Mal C

I always shop around; it generally shocks me how much some folk on this site pay for supposedly rare 45's, that blatantly aren't, and are readily available. I go back to allot of regular dealers and collectors I've bought from before, and I'm especially suspicious of allot of the new sellers that are advertising on this site as well as eBay, you hear to many horror stories to not turn up in person and do the deal as it were.. Mal.

Great stuff...

Old mate of mine from Brum used to run the Lazerdrome at Shelleys... great venue, good write up linked below on Martin Red.. https://www.fantazia....s/martinred.htm Obviously this is not Soul, no where near it, but one record that epitimises those early nights was Meat Beat Manifesto - Radio Babylon, probably not to all your tastes but this record literally rocked that venue pretty much more than anywhere I've ever been, Absolute Awesome record!! Mal.C.

any chance we could hear a clip? mal

cool, I like how it offers you to buy them as well... greedy i-tunes Mal

Not satisfied with the platters I gave you at Cleethorpes Mike.. i know what you mean, sold mine, and now I want it back... M

really? shows how much I know....

£80 - £100?? I don't think many LP's really go over that mark, maybe 1916 bad ass band, Rhythm machine, things like that do.. M

yeah that's what i tell my self Toad........ worst example for me other than the bloody Colt 45's I always mention. I bought a black issue of Tony Galla at the Brighton record fair in the 9ts for £20, guy said he was sick of Northern, and promptly sold it for £50.............

This is really sad news. That image of Kell on the beach will live on though, was a classic 45 and picture cover.. I've not read the linked interviews but did Kell ever mention which of his songs was his favorite? Mal.C.

in the eighties, Second City Sounds, next to the old mod cafe in Brum was good, regular nighter sounds came and went, but he would put things like Roy Hamilton - Earthquake, Carlena Weaver, etc etc in the £2 box, As I was student and had buggar all cash i bought loads, how much do they pay for these now??? Other good shops in Brum were the Diskery and Reddingtons of course, under the subway before they moved behind Debenhams, me and a mate John Coddington used to go through it every week, always new 45's to be had...then we would travel to a record fair in town and get stuff of Mick Smith. I collected allot of house in the 8ts up until 92, and the place to buy that early on was Don Christies, which was always an experience for a white kid, proper record shop where they would play that weekend's new releases, and you knodded when you liked it and they flung it on your pile...Don was known for reggae and was the place for the Black community in brum. The flea market was always good, amount of northern I turned down cause I did not know it...DOH Mal.C.

I saw this a week ago, glad I did not put something on it. m

ahh, this did make my ears prick up, whats the background on this 45, British thing right ady? Mal.c

I did all this comparison lark when I bought mine, both cuts are the 100% same....as Dave says just the two labels are different. Mal.C.

I know Mike at golden gate quite well, he's a good guy..and his 45's are always fabulous condition...

there is allot more depth to Shep Grant recording, than Shep, (TNT), surly the best way to distinguish is through the annotation... it's not the same guy is it? m

I got a Jimmy Connor - Lets Get Married last year, fab track, but knocked out of the park for The reality of life, an all time favourite!! Makes the flip sound plaintive, and that SAX...!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUwqlSHensM Mal.C

Thats the play side as far as I'm concerned... never really warmed to the frantic flip. M~

Great pod cast, I really enjoyed that, allot...!!! mal.c

I've pm'd ya. mal

whens the big day then? I'll expect butch will invite Ian to the stagg...

Joe Jama is like running at pace while farting... its fantastic!!!

I don't know Ian Lavine at all, but the only time he bought some records from me at the Manchester Ritz, he insisted on paying in £50 quid notes, I asked him if he had smaller notes as folk don't like them, he said 'Look, I'm Ian Lavine, of course these are real...' so I spent next half an hour trying to persuade the barman to change them who had all manner of ultra violet lighting out.. The man's nothing but entertaining...... Mal.C

Interesting, If Huns review is being offered at £400, you can on the same day get Illusions for £595.00...

Yeah, I try to resist that these days. Somebody told me, they always come round, you always get them in the end; which is 95% true, so makes sense to wait and buy em cheaper and in allot of cases in better nick...