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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: bminor on January 05, 2014, 12:41:09 PM
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Mine would have to be classic Hollywood anything before 1960, or better yet, before 1950. This includes Silents.
30 years ago when video came in, my local library sold all their old 8mm movies at the annual booksale.
I snarfed them all up at 25¢ each. I have about 35 hours worth of what is mostly old time silent comedies, with a few others like Nosferatu and a nice silent "Man in the Iron Mask" with Douglas Fairbanks (a abridged version, but fun nontheless).
B.
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I like old movies, too. I play guitar. And support comic artists via commissioning ;-)
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Hey, I could do a commission for you if you would like!!!!
B.
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Hi B,
If you ever felt like doing a DCM banner for us feel free. We could especially use some 'generic' genre banners like the romance one I made for last February. I could send you a PhotoShop template if you could use it. Send me a PM if you'd like to discuss it.
And I too am a fan of film. Precode, noir, sci-fi, comedy, etc. Blondell, Cagney, Fonda, Stewart, Hitchcock, etc.
I also am a fan of the history of ice-hockey in America. Focused most on the pre-NHL era.
-Yoc
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For the past few years I've been writing adventure stories of various genre. This includes stories about various public domain characters from both the pulps and comics books. The characters include the Phantom Detective, the Black Bat, the Moon Man, and (believe it or not) Chesler's The Black Dwarf. I've also written one short novel called "Dr. Watson's American Adventure." I'm working on a sequel to that.
Black Dwarf story (free) is here:
http://www.planetarystories.com/dwarf.htm (http://www.planetarystories.com/dwarf.htm)
If you have any questions, please send me a message.
Please check out my Facebook Author's Page
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Erwin-K-Roberts/622016177831375 (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Erwin-K-Roberts/622016177831375)
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I am a fan of the Black Dwarf. I downloaded the story to read later.
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I watch a lot of movies on dvd, since I really don't watch regular tv. Any type of movie is fair game as long as it's entertaining. I try to doodle something and pick-up a guitar/bass everyday if I have enough time to myself. I'm also a fan of ice hockey, but I haven't been able to watch many games over the last few years, so I make-up for it by wearing a different jersey everyday.
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We enjoy old British b&w films, particularly comedies with Arthur Askey; Will Hay; Walls and Lynn. And old thrillers, more and more of which are being released on dvd.
Both of us are big American football fans and I've been following it for decades.
Languages absolutely intrigue me and I go to a French class and Italian class every week. Lets me read the amazing amount of European comics out there. I have enough Spanish to read old Spanish language comics, or get the gist at any rate. Having a dabble in Catalan.
Old British pop and r'n'b top my music listening. Small Faces; Stones; Dr. Feelgood; The Pirates; Pretty Things; Big Three, lots more.
Gardening is good fun, that's when we get decent enough weather here to go out and do stuff. Especially good as we can eat a lot of what we grow. Then cooking, and we're not too bad. We are also very good at drinking Italian and French wine.
I played in a couple of pop and r'n'b bands when I was a teenager and in my early 20's and was the chanter, playing a bit of rhythm guitar as well. But nowadays, my throat isn't up to it and I couldn't form some of those chords now. Doesn't stop me jumping about kidding on I'm Phil May. :D
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Hmm. I haven't heard of The Pirates; Pretty Things; Big Three. I'll have to check them out.
One I love that most haven't heard of is The Flamin' Groovies. 'Slow Death' and 'Shake Some Action' being my favs.
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Yoc, I have the 45vinyl of Shake Some Action. So good.
Don't want anyone to go without some loud old hard guitar racket, so, The Pirates were the backing band to Johnny Kidd and after he was killed in a car crash, they got back together in the '70's. A power trio on the real sense with the monster talents of the late Mick Green on guitar. This is a youtube video of them live in the perfect venue - hot, sweaty, loud. At 5.56, there's a version of the Johnny Kidd classic, Shakin' all Over.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buRKEzd0wAA
The Pretty Things, for a while in the early '60's they could have been rivals of the Stones, they were, imo. Still playing and there is some great footage of them with Dave Gilmour guesting, on you tube. But this is them early. Turn up the vol. 'cos that intro. is great. Dick Taylor still plays excellent guitar and Phil May is so powerful and emotional.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEkGTuhEPe4
The Big Three were an early '6o's trio that Brian Epstein ruined. Not a lot of their work survives but there are some Live at The Cavern tracks - not well balanced or recorded, that might give you flavour. Brian Griffiths was an early guitar hero of mine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRfQ-hm3APs
and here they are with Peanut Butter:-
Modifying this to add that I also enjoy and search out old serials and weird, mainly Turkish and Mexican, masked mystery men films. I interrupted watching a Turkish Phantom film to write this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4F1P1glISc
I'm having a bit of trouble with youtube hanging, so I hope the links work.
