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- I'm getting this tattooed on my back.canuck
- on your back********
- 7point340
i don't think anyone would ever have noticed my genius yesterday, so i will point it out.
i started the day with a reponse and ended it with the same response. "truly full-circle if you will"
that response: "sky cushions?"
- pascii0
i wonder why i became old so fast
- gravity.Jnr_Madison
- no, Jnr. that's the reason why your balls hang below your skirt7point34
- err... kilt... i meant kilt7point34
- ...pansy7point34
- it's the booze.grunttt
- comacreative-
- put em in the sporran********
- I drag my balls 3 feet behind me.Jnr_Madison
- kelpie0
that was my first actual post in the blog in god knows how long. for the record.
- Are you still speaking to me?Jnr_Madison
- emukid has been waking in the middle of the night wondering when you might blog again.7point34
- i'll be sure to wake him up and tell him you finally have7point34
- I am honoredcreative-
- yeah Jnr, Kuz aint the boss of me. You're alright you arekelpie
- neue75_bold0
So what's the real story?
Well, being one of the former owners I will attempt to shine a little light on the mystery surrounding Frank Wilson's anthem -
'Do I Love You' Soul 35019.Firstly, the actual discovery was made by a former researcher Tom Dieperro, a Motown historian who worked for them in the mid 70's. The disc unplayed, had been given to him by the company for any future research purposes.
Low on Tom's list of priorities, the disc and its destiny were about to be turned upside down when legendary Northern Soul dealer and record producer Simon Soussan finally met up with him. They both shared a love of Detroit and Motown in particular. Dieperro gave a clutch of oddball 45s, including Frank Wilson to Soussan to listen to.
The initial play was enough to send Simon into a frenzy and with his marketing know-how immediately sent acetates to the UK DJs under tile guise of Eddie Foster.
Understandably it became Northern's biggest ever find and caused much debate as to it's real identity (Simon being notorious for discovering Northern Classics and giving them false identities).
The secret was out in 1978 when Soussan offered his collection to Les McCutcheon (an entrepreneur from Weybridge, Surrey who later formed the band Shakatak amongst other chart successes).
The fact that it was now owned by a relatively unknown player in Les Mac, and the fact that it's origin was Motown, meant collectors gave it a luke warm reception.Whether or not Les got cold feet or simply moved on to pastures new remains unclear but the disc was subsequently sold to Jonathan Woodliffe, a Nottingham DJ who briefly emerged as one of the UKs top collectors. Jon later became a dance jock and close ally of Alex Lowes and the Southport Dance Weekender.
With a sudden change of heart Jonathon agreed to part company with the record to yours truly, who owned the disc for over 10 years, when my future partner in 'Goldmine/Soul Supply Ltd' and reputedly the worlds biggest Northern Soul dealer offered me (then) the staggering sum of £5,000. At the time I thought that the Northern Scene had bottomed out and I couldn't see prices getting any higher so I agreed to the deal.
Tim Brown has subsequently been offered £15,000 for the side, voted by collectors and DJ's as the biggest Northern Soul single of all time.
- Wow. That's great! I love this track.********
- pure gold********
- Indeed, I had no idea it was so rare, apparently only 2 copies in existence...neue75_bold
- Does that include mine?
* Holds up mint copy.
( mint copy = fake polo )******** - hahahaneue75_bold
- Wow. That's great! I love this track.
- e-pill0
so many assholes...
so few bullets...-Ford Fairlane [movie]
- ********0
"I just made what is possibly the greatest funny in the entire world, just now, in a side-note on a thread. But its two pages back from the latest post (and counting), so will probably never be seen by anyone. The irony* is that if I were to take people there to appreciate it, it would be rendered much less funny by my pride and the viewers inflated expectations, so it must languish, unseen by human hands forever.
Its so funny that if anyone does actually find it they might die, ensuring it remains undiscovered for ever."
- The Legend Of The Funniest Joke Spooky Ever Made.
* Not an example of irony at all.
- i hope it says "sky cushions"7point34
- I can't possibly tell you. It would either be funny enough to kill you, or its comedy magic would dissipate in the telling. Either way, I'm not taking the chance.********
- ...way, I'm not taking any chances.********
- Are the initials S.T.???Jnr_Madison
- i have already attempted to find it.... i guess i have failed so far or i'd be dead by now.7point34
- S.T? No...
*Scratches Head. Goes off in search of some other funny side-note.******** - ... side-note.********
- initials P.T?grunttt
- e-pill0
^dog ears the above and will n ever see what spooky is talking 'bout
- False Alarm, I just checked back. It wasn't even remotely funny.********
- False Alarm, I just checked back. It wasn't even remotely funny.
- Jaline0
Spooky!!!
- Jaline!!!
Hello, How are you? I'm back from Merica. Twas great.******** - hi, I'm good. How did you like it?Jaline
- It was good. Weird too.********
- heh. Hope it was fun. Did you meet any QBNers?Jaline
- No, didn't get the chance. Was 45mins from 734 on my last day, but didn't have his number : (********
- awww...well, there's always QBN. And next time :)Jaline
- No QBN in a rental car... I don't take the www with me when I leave the studio. Call me old fashioned and all.********
- Jaline!!!
- Jaline0
My sister works at a clothing store for children. She's a bit gangsta' and more "brown" than I am. She calls me "whitewashed", which is kind of true. Anyway, since working at this clothing store, she's been coming home and singing musicals and songs from Disney films, including Mamma Mia, Chicago, Beauty and the Beast, High School Musical, Miley Cyrus, etc. It's kind of hilarious, seeing her singing and recognizing these things when she knew nothing about musicals before and wouldn't have been interested.
- 7point340
1...
- e-pill0
- So damn FUNKY!!! Always loved thislocustsloth
- i loved when they did this on family guy7point34
- All by hand. No computers involved at all. I love it. Computered work sucks.********
- ********0
By the way Jaline, I have your picture back up on my easel now that I'm back. I'm going to try and get it done this week. I have to get back into the style of that piece though because it was one of the first large pieces I did and I have changed sketching style since then. Also, it now seems really stupid large for what it is, so you better buy a house with big walls!
I feel like I want to add stuff to it, a background maybe, but then again I could mess it up like that so, ah, so... so there's that.
- creative-0
"By the way Jaline, I have your picture back up on my easel now that I'm back. I'm going to try and get it done this week."
Hmmmmm...
- Jaline has asked me to airbrush a bikini on a nudey picture she agreed to when high one time.********
- I thought she wanted you to permanently airbrush in that cleese chapcreative-
- Jaline has asked me to airbrush a bikini on a nudey picture she agreed to when high one time.
- i_monk0
Last night I upgraded to Leopard 10.5 (and then 10.5.4). Finally. It took two weeks to get it working. And then I couldn't connect to the internet. After about an hour fiddling around (and looking for help via my iPod touch's wifi connection) I figured out it was Little Snitch being a bastard. You have to turn it off and then upgrade to 2.0 or it'll block every attempt to send data to the router!
Anyway, today is my last day at this job of 4+ years.
- creative-0
 
- Jaline0
I spent the past 30 minutes trying to figure out why my speakers at work aren't working (I want to watch the Olympics).
Just now...I found out that I had the "wave" setting on "mute". So I just unchecked it.
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- Blame Microsoft. Apple wouldn't have let you downcreative-