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Well BIG DEBATE going down on SOCIAL MEDIA: Can a PAN PLAYER understand THE COMPLEXITY of a BIG 5 ARRANGER'S ARRANGEMENT? And should that PAN PLAYER be allowed to do a PUBLIC CRITIQUE ...

... of a BIG 5 ARRANGER since the PAN PLAYER has NEVER ARRANGED for a PANORAMA BAND?

The PACE was HOT and the EXCHANGES was SWEET.  I have to be honest and TELL ALLYUH that I went and COPY all THE BACK and FORTH and ah saved it in an ONLINE WORD FILE

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Ah have to give some PRAISES to ALVIN DANIEL for writing THIS CALYPSO!!! Lyrically, it is one of the best SOCIAL COMMENTARY CALYPSOS ever written ...

... but you have to have an UNDERSTANDING OF THE TIDE AT THE TIME. The song was both au courant and futuristic at the same time. Of course. BOOGSIE spoiled the musical introduction and DENYSE PLUMBER is the last vocalist in the world that I would pic

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When I see somebody playing a PAN at a HIGH LEVEL -- I like to see their MIND IN ONE PLACE ANTICIPATING and the PAN STICKS in ANOTHER PLACE DELIVERING ... I will give THREE EXAMPLES!!!

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Winsford Devine had the best ROYALTIES COLLECTION PLAN in TRINIDAD after CLIVE BRADLEY made him aware that he was being EXPLOITED ...

... He drive down by SPARROW house with THREE BADJOHNS in the car and they tell SPARROW is time to start PAYING ROYALTIES.

SPARROW tell them he cannot really remember which songs DEVINE write for him -- so how he go pay.

Well the BIG BADJOHN name BOL

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NYPD sergeant with a history of faulty arrests sued by steelband leader

NYPD’s most-sued officers: 87 lawsuits filed against 14 cops in just two years

By Graham Rayman  NY Daily News

It was a warm August night in Flatbush in 2018 when Michael Demas and his steel drum band were performing in a vacant lot at an impromptu g

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ALLYUH does real try to TIE UP MY HEAD with this PAN TING. For years I reading about MUSIC LITERACY and MUSIC EDUCATION for the YOUNG PAN PLAYERS ... so this YOUNG LADY follow THE PLAN ...

... and she went to SCHOOL and she BECAME MUSICALLY EDUCATED.

And when she LISTEN to the 2020 PANORAMA and apply her MUSIC EDUCATION -- she SUDDENLY IDENTIFY ONE BAND that MAMAGUY EVERYBODY (MUSICALLY SPEAKING -- as it pertains to the JUDGING CRITERI

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Well ah have AH NEW PAN HERO!!!

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I want to PAY TRIBUTE to some EARLY 2020 CULTURAL HEROES ... WE NEED INDEPENDENT VOICES who TRANSCEND THE GIMME GIMME CULTURE

ALEXICA Lxc ADAMS!!! DENNISE DEMMING!!! FABIEN ALONSO!!! PAN CRITIC!!!

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MAN LIKE TO FEEL: SPARROW!!! But ah REALLY FEEL that I could HELP GUYANA become A GLOBAL LEADER IN PAN!!!

I have said this MANY TIMES BEFORE but ah have to say it AGAIN -- when they had NO MONEY they (GUYANA) INVESTED HEAVILY IN PAN. Now they have ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD, they should be able to TAKE PAN TO THE WORLD.
All they will be lacking is GLOBAL

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I would like to URGE When Steel Talks to pursue ALEXICA and conduct an INTERVIEW with her on THIS FORUM ...

I know that HER WICK is not going to BURN VERY BRIGHT for VERY LONG ... but she has made a MAJOR CONTRIBUTION to the PANORAMA DEBATE and even when her LIGHT FADES ... I will still hold her IN HIGH ESTEEM.

So PLEASE -- WHEN STEEL TALKS -- give ALEXICA

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I will tell YOU ALL a COPYRIGHT STORY -- THAT IS THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH ... even though ah feel that ah THROWING PEARLS ...

