Barry

Ta Pikeys.

How much does an SOS issue bring these days? About £20/30 maybe?

Nice one fella.

What rough price for a UK Red Brunswick Demo please? Cheers

I grew up in the sixties and early seventies with ar' kid's cast off (UK) vinyl, Motown, London, Mojo, Immediate etc and although I loved 'em at the time, when I first discovered the overseas big holed, multi-colored (sic) beauties, I was sold. Of course I appreciate the look, durability and response of UK released soul, you can't ignore it, but after discovering the dodgy design, flamboyancy and colour of US labels the rather stiff looking UK labels never really did it for me. I think a lot of my tempered love of UK vinyl is in my head due my earliest memories of UK vinyl. Of it being scattered in sleeveless piles on the floor of our lobby, mixed in with dusty 78's, or forced 6 a time onto the spindle of our Dansette (that awful spinny-scratchy sound as you loaded/spun 'em on always stuck in my head), before it clattered onto the turntable and the 'needle' began it's panel pin progress. As objects they seemed unloved in my memories, utilitarian at best - but that was a sixties child at work I guess. Flip to my light fingered, two sleeved treatment of my first US acquisitions and coupled with the thought that the UK releases of US tracks had never been anywhere near their producers and it'll always be the US release for me.

Cheers Dave.

What would be sensible prices I could ask for the Brief Encounter releases, 'Human' on Sound Plus and 'Get A Good Feeling' on Capitol please? Cheers

Oh well. Cheers fella.

Nice album - 'I Enjoy Your Love' was the biggie up Wazza way. Another co-wrote by Captain Dobie .

I've got a blue-labelled styrene press, with no capital B's, no scratched PB's but clear MR stamps on both sides. Another boot I take it?

Good stuff, thanks for the replies folks.

By the way - hope you're all well.

To save space, I'll cut my question short; Do collectors of vinyl and the people that look up to, and aspire to be them, understand this music better than those that simply download a plethora of stuff? I know it's been done a million times before but surely Northern sets have always been restricted by our inate repugnance of any piece of music that is not in its original format - vinyl. Therefore, unless you are of the innercircle - ie completely mad (Butch, Shifty, Sam, Levine etc), you are continually restricted to playing what you can afford - which can never really reflect what you would wish to really play within your set, as there are certain tracks that will forever be out of your reach. So, I conclude that the Northern scene will eternally hold itself back musically on the back of a group of strange individuals that we would all like to be? True?

Straight back on the hallowed floor whenever I hear this. Quality.

A very sketchy area...there are at least two 'Doctor' Bob Jones too... https://images.google..._FoqH4QbA09CRAw

There are, in your view, better punk/pop/indie/rock/memory/Mum tunes than certain dancefloor favourite 'Northern' tracks?

Discuss

That's' 'last' legs.

That took a lot out of me Malc, I'm on me alst legs here. But it, in reality, desereved little more. ha ha I testify son...I testify.

Now we're all au fait with the Bruce Lee Kung Fu moves et al...apologies, that was the only way I could think of opening this sorry thread, but...! ....being a 1964 borne child (8 in '72, 10 in '74 etc) and being the impressionable runt that I was led to believe we all are at that age - through my years of Psychology/Psychiatric Training (Get me?), - just little social sponges. Would I be right in saying that all us shuffling 70's loving, James Wells, James Fountain, Willi J & Co, ZZ & Co (Don't read too much into my choices, I know what I've done Jay Jay & CoCo [cover up anyone?]) may possibly have been influenced by our love of sharp dressed hustlers, Lalo Schiffrin-esque theme tunes and fly New York Talk? How else would an impressionable, working class 13 year old English lad (bespectacled also...oh yeah!) in the nightmare that was 'Great Britain' in the 70's be able to draw any kind of line between black America, black American culture, it's politics and all that I didn't know went with that at the time, without the only lifeline I had at my disposal.... ...namely, American based TV series with seminal black characters and ace black American based theme tunes? Shaft (After my brothers love of Tami Lynn, Al Green and all things Motown, this is a very early stick-in-the mind memory for me on my brothers Dansette in our lobby), Mission Impossible, The Green Hornet, Tenafly (James Mack - MWIOF in the lead role), The Rockford Files, Columbo, Starsky & Hutch, Baretta, Magnum PI (Ashford & Simpson, Leslie Uggams etc contained in episodes), I name but a few (cos I'm arseholed). If you think about it, no wonder we UK children were charmed with the smooth skinned view we were fed of America, an America always twenty years ahead with their housesand decors, their 'not here then' McDonalds, their saketboards...their whatever....everything was light years ahead of anything me and mine had in my hometown of Parr, St Helens in the mid seventies. I fell in love love with America back then and I didn't really know why...to my inner child, it just looked better, sounded better, I even knew through its mass of coffee and doughnut shops...it smelt better. Why wouldn't I want to make my life, in some way, a part of this huge and beautiful melting pot? Possibly by allowing my mind to eternally make a connection to these wonderful and other-worldly, beautiful images of America, mainly it's mysteriously yet always attracive blackness; it's gloriously misjudged underbelly that I had been weened on through our 'ten bob in the back meter' of a colour telly, every time I was blessed to hear 'Ton Of Dynamite' or 'Your Autumn Of Tomorrow' or 'I Love Music'? I thank this music and this scene, as I thank America and it's Blackness for allowing me to knit together my youth and my adulthood. One begat the other - I'm not sure which way it was meant to be played out but - thanks to a load of weird UK DJ's - seventies Soul, America, it's written charicatures, it's wonderful underbelly, it's burgers and it's boards all kind of make sense now. Anyway back to the question: Was it all Huggy Bears fault? (Sorry, Its been a while though hasn't it?

Sorted, cheers Lars.

Just had someone on our site asking if anyone has one of these for sale. I'll pass any info on. Cheers

WISHING YOU ALL A VERY MERRY Here's a picture of a few of us helping Brian Rae to the December Oldies at Wigan circa 1980: Barry x

I got the year wrong, apologies. That's the advert mate.