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a couple more cheapies thru the door today.... PEARL BABY PEARL/SORRY,BOUT THAT-BENNY POOLE-SOLID BOUND back to back latin dancers SOUL TRAIN/CAN I COUNT ON YOU-LITTLE RICHARD-BRUNSWICK DEMO and some classics still to come.. LOVER/SHERRI TAYLOR AND SAM WARD ILL HOLD YOU/FRANKIE AND JOHNNY TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT/SATISFACTIONS dean

yeah think you can ...i had a false bidder on a reggae reissue i was selling and messaged the second highest bidder who had it after seeing all the false bidders history !!! as far as sniping is concerned i joined the darkside a few months back,got fed up with missing too many tunes i had upto the last few seconds,very slow computer at times !...i still miss some but if someone elses snipe is more thats fairer than some one whos got a quicker pc.. and anyway theres always another tune dean

last 5 for me ....gettin spins at next weeks go go children,exept the last two which are already john stapleton spins lou courtney-you can give me your love leon austin-turn me loose other ones-stop la brenda ben-chaperone buddy lamp-just a little bit of loving little tommy-lov'h lil murray and the soul exciters-soul chitlens caprells-close your eyes sir guy-funky virginia dean

just one more chance !

i think there will always be so many 'hardly used' technics in the second hand market from all the bedroom dance djs who got bored with it .. no need to worry... heard about these laser decks back in the 90s from a reggae dealer who used to sell to some wealthy japenese...what will that do to the price of vinyl as far as condition goes ?? apparently scratched vinyl sounds as good as ex as theres no contact with the needle and the scratch dean

EULA COOPER/STANDING BY LOVE..U.S NOTE LABEL ...BOOKS AT 150... CLASSIC 70S NORTHERN DANCER ON RARER YELLOW LABEL.. HARDLY ANY WEAR ON LABEL VINYL HAS SOME SCUFFS AND SADLY TWO SMALL SCRATCHES ,ABOUT 1/4 INCH ,THAT 'CLICK' IN A COUPLE OF VERSES BUT NOT LOUDER THAN THE MUSIC...OTHER THAN THAT PLAYS VERY GOOD...HAS LOTS OF SHINE AND MUSIC LOUD AND CLEAR SO WOULD SAY CONSERVATIVE VG+ £50 BARGAIN !! £2 POST SIGNED FOR

after reading marks thread about upfront or behind nicci tells me last night that ken dunn has posted on facebook that his and mick lloyds 'hip hug her' in weston supa mere is to finish !! please say it isnt so !!! hip hug her has being going for years and numbers have been down for the last few...i know its not a cheap venue as its one of the best and neither ken or mick are 'locals' so i suppose i can understand why but its still shit... music policy here is a bit of both its not all rare stuff you would hear some classics but not all night you would also hear stuff you didnt know...best of both worlds...such a shame not been on facebook myself...hope this is a misunderstanding dean

my tuppence worth......i think money has sumfin to do with overall numbers being down BUT...wot about those that are out....down here in the sw Des Parker probably introduces more new discoveries than most and i can remember being one of the few on the dancefloor a few years back to tunes that are now filling the floor....but 'most' people are not dancin to his newer plays when they probably will in a couple of years !!...it certainly takes longer to break tunes when there are twice as many venues as there was back in the 70s..... but i do find it strange the old casino goers etc just wanting to dance to what they know when they were younger they craved for new tunes didnt they ?...so maybe age and 'it was better in my day' syndrome has sumfin to do with it....the yougsters at go go children who dont know the top 500 will dance to anything uptempo and soulful....and maybe there was an abundance of quality northern to pick from back then compared to now but you cant tell me tunes such as the parliaments,kindly shepherds,jt parker etc are not as good... went to lifeline for the first time a few weeks back and loved it....angela davis/my love is strong is niccis new fave WOW what a tune !...will be upto stoke for the bidds alnighter...talking of stoke i love kings hall although some of the tunes are a bit same old the atmosphere and venue makes it... so i think theres a place for us all...we should expect that most people will be into 'nostalgia' but also people (not just djs/collectors) should open their ears a bit to things they dont know....find the beat and dance..who cares if you dont know the words...lastly i dont think the price of a tune has anything to do with it after all most peole dont know what things are worth when they are out on the floor (gutted when i got back from lifeline and checked the book on the angela davis...600!)...but a good dancer is a good dancer...my best 'new' tune is raful neals/you dont love me no more...funky as f*** but with a rnb feel..love it and it cost me a fiver and only books at 15...happy daze dean

love the tina britt awesome rnb and the flip of boogaloo investigator is a killer too !! dean

four or five times a year we have a record fair in the back room of a south bristol rock n roll pub complete with confederate flags draped from the ceiling !...most of the dozen or so sellers are old rockabilly dealers selling to people as obsessed with yankie sevans as us lot...in amoungst the white and 'colured' rock n roll sections !! there are also some great rnb and soul tunes well under book price...this saturday i picked up.. dont mess with my man-irma thomas somebody new-chuck jackson panic-repatra anbd the delrons as long as im moving-ruth brown come and see me-lorraine ellison dean

