Sceneman

occasionally i come across some curious titles on green columbia that i dont recall seeing around and never saw any promos either . do you have some anecdotes to share on rare titles? what years were their heyday ??

trialing records was done by Guy Stevens at the Scene Club ,he would get a stack of imports ,and then try them out at the Scene Club and if he got a favorable response ,then would arrange to issue them on Sue label. some were a bit hooky so i believe .... his record booth had piles of 45s which somehow he was importing quite easily at that time .. during the he week he had record sales at the Scene Club ,but it was mostly rockabilly and not the sought after stuff of the time.

dont forget Charlie Gillet he was quite early. hey a mention of ernies in Nashville , i used to buy a lot from ernies. i used to send them a wants list ,and a few weeks later a box of 45s appeared with an invoice inside saying, send us X amount of $.. theres trust for you

yeah i guess you could make a belt drive if you got the right diam rubber and glue the ends together with superglue . stylus you could get something to fit and adapt it .

i guess we have to start with MIKE RAVEN as the 1st pre eminent soul DJ then Stuart Coleman over to you for your anecdotes ...

theres about 4-5 shops in town ,many have no soul stuff at all ,i did find 1 in central Houston that had boxes of $1 material ,and hopefully i sorted through it but it was all well scratched and rubbish ,and not even of a good vintage . i would say Houston is not good for anything decent ,although there was a few reasonable LPs on the racks and fare prices.. i was dissapointed ,but really its 20 years too late i did find some decent CDs at ok prices though

when you think how many decks were in operation in the boom years many must be obsolete for parts ,but Maplins have new kit for not great money .as vynil is beginning to sell more its a problem for many newbies in the coming years. Garard 301 and 401 parts must be hard ... i know a dealer who has lots of old players but parts are a prolem Bush players look great though .. everyone had a player back in the 60s 70s and 80s ,but not so many around in playing condition now,,, many must be gathering dust in inoperable condition waiting for that missing part

where do you all get your replacement stylus's and rubber belt drives? my belts have rotted and stylus gone to the scrapheap . how many are being made still ? and how many dealers are there for each unit ? any tips etc ??

if you get a 45 at the right angle you see these curious nicely scripted words ,etched in with a pointed device in the plain area around the spindle hole .they must have taken skill to do these on every record they pressed and it must have been mega boring too. i have always been curious who's job it was to write in these codes or scripts and what do they mean ? what was their title ? not all records have them but quite a few do .when did they put them on ,when the material was still soft ? who knows the answer ??

but who were the numpties that thought them up ? like football fans make up idiotic chants i guess ,same breed .we need to establish who were the numpties of ancient time for posterity ....

some old school buddies were raving about this club they had found in soho called the Scene Club ,but it was pricey to get in and i refused to go with them. a guinea to join and 25 shillings to get in ,allnighter though.they must be mad i thought, that was most of my wages then . (this was 1963 ) but they kept on and i gave in and joined them on a saturday big name night , apart from the records played by resident DJ Guy Stevens ,theres a band called The Animals who were resident and Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames and various other bands thruout the night .boy am i glad they did pester me to go there. Even though it was very pricey for the time ,that changed my life forever . the records being played by Guy made your sphincter twitch they were so unlike anything we had heard and teenage spotty faced Eric Burdon belting out all the famous blues tunes was also remarkable for words !he sure had some energy as a boy singer . after a while i noticed the teens popping pills and sellers outside the club ;offering 'you want some gear?' that was another step on the road of soul.it wasnt known as NS then that came later ,when it had faded down south and moved up north in a big way. i still contend that although Godin claims he invented the term ,it was a street term being used by the London mods as a term suggesting it had faded in the south and was still predominant in the north. i can recall it being heard long before he reckons he coined the phrase. and there were also trips to the Last Chance , Flamingo , Le Disq , Coffee Ann ,and Le Macbre coffee bar .and also the FREIGHT TRAIN famous Mod hangout of the time ,where major Lance was known to drop by when he was in town

a lot of stuff gets no bids so sellers (dealers ) are not advertising stuff. a pal o mine is a large dealer and has given up trying to see NS on ebay ,he just sells early jazz and 60s beat, all his major business is now on the continent when he does the big fairs in Holland and germany .they mostly want heavy metal stuff and 60s pop and beat. he just loads up his van and keeps going back and forth to the euro fairs ...

