By KevGo (64.115.26.80) on Wednesday, November 27, 2002 - 05:52 pm:

With the holiday season now upon us, there are a few things I want to give thanks to and for before I turn off the computer for the next few days.
TO THE SOULFUL DETROIT FAMILY - And I mean it when I say Family. We are all bound by one thing and that is our love & passion for music. Whether it's Motown, Philly, Memphis, Chi-Town, Muscle Shoals, East or West Coast - we seem to love it all. But most importantly, the love for the Motor City Sound. On a professional level you folks helped me accomplish much in my field (which alone would take up another thread!). Personally, I realize that I'm not the only crazy music fan in the world. I don't want to mention names only because I don't want to leave anyone out. I meant it when I said that I learned more from this website and forum than anything and anywhere else on the internet. To be able to talk to my "heroes" in the business reminds me that this world is just a small village with many who live here.
Thank you all for making this website an enjoyable experience. Have a peaceful & blessed Thanksgiving - I'll talk to you on Monday.
Best Regards Always,
Kevin L. Goins - "KevGo"
New York City
November 27, 2002

By Ralph (209.240.198.62) on Wednesday, November 27, 2002 - 05:59 pm:

Best wishes to you also Kev. It's guys like you that make this web-site so rewarding.

By Ed Wolfrum (66.167.190.77) on Wednesday, November 27, 2002 - 07:20 pm:

Thanks to everyone on the FORUM. This has been a wonderful experience for me and all of us.

Most importantly, let's thank God for putting Dave and Lowell together and having given them the talent to put this thing together and to Ralph for keeping the "family" together.

God Bless you all +.

Ed & Sue Wolfrum

Thanksgiving Eve 2002

By Vickie (152.163.188.68) on Wednesday, November 27, 2002 - 10:09 pm:

Ditto...
Happy Holidays to everyone!
Thanks for your friendship, wisdom, and good times here On SD..

Vickie

By NISH (152.163.188.68) on Wednesday, November 27, 2002 - 10:45 pm:

Well, to add on to the feeling, I just want to thank everyone in this soulful family for making it a treat to come to the computer everyday and see what new, fun pieces of information were exchanged. My knowledge of all things soul-related has increased by leaps and bounds, and I owe it to the most "SOULED" out cats in the world. And this place isn't just a site on the web for me. I've never ever been able to fully discuss music, because either my friends my age don't like it or my older friends aren't as INTO it as I am. So when I come here and say something, they are usually words I've waited 15-something years to say to kindred music fans. Through this place, I can connect with people who feel as passionately as I do... that's when I realize there are other people with whom I can connect!

I wish everyone longevity, happiness, BLESSINGS, and anything good that is also good for you. And of course, I wish you all with a ton of money with which you can buy the record collection of your dreams! :-)

By Carl Dixon London (62.31.32.130) on Thursday, November 28, 2002 - 06:38 am:

Well said everybody! - it is difficult to communicate and share with those who do not understand our passion. I will be thinking of your Thanksgiving holiday whilst at the theatre tomorrow evening seeing '125th Street' a soul extravaganza (for just £17 a ticket!!). Have a great time and that also means a great big thank you to David and Lowell for their hard work on this site too.

By Davie Gordon (193.122.21.26) on Thursday, November 28, 2002 - 07:16 am:

Happy Thanksgiving to all our US brothers and sisters.

By Clay (66.73.216.180) on Thursday, November 28, 2002 - 07:37 am:

Happy Holidays,
to all of my colleges,friends old and new and just the people of the world who help by
making great music or love great music. God Bless all the Funk Bros and their families and they get a BIG Thanks for giving us a wonderful xmas present of music and film. David,Lowell and Ralph you're the best for putting so many lost relationships together
once more. It's been AMAZING. Peace

By Dennis Coffey (205.188.209.38) on Thursday, November 28, 2002 - 08:03 am:

Happy Holidays to everyone! This site has been a great place to meet new friends and reconnect with old friends. Thanks to David, Lowell and Ralph. After playing the music again in Pittsburgh in front of a live audience and seeing old friends like Edwin Starr, Dennis Edwards, Freda Payne, Johnny Bristol, and Mary Wilson and meeting new friends like TJ Lubinsky and Harry Weinger, I can tell you the music still lives!

