Pete S

Why? It's the only way to get it on 45, or it was, and theres nothing wrong with the sound quality either

Not one word of what I said was directed at you but if you want to be paranoid that's up to you.

No it's not something I'd ever buy again because it's such a mess of a record, if I get one you'll be welcome to it. People should resist this ridiculous hyping of records which aren't rare or hard to find and use a bit of common sense. Just because a record sells for a large sum in an auction it means absolutely nothing except that two people want it badly and most people don't care if they pay 5 times the real value.

F*cks sake, why are there no nutters on my mailing lists, I sold my copy of that for £25 and now 7 years later I wouldn't sell it for more than £50.

list updated, I also have THE FABULETTES - THE BIGGER THEY ARE - MONUMENT DEMO MINT- £35

Mac it's about time you told this guy to either send back the record or shut up, tell him you want to see a full scan not a partial one and if the record he returns to you is not the one you sent him, you will press charges against him for fraud

N.B. MY EX IS MOST PEOPLE'S MINT AND THERE'S NO VG+ RECORDS AT MINT PRICES 01902 893569 pete.smith@freeuk.com Some new stuff, some old stuff reduced, just drop us a line or ring if interested in anything. Postage is extra, all cards welcome, paypal too but at 4%. cheers Pete ANNABELLE FOX - LONELY GIRL - SATIN DEMO VG++ £175 Has some very light crackle at the start and a few marks - plays beautifully, no hiss whatsoever JOHNNY ROSS - I CAN'T HELP MYSELF - CHIRRUP EX £60 SOLD This time it's definitely the original! Yellow label, superb copy. THE O'JAYS - NO TIME FOR YOU - IMPERIAL EX £35 Fantastic version MARY SNEED - WHEN I WAS 15 - CAPITOL EX £50 SKULL SNAPS - MY HANG UP IS YOU - UK GSF EX £50 SOLD Slightest bit of crackle on the silent bits on the intro LOU JOHNSON - UNSATISFIED - UK LONDON EX £80 DONALD HEIGHT - RAGS TO RICHES TO RAGS - UK AVCO EX £100 E RODNEY JONES - PEACE OF MIND - TUFF ISSUE VG++ £60 MAURICE McALLISTER - BABY HANG ON - CHESS MINT £40 MAURICE & THE RADIANTS - BABY YOU'VE GOT IT - CHESS W.DEMO EX £40 THE MARVELLOS - SOMETHING'S BURNING - LOMA MINT MINUS £75 LORETTA WILLIAMS - BABY CAKES - JOTIS DEMO EX £75 TAMIKO JONES - I'M SPELLBOUND - GOLDEN WORLD DEMO EX+ £120 SOLD Stunning copy THE DON-TELS - PEOPLE GONNA TALK - WITCH VG £25 Nice early Chicago dancer WILLIAM HUNT - WOULD YOU BELIEVE - STREAMSIDE EX £30 Slight label bubbling DOLORES GIBSON - I GOT A FEELING - ELLOMA G+/VG £25 Nice early jazzy/soul track sounds like Wade In The Water meets Fever BOBBY DARIN - NOT FOR ME - UK CAPITOL EX £10 NELLA DODDS - FINDERS KEEPERS LOSERS WEEPERS - UK PYE INT VG+ £10 TOMMY & EDDIE - I LOVE MY BABY - MONEY M £10 SOLD SONNY OCEANS - PITY ME - COLUMBIA DEMO EX £15 BUNNY SIGLER - GIRL DON'T MAKE ME WAIT - PARKWAY VG+ £15 LORI ANN - EARTHQUAKE - MELRON EX £15 SOLD JAY & THE AMERICANS - GOT HUNG UP ALONG THE WAY - UA EX £15 SOLD SOUL BROTHERS 6 - THANK YOU BABY FOR LOVING ME - ATLANTIC EX £20 SOLD SHOW STOPPERS - HEARTBREAKER - UK BEACON EX £20 TONY CLARKE - THE ENTERTAINER - CHESS DEMO EX £15 FIVE KEYS & RUDY WEST - HEY GIRL - INFERNO EX £25 CONTESSAS - I KEEP ON KEEPIN ON - E EX £25 TOMMY SANDS - THE STATUE - LIBERTY DEMO EX £30 SHIRTTAILS - I WANT YOU TO STAY WITH ME - DATE EX £25 TYRONE DAVIS - I'M RUNNING A LOSING RACE - SACK VG+ £20 LEE MEZA - ONE GOOD THING LEADS TO ANOTHER - JUBILEE DEMO M £20 FREDA PAYNE - SAD SAD SEPTEMBER - MGM DEMO EX £20

No we had other stuff for that...never touched dope, it just didn't appear in the circles we moved in, might have done later but in the 70's it was never around

It's not worth more than he listed it for...

I think that info is incorrect, I've never seen an "off white" bootleg of this, the first one was a styrene job with a yellow label, rubbish sound quality and done along with Donna King etc. Much later came a counterfeit which looks identical to the original but doesn't have the matrix stamp. I've never even heard of their being a real white demo of this though I'm not saying there isn't.

They are, but so is the original, thats not the right colour in that scan, but what Dave says is a good indicator, the sound is crap on the bootleg (though not that loud on the original either)

No, I'm telling you that the author said that the air at the Casino was thick with dope smoke which I somehow seem to have missed on the 80 or so visits I made

You should be rejoicing...those tales of people smoking dope at the back of the Casino...ah I can still smell it now. NOT.

There's a copy for sale on the back page of one of the early Shades Of Soul (I think), it's £60 if I remember, that was from around 1988

You've answered your own question - if you need the cash quickly, all you can do is sell them in one go to a dealer. This is the only way to get instant cash, but the down side is that you don't get as much for them as you would if you spread them over 4 or 5 lists a couple of weeks apart.

Oh right, so thats the law is it an EX should be a mint record thats been played a couple of times really

Sorry it's an all purpose word round here, could have said chap/bugger/sod/bloke

Well it is sort of, it's the exact same subject matter, but they are too different songs (Busters version of johnny dollar is great I think)

Not being daft now, but if you'd asked me who it was I would have never, ever got it, even if you told me his first name was Ernie I'd have got a few names say Ernie Washington, well one anyway,oh, Ernie from Eddie & Ernie, if you said to me I'll give you a thousand quid if you can name that person in 5 minutes, I wouldn't have got it.

Oh right. OK. Except I wasn't saying that was northern...

Thats VG+ to me!

Well unfortunately the records haven't got pictures of the artists on them Malc, neither do they miraculously broadcast images from the grooves, so how am I supposed to know what the cnut looks like? Am I supposed to know what every artist I sell a record by looks like? Weird logic! Anyway, I did spot Paul McCartney.

That instrumental was called Esperanto - Grand Piano Company

Thats interesting actually because I've only come across this boot once with a centre and a lot of people were mystified by it, including me, not that it was a boot, that was obvious, but the fact it had a centre

If anyone can access the original tapes there's a good chance that the vocals are on a separate track,easy peasy, that's how Kent put out insts of Tightrope, Hand It Over etc