From: Level42-request @ worldmachine.com (Level42 Digest) Subject: Level42 Digest V97 #149 _ ____ _ ____ _ _ ___ // //__ // / //__ // /__// __// //__ //__ \\_/ //__ //__ // /__ D I G E S T Level42 Digest Volume 97 : Issue 149 490 subscribers Today's topics: Music and kids lo.larsson Re: Level42 Digest V97 #148 elson trinidad Radio & Level 42 Paul Fucito Milwaukee Radio Steve Allert Hello again Marcus Bone Cover that theory Alex Friesen HMV, etc. Dave Mock W'da I Miss? John Venzon HIMH, SATS, etc. Richard J. Reddick Mark Hughes... please surface! Richard J. Reddick a-ha's Scoundrel Days --> HIMH? Richard J. Reddick ------------------------------ Subject: Music and kids From: lo.larsson @ zeiss.se Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 12:11:03 +0100 These are stories and test questions accumulated by music teachers in the state of Missouri. circa 1989.. --- Childrens Answers in Music Education --- Agnus Dei was a woman composer famous for her church music. Refrain means don't do it. A refrain in music is the part you better not try to sing. A virtuoso is a musician with real high morals. John Sebastian Bach died from 1750 to the present. Handel was half German, half Italian, and half English. He was rather large. Beethoven wrote music even though he was deaf. He was so deaf he wrote loud music. He took long walks in the forest even when everyone was calling him. I guess he could not hear so good. Beethoven expired in 1827 and later died from this. Henry Purcell is a well known composer few people have ever heard of. Aaron Copland is one of your most famous contemporary composers. It is unusual to be contemporary. Most composers do not live until they are dead. An opera is a song of bigly size. In the last scene of Pagliacci, Canio stabs Nedda who is the one he really loves. Pretty soon Silvio also gets stabbed, and they all live happily ever after. When a singer sings, he stirs up the air and makes it hit any passing eardrums. But if he is good, he knows how to keep it from hurting. Music sung by two people at the same time is called a duel. I know what a sextet is but I had rather not say. Caruso was at first an Italian. Then someone heard his voice and said he would go a long way. And so he came to America. A good orchestra is always ready to play if the conductor steps on the odium. Morris dancing is a country survival from times when people were happy. Most authorities agree that music of antiquity was written long ago. Probably the most marvelous fugue was the one between the Hatfields and McCoys. My very best liked piece of music is the Bronze Lullaby. My favorite composer is Opus. A harp is a nude piano. A tuba is much larger than its name. Instruments come in many sizes, shapes and orchestras. You should always say celli when you mean there are two or more cellos. Another name for kettle drums is timpani. But I think I will just stick with the first name and learn it good. A trumpet is an instrument when it is not an elephant sound. While trombones have tubes, trumpets prefer to wear valves. The double bass is also called the bass viol, string bass, and bass fiddle. It has so many names because it is so huge. When electric currents go through them, guitars start making sounds. So would anybody. Question: What are kettle drums called? Answer: Kettle drums. Cymbals are round, metal CLANGS! A bassoon looks like nothing I have ever heard. Last month I found out how a clarinet works by taking it apart. I both found out and got in trouble. Question: Is the saxophone a brass or a woodwind instrument? Answer: Yes. The concertmaster of an orchestra is always the person who sits in the first chair of the first violins. This means that when a person is elected concertmaster, he has to hurry up and learn how to play a violin real good. For some reason, they always put a treble clef in front of every line of flute music. You just watch. I can't reach the brakes on this piano! The main trouble with a French horn is it's too tangled up. Anyone who can read all the instrument notes at the same time gets to be the conductor. Instrumentalist is a many-purposed word for many player-types. The flute is a skinny-high shape-sounded instrument. The most dangerous part about playing cymbals is near the nose. A