All this isn't off-topic as this music has been a life long companion.
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Thanks Paw, I'm checking them out now.
Big Three is a bit more my style so far. Hey, The Pretty Things have a nice sound too! They seemed to morph over time from what I've listened to so far.
Wow, I loved Gilmour with them at Abby Road. I'm a big fan of his and Pink Floyd.
If you like a little more edge - here's a 'proto-punk' Toronto band and their only hit that I liked -
The Diodes - I'm Tired of Waking Up Tired - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyqQZXX3YF4
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My other interests besides working here and with comics in general are listening late '50's-'60s music, working on cars, taking trips with the wife. And just enjoying life as much as I can.
Geo
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What?
OTHER hobbies?
Yeah, well, I'm a film buff, too.
They say movies and comics are related, and somehow they are, that's maybe why so many of us love watching movies...
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"The Diodes - I'm Tired of Waking Up Tired" Yoc.
I like that. Ta. All suggestions welcome.
The Pretty Things have covered a few different genres during their long, complicated and troubled existence. They also created the FIRST rock opera, S.F. Sorrow, which is superior to Tommy, wrongly claimed to be the first. So there. :P ;)
S.F. Sorrow live at Abbey Rd. with Arthur Brown and Dave Gilmour:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT5DSvDb9o4
Still not off-topic as following the Pretty Things is one of my hobbies. 8)
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Photography, history, and genealogy are a few of mine, and they kind of overlap. My grandfather was a semi-professional photographer for years, working part time for a local studio, and he saved ALL of his negatives going back to the early 1940s. I'm in the process of digitizing them, but I can't afford a negative scanner (and most of the old ones are medium and large format, not 35mm) so I've had to develop my own method using a florescent light fixture, an opaque piece of white plastic to diffuse the light, my DSLRs, and an attachment for an old Polaroid (used for copying photos - it creates a good distance between my camera and the negative or slide I'm copying). Here are some pictures (from the original negatives) that he took in the 40s and 50s:
(http://img813.imageshack.us/img813/119/candidportraitbill01.jpg)My great aunt (his sister), Mary Ann in the mid-1950s.
(http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/9346/candidbill01.jpg)My mother, taken around 1966 or 67.
(http://img834.imageshack.us/img834/2992/candidbill05.jpg)The flooded corner of Herman St. and Glendora Ave. in the west end of Louisville, KY, 1945.
(http://img845.imageshack.us/img845/8870/candidbill02.jpg)And Capitol St. in Jackson, MS, probably around April, 1947. You old movie buffs can take note of the movie playing at the Paramount: "Stallion Road" starring Ronald Reagan and Alexis Smith.
Color negatives were more difficult to figure out and correct (especially reds), but I finally came up with the right settings in Camera Raw.
(http://imageshack.com/a/img837/1240/ta2n.jpg)Me in 1984.
Of course I take my own pictures as well, and do so for a living (well, somewhat anyway, I'm actually a partner in a video production company, so stills are only part of what I do). Here are a few of my favorite shots (well, ones I have handy to share):
(http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/9782/candid04.jpg)I took this in the spring of 2009. It is the ruins of the water treatment facility for the "Central Kentucky Lunitic Asylum," now known as Central State Hospital, in a part of Louisville called Anchorage. The asylum was built in the early 1870s, and, if I remember right, the water treatment constructions date to the 1880s or so. Most of the buildings from this part of the property (about 50 acres) were cleared, and the land given to the adjoining E. P. "Tom" Sawyer State Park a few years ago.
