Pete S

Thats a boot, sorry...late 80's

You know that footage of Etta James I put up on YouTube - the really old, mid-50's stuff - well her people contacted me on behalf of Etta and asked if she could have a copy for herself to keep. Which was nice. Also had the O'Jays request a copy of the film of Lipstick Traces recently as well.

I had a Strides the other week Steve, think I listed it for 200. or 175. Can't remember, but it's probably still up on here somewhere.

Thanks John. Okay, whoever had that original off me for a tenner, I need to have a word with you :angry:

Well I'm stuck now, and it's a record I've had problems with before I won a Janie Grant demo last night, then someone pm's me to say that it doesn't have a bell sound stamp, so I emailed the seller and they told me - and I honestly have no reason to doubt them as I've bought from them before - that it came from a radio station dj's collection and had been in storage for at least 2 decades. I've never seen them sell a boot or pressing of any description. Also, I received one in a collection I was selling for someone last year and again, no stamp, I told him there was no way I could sell this for £50, and he said "well I bought it off you as an original 5 years ago", and he had - I'd bought it from the States in the early days of the net. Thinking it was a boot, I sold it for a tenner. So I'm getting a bit worried about this. What do you think John? Or anyone? https://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...N%3AIT&rd=1

That's from Ian Levine's film, and it was all a set-up.

Who's the guy on the left wearing a tablecloth?

I've put a few things onto dvd and at least 50% are unwatchable because, like you mention, they are 'blocky' due to them being reduced in quality before being uploaded. You can just burn the mpegs straight onto a dvd disc and your dvd should play them

Yes. Buy the original dvd versions of all these clips off me

If you're going to start collecting, why not just buy the record for what's in the groove and don't worry about whether it's a bootleg, pressing, reissue whatever. The people who frown upon bootlegs are people on here who don't like them being played by dj's on the same bill as guys who play originals or are goody goodys who've never bought a pressing in their life and think you should do the same. Don't let them bully you into not buying anything. You can build up a collection of great records by buying records on official labels Grapevine, Sevens, Kent, then when you've got all those, track down classics on pressings and save yourself thousands of pounds. John Manship's bootleg guide is absolutely essential, more so than the price guides in my opinion, anyone beginning a collection shouldn't begin without having a copy of this handy.

Think I've seen this...kind of documentary with re-enacted incidents? Was on BBC 4 about 6 months back. His old man doesn't come out of it very well, specially in the first half where he cross dresses most of the time.

Dear mayfairmenthol (petesmithrecords@hotmail.com), You expressed interest in an item titled "Moments on Hog - group / northern soul 45 - RARE ORIG!!" (Item# 330025498804) by bidding, however the auction has ended with another member as the high bidder. In compliance with eBay policy, the seller, is making this Second Chance Offer to you at your bid price of US $802.00. The seller has issued this Second Chance Offer because he has duplicate items for sale or the winning bidder was unable to complete the transaction. If you accept this offer, you will be able to exchange Feedback with the seller and will be eligible for eBay services associated with a transaction, such as fraud protection. To purchase this item reply the seller: lnspd@yahoo.com Thank you, eBay Sorry, I meant to add...

Oops sorry Paul. But my goodness you must be tight because I only bid just enough so I can add a bit of profit on top

I thought £100 was a fair offer for that amount and I was gonna keep them anyway

Tell him to accept my offer and stop being so bloody greedy, otherwise he'll be upset when I win them for £30 off ebay...

Mick I've managed to suss it but thanks for all your help. First use the Ultravideo To Flash Converter, which still leaves everything upside down and reversed, but then I got a program called Blaze Media Pro. This has a function called 'flip' which does exactly that, flips the film back to it's original state. I finally did a succesful file at 11.45 last night. The reason I want to do all this is because I bought an Archos AV 700 mobile digital video recorder and it has an astonishing amount of hard drive space (160 hours of video!) so I thought what a great place to keep an archive.

No still no good, in fact twice as bad using Craigs settings - still upside down, mirror image, and now going too fast. All the files I downloaded, I converted to avi with athing called Replay Converter, and they have worked really well, apart from the obvious problem - but I still think it's something to do with codecs. This is really doing my head in.

Come on, this is serious. I've downloaded about 150 clips now and they play upside down and like a mirror image. I am pretty sure this is down to either missing codecs but I can't work out what to do. I have a program that tells you what codecs are included on a particular film clip but they also show error messages like 'cannot playback video stream - no suitable decompressor could be found'. Anyone else successfully downloaded stuff off youtube and converted it to watchable avi's or mpegs?

What you on about Russ, I'll give you the password to my yahoogroup and you can go back over 8 years of lists, you'll find at least 10 copies and the last of these will have been last year...all with pic covers

No, I sold mine in about 2000 and I've no idea why I sold it, I haven't seen a single copy since. The other side is bought by the breakbeat/funk people, and all the demos have the A side on both side so Lockes Theme is only on the issue. I'd definitely pay £100 for it. Having said that, I knew I was going to have trouble finding it so I got a dub cut off my old vinyl copy which I'd put on cd.

James, ok, next time I get one on Googa Mooga, you can arrange for me to be struck down dead if I charge anything over, say, £25, and for that it would have to be unplayed. Not quite the same case on Sepia, but the Googa Mooga record is very very common now, not just in 1987

What a great site...lots of new ideas, scans of records which are in no way same old-same old, I really enjoyed it so I thought I'd recommend it https://www.roundblackrecords.piczo.com

There's billions of these about. Shouldn't cost you more than £20 on Googa Mooga in the real world

SOUTHSIDE MOVEMENT - DO IT TO ME - 20TH CENTURY VG+ 5 PLEASE DON'T ASK FOR THIS ONE - IT'S SOLD, AND YES, I REALISE I PRICED IT WAY TOO LOW BUT THAT'S LIFE!

He has to make a living Steve, if a record suddenly becomes popular, doesn't matter how common it is, the idea is to make as much out of it as possible while demand is at it's peak. For instance, I sold 35 copies of Sister James for £20 each a few years back...be lucky to get £5 for it now.