photo from the Arte Bravo Facebook page
March 28, 2019
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Olvera Street, Los Angeles
Olvera Street is in the oldest part of Downtown Los Angeles, California, USA, and is part of the El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historic Monument. Historically, it abutted the original Chinatown, which was later removed to its modern location to make way for Union Station. There are 27 buildings of various ages still standing on Olvera Street, including the Avila Adobe (1818), the Pelanconi House (1857), and the Sepulveda House (1887).
Los Angeles was founded in 1781 by Spanish pobladores, on a site southeast of today's Olvera Street near the Los Angeles River. They consisted of 11 families and were accompanied by a few Spanish soldiers. The new town was named El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora Reina de los Ángeles.
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Here in a couple of weeks I am headed to Los Angeles and I might have enough free time to run by Olvera Street.
There is a plaque there somewhere that was donated by Los Aficionados de Los Angeles that talks about bullfights being held in Los Angeles in the 1800's.
If I can get there and find it I will for sure take a photo and post it here.
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Well, I made it to Los Angeles, and I even had some free time where I could have gone with my wife and child to Olvera Street.
But once I studied the map on how to get there, where to park, etc., I decided not to go. I did not want to risk the safety of my child. According to the map Olvera Street and the infamous Skid Row area of Los Angeles are a dirty needle's throw away from each other.
If you have seen any of the new reports on what is going on lately with the homeless problem and drug problem in Los Angeles there is no way in hell I am going to hang out in that part of town.
Sorry, even my love of the bullfight has its limits.
March 22, 2019
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March 20, 2019
"Fragata" from the Partido de Resina ranch
Madrid, June 1st, 2015
560 kilos
Lidiado por Sebastien Ritter
March 16, 2019
March 13, 2019
March 12, 2019
Enrique Ponce Toro 5.000. 08.03.19
(mundotoro.com)
No deja de rebasar barreras. El vértigo de unos guarismos que asustan. Enrique Ponce alcanzó esta semana la barrera de los cinco mil astados lidiados en su carrera profesional como matador de toros. La onomástica llegó en León, en el estado de Guanajuato, fue con ‘Don Mundo’, un codicioso astado de Jaral de Peñas al que logró cortar las dos orejas en otra faena para su caleidoscopio de imágenes imborrables de esta temporada americana.
Y es que su invierno en México ha sido abrumador. El de Chiva ha ‘salpicado’ con su toreo los principales cosos del país azteca. El punto de partida fue Querétaro un 26 de octubre que ya nos parece haber quedado atrás centurias en el tiempo. Vida y media desde entonces. Aquella tarde paseó un trofeo. Lo mismo en su primer paseíllo de la Temporada Grande en La México y en Moroleón. Sendos trofeos a toros de Barralva. Ya el 26 de enero, ‘desorejó’ al citado burel de Jaral de Peñas en León e hizo lo propio en La Chona con un toro de Torreón de Cañas, el pasado 2 de febrero.
Tres días más tarde, ‘cuajó’ de manera excelsa a uno de Los Encinos para salir en volandas en pleno Aniversario de La México. Multitudinaria Puerta Grande. Luego, llegarían Pachuca, oreja el 17 de febrero, y Monterrey, en cuyo Aniversario cortó las dos orejas de un burel de Santa Bárbara. La guinda, la pasada madrugada en Jalos, donde paseó un trofeo de un ejemplar de Teófilo Goméz.
https://vimeo.com/322232782
No deja de rebasar barreras. El vértigo de unos guarismos que asustan. Enrique Ponce alcanzó esta semana la barrera de los cinco mil astados lidiados en su carrera profesional como matador de toros. La onomástica llegó en León, en el estado de Guanajuato, fue con ‘Don Mundo’, un codicioso astado de Jaral de Peñas al que logró cortar las dos orejas en otra faena para su caleidoscopio de imágenes imborrables de esta temporada americana.
