From: Level42-request @ worldmachine.com (Level42 Digest) Subject: Level42 Digest V96 #339 _ ____ _ ____ _ _ ___ // //__ // / //__ // /__// __// //__ //__ \\_/ //__ //__ // /__ D I G E S T Level42 Digest Volume 96 : Issue 339 459 subscribers Today's topics: Leeds gig Terry Primus Every Time You Hear A Bell Ring L42DAD George Bailey: My Hero Steven Libenson corpse that speaks...? the copse Re: The ultimate cyberplates for the info highw>> Vince Mora Level42 Digest V96 #338 Jason Bell N. Kershaw - Radio Musicola / Leftfield Alexander Thomas re: Query on Nathan King Paul Hammond Mac ScreenSaver/MSIE/AYGB Daniel James re- Magic show Friesen, Alex Mark's on the page Friesen, Alex ------------------------------ Subject: Leeds gig From: Terry Primus Date: Tue, 03 Dec 96 12:04:00 PST I was at the Leeds gig 2 years ago at the Town and Country Club just after the news broke that Level 42 were calling it a day. The show was made up from Guaranteed and Forever Now with the odd oldie here and there. The band came back for an encore consisting of All Over You then left the stage first to cheers which quickly turned to boos.I along with other members of the audience were certainly less than happy with the evenings proceedings. I never thought I would witness such things were L42 were concerned . Certainly had that particular tour been designed as a farewell tour and published as such the set would have been longer and would have drawn on the wealth of material we all know and love from day one. I had my suspicions on the abrupt and poor timing of the split and things communicated on the digest confirm them.Unfortunately that night the warm up band sounded better than L42 who whilst giving a good performance were on auto-pilot and that final show for me remains in my memory for all the wrong reasons. Luckily I also have the memories of other shows the guys did where they were on stage doing what they do best and loving it. Bye "Forever Now..." Terry Primus ------------------------------ Subject: Every Time You Hear A Bell Ring From: L42DAD @ aol.com Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 11:21:31 -0500 The spirit of Christmas, "It's a Wonderful Life" is one of the most creative, and influencial holiday movies ever created. Clearance Peabody, the angel who finally gets his wings, teaches us not to give up, especially when the odds are stacked up against you. 'Guaranteed' to be a tear jerker if you really sit down and pay attention. Yes things are wonderful here in Bedford Falls, and this Holiday season don't forget to show your 'True Colours.' In a 'Physical Pressence' we are all beautiful. My L42 pick of the day is what I feel to represent George Bailey (and me too) the best "A Good Man In A Storm" from W Machine You always need me to be A good man in the storm It sometimes scares me The further we go Just how much we understand And just how much we know Thanks for listening George Bailey : ) L42DAD @ aol.com ------------------------------ Subject: George Bailey: My Hero From: Steven Libenson Date: 3 Dec 96 22:39:32 George, Welcome to the Digest. If your name leads you to a personal interest in It's A Wonderful Life, you will want to check out the archives for this Digest which discuss the connection between Lasso the Moon from Guaranteed and the movie. As for the rest of the members, if you haven't seen the movie, the holidays are the perfect time of the year to watch this classic. Enjoy. ------------------------------ Subject: corpse that speaks...? From: the copse Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 16:54:24 GMT The name is somewhat confusing - I have been called in various sections of the local press Corpse (death metal), and Cops (two-tone?). I've given up gigging to concentrate on the studio where I work alone now, as York gigs just aren't worth doing. ------------------------------ Subject: Re: The ultimate cyberplates for the info highway From: "Vince Mora" Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 10:25:36 -0700 (MST) Herr Hansen writes: > just noticed that LEVEL42.COM and LEVEL42.ORG are _not_ currently > registerred as Internet domain names... I'm up to my earballz in domain > names, so are there any takers out there?! It would be nice to keep it > "in the family"! I wish I could, but I'm juggling several domain names as well ... I *really* wish InterNIC wouldn't charge for two years in advance ... greedy little [expletive deleted by AUTOCENSOR v3.2] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Vince Mora http://www.swcp.com/synth/ L42 Home Page voice: USA: 505 332 0139 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "You can't excommunicate me -- I'm your ride!" ------------------------------ Subject: Level42 Digest V96 #338 From: Jason Bell <106417.737 @ compuserve.com> Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 12:43:55 -0500 > (Say, being locked in a room with Adrian Davison, who is playing licks > at 31 notes per second over "Lying Still") then so be it :-) Two comments, i) Luckily you can't find Adrian's durge over in the UK. ii) How do you measure 31 notes per second. I'm interested to see how fast I can play, only for a bit of fun. It's all triplets in the end really !! > While I would certainly encourage anyone interested in playing an > instrument to take