There is this guy who keep telling me that the age of electronics in pan is here and I keep telling him we will always stick with we steelpan but it is with a heavy heart I have to say that he is correct, the steelpan as we know it days are numbered, we never did much with it so it will remain at the side of the road and be buried by the dust they kick up as they pass carnival days parting to the music supplied the epan, phi, pan tone, pan app, pan kat and all the other electronic devices they have to reproduce the SOUND of the pan.
It won't be long before someone produces some nice music using this technology and open up the floodgates.
We will still have the diehards that big-up panorama but that's all we'll have because we did not develop other areas.
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Today the consumer is just selecting where they spend their money. professional sports is going to experience something similar soon.
professional sports is live , though , and especially indoors sports like hockey and basketball allows the audience to participate in a different experience than sports on TV.
BTW , there is a reason why the best panorama experience is the "drag". This is something that should also be explored.
Glenroy I agree, the preliminaries where bands went down the drag were the best, they should have never stopped that, it was a kinda indoctrination for young people.This is making me wonder if all that was a part of making the steelband a sit down and listen ting, other than rolling on the ground, they took the wheels off the steelband.
PAN is on it's OWN JOURNEY!!! Ask the TWO BIGGEST PAN STARS in the WORLD -- JONATHAN SCALES and ANDY NARELL. I have said many times that COUNTRIES EVOLVE at their OWN PACE.
So does MUSICAL GENRES!!!
The fact of the matter is , today it is extremely difficult for musicians, even mega stars to make money by cd sales , which is why many top stars have turned their focus to selling concert tickets.
And this is why many ageing stars are still touring.
( Again I must mention the need to find more creative ways to exploit the carnival extravaganza)
From the Rolling Stone magazine ,
"Over the past decade-plus, the old-fashioned way of making money in the music business – selling recorded albums – has dropped off a cliff, splintered into a zillion pieces and been run over by that methylene train from Breaking Bad. Many top stars have switched their focus to selling concert tickets; while this is a prudent plan, generally speaking, it's getting trickier now that everyone else is on the road with the same idea. But there's still money out there. Pop stars just have to be creative. "Despite the fact that the traditional ways to make money are challenged – record sales and tickets in particular – there are ways for artists to exploit their talents that didn't exist 10 years ago," says Gary Stiffelman, a veteran music-business attorney who has worked with Justin Timberlake, Eminem and Lady Gaga. What ways is he talking about? Here are nine of the best alternate revenue sources for rock stars."
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/9-ways-musicians-actually-m...
STARS, Glenroy!!!
Well , if that applies to international stars of popular music , where does that leave our struggling art-form?
Glenroy Your last sentence is so true.
I beg to disagree , my friend.
You can never achieve success by separating the sound of the steel pan from the fact that the steelpan is an acoustic musical instrument based on the humble oil drum.
Similar sounds are already in the background of music sound tracks and commercials where they fade into the background with other synthesized sounds that few can identify from a marimba , a xylophone or a synthesizer.
The steel pan instrument is as it always has been , from the days when people would check under the pans for wires ; an unique musical instrument , the playing of which remains an audio and visual musical experience.
We just have not figured out the best way to promote and exploit that audio visual experience.
I've always believed that it would be extremely difficult to sell steelband music to anyone who has never experienced a live steelband performance and gotten the "vibes", by sound alone.
Glenroy, today it is extremely difficult to sell steelband music to people who play steelband music.
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