Woodbutcher

Morecambe.

Only copy I could see on fleabay is listed at £75 by some chancer. The best way to have it affordably is on the superb Various Artists "Sold on Soul" LP on UA from 1980 which is packed full of great tracks for about £20. https://www.discogs.com/release/2883094-Various-Sold-On-Soul

Perhaps this thread should be merged with the "The Scene Is In Safe Hands" thread ... Quite how any self-respecting 'soul fan' could be taken in by such a blatantly open and obvious AI twaddle merchant is beyond me ...

Just had this pop up on my Facebook feed so I've borrowed it for this thread as there's very little live footage about. Jr Walker at the Ram Jam Club in Brixton , 1967. Jnr Walker Shotgun Ram Jam 67.mp4

Doh .... !

For some reason I've found that using the Search feature whilst 'in' this thread just throws up this item , but doing the Search from the Activity feed offers up 411 items with the phrase "Al Williams" in the title , another minor quirky thing for @Mike to investigate ? Here's a link to the 400+ that I got from the search from the feed ... https://www.soul-source.co.uk/search/?&q=%22Al%20Williams%22&quick=1&start_after=any&updated_after=any&sortby=relevancy&search_and_or=or&search_in=titles

The RK release was 1978 the year that Robert Kingston started the Casino Classics label so I assume it was made before they had the idea of the CC bandwagon thing with RW on the team management-wise.

The levels of torture that americans inflicted on themselves aurally back then in order to try and avoid setting their eyes upon coloured singers never fails to amaze me. Just how desperately bigoted did the record company executives have to be to sanction a steaming pile like that ? But fair play to them for being inclusive enough to let the "special" little cousin to join in on the vocals.

The new drama "Untamed" with Eric Bana and Sam Neill is very good so far. (two episodes in) Set in Yellowstone Park amongst the sumptuous views it offers it's a visual treat as well as a drama.

Quick heads up to anyone in the market for a vinyl press , a bunch up for a no-reserve auction on the 25th in Acton , NW10. No vinyl cutting lathes unfortunately which was something I was hoping to see ... I assume this is from the old "Broadcrest Ltd" plant that subsequently became "Phoenix of Vinyl Ltd" ... ? https://gjwisdom.co.uk/2025/07/on-line-auction-contents-of-vinyl-production-business-friday-25th-july-2025/?fbclid=IwY2xjawLleEBleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETBXNHVKb05hdVRGWnhUMDVoAR4zgrgtizECnOGUtGv_cDRw2Ytpv1cfUq-1K2ewH0GiRe2nYz7qnLLTYmpTEA_aem_mZSkFZ7nOfHIG0N4SEX0tw https://auction.gjwisdom.co.uk/auctions/catalog/id/313?order=lot_num

Got bored waiting for a call so knocked up this quick animation of the last seven days worth of my solar discs.

Acetates are literally 'cut' individually on a lathe basically , no multiple copies from stampers , exactly the opposite in fact as the stampers are made from the acetates.

And have them spread all over the internet willy-nilly , nah. I've waited forty-odd years to do something with them so a little longer won't hurt.

Hi Andy , I'm still deciding what to do with them , along with all the others of bands from those years that I was shooting while most on here were doing Wigan , like SLF , Motorhead , The Undertones , 9 Below Zero , Siouxie and the Banshees , Toyah , Echo and the Bunnymen , The Cure , Gang of Four etc etc. I'm still trawling through the negatives making hi-res (3600dpi) scans of everything , it'll be a while whatever I do as there's loads of rolls to go through. Some were recently used in a film by Brandon Spivey called "Crass: The Sound of Free Speech (The Story of Reality Asylum)" which is doing well across Europe at the moment.

Happy hunting. I don't have any acetates but pretty much every single and album I have is fully autographed after the thirty-odd times I saw them live between '78 in Cambridge and '82 in Paris , as well as umpteen of the photos I shot over the years ...

I know there are some on here like me that started their musical journeys in the late seventies and also like me have a interest in a broad range of genres. There are some real treasures on offer here from a man that had a heavy influence on the ears of many folk so I thought it worth sharing the link for any of the less aurally blinkered members that might be interested. https://bid.omegaauctions.co.uk/auction/details/a259-the-john-peel-collection/?au=205&fbclid=IwY2xjawLcMkpleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHhFoOYsW9sPNx1bHEL9Nj1K5bxpcNUCot9zlRr0Rq75Hgh2BXErbHkeiaNZZ_aem_wQqTiNMHd9l1lrvO16kL4A&pp=96&so=0&pn=1

That doesn't finish until the 23rd ...

Lovely to see the font change , it's miles better , thank you Mike.

At about 1:50 in the video she's on stage with the doo-wop group shown in your photo , comprising one black chap and three white fellas so I'm not sure where your statement fits.

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So it has changed then ... previous to the fiddling it has always worked as Zanetti has instructed in the OP , as in clicking on the image automatically opened the full size image link in a new tab and as you hover the cursor over the image the '+' sign shows and the next click opened the full version , as it always has every time I've posted the results. Right clicking now works so thank you but there's certainly been a change somewhere and it's not my browser or OS.

@Zanetti Hi there , I just downloaded the image and it's just 86 x 750 @ 190kb so presumably not the full image ???

Seems to be a bit of a glitch this time round , clicking once opens the image but there's no enlarged full size image to follow a second click it just closes the image and takes you back to the original post. May be something to do with the 'upgrade' ... ? @Mike

Vividly remember mine , it was the Barbara McNair/Vandellas - You're gonna love my baby/Spellbound on TamTown. Got it at the Oddfellows in Leicester around 1981 for a quid , was admiring it on the bus on the way home with the Ely crowd when I got an almighty bollocking from Aggro , he'd just bought a stone mint British red and white demo for something silly like £300. Makes £50 these days so not a bad buy at the end of the day , if Aggro's red and white had increased in value pro rata it'd be £15,000 now ...