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Hi All .. It that awfull gut wrenching feeling that only the victims of this awful crime, I am strongly of the belief that this incident was not a chancer, but committed by 2 people as it must-have been noticeable who suddenly left the venue around-the time they were stolen, surely people who where there must no, Question should dealers and Dee Jays get insurance cover, or has the venue got some insurance cover, did you report it to the POLICE?? I am gutted for you, have you a list of your records and also a list of who attended on the night? Any info on suspects please let me no, I would get great gratification in getting them back for :thumbsup:DAVE the HAMMER

Hi All ...If it dont play, photo copy the label and stick it on a FAB reissue? As a collection filler it's worth is £50 if the label is ok, However Doctor Bird, & Bluebeat records can be skimmed up and sound really quite good, so always check your treasures before paying big money? a skimmed record is just that skimmed? DAVE

HI ALL..SAM & DAVE POSSIBELY MY 1st understanding of SOUL?? DAVE THE RAREST 45

HI ALL....After 40 years the talk of the early days of the rare soul scene is still about the subject of stimulants, and how essentsial they where, to make a venue into a classic night, and the fondness that we still talk about then, Having studied at degree level, All conections between DRUG sub cultures and underground music scenes, that have evolved since the late 50s. The rare soul scene is the only one that openly acknowlages the subject of the importance that DRUG use played in the early days, As we all get closer to pension age? do you think that our euthoric recall of stimulant use, is good or a bad thing? is talk about green & clears, red & browns, brown & clears. black & whites. black bombers, blues & dex as exciteing as talking about green & white, red & white, yellow DEMOS, OR are they the same, also did this part of the scene cause any permanant harm, as I still use the product today, what is your current opinion of the subject, and are your opinions on the subject of stimulant use, and how has it changed, or have you substituted it with legal drugs like alcholl? Do you think that certain DRUGS for some poeple should be prescribed? DAVE

HI ALL .....Another excellant question me thinks, and there are several answers to this question, Basically it is a promotional copy LP or 45 that are pressed up by a group band solo singer well anyone, to be given away at an event, or in some cases sold, a good examples are as follows, 1. they are normally done in a run of 99 copies, this is to dodge paying full tax, i think this was a musitions union demand to the goverment?? but it's a tax thing, 2. when I worked at the MARQUEE CLUB in the 70s it was common practice for a band to HIRE the place and invite all the most influentual music buisnes people there to try and get exposure and a record contract, as such 70s private promos are more common than 60s when EMI DISCS whee used instead, private tapes are collectable also, they normally have top radio DJs on them and as LPs the Stuart Henry, EMPROR ROSKO, & Kenny Everett, are very collectable, the MARQUEE made it money from promotional events, thats why it was so famous as every body played there at one time, if you can remember it was one of the smallest clubs in London, and many a roadie spent the afternoon standing around the Dilly giveing away tickets for that night, 2. Quite a few entertainers who work the summer season in the MED, get them done and sell them at the end of the night ?? I got a great one of LEEPY (Little Arrows)LEE) IN MAGALOON, He is well worth seeing he tells a god story DAVE

HI ALL .....PETE Thats not quite true as Mick Smith plays it now and again, my copy looks just like Micks with the grained paper label, paid £1 for it on Wolverhampton indoor market, years ago, always treated it as a boot till i saw micks copy? it should be nearer £1K DAVE

HI ALL i MAY BE WRONG, BUT THE FIRST RUN OF HERBET HUNTER BOOTS ARE OF THE MASTER DISC? AND MANY COXONEs & STUDIO 1, RECORDS ALTHOUGH THEY HAVE NEW YORK LABELS, ARE OF JA PLATES, PLEASE OPERATOR, THERE MUST BE LOADS, HOWEVER, THIS IS NOT ONE OF THOSE> IT'S A BBBOOOOTTLEG I TELLS YOU DAVE

HI ALL....It's suprising how many good B sides to standard clasics the Fred Hughs OO! Wee! I Love You has been mentioned, how about Jay & the Techniquies flip to the classic Apples Peaches Pumpkin Pie...Stronger than Dirt, if you have not played it for years, play it to-day as it could just be a sleeper DAVE

