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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / Re: Most Patriotric Soca/Calypso/Chutney of all times

« on: July 25, 2013, 04:44:44 PM »

Andre Tanker.......Forward Home http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8UqAJtiOnI
Roger George & Carl Jacobs......Sugar Island http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSGUSPhnI8M
Bro marvin...Jahaji Bhai....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4FlLb3IlgI

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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / Re: Back In Times

« on: July 11, 2013, 10:29:23 PM »

The Groovy Millers - Come Go With Me (1975; written by Shorty & Groovy Millers)
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/xnhDcoanQ8g" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/xnhDcoanQ8g</a>

It is amazing the similarity of this to Dr Soca by Merchant...

Merchant - Dr. Soca (1979 Soca Classic )
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Yeah good observation!

But note The Groovy Millers track which Shorty co-wrote and produced was recorded about 4 years before Merchant recorded "Dr Soca" so we can clearly see who Merchant was listening to and taking inspiration from in that song.

Shorty did not only introduce soca but also laid a solid foundation on which other artists can follow and build on that would eventually take the music mainstream where he originally intended it to go to compete on an equal footing with other mainstream musical genres out there like reggae, R&B, etc.

It was never Shorty's intention for soca music to be seasonalised to just a few months in the year for Carnival and for soca artists to sing mainly on Carnival bacchanal topics as is currently the practice that is holding back the full potential of soca music.

These young soca artists need to go back and listen to the soca music and lyrics of the original soca pioneers like Shorty, Maestro, Merchant, etc.

What is also amazing is that Merchant pulled a lot of inspiration from Shorty and that Superblue pulled a lot from Merchant...something that can still be seen in his compositions. David Rudder also had a strong apprenticeship as a backup on many of the great recordings by Superblue and others.

The other day I went to see the play 'Fela!" and what always struck me with Shorty's and how he developed his music is how ingenious it was and how it parallelled in many ways what Fela Kuti did with his thing.

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Trinbago, NBA & World Basketball / Re: "Brooklyn" Nets

« on: June 28, 2013, 04:29:28 PM »

I also see that Victor Cruz and Robinson cano fired their agents for Jay-Z (maybe he has a company) to represent them. I really hope those guys know what they're doing because that too seem to me like a publicity stunt. Let's see if his boy LeBron does the same....I highly doubt it though

Lebron too smart for that........men have to watch dey contents though.....Man still laughing to this day about Ricky Williams rookie contract negotiated by Master P and co.

http://www.howstuffworks.com/10-bad-sports-contracts.htm

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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / Re: Ravi B’s Prescription under fire in Guyana

« on: June 28, 2013, 01:24:29 PM »

What you folks think about this?
Are the Guyanese correct or are they picking on foreign artists because theirs aren't any good? 

Ravi B’s Prescription under fire in Guyana
Published: Thursday, June 27, 2013
Bobbie-Lee Dixon (T&T Guardian)

A Guyanese women’s group is sounding the alarm over the lyrics of songs by local chutney soca artiste Ravi “Ravi B” Bissambhar and Antiguan band Burning Flames.

Ravi B’s Prescription and Burning Flames’ Kick in She Back Door are beng described as illicit and seeking to promote gender-based violence.

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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/4QBY8XLpyOI" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/4QBY8XLpyOI</a>

The Women and Gender Equality Commission of Guyana (WGEC) is calling for an immediate ban on the two songs receiving heavy rotation on the airwaves.

According to guyanatimesgy.com, the commission’s head, Nicole Cole, told Guyanese media on Tuesday that the commission was totally against these songs being promoted and played in public places.

Cole, who is also a member of the Media Monitoring Committee of Guyana, said Prescription promotes substance abuse.

She was quoted as saying: “Really and truly, no doctor would give such a prescription—three bottles of rum a day!”

She said the song also promoted gender-based violence, which is linked to substance abuse and led to the murder or the deaths of many innocent women.

The lyrical content of the other song, which won the Antiguan Road March in 2012 but was subsequently banned there, is said to be inciting acts of violence and promoting rape and sodomy of women.

Cole said Burning Flames is scheduled to perform at the Jam Zone Regional Nite (a summer festival in Guyana) on August 16. She said unfortunately, women are gyrating to the lyrics without recognising the deeper meaning behind the song.

