Spacehopper

sorted ! thanx dean

...anyone got a spare ??.....dont have to be a minter !

i picked a mint one up for less than 30 maybe a year or so ago..... play it every few months down here in bristol got a request for it at riverside gloucester before xmas great tune

love the jackie day ...heard ginger play it a few months back at bridgewater...

WHAT MORE/ZZ HILL KENT 432......missed this on here recently....anyone else got one for sale ?

i think it depends where you are....and how much the night is costing if youre a promoter.... if its a small town you are probably the only club open and will get those sad drunk men who dont wanna go home alone.....if its costing you a lot of money for big name djs and the crowd isnt what you expected you might not have a choice but to let them in.....i feel sorry for anyone in this position and its a shame if it ruins thier future events at go go children in bristol we get passers by and friends of friends who arnt 'on the scene' but they are always well behaved.....although at times dont seem to understand about dancing with drinks !!.....luckily for us being a big city there are other clubs open all night not 5 minutes away full of half naked drunk woman to attract the twats.... i played in bath the other week and because of the snow numbers were down, the promoter almost let the people in from the pub above us but as he had covered his costs he made the right choice of having just a couple of dozen people in who knew the score and were up for it rather than a packed venue of people who may have f***** about and ruined it for others...

while i recognise some of the troubles that have been mentioned...and maybe in the future they will damage it....at the moment i dont think the 'scene' is in trouble....venues will come and go for whatever reason but there are still loads to choose from every weekend if you really want it....another thread would say theres too much.....so if a few more venues shut wouldnt that make those who remained, and the scene in general better ?.... ....not that i want to see nites finishing you understand !...i know most people do it with passion and put a lot of work into it... or should do !!

too young to ride a scoot in the seventies but rode to many a soul nite all over norfolk in the 80s....drinking and worse ! ....wouldnt dream of it now....too cold did look good all the scoots lined up outside though there was a scoot all modded up at berkley last year...not sure if it was the nighter....think it was the revival night but was foggy as f*** as he headed off home to wales at 4 in the mornin !!!

as has been said a top ten is so hard , all time fave an impossibility...but....top ten would probably include too late/williams and watson and dont pity me/joanie somners....still love em....have to dance whenever i hear them !

the only one of the albums i have and agreed 3 great trax...so were they never released on a grapevine seven even ??... and funny enuff i believe it was you dave that spun the eula cooper recently at berkley/chetenham....thanx for that !

have seen this happen before..just goes to show rescession or not there will always be some people with more money than sense....lazy b*****ds or should that be lucky b*****ds !!...

think manship has flame n king for £50 !.... hey little way out girl was my first northern buy ...pic sleeve way back in 78 aged 11...still love it and getting a few spins again around here as is the flip eula cooper....obviously not on grapevine tho...

ive not read all the posts so sorry if i repeat...but this is my two penies worth !..... firstly none of us can see in the future so none of us can know what will be popular in 30 years time......remember 7"s were suppose to only last a few months or years at most back in the 60s...who would have thought 40 years on some would be selling for 4 figures.....i can remember in the 80s cds were IT .....then it was mini discs......then mp3...then ipods and downloads.....now cds are struggling and no one has an mp3 player...and through all this there is still a market for vinyl.....and not only us....different genres and age groups...hopefully one day people will realise they are being conned by new technology.... i think sometimes we think WE are the soul scene.....this music will still be around long after us,whether in the us ,europe or yet another revival in the uk by kids who may not even be born yet who knows.... credit crunch ?.....they come around every decade or so...things will be good again one day its all a case of timing when you sell.....and even now checkout ebay some people have still got money and are buying tunes for big money !...if you have the tunes (and who knows the big money tunes of the future,it only takes a big name dj to start playing them )...if you sell one a week for a few hudred quid its more than most pensions pay out so yeah i am relying on my little collection being worth a few quid one day.....not enuff to retire in the caribean...but i trust vinyl more than some shady character in a suit who will make his money and maybe lose mine !! 15 years ago i sold a scooter and shed full of bits for a grand which would be worth five times that ammount now !!!!!.... nobody KNOWS...

got asked for my top three last week by a bristol journo /soul fan for a bit about its 50th in the local paper and in the time id written and sent the mail id changed my mind....and then remembered another !!...so many to choose from....at the moment and getting a spin tonite for the first time in a few months its....martha reeves and the vandellas/ive got to let you go....despite the isleys being my overall favourite motown artist...martha always make me wanna dance

NO PROBLEM....in fact ive never had a prob with any northern dealer.....(not inc ebay sellers)...i think they know it would be all over this site if they were dodgy.....aswell as that most are/were soulies too

i love music...always have....had records bought for me from the age of 6....played my dads before that.....spent my pocket money as a teen on them (instead of pacman like my mates)....got a criminal record shoplifting them to order from school mates !.... but ofcourse i dont like all music....but i can get the same buzz i get from a soul tune from a reggae/ska/indie/mod or punk tune.....but not rock...except a few 70s who tracks or the doors maybe....but thats what i love about music...you have no control , if you are honest and dont follow the pack..its something inside... i once saw a programme with louie farou (however you spell it) in south africa...talkin to a racist afrikaans bloke and his whole vinyl collection was us soul !...mainly 60s but also some more political 70s....when louie pulled him on it he got stroppy and walked off.....just like rascist skins at the yarmouth scooter rally 86 liking desmond dekkar one minute and sieg heiling and kicking off the next !...odd but as marley said... 'ONE GOOD THING ABOUT MUSIC...WHEN IT HITS YOU ...YOU FEEL NO PAIN !'