TRINIDAD'S COMBOS' OF THE PAST

[Wayne]

WHO CAN REMEMBER THE MUSICAL COMBOS OF TRINIDAD PAST?I KNOW THAT THE OLD SAGA
PEOPLE LIKE MYSELF CAN. LET US REMINISCE.....CAN WE?....IT WAS SO ROMANTIC WITH
CASSANOVAS COMBO,SILVER STRINGS COMBO,ESQUIRES COMBO,THE GROUP SOLO,BERT BAILEY AND THE JETS,KEN CHARLES COMBO,FIVE FINGERS COMBO,ROCKERFELLAS COMBO,
BLUE JAYS COMBO,ANCIL WYATT COMBO,KABUKI STRINGS COMBO.....and I feted with them,
talk about nice fete.Those fellas could play music.Who else? bring it.......and bring the memories.

[letric]

What about Ed Johnson and his band? He was then the local Louis Jordan

[shield_2006]

I have two-ah sure allyuh doh know dem--Venus Plus X and Needles on A Pin Cushion--the latter was popular in Pop Gear st Scarlet Ibis back in d day.

[sacky]

joey and mano was what ?

[bigzack]

Johnny Lee and the Hurricanes from Charlotte Street, with Lancelot Layne as the lead singer.

[Amelia]

:? I have NO clue what allyuh talking about.
Mammoo, whats this about?

[Falcon]

I can't get past the superfluous apostrophe :|

[Amelia]

There there flacs, go rest.








:roll: :lol:

[Wayne]

I suppose most of the "noise" now makes a person develop a hearing disability,not like the
melodies of the past....TINNITUS...anyone?

[Wayne]

Now,I understand......Most of the Old Saga People have "moved on" to the Here After.....Trini talk....
"dead out".......What will todays' generation in TnT reminisce about?...Soul,Rock and Hip Hop?
Yeah,right?

[bigzack]

Now,I understand......Most of the Old Saga People have "moved on" to the Here After.....Trini talk....
"dead out".......What will todays' generation in TnT reminisce about?

They goh have a lot tuh reminisce about:

1. Everybody 1..2.....3.....
2. Look de big truck coming, with the heavy T bumper.
3. Put yuh hand in ah the ayre. And if yuh follow Iwer George, yuh hah tuh have more hand dan a Hindu God.
4. We old timers ain't ready..ready..ready..ready..ready..ready..ready..r eady..ready..
ready..ready..ready..ready..ready..ready..ready..r eady..ready..ready..ready..ready.....fuh Iwer tuh wave and leh him see we.
5. Anybody from Guyana, Antigua, Grenada, Jamaica, Haiti......somebody missing...somebody missing...somebody missing.......Trinidad and Tobagooooooooooo!!!
6. Wheeelllllllllllll!!!!! (after the 4th wheel I does find a chair tuh sit down)
7. Jeb stinging Naina, on she behinerrrrr, now she cyar winerrrrrrr.
8. Fire....water.....mud....oil......

Oh gorsh ah tired, but when this generation get old, they goh have plenty tuh talk about beside the tattoos under dey quailey skin.

[Wayne]

Big Zack...I wanted to say it just like you just did;but I was apprehensive that the under 30 crowd might give me a "tongue lashing" and I would be ostracized...........What do I know?....In my house,I have Gen Xers'
to confront with on a daily basis.......but its my house.

Okay.I suppose that this thread is over and out........Maybe most of the Trinis that remember the Combo Band movement are incoherent?.....The Steelband Movement is treated the same
way......with no respect.....I may be on a rant here but I know that I am right.........yes?

[bigzack]

Big Zack...I wanted to say it just like you just did;but I was apprehensive that the under 30 crowd might give me a "tongue lashing" and I would be ostracized...........What do I know?....In my house,I have Gen Xers'
to confront with on a daily basis.......but its my house.

Okay.I suppose that this thread is over and out........Maybe most of the Trinis that remember the Combo Band movement are incoherent?.....The Steelband Movement is treated the same
way......with no respect.....I may be on a rant here but I know that I am right.........yes?

Wayne

If you look at music throughout the USA, Jamaica, and Trinidad, you will see a general decline in lyrics and music. With the demise of the big band sound like Glen Miller, Count Bassey, Les Brown, which we mimicked in the Caribbean, music in these parts have been reduced to a lazy form of repetitious one liners that started with James Brown in the States, Blue Boy in Trinidad, and fellas like Shabba Ranks and Beenie Man in Jamaica.

But the youths and them love de music, so who is me tuh complain.

[Wayne]

Big Zack,I just spoke to dancerboy;not far from me.Anyway I told him to take a look at the thread
"Things on your Mind,let it out"........I think its up to 63 pages.......I call it the Chat Room Page.......Hee,Hee,
Hee..........the yutes have it......niice,cool,dais de dam ting self.........its on the Ole Talk page
dais "trini" old talk?.........well den dey "gone thru"........

[Poser]

Cyril Ramdeo .. Bonaparte .. dem fellas was boss ... is dey you learn how to dance

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[letric]

Met Ancil Wyatt at ther Grafton Hotel in Tobago, where he was playing both piano and steel pan, we enjoyed his playing, even purchased a few of his Cd's.

[shield_2006]

:? I have NO clue what allyuh talking about.
Mammoo, whats this about?

hamelia, I like this!!--this was how music was enjoyed some years ago before the advent of the dj and powerful electronics and so on. It wasdalso all local and covered all the genres of the time. It catered to an audience of people far and wide who had an ear for MUSIC. From a kinder gentler time-when aggressive and angry and sexually explicit lyrics were unnecessary to be popular-like the one you mentioned "move yuh panty to one side"

[Amelia]

^^so this thread is about the trini version of sunny and cher? :?

[bigzack]

:? I have NO clue what allyuh talking about.
Mammoo, whats this about?

hamelia, I like this!!--this was how music was enjoyed some years ago before the advent of the dj and powerful electronics and so on. It wasdalso all local and covered all the genres of the time. It catered to an audience of people far and wide who had an ear for MUSIC. From a kinder gentler time-when aggressive and angry and sexually explicit lyrics were unnecessary to be popular-like the one you mentioned "move yuh panty to one side"

Shield

Yuh hit on something that I does see being abused in music. People don't play music with feeling any more. A fella does setup a drum machine, or program he synthesizer and dat is it. Yuh hah tuh have more foot than a centipede to dance tuh he music.

Unlike a live drummer, a drum machine cyar draw on the feeling and adrenalin from de crowd to know when tuh cut, or when tuh use the high hat, and all dem nice stuff.

Long ago, nobody did have tuh tell yuh tuh "put yuh hands in de air". The sweet music, or a sweet part of a tune forced yuh tuh put yuh hands in the air.

Now a fella does run on stage. Yuh know from experience that is ***** he coming to sing. But before he sing one note, he want yuh to "put yuh hands in ah de ayre".

