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How did Mr. Fransisco Bustamante get the nickname "Django". Does he play a mean lead jazz guitar? or what? Thanks.
How did Django nickname happen?
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Chops Louie said:
I think it was because he looks a bit like Django Reinhart, the deceased German jazz guitarist. Though personally I think the resemblance is minor at best. Django pictures
Django is a spaghetti western character started by Franco Nero and later picked-up by Terence Hill.
I am told, when Busta was around 12, he'd got to pool halls with a smoke in his mouth and started woofing, " Sino dyan?"
Meaning, "Who's out there?"
He took on much older players. They started calling him Django after that.
Some say it's because he became gypsy-like when he moved to Germany but I am told by a friend of his, it started way before that.
I am told, when Busta was around 12, he'd got to pool halls with a smoke in his mouth and started woofing, " Sino dyan?"
Meaning, "Who's out there?"
He took on much older players. They started calling him Django after that.
Some say it's because he became gypsy-like when he moved to Germany but I am told by a friend of his, it started way before that.
"Django" Bustamante
he got the nickname from the spaghetti western movie series where the lead star is named Django... coz when he was younger, when he enters the pool hall with a lighted cigarette, he looked like that star. i got this info from an interview of FHM Philippines to Django back in 2003.
he got the nickname from the spaghetti western movie series where the lead star is named Django... coz when he was younger, when he enters the pool hall with a lighted cigarette, he looked like that star. i got this info from an interview of FHM Philippines to Django back in 2003.
LOL. Joey beat me in posting the info.. grrrrr...JoeyInCali said:
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The reason I was asking this is beacuse I just finished reading an autobiography on the great gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt. He supposedly was an avid and excellent billiards player who loved to gamble away his earnings from band touring. When he semi-retired in France the town he lived in had a billards parlor with a team club that still exists today. His left hand was horribly disfigured in a childhood fire that only left him with 2 working fingers and fused his pinky and ring finger together. He must of had a real stable bridge. There's a half truth movie by Woody Allen about a fictional guitar player (Sean Penn) who plays a lot of pool titled "Sweet and Lowdown".
The reason I was asking this is beacuse I just finished reading an autobiography on the great gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt. He supposedly was an avid and excellent billiards player who loved to gamble away his earnings from band touring. When he semi-retired in France the town he lived in had a billards parlor with a team club that still exists today. His left hand was horribly disfigured in a childhood fire that only left him with 2 working fingers and fused his pinky and ring finger together. He must of had a real stable bridge. There's a half truth movie by Woody Allen about a fictional guitar player (Sean Penn) who plays a lot of pool titled "Sweet and Lowdown".
Chops Louie said:
I can see how it didn't hurt him a lot in billiards, but how did he ever work his bridge hand on guitar or did he play lefty?
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catscradle said:
Cats, he played fretting with his jumbled left hand. He got by it with a blistering picking technique and massive 2 finger chromatic runs of incredible speed accented with partial chordal slurings using the fused fingers. He also used to scale the fretboard in a vertical fashion combined with horizontal single note runs like a violin player. He was One Cool Cat.
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bruin70 said:
Bruin, your right about the character penn plays, i think the player he portrays did really exist. I guess i meant more of a fictional composite character with django's attributes like pool playing and especially making a moon to ride on. Django actually did it with a star instead.
JoeyInCali said:
the_eradicator said:he got the nickname from the spaghetti western movie series where the lead star is named Django... coz when he was younger, when he enters the pool hall with a lighted cigarette, he looked like that star. i got this info from an interview of FHM Philippines to Django back in 2003.
the_eradicator said:LOL. Joey beat me in posting the info.. grrrrr...
Tsk tsk tsk Joey, not citing your sources and passing it as your own, LOL. At least the_eradicator gave credit to his source (but maybe he did so only AFTER he read your post
) Hehe, I was wondering why both your responses were almost verbatim.
I am shocked.jsp said:Tsk tsk tsk Joey, not citing your sources and passing it as your own, LOL. At least the_eradicator gave credit to his source (but maybe he did so only AFTER he read your post
I am shocked eradicator even reads the articles on FHM.
My source is a local semi-pro player who is older than Busta and Efren and grew up near where the two greats came from.
LOL! i thought i can get sex tips from Django... LOLJoeyInCali said:I am shocked.
I am shocked eradicator even reads the articles on FHM.
My source is a local semi-pro player who is older than Busta and Efren and grew up near where the two greats came from.