Barry

Ooooh! Get me.

This is one weird thread, I think some of you need a hobby - buy a bike ffs. Sorry Ady, as I said above you obviously know more about this specific case than I. I stand by my initial post and the way I conducted my business, my business was about having fun, spreading the word, giving a good service and not in any way being a c*nt and I went under possibly because of that. Yours, Naieve and Proud Warrington

I like your train of thought Paul. As an ex-Psychiatric Assessment Officer I can't believe I missed my own lack of candour.

Some good replies there, cheers. Picking up on Malcs use of the word 'Re-union' over 'Revival'. The word 'Revival' smacks of money-making to me, whilst the 'Re-union' is a very adult term that tells me the promoter is doing it for the right reasons. I love you Malc.

Okay, I'll give you one - a mint George Smith issue for £75. Now , to me that's a bargain, no doubt I'll be told different. And, the point of this thread was light-hearted banter aimed at sparking conversation nothing more.

I still get more pleasure in my mind from my baby years, my Bobby Paris years than any given moment on here right now. Yesterdays Soulie I may be - but today I am at peace. Keep The Faith!

In one mate. Jealousy is a bad thing.

I'm not telling you - Alright!!!

...to sitting with the angels, it seems. Having done this for a spell, I can honestly say that it is generally a backward step - in todays scene that is. Promoting today is a highway to Hell. 'Little fish - little pond' don't touch it'. Be a punter, there's more heart in it.

I'll not w*nk myself off in public, let's just say I've had a good week ay?

The beauty of watching Duke Fakir's moves are possibly beyond speech. The conviction that he put into his routines I find spell-binding, given that on paper he should have been the least convincing. Great stuff. I do still see a great deal of Sean Penns 'Davey Kleinfeld' in his performance which I must say add to my enjoyment. still have a tissue with Mary's lipstick on from - leicester maybe, early 80's -lovely looking woman to this day. If I could choose a moment from Motowns history that really picks me up, it would have to be Stevies b&w rendition of 'Uptight'! Simply inspirational.

The amount of stuff I read on here that seems to posted without a thought about the people involved astounds me. This should be a forum for thought and release of musicality, not one for venomous out-pourings that have little or nothing to do with a public forum. I know all about free speech but some of you take it too far. Onanism doesn't become you. Or maybe it does!? Get a grip.

Given my sparse involvement over the last ten years, can anyone post up any dealers that seem to be of the same vein as the Soulmine guys. Being that they seem to be real Soulies and not simply a business. Good on you (Soulmine) lads - your lists and service hark back to a simpler more involved age.

I know it's tough presently but with a tad of speculation I've had a good week vinyl-wise. The numbers seem to have tumbled with vinyl recently and certain tracks, to me anyhow, seem to be finding their true level.

Give me this: Was Northern a tad less complicated and a little more enjoyable when Al Wilson and Bobby Paris was my life? I'd say 'yes'.

Paul, obviously not. Have you ever gone under? I have.

Fair-do's Ady, fair do's. I have been a business in my life and I understand that going under does not always make you a c*nt. Who? at the end of the day wants to go under? Does anyone ever want to f*ck someone over? No. They keep on, trying to do their best, until they cannot do that anymore. Given the fact that you may know more than I...but as far as I am concerned people who know very little about business seem to jump on the old bw without having a clue. two sides to every story mate.

I understand if you don't take to tracks, I must say that I find it hard to see why given the examples,, but at what point do certain tracks utilised in a promtional manner seem to get the old 'chinese burn'. Top-Tip: simply write all the tracks that you think are sh*t, therefore saving yourself a wanky post somewhere down the line whence they are given a little national promotion. (Your view doesn't make you look battle-hardened to me, you know, your 'I've heard it all before shit', just someone who needs to prioritise their views....or possibly talk about summat else.)

Means more to me than a lot of other, more 'relevant', tracks.

It was a business, end of - lose the personal comments.

Deffo!

I was reading one of the Sunday supplements just prior to the Motown Anniversary and this particular article gave '50 Things You Never Knew About Motown!. I thought, 'Here We Go'. But I was taken aback by two of these profferences: One being the basis of 'Diana Ross and The Supremes' palms-up choreography to 'Stop! In The Name Of Love.' According to the blurb; when Ms Ross was given the initial run-through of the song by Berry Gordy, she was that excited by it that she ran toward the Gents toilets in Hitsville, where she had seconds earlier seen Smokey Robinson wander into for a slash, as to express her excitement to old Smokey. At this moment it seems one of the male 'Motown toilet attendants' (???) [this being in the 60's and ladies entering Gentlemens Lavatories not being the done thing] raised his hand and said "Stop!". Hence the iconic hand raising as The Supremes sang "STOP!". The other one was the lovely fact that The Supremes had their own bread.

I hope that this doesn't come across as a negative post, that's a weak opening if I'm honest, but Kenny seems to be of the Shane Richie mould, he'd sing at the opening of an envelope - does that sound harsh? He does tend to over-sing a song if that makes sense!? I've mulled the KB question over and over. The question being: Kenny earns his money through song, like so many of our heroes over the years but how many songs have been sung for anything other than keeping himself up there and in work? Now I understand that this quandry could be applied to Mary Wells, Martha Reeves, Luther Ingram, Wilson Pickett et al, just about any singer (dj, promoter) really. But I do feel that Kenny's falsetto delivery, although quaintly soulful and relevant, has become in my mind slightly diminished simply by the amount of product that he has released. Don't get me wrong here, Kenny Bobien will forever have done more for black music than I could ever dream of doing - but - it does make me question what is true soul music, soul music that is sung from the heart and what is being sung simply to earn money. I would like to profer an explanation that kind of center's around anyone's early input (be that on any level, promoting, dj-ing, singing, whatever), that early input seems to be more from the heart and less job-like than their (anyones) later input. That later input, when you are more savvy to the industry (recognised say) must be surely aimed at keeping your head above water moreso than proving your worth as you once had to. Which asks the question: "Does recognition remove you from the things that initially made you want to prove your worth to your peers?"

Newton Cricket Club memory for me Imber. Good shout! That period, 84-86 was possibly the last bastion of our music as such I feel.

Not as possible for me these days for me to do but my feet have put the time in on that dancefloor over the years. I miss the fact that todays life is so far removed from my earlier carefree years when anything, nighter-wise, was do-able. My question comes from that simple yearning to place myself on that dancefloor once again, picturing a current playlist. Hence the question. I still care.