Ian Dewhirst
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OK a very nasally presentation this week folks so many apologies - the show must go on LOL.
Al will be playing LIVE next week from the Swansong All-Dayer in Chertsey so make sure you tune in! Unfortunately I'll either be on a beach or up at the Hell's Angels compound in Ibiza but hopefully I'll make it back for the 9th May!
Six Million Steps Presents The Original Mastercuts Show with Ian Dewhirst between 2.00-4.00pm on Sunday 25th April 2010 on everyone's favourite Soul station www.starpointradio.com.
Featuring:-
1st Hour
Angela Johnson - Better - Mickey More Classic Mix
Nicc Johnson ft Lt Brown - Love For Now - Johnny Montana & Craig Stewart Remix
Alex Finkin & Reverend P ft Jocelyn Mathieu - Jazzy Mix
Davidson Ospina - People
Marvin Gaye - Inner City Blues - Drilla Re-Edit
Heaven N' Hell - Whatcha Gonna Do - Tom Moulton Remix
The Emotions - Love Vibes - Todd Terje Re-Edit
Stevie Wonder - Love Light In Flight - Harri Re-Edit
2nd Hour
First Choice - Armed And Extremely Dangerous
The Trammps - Trusting Heart
Genie Brown - Can't Stop Talking
Ronnie Walker - You're The One
Freddie Paris - One More Hill To Climb
Jo Armstead - Got My Taste (Of The Honey)
Sonny Turner - Now That You're Gone
Faith Evans - Sunny Days
Tina Turner ft Barry White - In Your Wildest Dreams
Eddie Sea ft Aaron Sledge - India
Edwin Starr - There You Go
Finishing Touch - Don't Put Me Down - Tom Moulton Remix
Amerie ft Fabolous - More Than Love
Amar Khalil - Born Again
https://www.sixmillionsteps.com/6MS-...5-Starpoint.mp3
Enjoy!
Ciao.
Ian D
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1973-1974
Seconded. Nothing to beat that 1st year of sheer euphoria for me. Mind you, it's obviously a subjective question really isn't it? In '73 I was 18, full of beans with unlimited energy and would routinely start the weekend on a Thursday night and end the weekend @ 1.00am Monday morning with very little sleep throughout (and, believe it or not, no drugs either). Also musically it was utterly brilliant with great new tunes every week and a wealth of stuff to hear.........
Ian D
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Well another 2 hours of the usual Original Mastercuts musical odyssey is lined-up for this Sunday afternoon between 2.00-4.00pm taking us through 30 minutes of percolating Soulful House rhythms, into some wonderful 70's and 80's work-of-art remixes and re-edits, into some choice 70's, Northern and Crossover cuts and a final 30 minutes of Soulful perfection. Yes folks it's another sunny (touch wood) Sunday afternoon session on everyone's favourite Soul station www.starpointradio.com.
As per the usual the sun comes out and I immediately catch a rather nasty chest infection so I may be coughing and spluttering a bit tomorrow but the show will go on LOL......
Featuring:-
Angela Johnson * Nicc Johnson ft Lt Brown * Alex Finkin & Reverend P ft Jocelyn Mathieu * Davidson Aspina * Marvin Gaye * Heaven N' Hell * The Emotions * Stevie Wonder * First Choice * The Trammps * Genie Brown * Ronnie Walker * Freddie Paris * Jo Armstead * Sonny Turner * Faith Evans * Tina Turner ft Barry White * Eddie Sea ft Aaron Sledge * Edwin Starr * Finishing Touch * Amerie * Amar Khalil
Hopefully we'll see you @ 2.00pm!
Ciao.
Ian D
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Oh yes! Moulton remixes the Philly Groove catalogue. Thought I'd post this up 'cos there's some goodies on here.
Just got delivery of this and two immediate standout tracks for me are:-
"Don't Put Me Down" - Finishing Touch
A 9 minute slab of forgotten soul with a lead vocal to die for.....
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"Whatcha Gonna Do" - Heaven & Hell
Absolutely hypnotic beautiful track that was originally on the long forgotten soundtrack of the film "Nocturna" from 1979. Just a wonderful wonderful track which sounds perfect today......
Naturally the whole album's a work of art and there's quite a few tracks which should be of interest to Soul Sourcers, namely the First Choice, Delfonics, Tapestry, Finishing Touch and Nat Turner tracks which now have time to breathe properly on these longer mixes. Also worth checking is "Gonna Keep On Loving Him" - First Choice which sounds like a cross between Gloria Taylor's "You've Got To Pay The Price" and The Trammps "Hold Back The Night"........
