Subject: Level 42 Digest, #407 ===================== * LEVEL 42 DIGEST * ===================== Digest 407 Wednesday, 05/31/95 157 subscribers Today's messages: forever now lyrics ?? Re: Demographics more on danny b... Random Comments FN Lyrics? New hostname and stuff Hi and Demo 5/27 Re: I'm Baaaack Just another bio... ------------------------------ From: jacques @ geb.u-strasbg.fr (JAcques stagiare 06/95) Date: Tue, 30 May 1995 13:09:58 +0200 Subject: forever now lyrics ?? Hi, if i understand correctly, someone got the forever now lyrics ?? i don't know who it is, and where you found them, but i'd be glad if you could send them to me too, english is not my first language, so it's not always easy to understand what they say.... .... and i like to understand what it said, level lyrics r pretty good i mean, you have some songs with sentences like in a poem... and now a question to all, Do you think it's possible to still find M's albums today ? it's not a so much known band.... Amanda wrote: > [Mainly, i might need to negociate with folks about tapes ] like Mike do it with me, i'm ready to do it with you, tell me what would you like to have ?? well, that's enough for today, hi Tony, how r u ? exams ? :) denis. ------------------------------ From: "Lars-Ove Karlsson" Organization: IAR SYSTEMS AB Date: Tue, 30 May 1995 13:31:04 CET Subject: Re: Demographics Hi, I've been on this list long enough, but I don't think I've introduced myself properly. Name: Lars-Ove Karlsson Age: 27 First L42: World Machine album, bought Lessons In Love 12" and True Colours soon after. True Colours was easily the most played tape that year. Where do I live: Sala, small town in Sweden. Works in Uppsala (a bigger town) as System Manager and programmer, we make C compilers. Plays guitar and when I can lay my hands on a bass guitar I slap away happily. Favourite album: I tend to like the earlier stuff, all are good, but if I had to pick one it would be The Early Tapes. Favourite track: Always the fast tracks, Mr Pink, 88, Hot Water plus all B-sides that are hard to find. Music I like (Other than L42): Mezzoforte, Eric Serra, Stanley Clarke, Stanley Jordan, Housemartins, Kim Wilde, Indochine, KOTO, Matt Bianco, Basia, plus remixes of popular tracks so I can terrorize people with the question, Do you recognize this tune?. I'm proud of my L42 collection, 50+ 12", almost every 7" and all albums on CD, LP and nearly all on cassette. I've seen L42 twice here in Sweden, and was very disappointed that they split up before they could tour Europe. Today I'm wearing my Guaranteed Tour T-shirt, tadaaa! I was also a member of the fanclub for a number of years. Take care of yourself... -- e-mail: love @ iar.se Murphy's laws on technology: If you can't understand it, it's intuitively obvious. ------------------------------ From: BobC971 @ aol.com Date: Tue, 30 May 1995 12:45:02 -0400 Subject: more on danny b... I should reiterate that when Danny Blume told me that how of the guitar on Forever Now was him, he did say that Mark played a lot himself. He describes him as an extremely capable guitar player. But the one thing Danny told me he was really impressed with Mark was, off all things, his voice!!! He says he can nail everything the first time. He was very impressed with that. Oh well, a couple of more cents worth.. BobC ------------------------------ From: lolita @ InterServ.Com Date: Tue, 30 May 95 12:16:42 PDT Subject: Random Comments Hey all: I have been deathly ill with bronchitis/parainfluenza/bubonic plague :-) since last Thursday, so I have just been through the last five digests and have a few random comments. Benedict Poole - Dream Crazy is a great song (one of my top three favorites of L42) but is not a B-side. I would think a B-side is a song that never makes it onto an album, and Dream Crazy is on the international CD version of World Machine (track 7, to be exact). If my definition of a B-side is wrong, please correct me. Kim Ivey - My favorite Schoolhouse Rock Songs are Conjunction Junction and Interjection! That brings back very fond memories. Jeremy & Pat - WHERE ARE MY TAPES :-)! Everyone - Anyone who is into Marcus Miller, run, don't walk and buy his new CD Tales. It is great. It is a bit different than The Sun Don't Lie and has Me'Shell NdegeOcello, Lalah Hathaway, Hiram Bullock, Joshua Redman and scores of others on it. It is really funky, and the songs The Blues, Eric and Rush Over are standouts. This album seems a bit more balanced in the instrumentation than TSDL, which was mostly Marcus on bass and bass clarinet and random soloists here and there. Go buy it! Finally, when I was buying Marcus I inquired as to release dates for The Police Live and Incognito's new one. Both are being released in the U.S. on June 6, so watch out for them. ------------------------------ From: Pablo Francisco Arrieta Gomez Date: Tue, 