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I started playing pan with city syncopators in the days of kenny and kelvin hart. played with west side symphony (st james) then with city symphony from St paul st. came to the USA in 1969, played with trinidad & tobago steel band (washington dc), stop playing for a number of years then played and arrange for State side steel orchestra (that time they had the sweetest pan in dc) I do not play any more. I am usually asked to Judge Pan solo competition, Pan competition and calypso competition..
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Brenda H.
Yeah BEDE, Season Greetings and YOUR FAMILY as well, yeah as CEO of SNSE, I was pre occupied hireing a foreign syndicate to secure OUR CLAIM PAYMENT in T&T and the U.S. where THEY disclose the admission of GUILT, when they filed a blank FORM 3A APPLICATION TO PAY BY INSTALMENT (RULE 8. 15 (1) (c) on April 4th 2014, The Applicant Owes the Claimant the amount xxxxxxxxxxx on the clain form and cannot pay the amount in one lumpsum, BEDE we actually caught these PPL fleecing the T&T treasury of over $81.5 million U.S. dollars, that's $515, 000,000,000.oo million TT dollars, using the PAN as a Camouflage to get to the MONEY, it's time for them to pay the PIPER, and by the way "Lakie" had a stroke, he's in S. Ozone Park Queens NY...
BEDE; the New Visionaries are blind as a bat in the daytime, and U of all person should have known long before NOW, that something 's WRONG HERE...
Hey BEDE, what's up man? I'll be in DC sometime soon, visiting my girls/daughters and grand kids all 12 of them, and I'll pay Von Martin a visit maybe on the show, I'll also give U a call when I do get there...
Hey BEDE, all the members of Pan Am North Stars meet and shook Dr Eric Williams hands the night of the Independance Ball at the Governor House, he said to me in his "Gritty Voice tone, so you are the little fellow" ???
BEDE, I've posted this before/already as well, the 4ths & 5ths tenor pan and the whole tone double seconds, double cellos and 3 set basses in 1949, pan on stands blocks and leg's, the triple cellos and the 4 set bass in 1952, pan on wheels 1956, the 5 and 6 bass by 1965, the big over size home made tenor pan, the quadrophonic and quad cellos in the summer of 1968, U can hear these instruments on the "Ivory and Steel" album, all these are Anthony Williams baby's, the Invaders tenor pan Herman Gomez, the Cuatro or Guitar pan Neville Jules, double tenor Percy "lizard" Thomas, the "Echo Phone or triple tenor" 7 basses "Herman( rock) Johnston", the 1st ping pong and the single strummer or strumming pan, rubber on the sticks and tune "Boom" Carlton (sonny) Roach 1946, the Bertphone Bertie Marshall, the 9 and 12 basses Rudolph Charles, and the first man to balance a pan on his knees and play with two sticks, was Aldwin (chick magoo) Springer of "Hell's a Poppin", I hope this info help's, save it U may need it again...
Yeah BEDE, I know, I just didn't add it in, but my favorite's were Run, Night & Day, because we/Panam played them as well, I liked those tunes because they were simple and "Sweet" when City Symphony played them, I also liked their rendition of The Barber of Seville so much, that I arranged it in BWI A Sunjets West Side Symphony in 1968, and I still have the sheet manuscript...
Yeah BEDE, the guy/gentleman's to whom I was refering to is the late "Walker" who use to tune the front line pans for "City Symphony" and Michigan the arranger of "Run, Night and Day and The Barber of Seville", they played these tunes with us Pan Am North Stars and Clarence Curvan one nite at Port Services on Wrightson Road in 1962 and the Center in St Paul Street 1963, this was before Wallace and Bertie...
BEDE; in 1961after his return from hospital, Herman "rock" Johnston while working with Williams, decided to drop out 4 lower notes from the double seconds which started at low Eb, Eb E F F#, that took Johnston to G, a middle G in the cello range, so now North Stars had two type of double seconds, one high from G and one low from Eb, "rock" did that middle range tonal evolvement, "Bertie Marshall" in 1964 had to amplify his pans to get it to sound the way Tony and Rock had our pans sounding naturally, and as for Wallace Austin, I know him when he visited my nextdoor neighbour in 1962, and I had passed on some of Rock and Tony's octave tuning information to him before he started tuning for "Gay Flamingo's", so just go back and listen to "Roses from the South", and as U played the "Echophone" with West Side on "Smoke get's in your Eyes", tell me who tune dem pans...
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