Y es que su invierno en México ha sido abrumador. El de Chiva ha ‘salpicado’ con su toreo los principales cosos del país azteca. El punto de partida fue Querétaro un 26 de octubre que ya nos parece haber quedado atrás centurias en el tiempo. Vida y media desde entonces. Aquella tarde paseó un trofeo. Lo mismo en su primer paseíllo de la Temporada Grande en La México y en Moroleón. Sendos trofeos a toros de Barralva. Ya el 26 de enero, ‘desorejó’ al citado burel de Jaral de Peñas en León e hizo lo propio en La Chona con un toro de Torreón de Cañas, el pasado 2 de febrero.
Tres días más tarde, ‘cuajó’ de manera excelsa a uno de Los Encinos para salir en volandas en pleno Aniversario de La México. Multitudinaria Puerta Grande. Luego, llegarían Pachuca, oreja el 17 de febrero, y Monterrey, en cuyo Aniversario cortó las dos orejas de un burel de Santa Bárbara. La guinda, la pasada madrugada en Jalos, donde paseó un trofeo de un ejemplar de Teófilo Goméz.
https://vimeo.com/322232782
March 11, 2019
The Story of Marty Robbins' "El Paso"
If you can fit 20 songs on a cd I could probably fit all the country-western songs I like on one cd.
I've just never been a big country music fan. There are however some songs that are just classic and I listen to them all the time, Marty Robbins' El Paso being one of them.
(El Paso City is a great song too, Feleena is a little bit too long for my liking but it is part of Marty Robbins' "El Paso trilogy".)
Even though they don't have anything to do with bullfighting I am including them here because anytime I hear them my mind wanders back to a feeling of the old southwest and the border towns with Mexico. Bullfights were held in the old days on the border towns, even on the US side.
So in a sense these songs tap into that time. Enjoy.
El Paso - https://youtu.be/JHbmbEH9CJU
Feleena (from El Paso) - https://youtu.be/74AkX3D35fo
El Paso City - https://youtu.be/v1R8WxLkq9o
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The history of the epic gunslinger ballad that changed radio forever
(by Robert Fontenot thoughtco.com 3-1-19)
Written by: Marty Robbins
Recorded: April 7, 1959 (Studio 2, Bradley Studios, Nashville, TN)
Length: 4:19 (album version); 2:58 (single a-side); 4:38 (single b-side)
Takes: unknown
Produced by: Don Law
Musicians:
Releases:
Single: Columbia 4-41511 (October 26, 1959; b-side, "Running Gun")
Album: Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs, Columbia CL 1349 (September 1959)
History
Marty Robbins was already one of the nation's most popular country singers in late 1959, having scored four C&W #1 hits, including the first hit version of "Singing the Blues" and his own composition "A White Sport Coat and a Pink Carnation" (which became a huge pop hit as well). The release of "El Paso" nevertheless propelled him to true superstardom, giving him a signature song that cemented his legacy; yet Robbins composed the mammoth hit in a few hours while in the back seat of a car, and only then after years of procrastination.
It was while making the journey from Nashville to his Phoenix home just before Christmas 1956 that Robbins first came up with the idea of writing a song about the town he was passing through; accompanied by his wife and son, however, he was soon distracted enough to forget the inspiration. But having grown up a big fan of Gene Autry, "The Singing Cowboy," Marty had been looking to move into that genre for some time, and the next year while making the same trip, he remembered the idea -- then promptly forgot it all over again. Finally, in 1958, on the family's third pass through El Paso in his turquoise Cadillac, he began to compose the tune in his head, done in the popular ranchera ballad style of the region.
Taking a rest stop, he got out near a bar, but finding it closed for the holiday, he began to ask locals about the center of town, and was told that the hills behind him were actually the "badlands of New Mexico." The phrase made it into the song, which he wrote on his guitar in the Cadillac's backseat while his wife Marizona drove.
