From: Level42-request @ worldmachine.com (Level42 Digest) Subject: Level42 Digest V99 #19 _ ____ _ ____ _ _ ___ // //__ // / //__ // /__// __// //__ //__ \\_/ //__ //__ // /__ D I G E S T Level42 Digest Volume 99 : Issue 19 959 subscribers Today's topics: Videos, Alive in America Lolitaj Re: One Man top songs Lars-Ove Karlsson Loz, Jeff and the Dan Adam Hankinson Matt Rice's Level 42 T Shirts and public encoun>> THE 1999 PARTY Worst Group Ever Dawayne Bailey John venzon, etc. Winman42 Re: Camouflaged people!!! ElSavannah FOREIGN CURRENCY EXCHANGE WARNING Michael T Payne Mark King in Bass Player Mark Harter Coffee? Michael T Payne =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mr._King=B4s_Fender?= Patrick Key 80's compilations w/ L42 Brian LMN Midi Brian Midi files Julian Best New Mark King Article in Bass Player TH VH1 Greatest Hits Anna Holst ------------------------------ Subject: Videos, Alive in America From: Lolitaj @ aol.com Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 07:04:35 EST I agree with Andrew - Alive in America sucks. I went to two shows on that tour, and there were so many more songs they could have included. I have a bootleg audiotape of the entire show, and it is great. The CD is way too short. Byron, we already have a compilation of videos and interviews. A digest member named BobC made a series of six tapes a few years back, and they contain all the old shows like Rockpalast '84, TV appearances like Top of the Pops, interviews on German, Dutch and British TV, and many of the videos. I don't know if Bob still makes copies for people, but many other people have these tapes now and someone may be willing to copy them for you. Lolita ------------------------------ Subject: Re: One Man top songs From: "Lars-Ove Karlsson" Organization: IAR Systems AB Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 14:00:58 +0100 > Subject: RE: Formats > From: HAMMOND Paul > Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 12:00:00 -0000 > > Hi all, > > > Subject: Formats > > From: GJWillett @ aol.com > > I have to agree that I too prefer Love Wars or even One Man over > > Changing the Guard to be the next single. Is Changing the Guard at the > > top of the most voted songs from One Man on MK's website I wonder??? > > Yes, it is actually!!!! The current "chart" looks like this... > > 252 votes in total, from 24 countries! > Changing The Guard > Bitter Moon > Love Wars > One Man > Take My Hand > Swimming With Sky > Resupply > If I Had Something > Half Written Songs > Pamela > > If you haven't voted yet, stop by http://www.mark-king.com!! > > PH. Ok, so I was late in voting, but now I have. I also found the top list sorted according to countries. It was very interesting to see which songs were top three. The top three for UK was the same as above, which might have something to do with the number of votes (115). My top three happened to be the same top three for my country (Sweden): One Man Pamela Changing The Guard. I can't even remember how Love Wars goes, which usually means that I don't like the song or that it is just like so many other songs I've heard. Anyway, I liked the country lists more than the total, since the UK dominates it (surprise!). There were also 10 votes from Sweden, which is more than I though it would be, placing us fifth I think behind UK,US,NL,Germany. Just 18 days left... /Lars-Ove e-mail: love @ iar.se --- The reason I wouldn't kiss you last night I wouldn't kiss you 'cause I was afraid That I'd like you too much Carly Simon - The Reason ------------------------------ Subject: Loz, Jeff and the Dan From: "Adam Hankinson" Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 12:52:51 -0000 Some stuff follows that won't change your life but it will pass 2 mins for you...... Loz wrote >>I will be there at the Leiceser gig so see you guys there, however, I will be really quiet so you may well pass me by and never know, although I fear Lisa will jeoperdise my plans to go incognito.<< Why Loz? what's up with you? Don't be frightened of us..we are all mates here. Quite frankly, I am looking forward to meeting up with old friends and making new friends more than the actual gig. Is that silly? Sorry Mark! :-) I certainly will not be keeping a low profile. (I don't know how too) To everyone attending Hemel, Leics, Sheppers, Wolves and the bits in between....I am the loud, fat, ugly, baldy bloke...Come say HI Mark Perralla wrote, >>Jeff Porcaro.... you are sorely missed...may you rest in peace.