Subject: Level 42 Digest, #208 ===================== * LEVEL 42 DIGEST * ===================== Digest 208 Thursday, 10/06/94 85 subscribers Today's messages: T&C Club Re: One more on W.A. Richie Re: Level 42 Digest, #207 First post (gulp) ------------------------------ From: pault @ visionware.co.uk (Paul Tate) Date: Wed, 5 Oct 1994 13:58:50 +0100 (BST) Subject: T&C Club Hi 42ers, Last night (Tuesday 4th Oct) I will remember forever, The concert was utterly amazing - I now say to you if you have a chance of seeing them do it , do it, do it, you won`t be disappointed. Remembering things that were played is fairly hard - But here goes:- Hot Water Forever Now (?) The Sun Goes Down Mr. Pink One In A Million Heaven In My Hands It`s Over Love In A Peaceful World Running In The Family Lessons In Love Something About You The Chinese Way All Over You There could of been more but I know for definate they sang these. Prices for Tour programme and T-Shirt was a touch expensive - I bought them though - with it being the last tour an all. At the end Mark started shouting 'Bye ..... Forever' then proceeded to make sobbing sounds as he walked off with his head hung down. Well that`s all really - I was a upset a little bit , Sat at the bus stop, ringing in my ears, Thinking about all the good times I`ve had with the boys. Thanks for the best 15 years worth of music - ever!!!!! "..and I can see another road, and I ain`t coming back .... " It`s Over - Level 42 Thanks, PaulT. ........................................................................... **The opinions expressed in this posting are mine and only mine, not my employers** ........................................................................... Paul Tate - Visionware Ltd, 57 Cardigan Lane, Leeds, LS4 2LE. Tel.No. - 0532 788858, Fax.No.- 0532 306197. E-Mail - pault @ visionware.co.uk ........................................................................... ------------------------------ From: "Robert S. Kadel" Date: Wed, 5 Oct 1994 09:59:30 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: One more on W.A. Richie Okay, well since I see that my message got posted TWICE yesterday (even though our mail server was telling me it didn't get posted at all), I thought I'd add insult to injury. I'm a sociologist, and one of my favorite theorists is Emile Durkheim. He's a little out there sometimes, but he has interesting things to say. Robert Bellah is a contemporary Durkheimean. In an essay called "Civil Religion in America" Bellah defines religion as a "collection of beliefs, symbols, and rituals with repect to sacred things and institutionalized in a collectivity." (_Beyond Belief_, by Robert Bellah, p.175) So if we can assume that the music of L42 is indeed sacred to us (and I know it is to me), if we believe in it, then our recordings can be symbolic to us, and the concerts seen as rituals. :) So according to Bellah, this is a religion. The mere fact that we're on this list means that it's institutionalized in (at least some sort of) collectivity. :) :) :) Hee hee. Rob Kadel Department of Sociology Emory University ------------------------------ From: Neil Richard Birch Date: Wed, 05 Oct 1994 08:56:49 -0600 (CST) Subject: Re: Level 42 Digest, #207 RE: The post from that grouch. AS a number of people have already said..lighten up! I find reading my L42 Digest a nice part of my day because the people who post are genuinely interested in the band and their music. If you don't like either the band or the things posters say then just unsubscribe. If you want to see psycho check out The Rush E-mail magazine National Midnight Star. I'm a Rush fan too, but those people go overboard. I can't imagine what they would do if Rush was going to disband. (No pun intended) Neil ------------------------------ From: Martin Ashby Date: Wed, 5 Oct 94 17:37:51 bst Subject: First post (gulp) Hi Spot the newbie...I'm leaping in feet first, lurk-free, wearing my Nomex jimjams, to ask a couple of vaguely dumb questions: Is there a Level 42 WWW page (and, no I'm not volunteering...), and do any UK-based readers know of sources of gig dates for our neck of the woods? The reason I ask is I saw a mention on The Bottom Line of some gig in Portsmouth (I think) last week, and it would be r a t h e r nice to see the band again. Last time I saw them was at the Hammersmith Odeon a couple of years back, with a shy but amazing Allan Holdsworth performing a setful of soaring solos the like of which etc etc. Quite an eye-opener. Anyway, it would be fun to hear how the current stuff, which I'm still trying to like, sits next to Mr Pink (played at 120mph...) or Love Games. Or Gresham Blues, come to think of it. Oh hell I'm rambling. Hello, here comes another question: are there any other concert videos of the band other than Fait Accompli? I have this single overriding memory from Fait Accompli of an MK solo/soundcheck in some great hangar of a building, where the notes just got faster and faster and his right thumb just got more and more of a blur...most amusing. Righto, I'll shut up. Favourite album? Physical Presence, natch! Thank you for your patience, -Martin _/_/_/ Martin C. Ashby _/_/_/ m.c.ashby @ lut.ac.uk _/_/_/ _/_/_/ HUSAT Research Institute _/_/_/ tel:+44 1509 611088 _/_/_/ _/_/_/ Loughborough University _/_/_/ fax:+44 1509 234651 _/_/_/ I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. - Douglas Adams