Showing posts with label steelpan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label steelpan. Show all posts

20071030

Facebook Msg - de friggin worse yes

I got the following message from a Facebook friend and it really makes me wonder about the information available...

I thought we in the INFORMATION AGE or has it passed?

"I is ah man watching some new game show called "Merv Griffin crosswords" and yuh could imagine my absolute fucking shock and dismay when dis bacKside is tuh read ah question. A Jamaican percussion instrument.. AND IS TUH HAVE DE NERVE TUH SAY DE ANSWER IS STEElDRUM YES!!!!!!! Eh, I is man tuh let tings slide at times but oh god man when dis shit go stop??? Email dese assholes at info@programpartners.com and demand some sort of public retraction. We small as ah island but by no means invisible.. Shit man."

20070715

Steelpan Revolution

The Prime Minister officially unveiled new steelpan(s) last night. Work that he mandated a couple of years ago to standardize and PATENT the National Instrument.

In a 2 hour presentation the PM gave us a history of the steelpan with help from Errol Fabien and Damion Melville. The man in charge of the project Professor Copeland also divulged some of the technical info related to the research and he was guaranteed to receive the nation's highest award (whatevr they decide to name it)... i tort it was decided by a committee... DICTATORSHIP

The new steelpan is abit larger than existing ones but the Tenors now hold a full 3 octaves. There are also improvements on the Basses and others in the ensemble.

more to come as i review the night later this week to give a comprehensive report.

It was also a first use by the PM of a Water Projection system... what a waste of money