HI ALL .... This is an old 70s trick, i am guilty of guilty of myself, and sold a few records with a substance I found at home in the cubord, it was like a very thin oil with a blackish dye in it you could polish up knackard records and they would look new, back then I had no scruples, now is so differant, we have discussed many differant ways to get the best out of rare records that have sufferd over the years, and there are loads of excellant cleaners & shiners out there to use when cleaning your laptop, for example whiteboard conditioner is a safe product and gives the plastic life again, as does WD 40, but to sell something for top dollers as something it clearly is not is fraud, and you have consumar protection rights, threaten the seller with a downloaded legal letter stateing your intentions, dont use a lawyer at this stage they cost to much DAVE

Hi All Thanks for that, I remember not much about these Beds Bucks & Northhampton venues, as (a) I was always perking on Green & Clears Red & Brown Mix, (b) Chris Gallard from Letchworth & Bedford did all the driving in his moggy van, Nice comments from Ady, DAVE

Hi All ..And I also have found that Sabastions input fascenating, and explains the pace of the record, the record use to be quite comon when it eirst got played in the mid 70s... apart from from my own copy, i have not seen a copy for sale in ages, so what is the to-days price for the roulette issue, and all other copys DAVE

Hi All .... Ian ask yourself this in 100 years will people tead books or over 50 years ago the MINI was produced would you want a classic car/Vintage in 50 more years? whan I watch the Antiques Roadshow, they are already showing how toys from the 50s & 60s are collectable we also see how pop memorabillia has rissen in price almost evey year, and it still suprises me that is one area that the norther/rare soul scene has not realy tapped into as yet. but they will, 100 years is not long and although i will be bron bread, my records i hope will still be played, and finally i agree i think it was BEEKS who mentioned turntables and eqpt, that i no will exist, we are yet to find out the longgeverty of tape and CD DVD but there is cleare evidance they will not last the trip, however the vinyal will so the collectability will be there big time big time and i will give tou all a £10000 if I am wrong I promise DAVE

Hi All This is TRUE but only for the PAUL Re Issue, you would be lucky if the VAULT copy was ever put in a soul pack, This is also a GEM of a record that did not take of in the 70s but become big in the 80s a VAULT COPY MUST BE AT LEAST £60+ dave

Hi Neil I wish you great succes with this venture and in time will get the Book, Q, the new single, what has it done in your opinion to the value of the origanl 45, is it identicle and has it got the nashvile stamp? as we all no the 100 club 45s all become instant collectables, so will this? GOOD LICK DAVE KILWORTH.

HI ALL MY ANSWER IS YES! TO THE GIST OF THIS QUESTION, The way I see it, is Black music from the United States, has been recorded right from the very start of the invention of the gramaphone, and influanced the who world in popular music culture of the mid / late 20th centry. and most if not all black influance music and styles will be keept and documented, the vinly will get more valuable based on how long the plastic lasts for so it could well be that vinyl will be worth more than gold, but like jazz , the rare soul music will be enjoyed a copied, i mean just look at the way ANY WINHOUSE is be talked about , she and what she sung was so rare soul inspired that her death will bring many new pretenders to the top? d

HI ALL QUESTION THIS RECORD , THAT HAS BEEN IN A BOX OF MOTOWN US IMPORTS OF HIT S FOR 20 YEARS, IN MY LOFT, IT REALY HAS GROWN ON ME AND I D IT TO EVERYONE WOULD RECEMEND TO ALL, IS IT ME? AS THIS RECORD SEEMS TO SOULFUL FOR THE PERIOD AND FOR THE GROUP, THANKS DAVE K

HI TONY HOWYOUDOIN! AIN'T SEEN YOU FOR OVER 3 YEARS, HOPE YOU ARE ALL KEEPING GOOD, IT SEEMS THAT THERE IS SOME EVENT ON EVERY WEEK BDOWN IN BED, DID YOU GO TO THE WILBY REUNION THIS WEEKEND? AND WHAT IS THE BEST EVENT ON WHERE EVERY ONE GOES, AND DONT GET POLITICLE, DID YOU GET A COPY OF THAT REGAL HITCHIN POSTER?? Mr KILWORTH