It was bad back in the 60s when there was definately aparteid in clubs ,there were white clubs and black clubs ,just as there were hotels that had racist signs in the windows ,you prolly saw it on old movie docos. Some soho clubs wouldnt let in black customers ,apart from members of certain bands . Count suckles club was a totally black club and the Roaring 20s too(maybe a few white guys and gals) ,whereas the Scene was totally white ,so the black customers hung out at the Flamingo

The Shag (from Carolina)

when did this first get recorded as it speaks of earlier times than when it was released and then banned by the beeb ,but hey they were doing the Carolina Shag dance which had been around for ages .it almost seems a 60s tune ...

The Bristol Stomp The James Brown

it was of its time, a simpler time with a record player and a darkened club (with narcotics) ,and little competition unlike now ,whether it can endure all the competing fads who knows .a smartphone and coffees from starbucks eats up a lot more money now and less disposable for other things . they may become like the piles of shellac 78s found in junk shops with few buyers ..in say 30 years time . its gets harder to find replacement stylus as a few guys i know cant find another and dont plan on buying another record player ,so their record collection gathers dust in the cupboard ..

its a mystery where they all came from and soon went giving birth to another dynamic tune on the way .. hey theres THE MONKEY THE DOG The HullyGully The Madison The Popeye Waddle The Matador The Twist The Jerk The Swim who thought up these dances associated with a song of the name ? and where did the steps originate ? over to you ....

i have had my collection since the 60s and what ever Guy Stevens played at the Scene i went and bought a copy if i could .some took me a long time to acquire ,but the bulk is still intact .i have been thru numerous ups and downs in the market over the years but theyre historical time pieces to me so i dont plan on selling them . if they give you pleasure enjoy them ,and treasure your collection.

i'd to draw your attention to the 5 blond kicking dollies in the background on this video , kinda strange routine and who were their arrangers ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPvZBtusvLE

i hear tell that a group of dealers give their opinions on the prices ,but some of the prices just dont make sense ,theyre too high or even too low depending on the titles rarity .they dont tie up with popsike sales prices ,so are they propping up the market and not telling it like it is ?

its happened to the old teddyboys as they kick the bucket and no new buyers to take over the batton when their rare stuff goes on sale .what was very rare is now not really saleable. but i suspect when the UK comes out of recession prices will go on up again ,as buyers start collecting vynil again when they are flush with cash again .

Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames at the Scene Club 63-64 ,absolutl ey blew you away ,the hammond organ was battered and bruised then ,it must be even worse by now . and the 3 degrees at Hammersmith Palase , another group that blew your sox off ,no wonder Prince Charles always booked them for his functions .

William Bell - Monkeying Around Mar-Keys -- Last Night

your too late ,when Beanos in croydon closed down that was a warning things could get tough From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Beanos was a second-hand record shop, once the largest in Europe,[1] located in the South London suburb of Croydon. It was founded by David Lashmar in 1975 (a former member of the short-lived British musical group Dead Sea Fruit) and continued to expand through three increasingly larger shops ending up in an old printing works in Middle Streetduring the 1990s. After over thirty years of trading, Beanos faced the threat of closure in 2006, although the immediate threat was averted by concentrating the store's focus on rare vinyl records rather than Compact Discs which were being undercut by large music chains and supermarkets.[2] However, in November 2008 Lashmar posted a notice on the website stating the store would have to close after Christmas of that year as sales had not picked up. The shop finally closed in the Autumn of 2009. In January 2010 David Lashmar reopened Beanos as STUFF marketplace. STUFF marketplace officially closed on 30 April 2010 due to too little business. Lashmar is currently looking for someone to buy the building to run as STUFF. The site is now host to Beanies, a child friendly cafe also offering play areas and workshops. In December 2010 David Lashmar and Beanos featured in the BBC television series Turn Back Time - The High Street. Lashmar appeared as a 1970s record shop owner trying to sell vinyl records to the public in Shepton Mallet, Somerset.