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Verse
1
1974
panorama last lap set savannah on
fire
(mama high temperature)
And the year before in '73 was mas
in may
they play for we
The
kind of scales Danny boy was running
Ah C sharp broke and send splinters
flying
And the rest now is
history
On that note they started
a legacy........
40th anniversary
Chorus
Splinters -
Andy Philips running
Splinters -
scales with Michele Huggins
Splinters - Wayne Wellington
coasting
Splinters - with Reynold
'Pro' Huggins
Splinters - Secrets
in a barrel
Splinters - Shouted
Andy Narell
Splinters - No bull
Brian Griffith
Splinters - hear
Flag and Nedd jam it.........
Verse
2
Sweet melody
had people jumping up
Had me jam
up all on the paddock
Saw a man
dancin like a robot
At a glance
it was Arddin Herbert
The melody
had him
he couldn't see me
C
sharp had him spellbound completely
So I zeroed in on Yarby, augmented
Zephryn and
Franklyn Olliviere
Playing serious harmony
Chorus
Verse 3
Find myself
sipping on a cold beer
With
Etienne Charles, “Halfers” and Earl
La Pierre
Pat, Mikey Philips and
Dougie Peter Aleong, Tina's Barry
Now a few of our splinters you know
have passed on
(long gone step
beyond)
Bee, Bre, Ellie bank,
Nicker Best and Gibbon
And now Franklyn
Olliviere
splinters batting
six for forty
Chorus
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“Splinters”
Keet Styla
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“Keet Styla”
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Since
1984, “Keet Styla”
formerly known as “Designer” has
been working with
renowned panists and
pan
composers/arrangers
such as Ken
“Professor”
Philmore, Ray
Holman, Robert
Greenidge and Earl
Brooks - as well as
musicians including
Ralph MacDonald,
Monty Alexander,
Frankie McIntosh,
Leston Paul and
Etienne Charles.
Some
of the more popular
songs resulting from
these collaborations
are: ‘Rati-ray,’
‘Pan by Storm,’
‘Jump with Me,’ and
‘We Just Can’t Go on
like this,’ to name
only a few.
Currently Keet Styla is the
leader/vocalist of
The Therapy Band in
New York City.
For
2013, one of the
tracks he has
contributed his
vocals to is
Splinters,
featured here.
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Tellison Forde
Tellison ‘Tello’
Forde is the son of
an “Invader” - Cecil
“Coye” Forde - and
Beryl Isaac.
He was born at 67 Rosalino Street in Woodbrook,
Trinidad, adjacent to
the pan yard of Invaders
Steel Orchestra.
That “Tello” was the
son of an Invader was proven when Invaders performed at his christening.
Father Cecil took the Steeldrum throughout Russia, and was one of the first to introduce Pan in Spain and Morocco
in North Africa. Young Tellison followed in his father’s footsteps by becoming a member of Invaders Steel
Orchestra, and also played tenor
pan in New York’s Moods Pan Groove, Pan Rebels and Bramblers USA.
“Tello” enlisted in the US Navy from November 1972 to December 1984, during which time he had the good fortune to serve under the late Commander W.W. Pippenger aboard the USS Brumby DE 1044 which arrived in
Chaguaramas, Trinidad
in November 1975.
Tellison returned to dedicated service with Sealift Command Department of the Navy for 13 years, always keeping his tenor
pan at hand.
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