[Amelia]

^^I said something similar wrt the music I was exposed to this weekend - there was no melody, there was just a beat and the lyrical content was atrocious!!! Graphic sexual content with generous sprinkling of cusswords. And every song sounded like the previous one. I think the only song thats tood out was something about making love on the nightshift.

Oddly enough, I dont have an issue with raunchy lyrics. I had loved that song with Beenie and Lady Saw. But what was especially disturbing for me was the extremely explicit nature of these lyrics and the fact that they also seek to equate this crap with love. Most of the songs start with let me show u how much i love u and then proceeds to describe her anatomy or his or both.

And these young fellas blasting this day in day out...sheesh.

[Wayne]

amelia,like de old time calypso by Lord Nelson.........."We Like It".........Carnival is bacchanal......
Bacchanalia is rampant.

[Mr Majik]

So wey I fit in dis?

Me eh know dem combo Wayne talkin bout, but ah know Joey and Mano and Police Band.
But ah like some a dem young fellas too. Iwer brother had a nice tune a few years ago (de year it had big blackout...2003 maybe??)
"Rain could fall, wind could blow, we comin out way under zero.
It could be hot like hell, just put a beer in mih hand. Tell dem yuh cyah stop a West Indian."

True, de tune coulda use a nex' verse or two, but it was real ole time house party vibes.

And Traffic tune about makin a cook after fete, "Coal pot, coal pot" Even mih 80something year ole man did add he own ingredients in dat mash up.

But really and truly what I real miss is de ole time brass clash, when one play and de nex' one had was to answer, "Tan Tan!"

Anyone who used to be in Toronto fuh Caribana when it use tuh pass down Yonge St den University Ave mussbe remember how dem brass use tuh sound when passin thru de tunnel, ent?
Lakeshore have more space but no tall building and tunnel fuh de music tuh bounce off.

[draja]

WHO CAN REMEMBER THE MUSICAL COMBOS OF TRINIDAD PAST?I KNOW THAT THE OLD SAGA
PEOPLE LIKE MYSELF CAN. LET US REMINISCE.....CAN WE?....IT WAS SO ROMANTIC WITH
CASSANOVAS COMBO,SILVER STRINGS COMBO,ESQUIRES COMBO,THE GROUP SOLO,BERT BAILEY AND THE JETS,KEN CHARLES COMBO,FIVE FINGERS COMBO,ROCKERFELLAS COMBO,
BLUE JAYS COMBO,ANCIL WYATT COMBO,KABUKI STRINGS COMBO.....and I feted with them,
talk about nice fete.Those fellas could play music.Who else? bring it.......and bring the memories.Been to many fetes in tong wid dese guys including Joey L. and Andre Tanker. Ah hear Ancil and Joey still playin music. Wen Byron Lee started in Trini ah hardly used tuh miss wun ah he fetes. Ah even have his first CD. It song so funny compared to now.

[Poser]

Byron Lee first played at the Holiday Inn .. threy use to cover up the pool.. Ancil Wyatt was a boss ...

but combo's was the smaller ones like Ancil, Silver Strings etc..

[Wayne]

Thanks to today's technology......I have just about all the combo music that was mentioned on
cd....it has all been re-mastered.....reminisceing is fun.

[draja]

Ed Watson played at our school graduation.

[shield_2006]

Look what I find in some old pics. The Ed Watson and Joey Lewis crowd doh know bout this, This was from the day of the Beatles and The Stones and so on and Pop Gear at Scarlet Ibis Hotel now called Emerald Plaza. This was popular combo side-this is a real combo side-joey lewis and Watson and dem was band.

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The guy sitting was from my neighborhood and the tall guy too-Sitting is Ken Belasco and the tall one was called Blake can't remember the first name-the drummer is an Ali from First Avenue in Mt. Lambert and the chinee fella I cyant remember. Double Trouble would do well to look at this and all the rest ah dem who feel they have issues. This is the Trinidad I know.

[draja]

This is the Trinidad I know.Maan, ah used tuh have tuh depend on dem Kirpalani and Bata chicks to ketch a ride home.

[cedenoali]

My dad is an Ali from first avenue in my. Lambert.

[snowbird]

I have two-ah sure allyuh doh know dem--Venus Plus X and Needles on A Pin Cushion--the latter was popular in Pop Gear st Scarlet Ibis back in d day.

Oh my goodness Venus Plus X from Mt. Lambert..... I knew Kenny Belasco the lead singer (or KB as we usta call him)....well really truth be told....it was his brother an old Fatima fella that I knew verrrrrrrry well ....(wink wink).

Shield..there was also another 'house combo' at Scarlet Ibis led by Mickey Matthews but I don't recell the name;
Scarlet Ibis (and Mr. Pestana who was the son in law of the Owner) would do those 'Sunday Fetes' for us 'young kids'.... Mickey would rock ...lol

thanks for the memories Shield lol

[snowbird]

^^so this thread is about the trini version of sunny and cher? :?

Ams. dodo.... as Shield said, this was a gentler time, when Trini boys ....mostly college students and young adults took foreign music (American, European and Latin) gave it a Trini styling.... and kept us 'young people' dancing for years

....When we went to a fete, no one played vinyl (records back then)....there were no DJ's...it was live music all the way..... Each of these bands 'Combos' (= combined musicians) had their 'following'. These 'combos' were everywhere....even if you had a 'house party' .... you knew someone in a 'combo' who could come play for you..... most of the time, some of these lesser known groups would play for just 'food and drink'.... Like Shield said.... it was a simpler time.

[trinialex]

Good discussion about these times,but there were DJs at the time playing vinyl records,they were even playing 78's of Bill Black,Hawaiian Guitars,Nat King Cole,Papa John Screech,Connie Francis,Andrew Sisters,and calypsos among others.The fact was most of these DJs were from Arima like Dj "Ken Sussage" and"Ken Gray"... "Fat Man George" from Tunapuna,"Lai Tan" from deep south,and they were able to build and maintain there own equipment.....They played in parties with Sel Duncan,Ray Sylvestre,Mano Marcellin from the then old school and were met by Cassanovas, Bert Bailey, Clarence Curvan, Ancil Wyatt,Silver Strings, Johnny Lee, Esquires Now, Choy Aming ,Rockefellas, Just Fab Deltones, who they perfomed with at Scalet Ibis,as fillers between bands.....La Moui,Guardian CSA,Paragon were the halls in Port of Spain, but places like Breadfruit Lodge in S/Grande, Arima Tennis Court, The Oven and Pink and Black,both in Arima,Perseverance in Tunapuna, The Lodge in Mathura, the old building on Queen's Beach in Mayaro,where were most times, all this came together..

This sure brought a lot of good memories back,and I must say thanks..!

Could anyone remember the name of the band from Santa Cruz that De Fosto played with...??

[shield_2006]

My dad is an Ali from first avenue in my. Lambert.

