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  Marcus Ash February 19, 2014 at 11:49am

  Allyuh look Satan correcting sin! LMAO! 
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  wmlpan February 14, 2014 at 9:47pm

  Hmmm - Mr. Marcus Ash,

  Comment by Marcus Ash yesterday

  Wmlpan y u toating about pamberi. That is long gone. In case you didn't realize, this was a rehearsal. The recording is not the best and it was just a slow run clearly without everyone. Were you there live to hear hatters on the night of judging? I really hope not because you would realize that they were deserving of it. If you were there and still think that they didn't deserve to be in the next round then something is wrong with you and your ears. Don't be vex with hatters and a well executed arrangement because a band you liked didn't make it. Hatters paid their dues and rehearsed very hard for their spot. I'm not hating on pamberi in no way because cheo Cato is someone I respect greatly in the industry. What I hate to see is people come with their preconceived notions that amount to nothing.

  Typical "character" opening your mouth to chastise and protect what turns you on personally, in this case, Hatters? While you're at it, do take time to read and UNDERSTAND, not put bring your own self-serving conclusions to the table.  My observations are based on so-called live performances of both bands, not your wanting to jump off the moving train about the video above and  "this was a rehearsal." 

  Note to Marcus Ash's brain: Performances of Hatters and the other south and central bands were online live from wack fm, so my observations are based on their preliminary performance for the judges. 

  My observations, and I am entitled to them, stand.  And you are entitled also to your passionate mindless defense of your own.  However, anyone with even one iota of music appreciation could hear the unraveling of the Hatters preliminary performance arrangement not long after the verse and chorus were stated, no matter how fluid in your opinion their execution was.  As I additionally said, from the stuff that was up on Reverbnation with the bands from other regions, especially but not only Pamberi, there were far more competent and well structured arrangements than what Hatters did for their judges.  But as long as this nonsense of judging on different days at different venues for the same round of competition, and then aligning scores after everything, continues, a true musical picture is not obtained.

  Now Marcus Ash - do grow up. Most importantly, read carefully, understand and INTERPRET next before you open your mouth.
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  Ian Franklin February 14, 2014 at 12:58am

  @Jeffery and Wmlpan thanks for the information,

                                                      I was close in my assumption, thinking of  Southern Illinois University, but was thrown off by the photo (lol)

  @Marcus Ash,

                              I am not a "scholared" musician, but I also thought what I heard of Hatters' live performance was a little under my expectation.  I am in no way questioning the judges decision. But I recall in 1966, Desperadoes performed "Brazil" as its tune of choice, and did not qualify for the 1966 Music Festival.  It is allege that the judges cited "Brazil" as a piece beneath Desperadoes' playing caliber. It may be unfair on my part, to expect more from the ones you admire as in Dr. Remy as well as Pamberi's Mr. Cato, both are noted in their field, and I also admire you.       
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  Jeffery Covert February 13, 2014 at 7:39pm

  SIUE Steel is a group of musicians from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. We came down on s small sponsorship from Ski soda and grant from SIUE. Mostly with our own money we came and practiced with the Hatters for one week before the preliminary performance. It was a learning experience for us music students from midwest USA where steel bands are few and far between. I personally had never seen a steel pan in person until 6 months ago when I started attending SIUE. We are a young Steel group and only 10 of us were able to make it down to Trinidad.
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  Marcus Ash February 13, 2014 at 4:55pm

  Wmlpan y u toating about pamberi. That is long gone. In case you didn't realize, this was a rehearsal. The recording is not the best and it was just a slow run clearly without everyone. Were you there live to hear hatters on the night of judging? I really hope not because you would realize that they were deserving of it. If you were there and still think that they didn't deserve to be in the next round then something is wrong with you and your ears. Don't be vex with hatters and a well executed arrangement because a band you liked didn't make it. Hatters paid their dues and rehearsed very hard for their spot. I'm not hating on pamberi in no way because cheo Cato is someone I respect greatly in the industry. What I hate to see is people come with their preconceived notions that amount to nothing.
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  wmlpan February 13, 2014 at 2:55pm

  SIUE Steel is the steelband from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville of Illinois, USA. Just google it.

  What is curious is that after listening for example to Pamberi's arrangement and performance, after which they were "scored" 226, observing the disjointed, meandering non-musicality of Hatter's arrangement I remain hard-pressed to understand the so-called judges' decision that this arrangement at 250 points, far outranks others in the preliminary, (those I heard before they were taken down from reverbnation), including Pamberi.  At the very least, five or six bands from other regions proved themselves for a place in the semifinals, before Hatters and SIUE.
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  Cecil hinkson February 13, 2014 at 12:57pm

  Good luck Hatters allyuh soundin nice.
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  Ian Franklin February 13, 2014 at 11:25am

  Can someone supply inform about SIUE STEEL. I know that Valley Harps had 5 pannist from Mexico. The Government of Mexico gave the players a grant and they were here for 2 weeks, departing on Sunday after the Preliminaries. They are part of a Steel Ensemble in Mexico.