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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.

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

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.

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.