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Steve G

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  1. Mike from St Albans? He wouldn't have known it Wayne, no way. Think you may be getting confused with another title - Sag war fare was an unknown at the time (97 ish).
  2. Yes it was a general discussion about the changed dynamics of collecting records.....which is multi facetted or scatter gun
  3. I am not convinced that the Japanese market is that big anymore - but a dealer will be able to confirm or otherwise? They used to buy a lot of sweet / deep and at one time Soul Bowl produced a special Japanese list Of course we've all seen the youtubes of northern being played there Keb / Butch etc, but would be interested to know how big is the collecting thing these days. On the general thread prices will always go up for things that are in demand - examples like Flairs, Stratolinas on Federal etc. People hear them and want them. I see that as a different phenomenon to someone bidding £500 (and someone else bidding £495) for a UK Solomon Burke record. And then someone else offering a copy on here for £450 or whatever. The joys of electronic bidding though are responsible - it's as simple as someone wants a record they bid over the top to ensure they get it no fuss. Someone else does the same - hey presto suddenly the record has gone for an OTT price. It has always gone on, and the amount of auctions I lost in the days when we wrote with our sealed bids, it's just you never saw what the winner paid in the old days - you just got told "better luck next time".
  4. I am sure there was only the one Wayne. I'd have questioned him about it if there were two copies in the same box. John got it from the States not a rock dealer at Victoria.
  5. No Wayne sorry, it was in a "special" Soul Bowl box. In all honesty I actually bought it for the slower side.
  6. which is fine just as long as the buyer doesn't need to claim for a lost parcel...... Let's hope not. This side was always rare - paid 300 for mine in 1997/8 ish I think at Victoria Record Fair. Boy there were some good records there.
  7. No need to put any hats on m8, it's a good discussion. And your view sums up the UK northern scene from the Burnley perspective. The lack of a truly regular upfront venue pushing new sounds does have an influence on creating demand for new northern records. But that's only a very small part of the collecting scene now, as we all know. Without wishing to 'diss' the oldies brigade either (I can do that on other threads ) Ian makes a good point about many of the northern oldies on 45 not being wanted anymore - unless they are trophy 45s (or Butch has reactivated them) which is kind of where I was coming from. There is clearly a big demand for certain records (Tomangoes, Ty Karim being two examples from the last week, and you can add Eddie Parker, Del Larks, Salvadors etc to that list) but the majority of oldies - nah - you see the same records in boxes from one year to the next. But collecting has always been about far more than just northern.....and when I said the "old rules" have changed I was referring to the globalisation of soul record collecting - with perhaps increased interest in all sorts of other styles and genres, replacing traditional northern "demand".
  8. I think Fork in the Road just squeezes in, although I've never seen a full blown issue only the test pressing - someone did say there is one about.
  9. What did it go for in the end please ?
  10. Paul works for JM? I didn't know that. Quinvy posts up Anglo American sales lists..... What a world eh!
  11. Not really came across that myself Blake.....apart from one or two specific dealers, the only boxes I've ever seen for 'limited' viewing are to what some would describe as 'time wasters' which maybe should be another category / thread? Folk who pore over each record for five minutes, look at the b side, look at the a side again, turn the cogs in their brain and then move onto the next one, before going back for a second look at the first record. In the end they ask dealer how much the record is, and then baulk at the prospect of paying £10.....we've all encountered em!
  12. That was amazing I must say......but it's not just about the JM auction.....
  13. Not boots Dylan, although i wouldn't be surprised if there are boots made of this label somewhere.
  14. ....yeah well put it there cos hardly a week goes by without some old laggard moaning about this or that price or auction....
  15. Surface Action Group - a kind of navy commando unit I believe that go in and 'mix it up'. SAG Warfare (one word) then would make sense? It's a group from orlando Pete.
  16. Prompted by yet another "Manship auction" / "who are these idiots?" series of posts which always make me chuckle, I got thinking that the world of rare soul record collecting is now evolving more rapidly than ever before. The old style "northern" scene in the UK dies away to a hard core once again, but demand for records in part has been replaced by a global group of record collectors from all over the world. All this has meant that old price guides are torn up and..... ....some once reasonably findable records sell for ever larger sums - upsetting the traditionalists, Irene & Scotts etc. ....trophy records continue to attract 'megabids' from the 'name your price' merchants, ....plenty of good rare records go unwanted / unsold. ....or conversely others sell for far more than the 'book' price to collectors who fret that they might never see another copy. Then there are the swathes of "unsellable" mid price original oldies (£10-£500) where you can successfully grow ivy on the 'sales boxes' that house them cos no one seems to want them much anymore. ...And then there's the emperors new clothes from last season "funky edged northern" some great, some dreadful, some rare, some old soul pack fodder masquerading as the next super rarity. Plenty to think about I'd have thought as the old rules get replaced by a new order in collecting?
  17. Wendell worked for Stevie Wonder at one time and Stevie played keyboards just like Mrs Mills - spooky or what?
  18. Well if you got a Sag War Fare you did well my friend.
  19. I've actually had more interest in it when I've played it on the radio, than when I've played it out. Still it stays in the 100 count box...and comes out for a spin sometimes - last time was "A Taste of Honey" in M/C the other week.... It's too good to give up on.
  20. Interesting I never knew he was singing "I wrote my baby Special D." always thought it was "Specially"
  21. There's been a few through Ebay last year though - were they moody?
  22. Sadly, blank faces of "don't know this". Darren in Somerset had two copies in a period of 18 months I believe which was an amazing feat.
  23. I thought you had one of the red issues of this? Why did I think that?
  24. Guy H originally at Stafford I think. I've got one. Still not that well known amazingly. Blank faces whenever I spin it out but a great sound.


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