Mark Bicknell

I asked that very same question but as yet no reply. Mark Bicknell.

Lol magic no it's Dr Glasses the soul doctor lol

Brett it's in the glasses mate lol and I've had a pair for ages lol

Lol smart arse, no I was simply curious to know how this would work or go down to a younger crowd as I thought it was more about the music being presented than the age of the person playing it. Regards - Mark Bicknell - age 50 1/2 lol

A question? 360 degree turn here and a question to the younger people, how would a time served DJ fair at a younger crowd based event? just a thought. Regards - Mark Bicknell.

Chuck Bridges - Don't You Make Me Cry - Scoop Demo - storming hard to find West Coast R'n'B/Northern, some light marks on vinyl biut plays nice and strong, WOL the name 'Chuck' in red biro could be his own copy or he signed it nice thought lol - Sold Sold Sold Sold James Barnett - Keep On Talking - Fame Demo - beautiful copy of this hard to find classic oldie - £150.00 Cheques/Postal Orders/Cash and Pay Pal as a gift to avoid fees welcome - Postage sign for mail included add £5.50 for special delivery post - contact bicknellmark@aol.com or via PM here

Yes but the traditions and general mind set of rare soul DJ'ing is to own and play rare records often most of the desired tunes are hard to find and exspensive, also rightly or wrongly the DJ who holds and plays the so called big ticket items will get the kudos and adulation over the DJ who plays lesser valuable tunes sad but true, note I said valuable and not quality as we all know that many cheaper records leave some of the big ticket items for dead it that respect, this is part of the reason why top level DJ'ing would sometimes appear to be a closed shop as some people perceive those DJ's with the big ticket records to be the best at what they do well we all know if you have deep pockets you can buy what records you want but I'm not sure if this route makes you a good DJ or not? Regards - Mark Bicknell.

You tease.......lol go on tell.

Hi Mark, collecting records is a very addictive thing to get into as soon as you buy your first record the bug hits and you want the next record, I guess some of us take it for granted and buying records is almost second nature, I wheel, deal, swap, trade it's how I've always done it, I have to pick up on one of your comments that you are finding it hard to get a decent box together due to cost and availability well if you have the funds in place and are selective in what you buy you could this very second go on Ebay for example and almost instantly buy a good selection of records often at 'Buy It Now' prices at any given time on UK Ebay alone there is something like 12,000 records on offer, wade through the crap, bootlegs and overpriced stuff and you can find some pretty tasty records, not to mention the sales section here on Soul Source and the many established record dealers worldwide, perhaps a good starting point for you would be to use your CD collection as a reference point ident the tunes you like and put a wants list together from that, give yourself a budget and with a little hard work and a couple of Grand you could put a very tasty playbox together almost instantly, I feel the availability of records is not the issue here as there are thousands of records out there for sale the problem is perhaps the financial commitment you get into when collecting records as I said at the top of my reply here once the bug hits it can take over pretty quickly, half the joy of collecting is the chase and the process of hunting, locating, buying, getting a record putting in in a nice clean cover placing it in the collection or DJ box and moving onto the next one and that's the problem I would suggest that most if not all collectors are never really happy, never really complete, I'm currently buying stuff I either used to own or which passed me by before infact I've just bought a couple of things which I sold only recently such is the weirdness of collecting Northern Soul lol. If you stay away from getting involved in the big ticket items which is easy to say until you buy your first biggie then as before it's onto the next one and so it goes but if you can do that with a modest investment as I say you can very quickly put a very solid DJ box together, research and knowing your subject is a big plus, ask questions, suck up all the information you can through Soul Source alone we are learning all the time and is a massive help to collectors/DJ's old and new, good luck but remember once you dip your toe mate the chase is on trouble is you will never quite catch what your looking for no matter how hard you try or how much money you spend lol Regards - Mark Bicknell.

The age of a DJ should not come into of course with age comes experence but it should be about if the DJ has the records and can cut the mustard behind the decks and not how old he or she is. Regards - Mark Bicknell.

£150.00 to £200.00 seems to be an average price on Popsike. Regards - Mark Bicknell.