(http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/3259/candid02y.jpg)I took this in fall, 2011 in downtown Louisville. This is part of an endangered block known as Whiskey Row. It is a nearly intact block of former distilleries/warehouses dating to the 1860s-70s. The four buildings on the far end have, or are being renovated. The five closest have been the subject of local controversy. A local developer, Todd Blue bought them, two others out of frame, and a vacant lot at the end of the block. His original plan was renovation and development, a project he called the "Iron Quarter" because of their cast iron facades. When the economy tanked, he just let the buildings go until he thought they were too far gone. Blue then decided they needed to be torn down. This started a heated battle between Blue, local preservationists, and the city. Ultimately a deal was reached where Blue sold the five buildings in the foreground to another developer with plans to save them. Several (including two kept by Blue) had to be gutted/essentially torn down, but their facades have been saved and will be incorporated into whatever redevelopment takes place on the site. The whole area has been experiencing a renewal in recent years thanks to the creation of Waterfront Park, about a block or so away on the river, and the KFC Yum Center (seen in the background), home of University of Louisville basketball and other major events.
(http://img576.imageshack.us/img576/8176/candid03.jpg)This last picture appeals to two of my photographic interests, churches, and derelict buildings. It is from the interior of what used to be Quinn Chapel AME Church near downtown Louisville. The building was built in the 1884 as the Weaver Memorial Baptist Church, and later Chestnut St. Baptist. In 1910, the congregation, which was white, sold to Quinn Chapel, a black congregation, who had been in existence since 1838. (An interesting aside, they first met in a room above a public stable at 2nd and Main Sts., the corner seen in the picture above.) Quinn Chapel was key in the civil rights movement in Louisville. When Martin Luther King Jr. came to Louisville, he would lead protests from here into downtown. The church moved in 2002, and sold the property to the YMCA. It has sat empty ever since, although there are supposedly plans to eventually turn it into a community center. It is one of the few historical buildings left in its area, with most of the rest falling victim to urban renewal in the 1950s-60s. The roof, which you can see was in VERY bad shape, with several large holes, has since been replaced.
-Eric
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Wow, very interesting stuff Eric!
Thanks very much for sharing these with us.
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Thanks! One more and then I'll shut up. :-X I just wanted to show a sort of before and after so people can get the sense of the difference between the scan of a print, and a copy made from the negative.
The print:
(http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/188/maryannh.jpg)And the digital photo of the negative:
(http://schildknecht.goldenagegraphics.net/main.php?cmd=image&var1=Schild_001%2FSchild_001_0018.jpg&var2=800_85)-Eric
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Eric,
My family and I live way up north on the shores of Lake Superior.
We were in Louisville last spring for the big High School National Archery Competition.
I walked right by Whiskey Row and wondered what was going on.
I wish had had known you were in the area, we could have hooked up and talked comics.
There is a good chance that we will be down there again this spring.
Yours,
B
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Eric, thanks for sharing the photos. Very interesting especially the results of the comparison of scan to negative photo. Really cleaned things up. I'd be interested in any old photos of Crescent Hill, I grew up off Frankfort Ave by the water co and live off Cannons Lane by the park.
I got into genealogy a couple years ago as I was approaching my 60th birthday. Since then I've built a large extended family tree and scanned many old photos.
I also enjoy old movies and classic tv. History and popular culture have been interests for a long time. I was once a member of SABR and did lots of research on 19th century base ball in Louisville. I've collected sports and non-sports cards off and on over the last 40 years.
When the weather is good I putter about in the yard doing gardening and landscaping as well as cooking on the grill.
Also a big sports fan and attend games and follow my alma mater's teams.
And a music fan. My itunes library reflects the obsessive nature of an collector filling an external hard drive.
When anyone is visiting in Louisville give me a shout and we'll show you some Southern Hospitality.
Rod
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Interesting to hear about everyone's passions. I'm a great fan of Golden Age Illustration (ca 1900-1955) and 19th Century Academic painters. I have a reasonable collection of books, tearsheets, and such, but now with the Internet and sites like Tumblr I'm filling several hard drives with so many images I'll probably never get round to looking at them again.
I enjoy movies of the 30s through the 50s, especially 30s musicals and noirish b&w movies with good art direction. However if I'm watching TV I can't be sitting at the drawing board, so I don't watch many of them any more.
I guess my greatest non-comics passion is popular and novelty music of the 20s and early 30s--up til the Big Band style took over. I have stacks of old 78s for my Victrola and subscribe to several YouTube channels on which collectors from around the world play and write about 20s records. My soundtrack is the website "Radio Dismuke," which plays all that stuff--if you like 20s and 30s music, definitely check it out.