Carry that pic for him. I live near another Ali from ist avenue and I have another one which I will give to him to pass to his brother. I saw him recently--the brother in the combo side and he introduced me to his son. Was that you? I also promised to relay these pics through his brother.

[shield_2006]

trinialex--Ken Sussage died not too long ago--I think--he was big in the amateur radio association-REACT--his handle was Triple 7. Still lived on Pinto Road.

[bigzack]

trinialex--Ken Sussage died not too long ago--I think--he was big in the amateur radio association-REACT--his handle was Triple 7. Still lived on Pinto Road.

Okay, so that is de guy that Poser sing bout in he "Smoke ah Wartie" calypso.

Buh yuh ent see the shoes dem fellas have on in the picture?

We used tuh call dem "kick and stab".

Ah had about 4 ah dem.

[trinialex]

Shield Ken Sussage is very much alive,Icalled someone when I read your post...he is alive and kicking....

[trinialex]

yes Big Zack, he built or repaired amps for most of the bands.

[Wayne]

Last week I was in a Trini "house fete" here in Tampa; with the surviving members of the Silver Strings combo.

[trinialex]

Byron Lee first played at his brother in law's farm ....which was called Gerizim Farms at the corner of Piarco Old Road and the Highway in Da'badie.There was a big house with a swimming pool at the front of the farm,and the party was held around the pool. Folks should remember that every year Sparrow took the better musicians abroad with the Troubadors and yearly some stayed,like Tanker,Louis Ruiz,Jato,Mungo,Waggy,Wise, and many others.This left a vacuum that was difficult to fill,so the younger guys had nobody to learn from,so two chords became the order of the day.Who is the first to give instructions in a fete.......?????............remember Tony Ricardo..? lead singer with Troubadors......he would have the whole fete moving .

[trinialex]

Shields do you remember Gay Bachelors and Comets with Pelham Goddard on keyboard,they were from St James.........Group Solo keyboardist Robert Bailey left and formed Osibisa.Do you know if Ken Belasco is still doing music...? He and Ken Sussage were great friends.

[snowbird]

Last week I was in a Trini "house fete" here in Tampa; with the surviving members of the Silver Strings combo.

Wayne I met so many of the old 'combo' musicians now living here in Canada..... and yes, they did mention that many of the old fellas now live in Florida (they still keep in touch).... as a matter of fact the founder of the Xpats Social Club (the one we play mas and fete with) is Winston Healy...if memory serves me correctly he played with Silver Strings too.

[bigzack]

This is what yuh call thread fadder.

Ah learning so much, and recalling so much that ah did fuhget.

The last time that I went in ah public fete in Trinidad was Mad Hatters Ball rong carnival time dong dey in Chaguramas.

That was about 11 or 12 years ago.

And that is when I know that my best feteing days over.

Every blasted singer come out on stage hah tuh play teacher. They start counting from 1..2...3...4...

Then they sing ah verse and dey bawl out "Wheel". The whole damn band stop playing.

Well from teacher, they gorn tuh play Immigration Officer. They want tuh know who from Antigua, who from Jamaica, who from Trinidad...

When they start back singing, they singing one setta tata, and want yuh tuh jump like ah kangaroo, and put yuh hand in the air like the statue ah liberty.

Well is then I see why dey does serve beer in Trinidad in paper cups and not in bottle no more.

Joey Lewis goh be in Maryland on the 30th ah this month, allyuh with allyuh nostalgia making mih feel tuh go.

[shield_2006]

Glad to know Sussage still around--used to be in contact with him when I lived in Arima and thought he had gone. Ken Belasco living in Sweeden.

[shaddeck]

Shields do you remember Gay Bachelors and Comets with Pelham Goddard on keyboard,they were from St James.........Group Solo keyboardist Robert Bailey left and formed Osibisa.Do you know if Ken Belasco is still doing music...? He and Ken Sussage were great friends.

is dat de osibisa dat had ah big hit call "wooly bully" or someting like dat- ah thought dey were west african

[shield_2006]

a rare find


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSLZqXVPY3Y

[trinialex]

bigzack like yuh don't know yuh have to go to Harvard's...the wednesday before Carnival.....good music....great people....try it if yuh home for 2011...!

[trinialex]

shaddeck they had two monster hits.....Music for Gong Gong and Woyayo....like some folks mentioned in their threads...the last time I saw two of the Bailey brothers was playing a gig in a Sundays on the Bay (in Miami) with Othello playing pan,and a Bernadie from Nelson Street playing drums......George Victory (left handed guitarist)who left with Sparrow,now plays with Jimmy Buffet and Chaka Khan extensively

Strange no one mentioned the groups who were so much a part of that era.....like The Strollers ......Wildfire, Sparks or even people like Jackie Wonder who is now an Imam.....Junior Byron....the brothers from Barataria

.

[trinialex]

snowbird you are correct.....I cannot recall the name of the combo....but George Victory played with that band and there was another George who now is the organist at the Tunapuna RC Church......in a manner of speaking that would have been Trinidad first disco.

[trinialex]

Robert Bailey played keyboards on their hit records, and there was a Jamaican and an Antiguian.....memory fuzzy now...but some members were from Africa.

[bigzack]

bigzack like yuh don't know yuh have to go to Harvard's...the wednesday before Carnival.....good music....great people....try it if yuh home for 2011...!

Yes...yes....yes....is that the dance with them fellas from New York that does throw the fete at Africa House Labor Day Friday night?

If so, ah went dey two years ago, so mih post about not going tuh ah public fete in Trinidad since 10 or 11 years ago, was not quite accurate.

That does be ah nice fete.

[bigzack]

bigzack like yuh don't know yuh have to go to Harvard's...the wednesday before Carnival.....good music....great people....try it if yuh home for 2011...!

Ah landing on the 24th February, just in time fuh Fatima all inclusive on the 26th.

Oh gorsh!!!

Ah went tuh Fatima All Inclusive 3 years ago, so how ah could say that is 10 or 11 years ah ent goh tuh ah public fete in T&T.

But ah definitely goh be in that Harvard Fete.

[shaddeck]

anyone remember de Trinidad Troubadors, ah tink dey were from siparia or palo seco. lai tan up in cyanada now ah hear, he use tuh play wid ah next dj named wayne hart who also immigrated. ah also remember seeing ah bajan yt band who play wid ed watson at ah fete in palm´s club in sando.

[sacky]

them didnt change dey name to sparrow troubadors

[trinialex]

shaddeck Trinidad Troubadors was renamed Sparrow Troubadours and they were a band formed by Sparrow as a touring band when fellas like Frankie Francis,Syl, from the regular tent band were unable or didn't want to go tours,they had their own repertoire of cover songs like Songbird said and back Sparrow.....Tony Ricardo who is from Guyana was the lead singer. their bandroom was at de Hideaway.

