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I also love the bit ....When Alison said........ There is nothing like touching a bit of vinyl........Maybe she is going to buy the 3rd copy then ! I wonder New Topic...There is nothing like touching a bit of vinyl

Hmmm, love this topic... 123.......123.....????? I like the lady in the background... probably thinking.. WHAT ££££££££££ for feggin piece of plastic... my stuff is at least nice to look at and made of lovely porcelain .....IT IS NOT AN AUCTION MARKET How things have changed hey

Yep, I like them both a lot!!! I got the Bobby Dee recently great track!!!! But I would love to have the ravins tooo

I am a small Dj who pays lots of money for cheap records and somehow those bloody tunes always clear the floor I am really gutted I don't wanna know how bad the big boys feel.

well, I am guilty myself of lotsa schpelling misst¤kes but hey

Ian, please write a book or try to make a film. Seriously !!!! I think he may even be behind Soul Source..Simon Soussan, I am sure !!

By the state of things I have to sell a few this year too. Bugger my pension is gone now.

It's amazing how I managed to retain my good looks after all these nose-flattenings over the years LOL..... Ian D

C´mon guys !!! It is just a lovely PASSION not PENSION we all share REGARDLESS of the future value!!! I hope you look at your collection and think of it seriously as a pention just during a funny moment we all have now and then. That is a whole new threat then: When do you think of your collection as a pension !!! My thoughts: Well, normally when you start adding up how much you spent on it and how much you told your miss or ...when the hip replacement is due but you just saw your big want at half price. Ok. if you do think of it as a pension please all sell now at the same time

Sorry, I was just making it up, no he said something I am sure

Yep, I did read the topic title before and as with topics they move around the subject a bit therefore my first post was a reply to Steve L

Well, I am planning to be a bit active when I am old. I'll start the Rare Reptile Circus (RRC). In order to save running costs I am planning to feed them with dry food. Not a great return on my butterfly collection but hey!

Well, I collect for my own pleasure. I also like to share it once or twice a month but for my pension? Not really. My rare butterfly and bug collection may goes to auction in a few years to fund my pension!