The commission remains adamant that both songs are distasteful and disrespectful and in violation of women’s rights.

Cole said: “Just imagine a man drinking three bottles of rum each day. What will happen on our roadways and to our women in society?”

Last October, American R&B star Chris Brown was criticised by the same body, after he was billed to perform in the capital, Georgetown.

Protesting women’s groups voiced their opinions on blogs, saying allowing Brown to perform in the country sent the wrong message, given his criminal record of domestic violence. Brown was convicted in 2009 of felony assault after beating his girlfriend, the Bajan singer Rihanna.

Entertainer apologises
 
In a short text message to the T&T Guardian yesterday, Bissambhar apologised to his Guyanese fans.

He said: “I am very sorry if anyone finds my song offensive. It was done purely as an item of entertainment and I have performed it several times in Guyana. I love all my Guyanese fans and again I am sorry if anyone feels offended.”

Also contacted yesterday, Tuco president Lutalo “Brother Resistance” Masimba said although you cannot tell an artiste what to write or sing, it was the personal responsibility of all artistes to be mindful of the messages conveyed in their songs.

“As an artiste you have a responsibility because you are dealing with words and you are putting music out there for people to move to. They also have to remember that this music can be heard by children,” said Masimba.

He said it was also the responsibility of radio stations and the media to ensure songs with improper or offensive lyrical content were censored.

The T&T Guardian also tried to reach Minister of Arts and Multiculturalism Dr Lincoln Douglas, for comment, but calls to his phone went unanswered.

  I hear the call for maintain respect for women and I agree fully.....But Ravi said nothing about women in his song.

Looks like somebody front door seize up and lock up tight 

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General Discussion / Re: When pigs are given badges. (Mother and two daughters claim abuse at Piarco)

« on: June 24, 2013, 04:38:13 PM »

Just cool yuh go kill yuhself with stress one ah deez days breds.

Like iz de sweet tooth.......or all dem years in de cold get him sorf......lol

But Just cool.....yuh really cuss up de small man over some tambran ball and sugar cake?....

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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / Re: Soca Debate: Nothing NEW has been done in SOCA music since the 90's!

« on: June 18, 2013, 04:30:52 PM »

It good for Carnival. But if you want to market soca internationally it wont work. Groovy Soca more inline with what could pass.

Foreigners like melody. Not that hardcore jump and wave.

I disagree somewhat. What about "Who let the dogs out" and "I like to move it" by stuntman. You have a point with melody, but then why nothing happen in the 80s which was possibly the most melodious time?

It's possible that outside of the "carnival experience," a lot has to do with people being able to understand the words of the songs we make, and if they cyah understand at least they should be able to dance and sing along. "Who let the dogs out" and "turn me on" have two good hook lines that people could really sing. Dey eh know shit about the rest of the song!

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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / Re: Soca Debate: Nothing NEW has been done in SOCA music since the 90's!

« on: June 16, 2013, 07:37:50 PM »

It good for Carnival. But if you want to market soca internationally it wont work. Groovy Soca more inline with what could pass.

Foreigners like melody. Not that hardcore jump and wave.

Everything that has happened in soca music since the 2000's has just been a series of rebranding and marketing exercises besides for the speeding up and total computerisation of the music (with the removal of live musicians playing real brass, steelpan and other instruments from the recording studio sessions to save on recording costs). 

This has been my observation about soca music since the 2000’s; everything that could have been done with the music fusion wise, beat wise, etc has been done between the 70's and the 90's which is the point at which soca music was already 20 to 25 years old.

So since Soca started in the mid 70’s we saw great musicians like:-

Shorty (the Father of Soca) - fusing the music with East Indian rhythms (later to be rebranded as Chutney-Soca), funk and soul in the early 70’s (1971 to 1974);

Ed Watson - fusing the then young soca music with cadence, rumba, mambo, meringue & high-life late 70’s to early 80’s.

Shadow – doing his own thing with his heavy haunting calypso basslines from 1974 onwards.

Wellington – doing his own thing with his funky calypso basslines from 1974 onwards.

Maestro & Pelham Goddard - speeding up soca music and fusing it with blues and soul and tackling some urgent issues before he tragically died in August 1977.

Kalyan - fusing the then young soca music with American funk, disco and soul and successfully crossing over to the international North American market in the late 70’s.

