Pan music in Panorama has declined because young pannist have no allegiance to community or band. They are in it for the money so they play for several bands at Panorama time.
You need to be a member of When Steel Talks to add comments!
This reply was deleted.
Replies
This is not a new phenomenon.
In fact, I think it is the experience ganed by playing for different arrangers in the early days that made men like Ray Holman develop into the pannist he is now.
Indeed! But in those days the subjugation of the so called lower class was the birth of the steelband. And so Ray's pursuit of a new instrument, the pan, was not about money but more about the area where you were born and the pride new the instrument brought to your community.
I take the point. If what you are saying is not that they play for more than one band but that it is money that motivates them, not the love of the instrument, the music and the community.'
But is it the pannists alone. Nowadays even arrangers sometimes flit from band to band. In the early days Neville Jules Meant All Stars, Nannette meant Invaders, etc. etc.
And those men were like 'Kings' in their communities.
You know, when I was a boy growing up in Barataria, I actually felt disadvantaged because thee was no steelband there -- sorry, we really could not count Corregidors (I think that was the little side's name on upper 8th or 9th street, I think). We boys linked ourselves to All Stars, San Juan All Stars and even Starlift because one of our friends had come from there and had ties there.