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I have had quite a few over the years:-I had 6 issues of Sam Dee's lonely for you baby sold for £12 each, the Silhouettes on Goodway sold to PEP £20, Ted Massey got the Ringleaders on M-PAC £6, I was pissed? and many others 10 copies of AC Ride on Cool AND Larry Aiken Lighten Up issue on Highland(NEVER SEEN A DEMO) paid £3 each sold them for £8..If you ask any dealer they will all have similar stories especially from the 8ts. DAVE KIL

I will always remember BOOTLACE for his genarosity, In particular myself and Chris Gallard from Letchworth were at the Mecca on a rare night we had no transport, BOOTLACE made sure that we got on the STOKE coach to get to WIGAN, only a small thing to do but he cared about every one on the scene, I personaly will never forget the man and his appite for CAPS DAVE KIL

OFF CORSE IT WAS A BARGIN, IT WAS ALSO MY FIRST COPY AND I HAVE HAD THE MOST COPYS TO MY KNOWLAGE, I COULD OF SOLD IT MANY TIMES OVER AND EVEN ON THE DAY TO RESPECTED UK COLLECTORS WANTED IT HOWEVER WHEN PLACING RARE RECORDS SOMETIMES ITS NOT ABOUT MONEY ITS ABOUT AVAILABILITY, I KNOW PETE HAS HAD A COPY FOR A LONG TIME, AND FOR THAT PARTICULAR COPY I WANTED IT TO GO TO SOMEONE WHO WILL KEEP IT AND NEEDS AN UPGRADE AND ALSO PETE IS ONE OF MY MATES AND IN THE END IT WAS MICKS SMITHS SIGN OF APPROVAL AS PETE HAS DONE A LOT OF WORK OVER THE YEARS FOR HIM, GOOD GUYS GET ALL THE LUCK?**THE STAG COPY I SOLD 3 YEARS AGO WAS A PLUMY COLOR WITH SILVER LETTERING I HAVE A COPY OF IT ON MY OLD COMPUTOR THAT IN THE LOFT, AS WITH ALL RARE ITEMS YOU CAN NEVER FIND THEM AGAIN MY STAG COPY COST £30. THE COPY PETE GOT WAS GIVEN TO ME FREE BY A SOUND MAN FROM HACKNEY, WITH THE GLEN MILLERS I HAVE HAD ALL OF THEM PUT TOGETHER HAVE COST LESS THEN £70 BY THE WAY ADY LIPTON COPY COME FROM ME DAVE KIL

i KNOW THERE ARE A FEW CAMBRIDGE PEOPLE ON THERE AS FOR NAMES JUST TO REMIND YOU ITS 2009 HOWEVER IF YOU WANT TO NO WHOS ON THE GRANADA THIS ENGLAND I AM IN SEVERAL PLACES GOING THROUGH THE DOOR, SELLING RECORDS MY BOX IS WELL FEATURED AND AT THE END OF THE NIGHT AS RTHE CAMARA PANS DOWN FROM THE SKY THE BLOKE IN THE LONG LEATHER BAGGED OUT JEANS HOLDING A RECORD BOX THATS ME DAVE KIL

YOU TELL EM TAFF OR I WILL SET MY DOG BUBBLES ON THEM DAVE KIL

AS ALWAYS TED NICE ONE. NOT AS GOOD AS THE DEAL YOU GOT FROM MYSELF YEARS AGO FOR £6.00, HOWEVER I WAS STONED AT THE TIME AND THOUGHT I WAS SELLING WILLIE PARKER!! FROM DAVE KIL

