(#2006-2182) - Topics this issue: 1) VH1 surprise, 2) Maurice taking lead, ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 23:29:37 -0300 From: "David Yang" Subject: Re: VH1 surprise wow.... barry circa 1972. thanks marty! On 6/21/06, Marty Hogan wrote: > A Nice Surprie photo-1972 > > http://www.vh1.com/music/radio/stations/gold/station.jhtml > > Marty From SF > > > > "Words & Music", Fans Of The Brothers Gibb ( Bee Gees ) > http://www.brothersgibb.com > > To change any of your list options, > please go to website listed above. > ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 09:00:55 +0200 From: "Per Bausager" Subject: RE: Maurice taking lead I totally agree with you. That's the only reason. Per >From: "Julian Glass" >Reply-To: words@brothersgibb.com >To: "words List Member" >Subject: [words] Maurice taking lead >Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 10:24:25 +0100 > >I think that it is nothing more than his singing voice was ordinary >compared >with Barry and Robin and lacked range. Remember in the 1969 split he was >told he wouldn't make it as a solo artist for that reason. As the Bee Gees >were at their first peak at the time you would have thought someone would >taken him on if their thought his voice was good enough. If I'm being >honest >when I heard his FOM duet with Lulu this ordinariness was shown up. If he'd >sung that on 'Ido' they would have raved about the song but would they have >voted to bring him back? > >Julian > > >"All the joking around masked something like stage fright, in my opinion." > >Mob: 07870 657789 >Land: 0121 745 4509 >Skype: beegeeblueboy > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: listmember@brothersgibb.com [mailto:listmember@brothersgibb.com] >Sent: 21 June 2006 08:02 >To: words List Member >Subject: [words] Digest (06/21/2006 03:01) (#2006-2178) > >(#2006-2178) - Topics this issue: > > 1) More on Mo, > 2) More on Mo, > 3) Mo Vocals, > 4) your dumb beegees remark, > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 18:57:46 -0700 >From: "Marty Hogan" >Subject: More on Mo > >Joe Brennan said: ><<the middle section, and the ending. There are just a few lines of >Maurice alone. > >All the joking around masked something like stage fright, in my opinion. >It's like people who are scared to give a talk to a crowd, but will >happily blab to friends for hours on end. I know, he performed on stage >a zillion times, but playing instruments in a band and singing harmonies >has a whole different feel to it than standing center stage and doing a >lead vocal with people hanging on every word. This at any rate is my >current theory :-) > > >Joe Brennan>>> > >Oh, yes. Overcompensation by joking around on stage (even after performing >since age nine???) I can understand that. But the voice over on "One Night >Only" (ONO-thank you Marty for spelling it out) "Closer Than Close" was >disappointing. Was it that 'key' he get it perfect for the DVD/CD or was >his voice in poor shape? Will we ever know? Will someone EVER send ME a >nasty anonymous encrypted note? I am SO tired of virus's! > >Marty From SF > >P.S. I have a video of them performing in 1973 on Midnight Special doing >"Turn Of The Century" and Mo screwed up the first half of the lyrics and >just went into "aaahhh" mode. Hardly noticeable! > > > >------------------------------ > >Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 22:25:16 -0400 >From: Joseph Brennan >Subject: Re: More on Mo > > >Marty Hogan wrote: > > > "Closer Than Close" was disappointing. > >That song is Barry and Maurice together from start to finish. I was >convinced a few years back when I listened to a lot of Maurice vocals >one after another. This does not sound like Maurice alone. > >Of course this begs the question why B & M would not sing it together >live, unless they wanted to maintain the illusion that it was only >Maurice by having him sing it "alone" to backing tape. > >Joe Brennan > > > >------------------------------ > >Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 23:40:55 -0300 >From: "David Yang" >Subject: Re: Mo Vocals > >Yeah, but they were B. Bjorn's Does Your Mother Know was A. George's >Something was A. Ringo's Yellow Submarine was A. Of couse I am >talking about lead vocal not songwriting. > > >On 6/20/06, Marty Hogan wrote: > > Andrew said: > > << > still > > wouldn't be as featured as an a-side would have nor would a Mo lead > > vocal on > > the b-side of a Bee Gees single.>>> > > > > Many singles were released where Barry & Robin wrote the A-side and >Maurice wrote the B-Side AND sang lead - i.e., "Country Woman", "On Time" >and others. > > > > Marty From SF > > > > > > > > > > > > "Words & Music", Fans Of The Brothers Gibb ( Bee Gees ) > > http://www.brothersgibb.com > > > > To change any of your list options, > > please go to website listed above. > > > >------------------------------ > >Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 23:42:03 -0400 >From: Chris Mathis >Subject: Re: your dumb beegees remark > > > >Well - someone obvious took extreme offence to my posting about the > >cost of Bumsrush, so much so they sent an annonymous reply via > >panta-rhei.dyndns. If the language used was designed to offend me, > >try harder buster I've been called worse, to my face, by braver > >people than you. > > > >~Laced > >Ignore the *^&%^%&^ > >Then set up a filter that "sends to trash" any other emails from this >email address, or any email from that 'domain'. > >.....----===*Chris... > > > > >http://www.brothersgibb.com >Bee Gees News and Information > >------------------------------ > >End words@brothersgibb.com Digest [06/21/2006 03:01] >---------------------------------------------------- > > >"Words & Music", Fans Of The Brothers Gibb ( Bee Gees ) >http://www.brothersgibb.com > >To change any of your list options, >please go to website listed above. > > > > > > > >"Words & Music", Fans Of The Brothers Gibb ( Bee Gees ) >http://www.brothersgibb.com > >To change any of your list options, >please go to website listed above. > ------------------------------ End words@brothersgibb.com Digest [06/22/2006 03:01] ----------------------------------------------------