purist

No 7 inch 45 then ?

Can this be pre ordered ? is there a link or will it be available through Source Store ?

It'll always be JJ Barnes to me, but I'm a dedicated fan of the art of covering up.

Fab Jades, 1606 dollars, I know its become quite popular with the dancers lately, but what sort of price has it been selling for prior to this auction
( I know this is a tricky question because of the counterfeits which might get listed as originals)

19 hours ago, Winsford Soul said:

Tony Clarke.  Wrong Man.$799 . The world really has gone mad.  Why do I get suprised every time these lists get posted 

Steve 

A similar really nice condition WDJ went for £1000 on discogs, so this price doesn't surprise me, even taking into account the WDJ is more common than the stock issue. It's been a guaranteed floor filler for a long time, 20 years maybe? so the demand has outstripped supply a long time back, 60-150 seemed to be the price for a while, but once it crossed over from the rare scene to mainstream venues it doubled overnight and then kept climbing in price as more prospective DJ's decided they wanted it for their local clubs, as is often the way once rare scene tunes reach that tipping point.
It's the Jessie Davis I'm surprised at. To be honest I didn't see it or I'd have bid on it. I think that's bargain of this list, although I remember trying to buy Esther Grant many years ago and being told the seller didn't want to sell to me as he'd had an offer of £8000. I don't know if the sale went through, but I never got it

Quite a few on this list I don't know, which seems to be happening more and more lately

Maybe I blinked at the wrong moment, but I had difficulty following all the jumping around the time line. Perhaps when they flash on screen ' Los Angeles 1972' or whatever they should leave it on longer or add ' Five years earlier, 

Great idea and best of luck with it. As has been said above the stylus - and importantly the weight/pressure bringing it into contact with the records is the key for collectors. Also if you are using one for crate diving then the system that delivers the sound through headphones needs to acurately represent the true sound of the disc, not with added bass or any modern fangled unwanted sound suppresion, which I'm assuming you'd have on the loudspeakers side of things to give it a nice rich sound?

Side story - when my local Co-op store took on a batch of the Discassettes, presumably because they were not exactly selling profusely by then (probably 3 years after they first came out, so maybe they were end of line?) they retailed them at half the recommended price. I'd had the old kind before and sold it on, so bought a new one. I took it everywhere, and the young folk who were around then didn't know what they were and a few asked where they could get one. My entrepreneurial streak came to the fore and I invested in a spare which I took to a northern doo. I promptly sold it for the retail price, doubling my money, I did it again and again, taking 4 to a niter one night and I could have sold 20. By then my sales patter had grown as had the price. I told everybody that they'd stopped making them and these were the last few. 
I took orders for more, only to find that I'd emptied the Co-op of their stock. They echoed the line I'd been trotting out, that they couldn't get anymore and had bought the last batch made, so my money making venture died. I did manage to trade my last one for about treble it's retail price, but I was happy, I was paid in records  So if you bought one of these at a venue sometime in the mid 70's, it was most likely that you bought it off me.
One final thought - I've a feeling I was walking past my local Co-op a couple of years later, and saw they'd got more in stock, I meant to go buy one, but forgot. Maybe they'd got hold of some more because previously they'd been good sellers (to me and probably nobody else  )  I guess I'd moved on to other money making enterprises to feed my voracious record buying addiction by then.
Happy Days ! 

A visit to this club is on my bucket list 

1 hour ago, headsy said:

What a load of bollocks

records are listed and available ftom auctioneers

nothing unusual about splitting lots in an auction

Estate not left to anybody

Any question to them about origin gets an honest answer

 

I clicked on more details, and it didn't even show quantity in each box, let alone a list of titles. Can you put up a link to the titles list please

What a strange way to sell them ! There doesn't seem to be a list of the contents of the boxes, or even how many records each box contains, just saying 4000 45's doesn't really help. With a 25.5% buyers premium also to take into account how would you know what to bid?  I suppose if it's close enough distance wise then it'd be worth a journey to go look, but that's gonna cut down the potential buyers, or will it be just like a gathering of the major and minor dealers?
I remember previous collections auctioned via this route and they raised a tiny percentage of what I would have expected. If I knew whose collection this is I'd have definitely advised them to sell them via a different route. Bonkers to me !

btw is there any relevance to the different yellow labels, personally I prefer the more mustard one to the more lemon one. Does anybody know, does it relate to different pressing plants or ????

