Any person who possesses the testicular fortitude, the guts , the balls to negatively critique this musical genius...is a flat out HATER. Long live Robert Greenidge !!!
No banging of notes, just gently grooving the notes into play. Subtoning is unparalleled, phrasing is unmatched. This Steeldrum maestro has no equals. Long live this veteran !! 👏 🙏
Gifted, gifted and double gifted ...Robert is! Such an amazing talent! We have been blessed to have shared the stage in California from time to time. He is a man we all hold in the highest regards and then some!
steel pan/steel pan orchestras..imagined, conceptualized, created, produced, perfected by Trinidadians (Trinidad/Tobago) out of oppressive conditions,; created from empty oil barrels when their skin drums were banned by colonists, and developed into orchestras with up to 200 musicians, with multiple sections of variety of steel pan instruments, to give a full orchestral range of sound.. bass, cello, tenor, etc. etc.....and composed and arranged complex music for these instrumental orchestras with large percussion sections, known as engine rooms, with percussion instruments created in Trinidad/Tobago as well...a true black art form at a minimum on par with jazz, blues, Rn B, classical, etc. music,......calypso, soca, rapso, limbo, etc. all emanated from the beautiful twin islands Trinidad&Tobago...oneluv TnT....Trini2DaBone
What a Joy you have brought to all Pannist and Pan Lovers Worldwide. RG you are an Ambassador of T+T and a Musical Genius taking our pan music to the TOP. Thanks.
This is unbelievable artistry, class, genius and mastery!! The Caribbean's own modern day Beethoven, Mozart and Tchaikovsky rolled into one man on pan. This should be a world heritage preservation. Big up to T&T. As a Barbadian, it would be a gross tragedy and travesty if the T&T government does not preserve this cultural treasure.
they too busy since Dr. Eric William's times stealing and not having any national pride nor future thinking to preserve shit!! not Trinidadian but I am a Trini.
If only I can see this guy on prime time Tv..The world needs to know this talent exist. Oh I know he is very popular, top in his class but he deserves to be among the renowned virtuosos of the world..
His MASTERY of this instrument is why he is a "guest" musician on the 1st instrumental album of the GREAT Sonny Landreth, "Elemental Journey". Other "guests" were Joe Satriani and Eric Johnson. How's that for "company"?
Why people who cant even come close in their dreams speak ill of him and his performance. "How can you judge what I do if you don't understand What I do"
@XXleobodybuilerXX: What's your credentials ? RG has International Fame and Recognition and is an Icon World Wide . RG is one of our HEROES here in T+T and throughout the Pan and Music World, so please think again before you condemn . HE IS BRILLIANT IN HIS PERFORMANCES . Thanks .
I must confess, after 33 years in the Pan Fraternity, I'm still baffled as to why the "Mozart of Pan" just can't seem to get the sweetness coming out of the instrument like Robbie. No disrespect meant to Boogsie though.
Weird point here, but is anyone else just as jealous of his pan stand as his playing? I detest every stand I've ever tried for double seconds - they're always either unweildy, weak, or restrictive... His just looks perfect! Wish I knew where to find one!
The piece is fabulous to the one that thinks it is garbage, where can i find your composition here on You tube.. SURELY YOU KNOW THAT OF WHICH YOU SPEAK AND CAN BACK IT UP WITH SOME SOLID EXAMPLES
This is no piece, it's a solo, which is why it is so unbelievable. Also, critics don't have to partake in the thing they are criticizing, it doesn't mean they are flawed in their opinion though. Movie critics and reviewers do not make movies, they just watch a lot of them.
@richseth Well I have to agree. Hang is one of the very few instruments that I actively dislike. Its tone, its ethos and its followers all make me sick. It is just a rip-off, pure and simple.
Steel pan is an incredibly unique and rich cultural instrument, you are right. However, you are being nothing short of ignorant if you believe nobody should ever produce a new sort of instrument that is any way based off one before it. Enjoy the sound of a piano? Guitar? Trumpet? Any modern instruments? They're all cheap gimmicky knock-offs of a previous design (read: product evolution).
Any person who possesses the testicular fortitude, the guts , the balls to negatively critique this musical genius...is a flat out HATER. Long live Robert Greenidge !!!
No banging of notes, just gently grooving the notes into play. Subtoning is unparalleled, phrasing is unmatched. This Steeldrum maestro has no equals. Long live this veteran !! 👏 🙏
Robert Greenidge is an AMAZING player. My high school steel band has had the wonderful privilege of playing with him twice.
Gifted, gifted and double gifted ...Robert is! Such an amazing talent! We have been blessed to have shared the stage in California from time to time. He is a man we all hold in the highest regards and then some!
steel pan/steel pan orchestras..imagined, conceptualized, created, produced, perfected by Trinidadians (Trinidad/Tobago) out of oppressive conditions,; created from empty oil barrels when their skin drums were banned by colonists, and developed into orchestras with up to 200 musicians, with multiple sections of variety of steel pan instruments, to give a full orchestral range of sound.. bass, cello, tenor, etc. etc.....and composed and arranged complex music for these instrumental orchestras with large percussion sections, known as engine rooms, with percussion instruments created in Trinidad/Tobago as well...a true black art form at a minimum on par with jazz, blues, Rn B, classical, etc. music,......calypso, soca, rapso, limbo, etc. all emanated from the beautiful twin islands Trinidad&Tobago...oneluv TnT....Trini2DaBone
What a Joy you have brought to all Pannist and Pan Lovers Worldwide. RG you are an Ambassador of T+T and a Musical Genius taking our pan music to the TOP. Thanks.
He's awesome! I love his little riffs with the soft undertones under it.