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My other passions are music and dance. I'm always up for English Country, Contra, International. Done some Scandi, Morris, Scottish, squares, etc. If I'm visiting a new place I always check out the dancing. Nicest people.
Music, Bach, Stravinsky, Mozart, Gershwin, opera, chamber, folk, choral.... Recently heard a Korean drum group, Bach oratorio, flute recital and change ringing. Plenty of pop. rock, singer-songwriter on my player. Ting-Tings, Clapton, Beatles, Corrs, U2....
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My main hobby for the past few years is coaching youth sports, having coached multiple seasons of girl's soccer and boy's baseball and basketball. I watch a fair amount of sports, too, especially the Memphis Grizzlies. I weight lift 3-4 times a week, as I'm a huge believer in the benefits of physical fitness.
I've played guitar (and lately some piano) since I was a teen but recently have been making electronic music (https://soundcloud.com/darwin48).
I like to read (comics, novels, History), watch movies and television, collect magazines, records (mostly jazz), and comics and occasionally write about my scans at http://darwinscans.blogspot.com/
Beau
P.S. Rod - I visited Louisville a year or two ago with the fam and enjoyed what I saw of the city on a little Fall Break trip that included Louisville and Mammoth Cave. In particular, we enjoyed the Louisville Slugger Museum and seeing Churchill Downs.
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Thanks Guys for sharing. By the way darwin I collect and listen to Jazz too.
Geo
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Litterature (reading, writing) , Saint-Petersbourg (Russia, not USA), Venise (Italy, not California), travels, my 2.5 years monster :hug: daughter !
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I love writing. I took and passed a writing course to learn how to write for children and teens. I tried to get published but magazines weren't interested in my stories. I guess I shouldn't have given up trying to get published, but I did.
I love music. I grew up listening to rock and pop on the radio, got into heavy metal after graduating high school but now mainly listen to Japanese idol music. I have a blog about this, but I haven't updated it in months. A lot of my favorite rock groups are old and haven't released any albums lately. Quite a few Japanese idol groups I like broke up or lost their best singers. Very depressed about all of this but I'm still listening to old songs.
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How's about writing?
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The only writing I do is blogging when I am online with my desktop. I just got it fixed so maybe I'll get the internet again and continue blogging. But I'm not sure if I'll try to publish anything beyond that.
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I have been doing replica props for years (25+), Also I was a touring musician from 1984 to 2005 so I guess I love music. I am also guilty of watching old republic serials over and over and Old Sci-fi and MST3k.
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I have been doing replica props for years (25+), Also I was a touring musician from 1984 to 2005 so I guess I love this bathmate review (http://www.woundedwarriorregiment.org/) music. I am also guilty of watching old republic serials over and over and Old Sci-fi and MST3k.
My other big hobby is gaming. I'm into indie games a lot. The best one last year being Cuphead. I love that game. Anyone esle tried it?
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As far as comics go, I have collected US, Canadian and Dutch comedy-based comic books from 1938-1966 (Dutch books till the present(as I still collect books that include stories worked on by myself and Dutch, Danish and German colleagues and friends)). I inherited hundreds of books from 1938-1948 from my older cousins who lived with us, or very nearby) and started getting my own in 1949 and stopped buying new Canadian and US books in 1966, and new Dutch books around 2000. Now, thanks to DCM and CB+, as well as other sources, I only read digital copies of them, as well as thousands of comic books from the 1930s through 1950s that I had never bought on paper, many to which I never had access.
I also have been a big ice hockey fan and Canadian and US football fan, and had bought hockey cards as a kid during the 1950s. I still follow The NHL and a couple leagues in Sweden, Denmark and Holland.
I also collected vinyl music records of from 1936-1970, starting to buy them in 1953, and, except for a handful of record swaps, ending in 1972, when I moved permanently to The Netherlands. I collected mainly Rhythm & Blues, Delta and Chicago Blues, Jazz, Gospel, and Soul music. Although I still have the original records. I never play them anymore, I just listen to digital recordings of them.
