pikeys dog

But my Mint promo is only a fiver including P&P - so that makes the record about £2.00 after you factor in the cost of posting it... I don't understand where you get the tenner from? p.s still available - lets call it four quid including p&p.

tenner on eBay?

Not a great deal - it's a 70s re-issue by the label.

Is that Boner Fide?

Ian, Do you ever look back at your earlier productions, say up to the Motorcity releases, and think how you would have/could have done them now? Are there any that you think you could vastly improve and how? Are there any that you believe are 'perfect' and wouldnt alter even with a gun at your temple?

And here's me thinking "It's What's In The Groove That Counts"

I had a dream that I stoved a well known Northern Soul DJs skull in for back-chatting me at a venue...

classic, or not, nobody is interested in the Mint 12" Demo for a fiver incuding p&p.

Be very careful - DJ has been booted on a lookalike label

anything etched in the run-out?

£35 that's what the copy in my sales box is anyway....

I've got it on a 12" White label - with the artist/title on a sticker slapped on it - if anyone wants it they can have it for a fiver including postage and packing (in the UK).

£25 - £30 should get you a nice mint issue, and a few quid more for a demo. Great double-sider.

Came out on the Roulette label with Gentlemen & Their Lady on the flip.

NO. not every week, probably not even every month. BTW - How can it be centrally located if its in London?

I've never seen a later # copy... all the ones I've handled have had 6661 on the label

CD release from the late 90s or early noughties... No vinyl issue other than the white label boot

Great record - wouldn't swap mine for a double jointed thai hooker.

I would have voted for "it's a classic record that should only be played out by people who own the original 45" - that way it wouldn't be overplayed.

Only my opinion Andy, and to be fair upstairs at Middleton isn't that bad - but it's everywhere - it seems to be a contest as to who can play the most expensive records in one spot - instead of the most imaginative. It's even happening at the Wilton - one DJ last night played big ticket oldie after big ticket oldie, with the odd current big ticket current sound, all very nice records and all very rare - but I didn't hear one thing where I thought "What the fooks this?" or "Bloody Hell I haven't heard this for years" and to be honest it bored me to death - I mentally switched off and started thinking about what i needed to put on my shopping list for B&Q this afternoon...

A well mannered and well put response to what has become a bit of a comedy witch-hunt. Anyway here's my thoughts on the whole TEFGATE incident... Would I ever play the record? No. Do I personally like the record? No, it's a bit too 'dreary 50s' for my taste. Did anyone complain on the night? Not at all. Is everyone getting their shreddies in a twist over one record that was played in ten hours worth of records? Undoubtedly. Should he be "sacked"? Not at all. Shoud Andy Have Played the record? Yes - provided he was confident in his choice of plays why shouldn't he? Have I got better things to do with my life than examine the minutiae of every DJs playlist? Hell Yes. Would the stuffed shirts who are moaning about this have been pissing themselves at the game of musical statues we played at around 7am? No, most of them would have been tucked up in' feather dreaming of serious stuff like mid sixties Detroit Matrix number sequences. Seriously.... I, like quite a few others involved with the R&B scene, hate the fact that people dismiss it as all Rock n' Roll or Country and Western, and unfortunately records like this re-inforce the stereotype. However, this was one record - not an entire spot, and as stated it didn't empty the floor, so somebody other than Andy (ie the dancers) must have thought it worthy of play. A good DJ will to a large extent follow the floor - if a record of that ilk fails, then it will be shelved, and something else put in its place - but if it's accepted then fair enough. Let's get this in perspective - the Back Beat room is a seperate entity from the "Main Room". This record wasn't thrust upon an unreceptive 'Northern' crowd - it wasn't dropped into a set of big figure classics/oldies. No one was harmed in the playing of this record - nobody spontaneously combusted at the thought of a TEF record being spun - no-one poked sharpened sticks in their ears to stop the terrible sound entering their cerebral cortex. Upstairs at some point during the night, there would have IMO been records played that are hammered to death by the same handful of DJs, with little thought to the dancefloor, but more thought to the number of Browny points gained during a cock-waving contest. Fair play to Andy for having the balls to plough his own furrow. Right, bored with this topic now. Who wants to hear my new Jim Reeves cover-up?

Right then, been asked for my thoughts on TEFGATE and here they are... Would I ever play the record? No. Do I personally like the record? No, it's a bit too 'dreary 50s' for my taste. Did anyone complain on the night? Not at all. Is everyone getting their shreddies in a twist over one record that was played in ten hours worth of records? Undoubtedly. Should he be "sacked"? Not at all. Shoud Andy Have Played the record? Yes - provided he was confident in his choice of plays why shouldn't he? Have I got better things to do with my life than examine the minutiae of every DJs playlist? Hell Yes. Would the stuffed shirts who are moaning about this have been pissing themselves at the game of musical statues we played at around 7am? No, most of them would have been tucked up in' feather dreaming of serious stuff like mid sixties Detroit Matrix number sequences. Seriously.... I, like quite a few others involved with the R&B scene, hate the fact that people dismiss it as all Rock n' Roll or Country and Western, and unfortunately records like this re-inforce the stereotype. However, this was one record - not an entire spot, and as stated it didn't empty the floor, so somebody other than Andy (ie the dancers) must have thought it worthy of play. A good DJ will to a large extent follow the floor - if a record of that ilk fails, then it will be shelved, and something else put in its place - but if it's accepted then fair enough. Let's get this in perspective - the Back Beat room is a seperate entity from the "Main Room". This record wasn't thrust upon an unreceptive 'Northern' crowd - it wasn't dropped into a set of big figure classics/oldies. No one was harmed in the playing of this record - nobody spontaneously combusted at the thought of a TEF record being spun - no-one poked sharpened sticks in their ears to stop the terrible sound entering their cerebral cortex. Upstairs at some point during the night, there would have IMO been records played that are hammered to death by the same handful of DJs, with little thought to the dancefloor, but more thought to the number of Browny points gained during a cock-waving contest. Fair play to Andy for having the balls to plough his own furrow. Right, bored with this topic now. Who wants to hear my new Jim Reeves cover-up?

37 on the 22nd of this month.

Just when you thought it was all over.... Chicory

I've just played Longys last played clip, and I haven't a clue what track it was playing, but it definately wasn't "Vick and John"