From: Level42-request @ worldmachine.com (Level42 Digest) Subject: Level42 Digest V99 #159 _ ____ _ ____ _ _ ___ // //__ // / //__ // /__// __// //__ //__ \\_/ //__ //__ // /__ D I G E S T Level42 Digest Volume 99 : Issue 159 1081 subscribers Today's topics: Hot Water Bass Tab for slapping beginners!!! Charl Mocke Tracklisting and more info Arjen Ligt ILF NYC"99" Richard Merriweather Brass boys Birdnig Added pics MARK BEARDSLEY beggin' for a copy llenhart French & Saunders Debbie Davies Quick delurk re New York Levelfest Simon Webb Digester in Deutschland Christoph Rempe Another Voiceprint story Christopher Lawless 3 points Tom Brown ------------------------------ Subject: Hot Water Bass Tab for slapping beginners!!! From: "Charl Mocke" Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 12:01:31 +0200 Hi everyone, Well now, I've drawn up a VERY simple and basic bass slapping tab for Hot Water, aimed at beginners who wants to learn how to slap bass like Mark does, but don't know where to start - here is your key. I am sure that there are a lot of them out there. Also, I would like to see other digest slappers contribute by also providing some SIMPLE bass slapping tabs of popular L42 songs. Maybe we can put it all up on a website or something. Now, it does NOT have to include all the complex pops & ghosts & thingies Mark uses, just strip it down to the bare. :-) Have a look at the tab format I use (very simple & efficient). So, all slapping newbies (and others too who wants to have a basic bass tab for HW), contact me: MockeC @ Telkom.co.za And put: "Hot Water bass tab" in the subject line. As soon as I get your mail, I'll e-mail it to you. It is a basic Notepad text document and very short & simple, because it is especially aimed at beginners. But it's free and anyone can have it. Even if your name is Mark King. :-) Let me hear from you! I'll also write a basic MIDI file of the bass for HW some time, consisting only of the bass riff. Check it out soon. I also plan to do the same for lots of other popular L42 songs. Cheers, Charl int L42 = 6*7; Mr. Charl Mocke ISIS Information Systems (Pty.) Ltd. Telkom UNIBase Cape Town South Africa [GMT +0200] E-mail: MockeC @ Telkom.co.za O/H Tel.: +27 (0)21 414-4720 A/H Tel.: +27 (0)21 854-8005 Cellphone: 083 2857506 ------------------------------ Subject: Tracklisting and more info From: "Arjen Ligt" Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 07:56:05 +0200 Hi all, Can anyone send me the complete tracklisting and other relevant info on the Unreached Level CD's??When were the tracks recorded, etc... Thanxs in advance!! Arjen Ligt Holland ------------------------------ Subject: ILF NYC"99" From: "Richard Merriweather" Date: Tue, 8 Jun 99 14:00:51 EDT Hello to all my fellow levelheads, This is Richard "The Guitar Player & Winston's Friend" Just wanted to say hi to everyone who was at the Saturday evening jam session. I'm happy that so many of you were pleased with Al and myself's performance and also everyone else's. It was my first time at a levelfest, but I hope not my last. I had a wonderful time and look forward to the next time I can meet up with all of you. I can't remember everyone's name so please forgive me. I remember where some of you are from.....ie....Seattle(Dan), Paris(Laure), Tampa(Chuck & Pam), Texas(Kristin), and all the points and people in between that I did not mention I hope to hear from you through the digest or contact Winston he knows how to get in touch with me. and remember-There is something about all of you that's sooo right...... Richard. ------------------------------ Subject: Brass boys From: Birdnig @ aol.com Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 15:40:51 EDT Hi Microkiddies! < Don't you think it takes it a bit far with all of these 42 references? I < understand the majority of you are just pointing out quirky coincidences for < comedic value. "...He is real, he is here, he is fashionable". ------------------------------ Subject: Added pics From: "MARK BEARDSLEY" Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 21:12:08 +0100 Hi everyone nice to read all the latest from the NY lev fest and to see you all had a great time only wish we could of been with you all but the cost for two for a weekend would have been a bit too selfish on our part ,having two children we decided to spend otherwise and went as a family to Ibiza for a week.Whilst sitting around the pool being subjected to the beatles and pink floyd for three days I finaly plucked up the nerve to ask the manager if he had ever heard of MK or Lev42 No! he said, well try these then and let me know what you think.As soon as lev best struck up a loud cheer came from the pool aera Ohh I thought other fans but alas after talking to them they were sick of the same too, but for the next four days Playa Den Bossa grooved to the sound of the boys and three albums are now taped and playing as you read so in a way we had our own spanish lev fest and a Spanish convert too. Anyway I have added a few new pics from Mikes Brighton gig to home page. Looking forward to all your pickies. MARK http://www.griswald78.freeserve.co.uk ------------------------------ Subject: beggin' for a copy From: llenhart @ celestar.com Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 14:50:01 +0000 Hey everyone! Haven't posted forever just been sitting back and reading everyone post. Boy the directions this digest page has