From: Level42-request @ worldmachine.com (Level42 Digest) Subject: Level42 Digest V98 #189 _ ____ _ ____ _ _ ___ // //__ // / //__ // /__// __// //__ //__ \\_/ //__ //__ // /__ D I G E S T Level42 Digest Volume 98 : Issue 189 597 subscribers Today's topics: Word Machine Green, Laurence F Mark n stuff LOZ Green STARING AT THE SUN Paul O'Dell Physical Presence extra tracks Pat Flanagan RE: Tube Bells DonZipf Who stole it!! great britain ice hockey>> PP RR CD LOZ Green I can't hold out any longer!!!!!! sorry! great britain ice hockey>> new e-mail address Bill Wilson Re: Gary Husband information Brian A great website to visit Mike Bartlett Wedding bells and a bio... Richard J. Reddick Word Machine Tom Brown Okay, fill the Digest with more BIO crap dirk.vael ------------------------------ Subject: Word Machine From: "Green, Laurence F" Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 11:55:00 +0100 Hello everyone. I have now had about 50 enquiries for copies of my fanzine 'Word Machine'. But I need to drum up some more. I have started sorting out US distribution. What will happen is you will just send 4 dollars to someone in the states and your fanzine will arrive about a week afterwards. By means of an incentive to register or send a cheque, EVERYONE who either sends a cheque or makes an inquiry before the 20th of July will be entered into a draw, but what for I hear you ask. Well as well as the normal excellent covers a regular feature of Word Machine will be that 5 copies will be made with way cool glossy card covers with totally different artwork. I will keep one as my master copy and the other 4 will be sold for the regular 2 pounds/4 dollars price to 4 lucky subscribers. The glossy covers will have photo quality images on them! So get your cheque books out today. So come on, Word machine has 28 A5 pages, pictures of the rarest Level 42 material in existence. Interviews with Boon, mark and Andy Sojka and loads more. Send 2 pounds to Word Machine 110 Abbey Lane Sheffield S8 OBQ England Or email lozlevel42 @ lineone.net to reserve a US or American copy. Yours.........LOZ ------------------------------ Subject: Mark n stuff From: "LOZ Green" Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 14:39:24 +0100 Hi everyone, I heard from Mark again today. (Just now actually). He was talking about 'One Man'. Hey, isn't that a coincidence, 'One Man' and 'Tin Man' and Boon wrote the lyrics to both of them!!!!!! Mark was telling how good he thought the fanzine was!!! So come on, now I have official approval. Yours........................LOZ "Fathers failure, who will save her?" ------------------------------ Subject: STARING AT THE SUN From: "Paul O'Dell" Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 09:43:33 -0400 "Joey Vela" you are not the only one who likes "STARING AT THE SUN". I thought it was a great album. "Hey Man" and "Gresham Blues" are my favorites. Paul O'Dell ------------------------------ Subject: Physical Presence extra tracks From: Pat Flanagan Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 09:39:28 -0500 >Just some bits and pieces. I hear some of the re-release CD track >listings are all but finalised. The main thing for you guys is that >Physical Prescence WILL have the 3 previously unreleased tracks AND >OTHER ONES TOO. Neet Pardon my skepticism, Loz, but we've heard this rumor before. How are they going to fit the extra tracks onto that album, when a CD can only hold somewhere around 75 minutes? (pardon me for not knowing the exact limit) The CD's already 65 minutes long, the can't pack TOO much more in without going to a double CD. Or maybe they'll be using MPG3? :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: RE: Tube Bells From: DonZipf @ aol.com Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 14:57:51 EDT >>> If you did that, all the instruments would be double-speed! Remember, >>> all the other instuments reside in adjacent tracks on the same tape. >> >> Argh shucks, I forgot about the adjacent tracks thing !!! > > Call me crazy, but I think that by 1973 they had already developed the > technology to record a guitar on an entirely separate tape, copying it > to the master at its final "sped-up" speed. Sigh...I can see that this won't end until I teach a course on basic recording right here. You have it