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Your not wrong there Peter, absolutely Dire Mick

And there were a few Dj,s well known who fell for it, no offence to them but I would not have been one bit fooled with that four vandals sound, I trust A1 has much improved from The Four Vandals effort so some of them might possibly be fooled again LoL, Have a great weekend Mick

Nothing lasts forever but it can be remembered a lot longer than it lasts, Good Soul music like all good music will be remembered longer hopefully forever, but the artists and musicians who made the music are mostly too old and have passed away, It might be and I say Might in a very questionable way that A1 if perfected to replicate the sounds we love and I refer to my particular favourite period of soul music which is circa 1960 to 1975 that A1 will bridge a gap to make sure those sounds and artists will never be forgotten , We know they will never be replaced but it may be a precious tool in keeping the music immortal and the memories immortal. It’s up to the people listening if it is acceptable and we all know that’s going to be a very big ask with the Soul lovers on this site, Let’s hope that A1 just gets better and produces the goods to make it happen, Mick

If A1 carries on improving and the music and vocals are made so they can replicate the perfection and in some cases the imperfections on the best in Soul and RnB and popcorn , it will carry the day for a lot of people if they use there imagination which you would have too, Good Music will always be the winner, wether it’s humans or Robots who make it if it’s not good enough it will never fool the people on this site in a million years anyway , but never say never. Mick

You will never be able to recreate the original sounds from original artists and the musicians, they are from the time and place that existed then , the world was a much different place then , So as time moves on we have lost those people through age or mortality and they can never be brought back to do it again , we can still listen though to the fantastic music and memories they made and that will always be our point of contact. However the future with A1+ is still unknown to where it may end up, if there is a way to enhance and add on or take away from sounds we love and it does capture the music we love and cherish , I’m sure we would recognise that it was good we’ve had enough practise to not be kidded or fooled by pretentious music , it might never happen but I think it’s worth giving it a try if it does get there, After all we will be the judges of that Mick

If it sounds good catches the emotions touches the soul and captures the Time and spaces it tries to do Embrace it because you will never stop it, Let’s be honest it’s got a hell of a mountain to climb to match up with the real thing , but you can’t stop the future just hope it gets better n better, if it finally arrives at a good place, Music will win in the end and your imagination will do the rest Mick

It was if you snorted it or swallowed it LoL, Mick

To be honest with you I’m sick and tired of Appointments there seems to be more and more f them every week, I feel like cancelling them there are far to many of them for my liking even more than the drifters LoL, ML

Hi There Contact Tony Brookes if anybody can help you in that neck of the woods it’s Tony he,s already established in the area, a lovely guy to work with ML

Hi Troy just to let you know your Dads recording of Think it Over has brought happiness to thousands of us on the Northern Soul Scene a thousand times over for decades and still does, Make sure you tell your Mother that we really appreciate that and he will never be forgotten, I’m sure your family is really proud of him I know I would be. Mick Lyons

I did a thread a few years ago titled ( what were your Golden Years of NS) everybody as there own personal opinion depending on what they were doing at that particular time or years, their health youth enthusiasm etc etc, my own favourite Years were 1986 till 1996 , Most people on the scene had matured , loved the stronger tunes that were coming through at the time, a lot of the lightweights on the scene had fallen away, Those left still had the energy and enough vitality to make it a very special time , The Nighters still had that edge that made it unique, I’m not decrying the early 1980, s because it’s from that. For me that NS it it’s peak and sorted the wheat from the chaff, It’s today that disappoints me , it’s become watered down , fragmented , pretentious and completely lost its edge, in fact a butter knife has more edge than NS night or nighter these days, In answer to the question it depends entirely on where you were and what you were doing in the 1980,s God Bless ML

Hi Julian if it was running weekly from September 73 to May 81 that would’ve been around just short of 400 nighters, but they did run a few Friday nighters wether it added up to another 100 over that period is another question, It weren’t my cup of tea anyway I stopped going to Youth clubs in 1965 and visited real nighters from then on cheers Mick

Remember me Blue boy 1997 has got a similar sound Mick L

The rifts in this tune have been used in a good few tunes late 1980,s early 1990,s what comes to mind to me is ( Soul to Soul group) but a good few more very familiar one in particular stands out it charted in 90,s ML

Another piece of British RnB n soul tragically gone he was always simmering just below the big time in he 1960,s soul scene