Now, I NEVER TALK about MY INVOLVEMENT IN THE MUSIC on THIS FORUM ... I like TO SNIPE ... seemingly for NO GOOD REASON!!! But ALEXICA gave me a CONCUSSION and it have me being A LITTLE MORE OPEN!!!

And bugs and merrytonestothebone and CECIL HINKSON a

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TOO MUCH QUACKS AND INVALIDS -- THE PAN ARRANGERS BOAT OVERCROWDED!!!

If allyuh UNDERSTAND CALYPSO -- ALLYUH COULD DO THE TRANSLATION FROM CALYPSO TO PAN!!!

Now men who doh have THAT SKILL -- JUMPING ON THE BOAT AT WILL ... and CALLING DEMSELVES ARRANGERS STILL!!!

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Who is ALEXICA ADAMS -- The now FAMOUS Panorama Music Critic?

The Monsterrat Reporter April 2012

Montserrat’s music student Alexica Adams wins Myrtle Sammy bursary in Trinidad

The Trinidad Express earlier this year reported that the recipient of the year’s Myrtle Sammy Award was Alexica Alana Adams.

Adams, who

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Well it look as if we need A NEW PAN COMPETITION FOR CARNIVAL now that MISS ALEXICA let the CAT OUT DE BAG ...

It have a PANORAMA COMPETITION where they does PLAY CALYPSO in CLASSICAL and all kinda foreign genres. And sometimes for HALF THE ARRANGEMENT they DO NOT EVEN PLAY ANY PART THE ORIGINAL SONG.

Then it have a PAN COMPETITION where they take CLASSICAL a

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Marcus Ash: Some people come on THIS FORUM and ask me to give them an EXAMPLE of STEELBAND playing CALYPSO IN CALYPSO -- so ah giving them ah LITTLE BIT OF SILVER STARS (YOUR BAND) ...

Now ah still searching, eh!!! And ah sure that I could come up with 20 GOOD EXAMPLES!!!

Ah looking for "ROSSLYN" by SILVER STARS -- but ah CANNOT FIND IT. And ah doh want to go to ANTIGUA and use BRUTEFORCE ... TRINIS eh go LIKE DAT.

And this is why

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All Stars founder passes on

Guardian February 19, 2020

Pan pi­o­neer Neville Jules, who found­ed the Trinidad All Stars steel or­ches­tra and in­vent­ed the bass pan, died yes­ter­day just three months short of his 93rd birth­day.

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BEVERLEY says that there are PEOPLE OUT THERE who are speaking things that should NO BE SPOKEN ... ah know that she throwing talk for me!!!

GREGORY LINDSAY: Ah was REAL POPULAR IN TOBAGO TONIGHT BOY!!!

DUVONE TALK ABOUT ME!!! KENNY PHILLIPS TALK ABOUT ME!!! And PRESIDENT BEVERLEY TALK ABOUT ME.

The problem is that all I am interested in is PAN PROGRESS and these SO CALLED LEADERS of PAN

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Even in Venezuela they know how to play CALYPSO IN CALYPSO ON PAN -- and man want to argue with me ...

ET TU ODW!!!

CALYPSO FUEGO EN SU ASNO - EN EL "PANO"!!!

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Guyana open for business, Granger tells Sabga [Same thing I have been talking about for months; this is why PAN cannot afford nobody like DANE GULSTON as ERO]

PAN TRINBAGO should have had a team working out PAN PLANS with the GUYANESE GOVERNMENT from the day that BEVERLEY took office. What a shame!!!

Guardian February 14, 2020

Pres­i­dent David Granger on Thurs­day re­ceived a cour­tesy call from Chief Ex­

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Well the STEELBAND PLAYING CALYPSO IN CALYPSO is an OLD DISCUSSION of mine. And a few months ago I put up this RENDITION as a "good example" to support my position -- so I am doing it again ...

... however. I have never been an ALL STARS fan and it kind of broke my heart to use them as an example (which is one more reason why I don't like the "give me on example").

Anyway, from a CALYPSO PERSPECTIVE -- and let me make it quite clear that I

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