How many times have you been in a taxi or just chatting in company and someones come out with this statement. Have you followed one of these up and hit the jackpot?. Personally ive followed up loads and have found nothing really. Until a few months ago, when we really hit the jackpot. Lets have your stories please

The guy who delivers milk to all the local Tesco stores said exactly that to one of my lads. "I've gotr a box of Northern Soul records in my loft". I've got he lads working on him to bring them into work. I'll let you know what comes of it

The guy who delivers milk to all the local Tesco stores said exactly that to one of my lads. "I've gotr a box of Northern Soul records in my loft". I've got he lads working on him to bring them into work. I'll let you know what comes of it

just be careful the milkman isnt working on your lads to take yours into work

atb moldie

The guy who delivers milk to all the local Tesco stores said exactly that to one of my lads. "I've gotr a box of Northern Soul records in my loft". I've got he lads working on him to bring them into work. I'll let you know what comes of it

The amount of times, people have said this to me Dave, there must be millions of records in lofts all over the country. Then again coupled with the other saying, " i went to tha wigan place" probably about right

Had some good lifts from genuine music lovers, but get let down time and time again by folks watching too many auction sites and not paying attention.

Some of the worst offenders are folks that dipped there fingers into the mod/scooterist scene in the 80's.

"I got hundreds of classic records mate, they be worth a fortune now!"

Never have I had the honour of delving through the biggest amount of sh#te in my life.

Had some good lifts from genuine music lovers, but get let down time and time again by folks watching too many auction sites and not paying attention.

Some of the worst offenders are folks that dipped there fingers into the mod/scooterist scene in the 80's.

"I got hundreds of classic records mate, they be worth a fortune now!"

Never have I had the honour of delving through the biggest amount of sh#te in my life.

How many copies of 9 times out of 10 on soul stop have you seen, popppies pain in my heart csp etc

when i had my own shop.the window cleaner(part time firefighter also) was in one day filling his bucket with water from my sink(for the windows not a fire).

had the cd/tape recorder on playing some soul.he said you like northern,well i tolerate it i said,lol.

i use to go to wigan he said.went with his mates when lived in glasgow(we were in aberdeen).

told him i was to young to go wigan (just rememberd i got introduced to a guy in aberdeen few years back,in a pub by someone.wont mention any names.he use to be a dj & went wigan.he said so your into northern,said yip.asked if i went to wigan.said to young for wigan but been going venues since was 14.he said,well if you didnt go wigan you know f all about northern & walked away.funny he back on the scene now). on with the story.so window cleaner said i have a box of records in a loft in a flat i rent out but dont think i could get to them.if i can will give you a shout.keeping calm i said that would be great,not expecting to see them anyway.he asked if worth anything.i said 99 times out of a 100 if a box had been collected from wigan days,good chance they all boots.oh well he said.

2 weeks later he walks in with a 50 box.is it my lucky day & this is the 1 out of 100 full of OV.was it heck,49 boots & 1 ov.was all your usual sliced tomatoes,grapevine,casino classics etc.

told him i dont buy boots & at the time they were worthless.he said just offer me something.so think paid either £10/20.got shot of them quick & made a few pounds.prob worth more now than if they were ov's,lol.funny thing is a big collector in aberdeen worked with him & didnt even know he had them.he wasnt fussed as he ov only.

steve.

Edited October 22, 201113 yr by sepia

How many copies of 9 times out of 10 on soul stop have you seen, popppies pain in my heart csp etc

Indeed.

It's coloured vinyl, must be worth a fortune :lol:

It's tempting to follow every lead but I just don't have the heart to look at the eyes of a poor deluded hopeful and say they're prized northern collection is a box of monkey phleghem (flem ?) strangely I often find Night of the wolf or something in amonst the other stuff and don't feel like saying I'll just take this one letting them think I've done them on a super rare piece .I would imagen it's like being a vet and telling a small child that there tortoise has got cancer and has got to be put down.Best regards Simon.

I get people emailing me quite regularly from my website offering me collections. They are always full of boots with 1 in 20 being OG but only worth a tenner. I always reply politely that they should put them on ebay to get the best price.

Some joker the other day sent me an "I've just remembered I have a box of records in my attic that I've not looked at for 30 years" email and it was obviously an email he had sent to JM (and probably everyone else) as it kept referring to records on "your website" that I don't have on my website. He had priced them up out of JM's 3rd guide, and seemed to want me to look through the list sorting out which were real and which weren't, didn't actually say if he wanted to sell them just seemed to want me to tell him the value. I told him some were boots and some were not but I was sure JM would offer him a price.

