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AN EX QUESTION THE FIRST BADGES THAT I REMEMBER WERE AT THE WHEEL IN 69 BUT ONLY ON 3 / 4 GEEZERS THEY WERE A MANCHESTER RED ROSE OF LANCSON IT NO MENTION OF THE CLUB BUT THE NAME OF THE GEEZER ON IT, AS I WAS A WEST HAM BOVVER BOY(SKINHEAD) BIG CITYS WERE QUICK TO ADDOPT THE WEST HAM LOOK, AND IF I DO SAY SO A PALE BLUE OXFORD, WITH A MAUVE SLEEVLESS JUMPER V KNECK, FADED 501s LEVEL WITH AT THE TIME 8 HOLE BROWN Dr MARTINS POLISHED IN CHERRY RED OR WHITE STA PRESS& YOU HAD THE HAMMERS BOOT BOY IMAGE, JUST THE DRESS CODE GOT PEOPLE RUNNG ("HENCE THE WHUFC SON BUBBLE WITH ALTERNITVE LYRICS" " TOTENHAM ALWAYS RUNNING ARSENAL NEVER THERE? I AM FOREVER FROWING BOTTLE BOTTLES OVER THER AND THEN INTO THE JIM REEVES SONG " I HERE THE SOUND OF DISTANT BUMS OVERE THERE OVER THERE AND DO THEY SMELL?LIKE FUCKING HELL EVERY ONE WEST HAM WEAT HAM", GEN EVENING DRESS CODE WAS BLACK BLAZER WITH 3 ROWS OF SILVER BUTTONS DICKIE AND WHITE STA PRESSS, ROYALS OR OXFORDS 1/4STEAL HEEL TIP HORSE SHOE OR BLAKY ON THE FRONT AND A TIE WHICH YOU QUICLY TOOK OF ONCE IN A DANCE HALL THESE NORTHERNERS AS I CALED THEM DID NOT HAVE THE STANDARD RED SILK HANKY OR A DIAMOND POCKET STUB, I REMEMBER THINKING AT THE TIME THAT THE BADGES WERE A BIT GREBO,, OTHER EARY BADGES WERE IN 72 THE HOWARD MALLET AND CHRISS BURTON FROM STOKE BOGHT AT 4 THE TORCH STOKE ON TRENT, RIGHT ON THE TORCH black power fist, THAT REMINDS ME AT THEWHEEL ONE HAND IN A BLACK LEATHER GLOVE I HAVE ALWAYS ASSUMED THE IDEA COME FROM THE 68 MEXICO OLIMPICS...i HAVE JUST TOOK A GANDER AT THE TIME 1.03 GOOD NIGHT DAVE KIL

THIS IS A TRUE STORY, I HAVE LIVED IN WOLVES FOR 30 YEARS NOW, BUT LIVED A MILE AWAY FROM MICK SMITH IN HEARTFORDSHIRE, THAT NOT THE STORY WHEN I FIRST MET THE WOLVES IN CROWD AT THE CATS AND WIGAN, THEY TOLD ME THAT SOLOMAN KING WAS APPEARING AT A PENTICOSTAL CHURCH IN BRICKILN STEET WOLES, AND A GANG OF THEM TURNED UP IN ANTISIPATION HE WOULD BE SINGING BEATIFUL DAY, THATS WHY I LOVE EM SO DAVE KIL

HI ALL Ihave only been a member of SOUL-SOURCE justa few months and here we go again? so I have limited it to a instrumentle that I got first on a europian LP of KIETH MANSFIELD & HIS ORCHESTA 1st things 1st I highley recomend his LP a must buy, 2nd the CLASS INSTUMENTAL on the Album :- BOOGALOO its absulutly brill, 9 months ago my mate jim and myaelf were talking about the LP and the ex trax on it, he informed me 1 of the LPs trax come out on CBS in 68 in the UK...called SOUL CONFUSION iI informed him although I had not got it I nwe of its exsistance, he then told me he had a copy of BOOGALOOAS a US 45.this I clearly did not no, I now have a copy and its has become one of my favourate INSTRUMENTAS of all time? DAVE KIL

