Stories
This is where you can contribute to this website and help us build an archive of memories of Amancio. If you ever met Amancio or were lucky enough to hear him play live, we want to hear your story.
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Recordings
We are also on the look out for any recordings of Amancio that are as yet undiscovered. We are looking for bootlegs, particularly the early years, tapes from a BBC Radio live session broadcast from the time of Hum Dono and also any recordings from the early 80's when he played almost exclusively acoustically. He had been trying out a new range of Gibson guitars (the Mark series...fantastic acoustics - Amancio was reviewing the design of the inner struts). His playing at this time went back once again to his roots (I would say, having witnessed it...but others may disagree). A solo guitar style, incorporating much of the feel of music like “A Street In Bombay” emerged, and he went nowhere without the acoustic for a long period. Unfortunately no known recordings of this period in his playing exist...but who knows, there may be something (here is a photo of Amancio playing with another guitarist and a violinist at a summer camp/gathering with quite a crowd, where a chap is recording them on what looks to be a fairly professional tape deck...if you are reading, drop us a line!).
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