Jump to content

Jason S

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    2,012

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Feedback

    100%

 Content Type 

Posts posted by Jason S

    Betty Lloyd Test Pressing On Ebay

    in Look At Your Box

    Posted

    Hi everybody,

    i am the one who actually won this ebay auction.

    However, given what the seller wrote to me, it's very unlikely I will ever get this record.

    What do you guys think??

    Reliable??

    "I am writing to you as several records of mine have been broken in a accident and damaged which has caused me no end of grief as some were prized 45's of mine, so therefor i am sorry to say this was one which was damaged, luckily i saved a sound file mp3 track of it , so i offer my apolgy for this , but u will see i am a honest dealer with 10 years experience and 100% positive care for cutomers , accept my apology,

    Dave G

    soul-auctions.com

    UK "

    to which I replied that I didn't believe his explanation and that I was thinking he might have got a very good offer

    this was his last reply

    "Hello,

    What i am actually telling you is the record was broken along with several other ones which cost me a considerable amount of money and i am not happy myself,iv'e never had a problem with any 45's i sell as you;ll see, but this has cost me money myself as iv;e lost them,i am sorry but other than what i have done , its irreplaceable to me as well, as for offers NO look at my history i have been on EBAY Near 10 years and neverhad any problems with what i sell, and indeed i have many more i will sell, my deepest apology but what am i supposed to do ???,A accident if you want to know the dog actually knocked my box off the coffee table, am i sick YES!!! thanking you,

    Dave G

    UK"

    True or not, I will not get the bargain of the year sad.gifsad.gif:unsure:

    That sounds like complete crap.

    Funny isn't it, your bargain gets flagged to buggery and lo and behold the record just happens to be magically 'broken' by a dog knocking a box of records off a coffee table (how many times have bargains been hyped up then ended up being sat on, dropped, mauled by a dog or eaten by a child)...must be a very tall coffee table! Before I finished reading this thread I just said to a mate 'bet after all this the buyer gets welched on'...and f*ck me, carried on to the end and you have been! Unless of course it really did happen (seems too coincidental though) Why not just ask the guy to send the two broken pieces seeing as you've rightfully won it...at least you can still have a rarity, if only to put on your wall or something.

    Lovelites - Get Him Off My Conscience

    in Look At Your Box

    Posted

    ONLY TWO COPIES REGISTERING ON POPSIKE, BUT CHANCES ARE THE OTHER 40 OR SO ON LOVELITE THAT HAVE BEEN ON THE BAY IN THE LAST THREE YEARS WENT UNDER THE RADAR, LIKE MOST ITEMS. 15 TO 20 QUID SHOULD GET YA A DECENT COPY.

    BRI PINCH.

    Different record. It's the red 1975 record that's wanted.

    Lovelites - Get Him Off My Conscience

    in Look At Your Box

    Posted · Edited by J-Brew

    was wondering, Lovelites "Get him off my conscience", you don't see it on sales list that often do you?

    how much would I have to pay for a copy in decent nick?

    Was thinking that the other day, too! This is the mid 70's dancer (wasn't it a big Mecca tune?) on Lovelite not the 60's thing which seems to be more abundant. Not sure really - be interesting to know g.gif

    Measures Of Acceptance

    in All About the SOUL

    Posted

    Your questions sometimes seem either to be thinly veiled digs at other people on this board, the board in general and the northern soul scene in general or a glimpse into some kind of inner torment where you pose questions that are loaded with nothing more than self-reflection, doubt and/or frustration, masquerading under the illusion of being philosophical ponderings. Like the one you just asked. Maybe there's some underlying ulterior motive for trying to start 'debates' except most of the time it ends up reading like some kind of vendetta designed to bring out the negativity you claim to want to avoid. Some of the topics you raise are interesting and I'm sure relevant to a lot of people, but when it's nothing more than a show of frustration at not getting the dues you reckon you've earned (and you seem to have been around a long time, so no doubt you have earned them) I suppose people naturally switch off or take the conversarion elsewhere: which no doubt annoys you. That one about buying, selling and collecting records was interesting, even if you did seem to ignore or belittle some pertinent replies.

    80s Modern Soul Track Id Needed

    in All About the SOUL

    Posted

    Ahhhh - fer fcuks's sake - what's wrong with you people?? LOL....the collective musical muscle of this board must be sufficient to do the equivalent of splitting the atom yet we can't even ID one teensy-weensy 90s soul cut....? Sheesh...............

    Anybody got access to that service where you play a track down a mobile phone and the service tells you what it is by return? Bloody good service - used it to name some VERY obscure soul/funk cuts in the past - anybody?

    Well.....

    MRez

    Shazam? Yeah...it's failed on this - dude's obviously rockin some raer shizzle there (soulstrut speak I believe :thumbsup: )

    80s Modern Soul Track Id Needed

    in All About the SOUL

    Posted

    There's a tune called "Home To You" on a Dan Carey album from 2001 which it might be. The preview clips I've found have only got the 30 second spoken intro so I don't know for sure

    Anyway, it's here:

    https://cdbaby.com/cd/dancarey

    But you have to download the entire album. :yes:

    Each track can however be downloaded at eMusic, but I don't have an account with them:

    https://www.emusic.com/album/Dan-Carey-My-S...d/10846818.html

    Can anyone else download it and see if it's the right tune? :lol:

    Absolutely isn't that...just used a credit up checking the whole thing - not pretty :lol:

    Kings Go Forth Next Big Thing ?

    in Look At Your Box

    Posted

    Read that all 500 copies have been reserved,

    I take it not all from individuals, so come on resellers what priced are you going to retail this at?

