Dean

I'm sure this has been done several times but memory not what it was. Is this legit?

Corner Boys and Friends - Take It Easy Soul Brother, also on Neptune (??)

Saw this bandwagon passing, thought I'd jump on. I'll have the Bunny Sigler for £3. pm me postage and preferred payment method. Dean.

My access to SS is a bit eratic at the moment so apologies if I've missed this on another thread: Any details of time/day of new Soul Shack show Mark? Best wishes, Dean

He was on at the Wardrobe in Leeds last night, don't know if he's doing other dates?

Is TMG 710 (solid centre) Do What You Gotta Do / Can't Seem To Get You Out Of My Mind a re-issue? Both favourites of mine, one for playing at home one for playing out to dance. But ...... fav track over the last few years is "Look Out Your Window" from Soul Spin Lp MS 695, wonderful track ripe for playing today. Lp also has a cool version of "Got To Get You Into My Life" on.

Just a quick shout about a good gesture from an ebay seller pinkiedog2008 (Jaymee). Recently purchased very cheap, with cheap postage, Sounds Inc, On The Brink, Liberty audition record (think this was prior to the columbia release). Arrived with a hair crack, still plays ok. Let pinkiedog2008 know, packaging was good. Said I wasn't asking for refund or complaining, sometimes this just happens and thought seller should know. Immediate refund received with thanks for communication. Thought it worth sharing.

How chrystal clear is this . Sounds better from this source than it did on the nights . Lovin' the cover ups. Stopped taping after Wigan / St Ives for some reason, probabaly thought I was too cool for school by then. Nothing I have is a s clear as this tho'. Brilliant.

Sorry if I'm drifting off thread topic, just responding to questions on thread: Jayne - Don't think it's expensive but then again I've not been looking for one, it can always shock me what has become rare over the years, wouldn't think it's that rare though. soulsalmon - I don't remember if Chris had a hand in these. Are you confusing them with his "Triangle Connoisseur Sounds - The Motown Hitsville Masters"? I never saw volume 2, I have vol 1 that has Marvin Gaye's Lonley Lover on. I know Chris had a big hand in those but it was several years later. Like the "All Night Long" album the labels are white blank paper, no attempt at design.

Is this the one you're thinking Jayne: Wiilie G & The Styles - No Second Chance, Bobby Jason - All These Things, James Lewis - That's The Way, Professionals- That's Why I love You, Court Davis - The Lover Who Loves You Not, Seven Souls - I Still Love You, John & Weirdest - Can't Get Over These Memories, Ty Karim - Lighten Up, Cheryl Berdell - Giving It All To You, Doug Parkinson - I'll Be Around, Jan Jones - Independant Woman, Charles Johnson - Never Had A Love, Tyrone Barklay - Man of Value, Otis Clay - The Only Way Is Up, James mack - Over The Top.

Agree on Court Davis, can also remember the first play, instant euphoria. Dynamic Deadbeats seems to sum up the spirit of that time very well. Cecil Washington for me though.

Could be that the information potential offered by this inter-web thingy at the touch of a button makes it harder to sustain the illusion. But I think your closer with the kudos notion, as in stating that this record is perhaps only known to you.

Will there be an email that reads: I see you were the second highest bidder, I've just found another one in the box in the same if not better condition, you have a second chance offer

Not sure what you mean by plastic soulies. Do remember a big mod revival influence (no intention to denigrate by suggesting it revival, most trends are) following the screening of Quadrophenia. Lots of Parkas at Wigan, and lots of Green Onions in Ms and Main room. As I recall didn't this era coincide with Russ W going back to roots to play Al Capone one night?

bought one in 1975, but I think it was quite old then, off an a local (Mansfield) DJ Eric Hetherington (not too sure of spelling) The Tempose (Lil Lavair and the Fabulaous Jades, I think) - I'll Be So Happy Lesley Gore - Just Can't Get Enough of You Tony P - I've got a emi 12 track lp somewhere, left at my house ages ago by Fran Morgan (Booby) from Newark, Notts. Can't recall tracks, poor quality sure it's got Rain on it from the time that was big.

Not bothered for a few days with SS, so glad I had a look tonight and opened that up, thanks.

If this has Already Satisfied on the flip it's been gpoing through ebay for well over £100+, or at least the last two I've seen have.