<< The Shuffle king! Now then, A drum off between Jeff P and Phil G.... I would have bought tickets for that one Alex Friesen wrote, >>Now what is the deal with Alive In America? I think it's a fine album,<< Damn fine. Adz ------------------------------ Subject: Matt Rice's Level 42 T Shirts and public encounters From: "THE 1999 PARTY" Date: Tue, 19 Jan 99 08:28:45 PST Hey Gang, A little aside apropos of nothing... I was in the Laundramat last night, waiting for the stuff in the washers to get done, reading 'Starship Titanic' and had on my really nice Level 42 Digest T-shirt. Some other poor soul doing his laundry walks up to me and says 'nice T-shirt, what does it honor?' I gave him a quizzical look and he said 'For the music group or for Douglas Adams?' Is that great or what? It cracked me up. I bought 'Return of the Headhunters' and loved it, of course I had the first one already and love it, too. Thanks to all of you who mentioned it, I would have never known otherwise. That's it for me.... Doug To: LEVEL42 @ WORLDMACHINE.COM ------------------------------ Subject: Worst Group Ever From: "Dawayne Bailey" Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 08:44:52 PST I'm not going to defend Chicago just because I played with them for almost ten years, but there's other groups who deserve 'worst group ever'. The individual players in both Chicago and Toto are right up there in chops stature with Level 42 anyday. I dare anyone to search out Chicago's keyboardist/vocalist Bill Champlin's solo CDs. He co-wrote the classic soul songs After The Love Is Gone, Turn Your Love Around, among many others. His live CD called Mayday is outstanding and features the ferocious bass playing of Rachon Westmoreland. Ask Rebecca Johnson about this subject. (She's a Champlin/Toto/42 freak). Bill's voice, B-3 playing, writing, and producing is monumental. His wife Tamara is also a great artist. So is David Paitch, the Porcaro brothers, Jason Scheff and his dad Jerry-both awesome bass players. I played with Jason for years and he can slap you silly with his bass chops. I believe some of Chicago's, Toto's, even some Level 42 songs I've heard suck, but their all on the same level when it comes to musicianship. That's not opinion, that's fact. By the way, Bill Champlin was the first guy to bring Level 42 CDs on the bus, as well as Take 6 and other killer road music. Buy his CDs called Mayday, Burn Down The Night, He Started To Sing, Sons Of Champlin Live, Through It All, Runaway, Single-anything by Bill is pure funk, groove, giant soul, vocal chops beyond, and musical as hell. Jason Scheff's CD Chauncy ain't too shabby either, as well as any Steve Lukather solo CD. Keep an open ear and mind-we're not talking about The Spice Girls or David Hasselhoff here. Bill Champlin http://hometown.aol.com/champlins/index.html Jason & Jerry Scheff http://www.scheff.com ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Subject: John venzon, etc. From: Winman42 @ aol.com Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 12:37:44 EST Hey folks, got an e-mail from John venzon today. Says to say hello to everyone. He is currently busy as heck as the main film editor on the new 'South Park' feature film. Maybe he can sneak a L42 track onto the soundtrack? :-) John was curious if Colin is still on the digest, anf if so, does he still live in Los Angeles? He has some CD's and a laserdisc he needs to return. Loz, what is the theme of the next edition of World Machine? I do believe that Bob C is interested in making a journalistic contribution. That is if he can pull himself away from covering the New Jersey Nets in the NBA. Lisa, just so you know, it's should be your sworn duty to point out LOZ to all of us at the Leicester gig! Gaetan, i have heard lots of good things about Los Amigos Invisibles. Kristin Lage has even given me a tape of some of their tracks, but i have yet to listen to it. Kristin, i have the Gatorade cooler in my fridge, btw!! Hey, does anyone know what size knobs Mark King has on his bass? Tcoy, Win ------------------------------ Subject: Re: Camouflaged people!!! From: ElSavannah @ aol.com Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 13:34:10 EST Hi there fellow level heads Well it's only four days to go till the big event and I can't wait, I'm especially looking forward to seeing Loz again after all this time - and yes I will point him out to anyone that asks!!!!!! I might even consider putting up a few posters announcing his arrival so you can all crowd round and say hi just to convince yourselves that he does in fact exist!!!!! (Only kidding Loz but it will be great to see you and catch up with old times mate!!) Right