    £4.49 I think is the UK bench mark for a 7", £5.99 for a 7" import.

    Is this record about making money, or highlighting the profile of the band for a major record deal

    Look forward to any constructed points on why it should sell for any more.

    Grapevine, Hayley and Real Side all charge £10 (or near as damned it) for theirs (to use an example) and most resellers set the price at the same level...and they're UK pressed and distributed...twice your UK benchmark. Whatsmore, in the main thats for reissues, not limited run originals.

    I'll be selling the KGF for less than £10 per copy including postage. Of course I'll be making some money otherwise I'd be a chairty there to simply buy bulk at risk (before all this attention kicked off, btw) pass on records to people at cost and foot the agro of handling orders, packing, posting etc etc, plus losing a % through paypal etc. After that lot plus the purchase price it's hardly gonna make me the next Alan Sugar.

    This record is about a bunch of musicians having a laugh, making a record and selling it - I seriously doubt they're after a major record label contract!

    Kings Go Forth Next Big Thing ?

    in Look At Your Box

    Posted · Edited by J-Brew

    Go back and read post #43.

    Lotusland seems to have some connection to the band

    Andy co-runs Lotusland Records and was part of this record's production...maybe even played on the record too.

    He openly says that the vinyl presses are aimed at the northern scene

    Not in Post 43 he doesn't...not that I can see...doesn't even mentioned Northern in that post...the Northern Scene only really came into question when Speedlimit started this thread (tell me he wasn't being paid off :thumbsup: )

    it just smacks of a cynical attempt to manipulate the rare soul scene.

    No, it smacks of a group doing what they enjoy - old records, old music and playing music that references old music and issuing it and selling it on a (traditionally) old music format...a 45rpm 7" single. I'm sure their real intent was to try to emulate the sound of the music that they all love without worrying if their actions were derivative, overtly referential or unoriginal - they'd be the first to acknowledge that it does all three of those! It's pointless judging something by what it's not - 'nu-soul' 'neo-soul' or 'organic soul' it aint, it has nothing in common with chart R&B and it isn't 'future soul' or any other modern day music type. It's a deliberate look back at a period when muic was golden and you can tell they had fun doing it! Ok, so it sounds more 60's soul than 60's funk and within that, sounds more 'northern' than Southern, etc, so by a process of elimination you can say they took the decision to make it sound similar to a certain 'sound': Northern. Big deal. Maybe they like that sounds, or maybe one of them lay in the tub humming a tune, fiddling with their bottle of Matey and suddenly had a eureka moment! Who knows? (can you still get Matey? :( )

    Don't think it was at all cynical...if they were truly being cynical they'd have concocted some story about a 'mystery 45' that seems to have just appeared, ebayed them with scant info, dripped them out slowly and took as much money as possible...kind of like what has happened in the past with funk things and a certain Northern thing if you recall. Or failing that, got a few djs to play it covered up, built up the panic, held onto them for a few months then dripped them on ebay, watching them sell for $$$ (kind of like that utter tosh Frank Popp cover up!) before skimming out the remaining copies for as much as possible (kind like what people do with old records that they have 100's of...) and fielding the flack that would no doubt follow. Maybe he shouldn't have made a point of pointing out the limited run, maybe a few of them are old US-indie heads where the numbered limited edition 45 is the norm and just adds the air of 'uniqueness' to the object and they were making it in that spirit?

    Surley it's more cynical to use records to bolster your image, or to try to buy friends or to attempt to move closer to the top of some weird fictional league table?

    Anyway, this initially started with the funk crowd, not on here - The way this happened was that some of us heard this, albeit obliquely originally, made enquires and liked it enough to pre-order a load for resale. I can't speak for anyone else but I'll be doing them at what I consider a fair and reasonable price (nothing like £20+ that cheeky f**kers were asking for Nicole Willis, or the £20 that someone offered the Ellipsis reissue for on here a few weeks back!) and less than, say, Grapevine reissue 45's or the latest 45 from Real Sidelist for.

    Personally, as i've already said, i quite like both tracks and have nothing at all against new sounds being played out (the other week i played Jeffrey Osbourne 'don't you get so mad' brand new and in the charts when played at Stafford in 1983)

    But at that time that would have been a contemporary sound, not a 'throwback' sound, so in essence that point isn't really valid...nor are the other examples of then modern releases (King Tutt etc) being played because the arguement here is that it sounds deliberately retro, even though it's a new release.

    Why play retro sounding modern recordings when there are thousands of rarely played 60s and 70s though?

    Because you like it?

    Because you like it more than some of the thousands of rarely played 60's and 70's releases that you may have heard?

    Because you're playing to an audience who have no bias towards new and old and no history to consider when they're out having a good time dancing to music?

    Because you think it's great and want to play it?



×
×
  • Create New...