Dennis Coffey

By Lynn Bruce (64.53.143.164) on Thursday, November 28, 2002 - 09:17 am:

Thank you God for putting positive energy in our lives, and thank you for taking negative energy away from us.

Thank you Ralph, Sue, the Count and the Countess, Millie, Dennis, David, Lowell, Dave&Pam Kovarick, George Katsakis, Threes Company band, Andy Alonzo, Nabay/Nicky Robins, Bob&Ann Kreiner/Babbitt, Ed Wolfrum& his wife, Mel and then some, Nick Palise, and everyone that was there (in the days)you've all brought back so many memories that a lot of us shared many years ago when we were just "scufflin"musicians trying to feed our families and shoot for the big time.

This is the REAL big time,the new and old friends that we have here!!!

SLAITE VA, LYNN

By JoeR (205.188.209.38) on Thursday, November 28, 2002 - 11:38 am:

Wishing the SOULFUL DETROIT posters and their respective families and safe and healthy HAPPY THANKSGIVING.

I've enjoyed my stay here and I look forward to "chatting" with the rest of you soulful cats in the near future.

JoeR
11/28/2002
Bronx, NY - http://mypages.netopia.com/channels

By Eli (64.12.97.7) on Thursday, November 28, 2002 - 12:07 pm:

I just want to say that I too have so much to be thankful this year.
I will never forget that that magical evening back in 2001 when I happened upon Soulful Detroit.
I reluctantly posted, thinking that it was only a "Detroit" thing. But after I posted, I was pleasantly surprised by all of the responses which I have received and the fact that my music was not forgotten, that it gave me a renewed impetus to continue in a forward motion.
It also awakened my crazy sense of humour which has been lying dormant for years.
Where else could I have connected with so many great people both old and new, who share my passion. Where else could I have shared my knowledge and anecdotes and incidents which have made up the fabric of my very existense?
Soulful Detroit should be renamed Soulful Universe, as it has spread so far and wide across all continents and then some!!
I also want to thank everyone once again for cheering me up during my hospitalization and subsequent recovery.
God Bless everyone on Soulful Detroit!!

Eli (Phillysoulman)

By Paulie 3 shoes (64.12.97.7) on Thursday, November 28, 2002 - 12:30 pm:

hey youse guise!
Not fer nuttin but I want to wish evrybody a happy toikey day. uh, I know sum toikeys who owe me but I dont wanna get inta dat rite now.
My cuzzin Gina is cookin sum porketta wit sum macaronis an pea gravy. Duzent dat make yer mout water?? I SEZ DUZENT DAT MAKE YER MOUT WATER???
Im da bookie fer da football pool soz I gotta go catch da game.
Paulie

By LTLFTC (12.245.225.79) on Thursday, November 28, 2002 - 12:43 pm:

Best wishes to everyone on the forum ; this is a very special and wonderful place.
Special thanks to David and Ralph , and I'd also like to send a special shout out to Lowell for making this site (And "Fabulous Ruins..") so pleasing to the eye. Having spent a lot of time on the internet the past 7-8 months (gotta love that cable modem) makes me appreciate how darn ATTRACTIVE these sites are : a true artiste !

Steve K.

By Mark Speck (65.56.219.231) on Thursday, November 28, 2002 - 02:24 pm:

Everybody have a happy and safe Thanksgiving!!

Best,

Mark

By Lynn Bruce (64.53.143.164) on Thursday, November 28, 2002 - 06:18 pm:

Eli, your humor is great!You would have been a fun guy to have been on the road with!

Hope you had a nice Thanksgiving.

SLAINTE VA, LYNN

By Eli (205.188.209.38) on Thursday, November 28, 2002 - 07:05 pm:

Lynn, I was a fungi to be on the road with!!
I was always the jokester and we all had a blast because of it. I could write stories based on road incidents, some of which were daring and treading on thin ice as well. But a good sense of humoue is prerequisite. It is a shame that some people take things too seriously and as a result have bottled up emotions.
Just let go and enjoy, CAPICE?????

