Subject: Level 42 Digest, #374

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                              * LEVEL 42 DIGEST *
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Digest 374                                                  Friday, 04/28/95
149 subscribers

Today's messages:
Re: Level 42 Digest, #373
Lefty Bass
Re: the definitive biography
Re: Wembley Schmembly
Singing Dogs

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From: John Edward Martin Shuford <shuf @ darkwing.uoregon.edu>
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1995 08:14:26 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: Level 42 Digest, #373

Thanks for the confirmation on seating size of Wembley Arena.  I guess 
they would not have ever been able to fill it (as even those 8 nights at 
the end of 1986 or during 1987, I forget which it was, would have 
considerable overlap of fans).  Brits, this calls for some speculation on 
your part, measuring L42's popularity at the time and extrapolating, as 
it were.

Bass riff for Past Lives is also the same groove as Physical Presence, 
isn't it?  Play those two songs back to back.

Another two to compare are The Bends and Duran Duran's Come Undone.  Creepy!

Good Times is a hoax.  I alerted some people about it myself, but I soon 
discovered that you cannot pick up a virus through e-mail.

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From: lolita @ InterServ.Com
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 95 08:19:27 PDT
Subject: Lefty Bass

LevelHeads:

I am extremely interested in learning to play the bass.  I played the bass 
clarinet and the tenor sax for almost 10 years a while back, but I began to 
sing during college, and it is hard to sing and play reeds, so I gave them up. 
 I think the bass would solve my problem; plus I have always been a great fan 
of the instrument; Jaco, Marcus, MARK!, Stanley, and all of the rest.

My problem is that I am left-handed.  I don't want to play righty, because I 
eventually want to play acoustic, and my left hand is much stronger for 
plucking and things like that than my right would be.  Plus, I think it would 
be kind of cool to play lefty.  My question is: does anyone on the East Coast 
of the U.S. (preferably NYC) know of a lefty bass out there for sale, lease or 
rent?  I am having a hard time finding one in the music stores here in the 
city for less than $500.  I want to start out with a cheapie (about $200-$300) 
and get a more expensive one later when I get more proficient.  I figured that 
the digest would be a good place to ask since a lot of you are probably bass 
players.

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From: vdhee @ fwi.uva.nl (Ernst-Jan van der Hee (BI92))
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1995 17:56:24 +0200
Subject: Re: the definitive biography

the "Definitive biography" is a (real!) book about level 42, written by 
Michael Cowton. Based on interviews he had with Mark, Mike, Boon, Phil,
Wally, Marks' parents, Mike's mother and more, Cowton wrote an interesting
biography about Level42 up to "Staring at the sun" and the breakup between
Mark and Mike and the Gould-brothers.

Ernst

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From: Crazylips @ aol.com
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1995 17:25:29 -0400
Subject: Re: Wembley Schmembly

>...but wasn't it Wembley _Arena_.  It and the stadium are
two different things, I believe.<

----ok;  I'm an ignorant Yankee schmuck. 

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From: PFlanagan1 @ aol.com
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1995 23:38:24 -0400
Subject: Singing Dogs

Singing Dogs -- Dude, make those samples downloadable from an FTP site, ok?
 I'd love to hear 'em!  I've always believed that dogs have good taste
(although the dog I used to have only acted weird when "Trapper John MD" was
on TV -- go figure).

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Go West list -- Yeah, buddy, I'd be all over that one, too, if you start it
up.  I notice a lot of LevelHeads like Go West, too.  Interesting.

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The Bends -- If you don't have it, get it.  Enough said.

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Past Lives -- Good ears, Lolita.  I didn't make the connection until you
mentioned it.  So far as I hear, it's the same riff.  Recycle, reuse -- it's
good for the soul.

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Atavachron digest -- Uh, ok.  I'll check it out.  But can anyone give me,
like, a three line synopsis of Allan Holdsworth?  He doesn't look like your
typical guitar god (like I do, of course :D ).

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Live At Wembley -- Arena, not stadium.

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Good Times virus -- Yeah, that's an old one.  Too bad it isn't true.

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Jakko -- So, that's him on the Guaranteed cover, eh?  Could've sworn it was
Gary Glitter.  ;D  I think it was the hair that caused me to be confused with
John Thirkell.  After all, it's kinda hard to tell what a guy looks like with
his mouth smushed into a trumpet.

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D-tuned -- OUCH!  I remember playing bass with a friend's band at a little
party we had.  I forgot that I had detuned my E-string down to a C sharp.  Man
, that'll throw you off.  How'd Mark cope with it?

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Final note:  This Sunday, I'll be changing my email address.  Don't ask why,
but it'll be plflanagan @ aol.com.  This is for those of you who have me in
their address books.  Keep those cards and letters coming!

Take Care of You-selves,

Pat Flanagan