It's Harmless's 100th release and it'll be out in mid June - here's the full track-listing:-
"PHILLY RE-GROOVED - The Tom Moulton 2010 Remixes"
1. "We're On The Right Track" by Ultra High Frequency (featuring Ben Aiken) - 6:36
2. "Armed And Extremely Dangerous" by First Choice - 6:34
3. "I Told You So" by The Delfonics - 5:44
4. "This Is The House (Where Love Died)" by First Choice - 6:41
5. "Big Stone Wall (Around Your Heart) " by Tapestry - 4:17
6. "Let Us Entertain You" by The Philly Groove Orchestra (featuring First Choice) - 7:00
7. "Second Best (Is Never Enough) by Finishing Touch - 5:15
8. "Gotta Get Away" by First Choice - 7:44
9. "Ruby Lee" by Nat Turner (featuring Major Harris) - 4:43
10. "Gonna Keep On Lovin' Him" by First Choice - 4:34
Bonus Tracks:
11. "Don't Put Me Down" by Finishing Touch - 9:09
12. "Whatcha Gonna Do" by Heaven 'n Hell - 9:49
Ian D
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Hi Neil,
Although the distribution deal was in place I'm not sure whether the Dynamics was actually released on Laurie as a 45? Keith says the Dynamics 45 was 'licensed to' Laurie and I know it's one of those 'mythical' 45s that some people say "I saw it in the Casino Record Bar in 1974" but I don't know anyone who actually has one. You evers een one?
Cheers,
Dave
Nah, I don't think it exists on an original Laurie copy. Does anyone know what year this deal was done? My guess is that Laurie had been finding success with some of their other Northern stuff, primarily Dean Parrish "I'm On My Way" which they re-issued and then licensed out to Johnathan King's UK label and then Casino Classics etc, etc and they probably picked the Dynamics up so they could sell a few thousand copies in the UK and hopefully do another Dean Parrish........
Ian D
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Great raw and low budget deep
Anyone any clue who Gwen & Ray were, apart from being named Gwen & Ray of course. Did they go on to anything else under different names etc ?
Ok, we've all got hard luck stories but I remember just missing this on Soul Bowl's list around 1975ish for £1.75
"Sorry it's gone" F--k!
I thought the Gwen was Gwen McCrae wasn't it?
And the original is super, super rare. Had it long ago and never seen another real one since......
Ian D
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PS the Rugby crew are down for the next one,so Simsy you can add a few more to your list,and maybe come round to mine before for bit of a house warming to celebrate my new kitchen
Who said the age of innovation was dead? Start off with a Housewarming for Ken's new kitchen and then down to the 100 Club for Lattes and Northern sounds like a ticket to die for............
Tupperware party anyone?
Ian D
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Hi Ady,
Dancefloor's also are an issue I have nowdays. The main reason I enjoyed the scene so much is because I like to dance. A LOT !
Dodgy worn and uneven floors, apart from the safety issue's, are really not enjoyable to dance on anymore for me and others I know.
Perhaps I sound like I'm being too picky but I think as a paying customer every one should expect to have these basic needs met and have the best there is available to them. We've all been paying our dues long enough now eh? Not much to expect is it?
Eddie
Why not replace the dance-floor by auctioning off pieces of the old one? You could auction enough slats off the original floor to people who'd love a piece of history - a slice of the 100 Club dancefloor to keep for posterity and historical purposes and you'd probably make enough to straighten things out and have a new state-of-the-art sprung dancefloor? When you think of the people who've trod that floor over the years it'd be like having a piece of the Berlin Wall for people who like that kind of thing. I'm assuming the owner isn't in a hurry to replace anything down there in a hurry so this could be an incentive....?
....I did actually almost go arse over tit at the Xmas do before I realised it was the floor's fault not mine.......
Ian D
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Also Ady I meant to add ..I used to love those 70's flyers and posters advertising what sounds were being played , you know , something along the lines of " come along and hear these 100 club exclusives etc etc ...that'd get a few pulses racing I'm sure ......Cheers ,Eddie
Good point Eddie. I used to love those ads 'cos you'd get to know what sounds were being played around the country and who had exclusives etc. I don't know why clubs stopped doing that but I wish they'd bring it back. The 100 Club could have claimed the first UK club plays on tons of stuff. At least two brand new vintage sounds were aired last Saturday alone plus with Butch there the records should be a major part of the draw shouldn't they?