thats it, I've said me piece, now I'm off to the print shop to get those posters ready!!!!!!!!!!! See you guy's out there on the road. Just look for the mad woman with a very distinctive Leather bikers jacket on!! When you see it you will know what I mean - that will be me.. Till then................... Lisa 'Mrs Pink' ------------------------------ Subject: FOREIGN CURRENCY EXCHANGE WARNING From: "Michael T Payne" Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 14:48:55 -0600 This is a notice to let US travellers to the UK next week: The GBP (British Pound Sterling) is rising sharply against the USD (US Dollar), you might consider buying the bulk of your hard currency NOW, as opposed to later, as it looks like that it is going to continue to climb. The current conversion is: >Buying GBP from USD: > GBP 1.00= USD 1.80 > Expected High 10 Day (GBP) USD 1.84 >Expected High 20 Day (GBP) USD 1.85 >Expected High 30 Day (GBP) USD 1.86 Source: Merrill Lynch Securities 01/19/99 14:36 I STRONGLY RECOMMEND THAT YOU BUY NOW, with some of the monies that some of you will be exchanging waiting a day could really set you back an easy USD 30.00 to USD 50.00 with an increase of just a cent or two. Those of you that can remember GBP 1.00 to USD 2.12 will understand what I am talking about! Mikey ------------------------------ Subject: Mark King in Bass Player From: Mark Harter Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 13:34:06 -0800 (PST) Hey Digesters, Well for the record, here is the response that the editor of Bass Player (Richard Johnston) wrote me back. Kind of interesting. Anybody know when "One Man" is due for a US release?? Sounds like it just might make it across the atlantic. live it up! cheers, -Mark Harter mdharter @ yahoo.com ---Richard Johnston wrote: > > Mark: > > As a matter of fact we have made the effort to secure a story, but we're > awaiting word on U.S. release of the CD. It serves readers and artists best for > us to publish players' stories when the most people will be able to buy their > recordings. > > Sincerely, > Richard Johnston > _______________________________________________________________________________ > Subject: Mark King > From: Mark Harter at Internet > Date: 1/18/99 12:08 AM > > Mr. Johnston, > I would just like to know why you haven't done anything recently on > Mark King?? Mark has a great new solo album out called "One Man". It > is an absolutely great CD. It is really to bad that BP cannot make > the effort to do a new article on Mark. It seems that the US music > never really opened up to Level 42, but bass players around the world > know who Mark King is. > > regards, > > Mark Harter > mdharter @ yahoo.com > _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Subject: Coffee? From: "Michael T Payne" Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:57:51 -0600 I just wanted to mention that I did see the Folgers commercial last night! :) .....with Folgers in your cup! Mikey "sing it Rockapella...........!" ------------------------------ Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mr._King=B4s_Fender?= From: "Patrick Key" Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 23:30:45 +0100 Does anyone out there know where to find any information about Mr.King´s Fenderbass? By the way, we seem to be in for a real treat here in Sweden in february: Mr.King on the 6th and Stanley Clarke on the 20th! I guess even the King himself would enjoy that gig, since S Clarke is an early hero of his. And as if that wasn´t enough; Tower Of Power is playing in my hometown on the 28th of january. How about that for a musical OD?! *****PageDown-key area******** And now for those who, like myself, are trying to learn how to play and can´t afford to pay 2500£ for a rack of Trace Elliot amps: ask your local dealer for the Zoom506Bass box o´effects. It has 24 individual built-in effects and up to 8 effects can be used simultaneously in any combination. It has memory capacity for up to 24 user-programmable patches. Integrated auto-chromatic tuner. The foot controls can be used for pedal wah, pedal pitch or pedal bank switching. It can be thought to contain 7 effect modules. Most effect modules only allows for one effect to be active any given time. With this little box you have all modules internally connected. The modules are: -Compressor -Distortion -Noise reduction with natural sounding cutoff -4 band Equalizer (presence, high, midrange, low) -Modulation (simple/ensemble chorus, flanger-delay, synth, octaver) **This module can use 2 effects simultaneously = 8 single effect devices** -Delay/reverb (conventional delay, hall reverb, room reverb) So if you for example are looking for that fat sound Mr.King has in the end of "I want eyes" or "People" on Standing in the light, you´ll have it by default. There are also several sites on the Internet with settings for different sounds you can program yourself. All of a sudden it felt ok to have paid 1350$ for a bass which sounded exactly as the one I had before and was a great deal lower in price. I wish they would sell canned playing skills as well.... .....yes, that´s right...a lot of irrelevant stuff, but that seems to be ok nowadays so there you are....:-) ************************************** "Drums stop, very bad..very bad!! Patrick ------------------------------ Subject: 80's compilations w/ L42 From: Brian Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 20:14:30 -0600 "MSFH62" wrote: > You didn't say where you are located. Here in the colonies (USA) all the > compilations, which I buy most of them, have only 'Children Say' or > 'Something About You'. I'm assuming that you live here in the colonies, > so if you would like a copy of Level 42 Remix CD on a MiniDisc let > me know. Just keeping the Faith in the States. > Yep. I'm in the US (Nashville). Thanks for the offer but I just need to find the CD so I can talk the DJ into getting it. Which ones have Children Say on them? I was hoping to find one with Lessons in Love on it. Brian. ------------------------------ Subject: LMN Midi From: Brian Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 20:21:03 -0600 > I just love the piano at the end of this song and would love to be able to > get a midifile of the song. > > Has anyone seen it anywhere ? I have LMN as a Yamaha XG midi. I made it into an MP3 playing through my Yamaha card if you want me to mail either to you. It has the piano at the end... Brian. ------------------------------ Subject: Midi files From: "Julian Best" Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 02:38:02 -0000 Hi all (yes an original greeting-I know!!) This is my first posting to the digest although I have been reading it for many months now and have been a L42 fan for god knows how many years. I put myself in the 'prefer early days stuff' club, especially bassy funky instrumentals (also Hot water & The Chinese Way-of course!), and like everything to be slap bass wherever possible. (Guess what? I'm not too keen on Marks new album-oh well each to their own tastes!). I'm going to two of his concerts: Cambridge & Croydon and to be honest I'm only going to see his L42 material, although I'm sure some of his material will sound 'better' live if he funks it up a bit! The main reason for the posting was to ask if anyone has a midi file of 'The Chinese Way', as I don't seem to be able to find it anywhere and can't believe it hasn't been done at some stage. I think I have all the others that have been produced. Many thanks for reading, and hopefully see some of you next week (gosh is it only a week away!) Take care Julian Best ------------------------------ Subject: New Mark King Article in Bass Player From: traceguy @ erols.com (TH) Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 02:51:33 GMT As someone else recently commented in a digest, Why has Mark been loked over in Bass Player Magazine for so long. Well, i emailed Richard Johnson and he sent me this: >To: traceguy @ erols.com (TH) >Subject: Re: Mark King >From: RJohnston @ mfi.com (Richard Johnston) >Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 10:48:14 -0800 > >Tom: > >The last time was March '92. As a matter of fact we have a story in the can >right now, but I'm awaiting word on U.S. release of the solo CD in order to >maximize his exposure. > >Best, >Richard Johnston Tom Harron ------------------------------ Subject: VH1 Greatest Hits From: "Anna Holst" Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 01:46:38 PST Hi all... re. VH1: I received the channel before the 1st of January 99 every night from 8pm till midnight (since then there's MTV...), and on the 27th of December they broadcasted the Greatest Hits compilation of Level42, hosted by Mark King. I didn't record it, because (believe it or not) I don't own a video recorder at home... Sorry, sorry, sorry... I hope today someone will record it. Something I wanted to ask about: Mark said after one of the videos, which had life-size cutouts of the band members in it, that the cutouts were stolen and appeared later at petrol stations throughout the UK... Does anyone know about this? Bye Anke ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com