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Dalton remembers Desperadoes bringing out great mas bands on the road for Carnival, including ‘Primitive Man and Extracts from the Animal Kingdom.’ Wilfred Harrison was responsible for their Mas creations. The late Rudolph Charles, band manager, was then a young voice who sought the best resources for Pan in players, pan manufacturers and tuners; he looked at the art form as a business. With his forward vision, Charles said that “we (Desperadoes) were a ‘badjohn’ band before, but are now elevated to be the best band in the world.” After nineteen years out of the music festivals, Desperadoes - under Rudolph Charles’ leadership - returned and won three straight biennial championships, and then stopped. The ‘businessman’ in Charles said the band was not ‘getting any money out of this.’ click for full story http://www.panonthenet.com/news/2010/may/Dalton-5-17-10.htm