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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / Re: Pan in A Minor
« on: January 22, 2009, 11:22:22 AM »
This is my fav here.

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Daz a bad ass Panorama piece sah.  I always say is de all time best All Stars Panorama tune BY FAR and one a de bess ever in de history of Panorama!  Dat year dey get encore and all from de crowd and definitely raise duss in de savannah.  I doh think is a coincidence dat tune was arranged by Eddie Quarless.  I always like dis man style....he did a nex one fuh All Stars by Kitch called "De Heavy Roller"....musical too bad yet dey still sound like All Stars.  One of de very few arrangers IMO who can arrange for different bands but still maintain their distinctive musical "signature".

Dat was a stellar year (1993) for pan too.....Renegades did win wit Mystery Band...Phase II dis come second with Birthday Party....and All Stars and Exodus did tie fuh third with Duss in yuh face.  Any of the top 3 bands coulda win dat Panorama...to me the greatest Panorama of all time...the competition was dat stiff.

Good pick dey elan... :beermug:

oh and by the way, this was the best tune all stars play

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBc7zVPwwpI

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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / Re: Pan in A Minor
« on: January 22, 2009, 11:19:58 AM »
as the elders always said, jit is the drillmaster and bradley is the heart and soul.... need i say more 8)

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Football / Re: Latapy poised for Caledonia move
« on: January 22, 2009, 11:13:23 AM »
Latapy poised for Caledonia move.
By: Lasana Liburd (Trinidad Express).


LATAPY FOR AIA
 

Latapy, who left for Argentina yesterday with the "Soca Warriors", and Caledonia coach and co-founder, Jamaal Shabazz, were tight lipped on the prospective signing but the Express was reliably informed that the former Europe-based star has already promised his services to the club.



Controversial how yuh go ups and give Lasana de ace before Shaun   :-\

 :devil:

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Football / Re: Latapy poised for Caledonia move
« on: January 22, 2009, 09:48:39 AM »
Jabloteh vz Cali...what to do boy ???

its easy, think of a midfield with theobald, latas and jemmott :beermug:

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Football / Re: Latas might sweat with a Local Pro League Team
« on: January 22, 2009, 09:34:49 AM »
he would do nice on cale  8)

lol like yuh know something  :devil:

let it be written, let it be done.

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Football / Re: Latapy poised for Caledonia move
« on: January 22, 2009, 09:33:37 AM »
so said, so done, ah hear jemmott is training 8)

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Football / Re: Kenwyne Jones: Is he a Cole or a Drogba?
« on: January 21, 2009, 02:36:40 PM »
touch lol allyuh kidding right, kenwyne aint no bess dribbler as yet, he definately needs to develop his first touch and dribbling, roberts is a better dribbler and has a better touch than kenwyne

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Football / Re: Jamal Gay on trial at 2nd div. Rot-Weiss Oberhausen
« on: January 21, 2009, 02:33:48 PM »
if he does well in germany and eventually moves on to a high ranking bundesliga team, he will be rated as one of our best strikers

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Football / Re: Latas might sweat with a Local Pro League Team
« on: January 18, 2009, 11:35:28 AM »
he would do nice on cale  8)

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Football / Latas might sweat with a Local Pro League Team
« on: January 17, 2009, 04:42:21 PM »
Discuss  8)

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Cricket Anyone / Re: T&T vs Jca
« on: January 15, 2009, 04:56:58 PM »
i wish, take pictures :beermug:

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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / The Secret Hero of Jamaican Music
« on: January 15, 2009, 04:45:42 PM »
Archive (2007-2008)

Issue No. 93 - September/October 2008

THE SECRET HERO OF JAMAICAN MUSIC

by Kim Johnson (Caribbean Beat Magazine)

Nearlin Taitt, a Trinidadian, started in steelband, then invented rocksteady in Jamaica. Kim Johnson turns the spotlight on one of the mysteries of Caribbean music


 
Nearlin Taitt in the 1950s
Photograph courtesy Patrick Raymond
 
Nearlin Taitt enjoys the distinction of being famous for being not famous enough. Having created the sound of modern Jamaican music, Taitt is well known to cognoscenti as the musician who deserves more credit than he’s been given.


