![]() ![]() When he and his uncle parted ways, he started his own one-man band. If I came home from steel band practice around ten o’clock I would sit down with and play couple tunes.” Had bought a keyboard for my small son and I used to `fingle’ round with it. He had already begun to experiment a bit with another musical instrument. He joined his uncle’s band, if a couple of years late, and started playing at various venues. He used to always carry me around trying to get me to into the bands…” I got an Uncle named Clifton Daly…he used to play in a band named Marble and the Stones. Small,” says Daly, “I always used to like singing. Whatever conflict caused this split however, Daly still holds the utmost respect for his former mentor, the man who sees as paving the way for his success today. Was a Boxing morning, you could say that my services were terminated from Geddes’ Band” As a matter of fact, I got married on steel band money.” Geddes’ steel band was his actual livelihood until they had a parting of the ways. Say I was with Geddes for eight years, there wasn’t a week that I didn’t earn a salary. Throughout those eight years, he didn’t have to work other than playing music. You would see people doing these things but they wouldn’t tell you like this is how this is being done, that is how that is being done this is how Roy Geddes used to teach you to play pan.”ĭaly stayed with Roy Geddes until 1998. He says that it was when he went under the tutorship of steel pan veteran, Roy Geddes, in 1990 that he learned the fundamentals of music theory in general and steel band playing in particular. All this time he was playing steel band, his only ‘academic’ musical knowledge was from the famed School of Hard Knocks. ![]() It was through his playing with the phone company’s band that he got employed at the company itself. Played with Youth Division Band, I played with Palm Tree Breakthrough Band, the GDF steel band at one time, Telecoms Band.”ĭexter Daily and vocalist during a performance All them pans I could play.”ĭaly grew up honing his steel pan skills under several teachers, like ‘Dougla’ and `Massabo’ and played in several bands. Only instrument I know that I was never too fascinated playing in the steelband was the drum set. Tears notwithstanding, Tenor Baby didn’t restrict himself to playing just one type of steelpan though. Unfortunately, one of the musicians left out was Dexter.Ĭry throughout the parade so dem banna start calling me Tenor Baby…” The truck that they hired was too small and all of the musicians couldn’t their instruments on it. He recalls that the band he played in was participating in some parade or the other. In fact, one incident in his younger days earned him the name `Tenor’ or `Tenor Baby’. Daly says that he loved playing the tenor bass with a passion. He started out playing the tomberos, then moving up to play the tenor bass pans as he got older. You play out, you put up your ‘lil money, you could buy a school shirt, you buy a school pants…” His mother was doing her best to provide for the first eight of what would eventually turn out to be s16 children.įound music was the only way out for me…I find that it could do certain things. He started playing steel pan music from the age of six, and found that – in addition to giving him pleasure – it helped give him some independence. ![]() Daly grew up in a single-parent home during the seventies and eighties. WHEN someone hears about a one-man band the very first image that comes up in their head is probably one of an odd-looking character playing the flute with one hand, the drums with the other and a piano with his toes.ĭexter Daly doesn’t quite fit that picture but possesses an equal affinity for playing music as such a character might have done. You play out, you put up your ‘lil money, you could buy a school shirt, you buy a school pants…’ `I found music was the only way out for me…I find that it could do certain things. `Music was the only way out for me’ – Dexter Daly ![]()
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