Consisting of one repeated melody and a slightly altered bridge, Marty found the tune so simple and yet compelling that the verses came to him one after the other -- fourteen of them, to be exact, laid out like a novel or a film. (Indeed, Robbins has said he had no idea how the epic tale would end when he began it.) When he arrived at the county seat of Deming, NM a few hours later, the song was already complete, a tale of a cowboy who kills a man over the love of a woman named "Feleena," then escapes justice, only to return to El Paso to die in his woman's arms.
Sessions were a fairly simple affair, but only out of sheer necessity: his label Columbia, which had originally paired him with producer Mitch Miller and marketed Robbins as a pop act, was not at all sure cowboy songs would be a good fit for his career. Robbins instead indulged his obsession in the spring of 1959 by recording "The Hanging Tree," a Western standard Marty cut for a film soundtrack. When it went to #15 on the country charts in April, the singer was finally allowed to cut the album of gunfighter songs he'd longed for. Columbia still hedged their bets, however, giving him only a day in which to record the whole LP, including the future hit. Backed by the famed Nashville sessionmen known as the "A-Team," he managed to finish the album in less than five hours. It would prove to be a landmark in country music.
And yet, Marty still had to fight Columbia on the length of "El Paso" itself, despite the fact that every verse was necessary to the song: for the album, the label excised the most graphic verse where Robbins stands over his victim's body, then hastily edited the 4:19 remainder down to 2:58. A crafty Robbins got them to put the full-length song on the b-side, however, and most DJs much preferred the longer version. "El Paso" not only became the first #1 song of the 1960s, it presciently ushered in a new era of hit songs that ran longer than four minutes.
Trivia
The series finale of AMC's hit TV drama Breaking Bad, which aired in 2013, was called "Felina," causing many fans to speculate before the airdate that, like the narrator in Robbins' song, lead character Walter White would die at the end. Walt is a chemistry teacher turned meth kingpin who spends plenty of time in the "badlands of New Mexico" during the course of the series, and at the start of the last episode is planning to return home, in part to see the love of his life, his wife Skyler. ("Felina" is a more culturally appropriate spelling of Marty's "Feleena; Robbin's own inspiration was from a girl he went to grade school with named "Fidelina.") The armed DEA agents who have been the case for years are headquartered in... El Paso.
The bar Robbins found closed that fateful day is now called Rosa's Cantina, open and thriving just off of what is now Interstate 85 in El Paso. The original owners sold it to a local in 2007, who changed little about the place; the original "El Paso" is the first song listed on the jukebox, causing tourists to play it nonstop all day long. The cantina claims the bar was there before the song, but historians of the area are skeptical.
The success of "El Paso" paved the way for longer songs to be played on AM radio; in the summer of 1964, the Animals' "House of the Rising Sun" made it to #1 in the UK, though the #1 version released in the US was edited. (Many DJs simply played the longer British single anyway.) "Rising Sun," like "El Paso," ran about 2:58 edited.
Not only did Robbins follow up on the success of "El Paso" and Gunfighter Ballads with more Western songs and albums, he penned two follow-up songs to the hit: 1966's "Feleena (From El Paso)," which tells the life story of the woman at the center of the first hit, and 1976's "El Paso City," in which a third person recalls the original song and wonders if he was the gunfighter in a previous life.
"El Paso" went to Number One on both the Pop and Country charts, and the following year won the first-ever Grammy given in the field of country music. Robbins closed every concert with the song forever after.
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I've just never been a big country music fan. There are however some songs that are just classic and I listen to them all the time, Marty Robbins' El Paso being one of them.
(El Paso City is a great song too, Feleena is a little bit too long for my liking but it is part of Marty Robbins' "El Paso trilogy".)
Even though they don't have anything to do with bullfighting I am including them here because anytime I hear them my mind wanders back to a feeling of the old southwest and the border towns with Mexico. Bullfights were held in the old days on the border towns, even on the US side.
So in a sense these songs tap into that time. Enjoy.
