Baz Atkinson

pic of the old majestic in San ANTONIO was looking to see if soul boy was on !!!!! lol.

lol Ian you would of pissed yourself laughing all the japanese had masks on to prevent the germs of vinyl lol,dont know whats happening over there but masks at record fairs was a bit much-there were very much out in force however as me and Gaz DID NOT GET MUCH SWEET AND DEEP SOUL LOL,think alot of it went to a certain collector who seemed to pop up everywhere-the same collector sells on ebay alot and will be well known to certain people lol!! Nice one Baz. Well done! When I was last there in '89 it was a running battle with the Japanese and their U-Haul trailers to see who could get to the good stuff first. At the time the Japs would just go to a stall have a quick flick through and simply ask, "how much for everything"? The yen to dollar rate was crazy at the time I seem to remember, so those guys were just buying up everything in bulk......... It looks a lot more civilised these days. Brought back a lot of memories of getting back to the hotel room with the haul and playing through 'em! Great stuff! Ian D

few more pics one of denbo from Liverpool.

Incredible fair -Firstly Vince picked up your message on the sat and i was so hung over lol-we were slaughtered drunk on the friday evening in Austen lol-I asked where you were on the saturday but could not find you.The fair was fantastic IMHO all or most of the big sellers present -really good wind up material LOL!! Me and me good mate Gaz Simon averaged about $10 dollers per tune and when you see the stuff and book prices well this definelty refutes the addage that bargains in the states cant be had. Examples been a mint white stoppers demo for $50 -REGGIE SOUL FOR $100 and i suppose the bargain of my bunch of 45s a mint barbara mercer -you better stop for $150 [a record very hard on the issue and now fetching real cash]got some great funk including the dinas traack on MR G and lots of other bits and pieces like a right on judy mint white demo for $4. Myy mate Gaz got the snip of the bunch a mint white columbia demo of Sharon Mc mahon for $4 [last one went for big money on well respected sites]when your getting £100 to £200 quid records book wise for $10 to $20 then it has to be worth the journey!! we both got 50-60 items bloody all sorts of stuff to be had but by the end of the Saturday we were knackered -the old hangover kicked in-we scouted other ares as well and again picked up stuff in San Antonio but our temperance was waiving thin by then and we needed to head back to Dallas for sanity reasons. Bumped into Marc Limar who mentioned the signatures re his show from soul source and he was flattered by the support and it meant alot to him,pics of him with me and Gaz S,Texas is a a great place to visit -hope you enjoy the pics etc,see you all either next year [probable or the year after definite] iVE POSTED A PIC OF A PLACK DEVOTED TO ROBERT JOHNSON THE BLUES LEDGEND HE PLAYED AT THE GUNTER NORTAN HOTEL AND WE STAYED THERE ON THE SUNDAY EVENING -THE HOTELS WALLS ARE COVERED IN BLUES MEMORABELIA IF YOU EVER GET THE CHANCE PLEASE SEEK IT OUT -YOU CAN FEEL YOUR SOUL BEEN SOLD AT THE CROSSROADS LOL. BAZ A

I agree its a heart warming story -great pics !!Thanks for posting this up Dave!! BAZ A

Two more incredible tracks -cant wait to get mine -to go with the other already classics on this logo-well done Paul -the Sam dees track justblows me away and the percusion on the Eddie FLOYD is brilliant !! BAZ A

very sad news massive talent -great super ballAds -voice to melt a few tears!! BAZ A

hello Vince that would be great mate -ill drop my mobile no via pm -!! hi baz, would you like to meet up for a pint as i will be there, let me know atb vince

ah thanks dave hope your well ,will check it out ,looking forward to this years fair,-ill tell doug your asking after him mate!! Baz, Check out the Capitol Records promo item (#6 pic) on Doug's story about the Kondoff's Record Store. Fantastic! And MINT! Great story about a great find. Best, Dave

