Steelband Music (1319)

ANDY NARELL was in NEW ORLEANS last night SHOWCASING PAN. Now everybody knows that I consider ANDY NARELL the GOD OF PAN. But at the same time I IS AH TRINI -- and I eh come on NO BOAT ...

I IS AH REAL REAL TRINI -- A FAR-RIGHT NATIONALIST TRINI!!

That means as much as I LOVE ANDY NARELL and rate him so highly, I would love to see A TRINIDADIAN representing PAN GLOBALLY -- and this is not the FIRST TIME that I have broached THIS  TOPIC

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What really drives me CRAZY is that when you go around all the PAN FORUMS all you could read about is PAN LOVERS discussing ways to take PAN back to the SIXTIES and SEVENTIES ...

THAT FIXATION could put me in an early grave because I just don't understand how rational people could dismiss TODAY and TOMORROW and try to wave a MAGIC WAND and take themselves back to the SIXTIES and SEVENTIES and bring back PAN ON THE ROAD.

Remem

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I have NEVER SEEN MYSELF as part of the STEELPAN FAMILY as referenced by MR. KNOLLY SMITH ... but after reading that interview with MR. BOWEI and seeing the comment from KNOLLY -- AH READY FOR WAR!!!

First of all, let me say that I HATE THE WORD "STEELPAN" -- even to use in a quote.

Secondly, if CURRY did not make THAT THREE-POINTER at the same time that I was reading the MR. BOWEI interview -- I am sure that I would have GONE MAD.

To use a  SHAD

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"There lies the difference in what is commercial music and what is not. Calypso singers or Soca singers must learn the art of writing for the international music industry" -- SIDD TAYLOR!!!

Well SIDD just introduced a TOPIC on which I consider myself VERY WELL INFORMED.

Here is the problem: Much like MOVIE PRODUCTION, MUSIC PRODUCTION is a CRAP SHOOT!!! It is only after you release THE MOVIE or THE SONG that you find out if THE PUBLIC L

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The FIRST TIME I heard ANDY NARELL I was MESMERIZED! The FIRST TIME I heard JONATHAN SCALES I knew he was destined for PAN FAME! The FIRST TIME I heard ANISE HADEED I was intrigued! The FIRST TIME ...

... I heard MOLLEE CRAVEN I knew that MUSICIANS master THE PAN faster than PAN MEN in TRINIDAD.

And the FIRST TIME that I heard WILSON JEAN-BAPTISTE -- I knew that  HE UNDERSTOOD how to represent COMMERCIAL PAN MUSIC for GLOBAL ACCEPTANCE.

Well the

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