Pete S

He's not a business though of course.. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RARE-EP-GWEN-STACEY-NORTHERN-SOUL-UK-COMING-SOON-/160625715949?pt=UK_Records&hash=item256609eaed

It's a bit different for me cos my job is actual selling original records, so much as I would like to have a fantastic collection of originals, I can't afford to keep them so they come in one door and out the other. As Steve says above, this is what we did in the 70's, wait for the top sounds to come out for a quid, I kept most of mine and they do me fine for playing at home. If someone said to me come and do a spot at our do, it's original vinyl only, of course I could do it easily, just playing good originals, but they'd be completely different records to the ones I've owned for 30 odd years. It'd be a sad day if you get persuaded to do something just because someone on here says you should though!

Sorry but I think you should take into account people's ages and family life. When you get to a certain age and are married, have kids etc, you just don't want to spend your weekends travelling and staying up all night. That's a young mans game. Where are these 'boot clubs' you speak of, is it like fight club...nothing would encourage me to travel to a Northern Soul event, apart from knowing I was going to see old friends there.

Yeah I was Vince, but not sure if you ever gave the sellers ID apart from his real name?

I can't see where you've left him any feedback - not showing in 'feedback left for others'

Oh really, I thought it was more likely to be falling attendences at venues

Maybe it depends on what you do with the file? With the files I download, I make cd's to play in the car mainly. Or I use some of them on podcasts - which I don't charge for. You could argue that by including a track on a podcast, people become aware of it and may well try and find it on a cd.

It would be impossible to say how many tracks I've got on hard drives and discs etc. I know there's about 22,000 in my itunes currently. I would say that I imported around 2000 cd's of my own into it, the rest have come from the internet.

If you can't tell why someone would prefer a 7" piece of vinyl to a computer file, I give up. You can't play an mp3 on a turntable for a start. The scene is built around RECORDS.

Pin this, exactly what I was saying, vinyl is totally different to 'owning' an mp3 or a cd Matt, you can hold it and look at it for a start. I've got more original records than a lot of people will ever see, but as I said, my own personal collection of favoutites is pressings, reissues and bootlegs. So what.

You haven't got a clue have you.

I had this on my list the other day, if anyone wants it, I've still got it!

Most of my own personal American Northern Soul records are pressings or reissues. They're mine, I play them a lot here at home, they hold so many memories and I don't care what label they're on. The fact that I've had most of them on original at some point in time is neither here nor there, I have to sell the originals as it's my only income so I'm happy with my little collection. But in answer to the question, I buy them because they are a cheap way of getting my favourite records on vinyl.

Well they played Dillinger - Cocaine In My Brain at the Mecca according to another thread - though it did have the bass riff of Do It Any Way You Wanna I suppose

Cheers, I wasn't sure...

Janis Joplin was more of a blues singer than a soul singer anyway, wasn't she?

At one of the Volks Tavern alldayers in Brighton, this would be about 1999 - 2000 I think, I played The Wailers - Whats New Pussycat in the middle of a Northern set. Mind you, everyone was outside drinking and I was the only person indoors...it went down well

It's only a flippant line Win, I doubt if he really means it, and just because he says it you're hardly going to take any notice, surely?

Here here.

It's his opinion and he's entitled to express it whether you, me or anyone else agrees or disagrees with him.

Funnily enough I had a stone mint UK Studio One copy of Moving Away for sale about a month ago - went totally unnoticed on here, no interest - got £70 for it on Ebay eventually. It's a hard record to find on UK, let alone a mint one.

Yes it is, I honestly thought you could post them temporarily and now I know that you can't, I won't do it again.

Right. Good luck with that one then!

Chalky I wouldn't do it if I didn't think I'd been told that it was ok to do so, I don't try to annoy you just for the sake of it. Unless they were only allowed in one particular section?

Is that on the other side of "Rocks in my pillow"?