Check the link folks -some great articles by Doug Hanners eTc-got details and dates on ,please note the new venue-already left number to a few brits based in texas ,if any late souls deciding on this then drop me a pm etc.SEE YOU ALL NEXT FRI/SAT/SUN!! BAZ A https://austinrecords.com/?recordhaul.html

think the flip side is a tremendous funky mover-her other stuff on gwp is also very good imho -dont prove them wrong is a lovely lilting soul record!! BAZ A

bUFFALO NEW JERSEY one of the hairiest afternoons ever -stayed over the falls at a small town called chipawa on the lake and hired a driver to take me into buffalo and locate stuff this was 92 after some incredible finds in hamilton [canada which is always worth a look]decided to try and round things off,the driver turnEd up half pissed -he was a boat maker by trade and was on strike at the time -all he talked about was the indians up north[at the time there was barricades up in canada with the native indians]when we hit a few stores in downtown areas he was becoming increasingly agigtated lol,we got chased out of the final one with the owner firmly saying "i know where your coming from man but i dont want you here"lol-wont even tell you what my driver said but i was shitting myself lol. Pleased he didnt have a gun on him because he was that pissed he would of used it.Hope people reading the thread dont think its all happy la la -you have to grift to get stuff and dig and dig often faced with people that view you in a peculiar manner lol.For every good experience youll get all sorts of weired stuff thrown at you lol!! BAZ A

its all food for thought mick -bet you hes having fun with flynny lol!! BAZ A Baz Definitely in the far east - txt'd him a couple of week ago. Japan maybe find some stuff. The US forces were massive in the Philippines weren't they - has that been looked over? Mick

40 QUID FOR THE BREWSTER CREW HAS TO BE THE BUY OF THE CENTURY -the flip side is a bloody marvellous record as is the A side someone get it FFS!! BAZ A

hello mate -guys travelling at the momment if i drop him a text mate and ask where he is -you may not be far wrong on that score dont know about rare soul but i bet hes having a cracking time lol!! didn,t someone find some good stuff in VIETNAM.....guy hennigan maybe?.........or was that just another story from the strange world of norman soul....peg:thumbsup:

hllo tim hope your well mate -got some good addys for new jersey if you decided to get out the apple -drop me a pm mate closer to the time -good to see you on here,if your staying in the big apple there is so many interesting stores ,you are bound to get some stuff mate.DEFFO RIGHT on tunes passed over suppose its the old addage there all at some point have their day !! BAZ A Hi Baz,I hope you and the usual suspects are all well.I hope you are wrong mate as I am off to NYC next year and would like to come back with something!!The thing is though,I have been off the scene for a while now and when I re-connect I allways hear tunes I have never heard before.An example being Hiroshima,Never ever on Arista from 79.As you know I was a collector mainly of 70,s,xover and when I visited Paul Ackley last week he played quite a few tunes from this genre I had never heard.So for me the thing is the States is a huge place and tastes do change as we all know,so is it that tunes we passed over in the past now grab our attention.Back in 75 as a fourteen year old if you had asked me for £3 quid for Frankie Valli or Buddy smith for 25pence I would have took your hands off for the Frankie Valli!!All the best Baz,regards Tim.

NAIL ON THE HEAD -in many respects thats the key records of quality for $1-2 roe-tat-tion etc got 2 last time theres tons of them also-dealers are still n aive-except a few on the more funkier stuff and the harder funk/and as for the wave of gospel not many have a clue -it really is about going over and been smart and not asking for the same old same old-theres so many deep things and rare group things also-my mate gaz simon got some lovely rare sweet stuff last time out etc. BAZ A I,ve been to the west coast couple of times and found nice sounds every shop bar one in china town / sanfrancisco, obviously no way near as much there now, but nice sounds at $1 & $2 is a steal against 40 or 5 0 quid for the same sounds here- mal