backwards, Lazlo. You're sort of referring to "overdubbing" (the technique of playing along with one tape machine while recording to another), which was the PRE-cursor to multi-track recording. By 1972, when Oldfield began recording TB, multi-tracking had become the cutting edge (and is really the only way it could be done, as overdubbing adds considerable noise, and considering the number of overdubs used...well, it just wouldn't work). The literature in my original Mike Oldfield LP box set doesn't specifically mention what sort of machine TB was recorded on, but it does say that the work was later re-mixed for quad, indicating that it would certainly have to have been multi-tracked (because you can't re-mix overdubs). As for recording an instument to a separate tape machine and then "flying it in" to the multi-track master, that's highly unlikely. Reel-to-reel recorders are - even today, much less in the early 70's - notorious for having constantly varying pitch. They didn't really have an accurate way to lock two machines together then, so flying-in such a lengthy track would result in timing discrepencies by the end of the piece (in other words, the guitar part would have been on time at the beginning, but either early or late by the end). The stanard operating procedure for doing this trick has always been to manipulate the pitch of the recording deck, while playing the part. When the tape is played back at normal speed the part will either be sped-up or sped- down, depending on the desired effect. It's simple to do, and - trust me - this is the way it is done. Z. ------------------------------ Subject: Who stole it!! From: gbsc @ vossnet.co.uk (great britain ice hockey supporters club) Date: 14 Jul 1998 20:38:28 -0000 Hi all! What's happened to the level 42 homepage? Can not get in to it at home or work. Does anyone know the answer?? Back soon, Allan [it seems to have been inaccessible from various parts for the past week or so. Can anyone in Europe (France in particular) access it? -Eric] ------------------------------ Subject: PP RR CD From: "LOZ Green" Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 22:33:03 +0100 Hi everyone, Yes, Physical prescence is supposedly being re-released on a double CD. Yours...................................LOZ "Happiness is just a state of mind" ------------------------------ Subject: I can't hold out any longer!!!!!! sorry! From: gbsc @ vossnet.co.uk (great britain ice hockey supporters club) Date: 14 Jul 1998 22:44:53 -0000 Cover me! I'm going in! FULL NAME: Allan Petrie ALIAS: AL (Hey, original!!) SEX: Male AGE: 33 BIRTHDAY: 26th October 1964 LOCATION: Iver, Buckinghamshire ENGLAND HAIR: Fair EYES: Red normally! Especially after a session on the beer! LANGUAGES: Body, Foul and fala Portuguese . MARITAL STATUS: Serving a life sentence BUT I'M INNOCENT I TELL YER! Ask OJ! OCCUPATION: Office team leader. (follow me) to the pub! L42 DIGEST MEMBER SINCE: May 98 (Oh, the lost years!) HOW I GOT INTO L42: Radio Luxembourg Powerplay (chosen new release for the week) which happened to be 'Love Meeting Love' this is the dogs B******S i reMARKed! MOST FAVOURITE L42 album(s): Early Tapes, Staring At The Sun, Forever Now. MOST FAVOURITE L42 song(s): Deep Breath....... Romance, One In A Million, Talking In Your Sleep, Love Meeting, Love Games, Good Man In A Storm, Why Are You Leaving, Seven Years, Heaven In My Hands, Two Hearts Colide. (oh bugger, what have i forgotten?? MOST FAVOURITE L42 video(s): Overtime, Something About You, Take Care Of Yourself and Fait Accompli MOST FAVOURITE L42 live gig: Hammersmith Odeon 11th December 1990 (WOW! One of the highlights of my life!) LEAST FAVOURITE L42 album(s) : Yer avin a larf aint yer??? LEAST FAVOURITE L42 song(s):Her Big Day (the only one i hate! Puke!) LEAST FAVOURITE L42 video(s):Any less than six hours long!!! LEAST FAVOURITE L42 live gig:Yo Bud, yer nuts geez see a shrink!! BEST L42 EXPERIENCE: Meeting Marky and Mikey at the Radio One roadshow in Sandow, Isle Of King oh! Er sorry, Wight! WORST L42 EXPERIENCE: Oh boy, picking the Saturday paper up and reading the "42 splitting up" headline and then sitting in stunned silence for about half an hour (just like the other night when England played Argentina) then repeating the words "this can't be happening, I don't beleive