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The Equals "black skin blue eyed boys" 12"

p_gunnp_gunn 2,284 Posts
edited April 2006 in Strut Central
a disco head told me there was a 12" back in the day for the Equals version of "black skin blue eyed boys". anyone know anything about this?

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  • SoulOnIceSoulOnIce 13,027 Posts
    Weren't they just talking about this:




    ...which I know you know about and might even own?
  • p_gunnp_gunn 2,284 Posts
    Weren't they just talking about this:




    ...which I know you know about and might even own?




    nah, i was actually talking to the dude who outbid me on that, and he said that wasn't what he was looking for, that there is an actual 12 inch EP Promo of Black Skinned Blue Eyed Boys (the studio version). he said, "Extremely rare!!! Danny Krivit and Victor Rosado have seen it with their own eyes!!!"

  • rorororo 22 Posts
    it's a cover of "breakdown" by muscle shoals horns i think.
  • crazypoprockcrazypoprock 1,037 Posts
    i've only ever seen that Equals Party version...on ebay that is...never in person. has anybody heard this 12"!? it looks so ill...8 minutes of "black skin blue eyed boys"!?
  • DubiousDubious 1,865 Posts
    the recent Map Of Africa version is pretty dope...
  • pickwick33pickwick33 8,946 Posts
    Wouldn't it be just a latter-day remix?

    Because when "B.S.B.E.B." came out in the early[/b] seventies, they weren't making 12" singles yet...
  • bull_oxbull_ox 5,056 Posts
    Wouldn't it be just a latter-day remix?

    Because when "B.S.B.E.B." came out in the early[/b] seventies, they weren't making 12" singles yet...

    eh, plenty of pre-12" tracks have since been released in that form, unremixed
  • buttonbutton 1,475 Posts

    I found one in Barcelona. Didn't pick it up though. Little dude move?
  • Jonny_PaycheckJonny_Paycheck 17,825 Posts
    yes
  • p_gunnp_gunn 2,284 Posts
    yes

    massive understatement... loft disco type dudes would give you their first born for that shit...
  • soulmarcosasoulmarcosa 4,296 Posts
    yes

    massive understatement... loft disco type dudes would give you their first born for that shit... those are quality tunes that you shouldn't pass up no matter what the format.
  • SoulOnIceSoulOnIce 13,027 Posts
    it's a cover of "breakdown" by muscle shoals horns i think.

    I can't tell if you're joking, but you need to reverse that theory.

    BTW P-Gunn hipped me to the Muscle Shoals Horns version (he is seriously
    obsessed with this track in all forms, as this thread helps prove) but I
    have to say I'm glad I copped it for only $2 cause it was only ok.
    Not awful, but not as exciting as I was led to believe.
  • p_gunnp_gunn 2,284 Posts
    Wouldn't it be just a latter-day remix?

    Because when "B.S.B.E.B." came out in the early[/b] seventies, they weren't making 12" singles yet...

    eh, plenty of pre-12" tracks have since been released in that form, unremixed



  • p_gunnp_gunn 2,284 Posts
    it's a cover of "breakdown" by muscle shoals horns i think.

    I can't tell if you're joking, but you need to reverse that theory.

    BTW P-Gunn hipped me to the Muscle Shoals Horns version (he is seriously
    obsessed with this track in all forms, as this thread helps prove) but I
    have to say I'm glad I copped it for only $2 cause it was only ok.
    Not awful, but not as exciting as I was led to believe.

    "breakdown" came out about 5 years after the Equals version... yeah, "breakdown" is solid, not amazing, just cool to have an inst. version... i think the Map of Africa cover sucks ass... the Tony Morgan version however, is fire!




    oh, and "the liquidator" isn't a cover of "i'll take you there"...
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    it's a cover of "breakdown" by muscle shoals horns i think.

    I can't tell if you're joking, but you need to reverse that theory.

    BTW P-Gunn hipped me to the Muscle Shoals Horns version (he is seriously
    obsessed with this track in all forms, as this thread helps prove) but I
    have to say I'm glad I copped it for only $2 cause it was only ok.
    Not awful, but not as exciting as I was led to believe.

    "breakdown" came out about 5 years after the Equals version... yeah, "breakdown" is solid, not amazing, just cool to have an inst. version... i think the Map of Africa cover sucks ass... the Tony Morgan version however, is fire!




    oh, and "the liquidator" isn't a cover of "i'll take you there"...

    Morgan is old friends with Grant having recorded with him before he left the West Indies.

    Yeah, I think that Map of Arica version is ass, too. However, Derrick Harriott's 7:09 minute disco style version is, um...MURDER!

    K in Canada.
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    Here's a WAV clip

    K.
  • p_gunnp_gunn 2,284 Posts
    Here's a WAV clip

    K.

    yeah i've heard it, it's fire, i just don't have the $$$ to afford it!
  • nosawanosawa 89 Posts
    nah, i was actually talking to the dude who outbid me on that, and he said that wasn't what he was looking for, that there is an actual 12 inch EP Promo of Black Skinned Blue Eyed Boys (the studio version). he said, "Extremely rare!!! Danny Krivit and Victor Rosado have seen it with their own eyes!!!"

    ...

    I have the Spanish picture cover 12" of the original version which Victor would have peeped at mine at some point, so I guess that's the one in question, but anyhow the pressing isn't that great from a listening point of view, but I'll have to go dig it out
  • bull_oxbull_ox 5,056 Posts
    Here's a WAV clip

    K.

    Usually your clips are facemelters, but this one is very to me... surprised it commands loot.
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    It's boogie. I sold my onyl extra to Dimitri a while back - whom then comped it. That's likely the main reason it goes for loot...that and (I think) it's a killer track.

    The version of "Whip It" right after it on the album is a personal fav.

    K.
  • nosawanosawa 89 Posts
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    There's an Ice 12" press of "Black Skin" - don't know if it's the same as The Equals version.

    K.
  • p_gunnp_gunn 2,284 Posts

    how long is BSBEB on this?
  • buttonbutton 1,475 Posts

    Is this the one? Because that's what I passed on in Spain. If anyone wants to finance a trip back for me I'd be happy to re-dig this one for you.
  • nosawanosawa 89 Posts

    how long is BSBEB on this?

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