Level 42 Digest for Friday, July 20, 2007

Friday, July 20, 2007

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Topics for Friday, July 20, 2007

    1.  Flame wars - Brian Flint
    2.  Silly L42 related things? - Craig Hughes
    3.  Oh the trauma....oh the dejavu?!? - Doug White

1. Flame wars
From:	Brian Flint <wolfbard @ hotmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 19 Jul 2007 15:39:37 +0000	[top]
Seems like a moronic thing to get into a flame war over. The opinions could span the entire history of the band. Some may think they should have dropped the name after Phil and Boon left. Others after Mike left. In the end, he has a legal right to call it Level 42 so who cares. Of course this is all subject to opinion and those are the things that cause flame wars. As for the musicians.....as a bassist/keyboardist/guitarist/drummer I can say every one of them in the current line up is better than me so I have no right to complain. PC Magazine’s 2007 editors’ choice for best web mail—award-winning Windows Live Hotmail.

2. Silly L42 related things?
From:	Craig Hughes <craig.hughes1 @ gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 19 Jul 2007 22:15:47 +0100	[top]
I was in a traffic jam on the M62 today, listening to Retroglide (twice! bad traffic jam!) when I thought occurred to me - what's the silliest Level 42 related thing I've done? One thing sprung mind: Standing outside the De Monfort Hall in Leicester with my wife, after the gig, awaiting our heroes - sadly it was about -5 degrees and we want 3 hours. My wife didn't talk to me for days (well there has to be an upside!) and still won't go to Level 42 gigs with me. Wondered if anyone else had Level 42 related silly stories? Craig

3. Oh the trauma....oh the dejavu?!?
From:	Doug White <bigdp @ stanford.edu>
Date:	Thu, 19 Jul 2007 19:32:48 -0700	[top]
Hey gang, In a weird twist of whatever....I received an email from a friend about the state of current world affairs and it devolved into a discussion amongst friends and family via email that blew up into, while pleasant and above board, comments about America's role in the world, atrocities committed during WWII, use of the A Bomb on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, fire bombing both Dresden and all the major Japanese cities and most of all whether killing some people to save a great many others is ethical or moral. And all that kinda fun stuff... Today I find myself reading the mid March '03 digests and our fearless moderator tossed in a well placed shot at the events going on in the world, Don Z, Tom Terrific, AG (with his reprise of the UK being the 51st state (gotta love that!)) and others all getting wound up to replace the tiresome 'Level 42 is the group of guys' , 'No you idiot, Level 42 is whoever MK says it is' BS that has/had been lasting for months. So, I wonder how much more fun we're going to having in the coming days. As an aside to the Nerds/Video Gurus out there....my good friend Winman was kind enough to supply me with vids, including Dreams and Visions, and I recently bought a portable DVD player. I can't seem to get The Montreux Jazz Festival VCD to play on it and the D&V VCD is all fits and starts and is pretty unwatchable. Is this the case for VCD 2.0 disks in general on DVD players? I tried them on my Power Mac (a G3 running OS 9.2.2) and it wouldn't play at all and I was assured by Don Z that I'd have that problem with such a decrepit (sigh) system. Anybody got any suggestions on what I oughta do now? Besides bashing my head against a wall, that is. Thanks, Doug

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