From: Level42-request @ worldmachine.com (Level42 Digest) Subject: Level42 Digest V98 #8 _ ____ _ ____ _ _ ___ // //__ // / //__ // /__// __// //__ //__ \\_/ //__ //__ // /__ D I G E S T Level42 Digest Volume 98 : Issue 8 541 subscribers Today's topics: LLLF '98 first update ! Andre Huijts Jamiroquai CD Eric J. Hansen Wham Bass Player Pat Flanagan Wally B and the Talking Heads? David Leslie New year's wishes. Andre Huijts Re: Level42 Digest V98 #7 DonZipf Level 42 Mention! WillOShea Marcus Miller/Level 42 Morgan42 The Bass Article Again Dawayne Bailey Bass Player Magazine Congrats Dawayne Bailey About Me (New Subscriber) Jake Lennington MIDI!! (mostly non-L42 content...) MNR. CA MOCKE Rockpalast concert Henri.Blakenburg ------------------------------ Subject: LLLF '98 first update ! From: "Andre Huijts" Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:15:27 +0100 L o w L a n d s L e v e l F e e s t ' 9 8 UPDATE: Hi there ! Well the mails are flooding in, and it promises to be an even better LLLF than last year ! Lot's of people promise to take very interesting stuff like fan club magazines, press kits, original TV recordings, private Level 42 close-encounter recordings, overcomplete vinyl / CD's etc. , etc. Great ! Dirk promised to bring his digital photo camera, so we may be able to have some pictures "almost" live on the internet ! Here's the first list of people who mailed me that they intend to join in at the second LowLandsLevelFeest: Henry Blakenburg, Dick Verheul, Arjan Meijer, Gert Emmens, Dirk Vael, Ernst-Jan van der Hee, "The Mighty Maomoondog"/Bram Strijbos, Andre Huijts (surprise,surprise !) Regretfully Alexander Thomas and Daniel Venema are not able to come. Some other people are not yet sure if they are able to come, Please keep me updated ! Have I forgotten you ? Please mail me : huijts @ worldonline.nl Groetjes, Andre ------------------------------ Subject: Jamiroquai CD From: "Eric J. Hansen" Organization: Worldmachine Technologies Corporation Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 08:48:08 -0500 (EST) Sorry to blurt this out to the whole digest... would the guy from the Netherlands who sent me the Jamiroquai CD please email me? Thanks! Eric -- Eric J. Hansen Worldmachine Technologies Corporation http://www.worldmachine.com tel: (617) 357-4040, fax: (617) 357-4949 ------------------------------ Subject: Wham Bass Player From: Pat Flanagan Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 09:30:28 -0600 > Now I was in a Luxembourgish undaground bar and heard the DJ spin the 12" > (or a recent house-ish mix?) of Wham's awesome "Club Tropicana"... Oh > my God! What have I been missing... That funky bassguitar intro is > soooooo looonng in that 12" version, blended with some disco flava. > Who was that bassplayer? Andrew, Michael or some studio musician? Unless it was a re-recording with some other player, the bass player was probably Dion Estes, an awesome awesome bass player who was the primary bassist for Wham/George Michael for a number of years. I'm proud to say I've seen both Wham & George Michael in concert, both times with Dion on bass, and he's definitely in my top 10 favorite bassists. ____________________ 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: Wally B and the Talking Heads? From: David Leslie Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 14:18:12 -0500 Hey! A few days ago, I checked out the soundtrack to Win Wenders' "Until the End of the World". So while I was grooving to "Sax and Violins" and checking out the linear notes for the song when I saw this.. Additional Musicians- Wally Badarou: Keyboards So that makes David Byrne a 2 on the 6 degrees list! See Ya! David David Leslie dleslie @ csi.compuserve.com davidl @ csi.com (POP3) CompuServe Product Production QA 614-538-4361 M-F 9-6 ------------------------------ Subject: New year's wishes. From: "Andre Huijts" Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 13:04:15 +0100 A bit late maybe, but heck: Here are my New Year's wishes for '98 1) Some new or re-released stuff from our heroes in any form or other 2) A nice Level 42 hat (heya Winston what's up ? By now you owe me 2 caps with the interest you made on my money ;-) ! 