From: Level42-request @ worldmachine.com (Level42 Digest) Subject: Level42 Digest V99 #39 _ ____ _ ____ _ _ ___ // //__ // / //__ // /__// __// //__ //__ \\_/ //__ //__ // /__ D I G E S T Level42 Digest Volume 99 : Issue 39 1019 subscribers Today's topics: MK interview Fiona Robertson Bass player comments on the Stockholm gig Alessandro Maccari Meja - dum dum dadada dum Lars-Ove Larsson Re: Level42 Digest V99 #37 Andre Huijts Azymuth Winman42 Welcome to the zebra digest Steve Robson magazine article copies bert w Jazz Fusion Chris Staunton Wheres Jenny> Laurence F. GREEN Other Music Allwyn & Laura Kelly Other Music Allwyn & Laura Kelly Answer to "Children Say" remix trivia question. Anthony Richards Promotion ERICWHE01 Hot Water Frans Lundquist gothenburg show Konstantin Braticevic Super, Super Kev Nightfly83 POW/Larry Graham Cedric Freeman Guaranteed Live video Judi Zalewski Re: zebra Zak Jazz Funk Fiona Klimczak Gary Husband Trio Steve Randall ------------------------------ Subject: MK interview From: Fiona Robertson Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 12:11:49 -0000 Did anyone tape the MK interview on "This Morning" (ITV) back on 15th September '98, and would be willing to give me a copy?? I'd be more than happy to pay p&p. Cheers, Fiona Fiona @ dma-design.com Sound Designer ------------------------------ Subject: Bass player comments on the Stockholm gig From: "Alessandro Maccari" Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 04:59:32 PST Hi there! for Lars-Ove n.2: Alessandro (one l and two s's) is the right spelling of my name... but you are justified since I had only one business card, and you were not the one who received it ;o) I would also like to thank the band and all of you, including the very polite security guy at Klubben, for the nice evening. It seems a coincidence, but whenever I am around the staff wherever Mark plays are all in a bad mood... I subscribe to LO's apologies to Patrick: the weather was not too pleasant to start searching for the place. My promises to scan the photoes are still at promise level... Some comments from a disciple bass player (my thumb still hurts from bumping it onto the iron barriers during the concert...). The Stockholm gig was of a very high quality in terms of visibility and sound (there was some equipment that did not work, but the performance did not seem to suffer from it). The mix of old L42 songs and new one was well planned and effective. They did not play any new L42 songs (1988 - 1994), but it was a sensible choice (One man has roughly the same sound line as Guaranteed and Forever Now at least). One song did not sound too well: Halfwritten songs. The others were all remarkable, with special notice for Changing the Guard and Mr. Pink (quite a combination!) The band: Lyndon was perfect and cool (the only one who looked always at us straight). Nathan is much better as Mark's guitarist rather than Boon's surrogate. Trevor did his job meticulously and kept the band "together" very effectively. A bass player's note: it was impressive how Mark could make his second bass sound as if it were slapped, when he was instead using only traditional 2-finger technique. He anchored on the second pickup when he wanted softer sound and on the first when he wanted funky sound (to make the string vibration wider). Unnoticed before. Alessandro M ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Subject: Meja - dum dum dadada dum From: Lars-Ove Larsson Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 14:26:30 +0100 Yesterday Kudsia wrote: >Haven't sent a message for ages from this end, thought I'd share with >everyone that this girl called Meja has a song called All About Money >from her album "Seven Sisters"....that particular tune sounds like it >could have been written by one of our boys. It's a small world... I used to work with a girl who was living together with Douglas Carr who writes music for Meja, and also produces. So I met him a couple of times. He was also involved with early Ace of Base. He's not into L42 as far as I know. Meja has a really good voice, though. She was the singer of the one-hit wonders Legacy of Sound before going solo. Their hit was "Happy". BTW, the sisters who sing in Ace of Base can't sing their way out of a paperbag. Douglas told me he's spent many hours doing retakes, piecing them together and still having to "tweak" the singing while mixing. Lars ------------------------------ Subject: Re: Level42 Digest V99 #37 From: "Andre Huijts" Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 14:10:25 +0100 >i,ve just been on an internet cd/book shop page www.cdparadise.com and it >said it had copies of "the sun goes down" 12" for sale - but it wasn't due >for release until december 1999 ?!? Sounds familiar: I was in one of the second hand record stores in Rotterdam last saturday (actualy it's a small chainstore called De Plaatboef) and they have a computer in which you can look up stuff they can deliver on order. Needless to say what I entered and amongst a lot of other stuff there were 3 versions of TSGD '98, being the 12" the CD5 4 track and the CD5 2 track. I wanted to order the 12" and the two track versions, but the guy told me that the 12" was not yet released. I have a feeling that it never will...regretfully. It would