He has been the subject of a prize-winning documentary, Lynn Taitt: Rocksteady; and Lloyd Bradley, in his book This Is Reggae Music: The Story of Jamaica Music, points out: “Lynn Taitt is given the most credit as the man who consolidated the various musical advances and solidified the rocksteady style.”


Yet reggae historian and author of The Rough Guide to Reggae Steve Barrow describes him as “one of the great unsung heroes of Jamaican music.” And Wikipedia states: “Taitt’s contribution to Jamaican popular music includes his often-overlooked role as arranger and session leader for many, if not most of the recordings that he appeared on.”


Perhaps this is because Taitt is Trinidadian—born in 1934 in San Fernando—and cut his musical teeth as a panman (he was honoured by Pan Trinbago, the national steelband organisation, last year).



In the late 1940s Nearlin and his brother Cedric Taitt and the other boys of the neighbourhood hung around Bataan, a nearby steelband, until its leader Herman “Teddy” Clarke gave them a few old pans.


But Mrs Taitt threw the pans in the ravine, because in those days steelband was considered a form of delinquency. The boys recovered the pans and took them to the house of their friends Stephen, Angus and Kenrick Lalsingh. Mr Lalsingh threw them in the ravine, so the gang returned them to the Taitt home. And thus the band, now named Seabees after the John Wayne movie The Fighting Seabees, moved back and forth while fighting for acceptance.


At Christmas time the boys put aside their pans to go paranging—performing the traditional Christmas tunes sung in Spanish. Kenrick, Angus and Cedric had harmonicas, while Nearlin played a cuatro.


Small gigs at school fairs gave Seabees enough respectability for Mrs Taitt to tolerate them, although she never approved until Nearlin won the 1956 Music Festival prize for ping-pong solo. By then he was a committed musician.


“My mother couldn’t stop Nearlin, though. She coulda stop me but she woulda have to kill Nearlin,” says Cedric Taitt. “He decided from small that music have to mind [support] him.”


He was also playing guitar with another group of neighbourhood friends, the Dutchy Brothers—five sons of the Surinamese immigrant Leonard “Dutchy” DeVlugt, three of whom played pan in Seabees.


One night another neighbour stole a guitar from a drunk sailor and gave it to Taitt to hide. He immediately began to teach himself to play.

“When they came back for the guitar I was playing it,” Taitt told music writer Jim Dooley, “so they sell it to me.” Taitt played electric guitar with the Dutchy Brothers for two years in the late 1950s, until he formed his own Nearlin Taitt Orchestra.



In 1962 they were hired by some calypsonians for a Caribbean tour culminating in Jamaica. Alas, after the tour the calypsonians absconded back to Trinidad without paying the musicians. The stranded Taitt, whose solid-body electric guitar was new to Jamaica, was snapped up by the astute businessman and bandleader Byron Lee, who had to lend him clothes to perform in. But although he helped Taitt in this difficult period, Lee sought to keep him on a short leash, having him reapply every year for a work permit.


Nonetheless Taitt took to ska like a hog to mud. He swung the music away from acoustic to electric guitar and soon established his own band, The Comets.


Striving for the sound of a tenor pan, Taitt developed a percussive, “bubbling” style of guitar-picking, which is now standard repertoire for Jamaican guitarists. He was much in demand as a session musician, working with all the important producers to provide music for every important musician at the time: Derrick Morgan, Desmond Dekker, Lee Perry, Ken Boothe, Bob Marley, Joe Higgs, Alton Ellis, Phyllis Dillon, Delroy Wilson and the Skatalites.


