I am running unopposed for GLOBAL MARKETING DIRECTOR OF STEELBAND MUSIC. And I eh have no long manifesto. I am working on a PROJECT BY PROJECT BASIS. So my first project after I get in office is to produce a GREATEST HITS PANORAMA CD for GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION.
After studying the format of the project for many years, I have made some modifications to the idea. I have been checking out SAN CITY STEELBAND and I suddenly realized that I have been under-rating Aquil Arrindell as an arranger. And he already have a WHOLE STEELBAND with some very good players so we could use that band to reprise the best 12 performances from 1963 onward.
If you take a song like MAS from GUINNESS CAVALIERS and you bring BOBBY MOHAMMED into the PAN YARD with a couple of the original players (dem fellahs must be real old now but at few ah dem have to be alive) and they join up with the young players from SAN CITY and the today's MODERN PANS instead of those crude OLD PANS from the sixites -- imagine what that arrangement will sound like. (And KENNY PHILLIPS coming in to do the VIDEO. Bugs will have to go down and do some DIRECTING.)
And Aquil have a kind ah way that he does extend them bars with a nice flourish -- so we sure to end up with a extremely polished product. Ah still have to decide if I want to put horns in the music. Aquil like ah set ah horns so we will have to negotiate that.
Same concept 12 TIMES and we have a quality GREATEST HITS PANORAMA CD.
Then the pressure is on me to get the PRODUCT moving GLOBALLY.
That is my opening hand in this daunting task of taking PAN MUSIC to the world.
Patrick Arnold was supposed to bring me in on this project 21 years ago. But as soon as he leave San Francisco and went back and win the election -- the man drop meh like ah hot potato. Typical Politician. Twelve years later when he see KEITH DIAZ coming to wipe him out is then he want to call me to talk to me. That is when I became sort of a FAN and OBSERVER of Keith Diaz -- The Greatest politician in the whole wide world now in London JUMPING UP IN A STEELBAND while PAN TRINBAGO trembles in an EARTHQUAKE/TREMOR.
Ah hope AQUIL ARRINDELL doh treat me like that when he win some kinda seat in the NEXT ELECTION. Because I think that he and I could make some good music together!!!
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