(#2003-3503) - Topics this issue: 1) Digest (01/15/2003 02:08) Special Issue (#2003-3502), 2) Mo, 3) De Nile, 4) time of funeral, 5) Minute's silence, 6) Interview transcript, ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 02:08:24 EST From: DrmnOfHeaven@aol.com Subject: Re: Digest (01/15/2003 02:08) Special Issue (#2003-3502) --part1_69.334d0974.2b5662e8_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit hi guys.... new member here I'm Jen in NC as well as you Ruth. thank you all for your posts. they help me feel better knowing you're there to talk to and share my thoughts. I love the BeeGees and Mo was my fav. but now he's with God, nowhere better. Jen --part1_69.334d0974.2b5662e8_boundary-- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 08:59:00 +0000 From: winisee@att.net Subject: Mo Hi, I haven't posted in ages and I'm so sorry that Mo's tragedy has to be what motivated me to post now. As you all are, I've been so depressed about Mo's shocking death and also at what I perceived to be the loss of the BEEGEES as well. To me, that seemed the logical but extremely sad result. Hearing Barry say the BEEGEES will go on, made me much happier than I've been for the past few days. I don't know if he's saying it in grief, or because he knows that MO would want it that way but just the thought that we might not lose the BEEGEES made me happier. I just want to say to all members of this list how sorry I am about Mo because I know that you are all suffering and in grief, like the Gibb family. 53 is much too young to die. Winifred and Sherry ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 04:20:55 -0500 From: "Richard Foote" Subject: De Nile I know what you mean about avoiding the music, Brian. I was stopped at a traffic light on Monday when the local oldies station played their 'song of the day' - "Night Fever". I broke down into tears and had to pull off the road till I could stop sobbing and compose myself enough to go on. It's the weirdest thing, the song that keeps playing over and over in my head isn't a BeeGees song at all. It's the brothers singing in the "Sgt. Pepper" movie "I heard the news today, oh boy...." It's like my mind just won't let THEIR music play so I won't have to deal with the reality of this aweful tragedy. But as I've thought about it, I think it really comes down to how alive they all are to us. These guys wrote the soundtrack of our lives. These guys were the fine young lions of our youth. They made us believe we had the power to take on the world all day and still have the energy to dance the night away. To hear the music now is to face our own mortality. One of our beloved heroes is gone. I feel the same dazed, deheartened, bewilderment that I did the day they shot JFK, the day John Wayne died, the day I lost my dad ... I think somewhere in the depths of our saddened subconscious we think we can trick ourselves into believing Mo's still here if we don't hear the music - like we can pretend someone close to us who's died is off at work when we drive by their old house and don't see their car in the driveway. It's the same reason some people flat out refuse to go to funerals or leave a loved one's bedroom untouched long after they've passed away. There are times when the safest haven on earth is a river in Egypt. We know too, that it isn't just Mo that we've lost. We've lost the solidarity of the group, the music, the comedy, the genius that had Mo's life force coursing through the heart of it all. Reality hurts so we try our best to transfer the pain, to avoid it, to deny it. We'll come around. It takes some time. For many of us the reality won't hit for months, even years, when we're safely far enough away to look back and notice that there's nothing but their 'old' songs to listen to. I've taken several moments over the last few days to console myself that the loss I'm feeling isn't just for what Mo gave to me, to you, to all of us. I'm feeling the hole where a little part of my heart is missing, gone with him on his eternal journey, because, my love and appreciation for him and his work was all I could ever give back to him (or any of the brothers) for what they've given me and the love of others is all you can really take with you when you leave this world. Mo may never have known my name but he surely knew he had caring fans all over the world and it was always obvious how much his fans meant to him. Long after the hurt gives way to acceptance I know that hole in my heart will forever be my soft spot for Mo. That's why our heroes never really die, and why Mo will always be with each of us as time goes by. So drift along de Nile as long as you may need to to gather up the courage to face the music (literally) once again - the music that once made us invincible and now makes us weak in the knees will soon enough become the warm comfort of our old age. That's when Barry, Robin, AND Mo will take US ALL to the "Blue Island" of THEIR dreams. Mary Lee (Payne) Foote and all the wonders made for the earth, and all the hearts in all creation, another story there to be told... -The BeeGees- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 20:37:53 +1100 From: "BOBBIE" Subject: Re: time of funeral thanks maree see you on the flipside bobbie who can't get her head around this yet... ----- Original Message ----- From: "maree" Hi everyone...still crying here... If the funeral is noon in Miami, that makes it 4am in Sydney...just thought I'd let my fellow New South Welshmen know...I'll set the alarm and stand in the darkness for some time alone..I think I need it.. I love you Mo. Maree in Sydney xxxxx ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 20:41:18 +1100 From: "BOBBIE" Subject: Re: Minute's silence not if your working tomorrow mate... if you aren't set an alarm clock to 3:30am its easier for the western Australian's they can just stay up until 1am... Perth western australia is 3 hours behind Sydney in the summer... bobbie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary Pridham" > I would dearly love to be able to spend a minute in respectful silence > for Maurice and his family, but at the time he will be buried, it will > be 3.30am in my part of Australia. Any other suggestions? > > > From Mary Pridham, Adelaide, South Oz > > > > > > "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: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 21:41:51 +1100 From: phyll Subject: Interview transcript PitStop wrote << I have transcribed the 15 minute interview that Barry and Robin gave Sunday evening to BBC.   Is there any interest in me posting it to the list?  >> Yes, I would love to read it as I can't get audio/video Thanks Phyll ------------------------------ End words@brothersgibb.com Digest [01/15/2003 06:01] ----------------------------------------------------