From: Level42-request @ worldmachine.com (Level42 Digest) Subject: Level42 Digest V97 #148 _ ____ _ ____ _ _ ___ // //__ // / //__ // /__// __// //__ //__ \\_/ //__ //__ // /__ D I G E S T Level42 Digest Volume 97 : Issue 148 492 subscribers Today's topics: Re: Marc DuPuis's comments Joseph Arruda 42 on air Chris Remington HIMH Cover, SATS Cover matthew rice RE: Anthony Burns - Level42 Covers David Kidd Coolshit redux Pat Flanagan White Funky DonZipf Hey, the shirt works!! THE WIZZER OF OZ Extra SitLight Jay Tracy 95.5 WPLJ Savage42 Re: Level42 Digest V97 #145 Rack1SPC ------------------------------ Subject: Re: Marc DuPuis's comments From: Joseph.Arruda @ Ebay.Sun.COM (Joseph Arruda) Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 09:09:11 -0700 From: Marc_Dupuis @ MADISONUSA.CCMAIL.CompuServe.COM > Whoa. Thank you very much, Mr. Arruda. Mustard Gas and Roses is a > great album. He is a very strong songwriter, and has a diverse set of > influences by the sound of this album. I hear a little bit of Sting, a > little Richard Page, a little Gino Vanelli... but not anything plageristic > (did I just make that word up?). Excellent and tasteful sequencing, > and I don't know who the guest musicians are, but they're excellent. > He lets his guitar take a back seat to the songwriting, although there > are some very powerful snippets here and there. Who is that drummer?? > Good God... > > Joe, there's some extra Jakko tracks included, are these from another > Jakko album? I've got to find this stuff on disc... Thanks Marc, It's always a pleasure 'spreading the wealth' (even if it took me forever and 10 minutes to get it to you ;). I'm usually more punctual. Jakko does have an EP called Kingdom of Dust, which is the extra tracks/ outtakes from MG&R. I found both in the Used section of a local CD store. I also found one of his group outtings 'Dizrythmia' in a cut out bin. Mostly jazz pop instrumentals tinged with funk and East Indian influence. Doing a little web research, Jakko apparently has a career spanning at least a dozen years. I think he would have made a great addition/dynamic to L42...but, cest la vie. Other players on his disks include Pandit Dinesh, Gavin Harrison (his exclusive drummer, with a style that really bridges the Phil to Gary realm very smoothly), Richard Thompson, Mick Karn...I can't remember any more off the top of my head. If anyone else wants more info, just drop a line here in the digest (or email me personnally) and I'll reply promptly. Hope to hear the tapes you're sending me soon (I'm really dying to hear Spock's Beard). Mr Zenn (Joseph Arruda - musical malcontent) ------------------------------ Subject: 42 on air From: Chris Remington Organization: dsmedia group Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 12:01:18 +0000 Milwaukee Wisconsin, U.S.A., is known for many things (The TV home of Laverne, Shirley and the Fonz, Beer, Jeffrey Dahmer, etc.) Good radio is not one of them. Our new station "The Point 107FM" has added Level 42 to their list of "Retro" bands. Perhaps this will create a new generation of Level 42 fans. Let's hope so... Chris Remington Account Executive dsmedia group 2110 Pewaukee Rd. Waukesha, WI 53188 P: 414-549-8200 F: 414-549-8210 e-mail: remington @ data-scan.com http://www.data-scan.com ------------------------------ Subject: HIMH Cover, SATS Cover From: matthew rice Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 11:31:00 -0600 Personally, I love the cover from the HIMH single also. All of the large radio telescope dishes add a lot, and I believe are located somewhere close to me in New Mexico! Mark Hughes - aren't you the guy who designed the SATS cover art? Let's hear from you on this! I doubt that anyone on the digest has contributed to and worked with Level 42 as closely as you have. Perhaps you talked with and met all the boys! Write and tell us about it. ---- ______________________________________________________________ | Matthew T. Rice | | | Graduate Research Assistant | || | | Mail Stop D462 | || | | Los Alamos National Laboratory | |||| | | Los Alamos, NM 87545 | ----/ \---- | | | -------| @ @ |------- | | phone: 505-665-3610 | -------| \__/ |------- | | fax: 505-665-3285 | ----\ /---- | | organization: EES-13 | |||| | | location: TA-3 Bldg 1516 Room 106 | || | | e-mail: mrice @ lanl.gov | || | |_____________________________________|________________________| ------------------------------ Subject: RE: Anthony Burns - Level42 Covers From: "David Kidd" Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 18:42:48 +0100 Anthony wrote: > Here's a question for the LevelMeisters - Did "Follow Me" ever make it > out as a single? Mark says it was new, so... Well, Yes, in the UK it was, as part of an E.P of four live tracks taken from the Physical Presence album. 