From: Level42-request @ worldmachine.com (Level42 Digest) Subject: Level42 Digest V98 #4 _ ____ _ ____ _ _ ___ // //__ // / //__ // /__// __// //__ //__ \\_/ //__ //__ // /__ D I G E S T Level42 Digest Volume 98 : Issue 4 546 subscribers Today's topics: LevelRoundup II Pics -- Finally here!! Sean D. Green Record stores in San Francisco? Michael Monsen IRC Chats on Sundays Jeff Grous Deja-vu? Mad Monk WDR concerts Mighty Maomoondog ------------------------------ Subject: LevelRoundup II Pics -- Finally here!! From: "Sean D. Green" Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 10:03:14 -0600 Dear All, Sorry for the incredible delay on these, but the LevelRoundup II pics are ready for viewing. Taken from our meet on November 8, 1997, we had a great time! Please come by and take a look. http://www.flash.net/~questps/levelfest.htm Hope you like them. Thanks again for the wait. ~Sean -- *********** "The MIDI Extreme" *********** * http://www.flash.net/~questps/midi.htm * *** For the best MIDI files on the net!*** ****************************************** ------------------------------ Subject: Record stores in San Francisco? From: phydoux @ xmission.com (Michael Monsen) Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 17:59:02 GMT Hello all, I am going to be in San Francisco next week. Does anybody know of some good used CD shops or other places I might be able to find Level 42-related material? Any help would be appreciated... -- Michael Monsen | If you had your choice between the body of a phydoux @ xmission.com | 20-year-old and the body of a 35-year-old, http://www.xmission.com/~phydoux | where would you keep it? ------------------------------ Subject: IRC Chats on Sundays From: Jeff Grous Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 10:25:14 -0800 Hey, everybody! Okay, so I finally got off my butt and downloaded an IRC client so I can go play- navigated DALnet, found the SECRET(!) Level_42 channel, got there and... Nobody was there! So I sat and monitored the L42 channel while I went and chatted and asked a million questions in the New2IRC channel, instead. So... it looks like everyone has lost interest or forgotten about the Sunday chat. Let's change that. I will BE there this Sunday at 11am PST waiting for ya'll. For those who would like to play but have no idea what we're talking about, you need to download an IRC app like mIRC (do a search for mIRC 5.3, you'll find it) and install it. Then, use your dialer to call your ISP, but don't launch your browser. After you connect, launch mIRC instead. In my case, I can launch mIRC and then my dialer launches and connects- you might be able to do it this way, too. (Before doing all this, you'll need to change a couple of things in mIRC- find the default PORT and change it from 6667 (I think) to 7000) Pick "Random DAL Server" (I think this is the default) and hit connect. If the server is full, you'll get clobbered; so just reconnect again. Chances are you'll hit a different server the next time around. When you connect to the server for the first time, you won't have a nickname, so you'll have to pick one. If you choose one that is already in use or is registered, the server will give you 60 seconds to pick another one or you'll get bounced. After you have one you (and the server) like, open the Channel list (fourth icon from the left in the toolbar), type "Level_42" (no quotes, but WITH the underscore) and after a few seconds you should see the "Welcome to the Level_42..." message, and you're in! I am MisterPink on DALnet. See you there! I put this up to save someone like me who has never played with IRC the trouble of figuring all this out, hehehehe... See ya'll Sunday. Carl! Has Laurel come to her senses yet? -Jeff "I'll have a double of whatever that guy on the floor had." [I poked around on DALnet but didn't see anyone... I'll try again on Sunday! -Eric (LEVeLric)] ------------------------------ Subject: Deja-vu? From: "Mad Monk" Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 19:39:12 -0000 Yo! People... Wishing all digest members around the world a funkin' new year..... Eric - Sorry to hear your problems with your ISP. Change 'em! Missing the daily dose of goodness is as bad as having to listen to an Oasis album!!!!! WARNING - Entering Nostalga Mode...... I feel compelled to voice a couple of observations that have "touched" me for a while now. The first concerns a live L42 performance on a 1985 Brit music show "The Tube" which is due to be re-run as a "Best Of" show here in the UK. The guys performed 2 tracks live -"Physical Presence" and "Something About You" from the World Machine album. At the end of PP they added an extra piece which included a melody, chanting and the usual "watch me make this bass talk" stuff which (to be honest) at the time sounded distant from the thread of the song, although still classy (of course). Then in 1986 "Lessons in Love" was released - and the tune to "I'm not proud, I was wrong, and the truth is......" sounded excatly like that live piece added to PP - Amazing! According to an interview Mark thought the add-on would make a good melody for a song in its own right. Great foresight as LIL got to Number 3 in the UK charts - their highest position ever acheived for a single release. This happening never fails to impress me (sad I know). Another observation concerns Wally Badarou's album "Echoes". This was released in 1983 and contains a track "Mambo" which includes a section which crops up as the "who knows why they come and where they go in this........" melody from the "World Machine" track 2 years later (with WB in the credits - surprise surprise). Proving that not only innovation but evolution were key skills employed by the guys! Now exiting Nostalga mode.... Finally I must express my sorrow for all those who have not been fortunate enough to see the band perform. Bass-ically (geddit?) you people have not had a chance to exist in the full manner, and I only hope there will come a miraculous time when a reformation tour goes worldwide to make it up to you all. Which in a spooky kinda way brings me on to the final, final point... reading how sucessful Zap's work on P&P and AYGB has been, anyone want to offer their video editing skills to round up all the BEST bits from any concert film footage that may be out there to produce a kick-ass tape to sell? It is one thing to listen to the sheer genius of music, but surely there's something to be said for seeing how it's played as well!! (It can even be all bass solos!) ******************************************************* "Dis-information......That we take for the truth" Mad Monk mad.monk @ mcmail.com "If it moves.............Funk It!" MM **************************************** ------------------------------ Subject: WDR concerts From: Mighty Maomoondog Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 01:09:26 +0100 Hey everyone - so far this year has turned out great for me...! It's been awhile since I wrote to the Digest because I had a little housing problem... alhough, it wasn't even that little!! Well anyway, I sorted that all out and now I'm back! About the concerts that will be aired in February and March, I have access to a DAT recorder and maybe also a DCC recorder. I hope to have a stereo VCR available too. Needless to say, I will be doing a lot of recording on those 2 nights. The question I have is: does anyone know just at what time the 2 concerts will be aired? And what will be the playing time? I personally don't think it'll be more than 2 hours, IF they air both of the whole concerts. A few months back I was watching an INXS concert (the Elegantly Wasted Tour - probably one of their last ever gigs :( ) and they only aired a few songs... does anyone know why? And will they do this with our boys' gigs too? OK, well, that'll be all for now... C y'all later! Mighty Maomoondog "...the silence roars like thunder..." A L P H A V I L L E - M C M L X X X I X