i HAVE 2TO 3 PIONTS TO ADD AND I MUST MAKE IT CLEAR THAT THIS IS MY OPINION ONLY AND IN SOME CASE OF COLLECTING IE:-MEDALS, MY DAD WAS A SAPPER IN THE ROYAL ENGINEERS IN WORLD WAR 2 HE WAS A REGULAR SOLDIER JOINED IN 38 BY THE TIME WAR BROKE OUT HE WAS BASED IN PALASTINE. WHO WOULD OF THOUGHT AFTER SPENDING THE LAST MONTHS IN JORDAN,IRAQ AND THE LEBONON THAT, HE WOULD BE IN THE MOST FAMOUSE BATTLES OF THE MODERN TIMES, TABROOK TWICE,EL ALAMANE TWICE, NOT LIKE TODAY WEEKS OF BRAVEORY FIGHT OR DIE STUF, IN ITALY HE WAS AT MONTE CASINO WHEN THE REGAMENT LOOKED TO THE SKY AND WATCH MEN FROM THE FREE POLISH ARMY 2 OUT OF 3 PARACHUTES FAILED TO OPEN THAT DAY I COULD GO ON AND ON, SO HIS MEDALS THE AFRICA STAR, ITALY AND EUROPE STAR, ECT WILL NEVER BE SOLD BY ME, HOWEVER MANY POEPLE BUY MEDALS AS A HOBBY I DONT THINK FOR ONE MOMENT THAT THEY PUT THEM ON AND PLAY SOLDIERS WITH THEM..ITS THE SAME WITH BADGES THE ADVERT FROM THE GEEZER IS TYPACAL OF THE SORT OF PEOPLE I WOULD NOT HESITATE TO GIVE A RIGHT HOOK TO, HIS OPENING REMARK HI SOULIES TELLS ME EVERYTHING I NEED TO KNOW FUCKING HELL I HATE THIS IDIOTIC OBVERSERLY COMING FROM A NORTHERNER. SOULIES YOU MATE ARE A PRISE TOSSER AND I HOPE YOU NEVER GET YOUR REMAING BADGES AS IF YOU WERE A SOUL BROTHER I WOULD FIND ONE FOR YOU BUT AS YOU ARE A SOULIE f*** OFF, AND THEN HE DOES IT AGAIN BY NOT ONLY NOT GOING TO THE ALLNIGHTERS IN QUESTION HE IS TELLING ME WHAT I ALREADY KNOW, ANY WAY LETS f*** HIM AND HIS SOULIE MATES OF RIGHT THINKING ABOUT THE BADGES THING WHILE WALKING THE DOG AT 3.30AM I MADE A LINK WAIT FOR IT THE PERMANANT BADGE THE TATTOO THERE IS DEFANANTLY A STRONG LINK TO NS BADGES ALSO REGGAE AND SKINHEADS. I EMEMBERD MY MATE PAUL WHO HAD A CARRABIAN SUNSET ON HIS ARM IN EARLY 69 WITH THE PAMA SYMBEL AS THE RED SUN AND OF COURSE FOOTBALLTATOOS BOSTAL SPOTS THERE GOT TOBE A FEW RARESOUL WHEEL NIGHT OWLS OUT THERE DAVE KIL

REALY PETE, I KNOW THAT IN THE RIGHT PLACE AND IF ALL MINT IWOULD AGREE, HOWEVER THERES ONLY 7 HARD TO GET,MOST OF THEM ARE 50P TO £3 EACH INTERESTING QUESTION IN AYING THATI WOULD NOT TAKE £300 AS BUYING THEM ALLTOGETHER DOES NOT REFLECT MY OWN HISTORY IN BUYING THEM? WHILE YOU ARE THERE WHATS THE COMPLETE SOULSOUND COLLECTION WORTH THESE DAYS, WITH OUT MY RARE DEMOS THAT NOBODY HAS GOT dave kil

i am sorry you guys put so much effort in the black horse in later years, and stupid me for not acknowlaging the fact you guys tried to resarect it from the ashes, across the road behind the houses there a kids adventure play ground called the phoenix? However never put youselfs down and the killer of 2 rooms policy is crap always was and still is, it only exists for poeple who in the main are not into soul nites, which should be in or case based around uptempo class soul no more than that? as I started this once again to all off you from myself I should have given it support but it was at a time that I had fineally kicked a 28 year old amphetamine addiction as such I dropped of the scene and only ever go to allniters with MICK SMITH..while I am talking about that period when I was at my worst the only person i could trust was Smokie and his boy Julian who returned from Warrington in the early hours of the morning under my instructions that i was so out of control to knock me out if I tried any thing on, he really is a top soul brother and I owe him big time for putting up with my maddness for 1 week RIGHT ON SMOKIE WOLVES NO1 SOUL MAN DAVE THE DRUG