SHAME,SHAME AND THRICE SHAME ON YOU. actually its as you are aware now always been out there 2 great sides try and get yourself a UK Demo as although rare not to pricey DAVE KIL

Hi all..Over the years I have replaced much of my missing personal memorabilia the only missing bade for me is the original vava bade it was purchesed at the venue in the summer of 73 for those who are to young 73 was a big year of change on the RARE SOUL SCENE, just a glance through BLUES AND SOUL bi weekly magazine which was always a must punches item to get, and you will see from June 73 the change from RARESOUL INTO NORTHERN SOUL. And by the end of 74 NORTHERN SOUL WAS ALMOST GOING OVERGGROUND?..Late 71 was the real start of the change when the Wheel got busted also Bletso, the OLD BILL were trying to end the extended hedonism of the ever changing (metamorphosis of teenage subcultures which come via the MODS in 62/3 and the violence of the pill popping BOVVERBOY of 68/9. when 1973 come it was for many a end of an ERA, loads of Wheel Goers settled don as they reached 25 year old and for some 30 yrs, and with the closure of the Torch, many who witnessed the live MAJOR LANCE performance when people were hanging of curtains and bowing and chanting his name, was also a distant memory, regular work getting married taking your sort to the Berni Inn to have chicken in the basket after a prawn cocktail starter a bottle of Mattuass and the next thing she was in the famly way so many torch bros & sister disappeared off the scene, there were a few good places to go LEEDS Central WARRINGTON, BUT THE VAVA WAS SPECIAL. in the past with the exception of the FLAMINGO the Wheel and the torch most RARE SOUL NIGHTS / ALLNIGHTERS WERE WORD OF MOUTH, getting back to the point "I do have one?" the VAVA badge just faded away to nothing can you believe that, that's why its rare to me, what I am saying that if something you have owned and no longer have is a collectible it depends on how you got your badges, as an old git I get pissed of with the shit in life and badges are a mute point in question its a bit like DJing with a 100 bootlegs or reissues its not the acceptable thing on the rare soul scene, I hate people who ponce about with TWISTED WHEEL blazer badges on as they clearly did not go there whats that I here some people saying but the wheel is still on SORRY TO SPOIL THE ILLUSION THE TWISTED WHEEL SHUT IN 71, my WHEEL had RED & BROWNS, GREEN& CLEARS BOMBERS BLUES, AND FABULAS MUSIC, and thanks to guys like MICK SMITH ADY KIETH RICHARD AND KEV and so many more oh IAN LAVINDER SOZ I MEANT LAVINE just a homophobic joke darling? back to your badges well the WIGAN 5th is always a nice find but the 4th is the best as its in WEST HAM UNITED FC colors sell them if you need cash or be really soulful and give them to people who attended the particular gig PHEWW DAVE KIL

HI SWOZ YOU CAN ADD ME DOWN ON YOUR LIST IF YOU WANT A RARE UK DJ..AND US OLDIES ALL PLAYED ON ORIGANAL VINAL. NO SECOND ISSUES OR BOOTS HERE MY FREIND DAVE KIL