Over the next five years he would arrange and record over 1,500 songs as session leader. Such phenomenal output was only possible because Taitt possessed a single-minded focus on music that bordered on the obsessive, practically sleeping in the studios and, when he wasn’t playing music, composing it. Asked if during those years he played dominoes, the Jamaican national pastime, he replies: “I don’t play any games, it doesn’t teach me anything in music.”


Once offered leadership of the Skatalites, Taitt refused, because he thought the band should be led by a Jamaican. Yet it was precisely his Trinidadian background which gave him such prominence (in addition to his considerable appetite for work), and in 1966 it put him in leadership of the whole music scene.


It happened one day when Hopeton Lewis came to record in Ken Khouri’s studio, where Taitt and his band the Jets were working. Lewis’s song was Take it Easy, a message perfectly in keeping with the times, when the urban unemployed “rude boys” affected a cool, laid-back menace. But the song wasn’t right at ska’s fast pace.


“I tell Gladdy Anderson, I say: ‘Gladdy, slow down that pace, let’s hear how it would sound,’ says Taitt. “But as you do that, the song get longer and slower, so there is a lot of spaces because it’s not fast any more.”


Take It Easy sold 10,000 copies in a single weekend. This was not simply a slower version of ska but a completely different, new sound, whose influence we hear in today’s reggae. For instance, the electric bass plays clusters of notes, like a dance rather than an even stride. The same notes are played by the electric guitar, which brings them from the background to the fore.


Other songs are also said to have launched rocksteady: Alton Ellis’ Girl I’ve Got a Date and Derek Morgan’s Tougher Than Tough. It doesn’t matter—Taitt arranged and played on them all.


“Everybody loved what Lynn Taitt was doing. It caught on like wildfire,” guitarist Ernest Ranglin told Lloyd Bradley.


The entire music industry fell in line behind Taitt, whose band backed almost every important rocksteady hit, including Desmond Dekker’s first, 007. In countless sessions Taitt would first lay out his slow, cool guitar chords, giving room for the other musicians—organ, saxophone, trumpet and especially the vocalist—to produce the sweetest melodies.


Ernest Ranglin explains, “Lynn Taitt was keen to try new things. Everybody wanted something new—the musicians, the crowds, the producer—but it hadn’t come together as such until he start to organise the sound.”




 
Taitt’s innovativeness was also deeply ingrained in his personality. Focused exclusively on music, he was and still is continually trying something new, attempting to take things higher. As a boy, after he learnt pan he taught himself to read music. After he learnt guitar he taught himself piano.


“Nearlin was always trying to improve,” recalls his brother Cedric. “If he do one thing today, by tomorrow it’s better. Once he tried to retune a music box; he opened it up and was pulling the wires because he didn’t like the key it played in.”


Prince Buster, singer, producer and maestro of ska, says, “He was an excellent player and was never a man who was satisfied with how things were if they stayed the same for too long. Even though he was the person who really bring in rocksteady as we know it today, he was always looking for ways to move it on as soon as it was established.”


Then in 1969 rocksteady was abruptly supplanted by reggae.


There were several reasons, such as the rise of new producers Lee “Scratch” Perry and Bunny Lee, engineer Osborne “King Tubby” Ruddock; the new artistes they had to groom; and the new sound they discovered. Scratch Perry signed a group of rebels, the Wailers. King Tubby moved in another direction by omitting vocal tracks and having a DJ, U-Roy, chant in their space.


But central to the demise of rocksteady was the sudden abdication of its king, the restless Lynn Taitt. At the peak of his fame Taitt was invited to set up a band in Toronto for the West Indian Federated Club. It was meant, like his 1962 trip to Jamaica, to last a fortnight. Instead he stayed a year and then decided he liked the place.


Today, the 74-year-old Taitt lives in Montreal, still writing and arranging and creating new songs. Another documentary is being made on his life and times. He is unwell, but until recently jammed with La Gioventu, a group which plays music that ranges from Motown hits to Jewish traditional music at parties and weddings. In 2002 he performed at the Montreal Jazz Festival, where the sets were mainly ska; but Taitt dazzled audiences on the tenor pan. It was as if he had never left home.


