Steel band hold a part in my heard. I grew up in Belmont( born 1937) and had the steelband around me all my life. I was a member of the steel band that played on ethe froad in 1958 In Harlem(then called West Indian Day Parade). I was past of the Labor Day Parade for Day one until 1974. Charles Assevero Plano, Texas. I was also a member of Carl Dera Carablo band in the late fifties. Long live the steel band.I was a member of Divieland stell band in Trinidad 1954, 55,56
Pan Times: Ellie Mannette SAID on National TV in T&T that HE, started "Oval Boy's in 1938 when HE DID NOT which is a BIG LIE, pan was just coming out of it's dust bin phase, where Carlton "sonny" Roach had just put note's on his 1st "KLIM MILK CAN", where Oval Boy's did not really start untill 1944 evolving from "Green Eye's" another band in the Woodbrook area, while WORLD WAR II was in PROGRESS, by Ellie's older brother Milton "ossie" Mannette, his nephew Herman Gomez, and Francis Wickham, there's photo's of Ellie playing a " dud up " in 1944 with Wickham, and one where he's shaking a "shack shack", in 1947 while in Oval Boy's with Gomez, Dove, and Wickham playing ping pong/ tenor, Invaders got their name "Night Invaders" after the war ended in May of 1945, and later changed it to Invaders, and Vernon "birdie" Mannette was tuning BEFORE Ellie where Ellie never started tuning untill 1948/49, how could Invaders be celebrating their 75th Anniversary, isn't it a bit premature???
Ms. Miranda La Rose; Hameed Shaqq, DO NOT KNOW WHAT HE"S TALKING ABOUT, because "PYTHAGORAS" DID NOT create/invented the Cycle of Fifths, ANTHONY WILLIAMS DID in 1949/50, he Pythagoras in 500 B.C. derived/create the MATHEMICAL THEOREM, or NUMERICAL EQUATIONS which WILLIAMS used to derive the cycle of 4ths & 5ths, by the GYRATING or MOVEMENT of the "PLANETS", Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn and Uranus, Neptune and Pluto was discovered much much later after "Pythagoras" was murdered, as a student of Williams, I'm the only one he entrusted with his"DOSSIER of SCHEMATICS" et al, ect ect ect... there were other who had the opportunity to create/derive from the theorem, Nicolaus Copenicus in 1515 and Tycho Brahe in 1590, but it was only Johannes Kepler a German astronomer in 1615, where he derived the five lines and four spaces, on manuscript using "Pythagoras" first seven (7) planets and the other two (2) later discovered planets, never the less but nice try Mr. SHAQQ, the next time PLEASE get all your fact correct,
Pan Am North Stars "Ivory and Steel" with Winnifred Atwell and , Pan Am North Stars and the Marrionettes Choir, conducted by Joycelyn Pierre... I know most of U have'nt heard the one with the Marrionettes Choir ???
Pan Times; I know that U guy's mean well, but Mr.Williams is NOT 85 years of age this year, being born 26th of June 1931 this makes him 84years of age, please don't rush him, he'll get there and past that in due time...
Pan Times; you need to go back into your steel band archives, if U have an archive and see the other three band's, Pan Am North Stars, BWIA Sunjets West Side Symphony, and WITCO Desperadoes that "Rock" Carnegie Hall, where the "Musical Caliber were Superior" to that of today's, the musical performance was no way near that of the previous 1964 and 1970s ...
Pan Times; please inform the Trinidad Express News that, there history or information is "ERRONEOUS", Pan Am North stars was the first Steel Band to preform at Carnegie Hall November 23rd 1964, with 10 year old Kenneth Clarke, 17 year old Lynn Barton, and myself 19 years old at the time, on stage drill master leader for Anthony Williams, in 1970, BWIA Sunjets West Side Symphony also preformed at Carnegie Hall with a youth ensemble, Adolphus "ages" Baptiste, Michael Reis, etc, before WITCO Desperadoes, hate to burst your bubbles fellars, but St Margaret's Boys Steel Orchestra, U R JOURNEY IS LATE...
