Global - Highlanders Steel Orchestra is pleased to announce as a success, their efforts to have renamed - the ‘Old St. Joseph Road’ located in Success Village, Laventille, Trinidad – to: ‘Old St. Joseph Road / Bertie Marshall Boulevard.’
In recognition of Bertie Marshall’s contribution to the development of the steel pan, the national instrument of Trinidad & Tobago, the executive committee of Highlanders Steel Orchestra organised the Success Village Laventille community, and petitioned the government to recognise Marshall by renaming the Old St. Joseph road in his honour. Bertie Marshall is widely regarded, both nationally and internationally, as one of the greatest innovators and researchers of the steel pan.
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I remember Joe Young and Joe Naked. And I knew Stork St. Hill when he worked at Pointe-a-Pierre.. He was a well known cultureman and all round artist.
Wasn't Tacky captain of All Stars?
Most of the Sando panmen I knew were some pretty good ones from Silvertones.
Carly, Ted "Teddy Loco" Belgrave, Mus Mus , Ben Bachu and bassmen like Boy Grant, Picket, Jonesey, Johnny Cool, Raymond-
A lot of good panmen in Sando back then.
All of these guys played with Silvertones when they came second to City Symphony in the unsponsored category of the 1967 music festival, when they had the town talking with their performance of "The Barber of Seville"
Hey Glenroy, I now know how it feels when we Town men commenting on Bad johns, and Pan from Port of Spain allyo South people just read and keeping quiet, That's what I am doing, just reading, keeping quiet and enjoying every paragraph of it, lol
That's right GRJ the South is full of decent people, we borrow but never thief and as you know we have a special culture of Love and Kindness.
Yes Gons I do remember Ramba very well and his Mas. They had a very big house with a very big yard and his elder brother "Pablo" was our Spanish teacher. I know some of the guys you mention quite well and they were excellent Panmen. We lent Kowlesser a Tenor for him do a gig with some instrumental band and I had to go get it after at his home. Andrian and Tony were are Brothers and if you look in the pics of Cavaliers you would see him there playing and Tony went on to Hatters on the Double Tenor. I myself spent some time in Hatters with Corey at the helm in the engine room. One thing I can say is that Bobby Mohamed knew probably every Panman in the South for once he met you he would say the he has a Pan waiting for you especially around Carnival time. I remember in 1965 when we won the South Independence Festival Southland took part and you are correct "Sweet Pans".
I thought Emile Zola was Free French, Gons.
And BTW, who was the bassman with the stiff neck? He was a fixture in Sando steelbands for many years..
And fellas, I enjoy talking about San Fernando pan.
Some of "those people" ( you know who I mean) think that all Sando ever had was Cavaliers, Hatters and Fonclaire!
I don't remember Metronomes, but there are so many bands that were around in the sixties and seventies, I've forgotten many of them. I remember Motown, Teenage Symphony, Sundowners, West Stars, All Stars, Antillians, Free French, Rogues Regiment, Sea Bees, Hillside Symphony, Southern Marines, Scarlet Symphony but I've forgotten quite a few.
Remember the days when steelbands were backed up on Harris Promenade until almost 10:00am on J'ouvert morning?
Those were the days!
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