HI ALL ITS BECOME VERY CLEARE TO MYSELF MANY YEARS AGO, THAT IF YOU BROWN NOSE THE ESTABLISHED TOP TEIR OF THE RARE SOUL SCENE, AND I SAY THAT WITH THE GREATEST OF RESPECT TO THE GUYS WHO PIONIERED THE SCENE, YOU GET ASKED TO DO A GEUST SPOT SOME TIMES IT REALLY PISSES ME OFF WHEN I LOOK AT SOME OF THE DJ,s WHO GET ASKED TO DJ. AS I KNOW THE PROMOTOR/S GIVE THE UNDER CARD SPOTS TO THE GUYS WHO SPEND THE MOST CASH WITH THEM ON RECORD DEALS OR THEY ARE GUYS THAT AT THIS MOMENT HAVE THE RIGHT TUNES? THIS IS HOW & WHY 7ts NITES GOT STARTED AS THE RARE UK/US RECORDS BELONGED IN THE HANDS OF THE TOP DEALERS AND COLLECTORS AS SUCH NEW BLOOD TO THE SCENE PICKED UP ON THE MORE AFORDABLE 7ts STUFF, AS ANYONE NEW TO THE SCENE JUST COULD NOT AFFORED TO HAVE A LARG SOUL COLLECTION THESE DAYS, A FEW YEARS AGO I COULD HAVE BOUGHT MY MATES WHOLE REGGAE COLLECTION FOR 90K,I COULD ONLY RAISE 50K MYSELF AND AS SUCH MISSED OUT, INSTANTLY OVER NIGHT I COULD HAVE BEEN THE MAIN REGGAE MAN, THESE OPPERTUNITIES ONLY COME ONCE OR TWICE IN YOUR LIFE.MY PIONT IS WITH THE COLLECTION I WOULD BE PULLING THE STRINGS ON THAT SCENE, I AM GLAD I DID NOT BUY THE COLECTION AS IT WOULD HAVE GONE AGAINST MY IDEALISTIC VALUES AND COMPAIRED TO MY SOUL COLLECTION IT WOULD NOT OF BEEN APPRECIATED AS I KNOW MY RECORDS INSIDE OUT AND WITH THE PRE 8ts NORTHERN ALL THE RECORDS I CAN PLACE AS A TORCH, WHEEL MECCA WIGAN SOUND ALSO IN MOST CASES I NO WHO PLAYED THEM FIRST, IT ALSO MEANS I AM GETTING OLD AS A COLECTORE OF RARE RECORDS (SOUL & JAMACAN)I AND SOME PEOPLE LIKE MYSELF WOULD APPRECIATE A GEST SPOT NOW AND AGAIN IF ONLY TO PLAY OLD STUFF TO NEW EARS.. TO CONCLUDE LETS SUPPORT OUR LOCAL COLLECTORS AND GIVE THEM SPOTS AND NOT TO THE SAME GUYS WHO OWN 400 RECORDS BUT HAVE TONS OF CDs AS A COLLECTION BAH HUM BUG I HERE YOU SAYING? IF YOU PUT THE TOP 10 COLLECTORS IN THE WOLVES AREA ALONE WE PROBERLY HAVE GOT MOST OF THE RARE RECORDS, NOW AND AGAIN I MAY SEE JOHN PUGHS NAME AND HARPOS BUT NEVER SEE ROYS, ROBS, OR EVEN MYSELF ON THE DJ LIST, THE PROMOTORS MUST BE SCARED OR WE SMELL DAVE KIL

ANDY A FEW MONTHS BACK THIS WAS A BIG SOUND PLAYED BY MICK SMITH, HOWEVER THER ARE MANY US COPYS ABOUT FOR A FEW ££S THE UK ISS IS STILL SORT AFTER BUT NOT SO MUCH NOW, HOWEVER THE DEMO IS ALWAYS DESIREABLE, YOUR COPY IF MINT £25 + DAVE KIL

YOU BOTH MAKE GOOD PIONTS-HOWEVER SOME PROMOTERS IN MY OPINION EXPECT POEPLES LOYLATY AND THAT PISSES ME OF, WHILE SOME ARE TRYING TO MAKE THE NIGHT PLESUREABLE? AND THAT COSTS- MYSELF I HAVE DONE BOTH OVER THE YEARS, THATS DJ & PUNTER I HAVE NEVER PROMOTED A GIG AND NEVER EXPECTED A AGREED SUM ALWAYS GOT PAID DAVE KIL

PETE THERES A REAL UK DEMO ON EBAY, THATS IN A REGGAE SHOP, MY MAN IN HACKNEY CHECKED IT OUT FOR ME LISTEN TO SOUND CLIP? AND MY INFO IS RELIABLE ITS A BLACKMANS GOOD /VG AS YOU KNOW THAT MEANS POOR AND KNACKARED, LETS SEE WHAT IT GOES FOR AS ITS ALLREADY REACHED TWICE MY ESTIMATE RARE AND TEMPTING BUT NOT ABOVE £50 AS I KNOW THE SHOP I WISH HIM WELL DAVE KIL