AN EX QUESTION THE FIRST BADGES THAT I REMEMBER WERE AT THE WHEEL IN 69 BUT ONLY ON 3 / 4 GEEZERS THEY WERE A MANCHESTER RED ROSE OF LANCSON IT NO MENTION OF THE CLUB BUT THE NAME OF THE GEEZER ON IT, AS I WAS A WEST HAM BOVVER BOY(SKINHEAD) BIG CITYS WERE QUICK TO ADDOPT THE WEST HAM LOOK, AND IF I DO SAY SO A PALE BLUE OXFORD, WITH A MAUVE SLEEVLESS JUMPER V KNECK, FADED 501s LEVEL WITH AT THE TIME 8 HOLE BROWN Dr MARTINS POLISHED IN CHERRY RED OR WHITE STA PRESS& YOU HAD THE HAMMERS BOOT BOY IMAGE, JUST THE DRESS CODE GOT PEOPLE RUNNG ("HENCE THE WHUFC SON BUBBLE WITH ALTERNITVE LYRICS" " TOTENHAM ALWAYS RUNNING ARSENAL NEVER THERE? I AM FOREVER FROWING BOTTLE BOTTLES OVER THER AND THEN INTO THE JIM REEVES SONG " I HERE THE SOUND OF DISTANT BUMS OVERE THERE OVER THERE AND DO THEY SMELL?LIKE FUCKING HELL EVERY ONE WEST HAM WEAT HAM", GEN EVENING DRESS CODE WAS BLACK BLAZER WITH 3 ROWS OF SILVER BUTTONS DICKIE AND WHITE STA PRESSS, ROYALS OR OXFORDS 1/4STEAL HEEL TIP HORSE SHOE OR BLAKY ON THE FRONT AND A TIE WHICH YOU QUICLY TOOK OF ONCE IN A DANCE HALL THESE NORTHERNERS AS I CALED THEM DID NOT HAVE THE STANDARD RED SILK HANKY OR A DIAMOND POCKET STUB, I REMEMBER THINKING AT THE TIME THAT THE BADGES WERE A BIT GREBO,, OTHER EARY BADGES WERE IN 72 THE HOWARD MALLET AND CHRISS BURTON FROM STOKE BOGHT AT 4 THE TORCH STOKE ON TRENT, RIGHT ON THE TORCH black power fist, THAT REMINDS ME AT THEWHEEL ONE HAND IN A BLACK LEATHER GLOVE I HAVE ALWAYS ASSUMED THE IDEA COME FROM THE 68 MEXICO OLIMPICS...i HAVE JUST TOOK A GANDER AT THE TIME 1.03 GOOD NIGHT DAVE KIL

THIS IS A TRUE STORY, I HAVE LIVED IN WOLVES FOR 30 YEARS NOW, BUT LIVED A MILE AWAY FROM MICK SMITH IN HEARTFORDSHIRE, THAT NOT THE STORY WHEN I FIRST MET THE WOLVES IN CROWD AT THE CATS AND WIGAN, THEY TOLD ME THAT SOLOMAN KING WAS APPEARING AT A PENTICOSTAL CHURCH IN BRICKILN STEET WOLES, AND A GANG OF THEM TURNED UP IN ANTISIPATION HE WOULD BE SINGING BEATIFUL DAY, THATS WHY I LOVE EM SO DAVE KIL

HI ALL Ihave only been a member of SOUL-SOURCE justa few months and here we go again? so I have limited it to a instrumentle that I got first on a europian LP of KIETH MANSFIELD & HIS ORCHESTA 1st things 1st I highley recomend his LP a must buy, 2nd the CLASS INSTUMENTAL on the Album :- BOOGALOO its absulutly brill, 9 months ago my mate jim and myaelf were talking about the LP and the ex trax on it, he informed me 1 of the LPs trax come out on CBS in 68 in the UK...called SOUL CONFUSION iI informed him although I had not got it I nwe of its exsistance, he then told me he had a copy of BOOGALOOAS a US 45.this I clearly did not no, I now have a copy and its has become one of my favourate INSTRUMENTAS of all time? DAVE KIL

