Various Artists: Rocksteady - Taking Over Orange Street 1966-1968 (CD) Thee Oh Sees It finds the band relying

It finds the band relying on rusty guitar shards that scrape

If You’ve Got The Money I’ve Got The Time

So sit back and enjoy some Rocksteady straight from the dances of Jamaica

the disco was the venue and not a genre of music

Various Artists: Rocksteady - Taking Over Orange Street 1966-1968 (CD) Thee Oh Sees It finds the band relyingRocksteady took over Orange Street, Kingston, Jamaica around 1966, the same time that an extreme heat wave hit the Jamaican Island. Some say the previous jerky Ska Rhythms proved too strenuous of an activity to partake in during the all night Sound Systems. So it proved a winning formula to slow the beat down to a more leisurely pace. Whatever the reasons were, this two year period that ran until 1968 would see some of the power escape from the big