Paul-s

Crap at clips, but pm me your address again and I can send a cd with it on.....cheers Paul

GEORGE KIRBY - What Can I Do Cadet demo vg++ £250 DEWEY JEFFRIES - When No One Cared mint- (big Andy Whitmore play!) £100 CREATIONS - FOOTSTEPS Zodiac vg++ £70 EXSAYVEYONS - Running Wild Smoke Vg++ £50 GONE, GONE, GONE pm if interested Still here.ha! Got an original ROCKY GIL LP aswell....

You look more like Butch by the day!

Can white people sing the Blues? or Soul? Can black people sing Country & Western? Can I sing at all? If you didn't know who it was singing, would it change your opinion when you found out? Does it matter? Skin Colour is irrelevent! Some black singers sound white and vice versa (whatever that means! ). 'Soul' is present in thousands of tunes from many genres. Jazz would be an obvious example..who could possibly say that Art Pepper didn't have soul or that the 'indie', Tindersticks dont convey it in their music! Classical and Opera have it in places, depending on the listeners ability to open themselves up to the experience. To me, Diana Ross has always sounded 'soul-less', thats my opinion and I dont care what her skin colour says. BUT, generally the voices that move me most seem to be from 'black' vocalists and thats a fact.

GEORGE KIRBY - What Can I Do Cadet demo vg++ £230 DEWEY JEFFRIES - When No One Cared mint- (big Andy Whitmore play!) £90 CREATIONS - FOOTSTEPS Zodiac vg++ £70 ROCKY GIL - v rare lp on crazy cajun mint feat: Its Not The End, Soul Party and more! £100 pm if interested

ROCKY GIL & the Bishops crazy cajun mint- Soul party / its not the end and more!! Rare original album £100

Is this a joke?

Flipper Mcgee, from Farnham is my last entrant for 'best ever'. You guys having been throwing names forward willy nilly! How could you not mention the great 'Flipper' or 'Flip' as he was known to his mates. His name said it all, as happy on his hands as he was on his feet, he had ALL the moves and I mean ALL... He could front flip, side flip, back flip, dip flip, flip flop, flap flip (difficult move, not even Billy can do it ), flop flip, flip flack, flip flip and if the fancy took him he would throw in a double twisting flap jack! So, there you go, the greatest ever. END OF THREAD! Where is he now?

Go through sales boxes of people you respect and whose taste you like. If they ask you to listen to something, try it on the vestax! Look through funk boxes, as people often mis-categorise funk, when its soul and they often have soulful b sides the same with a lot of doo wop tunes. Go through thousands of soundbites on sites and listen hard! Spend hours with your 'soulful' mates, at someones house listening to tunes and having a laugh.

Dont you know what you want for them then?

Sadot DDA biggie!...pure quality soul...

Dont think they make ANY difference. I look at the dj line up. Thats the only important info for me.

QUITE RIGHT!

Then there was Mark 'Thatchie' Thompson.......used to raise the roof whenever he did a spin, no one could 'match' him. Used to see him at loads of venues, think he was from Devon way?! Think he stopped when Wigan closed. That was the last straw for him....favourite tune was 'my little cottage'.

Great bloke. We keep in touch regular and I sent him a cd.

chhers.

ROCKY Gil & the Bishops original LP mint- Rare album (crazy Cajun) includes Soul Party, Its Not The End and more. Rare! £120 Pm if interested

Sounds good. Mik is a good dj. Owes me a pint for raising the profile of 'Build Me A Mountain'. What times it go on until?

whats pow wow...?

hi Paul,just as an aside to this thread,i used to got to the Garage to hear Graeme Park,,what's he doing nowadays.?. Now there was a man who knew how to fill a floor. Hes doing loads. Has a radio show, still produces and at the moment , I think there is a Hacianda anniversary tour! He was ALWAYS way ahead in music and had something like 6000 albums when i was hanging about with him in 1978ish. In fact I sold him a lot of my northern stuff from my first collection. I was hard up and took it down to the Garage for him. Top bloke and really broad taste in music. He came to see the play in Manchester. Always fills the floor!

Nice one James. Proves the point and also a good example of the revival that is being embraced by a younger crowd, as a reaction against the homogenous itunes type approach to music collecting.

Interesting that you state that Northern Soul "can't be googled or downloaded" on an internet forum. Almost every tune is on the net somewhere in one form or another (look at refosoul), if it comes out your PC speakers you can record it and bung it on your ipod. There are so many blogs on the net with podcasts of rare sounds that you can hear pretty much anything you want to on the net. I can tell you for a fact, most of my collection CAN'T be googled or downloaded, if you want I can give you a few test tunes for you theory?! Maybe your judging it on your own experience of collecting and listening.? Also, i think comparing the rave scene to the Northern scene is a little wide of the mark. Most ravers cant even remember the tunes they danced to in the first place and nearly ALL of them have moved on in terms of what they listen to. Graeme Park is a friend of over 30 years and he isnt still playing the same stuff that he did at the GARAGE in Notts or the Hacienda all those years ago (unless its a tribute anniversary). Also, the younger Europeans and Japanese seem to pay tribute to the original soul scene in terms of the way they dress (mod styles etc). So . why should the playing format be the exception to this rule. By your theory, of leaving the 'roots' behind, they should just turn up, bung a cd or ipod on and have a good time. It seems to me, when talking to these people, that THEY want to embrace the scene in an historical context, including the LOVE of vinyl. In fact, I just sold some tunes to a young Japanese collector. So the very people you are saying wont embrace the vinyl format are contadicting you? The same applies with the young American collectors, France, Sweden, Norway, Belgium...shall I go on? You talk about formats....We also had tapes back in those days, so why didnt people just put a compilation tape together and stick it on at nights, it would have been a lot easier!? Maybe there is something visceral and 'soulful' about the vinyl format itself? if you look at indie music now, a lot of releases (young bands) are going back to it because of that fact. It has personality and as you keep it over the years it takes on some of yours. It is NOT disposable and there lies its attraction. Its personal and unique, visceral and visible......tangible and sometimes even olfactory.

Yes, true, maybe we were less liberal with it , or more precise! Bali High, id forgotten the name. I did get into the jazz/funk scene, shorter skirts in the Bali high!