SHAME,SHAME AND THRICE SHAME ON YOU. actually its as you are aware now always been out there 2 great sides try and get yourself a UK Demo as although rare not to pricey DAVE KIL

Hi all..Over the years I have replaced much of my missing personal memorabilia the only missing bade for me is the original vava bade it was purchesed at the venue in the summer of 73 for those who are to young 73 was a big year of change on the RARE SOUL SCENE, just a glance through BLUES AND SOUL bi weekly magazine which was always a must punches item to get, and you will see from June 73 the change from RARESOUL INTO NORTHERN SOUL. And by the end of 74 NORTHERN SOUL WAS ALMOST GOING OVERGGROUND?..Late 71 was the real start of the change when the Wheel got busted also Bletso, the OLD BILL were trying to end the extended hedonism of the ever changing (metamorphosis of teenage subcultures which come via the MODS in 62/3 and the violence of the pill popping BOVVERBOY of 68/9. when 1973 come it was for many a end of an ERA, loads of Wheel Goers settled don as they reached 25 year old and for some 30 yrs, and with the closure of the Torch, many who witnessed the live MAJOR LANCE performance when people were hanging of curtains and bowing and chanting his name, was also a distant memory, regular work getting married taking your sort to the Berni Inn to have chicken in the basket after a prawn cocktail starter a bottle of Mattuass and the next thing she was in the famly way so many torch bros & sister disappeared off the scene, there were a few good places to go LEEDS Central WARRINGTON, BUT THE VAVA WAS SPECIAL. in the past with the exception of the FLAMINGO the Wheel and the torch most RARE SOUL NIGHTS / ALLNIGHTERS WERE WORD OF MOUTH, getting back to the point "I do have one?" the VAVA badge just faded away to nothing can you believe that, that's why its rare to me, what I am saying that if something you have owned and no longer have is a collectible it depends on how you got your badges, as an old git I get pissed of with the shit in life and badges are a mute point in question its a bit like DJing with a 100 bootlegs or reissues its not the acceptable thing on the rare soul scene, I hate people who ponce about with TWISTED WHEEL blazer badges on as they clearly did not go there whats that I here some people saying but the wheel is still on SORRY TO SPOIL THE ILLUSION THE TWISTED WHEEL SHUT IN 71, my WHEEL had RED & BROWNS, GREEN& CLEARS BOMBERS BLUES, AND FABULAS MUSIC, and thanks to guys like MICK SMITH ADY KIETH RICHARD AND KEV and so many more oh IAN LAVINDER SOZ I MEANT LAVINE just a homophobic joke darling? back to your badges well the WIGAN 5th is always a nice find but the 4th is the best as its in WEST HAM UNITED FC colors sell them if you need cash or be really soulful and give them to people who attended the particular gig PHEWW DAVE KIL

HI SWOZ YOU CAN ADD ME DOWN ON YOUR LIST IF YOU WANT A RARE UK DJ..AND US OLDIES ALL PLAYED ON ORIGANAL VINAL. NO SECOND ISSUES OR BOOTS HERE MY FREIND DAVE KIL

