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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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Ah looking for a CRACKSHOT who could join THIS DISTINGUISHED GROUP of GLOBAL PAN AMBASSADORS

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If I was a PANORAMA JUDGE -- I would have given DUVONE STEWART first place ... much like I would have given DAVID RUDDER first place in the 1987 CALYPSO MONARCH ...

... in the BIGGER GLOBAL PICTURE, we need to send STARS out in the world with some local credentials ... to give them a little SPRINGBOARD.

But THE LOCALS don't understand that!!! Yet they waste MILLIONS and constantly talk about TAKING THE MUSIC GLO

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Wrong Again, the popular choice of steelbands

Joan Rampersad

WRONG AGAIN, one of the more popular songs for the Carnival season, is the choice of three medium and four large steelbands for Panorama this year.

Composed by and sung by Skinny Banton (Shirlan George) from Grenada, the song has been

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OJAY RICHARDS: SMALL BAND WINNER!!!

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That MERCER RAMDOO IS A STEELBAND ANALYST: He and I agreed that "GOVERNMENT BOOTS" is NOT A PAN TUNE ...

People  DON'T UNDERSTAND the DECAY ISSUE with THE PAN. I BLINDLY understood it from childhood -- although I could not EXPRESS what I was hearing in words.

And, for decades, I kept looking for validation of my view. Then, about two years ago i was rea

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CECIL HINKSON: No matter how I beg YOU and YOUR PRESIDENT to RESHUFFLE THE CABINET -- allyuh refuse to LISTEN TO ME ...

If the CHAMBER OF COMMERCE could finally admit to the CRIME SCOURGE in TRINIDAD -- allyuh owe it to the STEELBAND COMMUNITY to show some INTEGRITY after ALL THE DIAZ CORRUPTION ... and keep a CLEAN SLATE!!!

What a coincidence today: TRUMP IMPEACHMENT

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I got a MISSING LINK today from the last PAN TRINBAGO ELECTION ... so it all makes sense to me now

I knew that KEITH DIAZ and BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE had a big meeting before the last PAN TRINBAGO ELECTION. But I never heard anybody make reference to it.

Well today I got to find out that not only was there that meeting -- but KEITH DIAZ actually too

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MTTB: Now that NEW ENGLAND loss, yuh think TOM BRADY could say he going and QUARTERBACK for MINNESOTA now and come to SAN FRANCISCO on SATURDAY? Yuh mad oh MEH LARD OH!!! So why corrupt yuh culture...

... BEVERLEY and DEM CRACKSHOTS making me MAKING ME FEEL SAD ... because CALYPSO and STEELBAND is the CULTURE OF TRINIDAD.

Merrytonestothebone: Even if you don't follow AMERICAN FOOTBALL -- ah know yuh get the point!!!

But if BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE wa

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Souls of Steel - Massy Trinidad All Stars

A documentary on the history and emergence of Steel Pan in Trinidad & Tobago through the pioneering work of the Massy Trinidad All Stars Steel Orchestra.

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International Music Composition - 3 pieces of 10 with steelpan

https://cicompositionaward.com/cica-2019-finalist-compositions/

International Music Composition.pdf

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