During the run-up to the GEORGIA ELECTIONS I went looking for a STEELBAND VERSION OF GEORGIA ON MY MIND and I found this GARY GIBSON version -- it was the first time I had heard him play THE PAN ...

[Claude Gonzales]

... then I went around searching for some of his music and ended up finding a little clip with him and ELLIE MANNETTE which cemented my overall opinion of his MUSICAL SKILLS. In terms of what I like to hear coming from a PAN -- THIS GUY DELIVERS. I hear a little bit of ANDY NARELL in his PLAY ... but I think that he is BETTER THAN ANDY ... more DYNAMIC. If I had to pick a PAN PLAYER to represent my expression of STEELPAN EXECUTION in an INTERNATIONAL PAN SOLOIST COMPETITION -- I would pick GARY GIBSON!!!