These "collections" are just not worth the bother unless they let you have them for a quid a record.

was working in a house, noticed a jacket with some northern and mod patches so when the house owner come home got

talking to her and mentioned the jacket it was her husbans who was into his scooters, but she said that she used to go to

soul does years ago and had a box of records in the loft. so after a bit of persuading she goes off up into the loft and brings

a dusty old 50 box, on opening it was packed with old looking cardboard sleeves. well as you could imagine i was thinking

whats in there well............................

yes you guessed a box of bootlegs...bollocks lol

How many times have you been in a taxi or just chatting in company and someones come out with this statement. Have you followed one of these up and hit the jackpot?. Personally ive followed up loads and have found nothing really. Until a few months ago, when we really hit the jackpot. Lets have your stories please

please tell us !!, "Until a few months ago, when we really hit the jackpot."

Edited October 22, 201113 yr by jim g

It's tempting to follow every lead but I just don't have the heart to look at the eyes of a poor deluded hopeful and say they're prized northern collection is a box of monkey phleghem (flem ?) strangely I often find Night of the wolf or something in amonst the other stuff and don't feel like saying I'll just take this one letting them think I've done them on a super rare piece .I would imagen it's like being a vet and telling a small child that there tortoise has got cancer and has got to be put down.Best regards Simon.

does a tortoise get cancer?, shame about that, they would live till a nice ripe old age if they didn't.

does a tortoise get cancer?, shame about that, they would live till a nice ripe old age if they didn't.

Well you know what I meen .I remember watching a thing on tele about old slow animals like tortoise's and aligators ect they live for years and don't seem to get these kind of dieses .

please tell us !!, "Until a few months ago, when we really hit the jackpot."

Heres the Story, i was in a taxi getting a lift from a venue i`d dj`d at, chatting to the taxi driver, he told me his older brother was into northern soul and the usual he had a box of old records in his loft. I asked him what sort of stuff there was, he didn`t really know, but i was welcome to them if i wanted to take a look, i took his adress and phone number. Rang him a couple of weeks later and went round. It was one of those plastic covered hundred boxes covered with dust. Opening up as per usual bootleggs the usual things that have allready been said, but i carried on not wishing to be ignorant. Got about half way through and then hit a few british things. STEP OUT OF LINE, ON THE BRINK, EVERYTHING I TOUCH TURNS TO TEARS, DETERMINATION, then more bootleggs, then at the back five or six imports J.D MARTIN, JOE HICKS, DANA VALLERY DEMO, RUBIN DEMO, MICHAEL AND RAYMOND DEMO and a nice copy of EDWARD HAMILTON-BABY DON`T YOU WEEP, mike terry credits complete with nasville mattrix. Told the guy some of the records i would like, and maybe an idea if he contacted his brother to make sure he didn`t want them. He told me his brother had emigrated to Canada and he had helped him clean his house out before he went, his brother had told him to just put the box in the skip but he`d kept them for some reason. Then we struck a deal on what he wanted and i walked away lets say more than happy.

yeah ,from my experience most attic collections are boots, and they always want top dollar for them, fair enough, but condition is paramount,.. but you always get some peeps wanting top dollar for abused recs, which are pretty much worthless

It's coloured vinyl, must be worth a fortune :lol:

dont forget the pic sleeve too

Working on one as we speak!!

Guy across the yard to me where i work did go to the Wheel BITD went to Major Lance live at the Torch, did a few Casino's in the early years etc....I have known all of this for a number of years when last Friday afternoon he just popped out with " i got hundreds!! of old soul 45's upstairs, mostly British with the odd import thrown in"..........At this point i have to say i had a proper poker face on but inside i was just about to burst ffs!!

"What sort of sounds you got" i inquired in my best "so what" kind of attitude, then he just blew me away. Get this!!

British red & Whites of Carrols/Shane Martin/Garnett Mimms/Alexanda Fooking!! Patton!! Oh and also ALOT!! of Motown Red & Whites!! TMG'S 500's!!

Best bit is next though, wants to off load, knows they are worth an awful lot more than he paid, says he has around 400 or so.........take the lot if you want for £500.......said i would think on it and let him know on Monday.

Working on one as we speak!!

