"Esteban Holiday Special"...

[JBall008]

Yeah i hstrongly dislike people like him that take advantage of the unknowing public. You'ld be amazed at the number of those crappy ass guitars that come through my store. With people trying to sell them or trade them in on a real guitar. I don;t know if that says something for the people in my area or what but shit.

Gil

Same with those Wal Mart First Act guitars. A guy I know at the local music store said people would get a kid a First Act and then bring it in to get set up properly and some were so bad, that they couldn't do anything to make it playable and in tune! My first guitar was a used PV Patriot for 150, including the case and I still have it 20 years later. Way better than any "starter pack".

[Racerx2k]

Esteban, ha! His real name, of course, is Stephen Paul, and he's in his 60s or something. I recall an article they did in the paper, here, about him, cause he came from here (Pittsburgh) and he was in for his class reunion. He graduated, I think, in 1967, and they had his h.s. photo, which was very "Biff" looking. Paste-faced, white boy, ripping off the stupid. Chalk another one up for the baby-boomer generation!

[Cygnus X1]

Edumacate me. I missed something, who is this guy professing to be, anyways? Was he in a real band at some point in history that I missed?
BTW, HSN is blocked on my channel list, by the administrator, ME.

[RacerX]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esteban

[Cygnus X1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esteban

Oi...that is some funny stuff.

[Robert Burns]

Esteban, ha! His real name, of course, is Stephen Paul, and he's in his 60s or something. I recall an article they did in the paper, here, about him, cause he came from here (Pittsburgh) and he was in for his class reunion. He graduated, I think, in 1967, and they had his h.s. photo, which was very "Biff" looking. Paste-faced, white boy, ripping off the stupid. Chalk another one up for the baby-boomer generation!

*** I had heard he was from San Diego, or something...and that he
was an old surf bum... was in some bands, and then got the idea to become "Mysterious! Ooooh...Esteban! If you took off the hat and
shades, he would look like the carpenter he is.. :ROTF:

[BODOM]

He is a lier he never studied with segovia anmd that makes him an asshole in my book.

[Grumpy]

He's a con-artist and an asshole.

[Racerx2k]

*** I had heard he was from San Diego, or something...and that he
was an old surf bum... was in some bands, and then got the idea to become "Mysterious! Ooooh...Esteban! If you took off the hat and
shades, he would look like the carpenter he is.. :ROTF:

Nope. Sadly, I came from the same town I reside in. Here's a quick Wikipedia link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esteban

And the article I read and learned about this a-hole:

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07039/760156-55.stm

I live about a stone's throw from his alma mater.

[atilla]

Here's another fun Esteban link for ya.

[Rich#6]

Embarrassing but he played at my work twice. I passed on seeing him both times.
He is supposed to be the second best flamenco guitar player in the world ( according to him)
Back when he started doing the home shopping he canceled all of his tour dates except for ours . I guess he makes a lot more money selling those shitty guitars.

[atilla]

Embarrassing but he played at my work twice. I passed on seeing him both times.
He is supposed to be the second best flamenco guitar player in the world ( according to him)
Back when he started doing the home shopping he canceled all of his tour dates except for ours . I guess he makes a lot more money selling those shitty guitars.

Second-best flamenco player? Reminds me of that line from the Sean Penn movie, Sweet and Lowdown:

"I'm the best guitar player in the world. Well, except for this gypsy in France, Django Reinhart."

[Freyr]

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=Qedp_9_gEXU&feature=related

:ROTF:

I've got to get me one of those now! How could I play without that raised B string, I always knew it was too low!

[FlyingSkull]

You love his music,now you can vacation in his gorgeous condo in Rocky Point, Mexico!
http://estebansbeachcondo.com/ !?! Incredible! He must be selling lots of guitars!

From harmony central: If I had to describe the guitar in a sentence: Mr. Plywood and Mrs. Plastic married and had this Chinese son.

[åron]

From his former violin/trumpet player:
"He'd say, 'This song was found in an archaeological dig in Egypt in the '20s and we found it and have written it out.' And it was just some kind of minor scale. I mean, there's no notation from Egypt. He'd tell people some song was found on a piece of papyrus in the temple of the gods. I don't know how people bought into it."

It's hard to go broke banking on the gullibility of the public. The man is an EVIL genius. This sort of salesmanship and general cheesiness is going on every minute of every day. Who wants to start a Christian flamenco ensemble