contra-bassoon is like a bassoon, only more so. Tubas are a bit too much. Music instrument has a plural known as orchestra. I would like for you to teach me to play the cello. Would tomorrow or Friday be best? My favorite instrument is the bassoon. It is so hard to play people seldom play it. That is why I like the bassoon best. It is easy to teach anyone to play the maracas. Just grip the neck and shake him in rhythm. Just about any animal skin can be stretched over a frame to make a pleasant sound once the animal is removed. Source: Missouri School Music Newsletter, collected by Harold Dunn. ------------------------------ Subject: Re: Level42 Digest V97 #148 From: elson trinidad Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 03:28:42 -0700 From: Savage42 @ aol.com > 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. Not to rag on you, Dan, but can we all draw up a "do not mention radio play" list? "Something About You" on the radio isn't so uncommon; after all, it was a top-10 hit in the U.S., and lots of stations across the country are adding 80s tunes to their set of "oldies." Of course, if you heard "Standing in the Light" or even "Love In A Peaceful World," for example, on the same station, yeah, that would be worth mentioning. That "Do Not Mention" list would need separate versions for US and UK/European radio of course; obviously the list for the latter would be somewhat longer. Elson -30- =========================================== Elson Trinidad Los Angeles, CA, USA elson @ westworld.com * http://www.westworld.com/~elson ========================================== ------------------------------ Subject: Radio & Level 42 From: Paul Fucito Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 08:01:11 -0700 Many of you already know I have been in radio for nearly 8 years now... I see some postings of Level 42 on commercial radio... Here are the songs I was able to push on commercial radio: Something About You Hot Water World Machine Leaving Me Now Lessons In Love It's Over To Be With You Again Children Say Take A Look Heaven In My Hands Guaranteed Overtime Forever Now Sunbed Song Learn To Say No (Fall 1996) In college.... Well, everything made it on to the air by them... Paul ------------------------------ Subject: Milwaukee Radio From: "Steve Allert" Organization: MCI Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 11:43:03 -0500 Chris R wrote: > 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. Don't forget Usinger's, Ambrosia, Masterlock and Kopps Hamburgers? Keep up the pressure on the stations to plug Level into their lineups. Someday we'll have an agent working in every city!! SteveA [also, Wisconsin is officially "The Badger State", named after the crafty woodland creature... cool! -Eric] ------------------------------ Subject: Hello again From: Marcus Bone Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 15:38:04 +0100 Hello again guys - My list administrator bounced the digest for the last time a while back so I've bitten the bullet and got a whole new email account. New email address is email me if you want - I can only apologise for not being Mike Brooks. P.S. I think I am going on the latest pilgrimage to IOW - which I think is on June 6,7,8. Who else is going - or is that old news. As regards the Physical Presence double CD - It doesn't look very hopeful that this product will actually resurface. The dealer is keeping very quiet (even though he promised to get everything I wanted!) - nevertheless I will keep trying. Later Not you, not me, Only memory ------------------------------ Subject: Cover that theory From: Alex Friesen Date: 29 May 97 14:48:48 -0400 Hi All, Pieter van der Heijden wrote: > The one Level 42 cover I like best is not an album cover, but the > cover from Heaven in my Hands. I am in total agreement on this one. I'm surprised that there was not more mention of this cover as, to me, it really stands out from the L42 cover crowd. I think most L42 covers were great for the time of their release (okay, maybe not POA). True Colours may look "dorky" today, but that was a cool new visual effect back in the "olden days" (wait a minute while I get my walker). World Machine - now there's an overrated cover. What's with the obvious non-matching nut and bolt? And the wasteland of a background? Anthony Burns wrote: > "World Machine" - The meaning should be obvious.... Machine > parts... barren world... duh! So call me stupid (thanks, once was enough), but I don't get it. 