Barry

Right this minute I'm gonna go for the Rose Valentine & the Sisters Three c/u Little Ann - 'When He's Not Around'. It reminds me of being full of awe and head down at sixteen, in the top right hand corner of the dancefloor near the stage at Wigan, waiting for the brass to break and the subsequent acrobatics that were about to kick off around me - then that cataclysmic tear you to shreds end vocal....and for that I will always love it.

Searling at that time was the db's, couldn't fault them playlists then and still can't now. My main reason for attending Wigan as often as I did. Genius.

I'd not thought about that for years 'til I saw this post, Googled it and Chuck Mangione was in the same episode. They had Ashford & Simpson in a later episode too.

I remember Leslie Uggams turning up in an episode of Magnum P.I.

In one - sorry.

Thanks for that, proper enjoyed it.

A Mecca one too.

Clifton Hall'd make a cracker.

Now 'Modern' on the other hand!

It was meant as a tongue in cheek prod really Pete but no one bit - here's my take on it. Having been away from the scene, not form black music and other scenes I may add, just the Northern scene, 'pon my return the crossover sound had become quite prevelant, in playlists and on dancefloors. Although there is some great music in that genre, it's just not built for Northern events for me. I understand as people get older they need a more midtempo thing going on dance-floor side but.....Nah, not in my all nighter. Now, black music is black music in my book, I am not saying I dislike the crossover sound, I don't, I have enough of it but just that I don't think it is Nighter material.

Do you mean a lot of the later played crossover stuff Jocko?

It depends who you are though!? Everything I heard at Wigan, I termed as Northern then, and still do now. I'm not saying that about everything I've heard at every Nighter I've been to like.

Prob down to the amount of members and bandwidth.

I didn't mind it, although I do admire your investigative skills, you could be right too.

I'll have one son.

What under mate? I've just ran some through it to no avail. I'm looking for anyone with a copy of the 2nd Anniversary vid/dvd too.

Didn't think you were fella, my poor wording I suppose, it's just that I've had that many conversations with people over the years, generally on ale and chemicals, about this topic and thought, what with the great Carstairs debate , there'd be no better time for someone to give me a 'conscious' view of their musical tastes.

You know, you're quite right with what you say above, but the question can't be that hard to understand, can it, really?

I've no doubt that there, in reality and not on a message board, aren't many people that are just one ilk lovers but there are people who 'prefer' a sound - and I think that is who I was aiming this question at. I'll be more choice with my words next time.

--> QUOTE(mark.b @ Jun 5 2007, 12:08 PM) link i think you will find that a lot of people actaually like both mark I know that son, the question is aimed at those that don't.

I'm just trying to get it straight in my mind as I don't have a cut off point (start point for me, would be mid/late 50s I would say) and it always intrigues me as to when the sound starts to alienate people.

So Bazza, you have a period of around a year within which you may like some stuff and you may not?

At what point/year does a person who likes sixties soul tail off and begin to dislike the production sound of black America? Likewise, going backwards, at what point does a seventies soul lover start to get the hump?