Geordiejohnson

I always had albums on but ones i played more than other especially when getting a bath with music turned up full pelt in next room The motown story, 5 box set, and jumpin at the go go !!, isley brothers brother brother brother.....and the list goes on when i got a bit older... Earl Klugh- Low ride, Morrisey mullen- Badness, Bob marley, ..........god there are so many thing is Music was never off the turntables when i was younger so its a talk ask this one geeooooordie

forgot to add Barry, i think when you go through an upheaval like we have it sort of focuses you on the important things in life and it did put the tunes in prespective...and where id sunk shed loads of cash..so not only did my circumstances start to influence my record buying...but i grew up ...took till i was 41 nearly nine years ago but ....Im now no way as manic about the little black lumps of vinyl Geeoooooordie

Cheers Russ I'll hold you to that beer...dont forget dave and bri have two collectors so double the choons LOL Geeoooordie

Russell me auld mucker i just know in there is a wonderful willie Tee LOL Im glad some of my old tunes went to a bloody good home, that looks very very nice i'll have to come down and have a soul fix in there sometime, its like what dave and bri pinches had but theirs were nearly all 7's on 3 walls there were shed loads of em, but thats mighty nice i must say Geeooooooordie

Barry, read your article as if it were me...dave pinch who posted above knows me well, in fact (not to embarrass them) but he and his brother bri saved my house when i hit very hard times, business was nearly bust etc and had a mortgage to pay and they bought some very nice tunes (they didnt have to and some of the tunes they'd had and sold on before and didnt really need to buy them again but they helped a mate in dire straits) which payed my months dues and i managed to get back on my feet and tread water for a couple of years, Those boys are my saviours Now, ive sold a lot of my collection and wasnt bothered about selling any that have gone.. (except willie Tee first taste of hurt...I Loooove that track with a passion) but i dont chase tunes anymore, but i do buy what i really want and stuff i want to keep, other tunes dont care what they are or price tag i can part with in a blink. My collection was sometimes bought coz i had to have it not that i liked it, but now all my tunes that im buying and keeping are winners to me. geeoooooordie

Andy Whitmore............ one of the most knowledgeable men on the scene...theres one or two mentioned on here that learnt a tune or two from Andy I always heard something absolutely new when he djayed, and bought some very nice stuff off him Geeooooordie

I did this on a thread a few years ago and still as then Mine are going to be: Aretha - I'll say a little prayer ..... one of mine and my fathers all time favourite records and for fun just as the curtains close for me to go to the big burner i want belting out Barbara Dane - Im on my way...what better for all to hear................ "Im on my way, and i wont turn back, Glory hallalujah, Im on my way" As they all leave - a tune i loved as a kid the New Christy Minstrels - Three wheels on my waggon Why not....i wont be there to get embarrassed only the kids...LOL Geeoooooooordie

Dave I think thats bang on and as Andy Dyson pointed out ive probably still got another 20 years of collecting in me til im 70, and there is a lot of people world wide collecting far younger than me so andy & pete S can rest assured dont worry about the pension However Pete did make a valid point that the medium for listening to music (ipods, downloads etc) and how the youth approach music is different to ours and it maybe technology & not neccesarily the style of music that changes how tracks are re-played to the massess, i hear 60 and 70s soul tunes now that my daughter at 15 and her mates are listening to as new sounds to them and they are loving it, most of her mates families were not soul lovers just chart listeners and they are gettin into it so the good tunes keep getting new audiences and theyll search and hear more and evolve their tastes as we have, but they are hearing them over the net or on their Phones... they love collecting... but its collecting "downloads"... we could only tramp to djs records or rumbelows or Callers etc to get a bit of plastic in the rain hail and shine.... same tunes......... different tech culture for us vinyl junkies I think the mega resurgence that created a collecting fever, that in turn over inflated some of the mid range prices is cooling and more than anything prices are settling back to realistic levels, and the biggies they keep their tags and....well i still cant fooking afford them Geeoooooooordie Geeoooooordie

ARGh you cad and bounders surely when playing to yourselves in the comfort of your own home where no one can hear you it should be either OVO, OFO and........ ................. LOL...... had to get that in Itunes is the bomb, ive got so much stuff on my computer now i hear stuff i forgot i had or ive sold on its brilliant, and keeps it all pretty fresh, ive got everything from al kent to zingara, i have playlists banging at work all the time through my ipod, how else could you carry 2000 tunes around with you all day everyday. But its still nice to polish up a piece of vinyl once a week. Geeooooordie

Large Collection...it was HYooowge i never went to urs and heard the same tune twice LOL my collecting days are slowing and many sold on but what ive got gets a personal airing every weekend Geeooooordie