HI I WANT IT AND jAMO THOMAS IS IT FOR SALE DAVE

HI ALL NOT CHEAP, BUT ALEXANDER PATTEN IS ONE OF THE TRUE DOUBLE SIDED NORTHER SOUL CLASSICS, GREAT CHOICE DAVE

HI BRIAN SINCE WHEN DID YOU BECOME PC BRIAN? WHAT DO YOU MEAN, "NOT AN ALLNIGHTER TUNE" YES IT WAS /IS, AND IN MY OPINION IT MEATS ALL THE RIGHT BIT'S AND IF I WAS DJING I WOULD FOLLOW IT UP WITH JERRY (THE ICEMAN) BUTLERS MOODY WOMEN "THAT MAKES PUBIC HAIR STAND UP! THEN BARBARA AND BRENDA "NEVER LOVE A ROBIN" AND THEN IT WOULD BE SALLY HAD A PARTY FLAVOR. THAT WOULD GET THE FEET MOVING, WHEN IT COMES DOWN TO IT I LIKE THE CLASSIC FORGOTTON CHEAP RECORDS AS THE REALY RARE STUFF KEEPS GETTING BOOTED, WHY NOT PLAY THEM OUT, AS FOR ALL NIGHTER RECORDS, I AM SO NARSISTIC ANY THING I PLAY IS A ALLNIGHTER RECORD, WHEN ALEN DAY PLAYS ARCHIE BELL "HERE I GO AGAIN" IT INSTANTLY BECOMES AN ALNIGHTER RECORD, AS FOR JOKES, I WILL LET YOU NO WHEN TO LAUGH HOWEVER SOMETIMES I FORGET NOT EVRY ONE IS MY AGE, AND BECAUSE IT'S NOT RARE AND NOT PLAYED, THEY JUST HERE A POP RECORD, A BIT LIKE BRENTON WOODS GIMME A LITTLE SIGN, AND I HERE A SOUL CLASSIC, CHEERS EARS Mr KILWORTH,

H9 ALL A BIT OF BETTYE SWANNE THE RECORD IS MINT DTHEDRUG

HI ALL...MY CHOICE TODAY WOULD BE THE VERY SAME RECORD IF I WAS ASKED THIS QUESTION IN 1975, THE RECORD I HAVE PICKED IS THE B SIDE OF A CLASSIC FROM 1969, AND THAT SIDE IS ESSENTIAL TO OWN AS A BUTTON DOWN BEN SHERMAN, IF YOU FOLLOW MY DRIFT? THE VERY FACT THAT IT'S A B SIDE, SCORES PIONTS, THE AVERAGE PRICE FOR THIS RECORD IS FROM 20P TO £2, BUT IT'S VALUE IS IN THE SHERE QUALITY OF IT. INTRO SCORES HIGH PIONTS SONG AND IT'S SOULFUL MESSAGE SCORES TOP MARKS, DANCEABILITY, THIS RECORD WILL STOP YOU SITTING DOWN ROMANCING...AND GET YOU ON THE FLOOR DANCEONG MOVEING YOUR FEET TO THE BEAT, IT;S GOT SOUL POWER BUT IT'S NOT JB IT'S GOT THE WOW FACTOR THAT SOUNDS SO NICE YOU WILL PLAY IT TWICE EVERYTIME THIS RECORD HITS THE SPOT WITH WHAT IT'S GOT ... WHICH IS SOUL FROM HEAD TO TOE, SOUL, IF YOU CAN DO BETTER FOR THE PRICE YOUR SOUND HAS TO BE NICE, LET ME HEAR YOU SAY YEH!... BOGALOO AND UPTIGHTEBOUTOFFSIGHTING WHAT THE F**K IS IT, IT'S DTHE DRUGS #10 ALL TIME FAV, IN HIS TOP 10,000 SOUL ROOM FONTANA 45B TF 1058 278 838 TF THAT'S MY PICK AND I HOPE YOU LIKE IT AS MUCH AS ME? HERE I AM, SOME OF YOU WILL NOT YNOW THAT RECORD BY THE INFO I HAVE GIVE! SO FOR YOU PEOPLE ONLY.. A TWISTED WHEEL CLASSIC WITH A TOP SIDE THATS GOT THE TRUE SPIRIT OF 69 "IT;S THE MAGIC OF YOU GIRL" STEAM, A TRUE CLASSIC SOUND FROM THE BEGININGS OF NORTHERN SOUL, IF SOMEONE COULD PLEASE PUT A CLIP ON FOR ME, WE COULD JUST HAVE A SUMMER HIT? NA NA NA NA HEY HEY KISS HIM GOODBYE, I AM PLAYING IT NOW DAVE

