Dave

Why did you disagree with me then?

Exactly Steve! I think you were bang on topic mate!

yeah it was played in the 70s though...reckon I must have first heard it at Cleggy????

Good to hear that one or two of us still dust it off now and again Ken

All we need now is Stanley

Sorry Shane, I thought Steve meant that different sorts of record can find a place in the same room regardless of the description. That's what I meant anyway, rather than one should not describe them in a certain way.....though as I posted earlier I do find the R&B/soul argument a bit academic I'm not sure if I've made that very clear....hope so....don't want to stray off topic Dave

Well said bruv So we'll be hearing some grinding tunes alongside the gentle stuff on the 2nd, will we?

You just couldn't think of a category, could you?

Enthusiastic mate! They don't seem to have pre-conceived ideas...they just get on and dance to good tunes, whether they know them or not. Also played Black Nasty and Clean Up the Ghetto...seemed to like them as well! (Baz referred to it as "that sort of ...STUFF" ) Dave

Sorry Jamie, have just duplicated this cos I hadn't noticed there were two pages Now then, about this deep funk ....surely it's the other way round? Dave. BTW I played your record to a funk crowd last weekend...

Tend to agree Pete, but That Driving Beat falls the other side of the line. Isn't the point though that all these tunes were accepted happily on the Northern scene, Jimmy Robbins being a good example, until somebody decided to label them R&B.....then all of a sudden there are people that don't like em any more! BTW I recently discovered that Jimmy Robbins is in some funk DJ's play boxes Discuss! Dave

In the interest of fairness I have to report that at the second Samanthas nighter I was standing next to the DJ plinth and Mr T needed a light, which I agreed to provide on the condition that he smiled...and this he duly did I saw him again a couple of weeks later at a soul night in the midlands and reminded him of this incident and he gave a completely UNSOLICITED smile I was so shocked, I had to leave shortly afterwards!!! I for one can easily look away as long as he keeps playing good music

Brilliant record Detroit Emeralds, Feel the Need O Jays, I Love Music Esther Phillips, What A Difference a Day Makes Soul II Soul, Back To Life

Ok. Go on then, I'll bite What's wrong with it?

If the guy likes Don't Need No Doctor.... some more low down belters eg Trini Lopez another Ray Charles- Something Inside .....and Billy Arnell mostly has an instant affect Dave

If it's just about music and not clothing, why do people wear garments to soul nights that they would not wear in the pub or at a birthday party? I'm not sure that there are enough youngsters showing an initial interest for us to decide who to cultivate and who to reject As I see it, the most important point is that if we don't soon start to attract some new blood the scene will start to decline in ....what? Five years time? Dave

QUOTE(Dave @ May 15 2005, 07:19 PM) Theres a thread a little further down this section about youngsters on the scene and the general consensus seems to be that they need encouraging if the scene is to survive more than ten years. I wonder what a youngster thinks when he walks into a venue for the first time and sees an article such as you've described???? they get there camera phones out laughing there heads of and sending it round to all there mates, ive seen it done This post has been edited by bazbond: Yesterday, 08:15 PM

For a start what would Karen say if I sat in a car park with you? As far as the clothes go, I am recounting what youngsters have said to me.....have a look at what Baz posted on the "beer towel" thread

Surely the point is not what WE think of the "traditional" clothes, more what impression does a first-timer form on seeing the vests, bags etc. ?

As you said earlier......'ere, 'ere

I think that sums it up well.....roughly equates to our scene in the late 70's.

Win, I agree there may have been a smidgeon of sensationalism there .......but I took it as a hypothetical suggestion and it never occurred to me to associate to it. BTW, I didn't realise James had a tag! Dave

I don't quite get that Win I thought James was suggesting a previous poster was worrying too much about drinks being spiked? I would suggest that "fat old crinkly" is how a LOT of younger punters see it, especially when they go for the first time....and the term fancy dress might easily have been used (see beer towel thread ) I thought when this thread started last week something useful might come out of it i.e. some way of attracting more youngsters to the scene and therefore keeping it healthier for longer.....and James has just reiterated what I said on Friday about venues, promotion etc...... but it ain't gonna happen if we get indignant every time a younger member makes a suggestion that we perceive to be "disrespectful" I've already seen today a poster talking about "keeping the faith", and winced ..... let's keep an open mind, eh? Dave

Never mind the 17yo.....I thought the same when I went there mate

Theres a thread a little further down this section about youngsters on the scene and the general consensus seems to be that they need encouraging if the scene is to survive more than ten years. I wonder what a youngster thinks when he walks into a venue for the first time and sees an article such as you've described????