Bazza

I like all sorts of Music .. Led Zep..Punk..the Stranglers could very soulfull "golden brown" for instance ,Latin ,Salsa when Northern Soul turned pop in the late 70's I turned to Funk, Bootsy Collins and George Clinton could do no wrong back then,would'nt expect to hear em at a Doo tho' Bazza

Yep , He does Bazza

Yep your right Mand both pure northern tunes ,Dells still gives me chills an all Bazza

One tune you DJs love to mess around with is the modern tune "Tribute To Betty (Tonight) I honestly thought at one time there was two versions of this.because of clever arses pitching it up.....leave em alone Bazza

Now then ,pitching up,I am very much against it ,I want hear the tune at the speed it was intended.and not at the speed some clever arsed Dj thinks in his opinion the tune should sound,of course he knows better than the original Artist/producers,(no he does not )in my opinion it stinks, you know it all DJs should leave the thing as it was intended,I do feel strongly about this and I could say a lot more ,but I wont another rant over Bazza

I think I was lucky in the fact that I used to find it easy to learn ,no matter what the style was,these days I have had to learn again, cos the way I used to dance is just too much for me ..( I always put everything I have into it )...more of a mid tempo shuffler now , it used to upset me because I could'nt do what I used to ,but I have got used to that now ,learned to love it all again...Im 51 now so .................. Bazza

also love .Merengue and Salsa..any latin type stuff....Dance to it all Bazza

Nottingham Palais,remember goin,dunno how old I was,seein this geezer dance I thought he was brill.I remember thinking I am going to do that...so I did,I learned a bit at a time till I ended up a pretty good dancer..won a few competitions in my time,never practiced , just got on with it in the clubs Bazza

This film would have been better if they had folks that could dance in it Bazza

Hi Ken,is there a Motown,version with Vocals, I thought it was a myth, or do you mean that Lavine Crap Bazza

Yes Winnie, it did have an influence...for me a negative one ..for others maybe a positive one ,I was saying tunes such as that turned me away from the scene,but as you say obviously it had an affect..good or bad ,depends on you point of view Bazza

Surely you mean success or downfall of the scene Bazza

Footsee, joe 90,Hawaii 5 O,,,all utter rubbish ,yes they did influence me...to move away from Northern soul ,Wigan did as much damage to the scene in its later years ,as the good it did for it in the early years,infact Wigan in its later years was a joke,nearly killed the whole scene,anyone that says, it was the best thing that happened to northern soul ,has not got a clue what it was all about I may look at things a little differently to some of you because I was around 1972 onwards just my opinion of course...........rant over Bazza

'Ron Grainer - Man in a suitcase'...great tune and The Prisoner...was that Ron Grainer as well... Bazza

Hi Steve, Night Owl never really grabbed me, But Sam & Kitty...now your talking ...great northern singalong tune,could never dance to it tho' Bazza

I think Russ's playlist would still go down well today...deffo Bazza

Yep ,your right Tone ,,,a great pure northern tune Bazza

absolutley love this tune,not sure if I would use it as a pure northern example tho' Bazza

Great tune...but its got a touch of the R&Bs to me Bazza

Yep I agree ,you do mean the instrumental,and not the vocal version,was it Bob Relf who did the vocals....should have left it alone, the instrumental was pure Northern Bazza

If some one asked me this ,and I could only play one tune,it would have to be Valentinos - Sweater Than The Day Before always thought of it as a pure solid Northern tune what single tune would you use to try and explain it Bazza

I asked a top dj for the other side of" Lady in Green" other week at Derby.his reply was sorry ,I sold it ..what for sez I, well he sez, it payed for my new conservatory,could'nt argue with that Bazza

Hi Mark , caught the show this week...loved it ..bit of a coincidence tho',I posted a sound clip of " The Victors - Hurt " last week on one of the threads..was new to me.and you played it this sunday...great tune BTW Bazza

Fave 100mph tune used to be "Valentinos - sweater than the day before".won't dance to it now,I would need to put my feet up for an hour Bazza

These should be supplied at all venues , the other exotic additives would probably kill me these days Bazza