[trinialex]

Shield look for Che Ganga ,In a Monastery Garden,Stand, and Bim Bom by the Cassanovas.....yuh would really enjoy..!

[dancerboy]

snowbird you are correct.....I cannot recall the name of the combo....but George Victory played with that band and there was another George who now is the organist at the Tunapuna RC Church......in a manner of speaking that would have been Trinidad first disco.

How de hell i miss this thread ?. SB my friend, when i was in CANADA, i was listening to show from 9.00 pm, in which the host played a lot of music by these combos. TRINILEX whey part ah T&T you from, you sound like ah ole timer like me and my good friend, MR.BZ. But, ah think i am ah little older than you. I know George Victory from AROUCA. His nephew, and niece uses to lime with my son in South Ozone PK, in QUEENS.


DANCERBOY

[dancerboy]

I uses to dance with Cito Fermin band from Curepe on carnival sunday nite. Ole man NELSON (the chief justice, father), was my my eldest brother's father-in-law so we uses to go in free. Cito, (not the wire bender ), and sometimes invaders uses to play at ST.CRISPIN E.C school. Them was the days. Back in them days, i uses to dance at Perseverance on Freeling st. TUNUPUNA, Olive lodge in Arouca, Osmond high school on 5th street, near the Croisee, Jerningham junction road in CUNUPIA, that's whey ah meet the first wife; i literally swept her off her feet
One night ah went to ah dance in the Orphanage in TACARIGUA, the Duthcy brothers were playing(they uses to get in plenty fight), and of course fight break out. Well papayo, we run straight to Curepe, ah Taxi couldn't travel fast enough for me, and meh boys


DANCERBOY
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[bigzack]

Dancer

TriniAlex could write ah book about past Trinidad music.

The man real knowledgeable.

[Wayne]

I would like to "throw ah fete" ah BRAM.........wid only Combo Music............I have everything by CASSANOVAS,SILVER STRINGS,ESQUIRES,JOEY LEWIS,GROUP SOLO,ED WATSON and others like Ancil Wyatt,Bert Bailey and the Jets,Clarence Curvan,Gemini Brass and Dutchy Brothers all REMASTERED and on CD in my MUSIC LIBRARY................maybe when I visit Trinidad next year for Carnival it MAY happen.............LOL

[trinialex]

dancerboy well if you know Cito Fermin,you would remember Bertie Fermin who was a photographer and was the leader of his own band......I remember these band members with dey slick down Tony Curtis or Elvis hair styles.....wit dey comb in dey in they back pocket.....Muff used to be a big style too .....pull down on dey forehead....ah sure yuh remember..!
.......yuh make mih remember the lodge in Arouca......boy dat was a big party venue ..!

I from Arima...ah country boy....as dey would say then.....but started playing music at age ten....played pan age twelve.......mih mudder come and hole mih by mih ears and pull mih outta de band and eh leggo until we reach home....ah mile an ah half away.....and we walking eh sire..!

I used to play music like Benny Goodman, Burt Barcharach,Duke,Edmundo Ross,Bill Black ,Fausto Papetti........Turntables had four speeds 78....45....33....16........and mih tanty had ah gramaphone.....wit records by......Radio ...Lady Irie....Invader and Beginner among others...

bigzack thanks for de compliment an ah hope we all meet sometime an shoot some talk.......maybe at Wayne's bram.........Aye Wayne lemme say thanks to you for this thread......dis ting hah mih trying to recall names de old brain forget yeh.........ah trying to remember Gemini from day one ....dey ended up as Germini Brass ...when dey take ah whole bunch ah players who were from de orphanage......anybody remember Otto the lead trumpeter,wit he big fro ...spinning he trumpet wit ah scarf tie up on it...... Ah remember Cyril Ramdeo........wheeeeeeey..! de man had de biggest sax I ever see.....and ah see plenty sax ..!

Aye Wayne ...it go be nice to hear John Jones by Esquires......wit Clive Bradley playing de keyboards and harmonium on dat track......Junior Byron singing ...Crying Easy ....boy dat is one ah de best songs ah ever hear in mih life.......Kaylan came almost de end of dis era....but boy dey hah some classics......top of which is Ride a White Horse.......Jus Fab Deltones.....Lil Red Monkey.......Bridge over Troubled Water.........buh a want allyuh to pick allyuh brains and remember ah Bajan band dat come an make a big ting in Trini..........who remember Tropical Islanders

Aye allyuh I gone........ dis thread coming to be a twine wee.!

dancerboy we go pick up..!

[trinialex]

ok bigzack....yuh brain getting addle boy....dat is Icepicks fete........hope we bounce up dey next year....

[bigzack]

ok bigzack....yuh brain getting addle boy....dat is Icepicks fete........hope we bounce up dey next year....

Dah is de damn fete self.

Once the good lord gih mih "promission", I in dat fuh sure this coming carnival.

[bigzack]

ah trying to remember Gemini from day one ....dey ended up as Germini Brass ...when dey take ah whole bunch ah players who were from de orphanage......

Ah doh know if is from day one. But I remember Danny Ming from Gemini and also they piano man -- Frankie Callender.

Allyuh remember the Jarvo Brothers.

They had one hit, ah tune called "Theo".

[bigzack]

I from Arima...ah country boy....as dey would say then.....but started playing music at age ten....played pan age twelve.......mih mudder come and hole mih by mih ears and pull mih outta de band and eh leggo until we reach home....ah mile an ah half away.....and we walking eh sire..!

Hear nah Alex, we could start ah whole thread about them long time Trinidad parents.

Dey wasn't easy yuh know.

Ah was about 10 years old too.

Ah gorn home with a ten cents piece in mih right ear, cause ah see dem big men doing that.

Well mih mother buss one calpet in mih tail, and shout, "Oh, yuh gambling aready".

The 10 cents fly out ah mih ears, like it and all get frighten.

Ah so glad that she never ketch mih beating pan.

[dancerboy]

Dah is de damn fete self.

Once the good lord gih mih "promission", I in dat fuh sure this coming carnival.

Mr.BZ my good friend, we ole timers have to get ah lime going somewhere, some place, before we 'LEAVE' this forum.



DANCERBOY

[bigzack]

Mr.BZ my good friend, we ole timers have to get ah lime going somewhere, some place, before we 'LEAVE' this forum.

DANCERBOY

Excellent idea dey boss.

We goh wuk on it.

[trinialex]

bigzack yuh on song....de last time I saw frankie he was playing as a one man band in Mas Camp in a sunday lime for old timers like yuhself....ha..ha...hahttp://www.ttonline.org/../../images/smilies/set1/biggrin.gif

Danny Ming I met in a store ....and boy de man looking de same as if he going ah party in CSA ......yaeh Javo bros......ah have a recording of Theo

Like yuh recovering from yuh memory loss....dat good.......take care....

[trinialex]

wayne thanks fuh de thread man..........make de ))BRAM(( happen..!........ah willing to help..!

