chrissie
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I personally am not a great lover of instrumentals, being a bit of handbag I like to have a sing along when I dance or listen to my records.
Last night I was coming to the end of an emotionally shit, socially flat weekend and dreading that Monday morning feeling. But instead of reaching for the usual "feeling sorry for my self" type records, I dusted off about 2" of dust off "Bok to Bach".
Had forgotten what a really lifting toon this is. Sometimes because a sound is overplayed or not seen to be "IN" we tend to forget how great they made us feel 20-30 years ago.
Went to bed a lot more cheery and did not have severe Monday morning blues today. Probably first time it's been out of it's cover for about 7 years or more.
What's your favourite instrumental or are there any instrumentals that lift your spirits?
QOF
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We don't all manage to attend our favourite soul venue every weekend, so how do you relax on a Saturday night, well I'm tuned into Jazz FM between 6.00pm - 10.00pm listening to an eclectic array of pure soul heaven with PY of course
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Looks like you and me the only ones not at valatone and 100 club tonight. Will pm you with hotel/B&B finds for prestatyn in a few weeks - going to an all nighter on 23rd April in Llandudno so will have a mooch then.
Oh and in answer to the thread - watching telly with Stella the slapper (Artois) and having a soulless eve but my deck keeps looking at me and I am sure it is saying come on play me.
lol
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Our local KFC now has auctions last weekend 2 pieces of chicken, chips and coleslaw fetched £85 mind you it was 2 in the morning and all the punter were under the influence.
Tip list your ebay stuff to finish after midnight and at weekends this way the bidders have just got back from the pub and will bid on anything.
JOKE!! before you start throwing things at me for taking advantage of the alchollically challenged
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PS you should see the crap I've bought at 2 in the morning - beat this even bid and won a record I already had last week - well always declared to be the QOF does this confirm it
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The sign of a quality DJ, Mark. Any mug with a pile of dosh can buy the trophy records and fill dancefloors. It's a sad state of affairs, though I know it's always been like that on the northern scene, that just because something becomes popular the price shoots up horrendously - imagine if that happened everywhere in real life!!
I remember when the KFC thing first came around I posted this on another list:
I went into my local KFC over the weekend and asked to buy a Zinger
Tower Burger, and when I handed over my £3.99, the spotty oik behind the
counter said "Sorry mate, because our marketing department is now using
northern soul in our ads, they've decided to hike up all the prices of
their burgers for no reason other than people like them. That'll be £50
please." There was also a nice looking burger being advertised on the
lit-up boards overhead but somebody had stuck a napkin over the name of
it so nobody could see what it was called.
Roger
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Our local KFC now has auctions last weekend 2 pieces of chicken, chips and coleslaw fetched £85 mind you it was 2 in the morning and all the punter were under the influence.
Tip list your ebay stuff to finish after midnight and at weekends this way the bidders have just got back from the pub and will bid on anything.
JOKE!! before you start throwing things at me for taking advantage of the alchollically challenged
QOF
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i still have and are stored at my parents as my work and lifestyle did not enable me to carry them around
That's probably what happened to my collection me dad sold em to you (are they all in schweppes crates) bin lookin for them for years
Are your parents still at the same address and how good is their alarm system??
Must make sure me dads ladders are ok when next go home then!!
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did i forget to mention that in the 70's i had a roadshow called soularscope and all we played was NS and motown with a smattering of philly and stax/atlantic. I had a collection of 7"'rs that was superb many of which i still have and are stored at my parents as my work and lifestyle did not enable me to carry them around wherever i went. i have payed for tunes before now i recently paid pete mguiness of rhyl £40 for lovers concerto, also andy music i rip to cd or convert to mp3 i mainly do myself for my own benefit. it is easier and safer to carry cd's which can easily be replaced than have a treasured record destroyed or damaged by accident or mishandling. i buy vinyl quite avidly but i also like to be a little controversial, i have some great 'sue' label buys from a fair in blackpool for a grand total of about £25 for 12 or so records. some i liked others i didnt.
i look for collections for sale and if i can afford it i'll go look. i put my vinyl on cd to safeguard it , cd's can be thrown away or re burnt, vinyl cant.
i love the feel of a 7" or 12" record, one of my faves, which also my sig' tune was soular level, johnny almond music machine. check it out.
regards dave
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McGuiness still ripping you off then Dave - tee hee
only jokingQOF
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do us a favour
check out this guys other threads first before using words like passionate
whining about price of records then trying to justify fact he's playing mp3s of a poxy laptop
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Mike
I, like yourself and probably 95% of the people on the forum, am a purist but bringing the music to the attention of new people is important and if that's his way of doing it fair enough the people he introduces to the music may also become purists, and eventually vinyl junkies just like us.
When someone these days first gets into NS it's very unlikely that they will even have a deck so CD's and MP3 is the only way they can play the music, until they get hooked and fork out for decks and vinyl.
I have read Dave's other posts, re - cost of vinyl etc, and I can empathise, though do not necessarily agree, with some of the points made.
I am just "front room" DJ trying to replace the collection of about 600 7" I lost 30 years ago (not the same records of course) and have probably spent about £250+ in the last three months getting to the grand total of about 50 records.
I don't have a problem with the prices on the market at the moment - if I can't afford it I don't buy it, and am not envious of the people who can afford them in fact have respect for collectors who bring new discoveries to us and take the time and spend the money to do this.
Dave is a main stream soul/oldies DJ and although his personal preference is for NS, he needs to keep a far wider selection of sounds so as to please "his public" to be able to carry such a wide choice of music as well as NS would cost him a fortune and take a serious number of years to collect.
