Subject: Level 42 Digest, #3 ===================== * LEVEL 42 DIGEST * ===================== Today's topics: Ooops... sorry about the "dual issues" Knock on wood Re: Level 42 Digest, #2 Mark King, Boon and Phil Gould ------------------------------ From eric Thu Aug 19 13:27:38 1993 Subject: Ooops... sorry about the "dual issues" L42'ers - well, I've made a bunch of changes to the DIGEST mailing software, and I accidentily ran the whole process to do the mailing. Obviously, you got two digests on Thursday. I hope I'm not stuffing your mailboxes too much (although it's just *2* messages, I guess). Oh well - just to let you all know that the plan if to have one mailing a day. Tell me if you think a few would be better, since it just means changing the entry in our cron table. Eric, "88" *---------------------------------------------------------------------* | Eric J. Hansen .................... eric @ enterprise.bih.harvard.edu | *---------------------------------------------------------------------* ------------------------------ From eric Thu Aug 19 15:12:57 1993 Subject: Knock on wood Yo - I'm off on vacation starting this Sunday, and returning the following one. Hopefully, things will run themselves without any problems, but I'll check in once or twice just in case. I won't be able to make updates to the address list unless I log in (since I'm doing this by hand), so if you've told anyone else about the digest, and they email me with subscription requests, then they'll most likely have to wait for their name to be put on. Sorry for any delays. Have fun! Eric, "Micro Kid" ------------------------------ From: etrinida @ scf.usc.edu (dadinirT .R noslE) Date: Thu, 19 Aug 93 14:47:53 PDT Subject: Re: Level 42 Digest, #2 On How I got Into Level 42... It was back in '85 or so... My cousin who lives in England bought me a copy of a British pop music magazine, "Smash Hits." One of the articles was on a band called "Level 42" visiting Belgium to appear in some TV show. Of all the other artists featured in the issue (Wham, Billy Idol, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, etc) I have NEVER heard of this Level 42 band. But I read the article with great interest. A few months later, I got hold of other British pop music magazines and later saw that "Level 42" band in the articles! Yet I *never* heard their music! It drove me mad! In those days, there was a late-night syndicated radio show called "Rock Over London" that played the newest and beat in British music for the US radio market... Suddenly, the announcer mentioned the band "Level 42" and played "Something About You." WHOA! I fell in love with the song. A few weeks later they played "The Chant Has Begun" and I thought, "MAN! This stuff is good!" A few weeks later (this was in early '86), "Something About You" broke into the US charts and got respectable ariplay. I remembered going on my first date, and visiting a local mall. We visited a record store, and I saw this "World Machine" cassette, and bought it. Coming home, I couldn't WAIT to play it. Popped it in. "Something.." played. Then, "World Machine." I quickly scanned the rest of the cassette and liked every single one of the songs! It was indeed a special day for me, in more ways that one. Some months came by, and Rock Over London played a new Level 42 song called "Lessons In Love." WHOA... I couldn't find it in the stores so I taped it off the radio, and never got tired of it. When "Running In The Family" came out, I enjoyed the album as well, liking every song, and discovered that L42 had other albums as well (the cassette had a list of their previous releases). The hunt was on, I HAD to find the other albums! I turned my best friend on to L42, and he and I went on a "scavenger hunt" of local record stores to find old Level 42 stuff.. Since then I have bought every new album as soon as it got released...I was able to find the old stuff at used record stores ( Ididn't have a CD player those days, but the best place to look for old L42 stuff is used CD places... you'll be surprised! I found "True Colours" and "A Physical Presence" that way. I thought I was alone in the world in my "Level worshipping" until I joined a band ( I play keyboards) and met the new bass player. I asked him, "Have you heard of a bass player named Mark King?" His eyes lit up and he said, "HECK YEAH!" And (tried) to play the arpeggio bass line to "Lessons in Love." (He's since gotten better, and we're currently forming another band now...yes we play L42 covers!) Well, that's my story... Turn It On, Elson ------------------------------ From: henk erich goemans Date: Thu, 19 Aug 93 23:13:26 CDT Subject: Mark King, Boon and Phil Gould This is great, those guys are old friends of mine from the eighties when I was a DJ in Amsterdam (Richter, de Schakel and Dansen bij Jansen). I heard that Mark divorced my friend Pia and was going out with Ria. Does anybody have any news on that? I also heard that Boon had died, which woudl be very sad because he was a very nice, soft spoken and gentle person. Are there any plans for a new record? Basically, what's up with them? I was thrilled to hear of this group, anybody, please let me know how the guys are doing, please!! Best regards, Hein Goemans.