3) My videotape I send to Zak Nilsson many months ago to arrive back home safely (Please !) Something else, Robert Vargas could you please send me a mail (that is if you still have electricity over there) ? I lost you e-mail address. Thanks ! Groetjes, Andre ------------------------------ Subject: Re: Level42 Digest V98 #7 From: DonZipf Organization: AOL (http://www.aol.com) Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 14:38:48 EST > I would like to know the notes for Love games in particular. Last time > I tried this some people said I should figure it out by ear. Well shut > up, that's something I can't really do, I have problems figuring stuff > out. I just want to play. E - E - E-E - E-E - A-B - D-E . . . repeat Developing an ear simply takes practice, just like playing. Stick with it! :o) Z. ------------------------------ Subject: Level 42 Mention! From: WillOShea Organization: AOL (http://www.aol.com) Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 16:16:28 EST For those of you who are interested in this sort of thing, the current issue of Bassist magazine contains an interview with Jamiroquai's bassist Stuart Zender. There is a brief mention of Level 42 and Mark King where he says that when he was growing up in America the only music that really stuck with him was hearing Level 42 tracks such as 'Lessons in Love'. He also drops a rather large hint that he'd like to meet Mark at some point! (wouldn't we all) Will. ------------------------------ Subject: Marcus Miller/Level 42 From: Morgan42 Organization: http://morgan42.home.ml.org Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 01:09:54 +0100 Hi. Yes it's true, we can ask some questions to Marcus Miller online, here: The Marcus Miller Question & Answer Page http://pweb.uunet.de/weitz.hh/MM-Q&A.html --cut here-- Question from Morgan Roussel (January 12, 1998): Hi Marcus, I'm a bass player since 1987 and my master is Mark King. I would like to know if you like level 42 and his bass player. By the way, I love your sound (I think it's the best BASS sound of the universe!!) Have you ever play on an Alembic? I think so... Regards, Morgan Roussel The answer of Marcus (January 13, 1998): Hey Morgan, I'm not that familiar with Level 42, although I've heard a lot about them. Gonna have to pick up some records. No, I never played an Alembic, the sound was a little small for my taste... Peace --cut here-- PS: Maybe one day we could ask some questions to Mark King too... Regards, Morgan -- Level42 http://level42.home.ml.org ------------------------------ Subject: The Bass Article Again From: "Dawayne Bailey" Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 19:51:36 PST Another thing I forgot to mention. When Bass Player readers check out Rebecca's site as it gives her website address because it's about bassists having websites, they will see the pix of her with Level 42, getting her Level 42 tattoo (anyone seen those yet?), as well as the Level 42 links that her and Carl have put there. So maybe we'll see a few new digest members from the article. Stranger things have happened. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Subject: Bass Player Magazine Congrats From: "Dawayne Bailey" Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 19:43:52 PST A big congrats to Rebecca Johnson and Carl Mueller for the cool mention in the Web Watch column in the Feb. Bass Player Magazine. They even mention the band I'm playing in now, Belly Puddle, as well as the last band I played with, Chicago. So we got three Level 42 digest members with a nice little mention in the universe's biggest bass mag. Job well done guys. How about that bizarre fretless banjo bass that Victor Wooten is holding on the cover? I just wish they'd do more Mark King articles. Maybe next year after some new 42 releases. We should all be so lucky! ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Subject: About Me (New Subscriber) From: getjakeit @ webtv.net (Jake Lennington) Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 22:45:56 -0600 Hi, My name is Jake Lennington. I'm 22 and have been a fan of Level 42 since 1987. The first song that I remeber hearing was Lessons in Love when it first made it to the radio in late 86. I purchased the Running in the Family tape and the World Machine tape, also. Since I was only 11 at the time, money was hard to come by. Buying a little thing like a cassette tape was a big thing for me. As the years rolled by, I gradually became less and less involved in music and more into school work. All of the tapes (around 5) that I purchased were put away and nearly forgotten. By the time I was seventeen in 1993, I saved up enough money to buy my first CD player. At this time I was heavily into the Beatles and was really into the "up and coming grunge music scene". (What was I thinking?) Level 42 was all but forgotten. It was the summer of 1995 when I heard "Somthing About You" played on my local radio station over it's 80's music lunch hour. I hadn't heard this song in over seven years! When I came home, I dug up the tapes and listened to them again for the first time in nearly six years. In May of 1997, I came on-line and it was then my interest in Level 42 really took off. I purchased all of the CD's, almost all of the videos, and I've been vigilently searching for the few items that I am missing. Now, with news of the expanded