Bugger me I used to work over in Oostakker and Charleroi when i did degradable plastics work during the 90's with Jannsens plastics in Gent, i regularly went to a landfill site in Charleroi (to work).....didnt seem like a place that was big enough for an underworld crime syndicate...... Mind you i do remember a guy telling me it had a bad prostitute problem at night so i suppose it was a town run by pimps and thieves, thankfully used to travel back to Gent for the night, if i ever went there Verviers/Charleroi gangster world you learn summat new every day Geeoooooordie

this happened to me a few years ago when i won an innersection for £43 but the tosser on the other end in the USA put that it was worth more for "insurance purposes" DHL charged me £65 customs ...yeh ok i still got a bargain, but its still a topic of conversation today bargain turned sour. Geeoooooordie

as long as music has been made, people have danced...... but for a soul point of view, my dad years ago after he was demobbed which would have been about 1948/49 had a job where he stayed and loddged in birmingham quite frequently into the late 50's (btw he was a massive jazz-soul lover and embraced motown with gusto in the 60's,) but in the 50's he went to blues parties in peoples basements of their houses within the afro caribbean community where individuals danced to themselves later when i was a kid my dad used to do a four tops style dance copied from theses parties (or i call it the levi stubbs side step ), so i suppose peoples individual love for music and dance moves that people used or copied just evolved and became more elaborate as the pacier "northern soul" beat emerged and of course as records had twists and breaks it gave some enterprising young acrobats a chance to show off for me its was to wooooo the girls, im mean cmon theres always a bit of an impression to make . not gospel but....thats my take based on my growing up and seeing where it is today..

apart from colin curtis whos actually changed the surname, anrnt most of the above just fooking nicknames like im known as (for obvious reasons) Johna or geordie johnson or geordie twat if they were absolute changes like fred jones a.k.a dj Mark Randanzo or something like that i would call them an alias but cmon ginger etc !!!!!! so is this thread how many djs go by their nicknames Geeooooooordie

Hi Steve our friendship night from 2002 - 2010 mentioned orginal vinyl only., i did the posters on my old pc and im sure I got the term from a posoter that Richie buckley had done for one of his venues up int leeds area, I dont have the originals on pc anymore that pc croaked but i may still have an old couple i could scan in my office...im over to see the kids at weekend i'll have a skulk. geeoooooooordie

Hi yes it did get an issue bri pinch has had three over the years i had a double sided demo, seems it hit the end of the Atlantic years and im not sure whether it was released in any other country, bri pinch on here has a bit more info PM him geeooooooordie

The seven Dwarfs - stop girl...used to love it in the 70's... but god listen to it now ...how crap.... crap production crap vocals crap crap crap crap actually im now so wound up as to how crap it is im going to get it out of the wardrobe and snap it geeooooooordie

Not far off pete my 10 years in working with degradable polymers into this this has put me in good stead as to how long average polymers Could last and i say this lightly as we'll all be dead... it does depend on the polymer used etc etc .... you can see vinyl roofs on cars rotting after 10 years due to uv exposure, the thinner grades PE LDPE Etc (plastic carrier bags) could last about 400 years they reckon.... anything that is carbon black seems to disintegrate faster probably due to the fact black absorbs heat better, also exposure to certain materials can wreck polymers... Liners that are used for landfill (bloody big thick plastic sheets made of high density polymers HDPE) have been found to be rotting due to exposure to certain shampoos and bootpolish But it is thought that a basic record could last tens of thousands of years kept in the right conditions. Professor Norman Billingham of Sussex university is a bloody whizz with all this he'd probably write a thesis 9he is a macro molecular polymer professor Trick is dont shine them up with boot polish, keep em out of the light, dont wash them in detergent and who knows it could well be MR SPOCK got a groovy littel tune from the past its the snake by al wilson........make it so Geeooooordie

Done....... but weve got to keep on going here..... if you havent done so please give this lady a massive payback for the years of pleasure shes given us

The ‘not always plastic’ was me using a bit of ‘poetic licence’ (With reference to Styrene, Metal acetates etc) for entertainment value - I’m sure you understand AGHHH Len youve made me reply.... im going to use the term polymers in the future just to cover myself, I should have thought this through especially when ive spent the best part of my working life in Degradable polymer science and manufacturing Geeooooordie

Len Not sure about the... not always plastic... comment bit please expand old chap, but hey what my auld dad collected was OVO he bought them as new releases and of course he (according to me) didnt need them anymore so i took ownership of some my sister most of them he was a great roll model on collecting and the pain of collecting and missing the elusive gems etc...the tears ive shed..sob sob.....he cant get about so i make the cds up so he can still enjoy the sounds at 86 sat by his fire in his pringle shirt LOL .... all my collecting fraternity know my policy on collecting and venues that i frequent so i dont have to defend ovo i am ovo, i just think i have my place and my likes are collecting the real mckoy and others have theirs enjoying the sound in whatever format. lifes to short to argue the rights and wrongs as weve all been wrong to a degree. As im more concerened that this wonderful scene has payed doodly squat in real terms back to the artists who have given us the enjoyment from their music that has made this scene what it is. Com on Len lets me and you start another argy bargy on here ...should venues put a % aside from the doortake that is paid to a big pot, all venues to supply playlists... and at the end of the year the pot distributed out to the artists based on plays of tunes etc.......a sort of performing rights % but actually getting the funds to the artist. I know PRS pay feck all.. it all goes on admin (ive researched this at length) Get the tin helmets out incoming flack..................... BTW im not replying to this thread anymore havent we done this to death FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Geeooooordie

AAGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Not this again Surely people know what events have what policy by now!!!!????????? Theres them that promote to the massses as a business and good luck to them. ITS A BUSINESS F.F.S....lets face it, it takes a shed load of cash to promote these events and the remit has to be keep the floor happy there has to be a return on the investment and at these events the majority want to dance, have a good time, re-live a bit of the past and probably most folks dont give a flying fidely dee if the djs playing a tune from his phone.... does that make the person whos loving these tunes and dancing like fook any less a soul fan....of course not Just a thought if we didnt have these type of events would the soul scene be ushered into an underground backroom of a pub type of scene that catered for an minority ???? My fathers a soul fan at 86 hes been collecting soul since before most on here were even an itch in their fathas crotch...he now listens to cds i make him now and hes still got more soul than most on here.... but horror hes not listening on OVO (the old fucker) I am a collector, and have been for over 34 years who yes, i want the real deal and yes i will visit venues where i know they keep it real and i am really really pissed off when a venue claims OVO and isnt...but i dont begrudge those who dont collect who go out for a good time at the weekends just to live a little, When me and mark whiteley did the friendship nights we had an OVO policy and the people who came and supported us did so because of that and the genres and style of tunes we promoted, we didnt often get the people in who preferred oldies or 100 mile an hour stompers, when on the odd occaision they did come in to support us but found what we were playing was off base for them, they weren't derogatory or needed to post up how crap they thought our music policy was or bemoaned that we didnt play the snake nor did they call us soul snobs or purists.... they didnt cause a soul source debate.... they just said it wasnt for them and didnt return, I also know collectors who never venture out and dont support the scene which is a shame... but hey here i am very rarely going out these days as my type of venue is far and few between. but when i do, I choose my venues and if i go to an event that probably isnt what id normally go for .... i accept it for what it is... am i miffed if a big classic oldie was played knowing it was a boot? ...nah id laugh and sing along......whos been killed by the guy djaying...no one.... most will know its a snide anyway like the guy in the original letter to Kev Roberts post who knew boots were played without even looking at the decks..... BOO HOO for the guy who paid for the weekend and didnt enjoy it..... put it down to experience and dont go back, Pick your venues If there was an argument for it all it surely would be that everytime a track got played the people that matter i.e: artists or writers got paid.... but that doesnt happen either so even me as an ovo supporter is a fucking hypocrite. I know i'll get flack for some of what i said but lifes for living and enjoyment .. I used to be manic about OVO even posted it on here in the past... but f*ck it...... lifes too short to worry about a bit of plastic..... when im in my 80s like my dad ...i look back and think.....what the f*ck was all that about Geeooooooordie

I think i like your fairmount 1st issue better Bri Geeoooooordie

I think like any genre of music somes shit, somes good disco duck as someone has quoted is....crap (must put IMHO just in case someone likes it) but i can remember when stuff like musique in the bush were being aired in the late 70s they got plays on the soul scene to busy floors , but i find even that very chartie D.I.S.C.O esque but stuff like from the philly stable seemed more polished and soulful, later on in the early eigthies i loved larry graham sooner or later or harry Ray love is a game ( bugger i find myself wanting to list huge amounts of tracks) I think, i may be way off base but disco did have various parts such as the distinct club sound and then the mainstream chart "twee" sound and most of the disco tracks i loved only ever made "chart" status on metro radios saturday night self penned club chart. But look now... a track i thought was good but not outstanding at the time was bobby womacks so many sides of you, i thought that had a lack lustre feel about it ( mind you i still bought a 7" and a 12" LOL) but look at that now having a massive resurgence on the Northern floors In answer to your question barry....for me anyway... i think mainstream Philadelphia Records topped the production and how to get a track to the masses scales but indies bloody hell there were some outstanding tracks that just didnt have the financial clout to get them ahead like straight jacket the greatest part of loving you etc but there were also tracks that were looked over on major labels because of the amount of stuff being churned by the machine and i bet there is more hidden 70's+ stuff in archives waiting to be found than there was 60's stuff whats my preference.... soulful with a cracking production ...look back at the 70's and listen in depth to the Columbia tracks...i think their production had to be unbeatable alas a lot of their (what i would call) really really good stuff never got anywhere Geeooooordie

Been out of the picture for a while and ive just found out about Pete from Bri Pinches and im absolutely gutted Rest in piece my friend, i'll catch up with you in time..glad we had a chance to talk last time i was out and about at dave and bri pinches birthday in a August, where you and i and derek white chewed the cud and had a few laughs...I'll remember you that way my friend..a true gentleman. Av... my thoughts are with you Ian Johnson