Dave Rimmer

I answered the question as to whether the hosting of sound on websites is illegal, and added that it is up to the individual website owner's own sense of responsibility and morals. I find it rather strange that YOU are then asking ME whether you should host sound on your site. I have no opinion on whether you should host sound, I tried to make that perfectly clear by saying it's up to YOUR own sense of responsibility and morals, and I'm not in a position to judge that. You might view Soulclub as an educational tool (I've used it myself to listen to tracks I didn't know or remember), but under the laws of this country, it is still illegal, whatever you view it as, and that's the question I answered.

Yes, it's easy to clarify. They are all illegal. Unless the site owns the rights to put that music on the net, they are illegal. Of course it would be an impossible job to police with Soul music because I'm sure the big companies that eventually swallowed up all the independents don't even know what they own the rights to, so it's down to the individual site owners sense of responsibility and morals as to whether they host sound on their site. I'd also agree that it's very unlikely that the artist would ever see any money from royalties either even if the sites were paying to use sound unless they owned the publishing rights, and very few Sixties artists even knew what publishing rights were unless they were rather astute. More to the point though, and this will have a direct impact on making Soul music available, if people download tracks that are available on legitimate CDs, it's a sale lost to the record company that put the legitimate CD out. Simple logic dictates that if the record company sell less CDs, they will have less money available to invest in their next release, so it might not happen. Which would be a crying shame because UK companies have led the way in making a huge amount of Soul music available on CD.

Once upon a time, someone discovered electricty. Many years later, someone else invented computers. It just sort of went from there.............

I've got these as well now, but have no confirmation they exist. 2625 - Matt Lucas - Baby You Better Go Go / My Tune 714 - Billy Slayback - Here Comes Henry / Inst 715 - Richard 'Popcorn' Wylie - Move Over Babe (Here Comes Henry) / Inst 716 - Percy And Them - Sing A Sad Song Part 1 / Part 2 717 - The Quickest Way Out - Hello Stranger / Tick Tock Baby 718 - The Compacts - That's How My World Began / Why Can't It Be Me

But you got the grey 'quote box' right :-)

You just click on the button that says "quote", and as if by magic, the post you are quoting from appears in a grey box from which you can edit out the bits you don't want.

But I haven't got 'em

Ady, I'd love to sell you the records

Apart from the copy I saved :-)

I lied, I had seen it, I just wanted to get maximum exposure for Mick in his new role as super nerd from Tron. Still it's better than being known as a Mexican bandit all your life !!!!

I'd forgotten all about that. That's just typical of John Weston though, he really is a good mate, but I alternate between laughing and curbing a desire to hit him sometimes. He's suffering withdrawal symptons at the moment, so, watch out at The Saracens tonight. The nightmare that is Weston is coming to see you all !!!

what bloody picture ? Put it back, we haven't all seen it yet !!!!!

Well if you bought an awful lot of chips you could say that it was as cheap as chips !

Just as a little bit of interest, bought a mint white demo of 'Heart Trouble' last Saturday

Errr, Hi Guest The early series, and the later series were deliberately not included, but if you can come up with complete listings I'd be very grateful cheers

Oh dear, this doesn't sound good !

I agree totally with the last sentance Mr Croasdell. Having made a total prat of myself in karaoke, musical chairs (twice), and several dancing competitions at your hands !!!!!!!! The funniest thing was when I won the DJ dancing competition (It was the year Ady had the shits so couldn't judge it) as I went to collect the trophy I distinctly heard someone say "How's that fat bastard won it !"

I gave my copy away to John Mills as a Birthday present years ago, when it was worth about 15 quid. Nice to see that it's gone up a bit in value since.

Is the second clue...Not from North of Leicester Mick ?

It didn't make the bootleg version of the film (whch is supposed to be different)

Another completely ridiculous statement. Do you imagine that every Northern Soul DJ is running round chasing records that you seemed to know about several years ago ? It's about as sensible as me saying all Seventies records are disco records. (Not that I would ever say anything of the kind !) I can assure you I'm not chasing any Seventies records, so please either qualify your statements, or don't bother making them.

What a completely ridiculous statement. What on earth makes you think that any decent Northern DJ would want stuff that even the Seventies fans are calling shite !

If you are financially concerned enough as an investement if probably is a good investment. But I have yet to meet a true soulm fan who buys as an investment rather then because they love you music. An extremely pissed Dave Rimmer (8 years and all changhe !)

We were talking about watching England playat Wembley Stadium, at work last week. One of the guys said " I've only ever seen England play three times", and then with a smirk said " The World Cup quarter final, the world cup semi final, and the world cup final in 1966" I said "Jammy Bastard"

Stand at the top of a hill. Roll the single down the hill. Give it a bit of a start, then chase it. I'll just get my coat shall I ?