CD's coming out in 1998, it looks like a good year for me and other Level 42 fans. Jake ------------------------------ Subject: MIDI!! (mostly non-L42 content...) From: "MNR. CA MOCKE" <9413693 @ narga.sun.ac.za> Organization: Stellenbosch University Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 08:46:55 +0200 (Mostly non-L42 content follows...) Hi everyone! I mailed this coz I got some MIDI-related questions I posted to a few digesters I thought might be MIDI guru's, but most of my mail got bounced back for some reason... so if you are very familiar with MIDI, would you please read this and mail me a reply or something... ta very much!! I am an amateur bassist and learning L42 bass lines, both from the listening to the songs itself and listening to the bass lines on MIDI files (I got from Sean Green's MIDI site about 2 months ago). I also play keyboard a lot. Speaking of Sean's MIDI site: the L42 MIDI files I got from it are absolutely EXCELLENT. Anyone remotely interested in MIDI files should really get these MIDs, especially if you got a MIDI keyboard to listen it through. Especially the files "Heathrow", "Forever Now", "Standing in the Light", "Love in a Peaceful World (old skool mix)" are BRILLIANT!! I only recently got into MIDI (got a Yamaha OPL3-SA3 sound card only about a month ago) and it got me hooked like hell. I have studied music at school since Grade 1 (1982) and been playing piano since then, as well as keyboard since 1992 and guitar since 1986. I have been writing MOD files (ring a bell?) since 1993, but it is only 4 tracks and no-one uses it any more, and you can't record from your music keyboard. Now MIDI - finally a GREAT way to write music using my computer!! I play the MIDs thru my YAMAHA PSR-400 keyboard (via my sound card). It sounds GREAT!! So, on to my queries! ...... 1.) I use CakeWalk Pro MIDI writer program. However, the MIDI files I got from Sean's site (amongst others) had different "patch maps" instruments than my keyboard. For example, Standard General MIDI format's patch map for Bass instrument is number 33 (i think) but on my keyboard uses number 82 for Bass instrument. Drums is number 00, but my keyboard uses number 99 for drums&percussions and uses the keys for the different drums and stuff. So when the MIDI file is played, it plays a violin sound instead of bass (number 33 is violin sound on my keyboard), and a mixture of piano notes instead of drums (piano is 00 on my keyboard). In short, at first it sounded terrible. To solve this, I changed all the patch maps in the MIDI according to my keyboard instrument numbers. (now the L42 MIDI's sounds GREAT!!!! - just like the real song, only without the vocals.) SO, my question is:- Is this the way it is supposed to work? I mean, before listening to a MIDI file you need to change the patch maps according to your keyboard (not that I really mind doing that)? Or is there some way you can "set up" your computer so that the MIDI file's instruments is automatically converted to your keybaord's correct instruments? (I couldn't find anything like that in CakeWalk or my sound card's drivers). 2.) I'm starting writing MIDI files (especially L42 - duh!). Do I need to change the patch maps back to Standard General MIDI patch map instrument number before I save it? (e.g. my keyboard bass 82 to General 33)? Coz some people don't have a music keyboard and they listen to it through their speakers and the Windows MIDI Mapper (don't know what they're missing though!). I would like my MIDI files to be so general and standard as possible, and sound good on all computers/keyboards. Could you give me some info/tips here as well? I want to send all my L42 MIDI files to Sean's site. 3.) If you have any other L42 MIDI files, would you please send me some? I am L42 MIDI-hungry!!! Well, I guess that's about it. Hope there is anyone out there who can help me. I just listened to "Set Me Up" again before leaving for work this morning. Great tune, especially the verse leading to the chorus! "Black and white would turn to shades of grey...." Cheers Charl oooo oo ------------------------------ Subject: Rockpalast concert From: Henri.Blakenburg @ DUT.RWS.minvenw.nl Date: Thu, 15 Jan 98 7:59:07 +0200 Hey starchilds, Carl, i doubt if rockpalast will send out the interview from after that concert. I look a lot to the rockpalastconcerts, but the reruns are almost without interviews or what. But, thanx for the info and i will drop a mail at the WDR-redaktion. About a cappella singing: i will search back on my L42 video tape part 2, cos i have got an intervieuw from Veronica t.v. with Mark in his own pub. The intervieuw ends with a cappella singing with Mike and Gary (!) on the piano ! I will take the tapes with me at Dr. Dre's second LLLF. Take care of yourselfs Henri.