El Paso - https://youtu.be/JHbmbEH9CJU
Feleena (from El Paso) - https://youtu.be/74AkX3D35fo
El Paso City - https://youtu.be/v1R8WxLkq9o
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The history of the epic gunslinger ballad that changed radio forever
(by Robert Fontenot thoughtco.com 3-1-19)
Written by: Marty Robbins
Recorded: April 7, 1959 (Studio 2, Bradley Studios, Nashville, TN)
Length: 4:19 (album version); 2:58 (single a-side); 4:38 (single b-side)
Takes: unknown
Produced by: Don Law
Musicians:
- Marty Robbins: lead vocal, acoustic rhythm guitar (unknown)
- Grady Martin: lead guitar (1952 Bigsby Doubleneck)
- Jack Pruett: acoustic rhythm guitar (unknown)
- Bob Moore: standup acoustic bass (unknown Italian vintage)
- Jim Glaser, Bobby Sykes: harmony vocals
Releases:
Single: Columbia 4-41511 (October 26, 1959; b-side, "Running Gun")
Album: Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs, Columbia CL 1349 (September 1959)
History
Marty Robbins was already one of the nation's most popular country singers in late 1959, having scored four C&W #1 hits, including the first hit version of "Singing the Blues" and his own composition "A White Sport Coat and a Pink Carnation" (which became a huge pop hit as well). The release of "El Paso" nevertheless propelled him to true superstardom, giving him a signature song that cemented his legacy; yet Robbins composed the mammoth hit in a few hours while in the back seat of a car, and only then after years of procrastination.
It was while making the journey from Nashville to his Phoenix home just before Christmas 1956 that Robbins first came up with the idea of writing a song about the town he was passing through; accompanied by his wife and son, however, he was soon distracted enough to forget the inspiration. But having grown up a big fan of Gene Autry, "The Singing Cowboy," Marty had been looking to move into that genre for some time, and the next year while making the same trip, he remembered the idea -- then promptly forgot it all over again. Finally, in 1958, on the family's third pass through El Paso in his turquoise Cadillac, he began to compose the tune in his head, done in the popular ranchera ballad style of the region.
Taking a rest stop, he got out near a bar, but finding it closed for the holiday, he began to ask locals about the center of town, and was told that the hills behind him were actually the "badlands of New Mexico." The phrase made it into the song, which he wrote on his guitar in the Cadillac's backseat while his wife Marizona drove.
Consisting of one repeated melody and a slightly altered bridge, Marty found the tune so simple and yet compelling that the verses came to him one after the other -- fourteen of them, to be exact, laid out like a novel or a film. (Indeed, Robbins has said he had no idea how the epic tale would end when he began it.) When he arrived at the county seat of Deming, NM a few hours later, the song was already complete, a tale of a cowboy who kills a man over the love of a woman named "Feleena," then escapes justice, only to return to El Paso to die in his woman's arms.
Sessions were a fairly simple affair, but only out of sheer necessity: his label Columbia, which had originally paired him with producer Mitch Miller and marketed Robbins as a pop act, was not at all sure cowboy songs would be a good fit for his career. Robbins instead indulged his obsession in the spring of 1959 by recording "The Hanging Tree," a Western standard Marty cut for a film soundtrack. When it went to #15 on the country charts in April, the singer was finally allowed to cut the album of gunfighter songs he'd longed for. Columbia still hedged their bets, however, giving him only a day in which to record the whole LP, including the future hit. Backed by the famed Nashville sessionmen known as the "A-Team," he managed to finish the album in less than five hours. It would prove to be a landmark in country music.
And yet, Marty still had to fight Columbia on the length of "El Paso" itself, despite the fact that every verse was necessary to the song: for the album, the label excised the most graphic verse where Robbins stands over his victim's body, then hastily edited the 4:19 remainder down to 2:58. A crafty Robbins got them to put the full-length song on the b-side, however, and most DJs much preferred the longer version. "El Paso" not only became the first #1 song of the 1960s, it presciently ushered in a new era of hit songs that ran longer than four minutes.