HI ALL ITS BECOME VERY CLEARE TO MYSELF MANY YEARS AGO, THAT IF YOU BROWN NOSE THE ESTABLISHED TOP TEIR OF THE RARE SOUL SCENE, AND I SAY THAT WITH THE GREATEST OF RESPECT TO THE GUYS WHO PIONIERED THE SCENE, YOU GET ASKED TO DO A GEUST SPOT SOME TIMES IT REALLY PISSES ME OFF WHEN I LOOK AT SOME OF THE DJ,s WHO GET ASKED TO DJ. AS I KNOW THE PROMOTOR/S GIVE THE UNDER CARD SPOTS TO THE GUYS WHO SPEND THE MOST CASH WITH THEM ON RECORD DEALS OR THEY ARE GUYS THAT AT THIS MOMENT HAVE THE RIGHT TUNES? THIS IS HOW & WHY 7ts NITES GOT STARTED AS THE RARE UK/US RECORDS BELONGED IN THE HANDS OF THE TOP DEALERS AND COLLECTORS AS SUCH NEW BLOOD TO THE SCENE PICKED UP ON THE MORE AFORDABLE 7ts STUFF, AS ANYONE NEW TO THE SCENE JUST COULD NOT AFFORED TO HAVE A LARG SOUL COLLECTION THESE DAYS, A FEW YEARS AGO I COULD HAVE BOUGHT MY MATES WHOLE REGGAE COLLECTION FOR 90K,I COULD ONLY RAISE 50K MYSELF AND AS SUCH MISSED OUT, INSTANTLY OVER NIGHT I COULD HAVE BEEN THE MAIN REGGAE MAN, THESE OPPERTUNITIES ONLY COME ONCE OR TWICE IN YOUR LIFE.MY PIONT IS WITH THE COLLECTION I WOULD BE PULLING THE STRINGS ON THAT SCENE, I AM GLAD I DID NOT BUY THE COLECTION AS IT WOULD HAVE GONE AGAINST MY IDEALISTIC VALUES AND COMPAIRED TO MY SOUL COLLECTION IT WOULD NOT OF BEEN APPRECIATED AS I KNOW MY RECORDS INSIDE OUT AND WITH THE PRE 8ts NORTHERN ALL THE RECORDS I CAN PLACE AS A TORCH, WHEEL MECCA WIGAN SOUND ALSO IN MOST CASES I NO WHO PLAYED THEM FIRST, IT ALSO MEANS I AM GETTING OLD AS A COLECTORE OF RARE RECORDS (SOUL & JAMACAN)I AND SOME PEOPLE LIKE MYSELF WOULD APPRECIATE A GEST SPOT NOW AND AGAIN IF ONLY TO PLAY OLD STUFF TO NEW EARS.. TO CONCLUDE LETS SUPPORT OUR LOCAL COLLECTORS AND GIVE THEM SPOTS AND NOT TO THE SAME GUYS WHO OWN 400 RECORDS BUT HAVE TONS OF CDs AS A COLLECTION BAH HUM BUG I HERE YOU SAYING? IF YOU PUT THE TOP 10 COLLECTORS IN THE WOLVES AREA ALONE WE PROBERLY HAVE GOT MOST OF THE RARE RECORDS, NOW AND AGAIN I MAY SEE JOHN PUGHS NAME AND HARPOS BUT NEVER SEE ROYS, ROBS, OR EVEN MYSELF ON THE DJ LIST, THE PROMOTORS MUST BE SCARED OR WE SMELL DAVE KIL

ANDY A FEW MONTHS BACK THIS WAS A BIG SOUND PLAYED BY MICK SMITH, HOWEVER THER ARE MANY US COPYS ABOUT FOR A FEW ££S THE UK ISS IS STILL SORT AFTER BUT NOT SO MUCH NOW, HOWEVER THE DEMO IS ALWAYS DESIREABLE, YOUR COPY IF MINT £25 + DAVE KIL

YOU BOTH MAKE GOOD PIONTS-HOWEVER SOME PROMOTERS IN MY OPINION EXPECT POEPLES LOYLATY AND THAT PISSES ME OF, WHILE SOME ARE TRYING TO MAKE THE NIGHT PLESUREABLE? AND THAT COSTS- MYSELF I HAVE DONE BOTH OVER THE YEARS, THATS DJ & PUNTER I HAVE NEVER PROMOTED A GIG AND NEVER EXPECTED A AGREED SUM ALWAYS GOT PAID DAVE KIL

PETE THERES A REAL UK DEMO ON EBAY, THATS IN A REGGAE SHOP, MY MAN IN HACKNEY CHECKED IT OUT FOR ME LISTEN TO SOUND CLIP? AND MY INFO IS RELIABLE ITS A BLACKMANS GOOD /VG AS YOU KNOW THAT MEANS POOR AND KNACKARED, LETS SEE WHAT IT GOES FOR AS ITS ALLREADY REACHED TWICE MY ESTIMATE RARE AND TEMPTING BUT NOT ABOVE £50 AS I KNOW THE SHOP I WISH HIM WELL DAVE KIL

