Level 42 Digest for Sunday, August 12, 2007

Sunday, August 12, 2007

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Topics for Sunday, August 12, 2007

    1.  off tapioca - Tom Foolery
    2.  Memories....but not mine - Doug White
    3.  2005....only 2.5 years behind - Doug White
    4.  One more thing.... - Doug White

1. off tapioca
From:	Tom Foolery <grooveyardtom @ yahoo.com>
Date:	Sat, 11 Aug 2007 06:04:40 -0700 (PDT)	[top]
Viva la off topic content. I troll this digest for references to bands I might not discover otherwise - thanks to those who share their musical discoveries! Re: that, what's in your car CD player or iPod right now? Or 8 track or 78 rpm? What's the latest discovery you are grooving on? I've got Mavis Staples 2005 album "We'll Never Turn Back" - some great reworking of some civil rights movement songs - very funky and treated by Ry Cooder in a "Buena Vista Social Club" intimacy. Neat! ok then, -Tom

2. Memories....but not mine
From:	Doug White <bigdp @ stanford.edu>
Date:	Sat, 11 Aug 2007 17:55:19 -0700	[top]
Lolita thanks for the reply, and it somehow odd that you would talk about memories of one of your trips to the UK as I am now reading great stories from around mid November '04 of people's memories of trips, especially the IOW fest and meeting Mark King. That would have been a great trip in and of itself and I swear that one of the days in one of the upcoming decades that I am gonna take a trip that way. But, I digress. I love the reports of digesters meeting and trying to figure out if those people over there are people that ought to know or just strangers. That and all the varied things, like the train trip on the IOW, retrieving boxes of T Shirts from a hotel room and walking it across Hyde Park and all the various and sundry sights and experiences everyone had....makes we almost think I was there too. Speaking of people on the digest, I am sitting here typing away in my Matt Rice inspired Level 42 Digest T shirt. As usual, whenever I decide to wear it my wife rolls her eyes, but on occasion I will pull it out and wear it to work....and boy they both fit great, still! I think the last time I wrote about the shirt Matt actually had a couple left, but I bet he doesn't anymore. I am looking forward to hearing the Jaco Big Band CDs and will post my reviews when I have given them a good listen. I have been cycling CDs through the car CD player and the latest I've listened to is BNH Brother Sister and a couple of Incognito. Since I know several of the digesters have plenty of BNG, which other of their CDs do you recommend? Also, I was on the Amazon website searching futilely for Conversations with Silence, when it suddenly occurred to me to check on the Amazon UK website and what do you know? I am now awaiting delivery of that and the 11 song version of Retroglide. Is there a digest CD that is the same as the Ohne Filter DVD which I had never heard of (the digest CD project) supposedly called Mark King in Concert? If there is, whom do I need to gently cajole to obtain one? Or beg....if it comes to that. Since I have been asking about the whereabouts of past digesters, I guess I will ask if Jennifer Norwood is still about? Jen are you out there? I forgot in the previous post to mention that if there was a church service in my area that had jazz as its theme, there'd be no way I would ever miss a church service, but that's probably just short of blasphemy, so I will stop there. Hey Andrew, did you get my Email? Doug......working OT on a saturday.....and boy is it quiet!

3. 2005....only 2.5 years behind
From:	Doug White <bigdp @ stanford.edu>
Date:	Sat, 11 Aug 2007 18:51:30 -0700	[top]
Well I have finally made it to 2005, and having slogged through a long discussion about whether the digest would be active if MK was not on the 'knackered old hits' tour year after year, we finally got through it and made it to 2005. I've got about 640 message left to read and boy I don't know what I'll do when I get caught up.....anybody have any suggestions? Heh heh heh....never mind. Oh, before I forget, Happy Birthday to Lolita....a milestone reached....let us know how it feels when you get there. Doug

4. One more thing....
From:	Doug White <bigdp @ stanford.edu>
Date:	Sat, 11 Aug 2007 20:17:48 -0700	[top]
Sorry gang....too much time on my hands on a Saturday night at work.... I've been pondering a question for a little bit and now with a posting I see from Mark Woodhouse on the 18th Jan '05, regarding Gary Husband's Force Majeur. It got me wondering again if there is any recorded music from Force Majeur? If so, what do I look for? That's all (this time) for now

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