Russ Vickers

All the best Nighters have an open policy & no restrictions on what DJ's play. Cast your minds back & you'll see that most of the legendary venues played a bit of everything, with the main crux being new discoveries. This type of venue will get my vote every time, as this is what the 'true rare soul scene' is all about. Russ

My personal definition of crossover is this: Usually between 68-78 ish & was the sounds that were in the transitional period between the raw 6ts sound recorded on 4 track in a shed, to the more sophisticated disco sound using up to the minuit technology, the term crossover first appeared in the context that we use it towards the end of Stafford, I think, & my opinion is that it was a get out of jail free card for 6ts only DJ's who had burned their bridges by shunning more modern sounds & the modern DJ;s who had shunned the 6ts sounds, they could play sounds from either camp, that didn't quite fit into either camp with out losing face by pidgeon holing the genre as 'crossover' PHEWWWWWWWWWWW what a load of bollocks, but thats my theory any way, crossover being my fave sound. Couple of classic crossover tunes: Darrel Banks- I'm the one who loves you Ruby Andrews-Just loving you Current fave: Stan Martin-Big Mouth Woman Hopefully food for thought Russ

My plate in the old US OF A is 'SOUL UK' needless to say I take my wifes car when on vinyl hunting trips !!!. Russ