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Football / Re: Like I said, With Corneal Gone, the Team Selection Changes
« on: January 15, 2009, 01:44:32 PM »
i heard a comment by jai john about age, but latas is much older than trent noel and no one is complaining bc of latas skill and leadership and the fact the man could still run ball real good, he still creative, so why not noel, he plays very well, get a few years outta him, he adds experience and has deserved the call up, theobald had a few bad games, but who hasn't on the team, i guess people forget he led the team to the digicel finals last time around and played well otherwise than the maturana intro.
Yuh missing de point  ....is just dat de team already have plenty over 30 players   ...giving another one ah debut eh solving the ageing problem. Is at altitude dem fellas have to play next round you know ...I sure you kyah do some ah de tings you used to when yuh was much younger...
Next ting yuh know de team training in eddie hart with warm up games vs Tringrove and Parliament !

but noel still in the pro league and performing well, i understand what your saying and i hope latas includes guys like guerra and tinto in the squad to replace the older vets eventually

6704
correct, except castro death, the man is sick, amero is the new currency of us, canada and mexico, borders will come down on of after 2010

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Football / Re: Like I said, With Corneal Gone, the Team Selection Changes
« on: January 15, 2009, 12:29:18 PM »
i heard a comment by jai john about age, but latas is much older than trent noel and no one is complaining bc of latas skill and leadership and the fact the man could still run ball real good, he still creative, so why not noel, he plays very well, get a few years outta him, he adds experience and has deserved the call up, theobald had a few bad games, but who hasn't on the team, i guess people forget he led the team to the digicel finals last time around and played well otherwise than the maturana intro.

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Football / Like I said, With Corneal Gone, the Team Selection Changes
« on: January 13, 2009, 08:39:51 PM »
Its nice to see some players who deserve to be on the team, actually being there, trent noel gets his chance finally and theobald back on the team also, this year i look forward for many other deservant players making the team, ala latas, not corneal.

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Football / Re: Maturana meets 'Magician'
« on: January 11, 2009, 11:57:55 AM »
so whos the translator? :o

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Football / Re: SWO - Exclusive Interview with Jabloteh's Terry Fenwick.
« on: January 07, 2009, 09:45:54 AM »
We have an English coach in TT doing such a great job with one of our top clubs,he is probably more aware of Trinidadians culturally than Maturana and can probably speak fluent Trini,Maturana as far as I understand cannot even speak English.Tel has 8 years of Trinidad life and I find it strange that he has never been mentioned as an alternative to other coaches who have come and gone.I FEEL THAT HE WOULD HAVE DONE A BETTER JOB THAN MATURANA, HAD HE BEEN GIVEN THE JOB,OF COURSE ITS TO LATE NOW BUT IF WE FAIL TO GET TO S.A THEN T.FENWICK SHOULD TAKE OVER TT,THE TTFA MUST LET BYGONES BE BYGONES AND THINK OF THE BIGGER PICTURE OF 2014.
Hang on in there Tel,your time will come...soon.

no disrespect sah but whats your basis of saying fenwick is a better coach when he hasnt had any international exposure,meaning he hasnt coached a country successfully, maturana has and has doen well against spanish countries, which is who we are playing other than the US in the hex, fenwick has coached locally and has done horribly in england, what makes you think we want a long ball set up, i like the current, put the ball on the ground, short passing brand of football we playing

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Football / Re: 20-man squad for warm up tour before El Savador.
« on: January 07, 2009, 08:44:16 AM »
latapy help pick the team now that corneal is out of the picture, why allyuh think noel and theobald get a recall, and big mag its controversial and im still waiting for your answer and it better not be fenwick

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Football / Re: SWO - Exclusive Interview with Jabloteh's Terry Fenwick.
« on: January 07, 2009, 08:41:08 AM »
So is Corneal dat bench him because Stern did huff d captin armband.

k for argument sake, retell what happened and ill break it down for you, sentence by sentence, it will help you understand the role of corneal in team selection.