Like several other members here, I also love old films and TV shows. Since my semi-retirement started (I still work on a few comic book stories each year), I watch hundreds of old ones (late 1920s through the mid 1960s, or so,) of US, Canadian, British, Australian, Irish, South African, Dutch, Belgian, Danish and Swedish films, and TV shows. I've never bought or made copies for myself. I just watch them on You-Tube and a few other no-charge websites, or watch them from my friends' video collections, or on my 4 Trans-Atlantic Airplane flights per year from Europe to Canada and USA on which, I can usually fit in 6 feature films per flight (That was all pre-Pandemic, of course).
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Thanks for taking the time to post Robb, Yoc has asked me to reply as he's currently experiencing difficulty in logging on to the site.
Wow, that's quite some list of varied interests that you have there. I notice that you mention Soul Music, that's one of my other interests too, more specifically Motown and 'Northern Soul' an offshoot of the UK Mod movement that eventually branched out and became a rare soul scene and is still going strong today.
Some of my favourites are Major Lance, The Artistics and Vibrations during their period with Okeh records during the mid to late sixties, then of course artists like J.J. Barnes, Edwin Starr, Al Kent, all from Ric-Tic and in the case of J.J. and Edwin, later at Motown.
The sixties sound of Motown was of course the basis or part of what Northern Soul started from, then eventually branching out in different sub themes, like modern, big city beat, even some early sixities when the search for 100 mile an hour dancers slowed and more mid tempo items were accepted.
If you haven't already found them, you could do worse than to look out for some of the smaller Detroit labels that were around in the sixties, such as Groovesville, D-Town, Revilot, Solid Hit, and the sister label to Ric-Tic, Golden World.
All have some hidden gems on them, Revilot and Golden World even feature early efforts of George Clinton and the Parliaments, later to become Parliament and Funkadelic during the 70's.
Worth looking out for (in my opinion) are most things that credit Richard 'Popcorn' Wylie and Tony Hester as composers, they even got involved with the Platters at Musicor a N.Y. based during the latter part of the 60's, when trying to revive the Platters career.
One my favourite records is the Platters - Washed Ashore by Wylie and Hester on the Musicor label. Marie Knight, known primarily as a Gospel singer even turned to Soul and has a couple of nice records on this label too.
Sorry to go on so, but I hope that you if you haven't already looked, search out some of the lesser known labels and artists that have been overlooked in the sheer number of releases that there were at the time, you might find something you like.
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(1) Wow, that's quite some list of varied interests that you have there.
(2) Soul Music, that's one of my other interests too, more specifically Motown and 'Northern Soul' an offshoot of the UK Mod movement that eventually branched out and became a rare soul scene and is still going strong today.
Some of my favourites are Major Lance, The Artistics and Vibrations during their period with Okeh records during the mid to late sixties, then of course artists like J.J. Barnes, Edwin Starr, Al Kent, all from Ric-Tic and in the case of J.J. and Edwin, later at Motown.
(3)The sixties sound of Motown was of course the basis or part of what Northern Soul started from, then eventually branching out in different sub themes, like modern, big city beat, even some early sixties when the search for 100 mile an hour dancers slowed and more mid tempo items were accepted.
If you haven't already found them, you could do worse than to look out for some of the (4)smaller Detroit labels that were around in the sixties, such as Groovesville, D-Town, Revilot, Solid Hit, and the sister label to Ric-Tic, Golden World. All have some hidden gems on them, Revilot and Golden World even feature early efforts of George Clinton and the Parliaments, later to become Parliament and Funkadelic during the 70's.
Worth looking out for (in my opinion) are most things that credit (5) Richard 'Popcorn' Wylie and Tony Hester as composers, they even got involved with the Platters at Musicor a N.Y. based during the latter part of the 60's, when trying to revive the Platters career. One my favourite records is the Platters - Washed Ashore by Wylie and Hester on the Musicor label. Marie Knight, known primarily as a Gospel singer even turned to Soul and has a couple of nice records on this label too.
Sorry to go on so, but I hope that you (6) if you haven't already looked , search out some of the lesser known labels and artists that have been overlooked in the sheer number of releases that there were at the time, you might find something you like.
Thanks Dave,
I know of you from CB+ which I've been visiting since 2017, and been active in its forum since 2019 and contributing some scanned books. When I first saw your name there, I felt that I had seen your name many times before, related to Northern Soul Music. Are you a member of Soul-Source Forum? I've been a very active member there since 2007, and was with another NS forum previous to that. I've been a member of Soulful Detroit Forum since its start in 2001. Were you a member of Soulful Detroit?
