Daved

Things will have to change or it will die. The music and preferred format is just getting too old as well as the punters. It’s amazing that it’s continued this long. I said the same thing on this site over 10 years ago, mind! The major elements which need adapting are: Music policy should evolve to contain more recent releases. Sean Hampsey’s early 80s podcasts go to show how progressive things were then and reminds me how that has not continued. More flexibility over the ovo policy.

Not on the record, but I did get Jean Carne, Norman Connors and Lonnie Liston Smith to sign this for me

Do tapes count? I went through a daft phase of buying tapes when I first started to drive

For a rare change, I went to two events this weekend. Not NS dos, but I enjoyed hearing these: Patti Jo - Ain't No Love Lost Mary J. Blige - Before I Let Go Jay King - Good Kinda Lovin Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway - Back Together Again Michael Wycoff - Looking Up To You

Here's an autograph of Broomfield on a promo of "Don't Cover Up Your Feelings". He thought my name was Paul

Here's two pictures of him from the gig he did in Islington on 1 Feb 2013.

Oh dear. RIP Leon. What an artist! One of the creative greats. He's still been at it in recent years.

I personally bu records because I love the music. If I can't afford the original I'm quite happy to have on a CD or a legit reissue (not a boot). The point is I buy it because I love the music, not as an investment. I've got loads of great LPs from the 80s that I paid £5 for and they're worth about the same now. They still sound great.

Here's two pictures of the great man at Hyde Park in 2013

RIP Al. Such a great artist. The Breakin' Away and Jarreau Lps are classics imo. He played Wembley Arena at the peak of his popularity. I saw him at one of the small stages at Hyde Park three years ago on a beautiful sunny day. When he sang "We're In This Love Together", all seemed right with the world

Mine looks like this.

He covered a great version of Bourgie Bourgie too.

Great film and superb soundtrack. One of my favourites with Perri, Gerald Alston, Take 6 and Al Jarreau

The Truth did a cover version in 1983 so it must've been played out at mod revival dos at the time.

Excellent. Shall we do this everyday?

Ok, thanks. That would be nice

I'd like one too and am happy to pay towards the charity.

The Velvelettes - He Was Really Sayin' Something

Agreed. It's crap mate. But to say "brilliant house released on a weekly basis" is stretching it. That hasn't happened for years now. The quality output is very far and few between imo at the moment.

This is a good CD which includes Jeff Perry https://www.discogs.com/Various-Modern-Soul-Livin-For-The-Weekend/release/5090561

The best way to avoid it is back cueing at all. There's absolutely no need for it when dj'ing with 45s, if you follow the advice in post 2. It's a piece of cake. Even I can play a set without back-cueing and there would be no silences, missing vital parts of the song or that weird wind up noise. In fact, I reckon I could do it with any 15 records that were handed to me.

This is the right answer. If you can't DJ using this method with 45s, then you shouldn't be up there.

Detroit '67 was superb. I learnt a lot of new things musically and also found the description of how the whole political and social climate was at that time in Detroit really interesting.

Nice one. Anything on Innovation II is good. Steve Plumb wrote a good article on the label a few years back.

Merry Xmas all. Thanks to Mike and everyone else running the site.