:42:

Picked up my copy of Rubaiyat from a company in Arizona that specializes in used CDs, etc. It's called Wishing Well Entertainment. Maybe others would be interested - cost was $22.00 including shipping and handling. Enjoy your site very much. Keep up the good work.

From: Pamelat53 (Pamelat53@aol.com) Sat, 14 Mar 1998 21:07:20:

Dear Chie,

Many thanks for posting the Gipsy Kings' tour dates for 1998. I'm in Heaven and can't wait to see them soon!

Thank you for all the hard work you put into your website. It's great and I'm very grateful.

Con afecto, Pam

From: Dan O'Toole (danotool@pacbell.net) Sat, 14 Mar 1998 04:57:08:

Hi,
I clicked on the 1998 upcoming dates and was taken to Atlantic rec. Where I encountered a maze of commercials. At the bottom of the page I given a choose to leave my cookies turned off and proceed or turn them back on again. Now I'm starting to get mad. I proceeded only to find another maze of commercials for Atlantic Rec's with no Gypsy Kings in sight, let alone a tour date for when they might be in my area. I don't have the time to fool around with these commercial sites. What otherwise, so far, seems like a good informative site is screwed up by the Atlantic Records link. With Netscape 4.04 I am not able to go back to the original site I started from, so I am intentionally stuck at Atlantic. The only way to get back to the Gypsy Kings site is through "History" files.

By the way; Have you ever heard of John Adomono? He is in my opinion the greatest Gypsy Guitarist that ever was. As a guitarist myself, I have heard none as good. I am though very impressed with the lead guitarist of the G.K. Is the original lead guitarist the one who played on the record with the song "Volarie" still the same fellow? Thanks for the site.

Gypsy Kings fan.
Dan

I have set up the new page of the GK tour dates for '98, so please check it out. Thank you for your suggestion. -C.U.- (May 9)

From: WooTime (WooTime@aol.com) Wed, 11 Mar 1998 20:00:53:

Subject: Hotel California Re-Release

I too am a big fan of The Gipsy Kings and enjoy the G.K. updates posted on your site. I was just wanting to inform you and your other readers that there is finally a new compact disc you can buy that has The Gipsy Kings version of "Hotel California." The disc is the soundtrack for the new US movie entitled "The Big Lebowski." Almost all of the major record stores here in my hometown are carrying the disc, so it shouldn't be hard for any G.K. fan to get ahold of.

From: Shyla Ajith (shyla_a@pacific.net.sg) Thu, 05 Mar 1998 10:14:34:

Thank you so much for the lyrics...makes the songs so meanigful when they are translated...

Shyla

From: Rob den Boer (ro.boer@wxs.nl) Sun, 15 Feb 1998 20:09:53:

Hello there Im back

I`ll send you some more info by mail.

GK`s part of the reyes are living in Arles and Tarascon and in between the two of them. The Baillardo`s are living in Montpellier. None of them is living in a caravan now. Most of them are living in a nice big house. Nicolas is living in the old part of Arles and maybe as you know, you might meet them around Rue de La roquette or just at saturday at the fleemarket near the Rhone at the beside.

Andre Reyes made a disk. The best I heard for years!!!!!! Marvelous songs. This CD did not appear because of rights of a record company because Mario Regis joined Andre.
Its a pity I`ve only a copy on cassette. You can imagine Andre with his own contravoice.

Then there is Gitano Family with Canut Amador and Paolo Fontana and Francesco Porto.
The first one is the son of Pablo Reyes, the second is Pablo Reyes and the third is Canut Reyes the rest is written on the disk (TUDOR/ Gitano family/ Sara Sara)

Ruptura first part

No hablas mas de mi persona
Que tu no tienes es que hablar
Que vendites tu hermosura
A quien que ha pagar l`amar
con el dinero el dinero el dinero

Tristessa

Triste ai ni llorando del amor que para ella
triste te amo
voy a suffrir voy a llorar por sin tu amar iiiiii(crying)
Ya apprende que el amor que no se apaga se no alega de mi
Ya aprenda que el amor que no se apaga se no alega de mi
Todo quai todoquai que me falto no todo quai que no me falto no
Ai pasan las penas.
Ai no la queria maria tu sabes ai no la queria maria tu sabes,
porque te amo
Maria ai tu cara bonita
ai tus cabellos tu cara bonita
ai tus cabellos tu cara bonita
Ai porque te amo ai porque tu sabes ai no la queria
lailo etc

Well I hope you will find some nice things I will mail you Maybe it is nice for you if you have some questions you can mail me. I,m not going to answer private questions about them but I`m sure I can answer some questions.
O yes Chico is not called reyes but Bouchiki. He is married to Marthe Reyes.
Look for records of Mario Regis and his father. They had the biggest influence on Chico`s first record
Don`t forget to mention Armadillo the group of Nino Baillardo(Canard-which means duck) and his brothers

Good bye

Rob den Boer

From: Rob den Boer (flamen.co@hetnet.nl) Sat, 14 Feb 1998 14:49:41:

Hello there,

It was nice to see your homepage on Gipsy Kings.
I have only seen some of the text of the songs. I do agree with a lot of them but some of it is realy wrong. Like viento de arena is sung in Arabic with some dialect of catalan provencale.
You can not really translate all to spanish because they put a lot of their own language in it. This language is , maybe you know. a mixture between spanish catalan, french, spanish and provencale. Tristessa by example they sing " todo quai todo quai que me falto no " which means everything is all right with me when I`m not missing her.
For the rest I will see how the tablature is. My experience with books and more sites that most of it is wrong. So I will let you know when I`m ready.
I can say I`m quite a specialist because I`m a friend to the family Reyes and specialy to the son of Pablo(Poulette), Gerard which I phone a lot. He also came to Holland to visit us and in 1995 we made a small tour here in Holland.
Well my greetings and you will hear from me.

Rob den Boer
van Sevenbergestraat 70
Voorburg
Holland