Level 42 Digest for Sunday, June 24, 2007

Sunday, June 24, 2007

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Topics for Sunday, June 24, 2007

1. connections - Matt Rice

1. connections
From:	Matt Rice <rice @ geog.ucsb.edu>
Date:	Sat, 23 Jun 2007 23:03:46 -0700	[top]
Level 42 Digest wrote: > 3. Connections > From: Craig Hughes <craig.hughes1 @ gmail.com > Talking of connections (this is starting to feel like Comedy Dave's Tendous Link!), please can someone tell me why Incognito and Steely Dan get mentioned so much on the digest? What's the connection? I used to be pretty good at the Kevin Baconesque connections between Level 42 and Incognito and Steely Dan, but as with most other digesters, life has moved on and I don't remember them. Steely Dan has used a huge list of session musicians and although most of them are US-based, I don't doubt someone can connect the three bands in less than 3 links each way. But I sure you aren't interested in arcane games involving nameless studio musicians. Basically, all three groups have a very good mix of Jazz sensibilities, chord structures, instrumentation, and rhythmic sensibilities mixed into what would otherwise be Pop or Funk music. For some reason I (and many other digesters) gravitate toward such groups and they tend to come up in discussion. There used to be a lot of discussion on this forum about Go West (didn't Eric host a Go West forum back in the early days?). Over the last 13 years on this little email digest, I've been turned onto great music such as Bela Fleck and the Flecktones / Edgar Meyer, Jamiroquai, Jason Rebello, YellowJackets, The Brand New Heavies, etc. etc. etc. I still listen to some of these groups a lot, others I tried and liked but they don't end up in heavy rotation at home or in the car. The fact is that when I started to receive this email digest, the Internet/web was fairly new and unknown and I was an unmarried undergrad with no job and very few people to argue with over what played on the stereo. Thirteen years later I have to negotiate stereo airtime with a wife and several daughters, not all of whom are Level 42 fans. They all do like Donald Fagen without reservation, and we also all like Salsa (sparingly) and Classical -- the girls have discovered they really like Ravel and Debussy. -- Matt Rice, Postdoctoral Research Fellow National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis UCSB Department of Geography +1 805 893 8652 (phone) Santa Barbara, CA 93106 +1 805 893 3146 (fax) rice @ geog.ucsb.edu http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/~rice

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