I bought all my Loma's back in the 70's when like minded others did also, as I tried to find anything vaguely Northern (and/or Danceable), so maybe this has since been found, but back then I think the only WDJ's of Loma 2086 had the same track on both sides (You Don't Know Nothing About Love) so if you wanted the brilliant " Mean It Baby " you had to buy the issue. I remember thinking what a pain in the a*se it was because I'd got all the others on WDJ's (after that I gave up and bought some more issues)
I cannot think off the top of my head of any other 45 on the label where this happened?

I'm all for a bit of artistic licence, but trouble is  these fictionalised versions become the accepted truth (like when Americans alter the facts when making 2nd world war films about tales of heroism by british forces, and in the film it's all about US servicemen who probably hadn't even joined in the war yet)
So with pedantic tongue firmly in cheek, and strictly for purposes of accuracy - I think Turner's were the last to cease actual car production, in 1966, althought the Clyno and most of the other car manufacturers stopped in 1929 or before, although a proud tradition (starting in 1884, we had Thomas Parker building cars) Wolverhampton didn't have a car factory when Wigan was open
  

Any N/S sellerts planning on being there?

Enjoyed the read but I do wish they'd talk to someone who experienced Stafford, 100 Club or any of the pivotal Niters & Soul Nites that happened in the intervening years before they put pen to paper.

I have to admit when Mike first started this site I was a reluctant joiner. I'd had so much fun out of the old Soul Talk list that I thought we were going to lose rather than gain when Mike set this up. How wrong could I have been ?!

I changed my home page to Soul-Source within a week of joining and that's how it's remained ever since, much to my wife's anger

Here's to another 16 years mate, though I doubt we'll all be around to witness it, but if we are I hope we're still argueing about whether it's a legal second issue or just a bootleg, or that a rave review by the promoter of a venue isn't worth the megabytes it's written on.

(also congrats to all the folk, past & present, who've stood as Mods, the single most thankless task ever)

The show was called the Basement Soul Show. Ive found a picture on the net of pretty much all of us Dave, but cannot copy it over here due to my ineptitude. Its on a Mickey Nold page with a video of one show with Ted - were we ever that young in the 90's ?

We used to do a radio show on PCRL which was only possible due to mini discs, and the keeping of a secret. I cant remember the name of the show, but the idea was that a bunch of us Soulies all met up to make this show, and we would take it in turns to play a record and then discuss it, kinda along the lines of the old Emperor Rosko's Round Table. It was supposed to sound like we were all there together, and to be fair, it did.

The truth was somewhat different. We would turn up to Mickey’s studio, usually in pairs, on different days to record "our bit", I would usually do my part with Dave Rimmer and the host of the show, Mickey Nold, would record us (and later edit it) in such a way as to make it sound legit.

What helped the overall effect was that you'd occasionally get visitors dropping in, usually the local lads, the likes of Ted Massey or Johnny Weston, Dave Allen, etc, (all or any of the others who were supposed to be there) and it made for a great show when we heard it back. I happily remember recording odd comments as though I’d just heard some tune John Weston played, and giving it a stellar reaction, fortunately I could rely on John’s taste ;-)

The show ran for quite a long time, and a heck of a lot of decent, and very rare tunes got played, that otherwise would never have been heard on the airwaves, both weekly and the occasional special show (Christmas & Niters )

My favourite experience was coming out of a Stafford Top Of The World Reunion Nite, sometime in the mid 90’s, think it was at the Garth Hotel just outside Stafford, and as we were leaving at the end and getting into the cars, somebody shouted that they’d got the "All-Niter" on the radio, and that I must be a time traveller because I was speaking live introducing records, and to cap it all the tunes I was playing were all Stafford tunes!

We took the longest way back so we could listen as we went along, eventually ending up at the legendary Greasy Lil’s cafe on the A5. We sat in the cars listening & sobering up until the show ended, before heading in for a full english.

I hadn’t the heart to admit to those in our company that it had been recorded on a wet wednesday the week before - it would have taken all the glamour out of it - all thanks to the mighty mini disc, and their master, Mr. Mickey Nold

It's possible that the vinyl released would be in the format of 'one side issued, flipside unnissued, or at least if I was doing this project that's how I'd do it. So what should we be hoping for on the 6 singles ? which of the released product should make up the 6 tracks?

I'll start with saying they MUST include -

Ernestine Eady ( surely one of the all time greatest female vocal Northern dancers)

Imperial C's ( imho one of the greatest group northern dancers)

what else ?

Thanks for that Matt. Keep promising myself to get down to Move On, but these days I'm lucky if I can manage one venue per weekend, but I will get there soon, promise !

Just sent mine in, please keep us up to speed with how it's going.

cheers

john pugh