I like to have a blind punt but only on the cheap, mostly 60s. Ive ended up with some real junk but now and again I get a really pleasant shock. Always fun waiting for an unknown brown package. Bit like buying the lottery ticket, I sometimes put off playing it to extend the suspense = value for money. I bought Lavell Hardy - What Kind of Woman on Rojac blind a couple of years ago, still in my play box. Still cheap but bloody good. Dean

Are you still talking about record hunting?

Material used as weight for stability. I seem to remember a rumour many years ago that the 'bb' non-return hole on many imports was from a rack storage system where bulk 'junk' buy records had been used as ballast for cargo ships without cargo. Don't believe that to be true but could imagine any old cargo being used for stability. Only a thought not a theory. Sorry didn't see other post above, writing about same time

eeerrrm, glad I made a contribution. Any particular point of it shit? Don't think there's anything to be gained from hoping someone will appear to rescue this, just wishful thinking without much thought in my shit opinion.

Is there truth in the old tale about records being usedas shipping ballast? That could explain some remote locations. Does any road transport need ballast? Well I don't bloody know, just idle speculation.

It's hard to know which thread to leave a comment on for this one. I think lot's of us should take time to draw breath and think through the implications. I've never promoted a large scale event (I would take any advice Rob Wigley had to offer though if I was ever to be so daft as to try) but I imagine the only people who could salvage a dayer without the artists at Oceana/Palais would be Tracy and Andy. I don't see how anyone else could get through contractual agreements with the club management in taking it over, let alone all the personal agreements with tickets purchased under different assumptions. I know they are assumptions and not binding as no artists appear on the ticket. Right now I have to feel for Tracy and Andy, acknowledging Joan's valid point that they didn't do themselves favours on here at times. Talking to them in person you couldn't doubt their enthusiasm, but if enthusiasm was enough then Forest wouldn't be back in the bottom 3! I think it could only be Tracy and Andy who could continue at this late stage with an all-dayer, and how I presume they feel now I would think that quite unlikely. One part of my little brain thinks it could be the best thing they could do for their own sense of esteem, but they'd need the hide of a rhino to start with. Best wishes to them both when they surface . . . . . . and perhaps a sorry to all the people making expensive plans.

May not have read all previous thoroughly enough, but have we decided what a NS snob is? Oxford mini-dictionary. snob: n. person with an exaggerated respect for social positions or wealth or certain tastes and despises those considered inferior. I agree with both posts by Joan (not out of any respect for social position). Don't care what people play in car/at home/ipod, playing to yourself play anything. Always tricky playing 45s in the car. Playing out is declaring you have something to offer which is a different kettle of fish (to quote a missed venue that stood by its OVO polcy). Look to your own morals, would you declare "This is a boot" or "This is a legit re-issue" over the mic? But the whole snob thing is more than OVO vs the rest of the world debate. Hard to argue that spending £'00s and in some cases £'000s on records while a third of the world starve, and having respect for those that do, isn't some form of human exaggeration. But I'm still happy to do it (only £'00s in my case, not out of morality though). I think a lot of us got into this to be snobs when we couldn't aspire to be snobbish in any other context. Despise would be too harsh, but I certainly looked down my nose (and a sizable one it is too) at those who were satisfied with the local miners welfare or some 70s disco, only dancing at the last dance as an excuse to feel-up some other poor drunken unfortunate. I thought their music inferior, their friends inferior, and assumed the ego of a social superior as part of an elite club that travelled the country most weekends (2 buses and 2 trains to Wigan, 4 buses to St Ives and none back on Sunday). As a kid I wore the badges to set myself apart from other people who didn't belong to this elite exciting club. A huge snob back in the day. Looking around Prestatyn at the weekend we needed to ask ourselves a few times, is this a scene we'd boast about belonging to? I've mellowed a little. I don't get the uniform thing, particularly the retro uniform, but as long as you don't make me wear it, I don't care. I do have an exaggerated respect for those with taste (that'll be the same tastes as mine) in music, with respect for original vinyl and the sheer beauty of labels. I really admire those who dance well (something I never managed to achieve) but not for dancing competitions (perhaps becuase I'm not good enough or perhaps simply because they're stupid) I think the current "snob" conversation may be around all sorts of internal scene snobbery, rarity, fashion, history/credentials. I'm definitely a vinyl snob, partially a fashion snob, hope I'm not a history/credentials snob (some of the more likeable folk I've met over the last couple of years are people who are newer to the scene. Don't intend to change.

I want to marry you so "What's yours is mine"