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  1. Ian Dewhirst
    Strangely enough George Clinton is one of the least spaced-out people I've ever met. Always incredibly courteous, extremely knowledgeable and lucid, plays the game when he's out and about but really relishes the sanctity and peace of his 3 acre farm in Michigan which doesn't even have a telephone! Sounds pretty sane to me LOL.... Ian D
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    Massive simularities! "Rhino" obviously followed the path of "CG" but made it 100% pure Northern IMHO. Basically if the drums were slightly more to fore instead of the guitar, then "Classical Gas" would be a perfect Northern instrumental. Have a listen...... Ian D 23_Classical_Gas.mp3
  3. Ian Dewhirst
    I think it would be a great read because the whole crate-digging thing has theoretically been going for nearly 50 years now. The Jazz, Blues and Doo-Wop collectors were at it in the 50's, Alexis Korner, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards were picking up rare Blues stuff in the early 60's, I guess the Rock & Roll/Rockabilly collectors and Soul boys took the baton from the mid 60's and Northern guys from the 70's give or take a year or two. So it's very much instilled in UK culture anyway. Could also be to do with our colonial past and the fact we're an island which has always been pretty plugged in to other cultures. Plus. there's always that incredible buzz of excitement 'cos you never know what's gonna be around the next corner or what you might find next.... And once it's in your blood it seldom goes away..... C.V.D. - Compulsive Vinyl Disorder. I'll be opening the clinics shortly.......... Ian D
  4. Ian Dewhirst
    I concurr. Lou Johnson had so much emotion in his voice I can't believe he isn't more revered. Didn't have much luck though did he? What's the Volt album like? I've never heard any of his later stuff but I figure it'll be hard to beat the Bacharach/David/Brill Building era.... Also love Bobby Darin.....wouldn't have minded Lou bashing out "Mack The Knife" either LOL...... Ian D
  5. Ian Dewhirst
    I reckon that a few people were trying to emulate Mason William's "Classical Gas" which was a huge full orchestra instrumental hit at the time and on the same label - Warner Bros. They probably had the same A&R guy I bet..... I could listen to records like that all day. Magnificent! Also loved the instrumental version of the Lovin' Spoonfull's "Six O'Clock" (bootlegged as "Supertime" - the Golden World Strings) which was similar to the Mike Post stuff. Ian D
  6. Ian Dewhirst
    Yep, yer right Alan. We've always been nice chaps haven't we? Maybe a little obsessed with bits of plastic though...... Which reminds me, from this month's Manifesto:- "In years to come there will a booming business in 'Vinyl Therapy' dealing with a new breed of illness which will be primarily known as 'CVD' or Compulsive Vinyl Disorder. The prime patients will generally be aging, stubborn men, predominantly from the North of England who seem to have an unhealthy interest in pieces of 7" radius vinyl with badly printed labels. Most of these patients will have been submitted by their long-suffering female partners who are fed up with dusting several yards of dust-attracting plastic every week". Ian D
  7. Ian Dewhirst
    LOL. I can't tell you how many times I've been invited to go into a basement of a junk shop to look for records and had flashbacks of the 'gimp' scene from 'Pulp Fiction'. I spooked my mate out last year when we we were invited into the basement of some leather-attired freak record collector in Buffalo. My mate actually rang his parents and gave them the address in case we were abducted! Mind you it didn't help when I asked the freak, "where can I get a fag round here mate?" Ian D
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  9. Ian Dewhirst
    Brilliant story Chris. I bumped into a Charles Manson lookalike called Chris Peake in L.A. who was similar to Eddie. His whole bungalow was filled to the brim with records - even his fridge and larder had records in 'em. However, in amongst all that junk, I found the first copy of Willie Hutch "The Duck"/"Love Runs Out" outside of Soussan's, so it was worth it for that alone. Keep 'em coming lads...... Ian D
  10. Ian Dewhirst
    Oi! I'm 53 so I have an excuse LOL. In the UK we used to call 2 lanes in each direction a 'dual carriageway'. Plus we invented the language so that's what it's called OK? OK, time for a fag.......... Ian D
  11. Ian Dewhirst
    Rather that then Two-Bit Tumbleweed Hicktown, Texas! Ian D
  12. Ian Dewhirst
    It might be pushing it to describe the Hot Wax gear as Modern though Jez. In many ways it was a continuation of the Motown sound which continued quite a while after Motown had started to switch their own sound to a more contemporary path. If you see what I mean....... I have my own natural kick off point for the term 'Modern Soul' which I reckon must be post 1970 to distinguish the sound from the 60's style. Also I'd argue that for calling any Modern Soul after 1980, '80's Modern' as techniques were changing a lot in the early 80's. And what about either The Politicians "Love Machine" or the Barrino Brothers "I Shall Not Be Moved" from the same Invictus/Hot Waz stable as examples of tracks which never crossed-over to the Northern scene at the time? In fact, I'm playing "I Shall Not Be Moved" as I write this and it's almost inconceivable that it was never played on the scene, including by myself to my everlasting shame! What were we thinking........? Ian D 03_I_Shall_Not_Be_Moved.mp3
