Simon T

We can make it- Mello Souls? Ruby & Romantics? Patti Hendrix?

20 years ago it was not viable to bring back 'Vg' records from the US because you couldn't sell them. 10 years ago I would buy stuff if very cheap with a view to getting a better copy. Today all those I left behind are on ebay at daft prices! The problem is that for lot of people, new to collecting, can only afford records in dodgy condition and copies in good condition are either not affordable or don't come up for sale

Tomangoes, as a youth I couldn't stand the Tamangoes! Love it now though. Now it's Joanne Courcy - I got the power, have to leave the room and take a walk outside, but everyone else except me seems to love it.

Roscoe & Friends - Broadway Sissy get a bit frantic at times! Remember speed kills, and I'm not talking velocity!

I had a nice black Philips issue of Big Frank & the Essence which I wish I'd kept instead of my Blue Rock copy, but I was sort of collecting the Blue Rock label at the time and so sold it. I wonder if Philips white demos exist that would be the business!!

Only got this Mark

Ted, I think this is it

Masqueraders - I'm just an average guy Ducky & Glowliters - Over & over Prophets - One gold acapella R Dean Taylor - Ghost instrumental Johnny Bristol - I wouldn't change a thing Circle of Fire - Have it your way Cheryl Swoop - Can't get him of my mind Jimmy Radcliffe - The thrill of loving you New Sounds - Don't take your love Soul Children - Who you used to be Sounds of Blackness - I'm going all the way Ule de Vance - My room is dark and empty Johnny Taylor - Just ain't good enough Light of the World - More of myself Peobo Bryson - Palm of your hand Moments - Just having your love Rocky Robbins - I can hardly wait Millie Jackson - I'll continue to love you Heartbreakers - I got to face it Al Williams - I am nothing instrumental Kae Williams - Our love is dying Chris Bartley - I go out of my mind

There was a unissued Jobete studio acetate of it on Manships's auction about two month ago. It's been known about for over 15 years and is on a tape of UR motown stuff that was doing the rounds several years ago, so he either has a copy of the acetate the tape or has broken into my house and lifted it off my PC! Bit too 'party time' for my liking.

lot more than four, including issues.

Andantes - Like a nightmare - V.I.P. I shall have to win the lottery and have a pan-procto colectomy, as I'm never gonna own one of these while I've got a hole in my ar*e!!

Mikey I think this addition of information is only relavent when they are resident or very regular at a niter / club / event which has a specific identity i.e. back in the day when you could take for granted it would be oldies / newies / 60's newies and therefore if some DJed at a particular venue they would normally play oldies/ modern etc wherever they DJ.. However, as most places seem to be eclectic now, there's not much point in doing it. The only time when I think it is pertinent is for someone say like Keb to be associated with say Madam Jo Jo's and then you could travel to the event rest assured that he'll be spinning some of that deep funk stuff?

In a nut shell, I can’t be arsed anymore. As the prices have gone up exponentially over the last 20 years, I would say that obviously much more money is being spent on records; it’s gone a bit like house prices. However, if I was to look at the amount (%) of my disposable income spent on records I would say much less, particularly in the last year (though I did have a blip in January when 3 of my top 5 wants all came up for sale within 10 days of each other). Apart from the fact that the prices of the all time big ticket items has just gone ballistic and I just am not gonna pay the prices for most of them, I’ve found that the ‘cheap’ records e.g. you would buy blind for a £5 and not worry about if it’s not to your taste have really started to suffer from over pricing (probably eBay to blame). For instance, I was looking to pick up some record worth about £5, might get for £8 on eBay and probably about £10 nowadays from a dealer; therefore £50 spent vinyl-addiction ‘fix’ sorted for a week or two. But oh no, peruse the site and the first one I search for is £40 and the damn thing not even e+ or better, so bolleaux to that, I’ll go cold turkey! Same apathy has also rubbed off on eBay etc, I used to look most days but now can’t be arsed to plough through umpteen lots of Bill Bush, Fredderick Hymes, Kenny Shepperd, Royal Esquires, etc etc. I'm sure dealers like Pete S can confirm that most people's spending patterns have changed recently and there's been a general down turn in speding on vinyl.

Great tune, bought by accident when looking for a record with worried in the title which was actual Joe L - Worried, also worth buying. The only trouble with the song is there are loads of bist that remind you of another record; check the intro that's starts like the Montclairs -Wait for me and then goes into the rift from the Cashmere - Showstopper.

it's just a rambling, badly-sung, over-instrumentalised pile of arhythmical, unconsequential shite (IMO, of course) whoever plays it! I'd have to agree, Dan, it's certainly a tune that appears to have been thrown together after a good night on the ale.

10 to 15 quid

The item number of the record is:- 4766268439 Dont know how to do a link to it, perhaps someone else can do that. Ady Got to ebay's front page, click 'advanced search' under search and put in the number. When the pages comes up, you can copy and paste the page's address / link

It's a Phil-L.A. test press on vinyl and legit, here's one I have of Fantastic Johnny All you need is an old type writter, a blank label and Vinyl Carver's address!

Run free is one of my favorite records of all time (& Ted M's too?), but try getting a US demo of the fooker, still looking.

Pat Lewis inc a Nightmare 12"!!

Perception 7"s P-2 Jimmy Curtiss For What I Am /bw Johnny Get Your Gun 1969 P-4 Otis Smith - Let her go / Alley full of trash and bottles Ps - 520 The Fatback Band - Soul March / To be with you 1973 Ps - 543 Velvet - Bet you if you ask around / BYIYAA Instrumental (The Perception String Orch) 1973

back on topic.....can anyone help soul stormers? Not sure if it's been booted, but those on ebay a few weeks ago looked a bit odd. Originaly, they were on Soul Bowl's set sales section for several weeks and so can't be mega rarities i.e. John would have had a few dozen of them. However, you can still £300 for a copy, so I wouldn't be surprised if it's been booted recently.

And both have Andrew T farting away majesticaly on them! No surprise why it's so rare then! moved to 'look at your box'