[bigzack]

bigzack yuh on song....de last time I saw frankie he was playing as a one man band in Mas Camp in a sunday lime for old timers like yuhself....ha..ha...hahttp://www.ttonline.org/../../images/smilies/set1/biggrin.gif

Danny Ming I met in a store ....and boy de man looking de same as if he going ah party in CSA ......yaeh Javo bros......ah have a recording of Theo

Like yuh recovering from yuh memory loss....dat good.......take care....

Oh gorsh man, ah man cyar remember everything. rofl...rofl..rofl...rofl...

[snowbird]

snowbird you are correct.....I cannot recall the name of the combo....but George Victory played with that band and there was another George who now is the organist at the Tunapuna RC Church......in a manner of speaking that would have been Trinidad first disco.


I would think so as back in the day we young people would look for places (that were not just 'one off' public fetes) to go dance... Scarlet Ibis was the only place we knew of that offered this type of dancing weekly. There may have been more available elsewhere in T&T....but being 'a girl'..... I couldn't stray too far away from home..... we were only allowed to go to dances in 'our neck of the woods' lol

By the way, does anyone know where you can buy 'good quality' combo music?

A few years ago I bought some Esquires and some Silver Strings cd's at a Trini event overhere .... the quality was very poor...... don't even think it was done in 'stereo'

..... I also know people who are holding on to some old copies of LP's.....is it even possible to have those converted from the old 'vinyl' into good quality music now?

[snowbird]

I would like to "throw ah fete" ah BRAM.........wid only Combo Music............I have everything by CASSANOVAS,SILVER STRINGS,ESQUIRES,JOEY LEWIS,GROUP SOLO,ED WATSON and others like Ancil Wyatt,Bert Bailey and the Jets,Clarence Curvan,Gemini Brass and Dutchy Brothers all REMASTERED and on CD in my MUSIC LIBRARY................maybe when I visit Trinidad next year for Carnival it MAY happen.............LOL

Yuh just answer meh question bout whey ah cud geh 'good quality music' boy...... Yuh coud make ah killin here in Canada boy....like ah said.... is one setta 'poor quality' music dey doz be flogging here..... and people (like me) buying it.

[trinialex]

Hear nah Alex, we could start ah whole thread about them long time Trinidad parents

.

bigzack start the thread nah ..!

[Wayne]

Snowbird e-mail me about the music.

[Wayne]

Trinialex.............I lime wid dancerboy in 4 fetes already,up in Ocala by him............I had de "Engine Room" wid meh and dancerboy and me and some other Trinis was "knocking" Iron and Cowbell and had dem women and
dem,"wining dong" de place................nice times,and plenty more tuh come.

[trinialex]

Trinialex.............I lime wid dancerboy in 4 fetes already,up in Ocala by him............I had de "Engine Room" wid meh and dancerboy and me and some other Trinis was "knocking" Iron and Cowbell and had dem women and
dem,"wining dong" de place................nice times,and plenty more tuh come.

Wayne....so we go hah de BRAM fuh Carnival 2011...?

[Wayne]

Its possible.

[snowbird]

Its possible.

Wha....yuh goin TT fer Carnival 2011?

[trinialex]

Wha....yuh goin TT fer Carnival 2011?
songbird yuh coming..?....bring dancerboy and bigzack wit yuh...

[bigzack]

songbird yuh coming..?....bring dancerboy and bigzack wit yuh...

I goh be dey Alex.

Ah done by mih ticket aready.

[kemist]

This is what yuh call thread fadder.

Ah learning so much, and recalling so much that ah did fuhget.

The last time that I went in ah public fete in Trinidad was Mad Hatters Ball rong carnival time dong dey in Chaguramas.

That was about 11 or 12 years ago.

And that is when I know that my best feteing days over.

Every blasted singer come out on stage hah tuh play teacher. They start counting from 1..2...3...4...

Then they sing ah verse and dey bawl out "Wheel". The whole damn band stop playing.

Well from teacher, they gorn tuh play Immigration Officer. They want tuh know who from Antigua, who from Jamaica, who from Trinidad...

When they start back singing, they singing one setta tata, and want yuh tuh jump like ah kangaroo, and put yuh hand in the air like the statue ah liberty.

Well is then I see why dey does serve beer in Trinidad in paper cups and not in bottle no more.

Joey Lewis goh be in Maryland on the 30th ah this month, allyuh with allyuh nostalgia making mih feel tuh go.

roflroflrofl

[kemist]

^ BZ, ah wha borrow dat "immigration officer" line rofl

[trinialex]

I goh be dey Alex.

Ah done by mih ticket aready.

OK....lemme kno when yuh dey..!

[trinialex]

Ah wonder who was dey when... the den world most popular combo come to Trinidad.......ah torkin bout The Metres......dat was in CSA......Jus Fab Deltones.....Cassanovas......and Group Solo.......was de combos dat play too..! Heah nuh...Deltones drummer was Waggy.....ah should tell allyuh he played a stint for Isley Bros and he was also one of dey tailors.....boy dat man could sew.....he use to sew Deltones clothes too...he is the man who is to sew them jersey wit de sneakers on dem in de late seventies....upstairs on Henry and Prince St was he tailor shop.

Buh leh mih go back to de story...Waggy is left handed...he hand fast and like he foot faster....and allyuh should kno the drummer from the Meters ...he could make dem drums talk......anyway Deltones playing...de Meters drummer go up on stage ...he asking Waggy fuh de name ah de shots he making.....Waggy eh kno nutten bout drum shots name .....Waggy tell him....people does say .....Shot fadder....oh gord, shot boy....!De man totally amazed to see what Waggy doing yes.......and he cyah do dat....and he is ah music star...! De man hang out wit Waggy fuh de three nights dey played.......Ah should leh allyuh kno Waggy was Johnny Lee drummer....before he join Deltones....he is from Belmont.

Group Solo drummer wassen easy too.....de man is to put ah tambourine on de on he cymbals....ah cowbell at de top ah the cymbals stand...and Solo had the drum set wit de most pieces den.......ah twelve piece.......boy ah is to enjoy dah man playing.......buh wait nah....!!!! he end up in Osibisa too..!

[trinialex]

Ah~ha..!............ah have two more names de old brains recollect.....bigzack sen mih some ah dat ting yuh takin fuh de brain ..nuh boy.rofl

Sharkie and the Wheels.....and Fitzmellow combo..

Fitzmellow is from Grande and he arrange two ah Shadow albums

Sharkie is from Arima...he does play one man gig....and he back up de late Prowler on he last two CDs.

[snowbird]

songbird yuh coming..?....bring dancerboy and bigzack wit yuh...

rofl rofl rofl

[bigzack]

^ BZ, ah wha borrow dat "immigration officer" line rofl

Kemist,

Take ah borrow.

[bigzack]

OK....lemme kno when yuh dey..!

I will definitely do that.

