Chalky

page four, few posts down, Butch confirms it was Soulmates as he and Tim found it Stateside.

There's an earlier one with Butch contributing. Had quick look but can't find it.

The price dropped to half what it was. Issue the harder in my experience.

There was a previous topic about this Jerry, might have been me that started it about the Soulmates, saying it was a Gary Rushbrooke spin. Dave originally disagreed and said it was Green Grunchons but Butch replied that Gary played the Soulmates and gave a bit more info.

Soulmates "Sock-in-soul" on Double Soul

It's the same record as the Green Grunchons but a different artist and title, it's on tip of me tongue.......

I will rub it in a bit more, Rob Smith had loads of them at a quid a piece

Vinyl will be fairly flexible with a moulded label, you can not pick the edge of the label with your nail. Styrene isn't flexible, it will break if you try to bend it, very brittle. The label is stuck on and you can pick the edge with your nail.

That'd be me at Tracky with Kurt Harris,

Here's the UK amazon url.... https://www.amazon.co.uk/Thought-We-Were-Writing-Blues-ebook/dp/B00SVYJMLU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1423498197&sr=8-1&keywords=Rose+Marie+McCoy only available for the kindle but I've ordered form the US site with no issues and super quick delivery.

Look forward to it mate, will give this one a listen tomorrow hopefully now I have extra data on the phone.

Sooty again you are rewriting history. I didn't say the records were finished did I? I said they'd been hammered and most of the DJ's who played them had dropped them because they'd been hammered and were no longer either exclusive and every Tom Dick and Arry was spinning them. The Hyperions Why You Wanna Treat Me, monster for Rob Marriott from 88ish into the 90's, Jimmy Robbins was a five quid record in every sales box and was done and dusted for many DJ's by the early 90's. Etta James the same. You obviously missed out on these and by the time you were DJing you were playing catch up but you weren't to know this having not been around. As for Kurt Harris it was one of the biggest records on the scene and had been since the mid 80's. Just because you didn't hear it doesn't mean it wasn't around and being played, plenty of places and DJ's back then were playing them. There was more than you being "hardcore"

Bugger, I was gonna ask him if he played the Kurt Harris first I had one of the first few to turn up after you made it a monster down the 100 Club. Played at Stafford also by I think Keith? By the early 90's whenever I heard Jimmy Fraser I was beginning to think, "not again" but I must have been imagining hearing it as it wasn't played anywhere only the instrumental?

As an aside, Richie Brown's "Uptight" is probaly the best take of on song for me.

It will be released. One of Andy's mates has been laying it out. Martin Koppell was recently interviewed and Andy was recently transcribing it as it was all on video but as he types with one finger it might take a while Last I heard summer time this year.

None of those are an orange Carrie? You replied to Tony's quote about the orange one?

You are re-writing history again. Every track you have mentioned were hammered by the time you were Djing, many had been dropped by your more forward thinking DJ as oldies. Joy Lovejoy was a staple of most oldies nights. If your mates said the vocal to Hopes and Dreams was rarely played then then they weren't what you call hardcore. Did you really have Man O Man on La Cindy? It had been covered up since the mid 80's by Butch and very few copies about. Butch was the only one I heard play it at Bretby. 90's was a bleak time really for discoveries IMO. The music had by and large taken a huge backward step with very few progressive DJ's getting a look in at the larger venues. Oldies were becoming the staple of many playlists and the thirst for new discoveries were drowning in a sea of mediocrity IMO. There were venues still doing the business though, The Wilton where many collectors were given a chance, The 100 Club, Droyslden, Duncan Pollett and Pete Hollander over in Cheshire etc, Winsford etc etc. There were still DJ's plugging away with new discoveries which because of the reliance on oldies took some years to filter through. Butch of course, Kitch and Dean, Andy Rix, Ady...etc. Anyway excellent podcast Martyn, you are getting good at this

100/120 quid.

Quality.

I would have thought more too, nearer 300?

Picked up a Parachute test press of the LP recently for less than a tenner, well chuffed.

Class! I meant to play this last night but ran out of time.

Another superb write up Dave. You really are doing these inductees the justice they deserve.

good enough for me Steve

it sounds like lets face it to these ears but it isn't very clear