It is really ironic. ALL STARS came FIRST in the semi-finals and very few are talking about ALL STARS.
ANDY came LAST in the semi-finals and EVERBODY is talking about ANDY! ANDY! ANDY!
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Andy Narell is a master of the artform and will never get the respect he is due in Trinidad & Tobago because he is White and American (plain talk...who vex loss). Music is universal and he has proven himself time and time again, paid his dues and flew the flag of Trinidad and Tobago throughout the world. No judge can judge his music. His music is timeless...Coffee Street, for instance, is probably the most memorable of all the performances in the 1999 Panorama and yet his arrangement placed 8th. Proof that the true judge of music is Time...
Don't worry my brother this time next year you won't hear a word about Andy. the message is clear we don't want him to TEACH us anything about panorama music.
Hey, My Brother: Panorama music is dying. You have to put swimming pools in the savannah to get people to come to Panorama. Even Glenroy, the resident expert, calls it "CLASSICAL CALYPSO" (or something close to that).
Which Trini wants to get dey head nice (Colorado legal, carib, rum, whisky, absolut, Columbian cocaine, brandy, whatever) at carnival time and listen to STEELPAN run up and down the chromatic scale to some songs that the vocalists struggle to deliver and lack any melody and doh get no air play? Is like anything come to dem arrangers head dey just throw it in there and call that PANORAMA ARRANGEMENT.
The music went astray on its own. I will admit that Andy flubbed the tune -- but if yuh offer to pay meh $500 Canadian dollars I will not listen to two minutes of that ALL STARS nonsense.
I call running up and down the scale PAN DIARRHEA and is glad to say that very few bands still have it. Most steelbands are trying new things but the judges must encourage innovation.
There is something like a drum most bands use in the engine room these days that is over powering and it takes away from the music, I wish someone will tell them about it.