Mick Boyle

Agree with every word All family, friends and work associates who know I love the music will think I go out at weekends looking like a chimney sweeper. No problem with anything that promotes the scene but it always comes down to the same thing.

Met Eddie about 12 years ago and he had forgot all about this one, sent him a copy as soon as I got back

Yea it was around the £800 mark at one point but loads turned up I sold one last year and struggled to shift it. Awesome record I was told that the later batch that turned up were a bit thinner than the originals ones in circulation and that they were a little suspect. I got mine of a guy known as Brooklynborn he was also selling quantities of Frederic Hymes 111 I never had any reason to suspect these records but Im sure there's plenty on here who may know more Mick

Royal Esquires about £80

Cheers

Just seen this on eBay and wounded if the last picture of Lou Lawton was real eBay item number: 181626586197

Friends - a couple of them yes Heroes - Not quite I take my hat of to those early pioneers who dared spend there hard earned cash on flights to the states to search out the tunes we all love so much. Some times putting them selves at risk all in the name of soul. Ady Croasdell John Anderson Kev Roberts Rix /Thomas Dave Rastrick Ian Lavine Butch etc

Wow I have surprised myself managing to do this - Watch out Microsoft here I come Not put whole track on due to bootleggers Not that I have anything against bootleggers as I think without them the scene would of died years ago Come go with me.mp3

Cant believe I found it within 20 mins of searching. Im now putting 70% of it on CD to transfer to the computer and will do my best to load it tomorrow To many bourbons tonight to even think about trying Happy New Year - Mick

Give me a couple of days and I will give it my best shot but computting aint my game

I got a copy of this version and Happy to put 70% of it on here if I only knew how Mick

Can this be speeded up for the dancers Only joking - Get of my case (I was born for ballads)

The sax break in the middle of a record has always done it for me. The drum driven break in Gwen Owens Wanted and needed gets me every time. My all-time favorite has to be the The Ellusions You didn't have to leave Slide this to 1min 10 secs and enjoy - you even get a bonus bit at the end

Each to there own I went to one of these modern soul alnighters recently and to be honest I wished they had play Darrell s Open The Door on a loop all night long time after time none stop But if we were all the same, it would be a boring place Just my opinion and tuppence worth

I hope London paid the necessary fees, royalty's etc. As they didn't have the rights to produce it and had to stop rather quickly. That makes it the worlds most expensive bootleg Saying that I totally adore the track and always will and think the price tag puts it deservedly at the top of the soul tree

I respect a DJ who will buy a record and play it even if he doesn't like it DJs are employed to entertain the dance floor so its his job to play current fad records The punters have paid there money and should hear the tunes that does it for them But I do agree that the record is s--t

As a young 17 year old I nicked this off the wall in 77 I went in the Funk room as a inquisitive teenager would, there were four guys in boiler suits with elastic joining there legs together and blowing whistles. That was ok but what worried me is the fact that they were dancing around a dead blackbird. Back to the northern room and never ventured on the dark side again

Wasn't there a spiral staircase in a corner leading up to a funk room

Show him your wedge of dollars and you'll be around the counter in no time on all three floors Bit arrogant though

Heres some more memberships Wow I had Brit No 8 That would of been for the two Brit allnighters in 1980

Just found these on a Google search .

Hey Rich, yours isnt torn in half - No mates or what

Heres my yellow one

Just found these on Ebay 191446559415 Mine was yellow - Was there a blue one or has the counterfeiter lost the plot My number was 53858 from 1977 Anyone on here had a top 100 number and how high did they go

I was informed that he did it when he visited the UK.