Actually R&B and Soul music has probably been a more important part of my life than comic books, although I've worked professionally in both industries (and longer in comic books). I already have ALL the records on the labels you mentioned in complete label runs other than a handful that were never released commercially. I spent my late teens and early 20s scarfing up thousands of cut-out, non-charted records in thrift and junk stores, record shop bargain bins, swap meets, yard sales, flea markets, Woolworth's and other discount stores' mass record stock sales and sifting through record distributors' stock, between 1962 and 1972 mainly in Chicago and Detroit, but also in cross continental trips across USA and Canada. I used to import Northern Soul records from USA and Canada into The UK. I sent many 1sts of very rare records to The NS scene. Even the first Frank Wilson 'Do I Love You" that Simon Soussan brought to England was my personal record, "Naughty Boy" by Jackie Day was my find, all the first unreleased Motown recordings were obtained by Rod Shard from me, and brought to The UK by him. I have about 43,000 45s in my collection (probably as many as 10,000 would be considered Soul. I also have about 4,000 LPs (33RPM), more than half being Soul. I still have about 50 78 RPM records, mostly R&B and a few Jazz. I traded off most of my 78s for 45s. I started buying R&B, and Blues records in 1953, and was still buying when the music transitioned into Soul.
(1) I wouldn't say that I have more time-consuming or collector's interests than many of the responders to this question. From this thread and CB+s analogous threads, I've learned that several others are interested in music and collected vinyl records and/or digital, and many of the others collected sports cards as a child and pre-teen, and most of those same posters mentioned that they love old films and watch them now. Most of them even buy DVDs of them (whereas I don't go that far). It seems that many collectors I know collect more than one type of entertainment provision memento (mostly for nostalgic purposes).
(2) Our Favourite types of Soul music seem to match pretty closely. My favourite music of all I've ever heard is 1962-1966 Motown, after that it is 1962-65 non-Motown Detroit Soul labels (95% of which was made using ex-Motown or moonlighting Motown musicians, and written and arranged by ex-Motowners or moonlighters, as well as 1962-65 Chicago Sound artists from the Curtis Mayfield and Carl Davis production crews. I lived in Chicago during the early and mid '60s, and combed its low-cost and used record sources several days per week in my off hours, plus I drove to Detroit every other Saturday, to scrounge for rare Detroit records all day.
(3) Not only did I scrounge the 2nd-hand shops and record shops for records in Detroit, but I also used to visit Motown at 2648 Grand. I asked the receptionists for DJ 45s. I ended up working for Motown after they moved to L.A., as I had moved there to attend university. I was hired as a consultant to work on releasing previous unreleased 1960s Classical period cuts for an LP series titled "From The Vaults". So, for several years we went through The Motown Vaults listening to master tapes, vinyl and acetate demos and Jobete Music proof of song publishing ownership acetates to choose which cuts to fill the LPs. Unfortunately, they only ended up finally releasing the first LP in 1979, because they stuck it on their "throwaway bargain label ("Natural Resources"), and gave it no marketing push. They released two more LPs in 1981 and 1982, but not in our intended series. They also flopped from no push. By that time The NS Soulies knew many of those cuts, as a British NS DJ friend of mine had brought tapes of my favourite unreleased Motown to England. So, you need not worry about whether there are unreleased 1960s Motown cuts for me to hear. A few new discoveries pop up from time-to-time. I get to hear them because I'm in touch with Keith Hughes and others who currently work on unreleased Motown issues and Ace/Kent Records always consult me, especially when they plan to issue new Motown unreleased or rare Motown CDs,and also when they issue rare Detroit non-Motown Soul, and rare Chicago small-label Soul CDs. I usually help with editing the information articles in the CD pamphlets for them, as well as providing loan of rare records they can't find for re-mastering, and provide label scans of the original labels when they don't have them, or mine are in better condition. I knew about Northern Soul in the 1970s from having frequented Martin Koppel's store in Toronto. When the NS DJs found out I had one of the very best Motown/Detroit, and Chicago Soul collections, they bombarded me with visits, wanting to tape them, buy my records and such, and get my help with label discographies and credits information. I've been contributing those services now and again, up till today.
