Dude....!!! So i just ripped listened to CD that I forgot I had...it's Rock a Shacka Vol 2. IT's a bunch of Prince Buster tracks, or Buster produced tracks, previously unreleased, and it was chosen by somebody from the now defunct Japanese ska band, Determinations...(BTW Vol 1 was a live album of them backing up Prince Buster himself).
D00DE!!! this CD is fucking kick ass, especially the instrumental tunes. They're all played by a group called, Buster's All Stars, but we all know it's really the Skatalites under a different name. Some of the instrumentals on here are fucking tiight, and I love the drumming. I'm not even knowledgable enough in the music to even tell you who's drumming...but it certainly doesn't sound like Knibbs in most other Skatalites songs (except NON-STOP, the drumming sounds similar to THAT!!!). On the other hand, I don't even know how to tell Drumbago's drumming apart from Knibbs so...
But whatever, they're fucking SICK SONGS!! Like Seven Duppy, with a sick ass trombone solo!!
Not all the Rock a Shacka's are Jamaican music however...Rock a Shacka vol 3 is a lot of tight old school rock and roll (still in transition from rnB) as well as this smoking Latin track...sang in Spanish...by a Japanese band. And it has a Ventures cover of Duke Ellington's Caravan!! Some sick shit.
Yeah, I don't know why I used so many CAPITAL letters and !!!! today, but seriously, this CD kicks ass.