Hi all- SHOULD ALL DJ,s GET PAID?--TO BE TRUTHFULL YES, BUT NO IF THERE EXPENCES MEAN THE EVENT DOES NOT BRAKE EVEN. ALSO WHAT ARE THEY GETTING PAID FOR IF ITS TO PLAY SOUNDS THAT GET POEPLE DANCING YES, IF IT IS TO PLAY THERE OWN GEMS THAT MEAN A LOT TO THEM BUT SO UNFAMILUAR TO MOST (EGO TRIPPIN) THE DEFANANTLY NO, ALSO HAVE THEY GOT A COLLECTION OF RECORDS OR JUST THE ONES IN VOGUE NO AGAIN, YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE DAVE KIL

IF I REMEMBER THINGS RIGHT:- WAS THERE A LOT OF FINGER PIONTING AT ONE OF MY BEST MATES SIDJESTING HE RIPPED BRIAN OFF, WHICH IS UNFAIR AND A LIE? AND I HAD TO PIONT THIS OUT TO CERTAIN INDERVIDUES FROM WOLVES AREA? BRIAN WAS A GOOD BLOKE STILL IS OF CORSE DAVE KIL

PETE I HAVE 2 OF THESE IN MY JUNK BOX? MY US ORIGANAL HAS BIG WRITING ON IT LIKE THE ISSUE :- AND MY BOOT THAT I TREASURE IS THE OOTP COPY? I DO HAVE A COUPLE OF SMALL PRINT ISSUES, HOWEVER THE UK ISSUE AND DEMO I HAVE NEVER HAD AND DO BELONG IN MY COLLECTION IN ANY CONDITION? IF YOU CAN GET ME ONE, ALSO HAVE LONDON DEMO OR IS IT BRUNSWICK? DAVE KIL

AND HIS LONG MAC, I OFTEN THINK OF PHIL A GREAT GUY SADLY I WAS WITH HIM ON THAT FATEFUL DAY IN THE AFTERNOON, BUT I COULD NOT HELP HIM, WHY HE WENT IN THE GOAL POST I WILL NEVER KNOW? DAVE KIL

YEP THE GENE CHANDLER IS THE RAREST ON THE LABEL, YES WHAT ABOUT NOLAN CHANCE OR DEE CLARK & HOLLY MAXWELL WELL THERE RARE IN PRICE BIG SHOT IS BY FAR THE HARDEST TO GET THESE DAYS £50 IS ABOUT RIGHT, OLLIE JACKSON PEPPER DEMO IS RARE FOR 2nd ISSUE £30 AS ISSUE? DAVE KIL

Hi ALL as a record collector of SOUL/ R&B/BLUES, REGGAE/ SKA / ROCK STREADY AND GOOD QUALITY POP!! I HAVE ALWAYS LOVED THE B&C LABELS ESPECIALLY DEMOS FOR EXAMPLE ACTION DEMOS AND EVEN ISLAND DEMOS WITH 3&6 THATS 3 SHILLINGS AND SIXPENCE STAMED ON THEM I CLASS THESE AND SIMULAR AS DEMOS BECOUSE THEY ALL COME FROM ORIGANALY MUSIC CITY SHOPS IN HARLSDON HOWEVER I WOULD LIKE A DEFINANT ANSWER ON THIS SUBJECT?. BUT IF REGGAE WAS TREATED IN THE SAME WAY AS WE COLLECT RARE UK SOUL WHAT WOULD BE A HOLY GRAIL? MAYBE SOMETHING LIKE THESE WHAT DO YOU THINK? SORRY PETE AINT GOT THE LIQUIDATOR! FORGET ABOUT PRE RELEASES AND ALL THAT THESE ARE YOUR ACTUAL DEMOS, HOW RARE ARE THEY? DAVE KIL