(4) I bought almost every Golden World/Ric-Tic, Wingate record from my pal, Ron Murphy when he got their existing back stock after Motown bought them out in 1966. The couple I'm missing were never issued commercially, and I have them on digital, but don't like them. I have all the Groovesville, Groove City, Revilot, Solid Hit, and related issues. There are no rare '60s Detroit or Chicago Soul releases that I know exist that I don't have on vinyl or digital (only a few I don't have on vinyl, and I always get digital files of them from friends).
(5) I absolutely love Popcorn Wiley's productions and Wiley-Hester songs. I do "prefer "With This Ring" and "Sweet sweet Lovin' " to "Washed Ashore", but I like the latter, too. I really like Wylie's 1962-64 Correc-Tone productions. Wilbur Golden's Correc-Tone Records, and Robert and Hazel Coleman's and Don Davis' Thelma Records as the best "Motown-Like Sound", along with Ed Wingate's labels and Davis' and LeBaron Taylor's Solid Hitbound. Currently, we have a thread on Soulful Detroit's Motown Forum (soulfuldetroit.com), titled "Motowniest non-Motown Records. I've posted hundreds of videos of non-Motown Detroit very rare small-label cuts showing the record labels and playing the songs, unknown to most Motown fans that ALL sound like classic 1962-70 Motown Hit Sound. You should check it out! I'm sure there are several you've probably not heard.
(6) I find this unexpected advice very funny (ironic). And given what I've written above, I think you can understand. But it's the helpful thoughts that count. So, I thank you for making sure that I don't miss something great you think I would love (and you can tell I do from what I wrote).
If you want to talk more about our mutual interest in Soul music, send me a personal message and we can continue this conversation. It's too off-topic to continue on this comic book forum.
I've spent a lot of time in northern England between 1979 and 2007. Maybe we know some of the same people. I know several NS DJs, and even several people who frequented Wigan Casino and The Twisted Wheel in Manchester. I lived in Eccles (Monton), Salford, and Oldham for awhile, and visited Camden Town, Clappham Common, and Shepherd's Bush in GLA many years. If you are NOT a member of Soul-Source NS Forum, you should check it out at " soul-source.co.uk ". You should also check out Soulful Detroit Forum and its Motown Subforum at " soulfuldetroit.com ". On that Motown Forum, we have a current thread titled "Motowniest non-Motown Records, on which I have uploaded over 100 videos of rare non-Motown Detroit productions which used Motown musicians, and sound very like classic 1962-70 Motown productions. Many of them are very rare and a lot of the Detroiters on the forum who were even around when they were released, never saw nor heard of most of them. I KNOW you would find several you haven't yet heard.
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Holy cats!
I see a meeting of the minds here! ;)
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I also enjoy playing board games old and new.
I have also created one a few years back and self publish it.
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Comics are my big interest and not only British and American comics. If I'm visiting a European country, I'll have done some research and noted down some addresses for comic shops and second hand book dealers. Amazing what turns up. I've come to realise over the decades that it's not only the English speaking countries that have historic comics cultures. Spain, Italy, France, Belgium, Netherlands to a slightly lesser degree, Scandinavian countries same. Never visited Japan or other Oriental countries.
Apart from all that, my fascination for, and studies of, languages is a biggy. How else could I read, or at least get the gist of what's going on in them.
Music is a big part of my life and while, like Dave and Robb, I enjoy Northern Soul, I'm no expert. What I do love are the great guitarists, and I don't mean the flash alecs that so many rave about. I'm a huge fan of Wilko, Mick Green, Keith Richards, Pete Tolson, Dick Taylor(but then I love The Pretty Things) and in different styles, Dave Gilmour (have a listen on you tube to The Pretty Things with Mr Gilmour, S.F. Sorrow live) Mark Knopfler, Tony Hicks (The Hollies), Peter Green, Brian Griffiths (Big Three - and I never got to see them live :'(
2 piano trios - E.S.T. and GoGo Penguin.
We have a small garden and getting out there on a decent day to do some hoeing, tidying up, planting, raking, even weeding, is a great escape from the crap going on all around us.
Old British police/crime movies. We love The Long Arm; Inspector Hornleigh; Girl in The Headlines; Warn That Man; Saloon Bar, many more. And old Britsh sf - Quatermass; X The Unknown; Invasion; Giant Behemoth; Night of The Big Heat; Devil Girl From Mars; They Came From Outer Space, and so on.