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Gaz these guys do all that, there boxs IMO are the best there is, would give them a call or e mail over a drawing am sure they could cost - not cheap - but will do the job.

See PM

On 28/09/2016 at 20:16, bo diddley said:

A copy like the one above sold on eBay this week for £35 !!! This was the starting price of the auction and there was just 1 bid.

The description said it was an original demo. I was under the impression it was a bootleg.

I don't think is gets played out much these days. I would have thought an original would be about £100 but wouldn't be surprised to see it anywhere between £50 and £250 in the current mad world of records.

Certainly one that you would NOT describe as "just right for today"!

By the way, I've always liked it from when it was a "newie" back in the 70's. 

I want to say this was played around 76 , 77 speed does play funny tricks on the memory- a classic 100 mph dance floor packer for the speed freaks (everyone) to raise the heart beat just that little bit more, played back to back with Rubin you've been away - today it would almost empty the floor  - classic sound 

Best call on me - 1966 Twisted Wheel grit soul

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Jamaican musician who helped pioneer ska music in the 60s and who provided inspiration for a subsequent generation of British musicians including Madness
18:41 UTC Thursday, 08 September 2016
It was boxing ability as much as musical talent that helped Prince Buster become a key figure in the birth of Jamaican ska music. During the mid-1950s Buster, who has died aged 78, sang in a number of small-time bands in the island’s capital, Kingston. But he also had a promising career as a street fighting boxer, and it was his reputation as a quick-witted and assertive gang leader that brought him to the attention of the legendary Clement “Coxsone” Dodd, operator of the famous Downbeat sound system that travelled the country playing the latest dance records from the United States.
Coxsone took Buster on as a security guard-cum-personal helper, and the young man used the experience to learn all he could about the fledgling Jamaican music business.
Propitiously, he had been born – as Cecil Campbell, the son of a railway worker – in Orange Street, the central commercial street in Kingston that was to become the heart of the island’s music scene. Known as Buster in his gang-oriented youth because of his middle name Bustamante (after the Jamaican Labour Party leader Sir Alexander Bustamante), he later took on the nickname Prince for his boxing exploits, and had a natural entrepreneurial flair as well as musical talent and street sense. He left Dodd in the late 1950s to set up a record store, Buster’s Record Shack, and then his own sound system, the Voice of the People.
While both ventures were successful, it was his next move – into the recording studio – that really left its mark. In 1960 he embarked on a couple of marathon recording sessions with various artists at the studios of the local radio station RJR that were to shift the island’s musical axis away from the all pervasive influence of America. Among those early recordings was a Buster-produced song by the Folkes Brothers called Oh Carolina that became an instant hit in Jamaica. In a typically bold and unheard-of move that was to characterise Buster’s innovative career, he used the Rastafarian percussionist Count Ossie for the backing track. But more importantly he also asked the guitarist, Jah Jerry, to emphasize the afterbeat instead of the downbeat. The same radical syncopation was used on many of the other tracks, including classics such as Little Honey, Humpty Dumpty, They Got to Go and Thirty Pieces of Silver. Ska had been born.
Most of the singles from those sessions were hits in his homeland, and Buster never looked back. Over an eight-year period he released hundreds of productions on various labels, many of them chronicling the gun happy “rude boy” activities of an increasingly violent, newly independent Jamaica. He became rich, living the high life of sharp suits and fast cars, though remaining an aggressive champion of the underdog.
As ska slowed down in the mid 60s and turned into rocksteady – a transition Buster did much to nurture – he set Jamaica alight with a series of records featuring his mythical character Judge Dread, a super-tough magistrate who handed out ridiculously long sentences to recalcitrant rude boys.
But his influence went far beyond Jamaica. Many of his own compositions, as well as those he produced, were released on the seminal Blue Beat label in the UK, where ska became the music of choice for many mods and skinheads.
He was the first Jamaican to have a top 20 hit in Britain – with Al Capone in 1965 – toured the country regularly to sell-out crowds, and appeared on Ready Steady Go in 1964. It was also in Britain that he converted to Islam and changed his name to Mohammed Yusef Ali after a meeting with the boxer Muhammad Ali.
As the 60s drew to a close, Buster moved with the times to produce records for some of the new breed of Jamaican DJs, including Big Youth, and continued to work with well-known artists such as Dennis Brown. He even ventured into early dub music.
But by the early 1970s, when rock steady was transmogrifying into roots reggae, Buster’s influence and interest began to wane – partly because as a Muslim he found it difficult to move along with the Rasta-influenced tide. He moved to Miami to pursue various business interests, including the running of a jukebox company he had set up.
His influence did, however, resurface in the late 1970s, when his music was the key inspiration for the ska revival in Britain. In 1978 a London band called Morris and the Minors renamed themselves Madness after Buster’s classic song Madness is Gladness, and in 1978 their first single, The Prince, went straight into the top 20. The band later reached number seven with a reworking of the Buster song One Step Beyond.
Their hero resisted a comeback then, but did reappear onstage in the late 1980s and 1990s, and toured Japan with ska legends the Skatalites as his backing group. He even recorded again in 1992, and in 1998 re-entered the British charts for the first time in 31 years with a new version of an old song, Whine and Grind. Essentially, though, his comeback was low key.
In 2001 Buster was awarded the Order of Distinction in Jamaica for his contribution to the development of the country’s music industry. He had long since received countless accolades from his peers, but it was nonetheless fitting recognition for a man whose self-proclaimed title as King of Ska was never seriously disputed. 
● Prince Buster, musician, born 24 May 1938; died 8 September 2016

