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SOme of his later work was amazing, produced and co-written by the genius that was Don Davis, not their most gut bucket but listen to the vocal interplay at the end. The Soul Children I'm Just A Shoulder To Cry On

Massive music man. Too many too mention as top, but Johnny Taylor Groovesville productions were maybe just the ones for me. Along with many other works of genius. RIP Xx

Sh*t that was meant to be a PM, if my boss is reading this I mean a full on assault on doing a better job in my current job, obviously!

Can I bag your spare room We will need to arrange food/drinks etc. Forgot to answer your text mate, no surprise, no movement on job front, haven't been looking for last couple of months due to various life reasons. About to start a full oout assualt on it in next few months, so maybe around for beers at various points.

OOmph. Never realised that. Oh well, have given up on anniversarys till recently! Ady my ticket please, none of this scrambling for me, could be the perfect weekend. Can people tell I am excited! PS The official site is still crashing!

Just got two off ticketmaster, despite saying wasn't going to buy them off them again, too good to miss. I am actually seriously unbelievably excited about this, my last living legend yet to see. F**k Leroy Hutson, Eddie Levert is the man ANd thanks to the gent who did PM we the ticketmaster, much appreciated. I love everybody and this site today, oh and Sunshine (a great O'Jays track!)

Dave where did you buy the tickets, the official site seems to be overloaded with enquiries, which worries me and can't see them anywhere else. PM preferred so I can get in first

Sorry Mr R you are normally the voice of reason on here (although I did notice you missed out Risk Management on your Banking précis some time ago!) but I have to say that’s rubbish. It’s at the very heart of what made the Northern scene great, and why most of the current Northern Scene is a Laurel and Hardyesque parody of a once great phenomenon. If you want to sit and talk soul music all day, I agree it’s irrelevant, but if you want to talk scene its essential. And the correlation between the amount of people who don't get it and the importance of this disappearing and the scene falling flat on its arse is absolute. And actually I think you will find in our world the Discoverer was often not the DJ, Pete Lawson been a very good example, and indeed Butch before he started DJing, and off course the daddy of them all John Anderson. In many ways in the 80’s they held far higher esteem than the DJ. Therefore for me there is an important distinction between the Discoverer and the Breaker. Both essential and the Discoverer is always going to be the one on the pedestal for the hard core record collector. But on a DJ led scene, whether you like it or not, the DJ deserves credit. And for the majority, not the hard core collectors, they made or broke their week when people just lived to worship at the double decked alter and dance their blues away at the weekend. And that era when Keb and Guy were turning records round weekly in a manic mission to find "the one” was the pinnacle. They were scene gods, deservedly, although very approachable and human like gods it must be said. As the generation above me (maybe two above actually, they are very old) will say about the Mecca, and Levine and Curtis. Its gone for ever but it deserves to be recognised and recorded as its an essential part, possibly the centre, of the Northern Scene. History is often rewritten to suit the current day and I think its important to recognise. Call me a romantic if you like, or call me a twat since I know you were never on the Northern scene so its probably irrelevant to you, but something I felt the urge to say!

Shit didn't realise it was on auction. Cmon someone must have the 12" just taking up space, its a repress and noone likes 12" now, I suspect if I don't get it now I will have to wait for the post auction boom to go bust! Agree with Glyn great record and I haven't heard it out all since 80's I would say!

I suspect thats ebay, I just don't use that now. And bizarrely the 12" isnt even listed on Discogs. Not good enough for the Boogie boys obviously.

Thats what I thought, but amazingly doesn't seem to be any copies floating around the interweb on a simple search. Another 12 I always meant to pick up but never got round to.

What price on the 12" of this now?

Both volumes are on Amazon UK for about £12.

If anyone is going to be able to licence stuff like that correctly its Neil, and looking at your Wiki link they are digging into a label that has had already had some good CD releases. Interesting operating model, but it must pay its way.

I asked this before and was met with stoney silence. Surely someone must know. Isnt there someone involved on here or did I misunterstand that previously.

You are incredibly disdainful of the site. Isn’t that potentially the same as any internet site, or even some of the less scrupulous newspapers favoured by some on here, you just need to be smart enough to know what sources to trust and who to trust. Being around for a few years generally helps with that as have some of the people commenting, Robb K having been collecting for 112 years, allegedly, and in the States, that rare breed from back in the day. I know who I would trust, Robb or Discogs. I would say most people would think this site is the best resource bar none for knowledge on Northern and related stuff, record history etc. And most people know discogs is a usefull source of information but to be wary of things around the more obscure records and always to be checked. You obviously know better than most.

Totally agree, there are some hilarous mistakes on Discogs for 45's.

Surely you just need a jukebox or a laptop then, why a record? Off for some popcorn and a cigar.......

I am assuming Nev has just got one of those new fangled hods with inbuilt IPad and thought he would make his lunch break more entertaining!

In all honesty DJ's have always borrowed records, for most of the 80's I lent quite a few records as was never that bothered about DJing and was happy to dance to my own records, or at least stand at edge of record bar telling everyone how great taste I had! The good old days when the people djing were there for the right reasons.... Its the fact there are 4.7m DJ's with not enough playable records to go around thats the problem we should be discussing, Meanwhile Neville has a few sly bids on Ebay for some unknowns hoping some of the other 4.7m aspiring djs have taken their eye off ebay to froth over a daft suggestion someone has made on Soul Source......

Alternatively shut the small venues down and everyone has to travel to hear the DJ thats playing the records, now there is a unique selling point!

Stopp faffing around and get onto MP3's. Same principal surely! If you can't stand the heat get a new cement mixer Neville!

Okay only about the 4 or 5th time I have had to on line publicly and profusely apologise, freely that is! I will read more closely next time, the blind rage version of endorphins were flowing and frothing at the sight of Genesis. The beginning of my downfall maybe..... Glad to see the football team you follow is still your only obvious fault!

I suspect a suggestion in Feedback that an electrical shock is applied every time someone mentions Genesis or similar on here wouldn't go down as my most popular suggestion,

You are taking the P**s aren't you, what next Phil Collins does best version of You Can't Hurry Love, and the weekly top 10 favourite progressive sounds or anything but soul moved from Freebasing to All About The Soul and pinned! I know your boys are on top of the world and the endorphins have maybe twisted your brain, but there is only once place this should be FREEBASSSIIIIING! What next I repeat!