the proper steps to better themselves, it would seem > a tad mean-spirited (certainly not my intent) to deny those new to the > instrument or the artform a chance to play along with their favorite > music. If I deny any other musician the chance to play music, I have made a fundamental mistake. By all means please use TAB, but it is not the be all and end all of guitar and bass playing. Lead guitarists have this nasty habit of relying on TAB and not learning to read. I will admit it was seven years after the event of playing my first Level 42 bassline that I learnt to read music. I forced my ears to do the work. We listen with our ears, not our eyes. > Just a quick note to all the bassists who rely on tabulature. After > reading the advice of Jase the Bass amongst others, I finally forced > myself to sit down, put the CD on, and LISTEN!!!! I can now play Dune > Tune and Micro Kid, yippee!!! So guys, if I can do it, anyone can. A > word of warning though, it can really screw-up your sleep time. I did'nt > get to bed until 3:15am this morning and I am really feeling the > consequences now. Well done, I'm glad I'm of some use in some wave shape or form. I didn't give out the disclaimer about the lack of sleep. I was there once too !! Well Done Graham. If Graham did it, how did anyone else get on ?? Oooh, I think I'm in a bit of a mood tonight. It's been a frightful day at work and a good friend of mine has been admitted into hospital. It's been one of those days. All The Best Jase The Bass (aka The Alien Slapmonster) (106417.737 @ compuserve.com) ------------------------------ Subject: N. Kershaw - Radio Musicola / Leftfield From: Alexander Thomas Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 19:06:23 +0100 (MET) Hi all, several weeks ago someone from England asked for this album; Please Email me again because I lost your adress !!!! Is there anyone in the UK who is able to achieve LEFTFIELDS 'OPEN UP' MCD for me ? - ALEX - ------------------------------ Subject: re: Query on Nathan King From: Paul Hammond Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 18:39:04 +0000 Hey Elizabeth (and all), > Whilst searching through past digests for something totally unrelated, I > found a notation concerning Mark's brother, Nathan. Not realising that > he was involved in music, my curiosity has now kicked in. Specifically, > someone made mention of NK's band serving as a warm up for L42 on @ > least 1 tour. Can anyone then answer the following? I think it was the last tour, and I'm pretty sure they are called the Miracle Mile. At least the drummer for this tour (a guy called Trevor Smith... fine drummer) was the same as for the Miracle Mile when I played a charity gig alongside them on the Isle Of Wight. I have one of MM's CDs although not one with NK playing. > 1. The name of the band & whether or not he is presently playing w/ > them, or another group? I have no idea if he still plays with them. He is one of a group of musicians who used to play together under different names when I was at school with them. They have had many bands playing loads of different stuff (names I remember are Out Of The Blue, The Life). Always used to blow me away when I saw them! > 2. Instrument( s?) played & are there noticable influences? He plays bass, guitars, drums. I would guess he plays key's too and he sings. He has a very good slap bass style, and is pretty competent all round... I'm jealous :-) > 3. Style/classification of music performed? I saw his band 'The Life' on the IOW quite a few times in about 1989-1990 and they played a lot of covers - The The and Hue And Cry spring to mind but I can't remember others - general funky chart stuff really. > 4. Finally, whether or not any recorded material is floating about &, if > so, what is the title of the release/name of band it is under? I have access to a tape of his band playing 'Fashion Fever' live on the Isle Of Wight about three weeks before L42 released RITF. Other than that I don't know of any studio stuff he has recorded on. I would be interested in getting some though! Bass regards, Paul. ======================== Paul Hammond paul @ bassnet.demon.co.uk ======================== ------------------------------ Subject: Mac ScreenSaver/MSIE/AYGB From: Daniel James Organization: Mathsoft, Seattle Division Date: Tue, 03 Dec 1996 11:00:12 -0800 > If anyone has a Level 42 screen saver for a Macintosh I'm definitely > interested. As well as any "free" bootlegs, I will pay for postage and I > promise not to sell it. First of all, congratulations on your intelligent purchase :) Pat Flanagan created a Level 42 screensaver for Windows and was good enough to send me the original .PCX files so that I could convert them to Mac PICT format. I have been a little lax (and busy). While this wouldn't give you a screensaver, you could use something like After Dark (or Darkside of the Mac which is an AD compatible screen saver that is either Freeware or Shareware, can't remember) to display the images as a slideshow. Anyone with a Mac and a copy of either Photoshop or GraphicConverter and more time on their hands than I is welcome to visit http://www.serv.net/~djames/Files/level42.zip and download the PCX images. While you're there, you can look at an entertaining picture of Bill Gates at