Pan Times; please inform the Trinidad Express News that, there history or information is "ERRONEOUS", Pan Am North stars was the first Steel Band to preform at Carnegie Hall November 23rd 1964, with 10 year old Kenneth Clarke, 17 year old Lynn Barton, and myself 19 years old at the time, on stage drill master leader for Anthony Williams, in 1970, BWIA Sunjets West Side Symphony also preformed at CaPan Times; please inform the Trinidad Express News that, there history or information is "ERRONEOUS", Pan Am North stars was the first Steel Band to preform at Carnegie Hall November 23rd 1964, with 10 year old Kenneth Clarke, 17 year old Lynn Barton, and myself 19 years old at the time, on stage drill master leader for Anthony Williams, in 1970, BWIA Sunjets West Side Symphony also preformed at Carnegie Hall with a youth ensemble, Adolphus "ages" Baptiste, Michael Reis, etc, before WITCO Desperadoes, hate to burst your bubbles fellars, but St Margaret's Boys Steel Orchestra, U R JOURNEY IS LATE...rnegie Hall with a youth ensemble, Adolphus "ages" Baptiste, Michael Reis, etc, before WITCO Desperadoes, hate to burst your bubbles fellars, but St Margaret's Boys Steel Orchestra, U R JOURNEY IS LATE...
I wasn't there but I could tell from the way pan music has strayed from its cultural design to this jazzed up array of unflavored batter that has little or nothing to do with pan and the people of pan. There is really no creativity. Just a lot of skills. SHOW OFFS. There is in every real trini- A feel of excitement and a belonging- that is the reason for arrangers like Bradley and Jit to be always remembered. And for pan yards to be crowded at practice sessions leading up to ...panorama. Because you can flip several notes at the speed of light doesn't make you a pan arranger. First you have to be a musician and a Trinidadian. You must be able to feel the excitement and understand the people and the country where pan is prayers. Now its all money and no pan on the streets. Have you ever heard a complete steel band on the streets of Port Of Spain.? No? Then you have never heard steel band music. Bertie Marshall's introduction of a band on the streets -all instruments hooked up to electronics. Never again attempted. We have lost so much- hosting this new jazzed up image- that we cant see that no one really wants to hear a song that they don't fully understand. Still pan music is not readily accepted because it is not vigorously promoted and marketed and creativity is low. We have to get back to our culture and give the world a taste of Trini flavor. Get the people involved. The money will come;
How could people judge a competition and be so bias TOTAL DISRESPECT well done "JUDGES" take second place behind the present Government One Point Separate YOu All And THEM
To my friend Len D Maestro Sharpe. Happy Birthday and thanks for helping me to launch my Calypso Career. and my first album. Summer Festival. Those songs, Pan from Heaven, Save we culture, remains some of my most treasured works. Thanks for your Genius in creativity.
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Steel band hold a part in my heard. I grew up in Belmont( born 1937) and had the steelband around me all my life. I was a member of the steel band that played on ethe froad in 1958 In Harlem(then called West Indian Day Parade). I was past of the Labor Day Parade for Day one until 1974. Charles Assevero Plano, Texas. I was also a member of Carl Dera Carablo band in the late fifties. Long live the steel band.I was a member of Divieland stell band in Trinidad 1954, 55,56
Hi I would like to get in contact with Gale my email add: is trinityta22@hotmail.com
thank you
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My name is Fitzy Spencer from the republic of Trinidad & Tobago, and would like to get in contact with Lou Dutrow of Wilde Lake High School. Thank you
Spencer
Pan Times: Ellie Mannette SAID on National TV in T&T that HE, started "Oval Boy's in 1938 when HE DID NOT which is a BIG LIE, pan was just coming out of it's dust bin phase, where Carlton "sonny" Roach had just put note's on his 1st "KLIM MILK CAN", where Oval Boy's did not really start untill 1944 evolving from "Green Eye's" another band in the Woodbrook area, while WORLD WAR II was in PROGRESS, by Ellie's older brother Milton "ossie" Mannette, his nephew Herman Gomez, and Francis Wickham, there's photo's of Ellie playing a " dud up " in 1944 with Wickham, and one where he's shaking a "shack shack", in 1947 while in Oval Boy's with Gomez, Dove, and Wickham playing ping pong/ tenor, Invaders got their name "Night Invaders" after the war ended in May of 1945, and later changed it to Invaders, and Vernon "birdie" Mannette was tuning BEFORE Ellie where Ellie never started tuning untill 1948/49, how could Invaders be celebrating their 75th Anniversary, isn't it a bit premature???