gone!! Anyway, down to the beggin' does anyone have a copy of Gauranteed Live LD that would be willing to make me a copy. Just can't get it here in the states. NTSC preferred but if it comes from you oversea folks I'll deal with the PAL transfer. Let me know I'd really appreciate it. Lance ------------------------------ Subject: French & Saunders From: "Debbie Davies" Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 21:42:40 +0400 Sorry if this subject has already been done to death, but the kids have been off for half term, and I'm just catching up with my emails. I remember this great sketch, in fact spookily I had been thinking of writing something about it on the Digest, but Jenny beat me to it - great minds, eh, Jenny?! I used to have it on video, but unfortunately it's been long since taped over or lost. I'd love to see it again sometime. TCOYs Debbie ------------------------------ Subject: Quick delurk re New York Levelfest From: "Simon Webb" Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 21:35:01 +0100 Yo Luvahs, I am now well and truly back at the grindstone and into the mundane existence that is my life after what I would have to rate as one of the best trips of my life. I wanted to say a big thank you and hello to everyone that attended the fest at one point or another for just being you :-) I won't try to name everyone because I will only forget someone. The overseas representation was excellent with visitors from Wales, France and England. Maybe we can try and beat it next time with people from as many continents as possible! Thanks also must go to all of the musicians who brought along their equipment for people to play with (ooerr missus) and those that played with their equipment so expertly. The biggest thank you of all must go to Winston, my firned from NJ, for making me so welcome and letting me stay in his apartment amongst the largest collection of tapes, CD's, LP's, 7", 12", Laser Discs, photos, posters and assorted memorabilia that I have ever seen. Thanks also for being a great tour guide around your cool city throughout the week, including taking us out to the Mets game (YANKEES SUCK ;-) ) and to see Star Wars on Sunday. Say hello to Thelma and Louise for me. It really was good to see you all and I hope to see as many of you as possible in November or at another ILF in the near future. If you didn't attend, you don't know how much fun you missed. If you get the opportunity to go to a fest, do so, you will meet the friendliest (but also some of the most insane ;-) ) bunch of people in the world and have a blast - I did! Yours, wanting to go back and do it all over again, Si ------------------------------ Subject: Digester in Deutschland From: Christoph Rempe Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 03:05:47 +0200 Hi Hans, du brauchst dich nicht zu wundern. Natürlich gibt es Level Fans in Deutschland. Der Grund warum wir uns nicht oft melden ist, daß es nichts zu melden gibt. Alles klar ? Chris ------------------------------ Subject: Another Voiceprint story From: Christopher Lawless Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 00:25:26 -0400 Hi all- I noticed that some of the Digests have been a little short lately so I thought I'd share my experience with Voiceprint UK. I'm sure there's a few of you who have had your fill of Voiceprint-related posts- in which case please scroll down to the next post. Anyway... I'm involved with an independent music label/CD mail-order service (www. hmnetwork.com for more details). A few years back, we had placed an order from Voiceprint UK for three CDs from a particular artist (2 full albums and a CD single). At the time, the agreement we had made was that we would order a certain amount of the singles up front as they were a limited edition, and we would take pre-orders from our customers for the two regular albums over a two month period and then place a separate order for those. So we sent Voiceprint the money for the CD singles, and set about to solicit orders for the other two albums. So the two months go by (we had since received aforementioned CD singles) and the time had come to place the order for the other two titles. I called Voiceprint, was given a price including shipping, they faxed us a purchase agreement, and a money order was sent. About two weeks later I get a message from Voiceprint saying that they want to confirm the shipping address. I called back the next day to give them the information, and I get transferred over to a certain Mr. Rob Ayling (the same guy who told David Loundy that he would have to come to England to settle the dispute; also the same person whose e-mail address appears in the Resurgence version of FOREVER NOW on page 15 of the booklet) and he tells me that he can't sell me the CDs. When I asked why, he told me that the band (not Level 42 or anyone related) whose CDs we were buying were upset with a negative review I had written about one of their albums. When I reminded him that we had both a verbal AND written agreement all I got was a series of excuses about how each musician has complete control of how and where their CDs are sold. So then I asked him why he agreed to sell me the discs without getting the consent of the artists in advance, and also reminded him that Voiceprint in fact had sold me the CD singles which fulfilled half the arrangement. His response was that we had an agreement about the singles