'Follow Me' on this release was jazzed up a bit, with a few extra production 'noises' thrown in, in true mid 80's style !!!. As far as I'm aware the band didn't bother to record a studio version of the track, maybe because both the E.P. and the album didn't do very well at all in England. Shame. E.P. info Title - A Physical Presence Tracks - Follow Me, Mr. Pink, Kansas City Milkman, Turn it On (all live) Cat Number - Polydor POSPX 746 (12" Ver) > Burning Question Nobody's Ever Answered: Who the hell is "Dana Coolshit"? PASS.....Well with a surname like that, would you want to be revealed to the world ? Poor sod...... > One for the road.... Who did the lyrics for "My Hero"? I can't confirm it, but my guess would be Phil, simply because, to me, he could paint a better picture lyrically than his brother. Whenever I hear the track I see gangsters, model T Fords, old Tommy guns and stuff.... shit.... maybe its time to take the green pills now... NURSE !!!!..... David Kidd Ilford Essex England David.Kidd1 @ Virgin.Net ------------------------------ Subject: Coolshit redux From: Pat Flanagan Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 13:38:11 -0400 > Dana Coolshit = see SITL lp > If I was here I'd change my name! Sorry, Dirk, I'm looking at my US SITL lp, and I see no mention of Dana Coolshit or anyone named Dana (or Coolshit) for that matter. I had noticed that right away on True Colours, and have never heard any explanation. What am I missing here, Dirk? Pat Flanagan Publishing & Design PO Box 281, Granger, IN 46530-0281 email: pfpd @ pfpd.com website: http://www.pfpd.com TOTALMEDIA PUBLISHING: Print * Disk * Interactive * CDROM * Internet ------------------------------ Subject: White Funky From: DonZipf @ aol.com Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 15:21:25 -0400 (EDT) Bila, The White Funky is a fantastic CD which every Levelhead really ought to have! It's a live show from Germany circa '83, probably in a large club or small hall (perhaps someone else can fill this in). As it was taken from the house mix, right off the board, it (like Live at Wembley '89) was never intended for release on CD, so the sound isn't their 'level best'. You can actually hear the sound improving over the first song or two, as the front-of-house engineer frantically works to tweak the mix (for instance, there's WAY to much compression on Mark's bass at first). You also hear Mark screw up the intro to "Turn It On," and sundry other mistakes. Backstage BKCD068 The White Funky Nigel: > I bought the CD single today and it's playing in my PC right now. I'm not > convinced the keyboard is sampled, rather I suspect it's actually played I haven't heard this Strike thing yet (as I don't listen to radio anymore, aside from NPR & Rush), but your comments remind me of an argument I had with a friend years ago over Tone Loc's "Wild Thing." He didn't think that the Van Halen "Jamie's Cryin'" samples were actually samples, but rather a re-playing of those parts, because they sounded "different." He was wrong, of course! Samples get re-EQ'd, processed, etc., and this is probably what you're hearing. Richard: Having looked at the photo inside (forgot there was one there!), I see what you mean. Al does look a bit weary. On the dashiki subject, though, a niggling point: Are you sure pants are included in that? I always though of a dashiki as a shirt, and my dictionary confirms this. I know....picky, picky, picky! :o) Z. "It ain't braggin' if you can back it up!" - Jaco ------------------------------ Subject: Hey, the shirt works!! From: "THE WIZZER OF OZ" Date: Wed, 28 May 97 13:47:30 PDT My Fellow Levelheads, I was playing golf on Sunday and was wearing my while Level 42 T shirt and one of the guys we were paired with at one point said that he thought that Level 42 "...was cool." The guy was older than me and he said that he had a couple of their CDs. I thought that was pretty neat, especially since people had been asking me really lame questions about the inner meaning of 42 or Level 42. Well, I had lots of things to say, but I seem to have a major writer's block and can't bring anything up. I guess I'll try again later. Doug ------------------------------ Subject: Extra SitLight From: "Jay Tracy" Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 18:31:25 -0400 (EDT) The other day I was hitting the CD shops about this silly little town, well I found a copy of _Standing in the Light_, knowing this is the hardest CD to find here in the States, I picked it up. It's new, but the package was opened (at this store all jewel cases are displayed without the CDs) (I gave it a spin, it sounds fine), it's also an import (West Germany), but still well worth $12. So if anyone is needing this on CD, e-mail me. I'll cover the tax and postage. Yawn, ..jay ------------------------------ Subject: 95.5 WPLJ From: Savage42 @ aol.com Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 22:46:19 -0400 (EDT) Just wanted to let everyone know that I heard Something about You on 95.5 WPLJ in New York...sounds so good on the radio. dan ------------------------------ Subject: Re: Level42 Digest V97 #145 From: Rack1SPC @ aol.com Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 00:16:40 -0400 (EDT) > But I disagree that the guitars were overdone on SATS and Guaranteed... > They were definitely brought to the forefront in a way the guys hadn't > done before. I, for one, loved the change. I suppose that puts me > in the minority among L42 fans, who prefer the albums before SATS and > thought FN was a return to form... I was thinking, "where's the guitars?" I havent't posted in a looong time, but your comments got me going! I really loved the guitar output on SATS, eps. on Heaven in my... On Guaranteed the guitar work really shown again on quite a few of the tracks. I enjoyed FN, but in a much different way. The guitar playing was much more subdued, and the band I felt explored directions I thought were really new, i.e. the live overdubs in "All over you" with the female (the credits say it's someone named "Mitey") vocalist whispering those French (?) lyrics. When was that ever done on any previous L42 work? In fact both Resurgence and RCA versions were more "dance" oriented than anything I've felt the band had done berfore. Sean