From: Level42-request @ worldmachine.com (Level42 Digest) Subject: Level42 Digest V98 #107 _ ____ _ ____ _ _ ___ // //__ // / //__ // /__// __// //__ //__ \\_/ //__ //__ // /__ D I G E S T Level42 Digest Volume 98 : Issue 107 561 subscribers Today's topics: HJVSFHSGFNMSNMHW LOZ Green Latest News !! Winman42 Why no MK instructional video ? Adrian Bond Still looking? Julian Arnold Sunbed Song Bilal42 Re: Level42 Digest V98 #103 Zippwitz ------------------------------ Subject: HJVSFHSGFNMSNMHW From: "LOZ Green" Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 11:12:47 +0100 Hi everyone, RE yesterdays post: > EvIMAQJjAEAgSGksIG1QeSBuYQeAIAQAIGJMCeAnQW4DoABwZMAgSSBsaXYbgQOgiEhhdwtg > HIHYanVzBUACEHUcYQhgJwVAAaAeknRoG6Fkad5nB5AesRxhBYFpDbAccHB0byBnHMMesR85 > HZNmaRHgBUBoZVsLERxDIh8wG4BCHFEiAx2gHQExOTg2IHffImADoByUHHAdAUcEkAOBxxsF > wDQgeSJxBCC3HFIRwBzRYgnhIVFmA5GOZRzQBcAAkG5jZR2T1yJlHuMhYGMi4UEEICMSylkg > wEJ5I5EfMA5hBUAdUAQgc3VwcP5vEfAgkycQHoMWAChAAjB0bHkbAGIeoSiRJtFu/icFQCcb Are you crazy? Surely the scientific community will never stand this! This is one of the most outrageous and surreal opinion about Level 42 I have ever read! We have a latent genius in our midst! (I particularly liked the bit about 'Tg2IHfflmADoByUHH' which had me in tears of laughter for upwards of 4 minutes after I read it.......... THE NEXT PERSON WHO DOES THIS TAKE THEM OUTSIDE AND SHOOT THEM!!!!!! Anyway, I have been incredubly busy lately finalising my dissertation. Also, its great news! I got the job as research assistant and I start studying for my pHD on June 1st, hurrah. I think it was mentioning my hobby as a Level 42 collector and general fanatic on my CV the swayed it for me. The other guys had the qualifications necessary, but they just couldnt come up to scratch on the really substantial matters such as musical taste! For anyone who is interested, or if anyone knows anyone who could help me formulate any ideas, my brief is to make, in 3 years, 'An expert system for optimal repair in reinforced concrete highway bridges'. (Tenuous Level link, 'burning bridges' Good Man In A Strom, She Cant Help Herself etc. Calling out an engineer to save the planet earth. One other thing that I find quite amusing. Now, I know we have some psychologists on the digest and they may like this too. Whenever I go on holiday to a warm country, and I'm walking to the beach and like, I hear all the insects doing that hissing and croaking and clicking that they do, I just cant help whaling out the intro to 'The Ape'. So the insects go, 'khhhhhhch, khhhhhhhchhch, ssskksskkskk' and I then go ,'doooooooooooooo, daaaaaah dA daaaaaaaaa,'. Its great fun, and after a while the insects brought their instruments along and you can imagine my surprise when I'd done my part and they joined in the rest of the song with virtually a full ensemble, boy it was crazy. Yeah, Ill never forget that night, because I had an awful hangover for ages the morning I woke up! I didn't touch the booze for the rest of the holiday and unfortunatley the insects didnt bring their instruments again which was a shame. There was no talkig to them either, they just weren't interested. I figured I must've embarressed them or something in a drunken stupur, made a pass at the wrong cricket etc. Anyway, I better get this thing bound and handed in. I'll be around .......... LOZ ------------------------------ Subject: Latest News !! From: Winman42 Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 15:50:37 EDT Hey everyone, I just spoke to Ian Buck a short while ago and he passed along the following info: 1) Polydor has located the missing 24 track master for 'The Sun Goes Down'. It was located in Los Angeles. 2) A 90's remix is imminent ! 3) It will be re-released as a single. 