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...documentary by UG premieres tomorrow on YouTube

post ah link

In reply to TriniStar

Will post in morning

In reply to doosra

My boy right there! Not a blade o' grass a rass! Tek dat Maduro.

--Æ.

In reply to JayMor

Shirts were printed.
“Essequibo is Ours
Not a blade of grass.”

Supposed to be free during mashramani

Guyanese man purchased all of the shirts Cheaply and sold them in Venezuela for a better price

In reply to Dan_De_Lyan

I would wear one! You mean Venezuelans bought it? At this time they'll prolly wear anything they can get their hands on. LOL.

--Æ.

"Blow wind, blow. Blow wind, blow. Bring back to me the ole time calypso!"

In reply to Dan_De_Lyan

A PPP Guyanese or a PNC Guyanese?

Jeremy will be reporting back soon to cc.com, no doubt!

In reply to Norm

PNC, that was LFS Burnham time. Only man with pnc "lines" get access.
PPP smuggle banned goods from suriname.

PNC get Co-op Shop price for flour and mosquito coil.

In reply to Norm

In reply to doosra

Damn!

come leh we go down memory lane

In reply to Chrissy

We had good days with him at UG last 2 years...

In reply to doosra

why most of those photos in the music montage are from Bim

In reply to sudden

i will have to ask him next time i see him

In reply to doosra

as a matter of interest, did he live in Bim or performed there?

we used to listen to a lot of their music

In reply to sudden
"as a matter of interest, did he live in Bim or performed there?"
Performed there. I heard him in interviews saying how much he appreciate Barbados music.

In reply to tops

i grew up thinking that was a bajan band lol

In reply to sudden

He is a ordinary get country bai from west demerara lol

link

live here

In reply to doosra

I enjoyed that...no comment section?

In reply to ray

They will upload the whole thing again with comments enabled

In reply to doosra

cool...just finished the whole thing...very good job by UG...hope they do this for more of the old timers...the ones alive anyway

In reply to ray

I will pass the request and good message back to one of the producers I know well

In reply to sudden

Dave Martins and the Tradewinds essentially lived and developed in Barbados, during Burnham's rule. In those days there was not a single professional recording studio, or even a single record producing company in Guyana. There was also no TV (neither TV sets nor broadcasts) and the Guyana dollar was not legally convertible.

This affected not just Dave Martins but also Eddie Grant, whose career as a musician in about the same period as Dave Martins also developed in Barbados, where he still lives.

Even those who started in Guyana before Burnham promptly packed up and left, mostly for Canada and the USA, when it quickly became clear that despotism and backwardness were taking over. Johnny Braff, who was probably Guyana's most popular musician when Burnham gained power, died in New York about a year ago.

So, yes. Dave Martins's music career was based almost entirely in Barbados, as was Eddie Grant's.

In reply to Norm

Actually, he said in that documentary he lived in the Cayman Islands and had only visited Barbados briefly...but maybe he returned

In reply to doosra

Official residence, perhaps. He spent a great deal of time in Barbados during his playing days. Many Bajans consider Tradewinds to be a Bajan band - because they were in Barbados almost all the time. They were also in Toronto often.

In reply to Norm

well he started things off in TO for sure

it was good to get some of this out.

In reply to Norm
"Johnny Braff, who was probably Guyana's most popular musician when Burnham gained power, died in New York about a year ago."
Not according to this article.

See Here

In reply to Norm

true Norm. i thought it was a bajan band.

but you may not be right about Eddie Grant. he lived in England for a long time before living in Bim. most of the music he is known for came out of the time he was living in the UK not Bim.

i am not even whether he still lives in Bim

In reply to Norm

Norm, Eddie Grant did most of his work in the U.K. where he migrated to as a young man.

Have you ever heard of the British Band 'The Equals'..? That's the band that Eddie led in the late 60's and early 70's.

You seem to be all over the place on this thread.. What's up man...!

Barbados residence came much later, where he mostly manage musicians and publish music.

To Sudden, he still lives in Barbados..

In reply to tops

I take it that is the Palms in Georgetown, Guyana.

Thanks.

In reply to Elsie and sudden

Thanks. I really thought Eddie Grant developed his music in Barbados, because I have seen him listed somewhere as a coming from Barbados (which I knew wasn't true, but it led me to think that he adopted Barbados as his home, while developing his music career.)

Anyway, I learn something everyday. Eddie Grant, Dave Martins and Johnny Braff make me very proud of my Guyanese background, since I was a little kid, listening to "Remember on the Green Grass", "The Rooster", etc, and then several Eddie Grant songs in later years.


Good thing I wasn't opening the bowling. I might have knocked down the square leg umpire!

(I almost always write from memory only. Hence, no links.)