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    4 minutes ago, chalky said:

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    The group would be shaking their heads in disbelief to see all this bollox about one or the other being the original.  Just enjoy the music for once, however you buy it. 

    Yes just imagine how they’d feel after the effort and struggle to get a release and then read such a debate ! They need every leg up they can , not this shyte. 
     
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    9 minutes ago, chalky said:

    The 90s was the beginning of the death of the newies scene we had in the 80s IMO beginning with Keele.  Keele was always a good night with a great record bar but it was oldies and more would follow.  

    The 80s just about every allnighter was still newies influenced.  By the end if the 90s the newies scene was in a poor way and oldies ruled the roost. Thats not to say it was dead altogether, we still had Bradford, 100 Club, Winsford, Northern Cowboys, Wilton etc.  Many a great time.  Yarmouth then Cleethorpes were fantastic weekends  

    The onset of the 90s was definately a turning point though and heavily influenced by the returnees unwilliing to listen to something new and promoters unwilling to be adventurous. 

    Agree on keele I hated it , looking back yes it was probably the sign of the storm brewing, I loved the Wilton , Bradford etc all nighters. For me it was places like pitches/Phoenix that evoke great memories.

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    4 minutes ago, shufflin said:

    the other thing about the 90's was how the internet allowed everyone to grow knowledge of the sounds, sure the internet was crap back then but I remenber lots of soul internet radio stations and soul sites popping up everywhere, I was a member of a soul chat group which had members from all over the world, there was just a general boom of interesst in the music in the nineties if I remember correctly

    I don’t think I got onto the net till about 99! Lol

    13 minutes ago, Stevie said:

     

    I had a car! 

    People still travelling distances to events so if you turned up at a niter it was full of familiar faces.

    Two niters on during the same night was frowned upon so clashes were uncommon and if it did happen the word 'political' raised it's head.

    Early years at Wigan were exciting but during the nineties the music had matured and DJs more discerning about what they played.

    I didn't go to Stafford so loads of records that I had never heard before.

    Trying to identify, from references made, who it was getting slagged off in Manifesto magazine by Mr Potato Head.

    "Back to Bob's" -  (will strike a chord with N Wales crowd) 

    Great, great times - could ramble on for ages but this is enough to be getting on with..

     

    Totally agree , best times for me too , and yes you’re right on the money about the music ‘matured’ and the discerning Djs imo 

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    Just slightly going off topic but sticking with Curtis , I read the biography on him by his son or his nephew? I forget, but the bit about when he did one of his very first gigs and the promoter a known gangster/shyster was notorious for not paying and Curtis still a teenager confronted him , to which the guy pulled a pistol put it to his face and said “how bad do you want the money “ to which he replied “ bad enough for you to pull that trigger” if true how fucking cool is that 😎

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    3 minutes ago, Joey said:

    As another member posted earlier today, perhaps we need to draw a VERY THICK AND SOLID line under this subject. Views are not just extremely polarised, but also firmly entrenched. I doubt very much that ANY new arguments, either for or against, will sway anyone's opinion. In the great scheme of things, this is a relatively new phenomenon on the scene. It will go away one day, probably only to be replaced by something equally as contentious!

    (and remember, at the end of the day it's only an opinion. Mine, of course, is the right one, everyone else is wrong!😂)

     

    Amen ? ( lol) 

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    2 hours ago, Joey said:

    Deffo. He's probably the worst of the bloody lot. Almost all the so-called YBA crew are untalented con artists, but Hirst is no more than a professional plonker who appeals to a certain type of metropolitan tosspot. My daughter recreated one of his "Spin" paintings when she was five, and we sold it for a three figure sum on eBay.  At least that Emin woman, although mad as a bag of diseased badgers, offers some honesty. Says it all really. 

    Joey, We did some work on Hirsts’ art teachers house  who told him he was f#cking useless and still stood by that to his dying day 😄

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    21 minutes ago, chalky said:

    If you wanna play boots just advertise the fact younare either djing or promoting with them, people then have a choice to support or not. You will then see how many care or not. 

    Precisely, funny how they don’t advertise “ no ovo cos I wasn’t interested enough to obtain them back in the day , or hang on to them when I did have them “ 

    1 hour ago, MotownSoulMan said:

    ZZ Hill could sing. That "Nothing can change this love" is a classic. Maybe the most super bluesy song I like. Clay Hammond was another.

    Aye , I love his version of mr nobody somebody... killer track

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    43 minutes ago, Steve C said:

    When a singer like Bobby Bland doesn't get a shout out by this point in a discussion then we could all have our arses kicked.

    Given we are now just talking about voices we liked I'll mention a favourite of mine ….Otis Leavill !

    Bobby Bland , yes , we all deserve a boot up the arse 

    35 minutes ago, MotownSoulMan said:

    Colnago

    Re Clarence Carter's Slip Away. I love it to death, literally. I want it played at my funeral. It's one of the very best songs on the label in my opinion, and one of the first songs I bought with my own money.

    Great tune , I can hear where George Jackson got his “ my desires getting...” from

    11 minutes ago, MotownSoulMan said:

    Tommy Tate?. Now he wrote some songs, but I don't have any of his vocal works.

    Now there's a name I didn't expect to see, Rance Allen. I love some of his Gospel songs. So easy to listen too.

    Luther Ingram could belt a song out too.

    Someone mentioned Al Green earlier too. Love one or two of his songs. 

    Has anyone mention Clarence Carter yet.

    Slip Away - 1968. Atlantic

     

    Nice one 

    Trouble is a lot of them as we know didn’t get the breaks . But the ones that did , well Al Green for me. But then Otis clay wasn’t an international superstar was he but consistent, hell yeah . 

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    To put it into context chalky , one of my favourite artists is George Jackson , but I wouldn’t put him up there as a top vocalist but it’s the flaws in his vocals that kind of do it for me as it isn’t too polished , especially as a lot were merely demo form as writing was his forte. Love Womack too but how then do you judge it ? Ifit’s based on vocals alone what about Pickett , but same as Jackie Wilson, I love his material but then I wouldn’t have him in my top 5 , I cannot compare him to say ov Wright ‘ the bottom line ‘ etc and I wouldn’t wish to , as you say emotive subject and each to his own .Al green is up there for me too . 

    3 hours ago, marty57 said:

    You have to take the background of an artist in consideration too where they came from what they overcame ect,  especially afro americans, Ray Charles for example. Not forgetting white guys that can- could hold a toon, Frankie Valli Paul Anka , Stevie Winwood , Chris Farlow, Joe Cocker et al . 

    Eddie Hinton

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