Steve G

Sorry I don't buy that Dobber, Teffler has posted scans and anyone that knows or has these records on original can see they are originals - Bell Sound stamp, narrow Columbia pressing plant ZTS numbers……and if you don't know how to tell an original from a fake, best not risk causing doubt on a record auction - say nothing.…..

Sorry, sometimes my acidic sense of humour takes over…..I wasn't in "Octopussy" either - turned up 5 mins too late and all the roles were all filled, so I just stood around and watched the filming!! But I do find sniping about the film very frustrating. Its been going on from a minority for some time - It feels like someone achieves something (and it really is very good) and Elaine has put everything into it……and immediately the knockers are out. "It won't be any good", "it won't represent what it was really like", "Why is it taking so long - what's the problem?", and now people are "disgusted" because "the extras (of which there were hundreds at Blackburn King Georges) aren't all invited to a preview" etc. etc. i'd wager the pre promotion and marketing is largely done by a company, and they'll have a plan to maximise publicity. I am sure there will be further pre-views.

I was an extra in "Octopussy" the 1983 James Bond film (uncredited in IMDb boo hoo!) - come to think of it now, I never got free tickets to see it with my family and friends when it was previewed….Maud Evans never answers my letters anymore, and some years ago Roger Moore walked past me in the street in London - completely blanked me!!!…I think all of the other East German soldier extras that spent a Sunday morning at Ferry Meadows that morning are all upset too - boo hoo! We're starting an internet forum so we can all moan about how we've been treated by Broccoli Films.

It's not…..it's about two lads journey into NS>…..

Oh you mean the plain green ones, yes….thought you meant the Soul Bowl specials….

Week 2 of my new weekly show on Solar can be found here: Format: 1st Hour - new and recent releases 2nd Hour - collectors soul from the 80s 70s and 60s https://www.mixcloud.com/steve-guarnori/soul-time-show-on-solar-week-2-14214/ 1 Tyrone Lee "Get to know U" 2 Ruben Studdard Love love love 3 J. Holiday Incredible 4 Ms Jody I'm gonna keep my love at home 5 Ty Causey Ordinary Guy 6 Rajdulari Barnes Dance w me 7 Floyd Taylor Turning up 8. Alexander Lay-far feat Pete Simpson Stand up 9.Sunburst Band "The secret life of us" reflex revision 10 Dynamites feat Charles Walker "Get up on living" 11 Sharon Jones & Dap Kings "We get along" 12 De Robert & Half Truths "The Dole Part 2" 13 Robin McKelle & Fly Tones Fairytale Ending 14 Qunestine Strong A hundered years from now 15 Little Gregory & Concepts Look and you'll see 16Brooklyn Soul Biscuits Beautiful day 17.Dionne Warwick Meant to be Collectors Soul 18 Infinity Queen of my universe 19 Sideshow featuring Arthur Ponder Sexy lady 20 Herman Hitson Walking in the park 21 Trey J's I found it all in you 22 Maureen Bailey Takin my time with you 23 Detroit Sounds of Friction I'm leaving you 24 Emmanuel Lasky I'd rather leave on my feet 25 Rokk Patience 26 Don Gardner We're gonna make it big 27 The Differences Five Minutes 28 Patti & Emblems Gonna love you a long long time 29 Towanda & Total Destruction Wear your natural baby Carl Hall Need somebody to love 30 Eight Movement Sweeter & Sweeter 31 Shirley Wahls Remember Martin Luther King 32 Bobby Patterson Right place wrong time 33 Chuck JAckson I fell asleep

Hi, the green sleeves first appeared in the mid - late 90s I think….We got the same coffee and meal though :-)

Yes it was avante grade,,,,,,have told this story before but was at kings Lynn with Sam when he bought it…..John used to give us each a pile to play through…..and I used too get a pile of cheaper stuff on the whole, since I didn't have as much money….anyway when Martin played it and decided to buy it, I thought "what???? why????" I didn't get it……Then it took me over 20 years to get a copy,…

Played at Rock City in the 80s Peter 100…..

VAT is paid on annual turnover by the trader, not the seller of an individual record. If the seller sells loads of records and makes the VAT threshold he may need to worry about VAT, but in this case JM only acts as a "broker" or middle man…..so VAT not payable at 20% on £1000….Sorry.

£800? (20% of 1000 = 200)

ALways loved both of the Constellations 45s on Gemini Star, but for me "I Dont Know about you" is more poppy, easy on the ear / feet dancer, while "I Didn't know How to" is a driving moody opus with its change of directions, it's a fantastically produced dance record…..Drumming is, as John says great (Bernard Purdie no less). A number of top musicians were on the session too and you can tell! Never tire of it.

Hi Jordi, first copy of F.Smogg to Sam c 1985…..Targets for shooting practice - that was Tommy Ridgeley on International City…..(true)

Yes I heard that too Ivor…..

Yes Brown got it. When he was selling up some years ago, I was the second person in there after Tim, and it had already gone. Still after it as it happens....

That was on Bell, not a Levine production….pretty good record from c 1972 ish.

Yes I think so…..and James Wells both made in the 70s.

Yes, there's a partial write up of Barbara St Clair on a Buffalo music website which I am sure is googleable, she of course was also in The Pinkooshins (Mercury) previously.....The article only mentions one of the band going into Spyro Gyra but I think it was more than one.....You can't really have a hit with RCA and also be plugging some other recording you've made (B St.C).....hence the jettisoning of the Barbara St Clair record.....and John A buying them all up....In fact B St.C may have been made after they signed to RCA, and be a moonlighting job now I come to think of it, but would need to check dates etc. since I don't know how long Spyro Gyra were on RCA before they had a hit....Steve

Hi Penny, yes I do disagree....am not talking about Graham Bond, am talking about soul acts in the USA......Yep sure a few did projects for Jesse Jackson's PUSH movement, March of Dimes etc. but by and large people make a record to have a hit......or to make money.

Hi Ian, Ginger will be the first person to tell you he's a DJ and not a record collector.......He's been turned over more than once I am afraid to say - Johnny Watson another example......DJs are always more likely to fall for these things, another DJ friend we all know has had similar experiences over the years, occasionally buying stuff and thinking it's something it isn't.

What's removed Russ? - You got a copy for sale or auction fella?

Craig got all his when he bought up the old Soul Bowl stock.....Soul bowl had imported tons of them back in the day when the nucleus of the group who made the record became Spyro Gyra and with a hit on their hands, had to jettison all their copies of this one. I've told it before but it's a great story.

Hi Penny, I have interviewed hundreds of recording artists. I have yet to find one who says they made records for a reason other than to try and get a hit record. Even if they pressed 100 it was in the optimistic hope that Stax, Atlantic, scepter, Sound Stage 7, Motown, or a myriad of mid sized labels would pick it up….Yes artists sometimes pressed records for sale at gigs etc….that's true, but ultimately unless it was a special press for a specific event, they all wanted to get a hit….

wow!

Hey man, you sound so disgruntled with it all.....maybe time to concerntrate on the model railway or something, and leave soul to the rest of us! Just saying like.... PS: I got Dad an 0 Gauge Cumrbian Slate Wagon for Xmas from a shop in Barrow Well nice!