Just one example of a Soul Mod Band of few miles away: The mad mod world of Juan Pablo dream By Eric S. Caruncho Inquirer First Posted 04:15am (Mla time) 07/01/2007 Filed Under: Music, Fashion, Entertainment (general) MANILA, Philippines - "Isputing." If I could only use one word to describe Juan Pablo Dream, that's the word I would choose. The walls are already sweating, and so is the band, when JPD frontman Bing Austria counts off the first number of their set at Route 196,a cover of Little Stevie Wonder's early Motown hit "Uptight", but they remain sharp, stylish, "isputing." I mean, who wears a cardigan in the Philippines, in June? Specially if you're going to be doing the boogaloo for the remainder of the set, as Austria will? But with JPD, the look is as important as the sound, and the band's ensemble is as carefully choreographed as their set of uptempo groove-driven dance floor soul anthems. Austria is wearing a porkpie hat, sunglasses at night like Corey Hart, a button-down white shirt and a tie under his red cardigan, a pair of vintage Levi's Sta-prest trousers with knife-edge creases, and Ben Sherman bowling shoes. The rest of the band are similarly outfitted in Ben Sherman track jackets and Fred Perry polos. One horn player is even stylin' in a sharp slim-cut suit. Your average T-shirt and Chuck Taylor-wearing emo kid would probably find it weird, but Victor "Knock On" Wood would probably feel right at home, as would Tony "Agent X-44" Ferrer, who puts in a cameo in the band's music video for their single "Nice Place." The band's entire philosophy is nicely summed up in the lyrics to one of their songs: Gonna dress up sharp tonight So I will feel all right Im gonna dance all night Until the morning light Have a good time, yeah yeah yeah! If nothing else, Austria lends credence to my pet theory that people have a special affinity with the music of the year they were born in. The oldest member of the group, he was born in 1964, the very peak of the Mod era. Daddy, what's a Mod? Short for "Modernists," the Mods were one of Britain's youth tribes in the Sixties. Obsessed with style, the Mods dressed in Italian-cut suits and rode Italian scooters like Vespas and Lambrettas, listened to Black American soul music or Mod bands like the Who, the Kinks and the Small Faces, and spent most their nights in amphetamine-fueled dance parties. By day, most of them worked in order to finance their chosen lifestyle. Being a Mod was all about correctness: the right cut of a jacket, the right hairstyle, the right shirt, and making the right scene, although since styles changed rapidly it was hard to keep up. Their sworn enemies were the Rockers, who derived their style from Marlon Brando in "The Wild One": They wore leather jackets and rode big British bikes' Triumphs, BSAs or Nortons, and listened to old-fashioned rock 'n roll. The Rockers sneered at the Mods' underpowered scooters and prissy fashion sense. In 1964, the year of Austria's birth, the Mods and Rockers finally clashed in a riot at a beach resort, an event celebrated in the quintessential Mod film "Quadrophenia." By the end of the Sixties, the Mods devolved: those with money became fashion hippies, those without became the Skinheads. But in the punk era, Mod underwent a revival, fueled by the popularity of the Jam and its stylish frontman Paul Weller, who remains a Mod icon to this day. Since then, Mod has periodically resurrected itself, notably during the Britpop years with the rise of Oasis and Blur, bands that adopted Mod touchstones such as Italian scooters and sharp suits. The Mod lifestyle continues to attract followers in London , LA, Japan and, Bulacan? "We actually started playing gigs in Malolos," says Austria. After leaving his previous band, the much-loved Put3Ska, Austria says he went into hibernation, eventually landing in Bulacan where he was surprised to find a vibrant and diverse music scene. During a stint singing lounge songs in a Malolos bar, he got to talking about ska and soul music with bassist Alex Dumlao and guitarist Au Castro, and in 2003 they decided to form Juan Pablo Dream. Initially they were toying with the idea of playing bossa nova (hence the vaguely Brazilian-sounding band name) but eventually ditched the idea in favor of playing straight ahead uptempo soul. Austria infected the rest of the band with his long-held stylistic obsessions, and by the time they made it to Manila and a record deal with hip indie label Terno Recordings, they were a Mod band. The lineup, which includes Eman Tabujara on sax and Igor Carpio on trumpet, further solidified after the band released their debut album "Soul Up!" when Austria's Put3Ska cohort Luis "Weslu" Guiang joined on drums. Like Austria, a veteran of the Eighties punk scene, Guiang added a hard-driving groove to the mix. "From the start, even in our first gig in Manila, patok kaagad (we were a hit)," says Austria. "I guess the kids were looking for a different sound. I thought we would attract an older audience, but our first gigs at Saguijo were jampacked, and a lot of the audience were Mods, they were dressed right. A lot of scooter boys also got into our scene." Tragically, Guiang died in January this year after the Vespa he was riding was hit by a truck. A flurry of tribute concerts and benefit gigs followed, extending all the way to the Visayas and beyond. Old expat fans of Put3Ska reportedly held benefits as far away as the US and Europe. "Weslu's death really crippled us," says Austria. "It's different when you have a drummer who knows the groove, and the culture from punk to ska to jazz to Mod." Fortunately, the band has found a replacement in 17-year-old drum prodigy Aldwin Fernando, who pounds the skins convincingly. "He's not quite a Mod yet," says Austria, nodding to Aldwin's Crocodile polo shirt and decidedly un-Mod trousers. "But we're working on it."

Oh you are so wrong. Well, do you know that there is a Punk, R&R, and Skinhead Scene in China (some even listen to Soul). Did you know that as I have mentioned above that you had Mods, Punks, Exies, Skins, Jazzer in Eastern Europe before the wall came down? It was mainly cassettes in the beginning but once we had access people started to buy the real stuff. By the way our average income in East Germany was around $3500[professionals] but people still bought (on the black market) records of there favourite artist. Sometimes wayyyyy over the odds. I am talking stuff you can get for 9 DM which was sold for 150+ in East Germany!!!!! Old people over 60 were able to travel to West Germany and therefore responsible for all those records brought to East Germany. Same goes for Mexico, Philippines....One always leads to another and like in Europe those scene's will later cater for Northern Soul and therefore at some point people will start to collect the real thing. A few russians buy Northern Soul (originals) and play it at their Soul and Mod Club. Average income ??? By the way when Northern Soul was dead in the 80's did the price drop that much???

