Is This Rocksteady?

[kandi]

Greetings

I was listening to 'Chalice - Standard Procedure'.I wonder what stylesare these tunes:

Track 3 - Never You Change
Track 4 - You
Track 6 - Funny Kinda Reggae
Track 8 - One Woman Too Late

I am not quite conversant with 'Rocksteady'Are these in Rockstedy style?

Love

Kandi.

[hot milk]

i'm not familiar with anything by chalice but i know they were a band from the 70s/80s, and therefore i wouldn't consider them a rocksteady sound.

rocksteady, to be specific, was created during the mid-late 60s, essentially the sound that introduced the bass as the main instrument in the music, rather than the horn led music of ska.

do a search for Heptones, Paragons, Melodians, Ken Boothe, Uniques, and others and you'll find a bunch of rocksteady.

hope this helps

[jordandance]

Willie Williams Addis Ababa is from the mid-late 70's and is a ska track. Plenty of cases of ska/rocksteady creeping back well after the late 60's. Yeah, but na on the acliceCha.

[hot milk]

true, like many studio one tunes it was licked back, but it was also overdubbed with sounds and modern drumming. like a lot of the j osbourne/f mcgregor/s minott stuff. some are straight licks of orig riddims, but often times modernized to a degree. and it's not just instrumentation, i wouldn't call anything sugar minott has voiced a rocksteady vocal, but he's ridden many a recut of a rocksteady riddim.

so i'd say it was ska at the foundation of it but i certainly wouldn't call it a ska tune. play it back to back with the drummond orig and there's a difference. don't think kandi was looking for the anorak take we're on to, but could be wrong.