4) The latest from Eagle Rock Records is Mark's album will be out in June. Guaranteed!! Of course this info will soon be on Morgan's page at WWW.LEVEL42.COM, if it isn't already. Tcoy, Winston ------------------------------ Subject: Why no MK instructional video ? From: "Adrian Bond" Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 21:24:16 +0100 Patrick asked if Mark King has ever done an instructional video. To the best of my knowledge he hasn't, but here's some interesting (I hope!) stuff I read on the subject: First the bad news Around the time of the "Running in the Family" album Mark did an interview with NME (I think!?) called "MarKing Time" where he was asked about doing an instructional video (they were just starting to become big business then) and he said he wasn't interested. I don't have the interview but I'll try and paraphrase his response: He said that he felt that if everyone studied and copied others too intensely then they wouldn't develop their own styles and we would end up with a musical race of Banjo players like the kid in the film "Deliverance". He also said he wasn't impressed when people came up to him and said "I can play all of the bass lines on your solo album!" as he wasn't playing difficult licks to lay down a challenge. He said he would be more impressed if people came up to him and said "I've created my own music and turned it into my own solo album!". A glimmer of hope The interviewer then asked about Mark if he new that Prince played all of the instruments some of the tracks on his albums and put bass chops on that were so fast and complicated that they couldn't find a bass player to play live. Mark said that although he could play all of the instruments to do the same thing he felt that all you would really end up with would be 5-6 lots of the Mark King sound played on different instruments. Mark felt that interaction between players in a band was what gave music its mix of colours, particularly in L42. However, Mark seems to have changed his mind on this point as in his interview for "The Pier" he said that we was playing all of the instruments on his new solo album. Maybe he will change his mind on the instructional video front too. My thoughts I believe that everyone is influenced by someone in some way or another and that comes through in their style of playing. By putting his bass lines in the public domain he has influenced many people and is responsible for maybe 50% of my bass playing style. But then that's got all mixed up with a bit of Sting, Pino Palladino, Stuart Hamm, Billy Sheehan, and a whole lot of others to make my own style. So, I think that if he did bring out a video it would just help to improve and sharpen that particular 50% (and boy does it need it!) instead of suddenly making it 100% of my style. Wow, that quick note turned into an essay. What to the rest of you guys think about it? Cheers Ade "I want love in a peaceful world" ------------------------------ Subject: Still looking? From: Julian Arnold Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 16:04:53 -0700 yesterday Patrick Key wrote: "Well, since nobody replied I feel inclined to ask the same question again: Can anybody tell me where to get "The early tapes", "As years go by" and if MK ever made any kind of instruction video?" The Early Tapes can be found albeit not that cheaply at Audiophile Imports in Maryland. Their number is 410-628-7601. Their address is P.O. Box 4945, Lutherville. MD. 21094-4945. They are also on the web but I don't have the URL handy. A quick search with yahoo or something would help you there. Although if you're in Sweden (?) maybe one of our friends in the U.K., Ireland or the Netherlands could help you...... (any other Euro Levelheads out there?) "As Years Go By" is available through this digest, Zaphod? you there dude? Finally, I've never heard of MK doing instructional videos but it would be great eh gang? Sincerely, Julian ------------------------------ Subject: Sunbed Song From: Bilal42 Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 20:06:42 EDT I agree! The Sunbed Song would make a great single to accompany the re- releases. It has a real kick to it, it would be perfect! It will be a smash hit. Anyone agree? Speak up! I Bilal ------------------------------ Subject: Re: Level42 Digest V98 #103 From: Zippwitz Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 20:57:59 EDT In a message dated 98-04-20 05:54:40 EDT, you write: << Adam Hankinson >> you asked about movies that L42 was in, if you check out a great 80's flick Hot Pursuit with John Cusack, Lessons in Love plays at the end sequence as the happy couple sail off into the sunset.