Lord Laro, Andre Tanker  and others fusing reggae with calypso and soca from the late 70’s onwards.

Shorty - fusing gospel and reggae influences with soca to develop Jamoo soca in late 70’s onwards.

Rapso also becomes properly established in Trinidad in the late 70’s courtesy of Bro. Resistance and his Network Riddim Band Rapso Movement who were mainly inspired by Afro-centric artist Lancelot Layne and the Black Power Movement of the early 70’s.

Crazy did the first Parang Soca fusion song in December 1978 that started the annual Christmas parang soca craze of fusing traditional Trini parang music with soca.

The first Jab-Jab soca was recorded by late calypsonian Penguin in late 1979 and was a major hit and Road March contender for T&T carnival in early 1980.
 
Penguin was beaten to the 1980 Road March title by Blue Boy with one of the first Soca and Baptist chanting musical fusions aptly entitled "Soca Baptist".

In 1980 we also saw Lord Nelson do a fresh new trend setting fusion of soca with disco music in his big hit called "Disco Daddy" with Clive Bradley as arranger.

In the 80’s we saw Soca spreading from T&T to most of the other Caribbean islands and worldwide starting with the international hit “Sugar Bum Bum” in 1978 followed by “Lorraine” from Explainer in 1982 and then “Hot Hot Hot” and “Long Time” by Arrow in 1983 and 1984 respectively.

Chutney soca also got coined by Drupatee (1987) and became a very popular sub genre of soca during the 80’s in Trinidad, Guyana and Suriname (all Caribbean countries with large East Indian populations).

Also in the 80’s with the popular rise of zouk, we saw artists like Prince Unique from T&T and others from St Lucia, Dominica, Antigua and other islands regularly fusing zouk with soca.

Soca started to be very strongly influenced by the popularity of Jamaican dancehall in late 80’s early 90’s leading to the birth of Ragga Soca, a term coined by producer & arranger Kenny Philips during the 1993 T&T Carnival season.

Computerisation of soca beats also started happening during the 80's amongst certain producers & arrangers like Leston Paul and Frankie McIntosh but it was Burning Flames and Seventeen Plus from the Northern Caribbean Small Islands who were two of the first soca bands and producers to computerise all their instruments in their soca music minus the singer's voice.
 
Computerisation of soca beats and the hectic speeding up of soca music led to jump & wave, ringbang, Bouyon soca, Jab-Jab soca and other uptempo styles being firmly established as soca sub-genres by the 90’s.

Pop, rock, r&b and other international music styles were also regularly added to soca music during the 80's and 90’s by artists like Burning Flames, Machel Montano & Xtatik and others eventually leading to what we are currently branding today as Island Pop, Island Fusion and other pop soca styles.

Late 90's (1999 to be exact) the first soca riddim album is launched by Chinese Laundry "Pigtail Riddim" that has since led to the current Soca Riddims craze that has been dominating soca music in recent years leading to much less creativity in soca music than was the case before the 2000's.
So there is a very strong argument that the popularity and reliance on Soca Riddims today has damaged the previous creativity within the soca music genre that we regularly saw between the 70's and the 90's.

So basically since the 90’s nothing new has really happen in soca music other than various rebranding and marketing exercises with labels like Groovy Soca, Power Soca, Bashment Soca, Island Pop, etc which are all just labels given to the music for stuff that was happening many many years before in the music before we came up with the labels.

So there you have it. I officially submit the very strong argument that everything else that has happened in soca music since the 2000’s is nothing new and all we have been doing since then is carrying out clever rebranding and marketing exercises with all the recent soca labelling and re-labelling.

I challenge anyone who believes otherwise and is not on BS to prove me wrong regards my observation.
If you are a proper soca music fan from the 70's till now or do proper research then I believe you will have little choice but to agree with my observation.

Who agrees or disagrees with me, please speak up now in this thread or forever hold your piece!

Interesting take, but I also think that Soca and calypso continue to change and have always struggled for their own identity, since we as Trinidadians still do not wholly embrace it as ours. We seem to be still looking for affirmation and acceptance from outsiders towards our own music. I find it ironic that the song that seems to have the most "international appeal" (Differentology) is just good music.....done without having to run left, right or helterskelter for a foreign collaboration to give it "international appeal."