This is unbelievable artistry, class, genius and mastery!! The Caribbean's own modern day Beethoven, Mozart and Tchaikovsky rolled into one man on pan. This should be a world heritage preservation. Big up to T&T. As a Barbadian, it would be a gross tragedy and travesty if the T&T government does not preserve this cultural treasure.
they too busy since Dr. Eric William's times stealing and not having any national pride nor future thinking to preserve shit!! not Trinidadian but I am a Trini.
ABSOLUTELY Beautiful Music....such AMAZING talent Mr. Greenidge....Trinidad & Tobago ANDDDD the Caribbean should be Proud :-)
wow, the sound is absolutely beautiful...music to my ears! lovely solo
Amazing!!! Best steel drum music I've ever heard! This man's a genius!
Robert grew up with a bandmate and would sit in our band when in town. His live sound is hypnotic. This was a nice reminder.
The best pan solo I heard,if those pan clould talk he sure made them speak.
One of our most precious resources.
The fact that this was a solo makes it much more impressive but yes, fabulous and inspiring.
Very nice, ROBERT.
If only I can see this guy on prime time Tv..The world needs to know this talent exist. Oh I know he is very popular, top in his class but he deserves to be among the renowned virtuosos of the world..
He tours and records with jimmy buffet, so maybe you can see him with jimmy in concert.
That guy just took a cool island breeze and ORCHESTRATED it.
I can listen this almost every day
i love the dynamics of this solo its sounds mystic and yet it also sounds happy i dont know how to put it in words besides pretty awesome
Inimitable, incomparable , unsurpassable!
Piece, Solo, whatever, it is fabulous and inspiring.. nothing more nothing less.
Expanding the repertoire of pan, a great thing, and so proactive.
Picking up my pan in a few days. This dude is my idol ! Hope I can be 1/10 as kick ass as him
this is just beautifulllll Robert
Absolutely Amazing!!!
Like a 5 star concert pianist but with that beautiful watery clarity of de pan! Spiritual. Totally awesome!
Megan Black ?
This is how you play the steelpan thanks Robert Grenidge proud of you
One of the greats.
❤️❤️❤️❤️
Wow! Totally talented!!
AWESOME!!!!!
Robert at his Quintessentian best. The boy fr om Success village.
I wanna take classes for steel pan. I love the sound. This video is definitely inspiring.....
i cant imagine how long you would have to play to have the precision and just... FLAT OUT PURE SKILL to play like he does.
Lovely joyful Tribagonian expression!
an amazing pannist this man is just inspiring =3
De BOSS .... Lovely joyful Tribagonian expression!
4:53 yes yes!!
THE Man!!!
This is great I wish I played double seconds too
Sound of steel drums that create music Africans people play for the enjoyment of al
Maravilloso..genial...
Incrível capacidade sonora!!
The Greatest panist.
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
that's a nice watch he has on
His MASTERY of this instrument is why he is a "guest" musician on the 1st instrumental album of the GREAT Sonny Landreth, "Elemental Journey". Other "guests" were Joe Satriani and Eric Johnson. How's that for "company"?
skill ful
didn't expect summertime! it's all beautiful though
3:44 man oh man.
Why people who cant even come close in their dreams speak ill of him and his performance. "How can you judge what I do if you don't understand What I do"
i played this and all them birds of paradise bitches came to me
Could you post the song "Soltar" by Robert Greenidge & Adrian Utley? Thanks.
@XXleobodybuilerXX: What's your credentials ? RG has International Fame and Recognition and is an Icon World Wide . RG is one of our HEROES here in T+T and throughout the Pan and Music World, so please think again before you condemn . HE IS BRILLIANT IN HIS PERFORMANCES . Thanks .
Somewhere in the great heavens, George Harrison is hearing this and smiling.
Is this a LOW E Double Second...if not, what Key is it tuned in...and who is the Builder ? Thanks !
oh.my.goodness.
I must confess, after 33 years in the Pan Fraternity, I'm still baffled as to why the "Mozart of Pan" just can't seem to get the sweetness coming out of the instrument like Robbie. No disrespect meant to Boogsie though.
Weird point here, but is anyone else just as jealous of his pan stand as his playing? I detest every stand I've ever tried for double seconds - they're always either unweildy, weak, or restrictive... His just looks perfect! Wish I knew where to find one!
This is unbelievable and he did it with a double tenor
Double Seconds (octave lower than Double Tenor)
That dude just said that to piss everybody off. Just a Troll. This is amazing!
graat playing
The piece is fabulous to the one that thinks it is garbage, where can i find your composition here on You tube.. SURELY YOU KNOW THAT OF WHICH YOU SPEAK AND CAN BACK IT UP WITH SOME SOLID EXAMPLES
Something by The Beatles!
This is no piece, it's a solo, which is why it is so unbelievable.
Also, critics don't have to partake in the thing they are criticizing, it doesn't mean they are flawed in their opinion though. Movie critics and reviewers do not make movies, they just watch a lot of them.
DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN
Ayyyee check out my uncle nah! Rel nice
cool story, bro.
@richseth Well I have to agree. Hang is one of the very few instruments that I actively dislike. Its tone, its ethos and its followers all make me sick. It is just a rip-off, pure and simple.
an amazing artist this man is...
but i could play faster =3
j/k
Steel pan is an incredibly unique and rich cultural instrument, you are right.
However, you are being nothing short of ignorant if you believe nobody should ever produce a new sort of instrument that is any way based off one before it.
Enjoy the sound of a piano? Guitar? Trumpet? Any modern instruments? They're all cheap gimmicky knock-offs of a previous design (read: product evolution).
Robert Greenidge is d greatest of d great PANMAN SUPREME LOVE YOU ROBERT TEAMDESPERS FOREVER