[bigzack]

Ah wonder who was dey when... the den world most popular combo come to Trinidad.......ah torkin bout The Metres......dat was in CSA......Jus Fab Deltones.....Cassanovas......and Group Solo.......was de combos dat play too..!

Wha year was dat man?

I remember the Metres with "Sissy Strut". Billy Reece used tuh kill dah chune every Saturday morning.

Remember when King Curtis did play at CSA (later known as PSA).

Ah vex too bad that night.

Ah was wukking Guard and Emergency Branch, and keeping duty by the Guard Hut at the St.James Barracks.

When King Curtis play, "Bridge over Troubled Waters", the breeze pick the chune up, and blow it dong by the Barracks.

Ah only studying who mih gyul grinding with, because she in de fete and I with ah big SLR in mih hand marching up and down.

[trinialex]

Kemist,

Take ah borrow.
Aye bigzack...! make sure Kemist pay back tomorrow..!

[trinialex]

Wha year was dat man?

I remember the Metres with "Sissy Strut". Billy Reece used tuh kill dah chune every Saturday morning.

Remember when King Curtis did play at CSA (later known as PSA).

Ah vex too bad that night.

Ah was wukking Guard and Emergency Branch, and keeping duty by the Guard Hut at the St.James Barracks.

When King Curtis play, "Bridge over Troubled Waters", the breeze pick the chune up, and blow it dong by the Barracks.

Ah only studying who mih gyul grinding with, because she in de fete and I with ah big SLR in mih hand marching up and down.

Dah mite ah been mid to late seventies...

dey also did...... Look a-Py-Py and dey signature chune ...Hey Pockaway

bigzack well yuh might hate tuh hear dis.....buuuhhh I must be was sqeezing yuh gyul in dah dark area on de left hand side when yuh facing de stage....BZ de King put two sax in he mout...and he start tuh play.... "When ah man loves ah woman".....boy woman running down man tuh dance.....anyway sorry ,buh dis woman rush mih......ahhhhh didnt kno dat was yuh gyul.......buh ah sure we wear dah tile out,oui.....buh ah glad yuh had ah SLR tuh hug up and squeeze ....at least yuh eh grind alone...sorry eh BZ .....but....ah hah tuh laffrofl

buh hear nah.... it eh good tuh squeeze up man gyul while dey wukking nex door.....de next nite King Curtis,Cassanovas and Deltones playing down in de Cove.....remember dey..??? ah leave de party to go pick up ah gyul up by de gate ....dem days de gate quite up by William's Bay......ah speeding fuh so to take up de gyul and reach back fuh when King Curtis going an play he second set ........yuh revenge take mih... ah crash.....pick up ah skid on some gravel......i and de motorbike end up in de bush........ppl see de lights in de bush...they find mih semi-conscious.......end up in PoS hospital....mih right collarbone broken......BZ......yuh could go ahead an laFF nowhttp://www.ttonline.org/../images/smilies/set1/lol.gifhttp://www.ttonline.org/../images/smilies/set1/lol.gifhttp://www.ttonline.org/../images/smilies/set1/lol.gif

buh BZ.....DAH CHILE SWEET AN CUD GRIND..........she like dah sugar mill in St Magdaline...... BZ dah 'oman was from Sugarwanas or wat...!

De gyul ah was going yo pick up was ah first date.....lost track while ah laid up....never see dah 'oman again.......but ah totally enjoyed King Curtis......da man was great..!

[bigzack]

Dah mite ah been mid to late seventies...dey did..... Look a-Py-Py and dey signature chune ...Hey Pockaway

bigzack well yuh might hate tuh hear dis.....buuuhhh I must be was sqeezing yuh gyul in dah dark area on de left hand side when yuh facing de stage....bigzak de King put two sax in he mout...and when he start tuh play "when ah man loves ah woman".....boy woman running down man tuh dance.....anyway sorry ......ahhhhh didnt kno dat was yuh gyul.......buh ah sure we wear dah tile out,oui.....buh ah glad yuh had ah SLR tuh hug up and dance wit....at least yuh eh grind alone...sorry eh BZ ,ah hah tuh laffrofl

buh hear nah.... it eh good tuh squeeze up man gyul while dey wukking nex door.....de next nite King Curtis,Cassanovas and Deltones playing down in de Cove.....remember dey..??? ah leave de party to go pick up ah gyul up by de gate ....dem days de gate quite up by William's Bay......ah speeding fuh so to take up de gyul and reach back fuh when King Curtis going an play he second set ........yuh revenge take mih... ah crash.....pick up ah skid on some gravel......i and de motorbike end up in de bush........ppl see de lights in de bush...they find mih semi-conscious.......end up in PoS hospital....mih right collarbone broken......BZ......yuh could go ahead an laugh nowhttp://www.ttonline.org/../images/smilies/set1/lol.gifhttp://www.ttonline.org/../images/smilies/set1/lol.gifhttp://www.ttonline.org/../images/smilies/set1/lol.gif

De gyul was ah first date.....lost track while ah laid up....never see dah 'oman again.......but ah totally enjoyed King Curtis......da man was great..!

rofl...rofl...rofl...

Not only ah was ah policeman.

Ah was ah obeahman too.

[Wayne]

Dem so called "young people" don't realise dat is combo music by Silver Strings,Cassanovas and Esquires Combos;is what caused their parents to be amorous with each other.

[Wayne]

When Cassanovas Combo played "In A Monastery Garden" and "Moment To Moment" dem women used tuh love tuh "grind" on de floor and den have tuh "run" tuh de bathroom afterwards tuh change......also when Esquires
Combo played "And I Love Her" and "If I Fell" it was the same situation..............at least wid de kind ah women I used tuh meet in de popular "house fetes" in Woodbrook,Belmont,Maraval and St.Clair.I am ah tong man from
Woodbrook,so I can only speak about my "adventures"in Port-of-Spain.

[snowbird]

When Cassanovas Combo played "In A Monastery Garden" and "Moment To Moment" dem women used tuh love tuh "grind" on de floor and den have tuh "run" tuh de bathroom afterwards tuh change......also when Esquires
Combo played "And I Love Her" and "If I Fell" it was the same situation..............at least wid de kind ah women I used tuh meet in de popular "house fetes" in Woodbrook,Belmont,Maraval and St.Clair.I am ah tong man from
Woodbrook,so I can only speak about my "adventures"in Port-of-Spain.

yuh mean yuh mis-adventures rofl

buh ah kno wat yuh mean..... not only did we fete to those combos ..... my brothers went to school with most of those fellas too, so we automatically 'followed' these three combos when they played around POS..... they played at plenty 'Private House Parties in the 60's ..... plenty 'fund raisers'.... for the Scouts an ting.....these three combos had 'their following'.

[snowbird]

Talking about combos..... who could remember the day the news hit T&T that Monty Williams killed those two sisters in NY (the Gibbs girls) then killed himself. Boy that was a big shock wave ..... I was in Canada at the time but remember getting the call from T&T as I knew one of the sisters (June...she was an air hostess) .... that was one hell of ah thing.

