From: Level42-request @ worldmachine.com (Level42 Digest) Subject: Level42 Digest V98 #124 _ ____ _ ____ _ _ ___ // //__ // / //__ // /__// __// //__ //__ \\_/ //__ //__ // /__ D I G E S T Level42 Digest Volume 98 : Issue 124 555 subscribers Today's topics: Re: All Over You Pat Flanagan AOY / Level 42 picks? DonZipf House of Usher Mark Perrella Bass Playing mike finn QUICKIE john c vaeth Mail order advice Greg Jamate Mark King Bassist interview soon, or is it? Rob Steen ------------------------------ Subject: Re: All Over You From: Pat Flanagan Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 12:13:52 -0500 >For those of you who like the song "All Over You", what song would you >have been willing to sacrifice from the 2nd Forever Now CD in order to >keep the song on the album????? I'll get flamed for this one, but no contest: One In A Million. I might like this song if Mike sang down an octave. "Where is she...?" Mike, she's being chased away by the dogs responding to your high-pitched screach. :D ____________________ PFPD -- newmedia marketing consulting a limited liability company PO Box 281, Granger, IN 46530-0281 v:616.663.2250 -- competitive business advantages through creative technology ------------------------------ Subject: AOY / Level 42 picks? From: DonZipf Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 13:10:10 EDT > For those of you who like the song "All Over You", what song would you > have been willing to sacrifice from the 2nd Forever Now CD in order to > keep the song on the album????? (Actually, the 3rd FN, given that there were two RCA versions, UK & Japan.) "One in a Million", while being a fairly good song, doesn't appeal to me as much as "All Over You". Second choice to ax in favor of AOY would be "Romance". > PS: Is everyone getting ready for the flashback summer concerts this > year? Culture Club - Howard Jones -The Human League, B-52's My drummer crews at the amphitheater here, and is going to work that show. He's the master at getting autographs and picks and things. By the way, he's interested in acquiring a Level 42 pick, preferably from Boon. Anybody got any? He has all kinds of things for trade. 10 days to departure! - Z. ------------------------------ Subject: House of Usher From: Mark Perrella Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 14:27:52 -0400 Spaldo writes: > P.P.S. "House of Usher"... still don't geddit.....:^( 8^( Neither did I. I asked this same question myself awhile back. I was told it refers to a story written by Edgar Allan Poe. Sounds reasonable to me!! Mark '....the storm will pass and the fog will clear in your head....' [lots has been written on this topic in past Digests... for info, go to the Digest archives and search for "Poe". -Eric http://www.worldmachine.com/level42/#archive ] ------------------------------ Subject: Bass Playing From: "mike finn" Organization: MailCity (http://www.mailcity.com:80) Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 16:06:22 -0700 Yo! Levelfans, While there are an abundunce of great bassists out there, very few manage to stand out and show great overall musicianship such as Mark King. Sure there is Stanley, Marcus, Pastorius, Patitucci just to name some. There is evidence of Stanley's influence on Mark's playing specially in the early days with his thumb-crazy lines, harmonic bends, and soloing for ex. in the Essential, People, live versions of Over There and Physical Presence. Pastorius's influence is heard on the busy sixteenth notes on The Chinese Way, Last Chance and Mark's harmonics in many songs where he was paying his dues. However, Mark created a style of his own and showed that besides being a great bassist, he is a great songwriter and all-around musician. The difference between Mark and the other players above mentioned is that he displayed his great ability as a player during the early years but then showed that you can still be a technical bassist and play commarcial songs. Success is something that does'nt come easy and Mark has proven that he can write "pop" songs and still add a bass line that is more challenging than most players can play. That was part of Jaco's complain. He was such a superb musician but did not get the credit and commercial success he felt he deserved. Stanley did some awesome stuff but eventually turned the bass into a solo instrument and lost the groove down the line. Millers' best work in my opinion is with artists like Bryan Ferry, David Sanborn where he lays the groove and contributes to some great songs. In L42's last years I