This is so interesting I just saw jeago in trini after carnival I hang out with lakey bitters jeffers ages Richard zompie king who is in the picture playing double tenor up front on the right sackie and inchie is also in the picture we had a soccer game in honor of deceased Lloyd mc carty laptiste from pan am I also saw jameson Westside Winston young Winston Wellington and Kenneth pan am Clarke I am Robert bullet thwaites played all my years in pan am with all these guys including Roland bumpy small every year the topic comes up about a sunjets pan am reunion hey that will be something
I would definitely speak to daddy tonight. Do you still live home? He is in St.James and must tell him about Arima fight lol I am sure he would remember. Thanks for another one of the pan stories.
Yes Kelly Ann, I know all the old fellas even tho I did not travel (go on tour) with the band I was getting ready to be married to the same girl that cause the Westside Fete @ the Arima Tennis Court to Mashup (could not take off from my job) then I left and play with City Symphony AKA Diamond Symphony, Those were the days, I wish I could relive all my old days, I would not change any of it
Bede, that must have been a very frightening experience for I've always known that most Panmen were musicians and not warriors for to entertain so many brings with it an ingrained discipline which becomes part of your psyche. Thanks.
Wow u do know daddy's friends! I was good friends with Lance's son Wayne now deceased. I must call daddy tonight in Trinidad and tell him. Him and Lakey is still there. I love all the old time stories about when they traveled.
Another thing, in those days, late fifties and the sixties, you playing on the Stageside and it have fellas that you know playing together with you and you all are not friends.After band practice I used to go on the main road with fellas like Lance AKA the auger(deceased) (played the Congas and the Cello) Fat head Mac (played the Cello) Francis (played the Echophone with me) and drink a bottle of wine. Fellas used to hang with certain fellas and so on.
Since we are on the subject of Westside Symphony (bwia sunjets), I remember the year of either late 1964 or 1965, we played in a fete @ the Arima Tennis Court and a fella touch my girlfriend (which became my wife after) and a white man (from our sponser) took out a Starter Pistol and fire it in the air, every body scatter and fight in the place (bottles and big stones) fete break up. Time to leave the place, man we hiding behind the pans from them Arima people, bottles in we A** again. (yep, the good old days, lol) I just had to share this.
I cannot remember Bumpy, I remember Jaego and Skibby, seems like they used to live in or close to the panyard. I knew Eddie King (decease) cause I use to live behind the bridge (st paul street) I knew Lakey (tenor) and Bitters (tenor)
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Kelly, I have been living in Wash DC since 1969, this year I will be 69 (nice # tho, lol)
Yes Kelly Ann, I know all the old fellas even tho I did not travel (go on tour) with the band I was getting ready to be married to the same girl that cause the Westside Fete @ the Arima Tennis Court to Mashup (could not take off from my job) then I left and play with City Symphony AKA Diamond Symphony, Those were the days, I wish I could relive all my old days, I would not change any of it
Bede, that must have been a very frightening experience for I've always known that most Panmen were musicians and not warriors for to entertain so many brings with it an ingrained discipline which becomes part of your psyche. Thanks.
Another thing, in those days, late fifties and the sixties, you playing on the Stageside and it have fellas that you know playing together with you and you all are not friends.After band practice I used to go on the main road with fellas like Lance AKA the auger(deceased) (played the Congas and the Cello) Fat head Mac (played the Cello) Francis (played the Echophone with me) and drink a bottle of wine. Fellas used to hang with certain fellas and so on.
Since we are on the subject of Westside Symphony (bwia sunjets), I remember the year of either late 1964 or 1965, we played in a fete @ the Arima Tennis Court and a fella touch my girlfriend (which became my wife after) and a white man (from our sponser) took out a Starter Pistol and fire it in the air, every body scatter and fight in the place (bottles and big stones) fete break up. Time to leave the place, man we hiding behind the pans from them Arima people, bottles in we A** again. (yep, the good old days, lol) I just had to share this.
I cannot remember Bumpy, I remember Jaego and Skibby, seems like they used to live in or close to the panyard. I knew Eddie King (decease) cause I use to live behind the bridge (st paul street) I knew Lakey (tenor) and Bitters (tenor)
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