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  Glenroy R Joseph February 22, 2013 at 10:20am

  For the record, this performance along with "The Jammer" by Despers. Doh back back" by All Stars and all the other videos that I've posted  from 1984 were personally copied from an original video tape and digitized by me.

  The videotape was copied from TTT on Panorama Finals night 1984. 

  As for the tempo, on the night of the Finals, the count seemed to be purposefully slower compared to earlier performances , as if (IMHO)  Boogsie wanted the fans and judges to hear every note of his beautiful arrangement.
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  Sweet Eustace February 22, 2013 at 5:51am

  if I do recall we had a reall pretty jersey final night , my father took all my pretty jersey he used to wear some but that one he wash it fold it up real neat and had it like a new jersey in a plastig bag, am pretty surfe this is not d final , and steel pan edc the Jammer placed 4th with the radoes, phase 5th pandemonium 6th,
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  ed cee February 17, 2013 at 3:00am

  No, no, no....this performance to my recollection is not the final night performance.....the final night performance was much slower than this. I need to share this with Sweet Eustace. And further, I also think you have it wrong on the placing....Phase11 came 4th that year behind Renegades, All Stars and Casablanca.
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  Sweet Eustace February 17, 2013 at 1:18am

  I still do not understand what people talking bout too slow, is this final night performance, if it is not will some body please post the final night , cause i like this tempo and I am trying to visualise what this would sound like faster and I believe if this performance was faster some linnes would not sound as good as they sound in this cut, i enjoyed every performance of this song as a matter of fact in practice the first week he notched up the speed there were casulties we started with 12 duble tenors and ended with 8 because 4 players could not play the fast version
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  odw February 16, 2013 at 10:37pm

  Glenroy,

  Thanks to you, I took the liberty to post this Boogsie classic...found these comments from an article on Boogsie.

  According to Knolly Moses, a New York-based Trinidadian writing in the Key Caribbean carnival magazine of 1984, I Music began with a ripe and textured introduction and a phrasing of the low pans that must be the sweetest line ever heard on a Panorama night. Then Boogsie went to work. The tenors swiped at notes in what jazz musicians would call riffs. He twisted and reshaped the melody sometimes beyond recognition. Frills and flourishes flew in all directions.

  “Sometimes the tune would appear out of a floating line only to disappear into a skirmish of cords. He phrased lines so obliquely they sounded like jazz licks from some jam session. Most of all, he jammed in classic fashion though at a slower tempo…At one point, the pans whispered a line so softly it swapped a silent secret between the arranger and his audience. Boogsie drew pulse and breath from his major musical influences, Stevie Wonder and Herbie Hancock. He fused funk, rock, jazz and soca.

  Taken from BWIA Caribbean Beat magazine 2002