Record crowd for us this month check out the review in lookbacks... i played these original yankies ! LOVE ME RIGHT/LAVERN BAKER DONT MESS WITH MY MAN/IRMA THOMAS MISS YOU SO/TINY TOPSY THE QUEEN/BIG ELLA TAILOR MADE FOR ME/EDI TRIPP SPOILED CHILD/GARY BROWN LEND ME YOUR HAND/KINDLY SHEPHERDS JUST ANOTHER GIRL/FOUR PROS second set TOO MANY TEARS/MILES STONE YOU DONT LOVE ME/TOMMY RAYE PLEASE TELL ME IM YOURS/FAY SIMMONS DO YOU STILL LOVE ME/COOKIE JACKSON YOU DONT LOVE ME NO MORE/RAFUL NEAL IM BACK/LITTLE RICHARD YOU KNOW IVE TRIED/MCKINLY MITCHELL DO THE WHIP/BOBBY FREEMAN BABY CALL ON ME/WILSON PICKETT IVE GOT A WOMAN/RAY CHARLES SOMETING FUNNY IS GOING ON/BERTHA TILLMAN BACKSLOP/BABY EARL AND THE TRINIDADS Dean

esquires/how could it be....one of the best underplayed cheapies...been shouting about it a couple of years now...a great record dean

oh yes ! bought it blind off des parker at bridgewater last week,it came strongly recommened and i wasnt dissapointed dean

forever !....cos quality lasts forever...remember once it was just a northern thing ,then it spread to the whole of the country now its all over europe and even the states...its not just the uk just as its not just those on soul source... yes most night are full of...well slightly older people who may not be out and about in say 10 years and there maybe lots of original tunes for sale bringing the prices down ...but there are youngsters getting into it abroad or at scooter rallies,which are more family friendly than in the 80s when hardly any of us had kids ! ...in ten years time maybe (because of the internet) they will be buying those tunes keeping the dancin and collecting scenes alive... and maybe when there are less oldies out more youngsters will be...think back when you were in your teens and twenties...would you wanna be dancin with 50 years olds? go go in bristol attracts a lot more youngsters than most nights i attend...could this be that bristol has never had a soul scene before ? (not including yate ofcourse)...and out of about 80 people only a couple of dozen of those are soulies over 40... always get 'younger people' asking me the titles of tracks we would all of known half our life but am also pleasently surprised when youngsters know tunes i wouldnt expect them too it will no doubt have its ups and downs but im sure it will be around when most of us on here have hung up our dancin shoes dean

oh ! if reggae is allowed... check him out/the bleechers feel it /sister no more heartaches/belltones ive got to get you off my mind/tennors keep the pressure on/winston and george..all UK originals dean:)

'.call his name' great track ! looking forward to matt hopefully playing it at go go this weekend dean

after getting a few 'biggish tunes over the summer...over the last couple of weeks picked up about a dozen cheapies..great dancers though do the whip/bobby newton you know that ive tried/mckinly mitchell shine it on/jimmy robins all night worker/los stardusters too many tears/miles stone please tell me im yours/fay simmons...books at 100 but got it for 20 troublemaker/tams baby call on me/wilson pickett just one more time/johnny copeland love me right/lavern baker loves burning fire/marva josie tell me the truth/koko yaylor i want somebody/ tommy taylor you dont love me/tommy raye baby youve got it/maurice and the radiants mix of 60s northern and rnb sorry...i know it should only be five but couldnt remember what the last 5 were and didnt know which ones to leave out ...gonna be hard at go go children to know which one i havnt got time to play especially as its a special guest nite !! still waitin for a few more too dean

i suppose most people 'dinked' the middles out if they were djs rather than collectors as both U.S and JA vinyl had no middles so they didnt have to keep takin the adapters off an on the turntable ?especially the later stuff with a version on the b side for someone to 'chat' to...i know when working with a reggae sound most of my vinyl was jamaican and it was a pain trying to get the odd uk record off compared to the ja(only a slight annoyance i must add,never enuff to push a middle out myself )...and lets face it back then no one thought vinyl would be worth what it is today !! go gos john stapletons 'wanted record' shop in bris has been getting lots of reggae stuff lately,i wonder if hes got a copy somewhere...not that i could afford it now but would be nice to hear it at go go children in a couple of weeks dean

pete lyster played this at the last gloucester alnighter and im looking forward to hearing it again at bridgwater saturday:) i want one too please.....funny enuff the johnny taylor version was spun at the last soulfusion aswell

thanx for the replies...yeah just wanted to know bout this track,picked up a spotless president at the weekend so will sell my u.s fraternity so long as the president isnt a reissue

