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the track "roving girl" is done by ruby jean on monster masters label, is that the track you are referring to? anyways, I saw ezzie picked this up on the cheap on ebay and moerer has it up now.

the same argument works both ways. i agree the post is surprisingly efficient. there are a surprisingly number of shady sellers out there. i buy a large amount of records online to know. i have to spend a lot of time fighting with sellers getting them to send my records. there are enough posts about shady sellers on here to know that is the case. putting in the first paypal claim without fully escalating it is a way to pressure sellers to get them to actually mail your records when they are not doing so, and it isn't initiating a chargeback.

love the condescending attitude. at least you didn't call me a woman... I wasn't commenting on the "northern soul scene" (which you are focused on), I was responding to your comment about preserving the legacy of African-American Music which extends far beyond the northern soul scene but which you are too embedded in to see. If you limit your comments to the "northern soul scene" that's fine with me.

it's so awesome that you think that by making the music more available it makes it pointless and the way to preserve the legacy of "forgotten young black American soul music" is to censor it so that it's only available in soul clubs. how self-absorbed in your scene and divorced from reality do you have to be to think that? I'm sure the artists would rather stay in obscurity with their records covered up under a piece of paper in a dark nightclub than actually be enjoyed by people on their ipods, cars, computers, reissued onto CD, etc. and maybe even get paid royalties and eventually do shows. You're really doing them a favor. You can argue for keeping music in clubs, etc., for your own specific reasons in preserving your scene but don't pretend you're somehow preserving the music that way or the legacy of the artists, what a joke.

This is also generally a seller-oriented website. There have been at least two attempts so far to establish a soul auction site (one of which is advertising right now). As you note, they might not have any chance of succeeding, but if they did, an independent auction site isn't going to be successful if the starting bids are people's high set sale prices that they sell at here. The whole appeal of ebay is the chance of getting a bargain (or the chance of picking up oddball records buried amongst the large amount of crap, which is one of the appeals for me at least). Nobody is going to put in a starting bid of 100 pounds on a record that is worth 100 pounds. And advice to buyers -- you should NEVER wait past 45 days to start a paypal claim. You still haven't escalated to a DISPUTE at that point (e.g. you are NOT claiming money back from a seller) -- never give up your window to get your money back from a seller that is going to scam you. If you don't file a claim within the window, you can't escalate it to a dispute later. I'm not talking about dealing with responsive sellers who are emailing you back with proof of postage either, I'm talking about the sellers who don't email you back or who lead you on with lies, etc. A responsive seller will at least understand when you put in the claim too, as the claim isn't an escalation to a dispute.

this is my friend's show Chic-a-go-go. Another cool clip I posted was Henry Ford demonstrating the Monkey Time. I think I also posted Harvey Scales, he was awesome recently. There have been a ton of R&B artists on, too many to list.

i posted a bunch of interesting videos recently, the new yorkers doing "aint that news", etc.... not many people read the video section though.

that's my friend's show Chic-a-go-go. Marvin was suprisingly much more excited by "this heart of mine" than he was by "I'm gonna miss you". He came on the show with Larry Blasingaine, but I don't know if my friend put the interview with Larry on his youtube page. Back to the topic, some of the clips posted (e.g. in the Teddy Pendergrass thread) are more than just music clips, they are actual performances, Mike, are you also opposed to those. I posted a clip of what i think is the greatest performance in soul music history, the blue notes on soul, teddy is crying by the end, when I first saw the clip (I think maybe even posted here), I watched it every day for like 4 months, it's amazing. Obviously just posting youtube clips of audio here or fan-videos is sort of pointless if it's in refosoul but some of the teddy pendergrass clips in that thread were actual performances on soul train or other shows. You're not opposed to that, right?

if it's a cheap item, it's not worth bidding if the postage is going to be the cost of the item though. for more expensive items fine. Brian's auctions are a mix of both. he can't reasonably change the terms on each auction depending on how he thinks the item will finish and if you're listing a bunch of cheaper items you shoot yourself in the foot to require insurance (or at least registered mail).

one of the greatest live performances ever recorded (from Soul!): https://www.youtube.c...h?v=aOZuyAkj7Bc

the one I lost was more than 12 months ago so it could have been on ebay 3 times

those artistics records aren't really soul are they? either way, I totally forgot about the syl johnson record though.

sorry, forgot about the two more common ones. I can't think of more soul records though. there are also some R&B records obviously, I had never seen this one before for example: https://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260531135833

is someone going to buy it to wear it?

my whole point, which I think you don't disagree with, is that "known copies" means "known" in the small circle of collectors that the person counting happens to know. in the last thread people were coming up with very specific numbers on records, some of which I had or knew other people that had (and weren't included in the count), it's an inane activity. a record can be very rare, you don't have to actually come up with a "known number of copies" to prove anything and that number will be meaningless. the fact that 200-500 were pressed, even though most were thrown out, means that more probably do exist than 2 or 3, it's still very rare.

i can't even think of the records that you could actually consider "soul" (not R& besides the teddy cash record and maybe the regina randolph record?

there are two jean carter and the centerpieces 45s, the one you list and an earlier one on star 103. unfortunately neither are worth much despite not being common, just because they are not that good. craig moerer used to have stock of some, although I just checked and he doesn't now. If people thought they were good (my opinion doesn't matter that much of course and often differs from others) I would expect them to have some value though.

there are a lot of records where 500 copies were pressed that are ultra-rare. If people like john anderson never found the stock or found the stock but passed on it or the stock was moved into local people's collections via shows (but not distributed) and then the rest was thrown out, the records will be ultra-rare. In the last thread, for example, the intentions on tiki was brought up, and the members of the group told me that 500 copies were pressed. the record is still very hard to find. the fact that 500 or even 200 copies were pressed, however, makes speculating on how many copies actually exist a stupid activity.

sorry about the low bitrate, i have it low for three reasons, first of all because I have so many shows online that it costs a lot to host them all and I couldn't afford to keep them all online, second of all to discourage people from bootlegging from my radio show (although I know of at least two occasions where people have actually bootlegged onto CDs from my 16kbs mp3s which is ridiculous), third of all because having low quality audio streams makes is much less likely to have someone come with some sort of copyright claim (e.g. I'm not really providing high quality downloadable songs).

we already had this thread like 6 months ago. everybody posts the few random records that they or their friends have in their collections that they have decided is ultra rare (often times because the people who have sold it to them have gassed them up to milk them on the price). many of the records aren't actually that rare. what's more ridiculous is people trying to list how many copies in existence of each one there are. there are literally thousands of records that are ultra-rare that don't come up for sale, you just don't see them for sale every day and people don't talk about them and people in the know will pick them up will fight over them when they do. it's pointless to try to list them all.

if you're talking about the chicago label, 90% of the label is rock, only 4-5 soul releases on the label

yeah, I previously just saying that the ultra-rare one that jeff lemlich has never seen was on ebay, but apparently I was totally mistaken and wrong and I have never ever seen it which is good because it doesn't make sense for me to have seen a florida record that he hasn't.

well that isn't the "I believe" variant so it wasn't the rarest press that Jeff hadn't seen so I was wrong.

https://www.popsike.com/Purple-Mundi-Stop-Hurting-me-Baby-CAT/220397511216.html

no, he was actually selling one