Chalky

I agree but in my experience not many promoters put the security of the decks and the Dj first, nearly all are accessible by anyone. They should be a no go area tbh, especially given the value up there.

You’d still have your near mint copy of Tobi Legend if you hadn’t bothered Thats the risk we have all taken and with far more expensive and far far rarer records than Tobi Legend. If you don’t want to take that risk don’t do it, plenty who will with real records. Plenty with great records who don’t get booked. What is wrong these days just going along and having a night out as a punter why does everyone want to Dj. Just having the records doesn’t make anyone a Dj.

No excuse for playing a boot. If you use that analogy you may as well use a laptop with legit downloads or cds, at least rights are paid and the illegal boots are cut out.

A few more rare and obscure soul 45s from Andrew Dyson. PLEASE DO NOT MESSAGE ME TO RESERVE, MESSAGE Email Andrew Dyson at Dysonsoul@aol.com Go to my Clypit profile to listen to sound clips. https://clyp.it/user/zptvxcvk Glenda Dove – It’s Gotta Be Something Else – Lucky Dove M- £80 Soulful dancer and version of Dee Clarke on the flip. Jesse Gee – Funky Eyes – OTG M- £80 In Vogue up-tempo throaty dancer & nice deep flip. The Georgia Soul Twisters – Look Out! I’m Going To Blow Your Mind – Waxwing M- £800 Obscure up-tempo dancer. Getting the odd play again at the right venues. Rare especially in clean shape. The Grace Gospel Singers – Let This Traveller In - Tuska M- £100 Actually a nice Deep Soul ballad & up-tempo gospel flip. No easy find like the rest of the label. Lloyd Hendricks – Keep On Moving – Mala DJ Ex+ £ Thumping dancer & classic deep soul flip. Kelly & Soul Explosions – Talking About My Baby’s Love Ex+ £1400 Ultra in demand Virginia crossover soul & funky dancer flip. The Lover’s Of God – We Should Thank The Lord – Shur-Tinga M- £300 Two popular down tempo Sunday soul session sides. Helen Moore – The Run Around – Renfro xol Ex+ £800 Two complex haunting West Coast sides for the purists. Dog rare both sides play perfectly. 2 small x’s on each side. Vaquero’s – Oh So Tenderly – Vaquero Ex+ £300 Primitive group dancer& up-tempo flip. Volumes – You Got It Baby – Inferno WDJ M- £ 100 Class act. Uptempo & mid-pace Detroit. Nice on a promo. Lee Stone – What Is Life – Break Out Ex £350 A couple of mid-tempo sides with a hint of Jazz. In my experience his rarest 45. Looks great but side 1 has some noise/crackle on the play in but disappears, listen to the sound clip.

The revival was a few more years later than 91 in my opinion, there was still a healthy crowd of us and the early Cleethorpes were still pretty much hardcore. Kings Hall etc wasn't till a few years later. As I said what I am covering or what I covered was the Northern Scene and the up north Weekenders weren't although some was featured and many off the Northern Scene dod attend but they were by and large moving that way any way and it wouldn't nee long before many would leave the Northern behind. It wasn't an objection and there was nothing sinister for not covering upnorth. Like I said I only had so many words and I exceeded my limit as it was, I couldn't cover everything within the limitations I had. Hopefully if I ever get round to expanding on it or even the book then it will get covered to some degree.

The link.....

I’ll take it

Sad news. R.I.P. Chris.

Life’s not too short, play your boots but advertise the fact. I do not want to travel anywhere and pay good money to hear a fake Dj. I don’t pay with monopoly money so I expect the real thing. If you cannot do it right then go back into the hole you crawled out of, more than enough Djs out there who can do it right. By buying boots you are supporting crime and depriving people out of their rightful dues, licence and rights owners, artists, somgwriters etc.

Lee Roye "tears" was from Burlington, New Jersey. There is another topic somewhere about him. Not a lot known but Kev Roberts knew some who knew him.

There are 100s of em, the can’t afford the originals excuse is just bollox

It’s on one of Guys podcasts on my site, well part of it is.

yes of course typo But side by side most weren't even nearly dunno, there was 4 prosecuted other year and sentenced, there is a topic on here somewhere

They only got caught out because they hadn't seen them in the flesh, they were sussed as soon as seen.

Technology will not make up for the products once used that can no longer be obtained. Paper is hugely different, as are paints/inks and the plastic. It will get harder but they will be caught out.

And there is absolutely no need to book a fake Dj for any promotion. More than enough who have real records and more than enough who will do it for nowt

I have asked several times who these djs are, think I got two names for a venue in west midlands. I have even asked for their names via PM if people do not wish to say anything and I will give their names out publicly, again nothing. Until they are named and shamed we will never get anywhere and the market will always flourish its not just Djs supporting these bootleggers, plenty of collectors too. Ebay is rife with them, takes forever to sort the crap from the real stuff.

Wonder if using .com means you have to pay as well? Think I will stick with .co.uk.

Is this sales tax just through US ebay and those who use a US address? UK etc sellers not affected?

Hot light or chip shop counter? The warped copy is Tim’s and as far as I am aware it still plays.

People only have to look t discogs or 45cat for various releases to see how many variations of any particular release there are. Different plants, different mixes, all told apart by the matrix. Brenda Holloway has 21 release, 15 of them US. Its almost certain a test press existed at one time for every different version even if it was just one to check for flaws. Some plants might check the first press of any batch rather than do a specific test press.

Are they real? I know there was some dodgy ones about at one time?

But the Frank Wilson are not RCA presses, they did the mastering. The pressing plants we know are ARP for the demos out of Detroit and Southern Plastics in Memphis. Theoretically there could be more and from other plants too but as Robb said highly unlikely today. Just about every Motown release will have had a test press at every regional plant. ARP it would appear usually had the label as well. The Frank Wilson at Southern Plastics didn’t. A test press is usually exactly the same as the demo or issue but without the label. It will bear the same matrix stamps. Not sure how much clearer you want it. just about any manufacturing process has the first few items checked before the batch is done, in any industry. That is all a test press is, make sure there are no flaws or nothing wrong with the press.