Great idea plus it would actually help break stuff as well because of the curiosity factor. The listing of records that would be played was fundamental to us travelling hundreds of miles every weekend in the 70's so maybe it's time to revive that as a marketing tool.......
Ian D
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Personally I find taking loads of drugs & dancing All Night, then sitting in McDonalds for hours talking bollox to anyone who will listen preferable to the 'Latte' Soulies, who need their arses wiped if they travel further down the road than an hour..........
Russ
Different strokes Russ. You may find that some older folks may not be as mobile as younger spring chickens and some folk may not necessarily have the capacity any longer to take flagons of speed to propell 'em through the weekend.
Things that once seemed appealing for a 16 year old youngster full of energy with an insatiable lust for record labels, i.e. talking bollox @ a local McDonalds @ 6.30am to anyone who will listen, may not necessarily have the same appeal to someone 40 years older. I can remember when it was fashionable to go to Wigan baths after a night at the Casino and get a couple of hours swimming in before setting off to an all-dayer!
That could be half the problem with a club that's been operating 31 years. The age range of the customers may necessarily mean that in order to survive the club needs to cater to a wide swathe of ages or operate on several levels to appeal to all their range of customers. It's a pretty unique problem in that I don't know many other clubs that have to cater to an audience of 25-60 year olds.
Serving Lattes is a brilliant idea though mate. If the kitchen could knock out some quiche lorraine and caesar salads to go with it they'd get some of those 80's mods back in no doubt!
Ian D
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Ian I can understand that some people may not be able to keep up the pace all night but London as you know has an excellent night bus service and people can always use the net to find cheap hotel deals. As for hanging about for the more hardy of people we always have a decent few after hours in McDonalds opp. Tottenham Ct Road tube. We discuss the night and records etc. What collecters do. By the time we've finished it's usually about 9.00 ish anyway. Anyone who is happy to join us come along. It's a gas.
Best Kev
Well I'm party animal supreme Kev but I don't always make it to the last record these days and the night bus service isn't for me mate. In fact the last time I made the mistake of catching a night bus home was @ the Kent 25th anniversary @ the Forum in 2007. It took me 2 and a half hours to get to 5 miles from where I live and the idea of sleeping in a skip actually looked appealing @ 4.30am.
And spending the early hours on a Sunday morning in the Tottenham Court Road branch of McDonalds doesn't fill me with joy either.
We used to do stuff like that in the 70's at Motorway services but maybe I'm too long in the tooth to do that these days.What I was getting at, is that I'm pretty sure that the 100 club could probably sort out some favourable rates with some local B&B's for those who have horrendous journeys and who may want to have more leisurely journies to and from. Just a thought like.....
Ian D
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As for all this package rubbish some people are talking about, sod off! You either are gonna get down the 100club and hear rare soul dance music. The best rare soul dj in the uk and the friendliest crowd there's been for a while. If you're not interested keep away.
All the best Kev
Just out of curiosity, what's wrong with sorting out a package deal with a couple of local hotels or B&B's Kev? If someone's travelled a couple of hundred miles to attend the event might they not like to freshen up or get changed? Or maybe have somewhere to go back to and crash for a few hours rather then spending the time on the streets @ 6.00am on a Sunday morning before they can get a train back? Also, some customers might no be as young and sprightly as yourself and may require to leave earlier. I can think of a zillion places I'd rather be than walking the streets of London @ 6.00am waiting for a train that doesn't run until 9.00am..........
Ian D
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London transport throughout the night is also an issue for me. I would have happily popped down on Saturday night if it wasn't such a pain in the ass for me to get back home @ a civilised hour! I was at another function just along the road and would have loved to have come down between, say 1.00-4.00am but that would have entailed a £50 cab fare to get home and that's a luxury these days. I wouldn't have lasted 'til 6.00am otherwise that would have written me off for work on Monday so I had little choice other than to get the last tube back to my area @ 12.30am. This is patently ridiculous for a metropolis like London in 2010 but obviously that's way beyond any of our remits........
As you found out the other week Ian getting back from Euston Lol
Yep. Good job I got dropped off south of the river as that was only £35 and believe me I was lucky to get that! Most London gigs I do run at a loss these days!
