Dazdakin

Ooo hang on a min, i never said that lifeline or any other venue that caters for that "other" style of music should not be, thats my point it should be, but please dont try to "educate" us dino's into something that we dont want, you got your venues we got ours lets leave it at that and lets not mix the two up into one happy nighter as it dont work. After all you can always go into the main room and have a good night whereas myself i cannot go into your room and do the same as to me IMHO thats all it is an opinion, the stuff your listening to these days is what was called tape music, good for listening to and chillin to on a long drive home from a nighter but never good enough to be played at venues. IMHO.

Just woke up and after my initial posting on the night i feel more needs to be said as some of you just dont get it yet. The "rare room" as one of you put it at no time was as you say banging and it really does need to stay in the "other" room and not make it to the main room. The main room last night was the way it was because it stuck to the tried and tested method of playing well known kick ass oldies. I may well be stuck in the past but the thing is the past works!! You know as well as i do that if anyone DJ last night strayed from the "oldies" path they would have cleared the floor, thats why even Butch never bothered in trying "new" stuff on the main hall. Quality set of quality oldies he played : Al Kent/Tommy Bush the ones for me that really got me movin' and a groovin'.....and you know what?? i know he loved every minute of that main hall. The guy has records and knowledge of records that most could and only ever dream of.......but a simple set of back to the basics worked!! Dedicated nighters for the rare and underplayed stuff exist for that purpose and IF there is any sounds that are good enough to live in the oldies sets of main stream dj's then spot on, but dont ram them down our throats because a dj has payed X amount of £'s so it must be good.........wrong, yes it may well be rare and yes in a collectors market fetch alot of money but those two factors dont mean that the 45 is any good and even deserve to be played at any nighter. Kings Hall is what it is and it has tried to cater for all tastes over the years but last night i got a sense that it finally got it as well, proper oldies kick ass and make a venue of its status what it should be everytime it opens its doors, and thats a sweaty culdrum of hundreds of souls having a stormer. Last night was one of the best nighters i have EVER been to and i been going 27yrs....i know what i like and what i dont like, at the time Stafford struck the same cord with me although i went to most of them purly because the upstairs oldies room was ace, having said that most of the stuff played in that main room Have crossed over into main stream dj's sets and thats because they was still quality dance toons that very easily were able to stand the test of time, but here is the main point about todays "new" stuff, it just has not got that bish bosh wollop you will fookin dance kind of thing going on except the odd one or two unlike Staffords majority of stuff that was played.

Oh please dont as its killing me. I once sold just about my entire collection to Pat (top man, Stafford wont be Stafford without him!!) many many rare goodies one being Cecil Washington.................£40!!............ok it was in 1998 but still........its defo NOT £2000 rare!

I can remember BITD when Chuck Wood aka "Al Wilson"!! 7 Days...... was a derided piece of northern soul when in fact its a top notch out and out dancer that ALWAYS without fail fills any dance floor these days, unlike BITD (early 80's through to the end of the 90's) when any DJ who dared to play it was surly asking for his P45!!

I guess the people who lovingly recreated the art work for salvadors/ lou pride/major lance/joe mathews/ dena barnes/ etc..etc... also thought the same then...Eh?? Laugh!! i have just nearly pissed myself.....that really is as funny as fook. ITS WHATS KNOWN TO ALL OF US ON HERE AS A BOOTLEG!!

Think i got a new one that i seem to remember him hammering to fook at leicester......The New Yorkers - ?? Dont want to be your fool?? TAC FUL

Ed Crooke - That's Alright Porgy & Monarchs - That Girl Twilights - Your The One Tommy Dodson - One Day Love Malibus - Gee Baby Fantastics - Me And You Aspirations - You Left Me

Got it!! And you never guess what it is so i will tell you, Remember i said something about nursery rhyme ........well nearly right.....lets try twinkle little star!! And i said Oooooooooooh Babbbbbbbbbbby.......twice well there you have it......Perisians or Traditions both the feckin same really.......QUALITY!!

This maybe a stupid question but how do you know its in stereo, could it not just be a minter without the crack popp hiss?

It's early days yet but my money is on Mel Britt " she'll Come Running Back" sitting at numero uno, its in just about everyones top 30 including mine. Whatcha all reckon then eh??

Anybody know his email address, if you do but not sure you should give it, just tell him willie hutch geezer leicester nighter on sat, he will know what you mean. Thanks all.

There is just no accounting for no taste is there??? Only kidding mate, your correct in that as for soul content it has got none, but at a nighter it just hits the spot for me, each to their own eh?

Mmm, fantastic instro, loved it when it was first played or at least when i heard it first back in the early 80's. Notts Palais nighter downstairs in the Bali room spun by Steve Philis, only ever remember him playing it to be honest.

Thank you so much for taking the time to be as clear as clear can be really .......top man. i now know i have a second issue "legal" release but not a pucker one........oh well...........how would this go down with all those "original vinyl only" crowd i wonder???

Ask the main man eh!! different class, thanks John.. . . . .But, (here we go) how about scratched in archer in dead wax followed dxm not dmx or did you just get confused?? Also you say re-issues are about, would they be legal re-issues from Gemni or nasty 70's lookalikes from Soussan lets say.

Thats the one post iwas hoping to get!! ARCHER stamp you say, right ok, seen many boots none with an archer stamp in which is obvious if a boot , but i now got one with an archer scratch?? not a stamp as in raised vinyl kind of stamp but a scratch a proper scratch not done by hand, what do ya think?? is this what you mean when you say stamp as a stamp to me is doni burdick "Bari Track" now thats a stamp!!

Can anybody give the definitive description of what a pucker real deal genuine copy looks like, feels like,whats it got in the dead wax that the boots don't, is the lettering any crisper, whats the proper colour of the label and text....Or is this the record that those pesky bootleggers in the 70's actually cracked it and literally confused us all enough to believe that genuine ones are boots and visa versa???

If we are talking Northern 60's then surly it has to be Sandi Sheldon. Your Major Harris / Severn Souls to be honest are not that rare or at least were not rare BITD but your Sandi Sheldon that is a genuine rare record. p.s. Having said that my Major Harris is stonkingly as rare as rockin' horse shi*. MINT MINT MINT VINYL!! NOT STYRENE AND A MOULDED ON LABEL, now who has ever seen one of those then eh?? oh and its a nice demo too!!

Just a thought here, i bet some fecker down the post office has one royal northern collection going on!! What exactly does "lost in post" mean anyways for f. sake.....lost where, i mean i thought it was a system, in every way, if its "lost" it should normally always be found at some point or time in the future...its a strange one thats for sure.

Spot on Mark, could not agree more, my style as well. Having said that 9th Dec. brought from U.S. Monclairs cheap cheap $9.99 + $7.00 P/P come the 28th still not here i told him and we both put it down to the xmas period and all that goes with it, come the 3rd jan still not with me told him and he refunded the lot which i never asked for nor expected......top man as for all he knows i could be pulling a fast one, which i am not. p.s. still not here!!

yes i believe it was him.

No not that, Quality sound though eh?

Well thanks for your help guys but it none of those, prity sure its called nursery rhyme though. its an absolute stormer with a hook line in it that goes Oooooooooo Baby!! me thinks twice and it sounds like a male group.