Pan Times, please pass this on to Ms. La Rose,
Ms. Miranda La Rose; Hameed Shaqq, DO NOT KNOW WHAT HE"S TALKING ABOUT, because "PYTHAGORAS" DID NOT create/invented the Cycle of Fifths, ANTHONY WILLIAMS DID in 1949/50, he Pythagoras in 500 B.C. derived/create the MATHEMICAL THEOREM, or NUMERICAL EQUATIONS which WILLIAMS used to derive the cycle of 4ths & 5ths, by the GYRATING or MOVEMENT of the "PLANETS", Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn and Uranus, Neptune and Pluto was discovered much much later after "Pythagoras" was murdered, as a student of Williams, I'm the only one he entrusted with his"DOSSIER of SCHEMATICS" et al, ect ect ect... there were other who had the opportunity to create/derive from the theorem, Nicolaus Copenicus in 1515 and Tycho Brahe in 1590, but it was only Johannes Kepler a German astronomer in 1615, where he derived the five lines and four spaces, on manuscript using "Pythagoras" first seven (7) planets and the other two (2) later discovered planets, never the less but nice try Mr. SHAQQ, the next time PLEASE get all your fact correct,
Pan Am North Stars "Ivory and Steel" with Winnifred Atwell and , Pan Am North Stars and the Marrionettes Choir, conducted by Joycelyn Pierre... I know most of U have'nt heard the one with the Marrionettes Choir ???
Pan Times; I know that U guy's mean well, but Mr.Williams is NOT 85 years of age this year, being born 26th of June 1931 this makes him 84years of age, please don't rush him, he'll get there and past that in due time...
Pan Times; you need to go back into your steel band archives, if U have an archive and see the other three band's, Pan Am North Stars, BWIA Sunjets West Side Symphony, and WITCO Desperadoes that "Rock" Carnegie Hall, where the "Musical Caliber were Superior" to that of today's, the musical performance was no way near that of the previous 1964 and 1970s ...
Pan Times; please inform the Trinidad Express News that, there history or information is "ERRONEOUS", Pan Am North stars was the first Steel Band to preform at Carnegie Hall November 23rd 1964, with 10 year old Kenneth Clarke, 17 year old Lynn Barton, and myself 19 years old at the time, on stage drill master leader for Anthony Williams, in 1970, BWIA Sunjets West Side Symphony also preformed at Carnegie Hall with a youth ensemble, Adolphus "ages" Baptiste, Michael Reis, etc, before WITCO Desperadoes, hate to burst your bubbles fellars, but St Margaret's Boys Steel Orchestra, U R JOURNEY IS LATE...
Pan Times; please inform the Trinidad Express News that, there history or information is "ERRONEOUS", Pan Am North stars was the first Steel Band to preform at Carnegie Hall November 23rd 1964, with 10 year old Kenneth Clarke, 17 year old Lynn Barton, and myself 19 years old at the time, on stage drill master leader for Anthony Williams, in 1970, BWIA Sunjets West Side Symphony also preformed at CaPan Times; please inform the Trinidad Express News that, there history or information is "ERRONEOUS", Pan Am North stars was the first Steel Band to preform at Carnegie Hall November 23rd 1964, with 10 year old Kenneth Clarke, 17 year old Lynn Barton, and myself 19 years old at the time, on stage drill master leader for Anthony Williams, in 1970, BWIA Sunjets West Side Symphony also preformed at Carnegie Hall with a youth ensemble, Adolphus "ages" Baptiste, Michael Reis, etc, before WITCO Desperadoes, hate to burst your bubbles fellars, but St Margaret's Boys Steel Orchestra, U R JOURNEY IS LATE...rnegie Hall with a youth ensemble, Adolphus "ages" Baptiste, Michael Reis, etc, before WITCO Desperadoes, hate to burst your bubbles fellars, but St Margaret's Boys Steel Orchestra, U R JOURNEY IS LATE...
PAN TRINBAGO ??? HOW ABOUT JULY 2015 ...
Keep on Fighting the Battle All Stars/ Peoples Choice Every Time
How could people judge a competition and be so bias TOTAL DISRESPECT well done "JUDGES" take second place behind the present Government One Point Separate YOu All And THEM
@ Cecil...THANKS so much ! Have not followed as close as I would like,
busy and all...hard to find time to search this site
and was always missing what in the heck is Phase II planning to play.
So thanks for helping me out--sure appreciate it. Was this the tune that some one caught on
video of them rehersing? The one that was taken down?
THANKS again Cecil.
Michael, Phase ll tune is "JUMP TO THE BEAT" produced by Leston Paul and sung by Destra Garcia
Just wanting to know...what is Phase II really going to play?
And what was the tune they were playing in the video of rehersal..yesterday..that later got taken down???
Thanks !
To my friend Len D Maestro Sharpe. Happy Birthday and thanks for helping me to launch my Calypso Career. and my first album. Summer Festival. Those songs, Pan from Heaven, Save we culture, remains some of my most treasured works. Thanks for your Genius in creativity.
Enjoy this day to the fullest Brother Boogsie.
Elsworth.
Happy Birthday Sharpe ,the village rule ...nuff respect Andy
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