Go polish your glasses lol

The very same thing happened to me a few years ago, visited my parents and there was a junk box of 45's in the shed which I must have left years before, flicked through them and found a VG copy of The Trends - Gonna Have To Show You - ABC hapy days. Mark Bicknell.

In the other little fifty count box by my turntable which actually holds 65 records lol includes - Sunday - Ain't Got No Problems - Alteeen Eddie And Ernie - I Can't Do It - Eastern DJ Sandra Phillips - You Succeeded - Broadway DJ The Poets - She Blew A Good Thing - Symbol DJ The Inverts - Time Will Change - Broadway DJ James Carr - That's What I Want To Know - Goldwax Little Johnny Taylor - Zig Zag Lightning - Galaxy Wendy Rene - Bar-B-Q - Stax Billy Hambric - She Said Goodbye/I Found Tue Love - Drum Emanuel Laskey - (I've Got To) Run For My Life - Thelma DJ Eddie Hill - You Got The Best Of Me - Thelma Billy Kennedy - Sweet Things - Thelma Jimmey "Soul" Clark - I'll Be Your Champion - Soul Hawk Steve Mancha - Friday Night - Groovesville DJ Edward Hamilton - Call Me - Jameco DJ Edward Hamilton - Baby Don't You Weep - Mary Jane The Fantastic Four - Can't Stop Looking For My Baby - Ric-Tic The O'Jays - I'll Never Forget You - Imperial DJ The Soul Twins - Quick Change Artist - Karen DJ Tommy Neal - Goin' To A Happening - Vault DJ Sharon Scott - Could It Be - RCA Victor The Dynamics - You Make Me Feel Good - RCA DJ The Dynamics - I Need Your Love - RCA DJ The Dynamics - Yes I Love You Baby - Top Ten The Dynamics - Whenever I'm Without You - Top Ten The Falcons - Good Good Feeling - Big Wheel Falcons - Love Look In Her Eyes - Big Wheel Barbara Jean And The Lyrics - Why Wern't You There - Big Hit The Volumes - That Same Old Feeling - Impact DJ Lee Rogers - Sock Some Love Power To Me - Premium Stuff The Four Sonics - Eaisier Said Than Done - Sport DJ Deena Johnson - The Breaking Point - Wild Deuce Johnnie Mae Matthews - Lonley You'll Be - Jam Mikki Farrow - Set My Heart At Ease - Karate Tony Hestor - Watch Yourself - Karate The Fabulous Apollos - The One Alone - Valtone The Fabulous Apollos - "Some Good In Everything Bad" - Valtone The Remarkables - Is The Feeling Stil There - Audio Arts The Incredibes - I Can't Get Over Losing You - Audio Arts DJ The Incredibles - There's Nothing Else To Say - Audio Arts The Accents - You Better Think Again - One-Derful The Ringleaders - Baby What Has Happened To Our Love - M-Pac Joy Lovejoy - In Orbit - Checker Tony Clarke - Landslide - Chess The Dells - Inspiration - Cadet The Dells - Make Sure - Cadet The Dells - Run For Cover - Cadet The Dells - Thinkin' About You - Cadet Roscoe Shelton - Running For My Life - Sound Stage 7 Little Hank - Mr Bang Bang Man - Sound Stage 7 Little Richie - One Bo-Dillion Years - Sound Stage 7 DJ Gwen Davis - My Man Don't Think I Know - Sound Stage 7 The Charts - Desiree - Wand Johnny Moore - Havn't I Been Good To You - Wand Roscoe Robinson - That's Enough - Wand DJ Clarence Reed - I Refuse To Give Up - Wand Maxine Brown - Let Me Give You My Lovin' - Wand DJ Maxine Brown - One In A Million - Wand Nella Dodds - P's And Q's - Wand Nella Dodds - Come Back Baby - Wand DJ Chuck Jackson - Hand It Over - Wand DJ Chuck Jackson - Good Things Come To Those Who Wait - Wand Chuck Jackson - These Chains Of Love (Are Breaking Me Down) - Wand DJ Chuck Jackson - What's With The Loneliness - Kent 6T'S - 8 Robert Parker - I Caught You In A Lie - Nola Regards - Mark Bicknell.