[trinialex]

When Cassanovas Combo played "In A Monastery Garden" and "Moment To Moment" dem women used tuh love tuh "grind" on de floor and den have tuh "run" tuh de bathroom afterwards tuh change......also when Esquires
Combo played "And I Love Her" and "If I Fell" it was the same situation..............at least wid de kind ah women I used tuh meet in de popular "house fetes" in Woodbrook,Belmont,Maraval and St.Clair.I am ah tong man from
Woodbrook,so I can only speak about my "adventures"in Port-of-Spain.

......mout open tory jump out..... Wayne yuh had reeeeeaaaaaall fun boy..!!!!

buh yuh right ....dem days was happy ....happy days.........man partying was really ah joy........yuh targeting which gyul yuh want tuh dance wit and yuh waiting fuh ah 'Down by de River".......Watermelon Man.... Mona Lisa........Stardust ....A Whiter Shade of Pale.......or BZ tabanca tune....Bridge over Troubled Water.....an yuh trying tuh geh dey as de chune start.......Oh gawd Oh....!!


Aye...!! Wayne yuh remember the Durhams ....Boyie and Neil...........Neil was the manager of Deltones.........

Wha bout Arthur "Phoops"........Cassanovas......lead guitarist...........or Bass who sang "Stand"......he use to wear those long Dracula type jackets....the man was a real performer eh........??

Take care man....

[trinialex]

Talking about combos..... who could remember the day the news hit T&T that Monty Williams killed those two sisters in NY (the Gibbs girls) then killed himself. Boy that was a big shock wave ..... I was in Canada at the time but remember getting the call from T&T as I knew one of the sisters (June...she was an air hostess) .... that was one hell of ah thing.

Yeah gyul ...dat was ah ting .......people shock.......dey cyah believe dah ahtall...ahtall........dah was really shocking....and sad.....

[trinialex]

yuh mean yuh mis-adventures rofl

buh ah kno wat yuh mean..... not only did we fete to those combos ..... my brothers went to school with most of those fellas too, so we automatically 'followed' these three combos when they played around POS..... they played at plenty 'Private House Parties in the 60's ..... plenty 'fund raisers'.... for the Scouts an ting.....these three combos had 'their following'.

songbird yuh right...and like Wayne say Woodbrook is tuh have plenty ah dem party......St James too....an dat Sports Club Paragon is tuh have ah lot ah fund raiser in de club hose in Cocorite..........boy dey use tuh hah sandfly ........wheeeeyyyyy.......!!!

[trinialex]

rofl...rofl...rofl...

Not only ah was ah policeman.

Ah was ah obeahman too.


AH hear bout yuh....but too late...yuh AKA Papa Neeza from soute.....!!

[dancerboy]

songbird yuh coming..?....bring dancerboy and bigzack wit yuh...

My BAJAN niece getting married on the 30th of april. I am going to Barbados to the wedding, and then i will be heading to T&T. If my good friend, MR. BZ could give me a loan till i get my soo soo in may, i will be able to make it for carnival.


DANCERBOY

[snowbird]

Boy yuh kno me how ah luv me Carnival an meh mas .....meh fren actually had me convinced tuh come do she 60th Birthday in T&T fer next year Carnival 2011.....dat was right up until she get word she god-son geh stab on Carnival day..... de boy was just standing up at de side ah de road looking at mas an some hooligan stab him ....jus so.

He didn't even kno wen he get stab.....he jus feel somebody bonks him hard....den next ting ah fella tell him "Aye, yuh bleeding, somebody stab yuh"..... The wuss part is ... wen he went tuh de hospital, he meet some masquaraders from de same band.... all ah dem same ting..... somebody bonks dem.... den de next ting, dey bleeding.

Man I say....not me an T&T ...... everytime the old 'horrors' start tuh subside ..... ah doz get new ones..... not me boy.

[bigzack]

My BAJAN niece getting married on the 30th of april. I am going to Barbados to the wedding, and then i will be heading to T&T. If my good friend, MR. BZ could give me a loan till i get my soo soo in may, i will be able to make it for carnival.

DANCERBOY

Just the fact that you getting the last soo soo hand in May, that means that people doh truss you wid money.

[dancerboy]

Just the fact that you getting the last soo soo hand in May, that means that people doh truss you wid money.

Like yuh no the deal pardner


DANCERBOY

[trinialex]

[QUOTE Man I say....not me an T&T ...... everytime the old 'horrors' start tuh subside ..... ah doz get new ones..... not me boy.[/QUOTE]

songbird sad tuh hear.....it can be a real turn off when yuh hear of these incidences....buh yuh should still consider coming....just hang out where oldtimers like mihself go hang out......away from dem youte crowds.....

[snowbird]

[QUOTE Man I say....not me an T&T ...... everytime the old 'horrors' start tuh subside ..... ah doz get new ones..... not me boy.

songbird sad tuh hear.....it can be a real turn off when yuh hear of these incidences....buh yuh should still consider coming....just hang out where oldtimers like mihself go hang out......away from dem youte crowds.....[/QUOTE]



boy.... I love meh Carnival and meh Mas and all aspects of T&T celebration (the art form) so I would want to be in the 'thick of things' like the St. James Carnival.... the Kiddies Street Parade.... Camboulet.....Pan-o-rama.....J'Ouvert ...... all of the things that happen on the streets or attract crowds..... and those are the areas I suspect I'd be most vulnerable.

... Like I shared, that young man was just standing on the street watching mas (not troubling anybody) and he and those other people got stabbed ....just so. In his case he was very fortunate..... the doctors said the puncture just ..... missed his 'spleen'......not me boy.



.... anyway, we digress lol

[trinialex]

songbird...ah guess ah go hah tuh tek ah jump fuh yuh......

[Wayne]

songbird...ah guess ah go hah tuh tek ah jump fuh yuh......

Yuh might take ah jump fuh SONGBIRD,but SNOWBIRD goe stay up in TORONTO and lime in dem fetes rite dey.................

[trinialex]

Yuh might take ah jump fuh SONGBIRD,but SNOWBIRD goe stay up in TORONTO and lime in dem fetes rite dey.................

Yeah boy Wayne...ah realize dah she really scared tuh come....buh ah looking forward tuh meeting BZ...DB....and yuhself.......hope tuh lime ah bit and bring back some ole time days.......take care..Wayne..!

[Wayne]

snowbird had ah NICE time in Toronto...............Fete fuh so.............wid de SISTAZ and dem.............in ah BIG PLACE..............not no small place where yuh cyar geh lorse and hide wen yuh want.............ent?

[snowbird]

snowbird had ah NICE time in Toronto...............Fete fuh so.............wid de SISTAZ and dem.............in ah BIG PLACE..............not no small place where yuh cyar geh lorse and hide wen yuh want.............ent?

