Pete S

I couldn't believe it when I heard that MVP's, I told anyone I'd sold one to to send it back. Actually I still have the rejects, I should have done something about that. The MVP's obviously had a mastering fault but I was told that the original recording was perfect so it must have happened at the pressing plant. The Julian Covey's were all off centre as well.

On CD I think I probably have...get back under your stone anyway

Ebay Nutter

Well that's great for you but not everyone is interested in the artists, I sat in the pub while they were on, to each his own, if Shute didn't think it was any good then whats it got to do with you?

But can there possibly be anyone left who hasn't got all these, good as they are?

I never said she didn't write it, YOU said the Ritz scene was in Cutting It and I corrected you so ner-ner yourself

I just popped back to see what was going on to be honest...I just didn't have time to wade through all the off topics anymore...might get back into the swing after the weekend maybe. What you doing anyway, I'm jsut sat here waiting for the missus to get out of the shower

Must be the rare mistitled one eh?

Good rant on KTF earlier Mark. Agree with you as well

It's ETC ETC actually

If you soak your pale blue copy in bleach for 5 minutes you will have a unique white demo! I did anyway..

It is P.B., I've seen two, one was a George Blackwell, pressed on vinyl like the original with moulded label (with the ubiquitous Mick Derry name written on the label, I bet he bought it off Pep as an original), I paid someone £400 for that but got my money back - he had no idea it was a bootleg. I've also seen a Dave Newman demo which looks just like the original, vinyl press, and also I think the same guy did the Anderson brothers but that was done 3 times. Possibly there is a Billy Prophet vinyl boot as well. When they subsequently pressed george Blackwell et al at Monarch a few months later, several of those had P.B. in the run off but they were easy to tell as they were on styrene.

Can I just add that although the writer in question may have also done 'Cutting It', the scene where the guy and his wife go the The Ritz and dance to The Champion is actually from a series called 'Clocking Off'. I thank you.

Even the experts can get it wrong, I once was offered a Jimmy Raye that the guy had bought off Sam as an original - it wasn't. Sadly, if it hasn't got the stamp that Ady mentions then it's a boot.

I do dvd's of this by the way it's on one of my compilations tell you what, the soundtrack (all Grapevine) is fabulous and the recreation of the Casino is so good I can't actually believe it's not real...but the play itself is boring and uses too much poetic license.

OK I'll bring 10 or so sets with me then!

I really want to do this...

Did you see the price of it though? Same as for the UK demo!

I'll take more or less any non chart UK releases 1960-71 Dunc...seriously....you want me to name some labels?

Shout up now so I know how many to bring with me - they are free of charge but I'm not doing a mail out, just a hand over I did 3 cd's as I didn't know whether to do a mix of styles or keep the separate, so I did the latter, anyway there's a Ska one, a Rocksteady one which I would highly recommend, and an early reggae one which should please all the ex skinheads...including ska cd: inc andy & joey - you're wondering now don drummond - stampede tommy mccook - cotton tree skatalites - ball o fire wailers - whats new pussycat baba brooks - vitamin a derrick morgan - the hop baba brooks - girls town ska etc rocksteady cd: inc derrick harriott - the loser derrick harriott - walk the streets techniques - queen majesty derrick morgan - kill me dead melodians - you don't need me delroy wilson - i'm not a king heptones - only sixteen eternals - queen of the minstrels etc early reggae: inc alton ellis - i'm just a guy uniques - my conversation slim smith - everybody needs love upsetters - dry acid pat kelly - how long will it take jonny organ - don juan hortense ellis - my last date austin faithfull - i'm losing you etc I'll have a bud please nb you can have all 3 if you want ps all feature authentic surface noise

Or kidnapping a panda... (maybe you have to be over 40 to get that joke)

Weird isn't it, not last Prestatyn but the one before, I had a copy of that for sale at £700 and nobody bought it.... :angry:

Is it the one on Kapp - something like If You're Gonna Love Me? Beat ballad thing..

I see loads of records mentioned on here and I think to myself, I bet they wouldn't have heard that unless I'd taped it for them years ago, except hundreds more people must be thinking exactly the same thing themselves, there was such a huge swapping network 15-20 years ago. I remember a couple of British things that went massive which I featured, Timi Yuro and Ketty Lester, but although I mentioned them nobody would remember the names of the people who first found them, in fact if I remember rightly it was Mick Boland who found Ketty lester, and then of course every record I ever reviewed was "originally played at the Torch just once then forgotten"...or so I was reliably informed. There's a couple of records I reviewed that I don't think I ever uncovered, one that I remember was a fantastic midtempo soul track on the reggae label High Note by First Generation called Give Him Up or Give It Up. It was on the back of a single by Dave Barker. I must have stuck that on a tape but sadly can't find a trace of it now.