For some odd reason I have lived my whole life being an OBSERVER. It is like I never was a REAL PERSON just some observer looking on at life. So in that context, I would like to THANK Cecil Hinkson for the contributions he has made to this PAN FORUM.
Clearly, CECIL loves STEELBAND and the STEELBAND CULTURE. And he absolutely wants the best for the art-form. Sometimes I can feel his pain when he sees the stagnancy of the movement and he tries to dovetail it with his VISION FOR PAN. Sorry!!! I meant to say STEELBANDS!!!
(Were it not for CECIL HINKSON, I would not be on this forum!!! I would probably be out there running a POLITICAL WEBSITE since that is my FIRST LOVE.)
But his PASSION for the cause pulls me into his sphere to help him keep the discourse on the forum going.
These are FRUSTRATING TIMES for PAN LOVERS with all the stagnancy and corruption and foreign invasion. So let us all step in and give CECIL HINKSON a little praise and recognition for his unwavering contributions to WHEN STEEL TALKS -- the GLOBAL LEADER OF THE STEELBAND MOVEMENT.
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Claude, rolling down the drag could wake up the jumbie.
Cecil: Yuh just enter the world of metaphysics. The JUMBIE chooses time and place and passion and we just ride the wave. But you believe in POSITIVE THINKING so maybe you could invoke MR. FARRELL -- the BASS MAN from hell and get him to send the JUMBIE.
I looking for a JUMBIE too to direct me to some PAN MUSIC in the studio.
We can ALL DREAM!!!
The Thanks should go to WST for creating this platform where Pan People could express their views. It is really a few of us that keep the light on in the Forum, let us continue to use it to always "lift up never pull down"
Cecil: What is missing from the STEELBAND MOVEMENT in the MECCA today is PASSION. There is NO PASSION for PAN in Trinidad right now. Go back and read the story about how TASPO went to the FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN 1951. One of the most passionate PAN STORIES you could ever read. And what about the story of the development of the instrument: PURE PASSION to get the music out of those OIL DRUMS.
Today, the movement is distracted and just driving along on cruise control. Personally, I can't imagine any sparks (local or global) that could light some NEW FIRE under the movement to create impetus that would bring the movement into the 21ST CENTURY.
All the PASSION goes into PANORAMA for TWO MONTHS!!! And then it is WAIT TIL NEXT YEAR!!! Everybody spends the whole year crying down the evils of PANORAMA and as soon as DECEMBER comes people catch MALKADEE for two months and NOTHING MATTERS BUT PANORAMA -- until PANORAMA DONE.
Good luck to all who expect to see change but the matrix is just not there in my view!!!
I concur. Cecil brings a lot to the table everyday.
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