Ady Potts

It wont be a boot then mate. There's a few west coast things like this, think the Kel Osborne - A Law against a heartbreaker is the same.

I know what you mean Dan, it has a whopping great run out/dead wax area, about 20mm, with 7 rotations within it. Is that what made you think it a boot ?

I've got one that my son found in a junk shop in L.A., i'll post up a couple of close up photo's, it's the one with the cleaner cut middle.

Be interesting to know why he had a second press done a year later. Did it sell well the first time out then?

Mine has to be....when you've got a record that your about offer to someone & they come out with "Oh, I had one of those, I sold it in 1982 for thirty five quid". yeh, but you aint got the f****r now though, have you !

Just got my copy this morning, there's a nice section on U.K. records in it. Loads of pictures & lots more pages this time, more like a book than a mag ! Well done Dave & Jason

My names Adrian.

Dont lie Mark, you've posted in the ebay section before.

I seem to remember Joe was quick enough to come on soul source that time when people were saying his ebay sales were iffy. Not so quick to come on here now, is he.

Just a modest profit then Ted, £7,100 don't know how you can sleep at nights

For me the D.C.Blossoms "i know about her" is the best Shrine. Really like Sidney Hall's "I'm a lover" as well.

Remember him calling into Hammie's do on the way back home after just picking it up off you Ted. Looked like the crack had moved so it didn't line up, probably just needed pushing back together, remember us all saying at the time well it's o.k. you probably only give fifty quid for it Wasn't that the copy that Steve Cooper got off Len Jewell in the mid 70's? Then did I see it on that guy up your ways list, Andrew Spencer ?

think that must be the one I had pass through my hands a couple of years back, think I sold it to Tony Parker.

He had the Counts as well as Prophets & J.D.Bryant when I was round his house about 4 or 5 years ago. We went down the bank where he had them in a safe. He was trying to complete the full set, I sold him one or two & he just needed one of the smaller price ones to complete. He then said he'd sell me the full set, but it was a lot of money. The Counts was a nice copy, but too expensive. They're all gone now from what i've heard.

Talkin' of Kev, classic reply from the ol' boy when he'd just walked into the Peteboro niter last weekend & was stood at the bar with a stunned look on his face. "Hello Kev, you ok mate?"...."No Ady, i'm f****n not, i've just walked through a f*****n time warp !"

White demo...

Hello Rod, Have you got an issue your self ? or you know someone that has one? Regards, pottsy

I just give that Richard Wright a play, forgot what it sounded like, that's not bad is it. Dancer one side & fantastic soul t'other. Is this rare ? Dont remember seeing it about ?

I think that was it Chalky, I know it was a link to a big company. So, looks like you've answered Alamo's question. Re what's rarer, issue or demo of Martineques, I dont know. Mines a white demo. What has everyone else got?

Ah, hang on a minute, they've all got that small capital "H" in the deadwax. I did work out where that was from once, now wish i'd written it down. Has anyone got an issue of the Martineques in their collection?

I can't help thinking there must be some tie up with L.A., because my Martineques & Richard Wright came from there on seperate occasions, infact i'll need to check back but i'm sure that's where my Tootsie Rollers came from, via ebay. Perhaps it was just a strange coincidence, but it does make me wonder.

There you go, I guessed this must be happening. But the silly thing is Bob he could have left you a bad feedback (if he had not already posted you a positive prior to you doing this) & you wouldn't have seen it coming.

Those of you that buy/sell on ebay will be aware that from last March ebay introduced a new thing called Detailed Seller Ratings. So now not only do you have the chance to leave a seller/buyer feedback, but also the buyer can now leave the seller an extra rating on...Communictaion, Dispatch time, Postage & packaging charges. This then shows up in a star & percentage rating on the sellers home page. Now here's the interesting bit. When the buyer clicks on this new rating system ebay says that the seller wont know who has left the individual ratings, so in other words the seller wont retaliate because they wont know it's you that's just said they weren't happy with this or that. Well they're wrong. If you only sell a small amount of items you can watch your percentage rating very closely, & when someone knocks you it shows up because your percentage drops. Does any of this matter ? Not to me personally. But my partner has just taken it to heart. She sold a stone cold mint 45, the buyer paid that night via paypal. Although on her listing she says £5 for Special delivery insured, she invoices for £4.75, the exact cost of postage. First thing the next morning she sends the record, followed by an email as soon as she got back from the post office saying thankyou for the payment & that she'd shipped the record. Next day she gets a nice feedback highly praising her...but her Detailed seller rating dropped. She sent an email to the buyer saying she was concerned that they were not happy with her Dispatch Time & Postage Charges (the two things she got knocked for). They came back with a bit of a stunned reply full of waffle. She instantly put a block on the bidder, but here's the crunch, the buyer has been left in a situation where they could lose their 100% positive feedback. When she calmed down she said she would not do this, but had I not been there when this happened things may have been different. So it's only a matter of time before this back fires on a buyer. Just thought i'd mention it.

The "Need your love" side works well with the dance floor. Never fails to get someone come behind the decks to have a look see what it is.

So was I Ted, got one off Carl a lot cheaper By the way, Eric 'n' Larry go all emotional when you mention them