One factoid I always found interesting is that Clive Bradley arranged Disco Daddy by Nelson. For me it is still one of the best musical intros to a soca song.

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General Discussion / Re: Chad "Ochocinco" Johnson Arrested

« on: June 13, 2013, 05:12:49 PM »

Allyuh talking this way because allyuh don't know any better... then does want to turn around and bawl oppression when all kinda unreasonable sentence get handed down.

I am confused.......Please explain.....

All this talk about he in court for domestic violence and in front of female judge and doh offend de queen... de impression is that the courtroom is the judge personal fiefdom and that you can't do anything that they might take offense with.  The reality is that the judge can't arbitrarily decide what and what isn't offensive.  The judge is in charge and should not be disrespected, nor should the function of the court be trifled with or disrupted... but nothing of the sort happened here.  If allyuh was to spend more time in court to see what really goes on allyuh would realize what an overreaction this is.  If allyuh was to be a bit more familiar with the law, and what is, from what isn't allowed, then allyuh would realize how inappropriate it is for her to jail him.  The biggest problem people have is not knowing their rights as citizens.

But Bakes....you talking because you are obviously in the know, but contradicting yourself. You saying that it is wrong to think that it is a quasi-fiefdom, that the judge can't decide what is offensive, yet she yank the deal off the table because she felt her court was disrespected. Am I then to believe that as a lawyer, it's not necessary to pay attention to what certain judges preferences are (as far as what happens in the courtroom while trying to win cases or favourable rulings)?

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General Discussion / Re: Chad "Ochocinco" Johnson Arrested

« on: June 12, 2013, 08:24:16 PM »

Allyuh talking this way because allyuh don't know any better... then does want to turn around and bawl oppression when all kinda unreasonable sentence get handed down.

I am confused.......Please explain.....

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General Discussion / Re: Chad "Ochocinco" Johnson Arrested

« on: June 12, 2013, 04:16:42 AM »

Judge was not playing. It's never a good thing when your faith is in someone else's hand especially going against a woman judge in a domestic dispute charge.

http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-videos/0ap2000000210509/Chad-Johnson-courtroom-butt-slap

Correct is right. He's a damn fool. Yuh black, yuh always in the news, and u in court for domestic violence in front a female judge.

She must make an example of you to show that she is not one to play with. All he had to do was stay cool and say "yes your honor, i understand your honor and thank you your honor."

It's called a court for a reason and you should not offend the king (queen).

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General Discussion / Re: Report: Iran sets up intelligence in T&T

« on: June 01, 2013, 10:17:52 AM »

I'm generally suspect of Iran but this sounds like pure bullocks.

Not really, considering that Abu Bakr as I recall, did get help from Libya for training and sourcing weapons prior to the coup. It's just a global village and the CIA has been doing it for years in the Caribbean and Latin America anyway (see Jamaica).

There is also a train of thought that the hubris about stopping Iran from being nuclear capable is more about maintaining Israel's sphere of influence and power in the region than the expressed fear of Iran not being responsible enough to have such weapons.

Question.....unless he really have a personal agenda.......who paying Nisman for the past 20 years?

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Football / Re: Leo Beenhakker made history and didn't asked for an extra penny.

« on: May 31, 2013, 09:12:15 AM »

Leo Beenhakker made history when he took T&T to their first ever world cup and he ain't asked for an extra cent.

Yet we have hungry players who only wants money.

They put money first and then country.

Lets see if they will form a players union now, something they have been planning 10 years now. They can't do NOTHING right !!!!! they can't even come together and do nothing, they only for themselves, the same way they describe Jack, is the same way they are.

Shaka Hislop mouth disappear now, Sancho could buy a next Japs franchise, Kelvin could finally get a new apartment, Stern John could pay off the kid that wants to buss his ass in T&T, Wolfe could campaign for PNM full time now, Atiba and Whitley could stop working PH, the list goes one.

They want millions for an own goal in the world cup. In Colombia Sancho would have been shot.

Hungry black people, like crabs in barrels.

Jack spend millions on Marvin Lee, nobody else you heard a peep from.

Thank God its Concacaf money they got, because Jack not giving them a red cent.

By the way, Tim Kee have a lot of secrets and now he have a scapegoat, Sheldon Phillips, the man have a lot of education and no common sense.

The new dictators, Corneal, Shabazz and Tim Kee. Wait, becareful what you guys wish for.