Tuff record to find mate, seems everyone wants the 'Garden Of Eden' side beautiful record, good luck. Mark Bicknell.

Phil theres one ending soon on Ebay and I also think there is one on there 'Buy It Now'. Regards - Mark Bicknell.

Now £450.00 good price. Mark Bicknell.

You need a pair of these to really be into Crossover lol

I Really feel for the bloke here, hurts like hell when you have a few go missing but can't imagine a full box worth, about 15 years ago my wife Jacqui took a small fifty sales box to a soul night locally to us, front of the box, Ollie Jackson - Wipe Away The Tear Drops, Velvet Satins - Demo, Dickie Wonder, Hesitations - Built That Way - Demo, Intros - Jamie Issue and several others were removed from the front of the box by some low life chancer, when Jac got home I was off to an allnighter and as soon as I picked the box up I knew it was light of a few records, opened it up and this cold panic went through me like I'd been hit by a bus, all the tasty sales at the front gone, had no way of finding out who took them and never got them back, all you can wish for is that whoever steals records will have nothing but bad luck, I can't see what pleasure anyone would get by actually playing a stolen record, has to be financial reasons to try and make a fast buck through someone's misery. Good luck and I so hope you get them back, all you can do is move forward as time heals and all that but even after all these years it still angers me to think someone at a soul night could steal from a fellow soul fan, if they wanted the records that bad or did'nt have the funds I would sooner give them the fucker rather than have it stolen. Regards - Mark Bicknell.

Elbie Parker - Please Keep Away From Me - Veep Demo - styrene copy, strong VG+ condition plays nice but as with many copies there is some slight styrene distortion which has remained the same since I've had it, plays well nice and loud, hard record to find, I'm pretty fussy when it comes to condition but due to the nature of styrene I have to mention this - £450.00 reduced good price - cheques/postal orders/cash and pay pal welcome as a gift to avoid fees, postage free sent special delivery - contact bicknellmark@aol.com or via PM here. Regards - Mark Bicknell

Slightly repeating myself here but a valid point is sometimes you have to go backwards to move forward, recently I was trying to work out what first drew me to this music and the answer was so obvious I was blinded, messing about with records one afternoon I stuck on things like Jackie Lee - The Duck, Temptation Walk,Little Hank Mr Bang Bang Man, Gene Chandler - Mr Big Shot and so on, POW! tunes what it's basically all about, powerhouse driving beats, stunning vocals, perfect tempo etc. it really matters to me what era these records are from as I've said before a quality record is a quality record or imagine Jackie Lee - The Duck had never been discovered until now it would certainly hold it's own with the likes of Margret Little and in my opinion leave it for dead no contest, so many records get left behind in the pursuit of something new and different which is all well and good if the new and different hold the key ingredients and traditions of a quality tune. Regards - Mark Bicknell.

Went down the rare route for many years when I was DJ'ing and it's so easy to get sucked into the if it's cheap it can't be any good syndrome which we all know is total bollocks lol, there so so many cheap/common/easy to find records that if they were hard to find they would be four figure sum records in terms of musical quality and merit if that makes any sense, stuff like The C.O.D.'s - I'm A Good Guy, Syl Johnson - Try Me, Lou Bond - You Shake Me Up etc. etc. all hold their own with the big ticket items in terms of quality, it's funny that kudos seems to only come if records are shit rare and high priced, perhaps this is less important these days but it certainly has been the case over the years, if you scratch the surface and step under it then there are hundreds of records out there to go at, digging around on Ebay in the wee small hours most certainly proves that lol Regards - Mark Bicknell.

Seems to me that the quality new discoveries are few and far between these days as it's already been stated here to find a new 60's record to compare with the now classics is now rare in it's self, however perhaps the injection to freshen things up is sitting right under our noses, I've started to revisit things which I used to have or which passed me by before and when you actually start to play one or two things it's easy to see that some records take on a whole new life and you forget how good they actually are, quality is quality from whatever era. Regards - Mark Bicknell.

I would ahve thought a very small venue with DJ's and punters under five feet tall...get it mini allnighter lol

Funny this I was going through a couple of boxes and found this the other night, remember picking the 45 up a few years ago, what a great tune. Regards - Mark Bicknell.