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Football / Re: Densill gets his New Year's wish
« on: January 07, 2009, 08:33:17 AM »
one sentence describes the recall, latapy becomes asst coach and corneal is fired, thats the reason for the selection change and theobald being recalled

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Football / Re: Hyland will join Premiership
« on: January 07, 2009, 08:31:14 AM »
i dont see anything great about hyland, keon and guerra are better players, much mre creative and can pass much better, everyone hyping up this youth and hes not that spectacular at all

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Football / Re: SWO - Exclusive Interview with Jabloteh's Terry Fenwick.
« on: January 07, 2009, 08:29:29 AM »
great interview flex :beermug: however succesful fenwick may be he still doesnt have the credentials and experience of maturana, if fenwick was such a good coach why snt he coaching in england? maybe because hes not good enough. I do agree with him on the selections but if your benching guerra who is your best attacking mid, better than hyland and complaining about why he isnt playing on the national team, that is being hypocritical.

oh and if anyone hasnt noticed, noel is back on the squad, notice the changes in player selection as soon as latapy is appointed asst coach and corneal is fired, not to mention theobald being recalled. so all who blamed maturana, was i really maturana or just corneal 8)

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Football / Re: 20-man squad for warm up tour before El Savador.
« on: January 06, 2009, 01:31:55 PM »
big mag ah still waiting for this mystery coach that is taking over sah

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General Discussion / Re: The night I lost faith
« on: January 05, 2009, 09:28:30 AM »
anything could happen in trinidad, if police telling a man calling them for help to come pick them up, why the hell is this story so unbelievable? its either allyuh naive or you dont have the sense to understand what really going on in the nation.

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Football / Re: So Big Mag, whos the new Head Coach?
« on: December 31, 2008, 12:40:22 AM »
look...i really should not have mentioned anything...sorry
is just that i heard something  and of course i should just wait to see if its true or not...


talk yuh talk sah, jus think of it as woodford square online, doh worry nobody pelting yuh for speculating

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Football / So Big Mag, whos the new Head Coach?
« on: December 30, 2008, 10:15:13 AM »
So since Big Mag is really Merlin and the ole talk and speculation has begun, lets see who guesses right as to the new head coach, warner has said we have had wim,pacho and beenhakker, whos next? Now that we have a new asst, who will have a different team selection than our previous asst who didnt know what he was doing that is a sigh of relief.

Big Mag you could save us alot of typing and just give we the name and let we discuss it.

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Football / Re: Latapy officially on board Senior Team staff.
« on: December 30, 2008, 10:07:19 AM »
Enlightening ... considering that Beenhakker is older than Pacho.

Age is just a number. D Don kept abreast wit d happenings Pancho eh bring nutten new 2 d game from what I C

:)

i think pacho will do alot better now that corneal is out of the picture. dont forget i was lil boy corneal selecting the team

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Football / Re: Latapy officially on board Senior Team staff.
« on: December 29, 2008, 06:07:12 PM »
yes G... ah hear ah name...

Well tell we nah Boi... :P

im a man who doh like ole talk, if a man come out and say he hear a new coach coming, say the name and done, this teasing garbage is for women not big men oui 8)
Yuh talking big dey Gino!

yuh know when yuh play dead yuh does catch corbeaux, ah seeing plenty circling the board of secrecy, oh wait nah, ent this is the board of edumication and misinformation

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Football / Re: Latapy officially on board Senior Team staff.
« on: December 29, 2008, 05:43:53 PM »
yes G... ah hear ah name...

Well tell we nah Boi... :P

im a man who doh like ole talk, if a man come out and say he hear a new coach coming, say the name and done, this teasing garbage is for women not big men oui 8)

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