Notice, they still sticking to the old TTFF Constitution despite changing their name to TTFA.

At least Jack gave back a little.

You can't even get Tim Kee to do a proper and honest interview for you guys here.

When you guys realise that football is now a business then you will understand where Jack was coming from.

Nobody cares about country anymore.

Yuh really want 'Tiba and Otis to stop pulling bull?........what madness I really hearing?...lol

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Football / Re: intercol reunion from yesteryear.

« on: May 28, 2013, 06:31:16 PM »

forget the walking stick crowd. whos the sweetness top left corner.

Daiz Sharka...de baddest keeper in the league. She went Sando Tech in 84...........

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General Discussion / Re: 'International Clitoris Awareness Week' Takes Place May 6-12 (NSFW)

« on: May 06, 2013, 09:01:18 PM »

'International Clitoris Awareness Week' Takes Place May 6-12 (NSFW)


Posted: 05/02/2013 4:28 pm EDT  |  Updated: 05/02/2013 10:01 pm EDT




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 The firstever "International Clitoris Awareness Week" takes place May 6-12.


Mention the word "clitoris" and some people get touchy -- and not in a good way.

But that could change quickly because May 6—12 as the first ever "International Clitoris Awareness Week," a seven-day period designed to celebrate the female body part.

The organization behind the week is "Clitoraid," a Las Vegas-based group usually devoted to helping victims of female genital mutilation around the world.

However, Clitoraid spokeswoman Nadine Gary said the message behind "Clitoris Awareness Week" is more whimsical.

"We've noticed that the clitoris has not gotten its spot in the limelight. It makes people feel uncomfortable," she told The Huffington Post. "For this week, we don't want to focus on genital mutilation."

Gary said the clitoris has gotten the shaft since the 19th century when orgasms achieved by touching it were considered "immature" compared to vaginal orgasms.

"The clitoris doesn't have a reproductive function so it can be minimized," she said. "It's up to eight inches long -- same as a penis -- but it's inside."

Gary has experience doing offbeat awareness campaigns like Go Topless Day, which protests laws that prevent a woman from going topless and "Swastika Rehabilitation Day," which was designed to remove the Nazi stigma from the ancient symbol.

"We found that whenever something has an 'awareness day,' it makes it more comfortable to talk about," she said.

Future International Clitoris Awareness Weeks will be held the first full week of May, which just happens to be National Masturbation Month.

Masturbation is something that Gary hopes to touch on during Clitoris Week.

"There is a taboo around sexuality," she said. "We want to point it out and talk about it. Maybe some women will go to masturbation seminars."

To that end, Gary hopes to inspire other women to talk about their sexuality to others, much like actress Rosario Dawson did recently when she admitted in an interview that she calls her vagina "the General."

"We want to prompt women to speak out and celebrate their sexuality," Gary said.

She is hoping to arouse interest in "Clitoris Week" by having fellow Clitoraid members dress in giant vagina costumes and hand out fliers on the Las Vegas Strip.

Meanwhile, LA-based pornographer Mike Kulich is lending a hand to the clitoris cause by filming a DVD featuring various porn actresses engaged in self love tentatively titled "I Love My Clitoris" with all proceeds going to Clitoraid.

Regardless of how the inaugural "Clitoris Week" goes, Gary already is thinking about next year.

"Most American holidays have a drink associated with them," she laughed. "Maybe someone can come up with one."

True talk dat......where do supporters sign up?

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General Discussion / Re: Lawrence Duprey

« on: May 05, 2013, 07:22:42 AM »

So Duprey, Sakal, Monteil & Co take money and like deyself................it wrong, it bad, shameful, sad, greedy, call it whatever is d best/worst adjective yuh could find.

Dey all operated within the parameters they were allowed. If d Central Bank guided by d big goat Ewart Williams and d Supervisor of Insurance refuse to check Clico, CLF and whoever else, den Duprey and he team shoulda take ALL d damn money!

If I wukkin in a company dat allowin me to approve payments to myself without secondary questionin...i takin more dan 30m. I takin all. It could have commission of inquiry from here to Timbuktu....we all know nutttin comin out of it. D only 'crime' dese ppl could be charged wit is greed and wickedness.....and d kinda money den gone wit makin it easy to live wit dem tags.

