Now entering my 37th year on what one would now call "The Soul Scene" I sometimes think back to at what point do soulies become either Dancer's or Anorak's.
Up until 1980 I was a fervent collector of vinyl at which point I sold up to Rob Smith on the proviso of getting wed and a down payment on a 1920's semi, which would of probably meant like so many of that era drifting away from the scene and being placed in suspended animation until the baggy trouser brigade were back on the throne.
But whether it be luck or misfortune my intended to be, changed her mind so rather than being placed in Northern Hibernation for 25 years, I lived through the ups and downs of the scene. The major downside was that I had already sold my beloved vinyl.
It was at this point that I refuted any chance of trying to reassemble my collection of seven years and became a dancer, not saying I'm much cop at it, but that was the road I took, so ever since then I would rather spend 8 out of 10 hours at a nighter on the dance floor than 8 out of 10 hours with my face in someones elses box looking at serial numbers and wishing I had enough dosh to buy it.
Does that make me a bad soulie that I would rather dance to the music than collect it, perhaps yes and perhaps no the only certainty is that neither are on the same plane as the artists that put pen to paper and lyric to music.
Be interesting to hear what influences dictated other's directions of being a Dancer or an Anorak. My suspicions are that percentages on this site are more Anoraks than Dancer's or perhaps DanRaks a combination of the two. Sure some will prove me wrong.
Now entering my 37th year on what one would now call "The Soul Scene" I sometimes think back to at what point do soulies become either Dancer's or Anorak's.
Up until 1980 I was a fervent collector of vinyl at which point I sold up to Rob Smith on the proviso of getting wed and a down payment on a 1920's semi, which would of probably meant like so many of that era drifting away from the scene and being placed in suspended animation until the baggy trouser brigade were back on the throne.
But whether it be luck or misfortune my intended to be, changed her mind so rather than being placed in Northern Hibernation for 25 years, I lived through the ups and downs of the scene. The major downside was that I had already sold my beloved vinyl.
It was at this point that I refuted any chance of trying to reassemble my collection of seven years and became a dancer, not saying I'm much cop at it, but that was the road I took, so ever since then I would rather spend 8 out of 10 hours at a nighter on the dance floor than 8 out of 10 hours with my face in someones elses box looking at serial numbers and wishing I had enough dosh to buy it.
Does that make me a bad soulie that I would rather dance to the music than collect it, perhaps yes and perhaps no the only certainty is that neither are on the same plane as the artists that put pen to paper and lyric to music.
Be interesting to hear what influences dictated other's directions of being a Dancer or an Anorak. My suspicions are that percentages on this site are more Anoraks than Dancer's or perhaps DanRaks a combination of the two. Sure some will prove me wrong.
Tom