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Permalink Reply by andy lavia on March 14, 2011 at 5:26am

JASON, ITS NEVER TOO EARLY TO GET THE BALL ROLLING ON VINCY MASS AND KUDOS TO YOU FOR THE WARM UP SESSION......

I THINK ITS TIME WE START HONORING OUR CARNIVAL HEROES.....I THINK IVE POSTED IT HERE BEFORE BUT I WOULD LOVE FOR THE CDC EVERY THREE YEARS OR SO MAKE OUR CARNIVAL ALL ABOUT SOMEONE WHO HAS CONTRIBUTED GREATLY TO OUR FESTIVAL. HERE GOES:

 

FIRST OFF ESTABLISH A VINCY MASS HALL OF FAME. WE CAN INDUCT TWO OR THREE GUYS/GALS EVERY YEAR AND AS A NATION THANK THEM FOR THEIR WORK OVER THE YEARS. THIS COULD RANGE FROM SOCA ARTISTS TO PAN MEN, TO EXECUTIVES, TO MASS MEN.......NO ONE IS EXCLUDED......AND NOTHING IS EXCLUDED. IF I HAVE ANY SAY ONE OF THE FIRST INDUCTEES WOULD BE RICKS BAR.......THAT HAS BEEN A PART OF OUR CARNIVAL HISTORY FOREVER.

 

HERE IS WHERE WE REALLY PAY TRIBUTE TO OUR HEROES NOW: PICK A NAME THAT WILL FOREVER BE LINKED WITH VINCY MASS.......OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD LETS GO WITH FRANKIE MCINTOSH, ONE OF THE GREATEST ARRANGERS THE CARIBBEAN HAVE EVER SEEN. THE CDC CAN CHOOSE TO HAVE CARNIVAL BE IN HIS HONOR......GOD KNOWS HE DESERVES IT[THIS WOULD CULMINATE INTO HIS INDUCTION TO THE HALL OF FAME]. SO HOW DO WE GO ABOUT MAKING VINCY MASS ALL ABOUT FRANKIE????? 

[1] MASS MEN WOULD BE ASKED TO PRODUCE MASS THROUGH SOME OF HE SONGS HE ARRANGED[YES PEOPLE WOULD SAY THOSE ARE NOT HIS SONGS BUT IT DOES NOT HAVE TO BE ALL ABOUT THE NAMES OF THE SONGS, IT CAN BE DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF MUSIC AND ARRANGING BROUGHT OUT THROUGH MASS]

[2] PANORAMA WILL BE ALL FRANKIE ARRANGED MUSIC.......GOD KNOWS TODAYS ARTIST DONT MAKE SONGS FOR PANS SO WHY NOT GIVE US SOME CLASSICS........THAT IN ITSELF MAY LEAD TO A REVIVAL OF THE PANORAMA SHOWCASE.

 

[3] EACH ARTIST MAY REMAKE A FRANKIE ARRANGED SONG......JUST PICK ONE HE HAS ENOUGH TO GO AROUND!!!!!!

 

[4] AN ALL STAR SHOW FEATURING FRANKIE ON KEYBOARDS WITH 25 OF HIS GREATEST SONGS BEING PERFORMED BY THE ARTIST THAT SUNG THEM.......YEAH WE MAY SEE AND HEAR BECKETT A FEW TIMES BUT THAT SHOW WOULD BE FANTASTIC. NON STOP MUSIC, JUST MOVE FROM ONE SONG TO THE NEXT, ONE ARTIST TO THE NEXT.....

 

[5] VINCY CARNIVAL MAGAZINE: THE ULTIMATE INTERVIEW WITH FRANKIE. MAYBE THREE OR FOUR PAGES....I BELIEVE HE HAS ALOT TO TELL US.

 

[6] A TWO DISC SET FEATURING SOME OF HIS BEST WORK........ONE DISC HAS THE SONGS AS THEY WERE RECORDED.....THE SECOND DISC IS A DJ MIX OF THOSE SAME SONGS

 

[7] RENAMING SOME PART/ASPECT OF CARNIVAL FRANKIE MCINTOSH SOMETHING!!!!! ITS THE LEAST WE CAN DO FOR THE MAN.

 

[8] WORKSHOPS FOR YOUNG MUSICIANS WITH FRANKIE PASSING ON SOME OF THE WEALTH OF KNOWLEDGE HE HAS

 

[9] MAKE HIM AN HONARARY MEMBER OF THE CDC.....THEY CAN USE SOME DIFFERENT IDEAS IN THAT CLUB

 

[10] 5 MINUITES TO 9 ON CARNIVAL TUESDAY, EVERY BAR PLAYS ONE FRANKIE ARRANGED SONG OF THEIR CHOICE.......HE CLOSES HE FESTIVITIES AND WE DO THE SAME THING IN A COUPLE YEARS TO HONOR SOMEONE ELSE......MAYBE SHEGGY JOHN ONE OF OUR GREATEST MASS MEN

 

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