Boy yuh well see how dat 'Fete Magazine' buss de mark on we ....we cud fete...buh we kar hide rofl

Boy if is onlee fete I comin tuh T&T for..... ah may as well stay up here since I hav more fete up here dan ah cud handle rofl


sooooooo much fete......... so little time rofl

is parang seson comin up now.....check out dat magazine again..... yuh might see de posse again rofl rofl

[bigzack]

TriniAlex

This one is fuh you pardner.

http://www.ardmediathek.de/ard/servlet/content/3517136?documentId=5485932

Fuss this 43:43 minute video piece good, yuh cyar help but be riveted tuh yuh chair watching it.

Anybody who love up we culture muss feel they pores raise, while watching this.

The ending too is real bacchanal

If yuh see and hear people singing that "Dem is born Trinidadians".

[shaddeck]

TriniAlex

This one is fuh you pardner.

http://www.ardmediathek.de/ard/servlet/content/3517136?documentId=5485932

Fuss this 43:43 minute video piece good, yuh cyar help but be riveted tuh yuh chair watching it.

Anybody who love up we culture muss feel they pores raise, while watching this.

The ending too is real bacchanal

If yuh see and hear people singing that "Dem is born Trinidadians".

BZ ah jess check dah link out, greatz stuff! ah does geh dat tv channel dong my side buh ah miss da show.
man, ah see in switzerland dey teaching de chirren dem tuh play pan in school, ah few years ago ah went tuh last lap (last lap does be de same time as in trini an dey doh celebrate carnival as such, dey big fete is last lap, it does be cold like hell buh it does be real fete) in luzern an was surprised tuh see 4 stellband orchestras playing in de tong square and dey were all school chirren.
ah see more pan dey dan in sando dis year!

[bigzack]

BZ ah jess check dah link out, greatz stuff! ah does geh dat tv channel dong my side buh ah miss da show.
man, ah see in switzerland dey teaching de chirren dem tuh play pan in school, ah few years ago ah went tuh last lap (last lap does be de same time as in trini an dey doh celebrate carnival as such, dey big fete is last lap, it does be cold like hell buh it does be real fete) in luzern an was surprised tuh see 4 stellband orchestras playing in de tong square and dey were all school chirren.
ah see more pan dey dan in sando dis year!

If yuh wanted tuh see more pan dey in sando this year, yuh shoulda goh Rienzi Complex, that is wey he does hang out.

But ah glad tuh see that we instrument that had its genesis in ah lime grove in my home village, reach so far all up dey in Switzerland.

We Trinis should be proud.

[Wayne]

A Website that originates in Bern,Switzerland,celebrates the Steelband sound all through the year.

http://www.pan-jumbie.com/

[shaddeck]

If yuh wanted tuh see more pan dey in sando this year, yuh shoulda goh Rienzi Complex, that is wey he does hang out.

But ah glad tuh see that we instrument that had its genesis in ah lime grove in my home village, reach so far all up dey in Switzerland.

We Trinis should be proud.

yuh make meh read dis 2 times be4 ah unnnerstan!!!! nice wan!!!

3 pardners ah mine was so impress wid trini after ah took dem dey dat dey open ah travel agency dat only deals wid trips tuh trini, last year dey extendended tuh guyana and next year dey extending tuh dominica. check out dey site here-
http://www.kolibri-reisen.de/
fuh dey christmas party last weekend (ah was dey- through all dah snow!) dey hadda band from de black forest playing an dey were ok "black forest steel orchestra", an ah ole trini calypsonian named mighty ambassador, de fella from fyzo an livinig up inna germsmoney.

[bigzack]

Dah lady on that site real pretty dey Shaddeck.

[Wayne]

Dah lady on that site real pretty dey Shaddeck.

Big Zack..................take ah trip and check her out..............it is Christmas Time.

[bigzack]

Big Zack..................take ah trip and check her out..............it is Christmas Time.

Nah pardner, ah staying home this christmas.

[shaddeck]

Dah lady on that site real pretty dey Shaddeck.

in dah photo she is bout 17-18 yrs. ah know her an de famahly since she bout 13. dey livin between grande an manzan
photo was taken 2006

[bigzack]

in dah photo she is bout 17-18 yrs. ah know her an de famahly since she bout 13. dey livin between grande an manzan
photo was taken 2006

Shaddeck

Them fellas on that site owe mih ah pair ah glasses eh.

Ah went back looking fuh the picture of the beautiful, young lady in the picture.

Ah click on the link, and ah see ah picture of ah woman selling in the market.

Them fellas does change the home page picture or what?

[Wayne]

Ah good friend of mine made 2 CD's by Ron Berridge Orchestra for me .......they were extracted from 33 rpm LP's.

Very Nice selections and arrangements.

[shaddeck]

Shaddeck

Them fellas on that site owe mih ah pair ah glasses eh.

Ah went back looking fuh the picture of the beautiful, young lady in the picture.

Ah click on the link, and ah see ah picture of ah woman selling in the market.

Them fellas does change the home page picture or what?

yeah, dey does rotate it, wham like yuh gehhin bazzodie awwah???!!! ah cud fix yuh up yuhnno

[bigzack]

yeah, dey does rotate it, wham like yuh gehhin bazzodie awwah???!!! ah cud fix yuh up yuhnno

rofl...rofl..rofl..rofl....rofl.....

Nah pardner, I good just so.

I just like tuh admire them nice looking Trinidad woman and dem.

[Wayne]

rofl...rofl..rofl..rofl....rofl.....

Nah pardner, I good just so.

I just like tuh admire them nice looking Trinidad woman and dem.



Yuh musbe under "heavy manners" like me.

[dseenixe]

By the way Ken Belasco lives in Geneve Switzerland, not Sweden as someone suggested. He does not play music anymore. He was working for ILO for many years and is now retired. He is taking care of his younger daughter since his ex wife passed away years ago.

[shield_2006]

By the way Ken Belasco lives in Geneve Switzerland, not Sweden as someone suggested. He does not play music anymore. He was working for ILO for many years and is now retired. He is taking care of his younger daughter since his ex wife passed away years ago.

KB we called him in Mt Lambert---anyways here is the pic you asked for6408640964086409

[turquoise_dreamer]

Hi Bigzack! Danny Ming, my father (^_^) is very well!! =) They sometimes play at the Mas Camp Pub at the corner of Ariapita Avenue and French Street in Woodbrook.
Thanks for remembering the band*
Sherry-Ann

[bigzack]

Hi Bigzack! Danny Ming, my father (^_^) is very well!! =) They sometimes play at the Mas Camp Pub at the corner of Ariapita Avenue and French Street in Woodbrook.
Thanks for remembering the band*
Sherry-Ann

Nice to hear that.

When I hear these drum machines and synthesizers, I does long fuh the time when musicians like your father and dem played real music with real feelings.