30 May 1995 14:52:32 -0400 (EDT) Subject: FN Lyrics? Hey, I also missed them! Is any of you sooo kind to send them to me? Thanx. P ------------------------------ From: eric (Eric J. Hansen) Date: Tue, 30 May 95 22:44:05 EDT Subject: New hostname and stuff Yohoho... Well, I've officially put in the request to register a hostname for my new machine -- it will be "worldmachine.com". Thanks to Jody McDonnell for her suggestion! The launch date for the new machine won't be for a month or so, so you should still send mail to this address. I'll keep everyone posted. (in the meantime, get ready to start sending mail to "level42 @ worldmachine.com"! -- is this a copyright violation?!?!) In other news, I've just picked up 2 new CD's of note: Jamiroquai "Return of the Space Cowboy". This is pretty good, but IMHO not as good as their first (and most people tend to agree with this statement). Anyone know if The Henpecked Horns (John Thirkill and Gary Barnacle) play on this or not? It doesn't say in the liner notes... Totally Wired, Volume 11. This is an acid jazz compilation that totally kicks. Among other tunes, there's "Freakin'" by Freakpower and "3 Mile Island" by The James Taylor Quartet. Definitely recommended. Anyone have any feedback regarding other disks in the "Totally Wired" series? I mainly bought this one (#11) because it had the Freakpower tune (which is totally phat). Also, I was at a club called The Roxy in New York City this past weekend... has anyone else ever been there?! What a club! -Eric ------------------------------ From: Mikep3099 @ aol.com Date: Wed, 31 May 1995 00:06:17 -0400 Subject: Hi and Demo 5/27 Hello all. My name is Mike Petty. I've been on the list for about a week and thought I'd jump on and offer up my significant bits or at least the ones that can be shared this way. I'm a soon to be (6/29) 29 year old, married, white, Christian, male Levelhead. I have 2 children, 3 really, (Eric 11yrs., Atticus 14mos. and Sophie the pot bellied pig 2yrs.& 3mos.) and a wonderful wife, Melissa 37, she likes the Levs but is not a huge fan. We all live in aYellow Su... no not really. We live in Temple, Texas, about 60 miles north of Austin, it really is the live music capitol of the world. I just wish I had more time to go listen. I studied music for a year of college but realised that to be able to live in this area AND make a living singing and writting that I would be singing country or teaching in a public school. Neither option was very apealing at the time. I decided instead to get a degree in medical radiography. I was working in an X-ray department as an assistant/ escort to pay for my education and living expenses so this was a natural area of interest for me. Anyway, I am now a registered and licensed Radiographer and run the division in the Emergency Medicine Dept. in the area trauma center. For those of you in the States that watch E.R. on tv " It like that in real life". Also supervising 15 friends, some close friends, really sucks. Luckily they make it alot easier than it could be. Enough about that! I first heard Love Games in the summer of 82 and really dug it but couldn't find out who it was. In 84 after I graduated I heard A Floating Life, of all things, and they announced it was Level 42 after the set on the radio. After a lot of hunting I found True Colors on vinyl and went apeshitbananas after I heard it, I was hooked forever. I saw them live 5 times from 86-87, 2 times in Dallas, 3 in Austin, 3 times as a support act 2 as headliners in small clubs. I have had the pleasure of meeting some or all the band on two of these ocassions. Unfortunatly the band was experiencing alot of turmoil during this time and I only got to hear the original members all together twice. I was at the last live gig Phillip did with the band, to my knowledge. He was really flipped after this show so I really didn't get to speak with him much. Ifeel very fortunate to have seen them live as much as I was able to. It really is a whole other dimension to the band. Mike Lindup is one of friendliest most laidback people I've ever met. If I had to chose a favorite album it would be a tough choice between Level 42 and World Machine. There's no way I could pick a favorite song. I do, however, prefer their live album and b-sides to the studio versions in almost all instances I also like just about all other music except most country, all rap, most metal and the cheesier late19th-early20th century popish classical. Favorites are Miles Davis, Chick Corea, Weather Report, alot of 70's and 80's funk and r&b, Police/Sting, Bela Fleck and ,I'm almost ashamed to admit it, but Duwain Duwain and Kaja for their funky assed bass lines and tones. Early blues and bop inspired jazz and Puccini when the mood strikes.. Oh, and I almost forgot, P R I N C E or TAFKAP. I'm also a big audiophile or at least as big as I can be