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"THE BEST PLAN FOR PAN" (1995)

i found a photo

I found a classic photo I had saved I would like to share with When Steel Talks. its of Boogsie, R. Greenidge, China Man. other legends from bands at Universal Studios, Disney, L.A. along with my dear friend Kenny Williams who just passed away R.I.P.

GOOD TIME TO EXPLAIN MYSELF: I am NOT A PAN MUSIC LOVER!!! But I do see THE GLOBAL POTENTIAL of PAN MUSIC!!!

With so much BACCHANAL drawing so much attention in the next couple of weeks, I feel like I need to EXPLAIN myself to some of the newer readers.

And as one person asked me before: Well, what the hell yuh doing here on THIS FORUM if yuh doh like PAN M

A CROSSOVER FROM THE PROFESSOR!!!

BIG 5 WE COMING AGAIN (Pan Concert) -- FAST APPROACHING!!!

These are the two GREATEST PIECES OF PAN MUSIC I ever heard!!!

PAN on THE AVENUE draws LARGE CROWD

Newsday August 27, 2018

Joan Rampersad

IT was a night when big steelbands came out to play themselves. FCB Supernovas execution of Gold, Soca Baptist and Pan In Harmony earned them a big ovation from the large crowd on Ariapita Avenue, where resident

So ah BIG SHOT LADY in the PAN COMMUNITY down in TRINIDAD say that we have a lot of PAN PLAYERS in the PAN FRATERNTIY-SORORITY but we DO NOT HAVE a lot of MUSICIANS!!!

Well that statement TICKLE me too bad and really make meh laugh!!! Ah had to play it back about 10 times to make sure that I did not MISHEAR or MISQUOTE the LADY, eh. As a matter of fact, ah still have to go back and play that video one more time to

EARL RICHARDS: Ah like how yuh does put up all them postings on THIS FORUM with UTTER NEUTRALITY ...

Ah admire yuh and ah wish ah COULDA POST like you. So keep on doing what you are doing and adding FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

Ah just have this polemic edge when it come to the PAN TING -- ah cyar help mehself!!!

So keep on contributing. Man, we never finish w

BIG 5 COMING AGAIN!!!

STEELBAND MUSIC: Are there any LIMITS?

"When an arranger sets out to arrange for steelband, the crucial, inescapable, musical fact is that despite the difference in pitch and range, the similarity of sound from all the different steel pan instruments is in stark and obvious contrast to th

Ah doh think that MEXICO could beat BRAZIL ... Earl Richards

I think that MEXICO has THE TEAM to beat BRAZIL but not the CONFIANZA!!! If they get the lead they will get TOO DEFENSIVE and if they fall behind they will lose ESPERANZA!!!

As Robert Hays said in AIRPLANE: WHAT A PISSER [of a draw]!!!

Makes me think

I may lose a few friends in the Steelpan Community for this post, but either way I was never good at keeping friends.

I may lose a few friends in the Steelpan Community for this post, but either way I was never good at keeping friends.
I need to clear my chest on this on going matter. For the past 3 years, I have been the Secretary for the Eastern Region of Pan Tri

FREE MONEY!!! After burning the midnight oil practising with one or several bands for Panorama and Pantrinbago came up with the idea to pay players a stipend of $1000.00, is it free or earned money?

A few years ago Pantrinbago came up with the brilliant idea to pay Players a stipend of $1000.00 for performing in Panorama, nobody objected to it in the beginning but it created a lot of ghost bands especially in the single band category that create

TODAY was one of the BEST DAYS I have ever witnessed on THE FORUM!!!

A lot of CRITICAL ISSUES got TABLED!!! And I wish that we could develop some of those conversations and convert them to ACTION.

When it comes to PAN, I am a CONTRADICTION because I see the POTENTIAL OF THE INSTRUMENT yet I am of LITTLE FAITH that we

I have a PROPOSAL for THE FORUM: I want us to get together and hire MERRYTONESTOTHEBONE to do a REPRISE of "MAS" by Lord Melody as played by GUINNESS CAVALIERS!!!

Almost 20,000 PAN LOVERS on THIS FORUM and I am sure that a few of us could chip in some SMALL CHANGE and get this project done.

Why did I pick MERRYTONESTOTHEBONE? Well he is one of the FEW ON THE GROUND PAN MEN ARRANGERS who support THE FORUM. And

Whoever are the new executives of Pantrinbago in 2019, They should take a page from All Stars Book and promote their own Carnival Steelband Fetes.

As Steelbands have been excluded from Carnival Fetes, Pantrinbago for the 2019 Carnival Season should not focus only on Panorama, but take a page from All Stars book and do more things for Steelbands  by having their own Carnival Steelband Fetes. For

THE PAN TRINBAGO PAN FACTORY which was supposed to GENERATE MILLIONS and make the orginization financially independent

Cecil Hinkson: This Bomb Tune is especially for you to ease the Tension,Scandal, Corruption in Pantrinbago and the crime wave in the Mecca of Pan.

Meet Adelle Joseph-Phillip - Trinidad & Tobago - Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form

Meet Adelle Joseph-Phillip Trinidad & Tobago Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - “Playing pan for me is a happy place, it connects with my soul. As Bob Marley said “When the music hits, you feel no pain.” That