... and in my books, if you do not know the CALYPSO -- then you might as well not listen to the ARRANGEMENT. So I am yet to listen to ONE BAND play that song IN FULL. And that really destroying my 2020 PANORAMA ENJOYMENT because the song is VERY VERY POPULAR and a lot of bands are playing it.
Ah still have a few days to BREAK DOWN and give the song a few listens -- but that is against my CALYPSO PRINCIPLES. And to make matters worst, meh PARDNAH AQUIL ARRINDELL choose that song to play and then asking me: How we sound? Ah had to lie to the man and tell him how they sounding good and even put up the song on WHEN STEEL TALKS.
This PANORAMA TING eh easy at all ... NOBODY KNOWS THE TROUBLES I'VE SEEN.
And since I am in a confessional mood this morning, I went back and listened to ANDRE WHITE last night (bugs and merrytonestothebone are a BAD INFLUENCE on my musical enjoyment) and I changed my mind about the arrangement. I blocked out the PANS and I listened to the RHYTHM SECTION drive the arrangement and it took me back to a HAITIAN BAND that I followed on EASTERN PARKWAY decades ago in a BROOKLYN CARNIVAL. Now, I am still saying that his TENORS could not deliver the dominant melodic line in that CALYPSO -- but, overall, I am going to give him a FAIR LISTEN on SUNDAY.
This life eh easy, yuh know!!! IMPEACHMENT, YANKEE POLITICS, SUPERBOWL, CORONAVIRUS, A GAY AMERICAN PRESIDENT ... and PANORAMA in the middle of all that. And I almost old and senile like JOE BIDEN -- how can I keep up and still find time to listen to MR. PROMOTER when I hate that song?
MEH PANORAMA DONE SPOIL with GOD KNOWS how many bands playing that song!!!
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