Steve L

Hearing Muriel Day takes me back to Wigan ……… sad but true It was massive when I first went in 78, probably played about 5 times on the first night, hence the strong association

Yeah I just meant I can't pick out details like that. My ears must be shot, its like when you say you play grade records at 4 or 5 different grades - I just can't differentiate to that level.

My hearing must be shite, I haven't got a clue what any of you are on about with all this strings/no strings/ synths/ no synths All I can hear is a great record

No no no

Kev Roberts of course

yeah the top 500 aint the top 500 any more

Great article Dave, I read somewhere once that Benny Sigler of - Who You Gonna Turn To fame on Phil LA was actually Bunny Sigler. Any ideas on this?

No one would have given it a second listen in the 70s Ian, …. would they?

That is so true Phil, we really do put up with some crap where this is concerned which is ridiculous in this day and age. Sorry off topic

It does happen but not a lot

I like em

Mansfield Woodhouse, formerly the home of the Attic - now a load of black bull run by Mark Hopes & Cressy

To be fair Daz the civic isn't a northern night but a commercial soul/ night out for the over 50s. However in general the answer to your question is yes

Yeah apart from the lift terry

He also had a Voices Of East harlem boot listed as 'bell sound stamped' - its still a bootleg though but some people might be conned, not out and out deception but running that close line in between where he can say "i never claimed it was original"

No Pete, the only way is to go where Butch is on. I agree with Ted, it really is that good but disagree about it taking off on the oldies scene

My 0.23 seconds of fame Great memories mate!

Jesus Christ,, I could swear..... I'd better not say what I think of all this

Spot on Kev

Yeah what were the records Tezza? List em and then everyone on here can pull em to bits and make you feel even worse

I'm with Toad on this mate, its anything after 78 I reckon

Got the t-shirt, no matter how much you try to convince yourself otherwise, an empty dance floor when you're behind the decks does not feel good. When we ran the Attic the guest spot finished at 11.30 and I can remember doing the last spot a few times and sometimes people would start leaving soon after. I'd spent a lot of time, effort & money getting together a spot ( nowhere near as good as the guests we had but still records I thought were worthy of a play ) and it was deflating. Actually most of the time the last hour was pretty good and we had people dancing but I can still remember seeing people walking out after the guest had finished and thinking WTF? I've got some records here to play that I've spent a lot of money & time on! Dont DJ really now but if I did I'd rather it be in a situation where people are just listening rather than a traditional style venue where you're trying to get people to dance and create an atmosphere DJing isn't easy but worse things happen at sea

And this https://youtu.be/B8QBeGZd6A8

Love this

As has already been said, you definitely need Manships price guide 5th edition. This will provide you with detailed info on whether your records are original or not. Regarding value, don't be fooled into thinking that you'll be able to get those prices when you sell your records though, remember the price in there is for mint condition and in the real world they dont really apply to us lesser mortals ( with maybe a few exceptions ) Some records will sell on here and some would be better on ebay but there's no hard and fast rules for which is which though you'll have a bit of trial & error