>i bought a box set of "Detroit Motor-City Soul" cds, claiming to
feature
>original artists, using original recordings... and didn't read the
small
>print... so i put it on, only to find that they had dubbed the
original
>vocal tracks onto limp electro backing tracks.
You've been Levine-d!!! You'd do well to away from those. Like that CD I saw
the other day 'Ian Levine Presents Northern Soul Memories'. It may as well
have been titled, 'The Devil Massacres All Your Favourite Soul Classics'
Twat.
I hate him. He refuses to talk to me. All his stuff sounds like
listening to a casio keyboard demo played on a dansette through portable
speakers down the phone! The most disheartening thing is that most of the
vocalists sound great still! He has to spoil everything doesn't he!
I read a letter by him in response to (the now surely a deity) Pete
Smith's wonderfully damning article on his film, where Levine claims his
effects are classy and stylish! HAHAQHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!! Classy
my arse. And I tell you, he tried to get into that not so long back. What
was that someone wrote about Mitch Ryder a bit back? Covering everyone elses
songs and sucking everyone elses.......
Here's some extracts from his letter! Enjoy...
> 'We have made seven different filming trips to the USA, and have raised
and >delivered � 80,000 of hard cash into it, not counting the time spent on
editing. >Neil Rushton has probably put a further � 20.000 on top of this,
so we've >spent in excess of � 100,000 to bring you the 129 artists, most of
whom have >never been seen before by the Northern Soul fraternity.'
Fucking hell, and this is considering the man has in excess of 20 original
DISNEY(!) pencil drawings hung on his wall worth in excess of �20,000 each -
ish! He really shelled out for that one didn't he. The man can raise 80
grand by farting in a microphone. After all, it worked for Bad Boys Inc.!
But fair do's to Neil Rushton, who probably couldn't afford to shell out
that kind of dosh.
> 'Unfortunately, as Ginger Taylor informed me that pirate copies are being
>sold on Burnley market and other places,'
That should read, "Unfortunately, as Ginger Taylor, with a wry smile on his
face, informed me that he had been flogging my shite on Burnley market for a
fiver, I smiled politely and regrettably agreed that it was indeed 12 long
hours of tedious overproduced bollocks."
>' every time someone buys a fake copy, this is doing the artists that they
>claim to love out of any chance of earning any remuneration for their past
>glories.'
Hold on, is this the person who plays repressings down the Ritz?!
Renumeration for what? Paying �1000's of pounds for ageing records? Dancing
week in week out to their tunes. They aren't ever gonna become the
millionaires they should've. Getting out on the dancefloor and paying silly
prices for their records is the only way they'll get any 'renumeration'!
Past glories? They never had glories until we started pulling out their
records for play! Silly sod.
>'No one is forcing you to buy the video in the first place.'
Couldn't have said it better Ian!
>'I bust my balls to find every artist who made a major Northern Soul hit
and >include them in the film.'
That means he offered to shag them up the ass to star in his film. They
all declined and thus when he returned to Britain, his balls were quite
literally busting! Gene Chandler thought about it, but then pulled out at
the last minute....
>and was NEVER,EVER going to be a three hour film.
Shame...
> 'We did more than our best with what was available within the time frame
and >the budget.'
.. some sticky backed plastic, 2 loo rolls, 4 pipe cleaners and
an hour and a half.....
Hope that was as entertaining for you as it was for me!
Matt....
NP Cookie Jackson - Do You Still Love Me
Erma Franklin - I Don't Want No Mama's Boy
Ronnie Milsap - It Went to Your Head.
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