This is one of two signature songs that have come to define the Maestro, particularly for those who are not deeply familiar with his music. The accident referred to in this song was a car crash in ...
This is one of two signature songs that have come to define the Maestro, particularly for those who are not deeply familiar with his music. The accident referred to in this song was a car crash in Port-of-Spain in 1975, on his way to perform. Like every calypsonian, Maestro took the accident and made a story - a song, out of it. While popular legend has it that this song was a prediction of his untimely death, we can be sure that this was never Maestro's intention.
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Boy Grant, is that you!! One of the baddest six bassmen in South the 1960's. What a bass section Silvertones had in '68. . Jonesy, Pickett, Raymond, Johnny Cool etc. You would know me from Marabella . I was on tenor bass. I did not beat in Free French, and I knew Maestro so it must have been earlier in the Marabella band. PS. picket still beating a nine Bass in Boston.
I really appreciate this. I was too young to know Maestro, but my brothers were major fans and would always tell me about his music. They were devastated when he passed and always said how eerie it was he made this song and passed soon afterwards
Meastro was also a gifted pannist. I remember he brought down a small panside (from princes Town, if memory serves me)to join with us for a panorama in the late sixties.
I believe my band then was Scarlet Symphony of Marabella
Nah, I beat pan with two bands in the sixties, Scarlet Symphony in Marabella and Wasa Silvertones in Sando. If not Scarlet it must have been Silvertones from up the Coffee. (We get old, memory fades a little)
May be a composition about a past accident - but it gives me chills whenever he says don't cry they're bringing me back better than before. His early death made him even more of a legend....
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What a bass section Silvertones had in '68.
. Jonesy, Pickett, Raymond, Johnny Cool etc. You would know me from Marabella . I was on tenor bass.
I did not beat in Free French, and I knew Maestro so it must have been earlier in the Marabella band.
PS. picket still beating a nine Bass in Boston.
I believe my band then was Scarlet Symphony of Marabella
If not Scarlet it must have been Silvertones from up the Coffee. (We get old, memory fades a little)