Ged Parker

I don't think this did get an Ovide release but then I didn't know that 'What good am I' was on Ovide thought the rare one of theirs on Ovide was 'A Thousand Wonders' Anyway must be one of the best £20 records around Soon to have its day IMO

LInda and the Vistas and Leroy Taylor and the Four Kays both had issues and demos the lable design changed with SR102 Jimmy Armstrong and no demos were released from this point onwards.

So James what you are saying is if I was the first person to by a Dyson vacuum (clearly a Dyson can't be a Hoover ) and I used it a lot and tell people how good it is thereby encouraging them to buy one and perhaps due to demand increasing the price in the process. They can buy it but are not allowed to use it. We are not the inventors of the 45's we play the artists are. With the greatest of respect your analogy is b****cks. Who keeps a register of who is associated with what anyway?

Everytime I spend a lot on a 45 I regret it right up until it arrives through the post then....... well you all know the feeling you get when that long awaited single arrives.

There are some proffesions and some organisations I wouldn't mind having my email address but can't think of a worse combination than a Journalist and the Daily Mail.

Danny Wagner - I Lost A True Love - Imperial Demo. Margaret bought me this for Christmas in 1979 before we were even engaged, been married 25 years next month. I remember having a bomb scare at a pub I ran and before the logistics corps carried out a controlled explosion on what turned out to be two telephone directories wrapped in brown paper this was the one record I went back for.

Music turn me loose - e. lampkins - earth Said I'd post this up when appropriate. Just keep growing on me and from the number of quieries I've had on others as well

Playing off a laptop has been done on the scene at a well known but now defunct weekender.

Well Simon when I say a lot of years I meant 7 or 8 to my certain knowledge. I always prefered 'Heartaches' though I did originally buy it for 'How'. I only played it because I thought everyone in the room would know it just shows I guess even tunes some of us think of as weary or played out could be hot boxers to some others.

The punter has been on the scene for a lot of years and has heard me play the flip 'Heartache looks good' elsewhere. The 'DJ' I'd never seen before and I think every record in his box, by the look of the sleeves, came from Glen Brierly. Not sure how hot the box was though

Some of this is about both how and where you want to DJ. I love people coming up and giving positive feedback on a set, as I'm sure all DJ's do. I much prefer it when people I respect, be they other DJ's, collectors or dancers say 'WOW that's fantastic who is it by?'. I have and will continue to DJ at venues where they only want to hear what they know there are too few venues IMO where DJ's play unknown / obscure / rarely played items but even where these exist they can be poorly supported. Mind you the week before last the 'DJ' following me at an oldies do did comment on my last record saying ' I Like this one what is it ' after I said 'F*** off stop taking the piss' it appeared he was serious. I also had a similar comment on a different record last time I DJ'd the same venue but from a punter not a 'DJ'. The two records in question: Bernie Williams - Ever Again and Carrol and Gerri - How Can I Ever Find A Way.

The flip is 'Together Forever' well actually this is the 'A' side 'Dynamite Exploded' was considered to be the filler on this 45 hence it doen't appear on the Demo which has a blank flipside. See you Sat Phil

This site is fantastic especially when you get people putting up there favourites by it's cover up name and someone else listing it under its real title. I didn't know the real title / artist was generally known perhaps it is now . Good thread this one.

I don't hope he gets the runs I hope his next shit is a hedgehog

There is hope. Dave Gillet from Salwick had 3 or 4 45's go missing out of his play box. He made it public knowledge then low and behold they were returned to the venue. Didn't Neil Jones get one returned or did I dream that. I also remember Richard Searling anouncing one Sunday that he'd had a whole sales box handed in at Jazz FM and I think that was before every one got those aluminium ones that all look the same. For my part can't find my copy of Joe Mathews on Kool Kat but almost sure it's in the house somewhere you never know though.

I'm not sure you did actually say "have to" just implied it but I'm sure were on the same wavelength anyway

The Soul Aces and Charles Derrick - You're Different - Tomaria

Firstly James I think your contribution to this thread has been thought provoking but you do be appearing to say that you HAVE to sell records to fund new ones, whilst accepting that even if you do you'll never be as good as the few you mention. I don't believe that. I am in the lucky position of being a collector since the 70's and still do buy what people may think of as 'expensive' tunes now. How I fund those is immaterial surely? If the records that come out of my play box go onto a shelf in the record room rather than to another collector how is that relevant? We should of course be judged by what we play, in the context of the spot, the venue and the audience. What other records we own or if we choose to spend money on collecting stamps, going fishing, buying a football season ticket or in my case watching formula one should not influence peoples view of what I play. Where I agree with you is that its about the quality of what you play, the thought you put into it and the passion with which you chase those elusive tunes that you believe will set your hour apart from the others.

James I agree with much of what you say but am interested in why you feel that in order to finance new buys that DJ's should always sell what they have stopped playing? Does that mean that you think the only way to afford good tunes is to sell others? and if so does that imply that the only good tunes are expensive ones? Because if that's so I have to disagree on that point at least. I emptied the dancefloor regularly with 'Mixed Feelings' when I first played it and could equally fill it with the TSU Toronadoes - Gotta Get Through to You. Both quality records one a hundreth of the price of the other and played much much less often over the past 6 months.

Jimmy Bo Horne - Just Can't Speak Walter Jackson - One Heart Lonely Ascots - Just A Few Feet From The Gutter

I think it's.... "I Love You x 4 If you asked me for a pebble, I would give you a mountain top. If you wanted to hear a note of music, I would get all the angels with their harps. If you asked for a glass of water, I would run all the rivers dry. If you wanted someone else, I would surely step aside. Because.... I Love You x 2 If you wanted my life, It would be okay. Cause I love the ground you walk on be it now or yesterday. You're my dream, my ambition, my reason for living each day. You're the alpha & omega, there's nothing left to say Because...... I Love You x 2 If you wanted my life, It would be okay. Cause I love the ground you walk on be it now or yesterday. You're my dream, my ambition, my reason for living each day. You're the alpha & omega, there's nothing left to say " Thats my pitch anyway

I used to play this in the R&B room at the Neighbourhood was always well received.

Thanks Jason

Someone has been into northern too long when they offer you a ticket to Prestatyn which has become available as since they bought it there partner has died and when you say: "Do you not have any close family that could use it?" They say: "Well they would have but they'll all be at the funeral"

Cheers J, Yes Metro-Art is a Carolina label, Charlotte, NC from memory. I never knew he was in Homebrew though