The thing that hit me about the scene at 18, my first nighter, was just how cool everyone was. even guys, and especially girls, that were decades older than me. Don't see that much anymore, just saying. .
I was fortunate enough to get ' beautiful ones', prince book for Xmas. Can't believe I didn't know this voice before.
One of the greatest of our time IMHO. Please enlighten me if there's any fans out there, cheers, geese
I'd say that would probably disqualify it really. It may be literally the first, but not technically. There is a point to pressing a 12 inch single, to enhance sound quality.
Think you hit the mail on the head here. It's the lack of central venues that causes the problem of tagging a record to a dj. There is just no cohesion anywhere on whats left of the scene. It just seems like lots of factions all pulling in different directions.
Think he makes some very valid points and you shouldn't be put of with the terminology. Though, I too, can't tolerate anyone who calls refers to records as..... Can't say it. .
I wonder how many would be truly passionate about soul if they didn't collect? Maybe the passion is for collecting records rather than music in many cases.