John Reed

Is Mr Rounce too humble to use this thread to blatently plug this, shame there's some cracking covers on this.

It is

This topic does get revived every few months and the same names get put up every time. Wouldn't it just be easier to look for the old topics and just give them a bump.

The closest they're going to be to me this year is in Folkestone or Southend but that's in November. For me you need to see Slade in December to get full value for money.

I suppose that's okay if you have sufficient cashflow and can live with the "dead stock" remaining on your shelves for a while. I think record buying punters have become very fickle in their purchases these days, without going into the whole debate of chasing in-demanders. Records like all commodities fluctuate on supply and demand, records are a luxury commodity and its the demand for luxury products that tend to be hit the hardest in recessions. There are a significant amount LP's either continuingly left unsold on Gemm/Discogs or re-listed on ebay as the buying public deem them to be too expensive or maybe there really isn't the demand for these records that there once was. If the sellers don't need the cashflow and can wait till the prices rise again, good luck to them as I wish no ill on anyone, but personally I think it'll be quite a wait.

Kaleidoscope on TSOP for a bit of disco. The John Edwards Cottillion LP is brilliant and over shadowed by his Aware LP, because it's a masterpiece

David Oliver gives it some on Private Tonight and not forgetting the Great Rance Allen

He goes quite high on "It's So Wonderful" but not really falsetto

I think you should be ashamed that a man of your age, you don't have them already.

It doesn't have the Texan style rhythm section that's required for high prices these days. I remember the marketing, honest though it was, the skipping comment killed it for me.

No it don't

Has anyone mentioned Pep Brown - Can You Handle It. A nice bit of Muscle Shoals funky soul and cheap too.

Falsetto Northern, the next avenue to venture down after Funky Northern has run its course?

Is that so you can look at both sides simultaneously?

And some of those Deep Funk oldies when newies, were Rare Groove oldies..........

yep

Nev, there are a significant amount that have deep sides. Willie Johnson is a good example of an artist and not to ignite more fires Charlene and the soul Serenaders. As I collect deeps soul I've found a lot o prices have shot up when the flip is now sort after by the Funky Northern crowd. There are a significant amount of releases on Cat, Alston, Stax/Volt, Hi, Goldwax, just to name a few that have a funky side and a ballad/deep side. They were aiming for more than one market and hoped to sell as many records as possible looking for that ellusive hit.

Got a single from France a couple of years ago, sent in a normal thickness paper envelope with a bit of carboard stuck to one side of the record. Came through undamaged. Moerer's other source of income must be from his packaging company.....

Blimey, its gone down £50 since the 5th Edition of the price guide. https://www.raresoulm...D._the_ARKETTES

The problem with price guides is that they're written by people with a vested interest in keeping prices high. Like it or not ebay sellers and buyers (but not all) do use them as benchmark valuations. So if someone gets a record below the book price they may view that they've got a bargain. Prices in these guides always seem to only go one way and I'd be interested to see the price changes in the next one's, seeing as were in one of the biggest recessions in living memory and in reality apart from seriously rare & super in-demand records the bottom has fallen out of the selling market. At the end of the day record buying is a luxury.

Nope wasnt me, as you all know I've never been one to complain

Me too, mine was gold, it looked the business in an 80's sort of way.

Delaney & Bonnie never really floated my boat, maybe I should give them a revisit.

Don't go there......... it'll all end in tears.