'Splain it to me Lucy. On another note, I've been gone for a couple of weeks, so I couldn't comment at the time, but I found the L42 music theory thread great! IMHO one of the biggest appeals of the band is that their music is not straight ahead diatonic. This, combined with the obvious heavy rhythmic elements, iced with great lyrics... There I go, preaching to the converted. ...Alex... "I could never lie, for honour I would die..." ------------------------------ Subject: HMV, etc. From: Dave Mock Organization: Long Island Community Newspapers Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 18:28:56 -0400 Hey, Micro-Kids: Good catch by Kudsia on the meaning of HMV -- "His Master's Voice". I think they or a predecessor must have been the British affiliate of Victor or RCA -- hence their use of the name "His Master's Voice" and the logo of Nipper, the dog listening to the gramophone. (Ironic, since RCA was Level 42's most recent label.) I know they produced the early British TV sets. My hero in broadcasting (excuse me -- "My Heeeeee-ro") is Ed Murrow, and a passage in a Murrow biography by Joe Persico describes how he entertained Eric and Lois Sevareid by showing a program on "an early HMV (His Master's Voice)" set. Persico didn't mention, though, whether Mark King's hair was long or short in the program, or if Lindup wore a dashiki. ;-) By the way -- as the debate rages over best/worst L42 album cover, I'd like to start a rhubarb on best video during the 80s era. MOST EFFECTIVE: "Lessons In Love," "Leaving Me Now" (tie) LEAST EFFECTIVE:"Heaven In My Hands" WEIRDEST: "Take Care Of Yourself" (Mark with spiked hair?! Mike with almost no hair?! Yeah-yeah!) NOTE: This is not a value judgement in comparison to the rest of the drek currently in music video but to L42's own standards. TCOY, Dave (The Duke) Mock P.S. -- Who was the girl in "To Be With You Again?" Facewise, it looked almost like a young Cindy Crawford. ------------------------------ Subject: W'da I Miss? From: John Venzon Date: Thu, 29 May 97 16:55:20 -0700 John V returning to the Land of the Lost: Hello everyone... it's been a bit since I've posted to the digest, and wanted to let you all know that I hadn't died. Just that for the last month my life has been a stream of 6-7 day work weeks puncuated by houseguests. Needless to say, I haven't had much free time to work on the live project, but never fear, work is moving forward. Sayyyy... are the boys going to release the complete version of "Physical Presence" or not? I just got caught up on weeks and weeks worth of the digest, and I was getting a little bleary eyed by the end. If this is actually going to come out, I'll drop the deleted tracks from disc one, but if this is a "I _think_ they are going to come out" perhaps we should keep them just in case. What do you all think? A reminder of the track listings for the first two discs. The track order will change: Disc One: 1 00:02:00 01 Dune Tune (Weave 12") Vinyl to DAT 2 05:19:28 02 Love Games (Weave 12") Vinyl to DAT 3 11:18:39 03 Turn It On (PP Delete) Vinyl to DAT - VERY CLEAN 4 17:02:36 04 Mr. Pink (PP Delete) Vinyl to DAT - VERY CLEAN 5 23:12:08 05 88 (PP Deleted) Vinyl to DAT - VERY CLEAN 6 35:55:13 06 Microkid (Wembley) CD 7 42:18:21 07 Physical Presence (Live) CD 8 48:00:48 08 Silence (live) CD 9 53:04:58 09 Man (live) CD 10 60:05:59 10 Overtime (Overtime CD5) CD 11 64:53:44 11 Guaranteed (Overtime CD5) CD 12 68:55:22 12 If You Were Mine (Over CD5) CD Total Running Time: 73:54:11 ----------------- Disc Two: The Overflow 1 00:02:00 13 Her Big Day (Live) CD 2 04:25:45 14 The Sun Goes Down (Live) CD 3 09:54:06 15 88 (Chinese Way) Vinyl to DAT 4 15:16:30 16 Turn It On (Micro-Kid 12") Vinyl to DAT 5 20:41:35 17 Follow Me (Live Remix) Vinyl to DAT 6 24:42:18 18 Something About You (10th Prince's Trust) CD 7 29:52:57 19 Running in the Family ('87 Prince's Trust) CD 8 34:55:15 20 The Spirit is Free (Guaranteed Live) Laserdisc to DAT Total Running Time (So Far:): 39:35:64 Plus these other tracks - Not digitized yet, but on the second disc: Hot