We use to hammer out Prince Buster at all the scooter all nighters in the early 80ts - amazing gritty Jamacain sound that will always be played - RIP Prince

Back in 76 when coming back from St Ives all nighter - I brought four records off this guy, honestly I didn't know what they were but for £5 it was worth the punt, one of them was I cant get a hold of myself - absolute classic, remember, Respect RIP

Saw these yesterday in the BHF shop Stamford up for grabs if anyone was interested 

1976ish

Got a lift with Mick from Aldershot in his Mk 2 cortina not sure if it was a 1600e , got to Wigan car park, and he took the steering wheel off and put it in the boot, "fuckem they ain't stealing this" he would say, good laugh, great guy, always time to talk, always great stories, respect big guy.

The Fleet last night - Soul music , football , beer and a 50" TV

He looked bored, he cocked up the fold your arms routine , felt a knob for wearing pink and purple clothes - and headed down the pub 

There was a place out st Encinitas or that area, but it was full of LPs

https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?client=safari&channel=iphone_bm&um=1&ie=UTF-8&fb=1&gl=uk&sll=32.7556498,-117.1283787&sspn=0.0002136,0.0003386&q=music+record+shop+el+cajon+blvd

best shopping Viejas out on I8    I think it's the Alpine turn off

best beach - Coronado beach

Romona is a nice small town they use to do car nights on a friday

Escondido the Main Street reminds me of American Graffiti 

Temecula - is an old cowboy out west town all wood and broad walks 

Borrego Springs - real dessert area

4 hours ago, Dave Harrison said:

San Diego - Can anyone recommend any decent record shops to spend a few hours in ? Failed miserably last time !!

Any advice welcome!

 

Cheers

Dave

Dave try out near the university there's a shop there I pulled a few from, trust me they know about NS , also there's a few second hand places like antique shops never saw 45 s all shirt LPs in the long beach area. 

Do mission beach, roller coaster old wood one. Corvette dinner, and go over the bay bridge to the beech close to the air base - don't do Mexico trash

Have fun 

3 hours ago, Dayo said:

Please forgive me if this one has been spotted and mentioned a million times before but I don't have time to check....

Do my ears deceive me, but at 30 seconds in, the singer on this great sound gets really rather emphatic that he's not definitely NOT gonna stay away:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9MQg7XDMRY

Sounds like bucking , classic track haven't heard that for donkeys years

On 26 January 2016 at 12:20, RICK SCOTT said:

NO NO A Thousand Times NO....................

 

DJ (A person who plays RECORDS And CDs of CD Only Tracks New release or Otherwise) Be it at a Northern Soul Or Modern Soul Event

 

 

Rick - what about a dj who plays off an effing lap top ? I went to a local soul night years ago that's all he had, by passing the pressing and original record mob, What's next I'll stick my memory stick in I've got a whole set on here, in fact I can go to the bar buy a drink and dance to my own tunes - the future !!!

Who was running this in 1975 - as the title has EASC - yet the address is 106 Wootten Ave Peterborough ?  was this a Ken Cox or a Paul D ? 

I also notice Pauls name not on here 

Uptown records where were they (I remember Andys records) and Mr Howards sounds like a KGB agent

Who was Pete and Dave and Jonnhy (never seen it spelt like that)  just curios

Bedford Embankment - EASC

When was that late 70ts and was it an old cinema I remember sitting in seats and looking at people dancing on a stage , or had I had too much again !!!

15 hours ago, Steve G said:

Stamford I think might have been Russ Towers, he was certainly DJ-ing there. 

Before the Fleet PSc were running do's at The cresset (Bretton) c.81-82 I am not sure if these were Niters though or just evening do's? And I think PSC became DSC when Stuart Gordon ceased to be involved.

Steve that was the key to the Peterborough Soul and Scooter crowds, they were a younger crowd the Knights Hall at the Cresset Bretton, Friday night, followed by the fleet all nighter on the Sat then coach down to St Ives all dayer on the Sunday - 16 - 18 year old speed feeding, crowd.

In late 81 early 82 these were under the D&S Promotions - then when the first Soul nighter was put on at the Wirrina that was under the PSC - this was run by Dave Read and Wilcox and later by Stuart Gordon after he was released from prison - mid to late 82.

Peterborough Soul Club - ran this nighter in Notts 1983 in org format / also The Dedicated Soul Club ran weekly Northern nights at the Camden Ballroom London 

D&S Promotions About 1980-81  - then changed into PSC 1982

Dave Read and Stuart Gordon

it usually was shown on early flyers in a cap / pill like pictures -as DS stood for drug squad - kind of piss take