Trivia
The series finale of AMC's hit TV drama Breaking Bad, which aired in 2013, was called "Felina," causing many fans to speculate before the airdate that, like the narrator in Robbins' song, lead character Walter White would die at the end. Walt is a chemistry teacher turned meth kingpin who spends plenty of time in the "badlands of New Mexico" during the course of the series, and at the start of the last episode is planning to return home, in part to see the love of his life, his wife Skyler. ("Felina" is a more culturally appropriate spelling of Marty's "Feleena; Robbin's own inspiration was from a girl he went to grade school with named "Fidelina.") The armed DEA agents who have been the case for years are headquartered in... El Paso.
The bar Robbins found closed that fateful day is now called Rosa's Cantina, open and thriving just off of what is now Interstate 85 in El Paso. The original owners sold it to a local in 2007, who changed little about the place; the original "El Paso" is the first song listed on the jukebox, causing tourists to play it nonstop all day long. The cantina claims the bar was there before the song, but historians of the area are skeptical.
The success of "El Paso" paved the way for longer songs to be played on AM radio; in the summer of 1964, the Animals' "House of the Rising Sun" made it to #1 in the UK, though the #1 version released in the US was edited. (Many DJs simply played the longer British single anyway.) "Rising Sun," like "El Paso," ran about 2:58 edited.
Not only did Robbins follow up on the success of "El Paso" and Gunfighter Ballads with more Western songs and albums, he penned two follow-up songs to the hit: 1966's "Feleena (From El Paso)," which tells the life story of the woman at the center of the first hit, and 1976's "El Paso City," in which a third person recalls the original song and wonders if he was the gunfighter in a previous life.
"El Paso" went to Number One on both the Pop and Country charts, and the following year won the first-ever Grammy given in the field of country music. Robbins closed every concert with the song forever after.
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March 10, 2019
Todos los rabos de Las Ventas
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| Palomo Linares - 1972 |
(mundotoro.com)
1.- JUAN BELMONTE, el 21-10-1934, toro ‘Desertor’ de Carmen de Federico. Alternó con Marcial Lalanda y Cagancho.
2.- MARCIAL LALANDA, el 28-10-1934. Toro de Juan Sánchez de Terrones. Alternó con Manolo Bienvenida y Pepe Gallardo.
3.- MANOLO BIENVENIDA, el 03-06-1935. Toro de Tomás Pérez de la Concha. Alternó con Cagancho y Curro Caro.
4.- ALFREDO CORROCHANO, el 22-09-1935. Toro de Coquilla. Alternó con Juan Belmonte y Marcial Lalanda
5.- CURRO CARO, el 29-09-1935. Toro de Fermín Martín. Alternó con Nicanor Villalta, Fernando Domínguez y Lorenzo Garza
6.- LORENZO GARZA, el 29-09-1935. Toro de Salas. Alternó con Nicanor Villalta, Fernando Domínguez y Curro Caro
7.- DOMINGO ORTEGA, el 24-05-1939. Toro de Sánchez Fabrés. Alternó con el rejoneador Antonio Cañero, Marcial Lalanda, Vicente Barrera, El Estudiante, Pepe Amorós y Pepe Bienvenida
8.- VICENTE BARRERA, el 24-05-1939. Toro de Concha y Sierra. Alternó con el rejoneador Antonio Cañero, Marcial Lalanda, Domingo Ortega, El Estudiante, Pepe Amorós y Pepe Bienvenida
9.- PEPE BIENVENIDA, el 24-05-1939. Toro de Marqués de Villamarta. Alternó con el rejoneador Antonio Cañero, Marcial Lalanda, Vicente Barrera, El Estudiante, Pepe Amorós y Domingo Ortega
10-. PALOMO LINARES, el 22-05-1972. Toro ‘Cigarrón’, de Atanasio Fernández. Alternó con Andrés Vázquez y Curro Rivera
11.- DIEGO VENTURA, el 09-06-2018. Toro ‘Biemplantao’, de Los Espartales. Alternó con Andy Cartagena, mano a mano
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