The great Len "Boogsie" Sharpe has not won in his four Panorama outings this year 2015. He has lost on three continents, Trinidad Panorama, the International Panorama, UK Panorama and New York Panorama.
You need to be a member of When Steel Talks to add comments!
Replies
He's Boogsie and that won't change, that came straight from above. Having said that we must not look the other way and not pay attention to the reality of how his interaction with his own band affects the Pan World. We say nothing about that, and hope that when Panorama comes around again this time he will do it, well that is not going to happen. Take for example Tony Williams we would agree total Genius, but he was one man, with no support structure as a result no Panam.
Look at the great Ray Charles, he at one point was on the spiral downward road he had to get support and head back on the road to success. Boogsie is total music no flaws but he needs the support to get him to that place where he can focus completely on what it takes to be himself. No one man can sustain and control every aspect of a lifestyle that is shared by others continually and not have the give and takes of a meaningful relation. The pressures of life it's self takes toll on any individual, but that 's not the reason for not wining or disappointing the fans, the music is always there. When it gets to that point when no one can put a finger on the reason why, that's when we need Spiritual guidance my friends...AJ in Pan God is very present...have a good day
Charlene Lusk, nice comment.
That is not Charlene Lusk!!! That is Ansel Joseph a long time pan man and tuner who lives in Arizona and who knows more about PAN HISTORY and has done more for PAN than most people!!!
Thanks Claude, long time no see bro. I will be coming north soon, would try to contact you. By the way, how come we don't see any info about pan on the west coast? We hear about the east coast. What' up with that? California has some of the more extensive Pan programs in the country since 1986 that has been part of the musical curriculum from it's inception in Elementary, Middle and High schools. Maybe Whensteeltalks needs to extend it's research to California.
It has also come to my attention that Pantrinbago has taken credit for the Globalizing Pan. Well, nothing could be further from the truth. Remember when Pan men and women were showing people of other cultures about the Pan and they were labeled "dem giving away we ting"? TThose are the people responsible for the Globalizing of Pan and they should be ones to be recognized.
Sometimse I sit here and sort through some of the information that is posted and I wonder where do people get their information and what's the purpose of certain debates that make you feel so low. But then I would remember when I fell in love with Pan as a young lad: it happened for the love of it and not for money or fame. Looking back where it came from to what it has become today brings a lot of joy into my life.
As we all know this Pan thing has a powerful spirit, and as such makes it's own way where ever it goes, Today Pan is bigger than all of us and I can identify with any one wanting to be part of the whole. Even back in the early days Pan had a way (even if you were not versed in music and only took part in partial rehearsals) so that by the end of the week you would have understood some amount of music be it notes, a scale, a chord, a melody or a beat. This friendly accessible instrument gives a certain amount of confidence that "Yes, I can do it." If you started teaching someome without any previous experience, by the end of a month they would be demonstrating some musical skills so I really sense why someone would want to be able to identify with the steel pan. For me I was very fortunate to be selected as a Pan tuner to travel in 1962 at the early age of 19yrs and as a result was able to experience touching the lives of many students and adults who had never seen a steelpan before and for this I am always happy when another steel band is formed. (Things noticed) AJ
... and who better to expound and update on the history of PAN ON THE WEST COAST than you? I think that WHEN STEEL TALKS should arrange an interview with you and have you share your LONG HISTORY and involvement and contribution to GLOBALIZING THE PAN with this 15,000 member audience. Not only do you have WEST COAST HISTORY -- you also bring EARLY HISTORY of the EVOLUTION OF PAN in Trinidad.
It is not the first time that your name has been mentioned as a POTENTIAL INTERVIEWEE on this forum. Tony and Monica suggested it before.
So maybe this time around we could arrange it.
Thanks again Claude. Hey, maybe I can become famous as those guys who write all those books on the history but leave out the part where pan really developed in the mid '50s and talk about all the riots days that pan experienced but no body saw the actual development of the instrument and the names that was to each pan back in the day. Instead they are trying to come up with all these musical names like tenor alto soprano, names that do not coincide with the pans and are actually European. They need to pay attention to names given by pan pioneers like first pan second, guitar, triples, quadrophonic, tenor bass, six pan, four pan, six bass, double tenor referring to doubly groove pan and so on. This is about Pan not conventional instruments we need to recognize ourselves at this point. Do you realize that foreign bands are happy just to mimic Trinidad steel bands, even to copy what we would call wrong, If they can sound anything like a band from Trini they are happy. We are the Mecca but we need to live like we are and not jump on the band wagon and holler. Hey Claude you have me doing what I don't normally but what the heck. AJ
Boogsie has placed in the first 5 in every competition he entered in, I won't count New York because I don't think he was there. He draws the most critique simply because he is the best.
Why do we have to make excuses for Boogsie, in the Panorama context I can understand winning is everything for some, like Dr Jit Samaroo who created a Golden era for Renegades, Bradley with Despers, Boogsie will go down in PANORAMA history for giving us some great works of musical art. You win some you lose some all part of the competition.
Boogsie is the Boss, forever, people don't understand what he does with his arrangement.
-
1
-
2
-
3
of 3 Next