I wonder why we can't have all-night tubes like they have in most other civilised cities on a Friday and Saturday..........?
Ian D
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I have been looking for them in the States for a few years as i rate it highly...i have a copy and have just found a second copy, not on the net but when i was there last month. I think its a bloody hard 45 to find Ian....as has been backed up by the other posters to this thread.
Think I`ll let my mate have it...he has been looking as long as me!
Chris
You're probably right. I've got a tendency to assume that just 'cos I kept stumbling into things in the 70's (and 80's to a lesser extent), that certain titles cannot be rare. But if those couple of hundred count boxes have all ended up in people's collections since then, then I guess they're rare now......
Ian D
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I think the suggestion that someone made earlier about maybe sorting out a decent package deal for a B&B or hotels for the longer haul travellers makes a lot of sense. With an aging fan-base convenience has to be a factor and the one thing London has is plenty of hotels and rooms and conveniently hundreds of 'em are within a mere stroll of the 100 Club. So rather than having to co-ordinate everything for just the hours that the club is open, having the option of a local room means that everyone could adopt a slightly more civilised approach to visiting the club rather than getting to 6.00am and then trying to figure out how to deal with the travelling back.
London transport throughout the night is also an issue for me. I would have happily popped down on Saturday night if it wasn't such a pain in the ass for me to get back home @ a civilised hour! I was at another function just along the road and would have loved to have come down between, say 1.00-4.00am but that would have entailed a £50 cab fare to get home and that's a luxury these days. I wouldn't have lasted 'til 6.00am otherwise that would have written me off for work on Monday so I had little choice other than to get the last tube back to my area @ 12.30am. This is patently ridiculous for a metropolis like London in 2010 but obviously that's way beyond any of our remits........
Also Ady, I think that the financial impact is really affecting a lot of things at the moment. I've travelled around quite a bit this year - Blackpool, Dewsbury, Prestatyn, Preston etc and it's not cheap so I guess you've got to be reasonably well-off to be a regular monthly gig goer these days.
Also I would really make a bit more of the heritage of the club - after all this is the longest running Soul club in the world isn't it? 31 years is a huge achievement by any standard - most clubs are lucky if they get 5 years! Since the 100 Club is one of the great institutions that's actually still running I would have thought it would be in the club's interest to generate a bit more interest in it's heritage. This could be achieved by being a bit more proactive on the PR front or by redesigning the flyers/posters/ads so that visiting the 100 Club is a historic occasion for many visitors. Are people necessarily aware of the heritage of the club? I dunno but if it were my club I'd invest a bit more 'history' in the entrance and stairwells for a start. There's certainly enough archival stuff that could be used and would give people a sense of the history of the club as they enter the hallowed portals. Not many clubs have the rich history of the 100 Club so I don't think I'd be shy in promoting it as the longest running Soul club in history. You need those extra visitors to make up the numbers and it would be naive to ignore this area IMO. Every 100 Club do should be seen as an event so you may need to step up the all-round promotion of the venue and get those extra couple of hundred 'waiverers' in each time.
And finally what's the deal with Talcum powder down there? Does the owner not like it? I popped along Oxford Street on Saturday 'cos I was at a party @ Centerpoint so I thought I'd share a fag with a few of the regulars and I noticed that Talcum powder was being confiscated. Is it that much of an issue?
But whatever you do, keep it running. The Xmas do was f*ckin' brilliant and I bumped into tons of people who made it down for the occasion. I just think you have to make every 100 Club do an occasion these days!
Ian D
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Ian could you get me those copies at a fiver each please, I know a few guys who are after this record!
Thanks for the info, much appreciated but i think its a pretty hard record on 45.
So, whats it worth?
Cheers, Chris
Blimey, they disappeared quick. Must've been snapped up after you started the thread Chris. As Baz said, it was a fairly common Soul Pack record in the 70's so they'll be out there somewhere mate.
It's one of those records that I always seem to find in odd places and generally never bother picking 'em up 'cos I'm convinced there's tons of 'em out there. First copy I ever picked up was from Cheapo Cheapo for 25p but I've bumped into 100 count boxes of 'em a couple of times over the years......
It'll turn up....
Ian D
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Never. There's always been slow to mid-tempos through every decade whether the Wheel, Torch, Casino, Cleethorpes, Stafford, 100 Club etc, etc. The scene's never been about purely 100mph banging 60's to my knowledge...........
Ian D