Eli

By Lowell (69.3.205.106) on Thursday, November 28, 2002 - 09:10 pm:

Bless you all and thank you for making such a wonderful forum. For those Detroit ex-pats here is a picture from today's parade taken from the corner of Charlotte and Woodward looking north. Under the clown's arm is the former Beth El synagogue, now the Bonstelle Theater.

By SisDetroit (68.42.209.170) on Thursday, November 28, 2002 - 09:40 pm:

Great picture Lowell. Wasn't the Graystone just about in that area?

By Lynn Bruce (64.53.143.164) on Friday, November 29, 2002 - 11:01 am:

Amen brother Eli, any negative comments in the future will be ignored by me (and should be by everyone else), except for the Count as we'll be playing the dozens on each other till we drop over.
Shalom,and have a happy Hanukkah.
Lynn

By Eli (205.188.209.38) on Friday, November 29, 2002 - 12:45 pm:

So, how is everyone in their post Thanksgiving state, huh. HUH????? I don't hear you!!!!
Must be the relaxing effect of the tryptophan which is contained in turkey meat.
Do you think my man Paulie would know what tryptophan is?? I DON'T THINK SO!!
Anyway, I hope that everyone has recovered sufficiently to post their post Thanksgiving posts.( no pun intended)
I wonder what the Thanksgivings were like in 60's Detroit?? I can just envision a giant dinner table with all of the stars and all of the trimmings!!! I can hear the Tempts sing a chorus of We Gather Together To Ask The Lords Blessings, with Eddie on lead!!! Wow, I just had a deja vu expierience!!
Anyway gotta go and partake of the leftovers.
Dont wanna do the Turkey Trot!!

Bye for now.

Eli

By Paulie 3 shoes (205.188.209.38) on Friday, November 29, 2002 - 11:33 pm:

Marrone!!! Am I stuffed.
Mange mange dats all I hoid yesserdayze.
I don' ever wanna see anudda toikey.
Geez, dat Anna Marie can make a dynamite pot of gravy. My cuzzin Richie"da Rat" Calzone was dere wit his new broad I ferget her name.
He jus got out from the inside, capice??
Tony"The Barber" Pescatore was dere. I wunder how he got dat handle huh, HUH???
I wuz tryin to get dat Eli guy (over here)but he hadda go to hiz old ladys spot in Brooklyn.
I toldem all about dis form but dey wuz bettin da pools.

Arrivaderci!! P3s

By MEL&THEN SOME (195.219.7.71) on Wednesday, December 04, 2002 - 09:46 am:

Peace and Goodwill
To one and all.
Heres to a stompin' an' soulful
next 12 months(andthensome).
MEL.

By KevGo (64.115.26.80) on Wednesday, December 04, 2002 - 11:00 am:

Hey Everybody:
Thanks to all for the kind messages in this thread. Let's keep the good cheer & warm spirits going as 2002 will soon become 2003.
Peace,
Kevin "KevGo" Goins

By R&B (138.238.41.118) on Tuesday, December 10, 2002 - 12:36 pm:

HEY GANG,I WAS A LITTLE LATE READING THIS ONE,BUT IT IS A BEAUTIFUL,BEAUTIFUL SENTIMENT THIS IS A GREAT WEBSITE FOR ALL THOSE WHO LOVE MUSIC,JUST A WEALTH OF INFORMATION.I"M VERY GLAD THAT I FOUND THIS WONDERFUL SITE,THANKS KEV AND ALL OF YOU.PEACE AND LOVE,R&B.

By KevGo (64.115.26.80) on Tuesday, December 10, 2002 - 12:38 pm:

Hey R&B:
Thank you for discovering our world. Welcome to Soulful Detroit.

Kevin "KevGo" Goins
New York City

By douglasm (68.113.15.28) on Tuesday, December 10, 2002 - 01:16 pm:

Beautiful picture, Lowell. Made me so homesick I could cry.
Where does santa go if there isn't a 12th floor?

From the Pacific Northwest, my wife and I wish everyone A MOST JOYOUS AND HAPPY HOLIDAY SEASON, and our BEST WISHES FOR 2003.

Sincerely,
Doug and Dora Shirk