have been very nice to have some '98/'99 vinyl Level stuff...... never mind. Some other nice things on the list: Baktabak PD with and without clock, Level Best on vinyl (which I ordered), Guaranteed Japenese (anything special on that ?), Resurgence FN for a very low price and much more "regular" stuff. Groetjes, Andre ------------------------------ Subject: Azymuth From: Winman42 @ aol.com Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 08:31:29 EST Wow, pretty cool to see Bill and Laura mention Azymuth, who have been faves of mine for quite some time. I agree about the 'Light As A Feather' album. I must have seen the band at least 6 times in NYC in the eighties. Nice sound from a trio, and Alec Malhieros was a monster on bass. He released a solo album as well, that is worth checking out if only for the 'INCREDIBLE' bass sound on the opening track. Win ------------------------------ Subject: Welcome to the zebra digest From: Steve Robson Organization: Cadence Design Systems Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 13:37:26 +0000 > Subject: zebra > From: tintin > > >The question is: Who owns the Zebra? > the german owns the zebra. Spot on! 'Fraid I can only give you five points as somebody else got it last week. It's great to see all the pictures from the gigs. Keep on scanning. So, what are we all going to talk about now? Steve UNIX admin MITS Europe e-mail: srobson @ cadence.com Cadence Design Systems Tel: +44 (0)1344 866523 or +44 (0)7771 941264 Bagshot Road Fax: +44 (0)1344 869329 Bracknell BERKSHIRE Web: http://www.cadence.com RG12 0PH UK ------------------------------ Subject: magazine article copies From: "bert w" Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 06:09:49 PST Why doesn't someone put copies of the articles from the magazines mentioned by J shuford "for auction" on the level 42 page so we can ALL read them?????????????? thanks bert bertwh @ hotmail.com ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Subject: Jazz Fusion From: Chris Staunton Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 09:31:58 -0500 > As for other bands, I don't think anything > sounds just like Level 42, but some of my favorite jazz/funk/fusion > records are Wayne Shorter "Atlantis", Herbie Hancock "Thrust", Mike Clark > "The Funk Stops Here", The Yellowjackets "Four Corners", Weather Report > "Heavy Weather", etc, etc. It's funny, but I think the record industry > has squashed the creativity out of the jazz/fusion idiom. Too true! Jazz Fusion is (for the most part) a dead art form. It has passed into history... but fear not folks. I am currently putting together a smashing website dedicated to the birth of jazz fusion. I'll let you all know when it's ready. Fusion is dead, long live Fusion! -Chris Staunton \~~~~/ | | [-OO-] Trust the computer industry to shorten "Year 2000" to Y2K. | () | It was this kind of thinking that caused the problem in | | the first place. `----' ------------------------------ Subject: Wheres Jenny> From: L.F.Green @ shu.ac.uk (Laurence F. GREEN) Organization: Sheffield Hallam University Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 14:20:30 -0000 Hullo all, Jenny from IOW perlease contact me ASAP? L.F.Green @ shu.ac.uk Lozlevel42 @ lwordmachine.freeserve.co.uk LOZ ------------------------------ Subject: Other Music From: "Allwyn & Laura Kelly" Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 10:14:50 -0700 Tower of Power is one of my faves at the moment. Their latest is pretty good. You just can't go wrong with Pastorius! The album......Rhythm and Blues. later laura ------------------------------ Subject: Other Music From: "Allwyn & Laura Kelly" Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 10:14:50 -0700 Tower of Power is one of my faves at the moment. Their latest is pretty good. You just can't go wrong with Pastorius! The album......Rhythm and Blues. later laura ------------------------------ Subject: Answer to "Children Say" remix trivia question. From: "Anthony Richards" Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 13:53:34 -0500 For those of you who might have wondered, the sample in the beginning of the remix is from "Joyride" by jazz/r&b artists Pieces Of A Dream. The track was produced by none other than former Return To Forever drummer (and jazz-fusion legend) Lenny White. The Level 42 connection is that, as many of you digesters probably know, Mark King made his infamous trek from the UK to NYC to crash at Lenny's pad in the days before Level 42. Long live the King and Level 42....keeping it funky into the new millennium! Anthony Richards Account Executive Rainbow Interactive (516) 622-2107 Visit www.ezseek.com "Where It's @ On Long Island" ------------------------------ Subject: Promotion From: ERICWHE01 @ aol.com Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 15:10:05 EST Somebody correct me if I'm wrong (and I'm pretty sure someone will !), but is there an imbalance going on here ? Recently we've witnessed some incredible shows and rave reviews of Mark Kings 'One Man' tour. And all this on the back of a poorly promoted and mis-managed Album release. (changed release dates,no tour merchandise etc,etc) That brings me to the obvious point....so what would have happened if the One Man album was properly promoted ? It almost seems