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Nohay wrote:ROOTS RADICS===> best band of all time.

I love High times too. To answer, this group was created by chinna. This band was an alternative in 80's. Because the radics have mashed up totally in 80-82. After that producer needs another band to record some riddims because the radics were busy evrytime. So junjo (and others) needs high times band.

Actually Junjo used High Times our of necessity, as the Radics refused to work for him over royalty disputes on the Greensleeves dub LPs. They felt that they were entitled to more than the regular session fee. Very often The Radics continued to get credit for sessions for those done by High Times, who as you have pointed out were a fine band in their own right.

Really??? Some album backed by high times, were credited to radics? Have you some example?

Thx for those precisions davek.

Carlton & Aston Barrett, best rhythm section of all time, Alva Lewis on guitar, Glen Adams on keys.

IMO about 50% of credits on reggae records are wrong or incomplete.
Loads of politics involved (between producers and musicians)
That's my point of view after listening closely to music and talking to the actual musicians who were there.

aggrovators...revolutionaries

as much as i like the sly/robbie combo, i also love the carlton/aston combo

and i am a chinna fan


btw, i like the ethnic fight band...but apparently those records are blends of backing bands.

Soul Syndicate. Nuff said.

A mixture between the sound of Soul Syndicate & Roots Radics, recorded in Channel One, would be perfect for me.

Drums - Santa Davis
Bass - Flabba Holt
Piano - Earl Wire Lindo
Organ - Robert Lynn
Rhythm Guitar - Bingy Bunny
Lead Guitar - Earl Chinna Smith
Percussion - Skully
Horns - Tommy Mc Cook
Headley Benett
Cedric Im Brooks

Drums : Carlton Barrett
Bass : Familyman Barrett
Lead Guitarists : Al Anderson & Dwight Pickney
Rhythm Guitar : Bob Marley (Just Because I Can)
Piano : Tyrone Downie
Organ : Winston Wright
Trumpet : Bobby Ellis
Tenor Sax : Tommy Mccook
Alto Sax : Deadly Bennett
Trombone : Nambo Robinson
Percussions : Seeco

drums: drummie zeb / mikey boo richards
bass: robbie shakespeare
rythm guitar: earl chinna smith
lead guitar: earl chinna smith/john kpaye
clavinet: earl wire lindo
organ: ansel collins
piano: gladdy anderson
percussion: sticky thompson / ras michael
trombone: vin gordon/rico rodriguez
trumpet: bobby ellis
sax: cedric brooks

> john kpaye

Nice call. A great, fluid guitarist who may not get his due because he is based in the U.K. instead of JA. He is superb.