HI ALL......THIS IS A GREAT QUESTION,,, TO THE NON SOUL OR REGGAE FAN YOU WOULD THINK THAT ALL OUR MUSIC SOUNDS THE SAME? AND TO MY OLD DEAR "GOD BLESS" SHE WOULD BANG ON MY DOOR AND SHOUT "TURN THAT JUNGLE MUSIC OFF" WAY BEFORE GOLDIE AND THE CARE NAMED THE FAST RAGGA JUNGLE MUSIC? THE TRUTH IS ALL ABOUT ECONOMICS, THIS WAS COMMON PRACTICE IN THE 60s & PERHAPS FOR FANS OF NORTHERN SOUL, THE ONE AND ONLY TEDDY VANN MADE AT LEAST 6 RECORDS WITH A BACKING TRACK THAT HE JUST WOULD NOT LET GO UNTIL HE HAD A HIT WITH IT. RESONANTLY WE WERE TALKING ABOUT NOLAN CHANCE WHICH IS A BETTER EXAMPLE OF HOW RGE SAME BACKING TRACK CAN PRODUCE 2 REALLY DIFFERENT RESULTS BUT BOTH BEING QUALITY ALSO IN THE SAME CATO GARY IS YVONNE BAKER V THE CHESTERFIELDS (THANKS BUTCH) HOWEVER THE PRACTICE STARTS MUCH EARLY ON, WITH CHICAGO STUDIOS BACK IN THE EARLY 30s WITH THE BLUES, MANY SONG USE THE STANDARD 12 BAR BLUES RIFF, AND THE BIG CHANGES COME FROM ONLY A HANDFUL OF BLUES MEN, PERHAPS THE MOST FAMOUS RIFFS WERE BY ROBERT JOHNSON WITH HIS GORDY CHANGE FROM THE 8TH BARR TO THE 12TH BARR AND TO THE ELMORE JAMES RIFF OF "ROCK ME BABY" IF YOU COMBINE THE 2 YOU HAVE EVERY R&B ROCK N ROLL AND WHITE ROCK RECORD (WELL NEARLY) ALSO AND MUCH MORE NOTICEABLE, IS ON JAMAICAN REGGAE, AS IT WAS THERE WHERE THE PRACTICE BECOME THE NORM AS WHEN I STARTED BUYING REGGAE RIGHT FROM THE START THE INSTRUMENTAL SIDE WAS INFARCT THE MORE IMPORTANT SIDE OF THE 2, IN 1968 WHEN I GOT ERIC BARENTS THE HORSE / ACTION LINE, I DID NOT NO ANYTHING REALLY ABOUT THE MUSIC EXCEPT THAT I LIKED IT, I DID NOT EVEN KNOW THAT IT WAS THE LATEST SOUND FROM JAMAICA, AND NO ONE OF MY AGE WENT INTO THE MUSIC IN DEPTH BLACK OR WHITE, BUT THE INSTRUMENTAL SIDE OR VERSION AS IT WAS CALLED OVER THE NEXT FEW YEARS POPPED UP TIME AND TIME AGAIN, IN FACT POOPED UP IS QUITE APT AS IT WAS ANDY CAPP POP-A-TOP THAT MADE MOST OF US AWARE OF THE VERSION SIDE WHEN HE TOOK A REWORKING OF THE EARLY 6S BILLY STEWART SONG THAT WAS COVED BY DERRICK MORGAN ON BLUEBEAT RE RELEASED ON TROJAN IN 68 AND STARTED TO PLAY ABOUT WITH THE A SIDE VOCAL AND THE B SIDE INSTRUMENTAL, FROM 1 RECORD HE GOT AT LEAST 30 MINUTES OF MIXING TO THE HIGHEST LEVEL POSSIBLE, AND IT'S GOOD FUN TO TRY AND COLLECT ALL THE CUTS, AND IT'S A LOT MORE THAN THE THE STATEMENT "TURN IT OVER FOR VERSION 3" AS VERSION 3 IS NOT THERE? I HAVE 10 CUTS OF FAT MAN/POP-A-TOP. WHEN IT IT COMES DOWN TO IT, IT'S ALL ABOUT SAVING MONEY, PUT A DJ ON IT OR A MELODIC OR JUST MAKE AMPLIFY ED DUB NOISES AND YOU HAVE A HIT? THIS PRACTICE THAT STARTED IN CHICAGO AND WAS SKILLFULLY PUT TOGETHER IN JAMAICA, GOT PICKED UP BY CHICAGO BACK IN THE EARLY 80s GOT REARRANGED IN NEW YORK AND TURNED INTO HIP HOP, THE SAD THING IS SINCE IT WENT BACK TO THE STATES, THERE HAS NOT BEEN ANY NOTICEABLE HITS TO COME FROM JAMAICA SINCE SNOW & CHAKA DEAMUS & PLIERS DAVE

