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| | The Ballad of Gypsy Davy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | House guitarist Kenny Parker, aka "Keni El Lebrijano," a stocky, pony-tailed Berkeley psychologist, french car mechanic, and denizen of Chez Panisse, has finished his solo playing for the night and joins a gaggle of admirers, students, and aficionados for an impromptu fiesta. |
 | | Seated on benches around a long, tree-trunk slab of a table cluttered with glasses of red wine, Spanish fino (sherry), and pints of fl and tan, they are doing palmas, the driving chorus of hand-clapping, precisely patterned with accents and counter-rhythms, that accompanies flamenco song and dance. |
 | | They have complained again about the noise from the bar, and, in an intricately negotiated arrangement with the management, the flamencos of East Bay have been permitted to continue their regular Thurday night fiestas on condition that they move to another part of the room and turn off the amplification. |
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