Guy across the yard to me where i work did go to the Wheel BITD went to Major Lance live at the Torch, did a few Casino's in the early years etc....I have known all of this for a number of years when last Friday afternoon he just popped out with " i got hundreds!! of old soul 45's upstairs, mostly British with the odd import thrown in"..........At this point i have to say i had a proper poker face on but inside i was just about to burst ffs!!

"What sort of sounds you got" i inquired in my best "so what" kind of attitude, then he just blew me away. Get this!!

British red & Whites of Carrols/Shane Martin/Garnett Mimms/Alexanda Fooking!! Patton!! Oh and also ALOT!! of Motown Red & Whites!! TMG'S 500's!!

Best bit is next though, wants to off load, knows they are worth an awful lot more than he paid, says he has around 400 or so.........take the lot if you want for £500.......said i would think on it and let him know on Monday.

Daz my boy if you fell out of a bloody plane you'd land on a haystack well done and for a motown collector like yourself double well done ,,,,,,,spawny bas.....regards Simon.

Daz my boy if you fell out of a bloody plane you'd land on a haystack well done and for a motown collector like yourself double well done ,,,,,,,spawny bas.....regards Simon.

You know that has been said before about myself.

How you doing Simon?

you get my PM on that Edwin Starr??

You know that has been said before about myself.

How you doing Simon?

you get my PM on that Edwin Starr??

Yes I did Daz and I thought I'd answered but as I explained at Stoke my wife is leaving me (as we speak ) and will be totaly gone by mon/tues .I am going to throw myself into the record situation as at the moment thing's are being moved around , I need to start and adhere to a filing system and the eventual website .I'll try and find it for you by the weekend respect Simon. (you havn't told us your fave Levine track yet son !)

Thanks for that Simon, do remember you telling me about her indoors but forgot....sorry, no rush take your time.

ATVB Daz.

Thanks for that Simon, do remember you telling me about her indoors but forgot....sorry, no rush take your time.

ATVB Daz.

Daz don't worry mate I think she just feels that after looking after the same mental patient for 32 years she's come to the conclusion that I'm not going to get better but remember mate I'm a Buddhist and see this current phase as just negative karma neutralising it's self .Until next time son respect Simon.

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Edited October 28, 201113 yr by dazdakin

As a rep i called on a company one day , got talking and it turned out a friend of the owner had left a load of records in the warehouse . The chap I was talking to said did I want to have a look , I said yes then regreted it thinking I would be looking through the usual dross but by this time it was too late and it would have been rude to decline . What I found was any number of UK demos including lou johnson -Unsatisfied , Jimmy Williams - Walking on air . But the best thing was Davy Jones (David Bowie) You got a habit of leaving me - Parlaphone Demo , which I sold on Ebay for £1260.00

How many times have you been in a taxi or just chatting in company and someones come out with this statement. Have you followed one of these up and hit the jackpot?. Personally ive followed up loads and have found nothing really. Until a few months ago, when we really hit the jackpot. Lets have your stories please

they always say that, the other one is " i went to wigan"............if everyone went who said they did there would have been queues to station and a lot of coppers and nursery maids coz half them would only have been 10. LOL. that said i wouldnt tell anyone i had a box in my attic coz i would nt like some git coming round and ripping me off. or am i just being naive.............not. not any DUCK SELLERS ANYHOW...............

Anyone see that afternoon programme that used to be on - Garage Clearout - or summat, where they sold all their junk to the neighbours on the drive?

One episode, I was sat at work on me dinner, telly on, and the bloke who was selling his stuff on this episod -maybe 60, pencil tash - walked into his shed, which was full of people and lo and behold ...on the pasting table was two 300 boxes of 7"s, with a big bloke with a rock'n'roll quiff digging through 'em.

The presenter asked what they were and he replied ' some old soul stuff I used to collect??

The quiff bloke was interviewed whilst digging with a handful of stuff (say 30 7"s) - he had a massive s-e grin on his face.

I watched open mouthed.

They are out there.

Guy i know was riding home from his work and got knocked off his pushbike by a car at a junction. The older couple got out and checked he was ok, said "we only live up the road, come in and clean yourself up and make sure you're alright". While the wife made him a cup of tea and washed the dirt off his jacket, he was chatting to the husband, talking about how he was into records, and the guy went "oh, i've got some records from years ago if you want to have a look". He ended up doing a deal and going back and buying the lot. Sold 3 of the records for £1,500 the next week and paid his rent for the next year on the rest, and still kept a load for himself. It does happen, just not to ME! lol

cheers Sutty