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ONE EBONY FAN

Posted by Claude Gonzales on August 12, 2015 at 8:45pm in Uncategorized

I always thought that there were three pieces of STEELBAND MUSIC that ever excited me in my life.

SILVER STARS with "Lara's Theme" and STARLIFT with "PENNY LANE" and CARIB TOKYO with "PAN IN DANGER". Musically, "PAN IN DANGER" takes the cake. Emotionally, SILVER STARS still got me HOOKED.

On Sunday when I heard EBONY play that "AH FEELING" I thought that I was on the top of Mt. Everest.

I just went back and listened to the song a second time and that is the greatest piece of CALYPSO PAN I ever heard in my life.

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  • Selwyn Roberts August 13, 2015 at 2:31pm

    I agree with your remarks but be careful people (unsigned) are saying that NOTHING came out of the International.

    • odw > Selwyn Roberts August 13, 2015 at 3:17pm

      This attitude is a clear case of those who are inside looking out and those who are outside looking in...


      The “PAN is WE Ting” mentality has been shut-down many years ago…I can recall some years ago when I heard some Pan talking heads in T&T discussing Bradley’s accomplishments in NY Panorama and they were all dismissive about the quality of the music produced by the bands in NY. Now it took a band like BSO to come to the Mecca give people a dose of reality. Unless you are living in DENIAL the IPC should be a wake- up call for all the stake holders of PAN in T&T.


      How could sign-up countries in a Memorandum of Understanding to govern PAN worldwide and you don’t have clear rules on how to administrate events of this size. Cut and Pasting rules as you go, is not a good place to start.

      • Claude Gonzales > odw August 13, 2015 at 3:33pm

        those who are inside looking out and those who are outside looking in...

        And progress will come so much faster when the TWO HANDS CLAP.

    • Claude Gonzales > Selwyn Roberts August 13, 2015 at 2:55pm

      Mr. Selwyn: What came out of this INTERNATIONAL PANORAMA was a BIG HEAD ACHE for me. Because now I have to go and LISTEN and LISTEN and LISTEN to EBONY (AH FEELIN) until I can figure out what about the song BOWL MEH OUT SO.

  • odw August 13, 2015 at 1:07pm

    A Champion Steelband always a Champion Steelband...

    Ebony Steel Orchestra - Celebrating with Steel

    2000 Steelband World Music Festival Calypso tune of choice.

  • Juanitto Jordano Jorda'ninho August 13, 2015 at 12:12pm
    Here Here Patrick; not because I know Dudley Dickson personally and have worked with him in Phase II 2010 with "Pan Army", there "PAN'S was the BEST I've heard all night, the music were well balanced, the KEY they choose to play their tune in did Dudley's work JUSTICE, the best three (3) bands I heard was EBONY, BSO, SUPERNOVER'S, and I have to place RENEGADES in there too, these band's music was very well balanced, as for the rest of the band's, All Stars and Phase II BACKGROUND WERE STRANGLING THE FRONT LINES tenors, seconds, guitars etc etc, the rest of the bands alot was happening, I heard too much "DENSITY" or noise's, as a result of wrong key, bad tuning or identity of musical pitch, lack of unison in players, basses bullying the music where th bass is an accompanying voice, and not a lead voice,loud and over powering drumming by some over size rhytum drum, and especially where the melody get's lost, in panorama there's a formula to be followed, where when we/Anthony Williams/Panam Northstars, used a "Bach" concerto formula with out dynamic's as "Bach's Air on a G String had NO DYNAMIC'S on the sheet, which entailed an Introduction play the melody 1st and 2nd part's state the theme, meaning repeat them and change key's two more times, where a concerto is a musical piece played in three movements or, three different key's, there's a lot more but I'll stop $ NOW...
  • BEDE LOPEZ August 13, 2015 at 10:54am

    It was a shock when they said that Ebony placed 9th, just think about it, How can Phase2 placed before Ebony?

  • Mercer Ramdoo August 13, 2015 at 10:45am

    At the event I made my notes and listed the first seven in no particular order. Renegades, Scherzando, Ebony, Pan Elders, Supernovas, BSO, Buccooneers. I think I had Pan Fantasy.

    Note: All Stars, Phase and Exodus is not on the list, maybe they round off the ten.

    • Claude Gonzales > Mercer Ramdoo August 13, 2015 at 11:58am

      Patrick Ramdoo: Rather selfish of you!!! You made your notes at the event but you DID NOT give your NOTES to the JUDGES. Had you done so we would not have all these disgruntled fans cursing ALL STARS today.

      I think the UNION JACK shirts  was a slap in the face to the judges. So EBONY got down-graded!!!

      Boy, ah never see you so happy with your NEW YORK BAND. Ah have to go back and give them  a second listen.

      • Mercer Ramdoo > Claude Gonzales August 14, 2015 at 12:27pm

        BSO, I have to represent. NY all the way.

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