Fonclaire Steel Orchestra - The Mighty Duke's "Carnival" ( Dimanche Gras 1971) - Videos

Sherwin Campbell February 18, 2016 at 9:20pm

I like what Mr Edgar C Wilson said,"In an attempt to follow the leader/trendsetter, Guiness Cavaliers.

gerard greene February 15, 2016 at 9:37pm

A large part of the arrangement is missing.

gerard greene February 15, 2016 at 9:33pm

Truly one of the classics in the age of sweet pan. If I am not mistaken, this arrangement won the people's choice that year.

Glenroy R Joseph February 15, 2016 at 3:36pm

This was also from National Geographic

Glenroy R Joseph February 15, 2016 at 3:35pm

This is also from 1971 , Sidd. Do you think it was also sped up ?

Glenroy R Joseph February 14, 2015 at 11:38am

As a prelude to Panorama I was listening to this piece of vintage south pan.

It brings back all the excitement of pan from an earlier time, and still stirs the blood , even after all these years.

Glenroy R Joseph August 27, 2011 at 7:04pm

Edcwilson, long as I live i could never forget "The Wrecker" on the drag in "68.
And the band was so big under their canopies, with that powerful bass section,it seemed like they filled the whole width of the race track!

ed cee August 27, 2011 at 10:50am

Yeah! case in point with a town band.....Solo harmonites bending the corner on the bulltrack in 1968 playing "the wrecker". You cannot see the panmen, only the tarpaulin-covered pan racks.... and all you are hearing is the powerful basses as they surround the band. When I checked...is bass evermore... and 30-odd tenors in an attempt to follow the leader/trendsetter i.e. Guinness Cavaliers, and at the same time upstage them...WOW! ah getting goose bumps... so--new sound,powerful sound, good sound, tuner is Allan Gervais, arranger is Earl Rodney, and SOLO get on bad and beat everybody, leaving all town bands including the great Desperadoes with their mouths open wide.....you can trust me on that. Pax ET Amor in pan my respected enthusiast.

Glenroy R Joseph August 27, 2011 at 12:16am

I think the difference was the rhythm, and how the south arrangers used the Bass.

This was before all the bands started sounding alike, to capture what they thought the panorama judges wanted to hear

ed cee August 26, 2011 at 11:29pm

hey Glenroy...Solo Harmonites...town band sound with south trinidad arranger and tuners.....peculiar eh!

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