Hi all- SHOULD ALL DJ,s GET PAID?--TO BE TRUTHFULL YES, BUT NO IF THERE EXPENCES MEAN THE EVENT DOES NOT BRAKE EVEN. ALSO WHAT ARE THEY GETTING PAID FOR IF ITS TO PLAY SOUNDS THAT GET POEPLE DANCING YES, IF IT IS TO PLAY THERE OWN GEMS THAT MEAN A LOT TO THEM BUT SO UNFAMILUAR TO MOST (EGO TRIPPIN) THE DEFANANTLY NO, ALSO HAVE THEY GOT A COLLECTION OF RECORDS OR JUST THE ONES IN VOGUE NO AGAIN, YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE DAVE KIL

IF I REMEMBER THINGS RIGHT:- WAS THERE A LOT OF FINGER PIONTING AT ONE OF MY BEST MATES SIDJESTING HE RIPPED BRIAN OFF, WHICH IS UNFAIR AND A LIE? AND I HAD TO PIONT THIS OUT TO CERTAIN INDERVIDUES FROM WOLVES AREA? BRIAN WAS A GOOD BLOKE STILL IS OF CORSE DAVE KIL

PETE I HAVE 2 OF THESE IN MY JUNK BOX? MY US ORIGANAL HAS BIG WRITING ON IT LIKE THE ISSUE :- AND MY BOOT THAT I TREASURE IS THE OOTP COPY? I DO HAVE A COUPLE OF SMALL PRINT ISSUES, HOWEVER THE UK ISSUE AND DEMO I HAVE NEVER HAD AND DO BELONG IN MY COLLECTION IN ANY CONDITION? IF YOU CAN GET ME ONE, ALSO HAVE LONDON DEMO OR IS IT BRUNSWICK? DAVE KIL

AND HIS LONG MAC, I OFTEN THINK OF PHIL A GREAT GUY SADLY I WAS WITH HIM ON THAT FATEFUL DAY IN THE AFTERNOON, BUT I COULD NOT HELP HIM, WHY HE WENT IN THE GOAL POST I WILL NEVER KNOW? DAVE KIL

YEP THE GENE CHANDLER IS THE RAREST ON THE LABEL, YES WHAT ABOUT NOLAN CHANCE OR DEE CLARK & HOLLY MAXWELL WELL THERE RARE IN PRICE BIG SHOT IS BY FAR THE HARDEST TO GET THESE DAYS £50 IS ABOUT RIGHT, OLLIE JACKSON PEPPER DEMO IS RARE FOR 2nd ISSUE £30 AS ISSUE? DAVE KIL

Hi ALL as a record collector of SOUL/ R&B/BLUES, REGGAE/ SKA / ROCK STREADY AND GOOD QUALITY POP!! I HAVE ALWAYS LOVED THE B&C LABELS ESPECIALLY DEMOS FOR EXAMPLE ACTION DEMOS AND EVEN ISLAND DEMOS WITH 3&6 THATS 3 SHILLINGS AND SIXPENCE STAMED ON THEM I CLASS THESE AND SIMULAR AS DEMOS BECOUSE THEY ALL COME FROM ORIGANALY MUSIC CITY SHOPS IN HARLSDON HOWEVER I WOULD LIKE A DEFINANT ANSWER ON THIS SUBJECT?. BUT IF REGGAE WAS TREATED IN THE SAME WAY AS WE COLLECT RARE UK SOUL WHAT WOULD BE A HOLY GRAIL? MAYBE SOMETHING LIKE THESE WHAT DO YOU THINK? SORRY PETE AINT GOT THE LIQUIDATOR! FORGET ABOUT PRE RELEASES AND ALL THAT THESE ARE YOUR ACTUAL DEMOS, HOW RARE ARE THEY? DAVE KIL