  13. Ian Dewhirst
    Yep a great lass! She always seemed to have 'containment' problems. For some reason I just got a mental flashback of Jackie dancing very frenetically to "The Flasher" @ Sammy's and people diving for cover LOL....... Ian D
  14. Ian Dewhirst
    "I love the smell of rat piss, damp vinyl and rotting paper in the morning"! Ian D
  15. Ian Dewhirst
    Oh, don't me wrong Malc, Jackie was great fun and her attributes livened up many a night @ Sammy's. Those garbonzas are indelibly imprinted on both my mind and right hand LOL..... But I still don't think I'd wanna meet her in a dark alley in the early hours. Has anyone seen her lately? Ian D
  16. Ian Dewhirst
    I used to get it all the time! Don't forget that a massive 93% of all Americans never leave their own shores LOL..... Young Foggy
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    Blimey, that's pushing it Sean - it was only 30+ years ago! I think they were demos. Someone told me a while back that the 'b' side was OK on TT. Wasn't it called 'Mojo Hannah' or something......? Ian D
  18. Ian Dewhirst
    Haha LOL! Cheers Alan. GREAT story and like you say, totally surreal. I once went to see a guy that was an ex-promo man for Bell/Amy/Mala and was also Lou Ragland's manager at some point. He was in hock to the mob and paying such a huge amount of vig that he was having to sell-off his personal collection. Naturally everything on those labels was there plus more........ And I don't blame you for holding the copyright! There some great stories around and they should be collated. It is a bit of a fairy tale after all - lads from the working-class 70's North of the UK going to America to find their seam of gold - rare Northern Soul records! And it's all true! I could read this shit all day...... Ian D
  19. Ian Dewhirst
    Dammit! The good Mr Manship has just pointed out a slight factual error in my work of art. As Johnny quite rightly points out: "Heartless Lover" by the Dick Baker Combo is not on Kool Kat (the L.A. Kool Kat, not the Detroit one) Before some smart-arse pulls you up on it, It was on Kit Kat (and not the Roundtrees one)" Doh.....! But pretty funny and a l'il embarassing 'cos I've been spealing that info out for years! But whilst Johnny's in factual mode, I'm hoping he can unveil a couple of his own tales along the line.. As he points out, the greatest record find of all time was Ray Dobard's Music City Load out of Oakland in 2004 - 250,000 mint 45s 95% SOUL and 50% Northern Soul.. there has never been and never will be anything to get anywhere near those piles of 45s. Now THAT must be heart-stopping stuff. And could there ever be another hit as good as that????? Also he had a Fort Worth hit when he found mutliples of all the Dover distributed Northern Soul New Orleans 45s which I'd love to hear about plus I'm sure there were some goodies he found in Fresno and California way back. All great stuff and this thread makes interesting reading on a lazy bank holiday weekend for some of us! Ian D
  20. Ian Dewhirst
    Yep. Night, night. Wasn't kidding though. Check the thread. They're words I use for sure from time to time but not in that order.... Anyway, time for one more "Curb Your Enthusiasm" then crash.... Ian D
  21. Ian Dewhirst
    Oh shit. I know what's happened here! I never actually said 'it was phenomenal every day'. Somehow that combination of words got dumped at the bottom of the page by mistake, so it was a sort of typo LOL. How weird is that? Anyway, I agree LOL... Ian D
  22. Ian Dewhirst
    Yep, welcome Dan Dare. There's always a lively debate going on on here and I don't think the participents would have it any other way mate. Weird talking about the birth of Modern Soul when a Northern Soul styled record is at No.1 in the national pop charts for the last 5 weeks and is the biggest selling record of the year though...... Theoretically, the Modern Soul re-birth should be just around the corner then....? It's just semantics really IMO. It's either good or not so good. That's my criteria these days. Ian D
  23. Ian Dewhirst
    If only, if only.................world weary sigh...... Ian D
  24. Ian Dewhirst
    God, I hate to sound like an old bastard Max, but really those were the days LOL......... I had Bradford Market, Leeds Market, Wakefield Market and Huddersfield Market right on my doorstep with a chain called Bostocks which had bought a few million 'cut-out' records from a US bulk wholesaler. Tons of MGM/Verve/Columbia stuff which is where the Tymes, the Shalamars, Dottie Cambridge, the Triumphs, the Charades, Alice Clark, the Righteous Brothers Band, Clara Ward etc, etc all came from. Manchester had Global which always turned out stuff - Rick Scott found some beauts there and didn't they have the Edwin Starr's and Vonettes LOL.......? Nottingham had places (that's where all the Ila Vann's came from). And that place in Telford, I didn't get to until after you guys had plundered it LOL... I even found Northern records at travelling fun-fairs back then ("I Can't Help Myself" - Don Gardner). Do you remember Steve Glover - a massive UK collector back then. He was from your way wasn't he? And what was it with white demos with you guys? I once went through Pep's box and EVERYTHING was a white demo......... Ian D It was phenomenal. Every day
  25. Ian Dewhirst
    I need a break now Blake, but I'll be back mate. And I've probably left more than I ever brought back. I used to be too choosy back then! Ian D


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