CL aint collapse overnight....when folks was reading how Duplrey makin all kinda fancy deal dey wasnt concerned with how he acquirin d funds to do it...nah...dey greedy too....so dey invest more and more in CL hopin to get piece of d pie. Dey wanna put in 1m to get back 1.5 and so on. Investors was greedy too....jus dat Duprey was smarter dan all ah dem

Dais y ah like Jack Warner and dem.....in trinidad d name of d game is greediest win. And jack and Duprey and dem is d greediest bitches in d world...dat is no exaggeration. So congrats to dem and all d greedy investors hull allyuh tail....allyuh loss d game.....yuh cyah be a greedy fish and wanna jump in a pond wit greedier shark

Herein lies the dilemma.....no one really wants to accept the plain truth for what it is. As 3Canal say.."If iz licks yuh like....den take licks!"  Nobody was complaining when they were sitting on a presumably nice (but false) portfolio and now complaining when the mark buss.....it's the same as in Madoff, but the only difference is in the USA there are laws, oversight and enforcement...especially when it comes to messing with other people's money. When mark buss THEY GOING AFTER THE MONEY!...plain and simple

In Trinidad a setta men pose up in dey suit and we asking ah setta questions, but nobody really going after the money. We talking vision 2020 but basic things like law enforcement, taxation and revenue collection lacking. That is why Duprey and company could do what dey like.

I hear people talking about govenment should protect the population and ensure things in place (which is somewhat true).......but was that not one of the reasons that Unit Trust Corp was set up in the first place? People get ketch in  their greed!

Duprey and dem know their people well..... (all talk, no action and easy prey to the next flashiest thing) so doh blame dem.....and if unreally want your money start protesting or using yuh voting finger

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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / Re: Plans by T&T government to mandate all radio stations play 50% local music?

« on: March 28, 2013, 08:04:40 AM »

A step in the right direction. I am interested to know how they would define "local." Does it mean locally produced or Locally recorded, or does it mean a 'local artiste' singing or collaborating?

Also, what are the penalties for breaking such legislation and who is going to enforce it?

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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / Re: Back In Times

« on: March 15, 2013, 08:00:27 AM »

The Groovy Millers - Come Go With Me (1975; written by Shorty & Groovy Millers)
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/xnhDcoanQ8g" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/xnhDcoanQ8g</a>

It is amazing the similarity of this to Dr Soca by Merchant...

Merchant - Dr. Soca (1979 Soca Classic )
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/_3MQv4VUC_I" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/_3MQv4VUC_I</a>

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Quizz Time & Facts / Re: TT white Keeper

« on: March 08, 2013, 03:11:37 AM »

Gregory Davis

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General Discussion / Re: "no African-American nurse"

« on: February 17, 2013, 09:51:31 AM »

http://now.msn.com/tonya-battle-sues-hospital-after-babys-father-didnt-want-african-american-nurse/

Hospital sued for bending to swastika-tatted dad's no-blacks demand
6 hrs ago

Tonya Battle was "shocked, offended and in disbelief" when her supervisors at Hurley Medical Center informed her she couldn't care for a baby in the neonatal ICU because she is African-American.

And now she has slapped a racial discrimination lawsuit on the Flint, Mich., hospital after it acquiesced to a father who flashed his swastika tattoo to get across his demand for white-only personnel.

A supervisor also posted a "no African-American nurse" note on the baby's chart, an act even the hospital's lawyer advised later was improper, though the order stood. Battle, who has worked at the hospital for 25 years, is seeking unspecified damages

It would be interesting to see how this case pans out. As a black man, the emotional, knee jerk response would be  "WDMC this racist man mad?......fack that!", but I wonder how/if the lady can sue for racial discrimination. I've seen instances where females request a female healthcare provider because of religious preference or just not being comfortable with a male....and that is ok.  If those are the man's beliefs and he makes a specific request, it is very difficult to force him to accept otherwise because he has to give consent to any procedure.

If it were a restaurant you can easily say "I am sorry sir, but take your business elsewhere"...but a baby being delivered is a little different scenario. The hospital should have handled it better though.....by saying "we cannot accommodate your request due to staffing needs, but you are free to see if other places nearby can accommodate you."
 
interesting.....