was saddened with Mark's change in bass direction. I think that Staring at the Sun had a low mix in the bass and live his sound has been very thin compared to the mid-80's. Check out Guaranteed live and compare to Live at Wemblay or Physical Presence. However, I make no judgement on the music since its perfect, I guess its a matter of Mark getting tired of the same old sound and/or instruments His deal with Alembic was a marketing strategy that would give him an endorsment with a fine maker of bass guitars as well as, some advertisement in the US. Somewhere that did'nt do so well since he does'nt play the Signature model but various Series II and Series I Besides, there are rather expensive for the averege fan but make no mistake his JayDees were just as good as well as his Status Basses were also. He made enough in the early days to get an Alembic if he wanted one. All you Alembic owners, just for the record, I love them! Anyway, I'm still searching for sheet music on L42 early stuff so y'all please HELP! Feel free to drop me a line at mikefinn @ mailcity.com ------------------------------ Subject: QUICKIE From: jcvaeth @ juno.com (john c vaeth) Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 00:50:37 EDT QUICK NON-LEVEL POST - Richard Page's 3rd Matinee has been mentioned 2 or 3 times already and I also add, Brian, that if you liked Page's stuff you will love 3rd Matinee. THANKS - - - John ------------------------------ Subject: Mail order advice From: "Greg Jamate" Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 01:40:16 -0400 Hi Levelheads, My purposes in posting this message are to warn you about a difficult person to deal with, and to offer hard learned advice about mail ordering. This will be a long post. Jeffrey S Lohr (email RUvirtual2 @ aol.com) agreed to sell the compact disc 'Pursuit Of Accidents' to me via mail. He was explicit about how to receive payment and the timeframe he expected to receive it in. I assumed we were dealing in good faith (admittedly, too large an assumption on my part) and sent money. More than a month had elapsed without receiving the disc. Jeff did not respond to repeated email messages. I learned of three more digest subscribers who had sent money and were now waiting. Checks had been quickly cashed, and we all thought we were victims of a scam artist. Mistakes we all made were not getting a commitment on time of delivery from this guy, and not getting a telephone number to call and check for legitimacy. I believe a month from receipt of payment is a reasonable timeframe to expect delivery. Am I being too demanding, what do you think? From lots of investigation I gathered contact information. I called him directly, left voice messages, never got a return call. I talked with his mother twice, which seemed to propel him into action. Happy American mother's day to Jeff's MOM! After six weeks, we received replies from Jeff giving varying reasons for the delay. I can only speculate if this guy became devious, was procrastinating, forgot, or was under some kind of stress that prevented him from delivering the goods. Had he been open about whatever the problem was, even if he was now flat broke and could not afford postage, lots of grief would have been saved. Two weeks later he apologized for the delay, and two months after the original agreement, delivered the goods to each of us. Jeff is not a crook, but has a problem with sending things in the mail. I cannot help to think, had I not contacted his mother, we would still be waiting for our items, without knowing for sure they would ever come. Ultimately, ordering anything via mail has inherent risks and requires a judgement call about the person or entity you are dealing with. Ways to reduce the risks are to certainly get a telephone number and an agreement about time of delivery. Greg Jamate greg @ net2001.com ------------------------------ Subject: Mark King Bassist interview soon, or is it? From: Rob Steen Date: 11 May 98 10:03 +0100 Hi All, While reading the June issue of Bassist in the 'Next Month' section was this paragraph... "Incidentally, and don't say anything, but soon, mes amis, soon, a certain great in Brit Bass playing circles, the former frontman of a mega-selling eighties jazzpop combo, is about to return solo, with an album. He would like to speak to Bassist, and Bassist would love to do a huge splurging feature on him as soon as possible, but... shhhh. Later, and don't tell, otherwise you'll spoil the surprise!" Well does this sound like Mark or what? Have Fun, Rob Steen.