that Eagle had written the whole thing off as a liability from the start (sounds familiar - Guaranteed & Polydor). The point I'm making is that if more people were aware of how good this thing is then, well, you wouldn't be sitting in the garden shed of music that is Manchester Academy. I (forcefully) got a couple of my levelphobe mates to go to the Leicester gig, and they loved it. So, would we have had a 'Supergroup' on our hands if the American Tours were better promoted or if they weren't playing second fiddle to someone else, or if the public's perception of the group wasn't just Running in the Family........think about it ! Eric W ------------------------------ Subject: Hot Water From: Frans Lundquist Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 21:42:26 +0100 Level42 Digest: >>From: brianm @ actuaries.org.uk >>Am I the only one that thinks that "Hot Water" is just >>too good a live song to be put at the beginning of the show ? > >i think a gig should always start with one of the best songs. why not >make it great right from the start ! i think hot water is a brilliant >starter ! Exactly! Hot Water is one of the best "floor fillers" I've ever come across, eventhough very few has ever heard it before. Works everytime, and should be one of the best L42 songs to start of a concert to get everyone's attention right away. Once that is done, they ought stay awake! /Frans ------------------------------ Subject: gothenburg show From: "Konstantin Braticevic" Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 22:04:49 +0100 Hi there, Two days have passed since Mark King played at Trädgårn here in Gothenburg Sweden, and I am still shocked by the impact the show had on me. It was everything I expected it to be, and more! Having seen the Man only once before (December 1991 Guaranteed Tour, Gothenburg) I was rather nervous and excited hours before the show. The location for the gig was illchosen, as it is intended for "bigger" acts. A smaller place, I remember saying to myself, would have been much better. Well, I was wrong, and I've come to the conclusion once again that size doesn't matter. A small crowd, but a very enthusiastic one, managed to fill the place up. Especially a blond guy with a ponytail who did everything he could to get the audience going. Great work man!!! There were no more than 70-80 persons attending the show, and at one point I was afraid that the concert would be cancelled or something due to poor ticket sales. Well, I am infinetely grateful that the band did perform. What a brilliant performance it was... The set was intimate and the bunch of us who stood right in front of center stage and singed and danced like complete madmen had a very good time. The songs (I wont reveal what was performed) were absolute world class, and the groove was rock solid. The band clearly enjoyed the concert, and I was surprised in a positive way that so many older Level 42 songs were taken out on the road. This was playing for fun's sake, not for selling albums. (In defence of the keyboard player: Ok, he made a few mistakes, but so did the King himself, and the guitarist, and the drummer... Who cares?!!! He did a good job, and at one point Mark King leaned over to him and said: "brilliant", so...) There has been absolutely no promotion what so ever of the the ONE MAN album here in Sweden, and I suspect that the majority of the persons who attended the show in Gothenburg heard about it through this mailing list or some L 42 site. So, it is no surprise that not more people came to the venue. Well, I am so lucky that I did, and I hope that as many as possible of you L42 fans out there get the opportunity to see Mark Kings show. It was simply fantastic. Absolute happiness... Koko. ------------------------------ Subject: Super, Super Kev From: Nightfly83 @ aol.com Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 16:06:08 EST In a message dated 04/02/99 11:01:30 GMT, Ba-ba-ruba writes: > Not so fast, Andrew. Here in Canada, we have access to footy highlights. > Now, why would your manager bring on a substitute that's 9 foot tall, > and who can _appear_ to be tripping someone in the penalty box whilst > standing 20 feet away?? Indeed, a question that has been perplexing those of us who were there ever since. Along with "Why did he buy a player with all the guile and elegance of lumpy custard in the first place?" What was so cruel though, was that it was the first well-timed tackle of his Oxford career. If you have access to highlights you will no doubt have seen the outrageously fluky way Chelsea finally went through, those four artless goals of theirs bearing no comparison to our carefully crafted "off the elbow of the defender" set piece and penalty resulting from Dennis Wise's surreal handball. Much to my amazement I have recently discovered that there is another Oxford United fan subscribing to the digest. Two out of a thousand - that's a higher proportion than within the city itself. I believe he has never contributed to the digest, but I know his name and am saving it for future blackmail opportunities. > Well at least the extra dosh will allow you to > watch another few weeks of your beloved United. Apparently we have a backer waiting in the wings. Personally I'll believe it when I see it. More chance of actually seeing the new Steely Dan CD before 2005. Now, time for some of my musical questions which nobody ever answers. 