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Yuh mean the MECCA OF STEELBAND cannot even put out a little COVID-RELATED music. And they does always tell me that ALL THE PAN GENIUSES living in TRINIDAD. Like we ONLY LOW TECH in ah HIGH TECH WORLD

PANORAMA DONE and all PAN SHUT DOWN.  Good thing I did not buy into that PAN HAVE NO  SEASON PROPAGANDA.

Rowley had to raid the HSF to pay STEELBANDS their APPEARANCE FEES. He done over-borrow and cannot borrow NO MORE.

Ah hear that ah group down the

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GEORGE RAMPERSAD: Ah giving you a STAND ALONE .... PAN FROM HEAVEN!!!

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While EVERYBODY COVID GROUNDED/AH HIGH IN PAN FLIGHT: Thanks to WHEN STEEL TALKS ... dem people is REAL PAN VISIONARIES ...

Ah doh know who runs WHEN STEEL TALKS -- I don't even have A NAME I could call ... but whoever establish THIS FORUM had to be REAL PAN LOVERS and REAL PAN VISIONARIES.

So thanks to THIS ADMINSITRATION FOR THEIR VISION!!!

Because of WHEN STEEL TALKS I

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I have to take a TIME OUT and give BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE some PRAISE for being a VERY ASTUTE POLITICIAN ... she does not MISS A BEAT!!!

And I am being sincere with THAT COMPLIMENT because I sit here and try to read her EVERY PLAY. And she is quite sophisticated in her moves. The problem is that you use your POLITICAL SKILLS to stay in office and IMPLEMENT PROGRESSIVE PROGRAMS -- not

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Well they tell me to FORGET GUYANA POLITICS and TALK ABOUT PAN!!! So ah putting up a statement from a DEDICATED PAN LOVER named "RIDDIM RIDER" and ah want to know what allyuh think ...

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Well yuh think dat ROWLEY could go to ITALY and say we HAVE CORONA -- yuh MAD oh meh LARD OHH ... ITALY have MORE CORONA more than TRINIDAD ...

... so why neglect YUH CULTURE and PAYING TOBAGO PAN PLAYERS for dey PANORAMA PERFORMANCE and EFFORTS EXTRA ... yuh making me FEEL SAD because TOBAGO and TRINIDAD PAN PLAYERS is THE CULTURE OF TRINIDAD ...

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Since this is WOMEN IN PAN MONTH: Who is the BEST WOMAN PAN PLAYER IN THE WORLD?

If you ask any TRINIDADIAN who is the BEST MALE PAN PLAYER in the WORLD they would say BOOGSIE or ROBERT GREENIDGE. Of course I would say ANDY NARELL -- but that is a DIFFERENT STORY.

So among the women PAN PLAYERS -- call some names nah!!! And put u

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DUVONE STEWART and SALMON CUPID have reached the HIGHEST HEIGHTS OF GLOBAL PAN that any TRINIDADIAN CAN REACH -- so they should not take on SMALL FRY CRITICS!!!

DUVONE and SALMON CUPID: DON'T RESPOND TO LOW LEVEL CRITICS!!!

ALLYUH TOO BIG FOR THAT!!!

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LADIES and GENTLEMEN OF THE JURY -- I finally have EVIDENCE of a REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE of a STEELBAND PLAYING A CALYPSO IN CALYPSO ...

... Even so I still consider it CALYPSO LITE!!! I like a little bit more BRADAM BRAM (what I will call the SPIRIT OF CARNIVAL -- especially when we are talking about CARNIVAL SATURDAY NIGHT)!!! But I will submit it as a DECENT EXAMPLE.

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Spring Choir Concert: St. Francis in the Americas

Potts and Pan Steelband

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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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