Depends what your after even back in the day the bigger finds were seldom -cant speak for the seventies totally different but the eighties my first visist was 87 -loads of stuff was to be had on my last visist at unsuspecting places in texas san antonio etc,theres still stuff to be had thats for sure -the issue now is most dealers /stores have got the ebay bug so the emphasis for any collector is always go smart for the semi unknowns etc,this was blown out the water on my last visist as my first three purchases were the perfections on big b-little jewel and and a lovely phillip mitchell lol!! mY VIEW IS YOU JUST NEVER KNOW lol,lots of dealers will be at the Austen fair 2 weeks today and it will be interesting to see if there have stuck their price quides up their arses and got real lol,best buy on the last day when there are desperate to rake in some $$$$ lol. I ve always had a fancy for the mid west states perhaps Jacob our Nebraska soul man could put us in the picture -when you think about it logically the place is huge but countless times you can quarentee a british dealer has been there before lol.Still have an open mind on this however. BAZ A.

The place has massive significance for the soulscene and also from the wider cultural perspective-ive often poped in wednesday nights/thursday nights when in the capital not really caring who was on as i just felt that the place has a lovely feel about it.The last time i visisted was not a northern soul do but to see the Detroit garage band from the sixties/early seventies the MC5 a couple of years ago and the place was rocking. The place has really been the heartbeat for up and coming acts in te capital for over 35 years -in relation to the northern scene it really did provide a beacon for us northerners particulary in the late eighties when shotts,mexboro,chesterfield etc shut its doors-infact at one point it was definetly one of the only nighters in the uk so passions will be high-the nighters and the kent releases back in the day helped re-invent the scene to be honest and was in many ways a pre-curser for a bigger revival in the nineties. Jocks right its sometimes about the fight itself -i have numerous mates that have had shops etc in once busy town centres now on their arses -the business climate at the momment is terrible and it is very unforgiving -all of james points are valid also-every avenue should be exhausted to try and keep the place open -my view is that the struggle needs to amplified through the media [let the media loveys that once frequented the place in the seventies and now in positions to influence try and raise the awareness alot of the time the message is lost in translation however]. If the place goes we will all have incredible memories -some very funny ones from me like cracking up in mac donalds down the road at 9 in the morning and a bunch of transvestite cross dressers[goths] coming in looking like there had landed from another planet-the old speed induced paranoia went in to over drive lol,such good laughs -all needs to be done. BAZ A.

pic of the man with ralpth and josepth pruitt and also wallace childs,childs and r-pruit were replaced by cleveland horne and ernest newsome -cleveland died in 2000. BAZ A

richard got loads will get in the volts over the weekend and dig some of the more obscure recommends for you im sure your on to DT etc but much overlooked for its funk and soul is westbound the catalogue is massive as with eastbound some crackers check out Melvin Sparks in refo-soul [incredible funky Detroit]then theres Wally etc and some of the smaller logos the superlatives recorded on -THREE GS springs to mind also [think thats a small Detroit logo].Val has just put the P FUNK ALL STARRS UP ON HUMP whichis a detroit indie on the xover thread etc etc. Let me have a good look for you mate theres bloody tuns in Atkinson Towers!!! BAZ A

tis a crime some of his best stuff aint in refo-soul just checked so ill do a compliation tonight and post them up on here and in refo-must do a little work now lol!! BAZ A

CERTAINLY TAKES SOME BEATING but would have to go for romeo and juliet [i dont want to live without you] or perhaps man in love -lovely to have a thread on sweet James looks like refosoul may be busy today!! BAZ A 'High On The Hill'

great thread heres 20 from me -not been on much re business ill try and get this in refo-soul!! looks like i cant as its over 30mb dam will have to do another one.

Yep the whole cd does it for me to be honest -heres a link for the discerning soul fan wanting to explore all the fuss about gospel [praise him lol]right off back to work before im struck down. ps check out cliffs version of take your foot of the gas on you tube it was a cult hit in the us he is still alive and well and performing stateside as far as i know!! https://www.soundsoftheuniverse.com/releases/?id=8975 BAZ A