From: Level42-request @ worldmachine.com (Level42 Digest) Subject: Level42 Digest V97 #157 _ ____ _ ____ _ _ ___ // //__ // / //__ // /__// __// //__ //__ \\_/ //__ //__ // /__ D I G E S T Level42 Digest Volume 97 : Issue 157 496 subscribers Today's topics: TTFN Jonathan Doody Resurgance Forever Now! JNSMITH Live CD & Live CD Cover winston.walker RITF, Powerline, Pop-Up Video Pat Flanagan LAW 89 Randall Collins Re: Level42 Digest V97 #155 DonZipf ------------------------------ Subject: TTFN From: Jonathan Doody Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 03:37:22 -0700 Well, This is definately my last mail in this life! My last day at Microsoft........God this company is complete and utter Shite! Well, alot of you knew that already. Cause I've got nothing better to do, I've just spoken to Crockford. He's got some BIG NEWS!! Apparently Mark King is teaming up with the group "Wang Chung" (remember "Dance Hall Days")? Apparently the group are taking him on as their new Bass player and collaberating their musical views, tastes and experience. Mark is alledgedly very excited about this project as he feels that Wang Chung have a formula he can work with. Well I for one can't wait to see the group "Wang-King" at a concert near me. BYE BYE EVERBODY............BYE BYE! JON XXXXXX ------------------------------ Subject: Resurgance Forever Now! From: JNSMITH @ msuvx2.memphis.edu Date: Fri, 06 Jun 1997 06:01:58 -0600 (CST) Attention guys and gals (no offence intended)! I have an extre copy of the Resurgance Forever Now(the one where Mark looks like he is constipated on the back cover) I bought it used for $8.99. If anyone out there doesn't have this version and would like this disc, e-mail me. I'm asking $9.00(YEAH, babee, a shaggin' profit) but I'll cover postage. P.S. I thought for sure we yanks would hear the brits sounding off about Austin Powers, International Man of Mystery. What gives? That kind of thing not your bag, baby? JOE ------------------------------ Subject: Live CD & Live CD Cover From: winston.walker @ wathneltd.com Date: Fri, 06 Jun 1997 09:13:15 -0500 Zak, thanks for the preview review of the CD, sounds like a great sounding disc. Can't wait to check it out. Do you think you and John can over dub some whistling, and the infamous 'woh, woh' chant? After that, how about a concert entrance intro, with fake scalpers trying to sell tickets, and fake souvenirs? Oh well, just a thought. (ha,ha) If anyone is interested I put up a web page with my idea for a cover for the 'Past & Presence' cd. You can view it at the following address: www.hkcinemaweb.com/winman42/pastp.htm Pls give me your thoughts, good or bad. I can take it. :-) Tcoy, Winston GO METS!!! ------------------------------ Subject: RITF, Powerline, Pop-Up Video From: Pat Flanagan Date: Fri, 06 Jun 1997 09:30:30 -0400 > While at Paris Levelfest, Morgan played a version of Running in the Family > that I'd never heard before. The remix had a burly voice belting out > something like "stop right there", and then the music starts. Can anyone > tell me which version this is? You got me, that's a new one I haven't heard. Morgan? >["Journey To The Powerline" is the B-side for the "Sandstorm" promo 12". > No one seems to know whether or not it is really Level 42... after hearing > it myself, my personal opinion is that it isn't. More conjecture can be > found by doing a search through the Digest archives. -Eric] Though I don't know it for a fact, I'm 100% certain that this ISN'T Level 42, but another band that Andy Sojka had under his wing or something. It just sounds too different from what they were doing at the time. It's an ok song, but nothing to get frothy at the mouth about. > Pop-Up Video Yes, anyone that has VH-1, watch this show, it's great! (I already cited the Spice Girls info in a private email to Synth, so he's been right chastised for his incorrectness.) 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: LAW 89 From: "Randall Collins" Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 11:08:43 -0500 Being such a big fan of LAW 87, I was a little disappointed at LAW 89 when I bought it several months ago. Well, I decided to listen to it again and after a few sessions, I have to say that this has replaced LAW 87 as my favorite L42 live concert. When I first listened to it, I felt it was too busy, you know, everything blaring with no individual distinction between the insruments.I wasn't listening to it on its merit of talent and musicianship. That's changed...... I think the part that got to me was during the song 'Lessons in Love' where Mark says the name of Alan Murphy just before he does his solo and he plays the same solo that Boon always does in this song. The combination of this, and the fact that Alan is no longer with us, made me a little emotional. I don't mean to get mushy here but I think we have to really enjoy every facet and iteration of L42 because we will most likely never see anything like this again. OK, bassheads!! Have you ever heard of Jimmy Earl? He's the former bass player for the second coming of the Chick Corea Elektric Band II. Anyway, he came out with a solo album last year and I was listening to that after a long period of time. He's certainly isn't John Patitucci (who is?) but he's got a distinctive sound nonetheless. I tried to figure out that "sound" and where I heard it before. I opened up the booklet and saw that he used Trace Elliott amps and strings with his guitars being Status, Warwick, and Ken Smith brands. There's something about TE that made me wonder if they ever made subwoofers for home systems. I know they don't but I almost decided to buy an amp and configure it into my system. That was years ago. I still think it could be done. You never know. I know, I know! Stupid idea! Does anyone know how I could go about getting any info or brochures on TE? I'm a brochure junkie so any help would be appreciated. In case anyone was wondering, the Jimmy Earl CD (Legato records) is not available, according to CDNow. I don't know about other net outlets but I think it's worth getting if you can find it. Right, then! Randall "Harry, I want you to sell me a condom! In fact, today, I think I will have a french tickler, for I am a Protestant!!" ------------------------------ Subject: Re: Level42 Digest V97 #155 From: DonZipf @ aol.com Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 12:30:34 -0400 (EDT) Bill: > A 1981 LP release called 'Strategy' which was officially unreleased with 6 > white label test pressings only - worth £450!!!!! There's an article somewhere online - Vince's page, I think - in which Mark addresses this. He says that as far as he knows those were the original Andy Sojka test pressings for what eventually became The Early Tapes. Z.