this!" Then finding out I would be away in Portugal on my hols during the final concerts (proceeded to blub uncontrolled in a heap on the floor etc!) FAVOURITE L42 BAND MEMBER FANTASY: Introducing Mark to the delights of Beer again (er, hang on, i'm not sure that's a good idea! PUNCH!) FAVOURITE BASS LINE/SOLO: 43,Theme To Margaret, Love Games, Dune Tune, Seven Years. HISTORIC FIRST L42 ALBUM IN MY HIFI: Level 42 CURRENT/MOST RECENT L42 ALBUM IN MY HIFI: Forever Now MOST VALUED&CUDDLED "YOU-TOUCH-YOU-DIE" L42 POSSESSION: White Elite promo of Love Meeting Love acquired the day after listening to Radio Luxembourg. Programme from my first concert in Thames Hall Slough. CD's I GRAB BEFORE EMBARKING ON A LONG ROAD TRIP: All Levels including my mini disc comp, Love Affair 4(for) 2 (two), slowies ie romance, it's over, love meeting etc Rapture - Anita Baker The Night I Fell In Love - Luther Vandross Bobby Mc Ferrin - Bobby McFerrin (Moondance blows me away!) What's up Dog - Was (not) Was Tropical Gangsters - Kid Creole and the Coconuts Jazz Funk - Incognito Southern Freeze - Freeze Rio - Lee Ritenour Can't Stop The Love - Maze Nightfly - Donald Fagen Greates Hits - Steely Dan So Where Are You - Loose Ends Pieces of A Dream - Pieces Of A Dream Brazillian comp. - Airto, Gilberto Gil, Tania Maria, Pulinho Da Costa etc FAVOURITE FOOD:Fajitas, Caldo Verde/Cataplana (gosto muito!), Sherry Trifle. FAVOURITE DRINK (alcoholic): Moosehead (God Bless Canada!) FAVOURITE DRINK (non-alcoholic): Bud/Tetleys FAVOURITE Actor:Michael Keaton (can play em straight or funny) FAVOURITE Actress:Demi Moore (yes please!) FAVOURITE Movies:About Last Night, Gung Ho, Clean and Sober, Slapshot! WEAPONS OF CHOICE: My hockey Sticks. VEHICLES OF CHOICE: Mike's Level 42 Citreon 2CV he raced/ Mark's Range Rover so I can pinch his demo of One Man!! Oy! Stop Thief!! TURN ONs: See favourite actress, Ice hockey, music, conversation travel (especailly Caribean and Portugal) and food. TURN OFFs: People who talk down in a superior way , injustices, cruelty to women, children or animals, hairy armpits!! GOOD HABITS: Treat people as equals, organisational skills, listen to people well, full of ideas, sense of humour! BAD HABITS: getting up, tidyness, holding a grudge Waaaay too long! SPORTS: Ice hockey, ice hockey, ice hockey and oh yeh football "Arsenal kick ass!" FACTOID: I run the fan club for the Great Britain Ice hockey team and the focal point is our annual trip to the World Championships to see GB play. This year I arranged hotel, tickets, flights and coach travel for me & 150 GB fans to Slovenia (pass the migrane pills doc!). SCUD MISSILE AIMED AT: Camilla, my managing director (Scrooge!), Polydor and RCA (How to not help a band. ARSE WIPES!) FAVOURITE SNAPPY CATCH PHRASE/QUOTE: "Playing on the guitar - pathetic way to make your name isn't it?" MK in Obsever magazine 1992 FINAL DEATH-WISH: GB win Winter Olympics Ice hockey, England win a Penalty shoot out and to open Kingworld pleasure park on Sandown pier! ------------------------------ Subject: new e-mail address From: Bill Wilson Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 19:38:31 -0700 Hello all! i was "released" from my job today, so i have a new e-mail address: bill @ speakeasy.org this means that the cover tapes will be on hold till i can find some other company who wants to pay me to work for them... mail me with any questions and wish me luck! tcoy bill ------------------------------ Subject: Re: Gary Husband information From: Brian Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 22:10:43 -0500 From: "WHATSUPDOC" > Thanks for the information about Gary's playing on the "A Certin Kind of > Freedom" CD. > I have never heard of it so I will try to find it, or is there someone out > there willing to copy it for me? > > The Allan Holdsworth IOU album he plays keyboards on is the first IOU > album. He plays a nifty piano solo on the song "Temporary Fault". I also > have a Billy Cobham CD titled "The Traveller" on which he plays drums and > some keyboards. Hey, I've got the Traveller. It seems I remember reading about GH on there when I first got the CD a few years ago, but had forgotten about it. Do you know what songs he plays on (can't remember if it told and don't have the CD here). I saw where Billy was touring in the Eastern