Jerry Hipkiss

Couldn't have put it better...Sean, you have my sympathy, just don't know how I'd cope!

You have to remember that RS was doing a lot of one-offs on other days of the week at that time, possibly got better reactions on JJA at some of them than at the Casino. Most of us local DJ's gave "I got the vibes" a lot of plays, prob because it was easy to get hold of!

1978/79 Pete - think we all know the info on that other site is bo**ocks...tell you more about the Nabay over a pint at Riverside Soul tomorrow night?

If it's on the superinformationhighwaythingy it must be true then...and my memory must be totally shot!

LOL...I was getting withdrawal symptoms as well! Keep smiling Mike

Love stories like that - similar things must have happened to a lot of us! Favourite vic memories? well, I only went a couple of times, other priorities and all that, just remember good nights and the bar!!

Well, you live and learn...never heard of the water damage story on this, all the copies I've ever seen were fine - including mine!

Good to see you posting Steve - didn't realise you'd got any tunes left, thought you got rid of them all! Hope to catch up with you for a beer or two while you're over. Hippo.

Don't think anyone actually had it at that time Pete, otherwise we would have heard it, but it was referred to in a Soul Time mag in 77/78 (when Siz Sayles was doing it I think) in a throwaway line to the effect of "...vocal to Bird Walking ended up in the bin, I'm not surprised". As to whether anyone had actually heard it then, I'm not sure, but I would guess that it was rescued at a later date.

Seconded!

That was Stompers Bar, back of the Plough in the High Street - Paul O'brien and I put it on, but it was a Thursday night Dave, not Sunday. Used to be a good way to warm up for the weekend! Sunday night was Brahms & Lizst pub, where I mixed up new funky stuff with whatever tunes I'd bought at Yate or Wigan the night before! Jerry.

Pretty sure I heard it a a Stafford all-dayer in 1990 - mind you, it was known about as far back as 77/78. Jerry.

Yes, I got caught on this one some years back - you know how it is, several beers into the evening, and I found it in a box, a quick look at the matrix, yes, stamped so it must be original, can't fool me 'cos I've known about the boots for thirty years or so... wrong!! It's when you compare it to a proper one you realise that apart from being on vinyl, the label colour just doesn't look right. Oh well, we all have those moments I suppose... Hippo.

great story...c'mon Snooky, come out of lurkerdom and reply!!

Great Yate memories! Swindon had a couple of decent second hand shops, back in the seventies I found both the RCA abums with Herb Ward, Willie Kendrick etc., (this was before the reissues), the Stateside LP with Mary Love and Vernon Garrett, and the Lp with Emile Grifith "Goin goin gone" (wish I still had that!) and several decent 45's including (Ahem...) Wayne Gibson on Columbia for pennies - my defence is that I always loved it as a pop tune in the 60's and it was at the time that Wigan were hammering it

True, true...maybe better stick to the tablets ...or some Otex drops...

One ear syringe on its way to ya Hippo.

...and that's the spirit in which it got a play or two at Yate, if I remember correctly, just a bit of FUN! Anything to crack a few people up...

Racking my brains as to which of the three I went to - think it might have been the Wessex. My girlfriend of the time lived in Streatham, non-NS, bless her, think she was a little bemused by it!

Heydays? 1966 - 2007 and wherever we go from here!

Aaah, you young sprog...and this at the time my mum was asking me if I wanted Sunday lunch when I'd just got in from a niter...

...or Dave G's column to see who was threatening who with writs!

The reality is that playing slow to mid-tempo IMO doesn't create any atmosphere, certainly not early doors, and so the place will feel flat to punters coming in, so the next DJ has to play a blinder to get 'em going. Remember, first impressions are lasting impressions (cue for a song )...

Sounds like a west coast demo - if the letters in the circle are MR (for Monarch pressing plant). AFAIK the boot didn't have the delta number.

One cover-up I've never worked out - Richards 1979 plays included The Tomassos "Wait till I get to know you". Anyone know what this actually was?