MY 1st WAS THE WIGAN CASINO CAKE! FROM THE 1st ANNAVERSARY? THIS IS MY 2nd, IT TOOK ME 28 YEARS TO FIND THIS UK DEMO OF ARCHIE BELLS HERE I GO AGAIN DEMO? BELIEVE ME WHEN I SAY I FOUND IT ELUSIVE FOR SUCH A COMMEN ISSUE? DAVE KIL

CHEERS EARS! I MISSED THE POINT, WELL IT CONFUSED ME IN 68 WHEN I CALLED EVERY THING REGGAE, IN MY WORLD EVERY THING APART FROM AL CAPONE PHOENIX CITY GUNS OF NAVARONE EXTRA THAT WAS BLUEBEAT, I DID NOT NO WHAT WAS REGGAE, UNTIL I WAS TOLD BY RESPECTED BLACKMAN DUKE VIN SAID "THAT YOU WHITE BOYS ARE DANCING TO REGGAE THE NEW DANCE SOUND STREGAY" I REMEMBER BUYING THE HIPPY BOYS ON HIGH NOTE DR NO GO B/W SAILING AND THINKING BOTH SIDES WERE REGGAE I MISS BEING 16 TELL YOUR MAN WE DONT WANT LECTURES ABOUT WHATS WHAT UNLESS HE IS BLACK MY AGE OR OLDER AND COMES FROM "JA" AND WHAT IS HIS PROBLEM I HAVE JUST PLAYED AT 1.45am BARRY BIGS WORK ALL DAY a b LEE PRODUCTION ON DYNAMICS, I BET HE DOES NOT EVEN NO THERE ARE 6 VERSIONS OF THIS MID 7ts CLASSIC HE WOULD CALL IT WHAT LOVERS ROCK? DO ME A FAVOUR HE MAY BE A GOOD GEEZER I DONT NO? DAVE KIL PS I JUST PLAYED BEFORE THAT "LOOK INTO THE EYES OF A FOOL" BY DARRAL BANKS, DOES THIS EVER GET PLAYED ANYMORE?

Hi my memories are first why have i traveled 150 miles to go to Crewe until you went in, then it all become green & cleare! Alan Day the records & atmospheare the poeple who were there in late 72 into 73 amazing, however you realy need to speak to the regulars who went? DAVE KIL

Hi all sadly my most valued piece of WIGAN memorabilia was a slice of birthday cake from the 1st anniversary All niter, had it for years until I left the North Herts and moved to Wolves this is true and will be verified by any one who attended the CASINO that night, it was on the right hand side of the lower bar is that a rare one? DAVE KIL

HI M8T THE WAGON & HORSES IN THE CELLER? I REMEMBER AND I CANT THINK WHO AT THIS MOMENT IN TIME PLAYING "CHICK JACKSON-WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO" A REAL WOLVES SPIN FROM THE CATS MEMORIES DAVE KIL

Hi Pete what would manship rate this genuine and i am not f**king about EMI Disc i found many years ago in London B side is blank thats how you can tell if you did not know such things but i no you do!!PS I HAVE ADDED THE FLUFF ARTICLE AS IT REALY BELONGS HERE, DONT YOU THINK? DAVE KIL

Hi Pete whats all the fuss I think this is a good tune? what bothers me what label did this come out on or was it on a couple of LPs Sir Collins Spinning Wheel pink label? comes to mind so does the Montego Bay LP? as for UK reggae well some of my favs like mister LA all hail from London DAVE KIL

GETTING PAID BY PEP & HELEN???? I FOUND THE VENUE THEY JUST TOOK OVER, LIKE THEY DO IS THIS SLANDER I DONT THINK SO DAVE KIL

TO ALL THE BROS & SISTERS WHO WENT TO THE BLACK HORSE, THOMSON AVE WOLVERHAMPTON IN THE LATE 8ts EARLY 9ts SADLY IT WAS DEMOLISHED YESTERDAY & TODAY GOOD TIMES GONE FOREVER DAVE KIL