US last month. Did anyone go? I saw him a few years ago. I have never seen anyone play drums like that. He hung out a little bit afterwards and talked to a few of us that stuck around. Brian. ------------------------------ Subject: A great website to visit From: "Mike Bartlett" Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 20:18:20 PDT Hi everyone.... I just want to let all you good people know about a friend of mine's excellent website. It has lessons, news, transcriptions, more links than I've ever seen and tons more. Her name is Libby Bee (aka The Libster). She's a great girl, a demon player and my bass tutor. The address is: http://www.pnc.com.au/~beehive/libster/html It's also mirrored in the US, so for our friends across the pond: http://zippy.tradenet.net/ebass/libster/ Go have a look! All the best....Mike "Haven't I seen your face somewhere before?" "No, it's always been here on the front of my head...." ------------------------------ Subject: Wedding bells and a bio... From: "Richard J. Reddick" Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 03:24:23 -0600 Hi all, just a quick note from the king of lurkers. I left Cambridge having commited a major sin: never meeting our esteemed leader, Eric Hanson, in person, as well as Bruce Conrad. I should be slapped... Wanted to share MY good news... I'll be married Saturday here in Austin, Texas. One of the more interesting aspects of the planning has involved the playlist for the reception... of course I lobbied for "Romance" (which has grown in my esteem since I actually started to listen to the song instead of skipping it), but I'll probably lose that battle. SAY, of course, is well-known enough to get played w/o the "hey what the hell is that" reaction that other L42 tracks. Although I would also love to hear THC (remix, though it's a bit "spacey"). Adz and Ranger--Can I just say that the MP3 page is great?!? I downloaded the Expohal files, they are incredible. If you simply loved MK before, you will praise him as the divine being that he is after hearing it! Since I'm gone after this weekend (for a bit!) how's about a little bio? No? Oh well, that's what the page down button's for... FULL NAME:Richard J. Reddick ALIAS: Rich, Daddy Rich, Razjazza SEX: Male AGE: 26 BIRTHDAY: 5.17.72 LOCATION: Big Spring, Texas HAIR: Stubbly to non-existent... BLACK EYES: Brown LANGUAGES: English, the American derivative, schoolboy Latin MARITAL STATUS: single for three more days... after the nine year courtship... OCCUPATION: hey, I just graduated! give me a few days... I'll be a Hall Director at Cal Poly-SLO in August. Career swotty student type and former teacher, for two years in 5th Ward, Houston. L42 DIGEST MEMBER SINCE: #&@#... it's been a while... dare I say '95? HOW I GOT INTO L42: Early 80s... 83 or 84?After hearing TCW, was informed by a DJ that they were joining EW&F. Being a big fan of Maurice and the boys, I started checking 'em out. MOST FAVOURITE L42 album: SATS MOST FAVOURITE L42 songs: MAN--hands down, followed by Seven years (Guaranteed), THC, TAL, HIMH, ATGD, Two solitudes, Micro kid, TCOY, Good man in a storm MOST FAVOURITE L42 video(s): SAY, TCOY MOST FAVOURITE L42 live gig: missed 'em, dammit! LEAST FAVOURITE L42 album: I listen least to TPOA. LEAST FAVOURITE L42 song: Chinese Way? LEAST FAVOURITE L42 video: TCHB LEAST FAVOURITE L42 live gig: now how is this possible? FAVOURITE BASS LINE/SOLO: THC, TAL, GMIAS HISTORIC FIRST L42 ALBUM IN MY HIFI: World Machine on wax, got it at Boots in Banbury in '85 CURRENT/MOST RECENT L42 ALBUM IN MY HIFI: AYGB, or Overtime 7" CD--w ATGD MOST VALUED&CUDDLED "YOU-TOUCH-YOU-DIE" L42 POSSESSION: Level Best vid CD's I GRAB BEFORE EMBARKING ON A LONG ROAD TRIP: SATS AYGB LB Electronic-Raise the pressure Squeeze-Singles 45's and under Sting-Nothing like the sun Police-Regatta de blanc New Order-(the best of) Smiths-Meat is murder Blur-Modern life is rubbish Oasis-Definitely maybe FAVOURITE FOOD: Chicken a la Marsala FAVOURITE DRINK (alcoholic): Shiner Bock, Celis Raspberry, Rolling Rock, Gin & Tonic FAVOURITE DRINK (non-alcoholic): Chiquita Pineapple Mango Guava, Lilt FAVOURITE Actors: Ben Stiller, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie FAVOURITE Actress: Jennifer Lopez!!! FAVOURITE Movies: Enter the Dragon, Peter's Friends, Happy Gilmore