TYRONE DAVIS - IS IT SOMETHING YOU'VE GOT - DAKAR
Eddie Piller founded Acid Jazz Records in 1987 with Gilles Peterson. Today, Acid Jazz goes from strength to strength releasing classic grooves both, old and new. Eddie still DJs regularly alongside his many stints on radio shows. Eddie kindly took time out of his busy schedule to tell RSG a tale about one of his all time favourite 45s from his record collection.
“I remember exactly where I was when I first heard this record. I was in the back room of the legendary SPECIAL BRANCH night that was held at Streatham Ice Rink back in 1985. A DJ called Dave Brown was spinning jazz and a little bit of two step soul when suddenly; BANG! It hit me right in the face. A long lazy guitar riff intro followed by simply the best brass line ever. It was the vocals that really got me though...'there must be something that I'm missing, but is it something she's got?' delivered in a laconic, honey drenched Mississippi drawl”.
“I pestered the DJ, wrote down the details and by the following weekend I had located a copy for a princely £2”.“That same copy stayed in my DJ box and set for the following 21 years and I never missed an opportunity to play it. It became my signature tune!”
“Fast forward to Christmas 2006 and I had just finished recording the BBC Northern Soul New Years Eve special show and left the studio to play a gig in Deptford. I had the 34 records used for the recording in a BBC box and decided that I didn’t want to leave the box in my car boot in case anyone nicked the car”.
“Later that evening the box was stolen from behind the DJ decks at the gig. Well over a grand's worth of singles but the only one I really cared about was my special Tyrone 45. I was so gutted that I toyed with the idea of giving up playing records for a living. Thank you Deptford”.
“Henry Storch from Unique, my German DJ partner gave me his copy, but it wasn’t really the point. I had lost MY copy. The record still only sells for a fiver but it is a thing of great beauty. Buy it.”
For all the latest Acid Jazz news and releases check out the official site www.acidjazz.co.uk
Catch up with Eddie’s latest adventures behind the wheels of steel at his myspace page www.myspace.com/eddiepiller
“I remember exactly where I was when I first heard this record. I was in the back room of the legendary SPECIAL BRANCH night that was held at Streatham Ice Rink back in 1985. A DJ called Dave Brown was spinning jazz and a little bit of two step soul when suddenly; BANG! It hit me right in the face. A long lazy guitar riff intro followed by simply the best brass line ever. It was the vocals that really got me though...'there must be something that I'm missing, but is it something she's got?' delivered in a laconic, honey drenched Mississippi drawl”.
“I pestered the DJ, wrote down the details and by the following weekend I had located a copy for a princely £2”.“That same copy stayed in my DJ box and set for the following 21 years and I never missed an opportunity to play it. It became my signature tune!”
“Fast forward to Christmas 2006 and I had just finished recording the BBC Northern Soul New Years Eve special show and left the studio to play a gig in Deptford. I had the 34 records used for the recording in a BBC box and decided that I didn’t want to leave the box in my car boot in case anyone nicked the car”.
“Later that evening the box was stolen from behind the DJ decks at the gig. Well over a grand's worth of singles but the only one I really cared about was my special Tyrone 45. I was so gutted that I toyed with the idea of giving up playing records for a living. Thank you Deptford”.
“Henry Storch from Unique, my German DJ partner gave me his copy, but it wasn’t really the point. I had lost MY copy. The record still only sells for a fiver but it is a thing of great beauty. Buy it.”
For all the latest Acid Jazz news and releases check out the official site www.acidjazz.co.uk
Catch up with Eddie’s latest adventures behind the wheels of steel at his myspace page www.myspace.com/eddiepiller
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