hi should be an easy one for somebody...was the first uk release for the casinos /i still love you on president...or was there any label before it ? ta in advance dean

havnt read all the replies so with the risk of repeating... we werent suppose to be getting sb down here in bristol but due to a cancellation weve got it for a week and the opening night was friday..... the getting together djs were playing in the bar after so me and nicci went with an open mind and enjoyed it... i knew there would be mistakes,as there are in even the biggest hollywood movie and that other brit cult flik quadrophenia.... agree the dance comp could have been done better if at all but even that wasnt as cheesy as the short junction film the plot was far from original but then robin hood,patriot,gladiator and the scottish one are all the same story,i believe there are basically only about a dozen plotlines to most films anyway some great tunes,good dancin i think the mix of old and new film worked...laughed quite a bit too...in these shitty days whats wrong with a film where the good guy wins and makes the right choice.... saying all this its not gonna win any oscars and i wont go see it again but will probably get the dvd...if only to play on a sunday afternoon to stop my daughter comin over to watch eastenders ....again !! gave go go children flyers out on the door after and it must have been 3/4 full and most were not regular soulies from the sw i knew...some where youngsters and most seem to enjoy it.... so i dont think it makes the soul scene look stupid...and i dont think it was made just to jump on the bandwagon for a quick buck...no more than those makin or playing bootlegs are anyway ! dean:)

the soul room closing at 12 was organised pre rally ,nothing to do with support on the weekend...i think it may have been down to keeping cost down with staff etc im not 100% sure not being an organiser...but the dj setlists were pre printed.... as far as boots go i know the two djs b4 me were playing originals...the two before that were playing boots but they are 'scooter rally' only djs so the original arguement (which lets face it a lot of punters on the soul scene dont get,)...would never be understood by most scooterists who spend their hard earned on their scoots and make do with cds....id like a ts1 kit for my lammy but will keep with my stage 4 cos id rather spend on vinyl...but then i only do a couple of rallies a year while im out at soul nites almost every weekend dean

well like people have already said if they dont know northern you can play what you want as far as oldie/newie is concerned...but best with things that catch you first time not the growers...something not too fast,easier too dance to without being blloxd.!..mid tempo rnb by the likes of zz hill etc is easy to dance to no breaks etc...but good luck ! reminds me of years ago when working with a reggae sound...a couple we knew were getting married and wanted us to do the reception...we were concerned but they assured us it would be ok...it wasnt....loads of complaints by people wanted pop or rock n roll...somewhere a double lp of rnr turned up and my mate was playing it takin piss on mike (the dancers didnt realise ,too busy showing off their jiving)...venue also had a decibel meter which cut the music if it went too loud,well we had a reggae sound with 18in scoop bins !...needless to say the music went off once,twice and before a third time a pissed up mate stood on the bar and ripped the 'sensor' mic off the wall! that was it wedding over by 10 o clock...and it was a double wedding with the other groom who we didnt know was a u.s marine...brides were crying ....we just got our system out quick and never did another one!

ok head above the trenches...it was me who posted the playlist from this years camber..at least i had the bottle ! and all remarks taken on board but let me explain.... in admit my first set was nearly all classics that most ON HERE are bored with perhaps.,had someone come upto me after aking about benny troy as he didnt know it !!..but i was on 11 till 12 while dc fontana were on stage in the main room but still had a full floor...the next night i was on 4 till 5 and was hopeing to have the die hard soulies in there with me to play the many semi known in my box but by the time i came on there was only a couple dozen people left so for the first half i was playing stuff i dont think is played to death on rallies ....backslop,let me be your boy,miss you so,something funnys going on,leave me alone and to finish spoiled child ...also had kindly shepperds,not a scooter classic!(but i only do a couple a year now,unlike the 80s when i did every one)....although i had some up dancin (a couple of which told nicci after theyd never heard the first half of my set before !)others were leaving so i went back to some classic as i didnt wanna be completely on my own !!!. remember this year the soul room finished at 12 and moved to the main room which maybe why the djs played a bit safer ??...and some of the djs who played would have normally only been i the main room to be honest this thread could also be about the oldies v newies threads that are always on here...i go to nites all over the sw and the dancefloor is always full to the same old ruby andrews,epitome of sound etc.....can remember a year ago or so hearing des parker playing great new discoveries and me and nicci being the only fuckers on the floor...so the soul scene is not much different....the scootrer scene admits to liking the same old at least....ive sat listening to 'soulies' tell me they like new stuff only to see them walk off and on the floor to tunes they know or dont so.... anyway hopefully i will be back at camber next year ...if you bother hang arond till im on(dean read) and ask for sumfin different and i will play it (the only requests i had were for known oldies) oh by the way yes i went in a car...my scoots in bits and i had 250 ORIGINALS with me now i better duck my head from the incoming >>>> dean:D