http://www.serv.net/~djames/Files/billborg.jpg (resistance is *not* futile as George has just proven). The nice thing about what Pat has done is that it displays a caption for each photo, and the software allowed him to create some sort of order for the pictures to display in. I have looked for something similar to this for the Mac and haven't been able to find anything. > I found it at Cicuit City and it's called "World of Dance New Wave > the 80's" on Rebound Records. The good news is that it was only > $5.99!! and it is a current 1996 release. It's full of artists (songs) > that I'm into like Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Thomas Dolby, Tears For > Fears, Heaven 17, ABC, Re-Flex, Soft Cell. Sounds neat. Just ordered it from CD-Banzai for $11.98 (they had a cassette for $5.98 as well). > > Another thing, I seem to be having trouble installing MSInternetExplorer > > and Mail and News and Netmeeting and stuff like that. What the hell is > > wrong? > > What the hell is wrong is that it's put out by Microsoft, that's what. > Not to start any wars here, but for all their trumpeting about how their > browser is better than Netscape, I've found at least 6 duplicatible > instances where MSIE renders a webpage differently (and most important, > in a less attractive manner) than Netscape. I don't know if anybody > cares about this, just my view on the matter. I design my websites with > Netscape in mind. Afraid I have to agree here. I have a Win95 machine at work (which sits behind me, where it belongs--the Sun SparcStation sits here in front of me) and after installing MSIE to test, strange things started happening. Needless to say, it's been toasted, and I decided not to even install the damn thing on my Macintosh at home. Don't even get me started on this--any of you who read the Newsweek article (the most current issue) should be as frustrated as I am by the quote from Bill stating that "...we've now won all the browser reviews..." (not a direct quote 'cause I don't have the mag in front of me). Give me a break. This man has lied his company all the way to where it is now. Again, please see http://www.serv.net/~djames/Files/billborg.jpg *smile* I should probably refrain from this stuff--I hate the Mac/PC wars as much as anyone (but probably less than the Amiga people on the list do, right?) but somehow I keep getting myself into them! Okay, back to Level 42... > Paul Crockford was DELIGHTED to see the AYGB CDR. He thought that the > designing, insert, and tracklisting were absolutely grand! HE was very > pleased to see that the disclaimer reading, "By fans for fans!" and > that NO profit was made and that disc was not for SALE, but rather for > personal use. He is not opposed to making of these disc, as long as the > material put onto these disc has been commercially available, played on > a radio, or apart of a televsion and/or video braodcast. Eh? I thought it had been decided that he would not be informed of this project? Well, glad it worked out--there are quite a few people here who would have gotten in a lot of trouble had he not been so delighted... ------------------------------ Subject: re- Magic show From: "Friesen, Alex" Date: Tue, 03 Dec 1996 14:04:09 -0500 RL moore writes: > The final trick was a group of showgirls standing on a raised > platform, surrounded by a curtain and poof they were gone > (excuse me while I hold back a yawn). Pardon me!? "Yawn"!? I taped that show, and aside from John Ritter making my bowels churn in new and disturbing ways, most of it was great! I ran all the major tricks back in frame-by-frame mode, and although some became obvious (the disappearing/reappearing tiger; the twist-the-heads "carnival ride"), a couple were truly amazing. The disappearing show-babes was definitely the most impressive - many reruns in ultra-slow-motion and I haven't got a sausage of a clue as to how it was done. > the magician runs through the audience to the back of the room, > opens a curtain and WaLaa, the showgirls reappear (another yawn). Okay, now that bit was lame. Upon reviewing the tape, it was clear that some not-too-slick editing was done, and there was a major time lapse between the disappearance from the stage and the reappearance at the other end of the hall. > what do my ears hear but an instrumental, disco version of > "Lessons in Love" I haven't heard before. Say what? I must have re-run that bit a dozen times, and I didn't hear anything familiar. I'll check it out again when I get home. ...Alex... "Tied to this machine, can't get away Work every hour, no time to play" (name that tune!) ------------------------------ Subject: Mark's on the page From: "Friesen, Alex" Date: Tue, 03 Dec 1996 17:02:01 -0500 And speaking of reading bass charts, does anybody know if Mark King can read music? If so, at what Level? Chord charts? Full notation? Did he start out by ear or by reading? As a guess, I would say that he learned completely by ear, and any reading chops he has were learned "after the fact" so to speak. Then again, I could be wrong. (It's happened before.) ...Alex... "They all play that same old easy song, You don't know who is right or who is wrong" (Okay, name that one!) [I detect an impending discussion on famous musicians that don't read music... Stan Getz comes to mind... others? -Eric]