and still afford to buy music. Melissa calls me a stereonerd but then she's a computernerd. No offense to you computerheads out there but this is her computer that I use to get my mail on and she basically built it herself. I'm envious of her. Me and computers just don't get along. I'm a self describded computermoron. Without her I'm sure I would"nt ever know about the list. Well, I've been more that long winded. Sorry! Oops! 3 more things. #1 I think it would be cool if everyone included a brief physical description of themselves in their demos so you can have a mental image of who you're reading or writting to. I'm 6ft.6in. and 310 lbs. (christ,an ape!!!) with long red curly red hair, a closely trimmed beard and very fair complexion. Read:(Big and Ugly) The Police Live album mentioned hear recently will AFAIK be disc 1:Boston 79 ,disc2: Atlanta 83. It was originaly announced last fall and pushed back to this spring. Eric, Thanks for all your work on this list and I can't wait for the Go West list. OK I'll shut up now!!!!! Love and the Best of Everything Mike Petty and family Mikep3099 @ aol.com ------------------------------ From: Rack1SPC @ aol.com Date: Wed, 31 May 1995 00:47:15 -0400 Subject: Re: I'm Baaaack Hey ya,ll Back in the homeland of Cincinnati from the west coast. What a trip! While in San Francisco I found the extended play version of Heaven in my Hands and Physical Presence on vinyl. I have to relay one of the highlights of the trip. My wife and I found a primo camping spot on the edge of Crescent Lake with snowcapped mountains in the background in Oregon. We had the site to ourselves since no one was out camping mid week! By midnight the beers were gone, and the stars littered the sky and we HAD to cap it off dancing to "Children Say" around the campfire (Rental car tape deck)! We must have played that song five times, it sounded so good that night. If Mark and Mike only knew what there music does... Quickie on the demographics: I guess I'm the Father agewise here. 35 (gasp!) year old white male, married for five years, no kids, grew up in upstate New York (Vestal). Went to SUNY Morrisville, worked as an automechanic then got my BSME from University of Dayton in 85'. Work for Johnson and Johnson designing surgical instruments. Played the piano until 12 yrs of age at which point I quit cuz I felt I had a career in basketball-NOT. Like a wide range of music, especially in the early days our HS basketball team used to shoot layups to the Commodores "Brickhouse". I still listen to the Brothers Johnson, Crusaders, Doobie Bros. I will have to get Forever Now, you guys obviously think highly of it. I like most of L42 work, including Guaranteed. Well, that's all for now. I'm trying to adjust my timeclock to EST. 4242424242424242424242424SEAN ------------------------------ From: MRCK61A @ prodigy.com (MR J LESSER) Date: Wed, 31 May 1995 03:59:11 EDT Subject: Just another bio... Hello to all of you in Level 42 land... Because this is my first posting, I should start off by saying that this site is totally choice. Cheers to Eric Hansen. My name is Joel and I have been a fan for about ten years now. I agree with all of you that it's a shame Level 42 didn't have as much success in North America as they did in England. Anyone that understands the music industry knows that those suits over at RCA and BMG totally corned us... You would think the boys would be willing to give it another shot if they could get a good deal. Obviously, it would have to be a REALLY good deal... Anyway, here are my demographics... name: Joel location: Atlanta, Georgia, USA age: 29 sex: M race: Caucasian marital: Still single, no hurry until 30.. education: Radio/TV/Film/Theater Lighting & Production, four years University of Georgia, Athens, GA occupation: Freelance- Lighting Designer, Touring Director, Touring Automated Lighting Technician, Producer, and entrepreneur when I'm at home. Currently touring North America for the past 11 months, going home soon! fan since : since 1986 when my brother handed me a copy of Running in the Family. fave album: Difficult question to answer but if I had to name a few, it probably would include.. all of em. fave video: Physical Presence and Fait, the only two I am lucky to possess. fave songs: (here are a few, in no particular order) Overtime, Children Say, One in a Million, Lasso the Moon, A Kinder Eye, Kouyate, Two Solidest, It's Over, Freedom Someday, A Pharaoh's Dream, Every song on Staring at the Sun, and every song on Lindups' solo album. other favorite artists besides Level 42: Rush, Yes, old Genesis, Pink Floyd, Sade, Thomas Dolby, Supertramp, Sting, & KD Lang. Can anyone out there suggest anything that I might not have heard of?? Anyone else in Atlanta out there? Email me directly! 'In the midst of all that pain, I heard her call Creator is my name, and love conquers all'