1) Just back from a brief trip to Spain, clutching the delicious Presuntos Implicados album Siete in my hand. Didn't pick up the latest Mecano because at the airport it cost over 5000 pesetas (!) Anybody know where I can get this album at a reasonable price? 2) Anybody know if Kirk Franklin's gorgeous Let My People Go from The Prince Of Egypt: Inspirational is typical of his work? (And, on this question, can anyone enlighten me as to why Dreamworks thought a Prince Of Egypt: Nashville album appropriate? "And yea, Moses did part the waves, and there before him stood Garth Brooks in a stupidly oversize hat.") 3) Do any of our French colleagues know of a reliable source in France for ordering CDs? I believe there has been a Michel Petrucciani solo album released recently on Dreyfus, and the only place I'd get it here is probably Tower Records in Piccadilly. And since I've made this year's trip to London already, that's out of the question. 4) Does anybody have a copy of Empire magazine, December 1997 they'd be willing to sell me? Not strictly a music question, but irrelevant enough to the general subject matter to gain entry. 5) Take 6 - So Cool. Anybody? My tongue is hanging out so far for this album that I'm getting carpet burns. I think that's all for now, but be warned - I am off work for a few days with time to ramble into the small hours. AG ------------------------------ Subject: POW/Larry Graham From: cfreeman @ wfyi.org (Cedric Freeman) Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 17:51:02 -0500 POW was on My Radio sounds good.... There are some REAL Audio cuts of GCS 2000 on the GCS website. BTW you can put me down for a copy of the Video ------------------------------ Subject: Guaranteed Live video From: Judi Zalewski Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 19:13:20 -0500 Many thanks to fellow-digester T. Knapp (theronk @ netscape.net) for making the video copy of his Guaranteed Live laser disc (see Digest Vol. 99, Issue 11)! As most L42 fanatics in the states know, finding any video on the band here is next to impossible. The bonus was getting to see the band's live performance of Mike Lindup's tune The Spirit Is Free. The tape's quality is great, even if it's not in stereo (you hardly notice the difference). Thanks for sharing this treasure, and I hope others will take advantage of your offer! Judi Z ------------------------------ Subject: Re: zebra From: Zak Date: Mon, 8 Feb 99 23:04:09 -0800 On 2/8/99 3:01 AM, tintin doodled: >stephen king's character paul sheldon is 42 in 'misery'. And I just noticed last night that Fox Mulder's door in The X-Files is number 42. On my web page I have a picture of my drum set, and it's set to patch #42. I swear to all things holy I didn't realize it when I took the picture. As it happens, patch #42 is Jazz, a great sounding set. 42 is everywhere...you can't get away from it so you might as well just accept it. Oh, and I've been very jealous of all you troglodytes who've been off to see The King over the past couple weeks. Funky bus indeed. Hmph. Zak Nilsson Xaqtly Music http://www.xaqtly.com "It's driving me crazy...bitter moon always betrays me" ------------------------------ Subject: Jazz Funk From: Fiona Klimczak Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 09:14:25 -0000 My friends Well you've struck a cord with the comments re jazz funk. How about these 12" singles from the era of jazz funk (see if you remember them) - Jazz Carnival by Azymuth [1979] (from the album `Light as a Feather'); Shame by Evelyn `Champagne' King [1977] (from the album `Smooth Talk'); Que Tal America by 2 Man Sound [1978]; You Gave me Love by Crown Heights Affair [1980] (from the album `Sure Shot'); British Hustle by High Tension [1978]; and Take that to the Bank by Shalamar. So last night I spent quite a while remembering the days of the jazz funk era - well it made a change from plugging myself in to the CD to OD in L42 & MK (as per my usual habits!). Any comments????? Please feel free to e-mail me direct if you so wish. TCOY Fiona `K' ------------------------------ Subject: Gary Husband Trio From: Steve Randall Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 10:47:56 -0800 The Modern Jazz Club! The Boat Race Cambridge Tuesday 30th March I picked up a flyer at a jazz playing school weekendI attended recently - I quote the flyer- "..his first and principal instrument is the piano (classical teacher Fanny Waterman) He has drummed with L42, Billy Cobham and Allan Holdsworth but tonight hear him as pianist as well as composer and arranger. The trio blend new compositions with standards. There's an accent on mood and drama - this group (with the superb musicianship of Mick Hutton and Gene Calderazzo) will provide a memorable musical experience from start to finish" See, I told you he was a good composer "If you were mine - best drum track ever but musically complex" ! I will probably go as I have a friend who lives nearby and might be interested, so expect a report. I'm glad to see most of you have now warmed to Lyndon. As I said, he was good with the Human League before Christmas. Nice too see you all again at Wolverhampton. Best Wishes Steve Randall