VEHICLES OF CHOICE: 90 Acura Integra COMPUTER O/S OF CHOICE: Mac OS 8.1 baby! (since System 6!) TURN ONs: Good musical tastes, interesting eyebrows, laughter, sharp wits (Wilde and D. Parker-esque) TURN OFFs: Intolerance, homophobia, racism--actually all of the major prejudicial "isms," disloyalty, self-centeredness, stress, jealousy, slavish conformity SPORTS: All Texas Longhorns sports, esp. gridiron and basketball! Harvard hockey, Washington Redskins football, Chicago Bulls hoops SCUD MISSILE AIMED AT: Linda Tripp (the worst friend you could ever have), Ken Starr (embarassed to say he's a Texan), extremists of any hue ------------------------------ Subject: Word Machine From: Tom Brown Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 09:30:37 +0000 Hi Folks, Very quick shout to try and get into todays digest. For those of you who haven't ordered "Word Machine" from Loz yet - DO IT !!! Take it from me, it's worth 200 of anyones pennies. Well done Loz, keep up the good work !!! That's All -Tom ------------------------------ Subject: Okay, fill the Digest with more BIO crap From: dirk.vael @ ArthurAndersen.com Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 11:29:12 +0200 here comes... NAME: Dirk Vael ALIAS: Dirkies SEX: why not? BIRTHDAY: December 11, 1972 LOCATION: Luxembourg, Luxembourg HAIR/EYES: Brown/Brown LANGUAGES: Dutch, English, French, German and hopefully soon Spanish MARITAL STATUS: free as a bird ;-) OCCUPATION: technical supervisor in Luxembourg L42 DIGEST MEMBER SINCE: July 96 HOW I GOT INTO L42: 1986, Lessons In Love, I bought all their CDs in one go in the summer of 87 after hearing RITF I borrowed from a friend. But I do remember Hot Water from a TV performance in 1984 FAVE ALBUMS: Level 42, A Physical Presence FAVE COMPILATION: Erm, the ones I make myself! FAVE INSTRUMENTAL(S): Gresham Blues, Woman FAVE SONG: way too many, but "Almost there" & "It's Over" (that remains an evergreen) FAVE CURRENT SONG: Play Me FAVE VID: Something About You FAVE LIVE GIG: Antwerp Dec 1991 LEAST FAVE ALBUM: SITL LEAST FAVE SONG: TCHB, and all the post-1988 commercial stuff LEAST FAVE VID: TCHB LEAST FAVE GIG: come on! Okay, the playback 'performances' BEST L42 EXPERIENCES: L42 LIVE, OF COURSE!! WORST L42 EXPERIENCES: the split FAVE BAND MEMBER FANTASY: joining Mike at the keyboards in the studio FAVE BASSLINES: Love Games FAVE SOLO: 88 (live) (the solo's over everyone, not just MK) 1st L42 ALBUM: RITF PlatEd CURRENT L42 ALBUM: ?? I have 'em all MOST VALUED L42 POSSESSION: the 6 homebrewn CDRs I have plenty of rarities, plus the bootlegs CDs I GRAB: only label compils: Henry Street, United DJs of America, Suburban, Nervous, F-Communications, etc... most of the time I grab 12" vinyl, but if it are CDs, it's the same music: garage vocals, dubplates, deep house, St-Germain, speed garage, '92 Riviera house. Also some good pop, swing & funk. FAVE FOODS: difficult, but... french fries..., of course! FAVE ALCOHOLIC DRINKS: Hoegaerden FAVE NON ALCOHOLIC DRINK: Coke FAVE ACTOR: Harvey Keitel, Nicholas Cage, Tom Cruise, Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson FAVE ACTRESS: Meg Ryan, Helen Hunt, Sarah Gellar FAVE DIRECTOR: Ridley Scott, Quentin Tarrantino, and Luc Besson FAVE AUTHOR: dunno so many, but I do know Saint-Antoine De Exupery FAVE TV SHOW: don't watch TV shows, it's all crap FAVE MOVIES: Wild at Heart, Pulp Fiction, The Usual Suspects WEAPONS OF CHOICE: mindpower ;-) VEHICLE OF CHOICE: my 190 bhp boosted MGF/VVC TURN ONS: garage freaks, nice women, speed TURN OFFS: penny pinchers!!!!!!! and also sluts, lamers, Johnnies&Marinas, the cops GOOD HABITS: helping out people BAD HABITS: bad time planner, driving too fast STRENGTHS: good @ karting, DJ'ing @ parties WEAKNESSES: weeping women, excellent but expensive house tracks SPORTS: skiing, basket, football, baseball, racing...on my Nintendo64 ;-))))) SCUD MISSLES AIMED AT: all idiots with no respect for nature nor love FACTOID: reparing a broken $30,000 server at 3AM with *only* the knife I used to eat my pizza 10 minutes before FAVORITE QUOTE: I'm not the first to say this, but Matthew Broderick as Ferris Bueller's "Life moves pretty fast, if you don't stop to look around once in a while, you could miss it", or Jacques Lacan "Le désir, c'est le désir de l'autre" DEATH WISH: none