Pete S

An emidisc is an acetate...

People used to choose from a list of titles and get any two cut back to back, like the one above - thats from 1975 I'd guess.

Rob, why the f*ck are you arguing with yourself? Nobody's talking about playing anything on this thread..

In the 70's, when a record was massive, there were only say 10 top dj's, one or two would have the original and the others would have emidiscs cut off those two originals - and play them at Wigan, Blackpool, Cleethorpes with pride! I've literally sat on the decks with Keith Minshull once at Wigan and he played EMI after EMI, Tough Girl etc.

I have a Tamangoes issue and demo at the moment.

Only thought that was worth about £15!

https://www.rare-soul.com Guys my new website is finally ready, there's not a massive amount on it yet as I only started uploading yesterday but there are forty or fifty things in the UK and USA originals sections, also there are a couple of articles in 'Features' which you'll have seen before but you should see them now after the revamp. The player works but there's only track 1 in there at the moment. I'll be putting up digital downloads and all sorts of stuff eventually but I want to get the stock on first so if you bookmark the page, each time you come back there should be more stuff up there for sale. I will also be taking records in for other people on consignment; send them to me, I'll scan them, describe them, publish them and sell them for you, they can stay there as long as you want them to for free - I take a 20% commission. I hope you like it anyway, Mal Collins spent such a long time sorting this out for me I'd like to say many thanks to him, and his website design company is open for business. cheers Pete Smith https://www.rare-soul.com

If you can me the time machine to take me back to when I wrote it, then yes!

Can't wait to see if the people who think it's worth more than £300 have a bid on it of course, they've already got it...

I got Gene Robertson's copy so that would also probably have come from the 100 Club. What a great record.

Whats the demographic of the people who attend it though - lots of people from where I live went, none of them gave a toss what was even played, let alone what it was played off, they go for a drink and a dance and a laugh. So for the 5% who are outraged - the other 95% don't care.

Well I like seeing kids enjoy themselves and they looked like they were having a fabulous time, you grumpy b*stards. Someone on the youtube comments says that the Etta James record is sh*t. Etta James and sh*t, not two words that usually go together

Well I wrote that 22 years ago so I probably wasn't joking, and having relistened to Leo's Sunship, I'd now give it half a star so I was right first time

£150

That's down to Mal C on here. Genius.

Have Gloria on Wigan tape June 77 Only time I ever heard it

Stafford I'd guess...never heard it til late 80's

Cheers everyone. There's another article on the site but everyone has definitely seen that so I won't link it.

Watched it when they broadcast it on BBC 1, was crap then as well

I did it in 1992 for Record Collector mag...always liked it!

I know you've all seen this before but look how nice it looks after a revamp! https://www.rare-soul.com/wordpress/grapevine-records/

I sold the crap quality vinyl one for £40 and the really good quality red one (same as the gold one but red) for £50 both last week, both on Discogs. I bet if I'd put £75 on each they'd have gone. Just couldn't do it!

The sound is bad ion the intro, dubbed off a very crackly 45, no need really as they could have dubbed it off a mint bootleg! (Before I forget, you know what you said about Russ playing Spencer davis in the big room and I said you are correct - well you were, but when I checked the tape, Russ is actually standing in for Dave Evison and doing his oldies spot - hence him playing SD)

Sounds good then!

Test press of the Goldmine version?