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    Found some old reels in a junkshop near Devon years ago.Just bought them on spec they were so cheap.Even had them transferred on to 4 CD's and they were all pirate radio broadcasts from the sixties.Still got the CD's somewhere.Not much soul on there though.If you are really interested in pirate radio you could join this Yahoo group https://groups.yahoo.com/group/RadioCarolineMailinglist/ Loads of free downloads of pirate broadcasts.....but you get about 15 emails a day.
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    Stevie I would need to get a few records to do a latin soul set.....Latin Soul it's the new northern.Now give me some Chano Pozo or Jack Costanzo.......
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    Horror movie actor as well I Monster,Lust For A Vampire and The Crucible of Terror (with the bloke from the Likely Lads). Remember seeing pictures of him and he was fond of a black rollneck and pendant.I always wondered whether he was really into the dark side like Graham Bond (We Put Our Magik On You period). Just read the link............obviously not a friend of the dark side
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    Remembered Rita And The Tiaras and James Coit came out on Destiny.
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    Was Inferno original release reissues and Destiny cover versions then.
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    Wasn' t there another version on Destiny as well........Think there was another version of Spring Rain as well on Destiny.Someones going to come on and say the woman that recorded it was a dinner lady in a Nottingham comprehensive or something.
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    Got the Roger Earl Okin on Columbia which is a tad slower and male of course.
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    Right then we know that to get Mikey there the pub must serve champers....Rocket was more of a rollercoaster and rocky at that but good fun. Think Janine went to Australia.That period around 2000-2003 was full on, Stoke,Bisley,Old Shoes,Dome,Brighton,Scenesville,Blackpool plus loads of others.Punters seem to have shrunk in London but theres more gigs on!!.
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    The sax on Sunshine sounds like the Secret Affair brass section on a day off............Doug Banks I Just Kept On Dancing.....never liked this record.Always reminds me of American Graffiti or fifties movies.
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    Over 1500 at the first one then dropped soon after.About 600 at the second then fizzled out.
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    I want to fill my box up with midtempo/beat ballads to get rid of em!!!
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    Thought the idea was in a pub somewhere and listening/selling /trading vinyl....no pressure on numbers through the door.Best gig I did was 1500 through the door at The Rocket. Went downhill from there
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    December 31st 1969 up until 11.45pm. It all went modern after that..........
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    The vinylvulture boys used to do a similar night at the Salmon and Compass in Islington with oddball funk and bootsale finds.unfortunately they do gastro food there now. Great idea.Midweek would be best as a lot of people from Sat nights out are knackered on sundays.Pubs will do anything to get extra punters in beer drinking.The Smersh would be a choice as it has decks but theres loads similar.
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    Think it should be about £25 tops. Uk Pye probably a bit more.Not soul but good UK pop.
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    San Francisco 1999 Everything $2.99 and they let me off with the tax Rudy Garcia-Sabrosito 3 copies (Latin record sung in English......anybody know it??) Rhonda Davis-Can You Remember 5 copies Melvin Allen-Hey Lonely Eyes (shit record sold to pay the air fare) Nolan Porter-If I could Only Be Sure (2 demos with lyric sheet and publicity blurb) Claude Huey-Why Would You Blow It (2 copies) Concept 9-When Benny Troy-I wanna Give You Tomorrow Plus hundreds of run of the mill £10/20 records. Had one of those red Japanese players and gave the Mrs $100 to do some shopping. Spent a day there. Later met Sugar Pie Desanto in the Mission district and saw a live gig (I was the only white person there with the Mrs). Great performer. Went on to Las Vegas.........found nothing. One shop I went in I asked got any sixties soul...........yeah we had that Keb Dargee in the other week.Made my excuses and left.
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    Uptempo sixties and seventies and some funky stuff...............will be organising some events soon.
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    I am talking about the London Rare Soul scene.It mostly does come from a mod background which is why I don't hear any/much seventies/funky stuff and a lot of midtempo/r&b/popcorn/latin and a few uptempo bits.If this is not reflective of the UK "rare soul" scene then I have been enlightened.Where does Bearsy go to hear this funky uptempo stuff in London??
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    It is being quoted as a newie by Pat Brady in the article..........someones oldie is always someones newie.I think Kris Peterson went on to become a newie as well.....after being an oldie
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    Was one page in Black Echoes at the back and I think there was half a page of advertising.All pre internet.I think Blues and Soul only had Franks ramblings in the end as time had definately moved on.
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    D. But it would have to be beyond reasonable doubt that he did it.......a stone bonker and he will have shot himself in the foot as no one will ask him to DJ.
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    Probably been bumped up by him/mates hoping there would be someone that mad to join in the bidding....let's hope so.
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    Maybe I should visit a few rare soul gigs up north and the Midlands then where they play uptempo in your face.I't certainly don't happen down here.I wasn't trying to make the point that I want to hear Tobi!!.I was making the point that the Mod scene moved on in the seventies.Maybe it's just a London thing then that a lot of the deejays are mods and play on the "rare soul scene" and theres no seventies or funkier stuff and the stuff is getting earlier and actually getting older (ie late 50's plays and very early 60's).I might sell all my records and invest in CD's and get together with Mr H and make sure we organise a night that clashes with another gig nearby.... sems to be the norm I've posted examples of stuff I would like to hear at niters before.
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    A good unknown record is still a good record though and it will pass through thev rare scene onto the oldies scene....... (so the rest is substandard stuff that's not good enough for the "oldies scene"????).Your'e wrong on the assumption that I only want to hear records that I know. I want to hear new stuff but good northern soul with a dance beat from the late sixties and seventies.You think that everyone on the northern scene wants to hear the same old same old.....I'm not interested in hearing mods/ex mods/whoever playing rare soul at an allnighter.They are limited to 1969.Their mod ideals get in the way of leaving their 1969 Tardis. I'm more in tune with the Northern Mod scene. which progressed after 69.Check this out .
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    It does seem to be that the "rare soul" sides don't capture the dancers as much as the older established tunes and people aren't playing new records in the same style as the older records. There's a definate divide between rare soul/northern soul. I will attend rare soul nights but I wont attend a rare soul allnighter.I can't risk being sat down for a few hours while deejays play political matrix games behind the decks and try to force educate me.Plus you don't get any seventies or funkier stuff.I will be honest and say that is one of the reasons I stopped going to the 100 Club 3am then......zzzzzzzzzzzz.I think a lot of it has to do with the Mod background a lot of the rare soul deejays have although Rob Messer is from a mod background but seems to get the northern angle every now and again.


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