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Quizz Time & Facts / Re: The last two white wicketkeepers for the WI

« on: February 14, 2013, 08:10:05 AM »

Allan Rae and Sam Guillen

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General Discussion / Re: Security Guard shoots of penis - TT Guardian

« on: January 22, 2013, 10:19:08 PM »

Wasn't somebody recently inquiring about the man with the Golden Gun?

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General Discussion / Re: Piers Morgan debates man who wants him deported.

« on: January 13, 2013, 03:24:40 PM »

My issue is that anytime there is an attempt at reasonable discussion to have some sort of legal framework to minimize such mass casualties, there is an immediate 2nd amendment uproar that quells all discussion.

It would be interesting to ask many of those same people to quote the second amendment and explain what it means to them.

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Quizz Time & Facts / Re: Ex. TT player that earned his Doctorate

« on: December 31, 2012, 11:33:02 AM »

Vb yuh getting ketch regular these days man............wha going on?

And Tallman eh even fire up he laptop yet.....

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Quizz Time & Facts / Re: What Tobagonian has

« on: December 13, 2012, 06:28:03 PM »

I thought Manswell was from Toco...

I saw once he played for a Tobago XI.

Now that I'm trying to find it, I cah see it.

VB

He was 12th man or what?.....

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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / Re: Bunji and Nigel different, but the same

« on: December 13, 2012, 03:02:35 AM »

Garlin is of the strong view that Trinidadians and Tobagonians need to change their appreciation of soca and calypso. He said: “Our music should never be seasonal. We have confined ourselves to this practice and,  it’s been so long, we’ve gotten into this bad habit and can’t break it. We are the only people on the planet who treats its music this way.”
 

 

The earlier everybody realise this the better. But if yuh putting out music for a season..only talkin bout jam and wine and all dat..den wha yuh expect? Kaiso started off as story telling..and lost that.


But de tune really unique.

  Yep.

all that talk from bunji and he still getting on like a pseudo jamaican living in trini, and where is the strong melody and hooks? its weak in terms of melody and harmony... everything is a riddim, time for that to end, go back to live music and constructing strong melodies and harmonies

I see your point, especially with the riddim specialists but also I take a different view. I am not a musician, but I believe that artists like Bunji (and many of the young producers) will reflect their early musical influences (which in Trinidad- thanks to Chinese laundry and company) were all Jamaican. It is no different with Sparrow and those guys because they used listen to Frank Sinatra and Rudy Valee and stuff, and their music reflected that. That could be why there was so much emphasis on the ability to "croon." The difference is, the tents provided a place where they could apprentice and learn their craft from older heads...including playing live instruments.

Bunji has his style and is experimenting with things in his own way....his music has changed with time because he has embraced the history of soca/calypso....it just wont be like what was the norm before. Think of it..songs like "Bomb song" and "Licks" is the same social commentary we expect from calypso

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Quizz Time & Facts / Re: What Tobagonian has

« on: December 08, 2012, 06:15:18 PM »

I thought Manswell was from Toco...

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Quizz Time & Facts / Re: What Tobagonian has

« on: December 08, 2012, 12:36:59 PM »

Lincoln Roberts.

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Other Sports / Re: Lance Armstrong

« on: October 19, 2012, 02:47:01 AM »

Really disappointed in Lance, heard that he was one of the only athletes that could compete with Becks in the beep test. I was skeptical that a man with one testicle was so fit and so athletic.

Really disappointed in Lance, heard that he was one of the only athletes that could compete with Becks in the beep test. I was skeptical that a man with one testicle was so fit and so athletic.

U forget Dwight York?

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General Discussion / Re: The Richest Man in History

« on: October 17, 2012, 05:36:16 PM »

waayzz Ghaddafi reach real high on da list

Ent ! 

... and could have been higher but for the nature of his rule.

waayzz Ghaddafi reach real high on da list

Ent ! 

You sho

... and could have been higher but for the nature of his rule.

You should read up on Ghadaffi. He did a lot of atrocities and crazy things like sponsoring terrorism, but I think some of the things he did like talking about African unity and forcing oil companies to increase profit sharing with Libya would also make him a marked man in the western world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghaddafi

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Other Sports / Re: Lance Armstrong

« on: October 17, 2012, 05:26:05 PM »

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01ngqxd


About 2 hours long but a real interesting listen.

Look up the Festina affair, Christophe Basson and Filippo Simeone.