Water (Prince's Trust '86) Heaven in my hands (Prince's Trust '89) Lessons in love (Prince's Trust '89) Another reason for the delay in finishing the disc is I've been trying to find alternate dubs to DAT from the following vinyl. I'd found two other sources, but by in each case, Winston's dubs were cleaner. I'm just wanting to find the cleanest source I can. If you have a really clean vinly copy of the following tracks, a good turntable **AND** a DAT player please email me at jvenzon @ deltanet.com. I know some of you folks might have a clean dub of this on minidisc, and we should try to find a way to get it dubbed onto DAT. Perhaps the answer is this: If you have a clean copy of these tracks on minidisc, find a place where you live to dub them to DAT for me. In exchange for doing this, you will get the live discs (Discs 1 and 2) of them for free. Email me if this fits your M.O. Otherwise (and as a backup) I will continue declicking Winston's tracks (and let me tell you... a lot of work still to be done.) Here are the tracks I need cleaner dubs of: Dune Tune (Weave 12") Vinyl Love Games (Weave 12") Vinyl Turn It On (Micro-Kid 12") Vinyl Follow Me (Live Remix) Vinyl Talk to you all soon, John V PS My AOL account is not long for this world, so from now on, if you want to get ahold of me, email me at: jvenzon @ deltanet.com PPS Also, please don't email me with "How do I get one?" When Zaphod gets back, and the disc (number 1) is finished, we'll post a 'how to get one' posting. Otherwise, hang in there. ------------------------------ Subject: HIMH, SATS, etc. From: "Richard J. Reddick" Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 01:16:21 -0500 (CDT) Pieter--are you referring to the HIMH cover that's blue with a satellite dish on the front? I love that cover! I remember walking into the Waterloo Records in Austin and seeing the CD... man, I hadn't heard anything from the fellas after reading in Smash Hits that the boys broke up, and "they were continuing the band," which is what you typically hear when bands go kaput. I had no cash, so I came back a few days later and IT WAS GONE... Sniff. BTW, I checked out Carl Mueller's web page and it was brill! I especially enjoyed the 12" covers, along with Winman's link on the same. Very nice! My history with the band starts with APP, so it was cool to see the pre-history... Later Rich PS: Bilal, I like the sparcity of colour on the SATS album. It's very stark. Someone (I forget who) has a promo pack scan on their webpage, it's way cool... ------------------------------ Subject: Mark Hughes... please surface! From: "Richard J. Reddick" Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 01:16:26 -0500 (CDT) What? Someone on this list designed the SATS cover? Good work Matthew! And Mark Hughes, wherever you are, let's hear from you! (What inspired the *Japanese* motif, how involved the guys were, etc.) I'm really excited about this... Reading Chris' post about his station in Milwaukee made me ponder... Looking back, I'm glad our boys weren't happy with their mid-80's legend status with SAY. Wouldn't it be horrible to hear your radio station saying, "Tonight, we've got Level 42 at [insert the name of your local naff disco here]!" They went on and created a history after that... in fact, if Level 42 lasted 14 (or so) years, WM came in their adolescence as a band. It seems a lot of groups from around this time did one or two albums, then totally fell off the face of the earth. Our fellows had to be really into in music to continue the band for such a time (and through so many line-ups!). Rich ------------------------------ Subject: a-ha's Scoundrel Days --> HIMH? From: "Richard J. Reddick" Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 01:22:45 -0500 (CDT) Yes, this is off-topic, but while we're mentioning cool album covers, does anyone have a copy of a-ha's Scoundrel Days (I think, 1986)? Man, the packaging and colors are mad cool. In fact, there are a few photos from that album or its accompanying singles that feature a (wheat?) field in vibrant autumnal colors. For some reason, the HIMH single cover with the radio dishes reminded me of that cover. Is there a connection? Does anyone know what the hell I'm on about? Okay, I'll stop posting for the night... Rich