Yes but no but yeah but no, the scene is constantly growing in europe and overseas. What will happen is that people with no access or money will start playing the kent/ reissue game first, then move to some cheaper originals and then end up paying more once funds are available to them. Altough the price may drop in the future, you should think about places like Eastern Europe, Asia...There is already a Soul Club in Moskau....What about China and other places where the growing economy will create more disposible income. I was born in East Germany and we had different kind of music scenes. Well, records were expensive but with the odd cassettes we had some wicked Punk, Ska, Soul, Gothic, Metall....illegal or even legal Clubs/Happenings. Once the wall came down I started to hunt down some of those Soul and Ska tunes myself. Soul is also linked to the Mod, Scooter and Skinhead Scene and more and more youngsters get into Soul through that. Just try not clocking off that quickly and you will be allright

Yep, that is right Marc. I have forgotten about it.

Well, in Holland you got the Amsterdam Soul Club once a month for starters. I am not so sure what is going on now but they had some runs and nighters (Ska & Soul) in the 80's & 90's... In Hamburg we have something going on almost every weekend. Soul only Clubs: For Dancers Only (Northern, R& B, Modern, bi-monthly) Northern Soul Allnighter (viphitmanclub starts Feb 2009 approx. 4-6 times a year) Soul Allnighter (Across the Board since 1983 twice a year) Rare Pleasure Soul Club (Modern; Northern Club/Bar Night 5 times a year) Mixed Clubs Hip Cat Club (once a month Beat, Garage, Soul, Mod..) Piff Pang Pow (3-4 times a year..Beat, Garage, Soul, Mod) Soulexplosion (3-4 times a year, mainly Funk & Soul) Mojo Club(Soul, Jazz, K¶ln, Hanover and once a year in Hamburg) Bar/Club Nights Double Dynamite (Ska & Soul once a month) Double Cooking (Beat, Soul, Mod 5-8 times a year) Soul Jerker (Ska, Soul 3-4 times a year) Charity Soul (hopefully more often) and lots of other Bars were Djs play Soul with other stuff..... Weekender in or around Hamburg Hamburg Soul Weekender (Northern, R&B, Modern) Baltic Soul Weekender (all sorts of Soul...) Kings & Queens (Soul, R& B, Rocksteady, Ska) Kiel Weekender (Soul & Ska, Rocksteady) And some scooter runs... That doesn't mean we have a big scene here in Hamburg but some events regulary attract up to 200-500 people (mainly from Hamburg). Well, not just attended by a hardcore Soul ''Crout'' but nevertheless a nice mix of people. I think there are more and more people getting into it at the moment. The Weekenders are quite big (up to 1200+) but obviously not just enjoyed by people form Hamburg. But there are also lots of other events in Germany (clubs, runs, mixed nighters...) Here are some Soul (Northern, Modern, R& only events: Berlin (as mentioned by Mark) Bremen (Soul A Rama, Backdrop) L¼beck (Hanseatic Soul) Leipzig (Soul Surgery) Jena (Soulclub Jena) Dresden (Break Down Soulclub) Stuttgart (The Horse Club) N¼rnberg (Central Soul Club, Weekender...) M¼nchen (as mentioned by Benji) Well, to many to mention but you got also something going on (Weekender/ Soul Nights) in Aachen; Bottrop, Neuss, Frankfurt, Marburg, Bielefeld .......... and of a few runs.......

Hm, I guess you all know that to get printed paper clean you either run a pup, restaurant, antique-shop ( incl. records... ), building company, recycling company, record company......or a country!

Yep, same here people complained about noise (although the council measured it and it was ok.) at a venue I was promoting a night with a friend of mine. It went to court 3 times but in the end the owner lost. Well, the value of the flats above increased by 40%!!! (Baker Street).... At the same time I was working for a big pub/ bar operator and we had trouble with the neighbours. The pup was build in 1845 and was also listed but because a big company was behind it, we never ever lost in court (it went twice to court)!!! Bugger them!

Hi Darryl, It's always so special when the original artist comes on here!!!! Fantastic record!!! Hello from Germany!!

My wish for 2009 is to see James and Ian doubledecking at the 100 Club! Anyway, I think the whole thing is a big marketing ploy, like in boxing, when at the end after a big fight (and the build up!!!!)..... they hug each other and say...respect mate !! I wonder which tune they would choose for the big entrance? Sorry, just kidding ! Love & Peace toooooo everyone

Well, also at that time Northern Soul started to blossom in places like Germany, Spain, Italy... humble beginnings but hey ! It was a great new sound to a lot of people!! Now we have a lovely and passionate scene in Europe!

Great!!!