He does not profess that he is a NS DJ and does not pretend to be one but because his work is more mainstream doesn't make him one of the unwashed.
He is spreading the word, which was my main point - and that can only be good can't it?
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Just taken delivery of some great 70s stuff (courtesy of Adey Pierce). Some hilariously non-PC lyrics. Best of the lot is probably Calvin Arnold, 'Satisfy My Woman' on IX Chains, which contains the lines:
I take her out on the town least three nights a week
I don't want her sweating over a hot stove so I take her out to eat
I bought her a brand new dishwasher cos I want to protect her hands
Automatic can opener to open up the cans.
Honestly, these birds don't know they're born.
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Now that sound like my kind a guy!!!! Intro please
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what has pub nights got to do with this thread or come to think of it this site
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Before you all start throwing your teddies at Dave, or the soul police come and arrest him, IMO he is making some very good points.Where as I would not want or expect to see CDs/computers etc used at NS gigs he is trying the best way he knows how to spread the word.
We all see the demise of the NS scene as we all fall off this mortal coil as inevitable, but Dave is passionate about his music and by introducing it to new people in any way he can or feels will work, he is doing his up most to make sure the scene stays alive which is more than I can say for a lot of us (Yep that's me included).
Pub nights are important to the NS scene as they open up an opportunity for people who apart from the KFC ads have never really heard it and think it's some obscure weird cult where people wear funny clothes and shake talc on the dance floor, to hear what it's really all about. OK you can't play all northern at some of these evenings but by using main stream soul oldies as the theme it is very easy then to blend in some NS and get the interest going.
My local pub in Bedford has 4-5 NS dos a year and the majority of people there are not off the scene but people out for a night out and it's surprising how many of them start asking questions about where else locally they can go to hear more.
Keep spreading the gospel Dave - you know it makes sense!!!!
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https://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...5763923654&rd=1
Now that's what I call a sound system
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TAke it you've put a bid in then and are you booked on FLog It Next Week then
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Although I can't speak for those you have stumbled across the site looking for arse-related material or local darts teams to join, I can speak as a long-time non-professional lurker (I want to keep my amateur status so that I can compete in the lurking Olympics).
Personally I browse this site as it is an amazing resource of knowledge (which I need more of) and its also full of other nonsense that helps me get through the day. I've been collecting for about 6 years and due to abject poverty have a modest collection of both funk & soul but mostly well-known stuff (refuse to pay over £50 for a record) so I've not posted as I just don't feel I can contribute anything useful.
Also, have to disagree about the Funk45 forum - The guys (& gals) that are long-established posters over there have a huge amount of knowledge and most of the bickering has to be taken with tongue firmly in cheek.
Anyway, back to lurking.....
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DOn't know nothin bout funk forum as a bit old for all that stuff and know very little about the NS scene now as returning from the depths of the 70s but certainly learning a lot from these guys.
Started collecting again this year but have never paid more than £15 for a record.
The bickering and piss taking is good fun and the peeps are ok really - Have never met any of the lunatics (and wouldn't admit it if I had) apart from one or two who were on my local scene 30 years ago and haven't seem them since (thank god I hear them say).
Read - Learn - Take Part
If you need to know anything about NS/Modern etc this lot will have the answers so you only need to ask.
If I reply with any information it will be a load of bull as I've probably just got back from the pub and I know nuffin.
Some of us come accross as opinionated (well me really) but it's sometimes just to get good banter going - and it works.
lol Ms Handbag oops I mean your loving caring sharing QOF
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I know Trickster and Etsu are lurkers.
I have seen the voodoo dolls he has made to look like all you rotten swines who took the mickey out of his dance classes.
Do you need an email address to join? I cant remember.
Maybe some people are just popping in to t'interne cafe's cos unlike all you Rockerfella's, they might be like me, and not have a computer at home. So they might also not have an email address either.
Is a shame there was all the agro a year or so ago, where it meant Mike had no choice but to make it a members forum. (People were getting annonymous insults etc. Got very bad for one or two in particular).
Anyone thinking of joining in. Go for it. We might look like we know each other, but often we dont. Its easy to build friendships. ie Bladeforlife. we've never met, but we have had some cracking chats. Generally about horses or slagging the Wendies. And its great when you do go out, and put faces to names. makes the evenings even more fun.
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I know none of em and if anyone says any different i'll sue!!!!! Got my reputation to keep - honest
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Who's watching us!!!
I sometimes wonder who all the "Guests" are visiting the SS and what they think of us all.
Could they be aliens from another planet studying earths various leisure activities.
Could they be fashion designers trying to sus out what trends to resurrect, god I hope not, I ain't wearing those tank tops ever again, not even in the name of FASHION
Could they be the record company dudes looking to see what type of music to re-release as covers by some 5 min wonder boy band.
Or
Could they just be normal human beings needing a good laugh, thinking "should these people be allowed into the real world amongst ordinary people!!
I like to think it's the Aliens and on a planet somewhere in another solar system little green men are listening to NS doing spins and backdrops.
What do you think??
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Back around 78 while I was in the Navy, I did both cartilages in my knees doing a backdrop(I think to "There Was A Time") The Navy doctor prodded around and asked "how did you do this, football?". I replied "No, Dancing". He didn't ask any more questions, but there was a strange look on his face.
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Was it that little black mini skirt you were wearing that casued the strange look
, thats a new one for me.....
Instrumentals
in All About the SOUL
I Can't sing - can't dance either. But it's my front room and I'll make a fool of myself however I want, mind you need to get the blinds fixed or the neighbours may send round the men in little white coats one night!!