but not the two albums. In vain, I pointed out that our paying for the singles in advance and Voiceprint's giving me a wholesale price (per unit) for the other two albums and agreeing to wait two months for us to place an order illustrated that we had an agreement in the first place. Needless to say, the argument went nowhere. As luck would have it though, I found an independent distributor who was also selling the two albums and I was able to place my order through them. In an ironic twist of fate, the band in question got wind of the fact that we were selling the CDs and in turn left Voiceprint. Coincidence? I can't say for sure, but I certainly didn't feel the least bit bad about them losing an artist. At this point I feel compelled to bring up the letter Jakko sent to the Digest several weeks back in defense of Rob Ayling and Voiceprint. While I certainly agree with the overall sentiment of what Jakko was saying (and let's face it- any label that's willing to give an artist that much of a cut of the money coming in from albums sales has got a lot going for it) there's no denying that the fault lies solely in the lap of Voiceprint. I can certainly understand an incorrect (in this case- wholesale) price being put up on a website, but the fact that it remained up several weeks after the error had been pointed up shows a huge negligence on the part of the retailer- especially when the problem could have been corrected in 10 minutes with a quick site update. And then to read the letter where Mr. Ayling painted himself out to be a martyr suffering at the hands of vengeful internet fans... you can't help but wonder how's he survived this long in business. Anyways, that's pretty much the whole story. If anyone wants to contact me regarding this, please use my private e-mail address (lawford42 @ juno.com). Please don't contact me through the website or send any e-mail messages about this to the site as it's still a bit of a sore topic with some of the other people involved on my end. TCOY, Chris ___________________________________________________________________ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj. ------------------------------ Subject: 3 points From: Tom Brown Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 09:12:50 +0000 Hi folks, Point 1 - bass related Steadily been getting up to speed on a few bass lines. I'm finding that I slip into popping the A string rather than slap it (especially when playing something like Hot Water). It seems to be the norm that one should slap the A string. Am I getting into bad habits or do others do this ??? Point 2 - 80's band related Was listening to an 80's compelation at the weekend and heard Thomson Twins "Love On Your Side". That bassline crept into my head and stayed there ! Anybody know anything about the bassist ? Point 3 - Joke Totally L42 unrelated (even when I changed the names), but I just loved this, so I thought I'd share it. >>>>>>>>>>>> Two musicians (Mark and Phil) are seated either side of a table in a rough pub when a well-dressed man enters, orders a beer and sits on a stool at the bar. The two band members start to speculate about the occupation of the suit. Mark: -I reckon he's an accountant. Phil: -No way - he's a stockbroker. Mark: -He ain't no stockbroker! A stockbroker wouldn't come in here! The argument repeats itself for some time until the volume of beer gets the better of Mark and he makes for the toilet. On entering the toilet he sees that the suit is standing at a urinal. Curiosity and the several beers get the better of the bassist... Mark: - Scuse me.... no offence meant, but me and me mate were wondering what you do for a living? Suit: -No offence taken! I'm a Logical Scientist by profession! Mark: -Oh! What's that then? Suit:-I'll try to explain by example... Do you have a goldfish at home? Mark:-Er...mmm... well yeah, I do as it happens! Suit: -Well, it's logical to follow that you keep it in a bowl or in a pond. Which is it? Mark: -It's in a pond! Suit: -Well then it's reasonable to suppose that you have a large garden then? Mark: -As it happens, yes I have got a big garden! Suit: -Well then it's logical to assume that in this town that if you have large garden that you have a large house? Mark: -As it happens I've got a five bedroom house... built it myself! Suit: -Well given that you've built a five bedroom house it is logical to assume that you haven't built it just for yourself and that you are quite probably married? Mark: -Yes I am married, I live with my wife and three children! Suit: -Well then it is logical to assume that you are sexually active with your wife on a regular basis? Mark:-Yep! Four nights a week! Suit: -Well then it is logical to suggest that you do not masturbate very often? Mark: -Me? Never Suit: -Well there you are! That's logical science at work! Mark: -How's that then? Suit: -Well from finding out that you had a goldfish, I've told you about the size of garden you have, the size of house, your family and your sex life! Mark: -I see! That's pretty impressive... thanks mate! Both leave the toilet and Mark returns to his mate. Phil: -I see the suit was in there. Did you ask him what he does? Mark: -Yep! He's a logical scientist! Phil: -What's that then? Mark: -I'll try and explain. Do you have a goldfish? Phil: -Nope Mark: -Well then, you're a wanker. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Ho Ho Ho !!! That's all -T