Description

The house band of Bunny Striker Lee was formed in the mid-1970s by some of Jamaicas most prominent and musically expressive session players.

The shifting core line-up spun off from the Soul Syndicate and thus typically featured Earl Chinna Smith and
Tony Chin on guitar and Bernard Touter Harvey on organ. Carlton Santa was the main drummer, but Carlton Barrett of the Wailers band and Benbow Creary were sometimes featured. Most crucially, on bass, Aston Family Man Barrett shifted to Fully Fullwood (and occasionally, Earl Bagga Walker), until Robbie Shakespeare took over, becoming the bandleader.

The band was responsible for the popular flying cymbal style that took Jamaica by storm, and you can hear it in abundance on this killer dub set from 1975, its excellent cuts of Cornell Campbell and Johnnie Clarke material mixed at King Tubbys studioa must for all serious fans of dub.