HERE HERE MIKE, HOPE THE WERE NOT TALKING ABOUT WEST HAM & MANCHESTER UNITED Mr KILWORTH

HI ALL ....IF ONLY YOUR LOVE OF RARE SOUL AND YOUR COLLECTION OF RECORDS ENTITLED YOU (99%) OF US, TO GET A SPOT NOW AND AGAIN WOULD BE NICE!, THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS MUCH HARD HITTING & INDEED POLITICAL, THE WAY I HAVE SEEN IT GOES SOMETHING LIKE THIS:- PAYING YOUR DUES - THIS MEANS IN IT'S SIMPLE TERMS, WHO DO YOU BUY YOUR RECORDS FROM? IT'S NOT THE RECORDS YOU HAVE? IT'S WHO YOU GOT THEM OFF, AS TO KEEP YOU AS A GOOD CUSTOMER, ("WHICH MEANS, YOU SPEND SHIT LOADS OF CASH WITH A DEALER WHO ALSO DJs AND WILL KEEP YOU KEEN BY GIVING YOU THE EARLY SPOT AT AN ALL-NIGHTERS")THE IN CROWD - YOU GET YOURSELF SO BLINKERED, WHEN YOU BUY YOUR RECORDS, YOUR LOYALTY TO THE RECORD DEALER BECOMES A LOVE AFFAIR, AND YOU REALLY THINK HE FEELS THE SAME BACK? (THIS SHOULD NOT BE CONFUSED WITH FRIENDSHIP)LOYALTY - ONE OF THE BI GIST NEGATIVES OF THE RARE SOUL SCENE IS THE POOR SUPPORT GIVEN TO SOME GIGS OR VENUES, THIS NORMALLY HAPPENS WHEN YOU MISTAKE LOYALTY WITH SUPPORT (PROMOTERS OFTEN DELIBERATELY TAKE ADVANTAGE OF YOUR LOYALTY, BY CLASHING A SOUL NIGHT WITH A NEW VENTURE? AND SPOIL THE CHANCES OF NEW DJs GETTING A CHANCE TO ESTABLISH THEMSELVES, OR EVEN WORSE JUST TO SPOIL THE EVENT? THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED RESONANTLY TO NEIL RUSHTON ATTEMPT AT DUDLEY ZOO (THIS IS MY PERSONAL OPINION) AS ON PAPER IT SHOULD OF BEEN A PACKER, INSTEAD OF A NO STARTER? WHY AND HOW THIS HAPPENED ASK YOURSELVES.MOST OF US COULD DO A GOOD SPOT I'M SURE, BUT AGAIN IT GOES BACK TO WHAT RECORDS YOU PLAY, ^I REMEMBER THE NIGHT I PLAYED THE CLASSIC SULAVANS AT THE BLACK HORSE IN WOLVES - PEP DID NOT LIKE IT AT ALL, I WAS NOT ASKED BACK TO DJ AFTER THAT??THE BEST WAY TO GET A SPOT AND PERHAPS THE EASY EST IS JUT COME STRAIGHT OUT WITH IT TO THE PROMOTER AND ASK FOR A SPOT, SHOW HIM YOUR TOP 50 TUNES AND SUGGEST A 30 MINUTE SPOT TO START WITH, IT HELPS ALSO IF YOU GET YOUR MATES TO SUPPORT YOU ON THE NIGHT BY STAYING ON THE DANCE FLOOR AND WALKING OF AS SOON AS THE NEXT DJ PLAYS HIS/HER FIRST TUNE, EVEN IF IT'S THE BEST RECORD OF THE NIGHT,THE TRUTH - NO ONE IS WILLING TO GIVE UP THERE SPOT, SO YOU CAN HAVE A GO. WOULD YOU?TO SUMERIA'S _ AFTER 30 YEARS OF LIVING IN WOLVES, THE BIGGEST AND MOST NOTICEABLE ISSUE, IS IF THE WOLVES & THE STOKE CROWD GOT TOGETHER AND DID AWAY WITH SPOILER NIGHTS, THE SCENE WOULD VERY QUICKLY GROW BACK TO THE HALCYON DAYS OF THE 70s OR EVEN THE EARLY NIGHTERS AT KEELE.TO CONCLUDE - IT'S NOT ABOUT RECORDS IT'S ABOUT ATTITUDE AND DOES YOUR FACE FIT, AND OF COURSE MANY COLLECTORS DON'T WANT TO DJ AS FAR AS I AM AWARE, WHO KNOWS AND WHO CARES?? Mr KILWORTH