Level 42 Digest for Friday, December 27, 2002

5 · line up

From:

Mr David F Jacobs <man_of_funk @ hotmail.com>

Date:

Thu, 26 Dec 2002 23:20:57 -0000

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Level 42 Digest for Thursday, December 26, 2002

Hhhhm

>>One Man - great song, written by Mark King solo, I believe? So let's recognize that more great material may be *possible*

- Can't wait!

>>In ancient Mexican mythology, "Quetzalcoatl" was the god of the Air. He presided over commerce, and was said to have predicted the coming of the Spaniards.
>>Sort of a feathered serpent kind of thing. Is this the lyric in One Man?

More importatntly, who wrote the lyrics to that?! This proves many peoples point that "level 42" as it is collectively was generally the work of King, Lindup & the brothers Gould. In my opinion there has to be some input from the others to make it a Level 42 album, to be in context with the band name. Oh yes, don't forger Mr Badarou!

However, you could argue that post RTF L42 was not this lineup, but generally it can be said that input from some or all of those members-past was in there for most of the following albums, except I guess Guaranteed? You have Boon lyrics on SATS, and Phil on FN. Guaranteed was the only album where they had to 'ship in' songwriting. - Not a bad album by most accounts, (I love it) and some lovely guitar and songs, but it's definitely not in the same vein as those before and after. I guess the album was a commercial flop, but it's interesting to wonder what would have happened if they had continued with that set up?! What do you guys think?

Hope you all had a great Christmas.

Best regards

Dave Jacobs

1 ·
From:	mark.summers1 <mark.summers1 @ ntlworld.com>
Date:	Thu, 26 Dec 2002 14:13:44 -1000	[top]
Does anyone else remember a French & Saunders sketch that featured Mark King (with Mark Knopfler, Dave Gilmour, Gary Moore, Lemmy) where they couldn't play guitar using a Ralph McTell tuition book because there were no pictures with dots showing where your fingers go? This was about 12-13 years ago. I'm sure I didn't dream it but my friend disagrees and says there was no such sketch. Happy new year!

2 · its official pt. 2
From:	Eric J. Hansen <ehansen @ worldmachine.com>
Date:	Thu, 26 Dec 2002 10:09:08 -0500 (EST)	[top]
Danny writes: > Near the end of the 'Something about you' video whilst Mark is sitting > on the train he 'mimes' some words. I have never been able to decipher > the message .....anyone know the answer? Danny: its "we're only human after all" Everyone else: things are definitely back to normal ;) your firned, Eric

3 · yet more heresy
From:	Eric J. Hansen <ehansen @ worldmachine.com>
Date:	Thu, 26 Dec 2002 10:24:30 -0500 (EST)	[top]
I'm not sure if this topic has been discussed at any length before, but here's my "hypothetical" in three parts: 1) why do you think Mark hasn't hooked up with any other musicians to write/perform new material? Mike and Phil have both made this transition, and of course Gary, Jakko and other non-original-lineup come from a diverse background in the first place, and have continued to stay active with other projects. 2) if Mark were to hook up with other people, who do you think would be appropriate and desirable? (be reasonable here... don't just give me the "dream band" lineups!) 3) what kind of other music/styles/genres would Mark excel at? The aforementioned other band members have all demonstrated their individual versatilities at numerous other styles of music, so what about Mark? cheers, Eric

4 · Help me understand
From:	Bruceowens <Bruceowens @ msn.com>
Date:	Thu, 26 Dec 2002 12:11:00 -0500	[top]
What the heck is acceptable then? This is frustrating. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Level 42 Digest" <level42 @ worldmachine.com> To: <Bruceowens @ msn.com> Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2002 12:10 PM Subject: REJECTED QUOTED TEXT: Answer to Danny's Question Dear Bruceowens, A message you sent to Level 42 Digest mailing list quoted too much text from a previous Digest mailing or individual message(s). Although it is fine to quote parts of messages when you post to the Digest, PLEASE do not simply reply to the Digest and quote the entire thing! Doing so wastes space and bandwidth, which is why the mailing list attempts to suppress these messages. Please re-post your message with the quoted part(s) trimmed or removed. Sorry for the inconvenience! -Eric J. Hansen Level 42 Digest Administrator Here's the header of your message: Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_001D_01C2ACD7.427FC0D0" Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 12:06:42 -0500 From: <Bruceowens @ msn.com> Message-ID: <OE71YDKFJ2I13pL32ct0000b980 @ hotmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from hotmail.com [64.4.33.213] by mail7.activehost.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.06) id A72D88B80112; Thu, 26 Dec 2002 12:06:53 -0500 Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 26 Dec 2002 09:06:53 -0800 References: <CPIMSSMTPA538cIDMnk0062852e @ cpimssmtpa53.msn.com> Status: U Subject: Answer to Danny's Question To: "Level 42 Digest" <level42 @ worldmachine.com> X-Mailer: MSN Mail 8.00.0022.3100 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V8.00.0022.3100 X-Mlx-Msg-ID: 3 X-Mlx-Pop3MessageNumber: 1 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-OriginalArrivalTime: 26 Dec 2002 17:06:53.0693 (UTC) FILETIME=[305032D0:01C2AD01] X-Originating-IP: [67.242.207.115] X-Priority: 3 X-RCPT-TO: <level42 @ worldmachine.com> X-UIDL: 3 THIS IS AN AUTOMATED RESPONSE

6 · read my lips...
From:	jt <jtraci @ yahoo.com>
Date:	Fri, 27 Dec 2002 02:30:19 -0800 (PST)	[top]
> Do you not think that when a band such as Level 42 > who have been so successful after so many years Not sure what your definition of "successful" is... > looses a member and someone steps in to take their > place it must take a lot of guts and be very scary No. Especially when these peopel are in another band and then the title merely changes, so it is more the name that 'steps in' than the um, member. > They all bring their own individuality to the songs not really. > Near the end of the 'Something about you' video > whilst Mark is sitting on the train he 'mimes' some > words. I have never been able to decipher the > message .....anyone know the answer? I think this is the most popular question of all time. I dont remember what bit of lyric it is, but it is simply just a snip from a clip that could have been inserted at the right lyric time, and then there would have been no questions. "we're only human after all' may be the bit. Or maybe he says, 'one day I hope that this band falls apart so I can get a Cover band going; my brother will be the guitarist and the family dog will be the mascot...' maybe. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com

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