(#2003-4299) - Topics this issue: 1) ONO Stage Floor, 2) Maurice Gibb 1949 - 2003, 3) ONO Stage Floor, 4) HC tour, 5) Maurice Memorial, ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 11:31:01 -0500 From: "Douglas E Wilson" Subject: RE: ONO Stage Floor Judy, helping me earn that elusive merit badge: > Thank you Doug, about the writing on the floor. So they brought the stage > floor with them too I guess? Evidently. From my seat at the MGM Grand Garden, I never noticed the stage floor. It wasn't until the New Year's Eve PPV broadcast that it caught my eye. However, at BG2K in Ft. Lauderdale, we had time to roam the arena and check things out and I noticed that it was the same design as the stage in Las Vegas. I'm also wondering if the design was really part of a "hard" floor or if it was some sort of material stretched tightly across an actual non-descript floor. At any rate, it was rather pedestrian when compared to the stage setup for the Spirits tour in 1979. Different era . . . different circumstances, I suppose. Doug (still wishing for one more concert with a multitude of instruments and supporting vocalists and a minimum amount of Memorex) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 12:38:34 EDT From: CADaisyJane@aol.com Subject: Re: Maurice Gibb 1949 - 2003 --part1_195.1d1ca6ea.2c41938a_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit "Barry would be "To Love Sombody", Robin would be "I Started a Joke", and me...I'm the song that the Bee Gees have yet to write..." Maurice Gibb, 2001 (1949 - 2003) You did not need a song, for YOU were a beautiful song that touched so many lives in so many ways.... Joy --part1_195.1d1ca6ea.2c41938a_boundary-- ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 19:18:40 +0200 From: Ronnie Olsson Subject: Re: ONO Stage Floor 2003-07-12 18.31, skrev Douglas E Wilson p=E5 dewilson@sbcglobal.net f=F6ljande= : > Doug > (still wishing for one more concert with a multitude of instruments and > supporting vocalists and a minimum amount of Memorex) Amen, the One Night Only "tour" I thought was pretty scaled down (not referring to the number of gigs) compared to One For All which is the only other tour I can compare it to. Can anyone who has seen the HC tour say if it was similar to ONO or OFA? I'd rather take out my OFA DVD and enjoy that than ONO, it just doesn't has the same gusto for me. Rather flesh out the next tour (if there is one) with more musicians and wh= y not bring back the horn section as well. Asking for a string section might be a bit much but hey... one can wish, right? /Ronnie The Omipotent King of Scania & Court Jester at Cucumber Castle Wanted List http://klippan.seths.se/~kl19082a/ http://www.brothersgibb.com Bee Gees News and Information ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 20:17:03 +0200 From: "JPC" Subject: HC tour Hi everybody: Ronnie, I went to a concert from the HC tour and I can say it was similar OFA. I think in some way it was as the continuation in some other places, for instance Barcelona or Madrid, of the OFA. I remember that there were the same back singers if I'm not wrong. Of course the set of songs were very similar but with the inclusion of Secret Love, HC and a few more songs from the HC album. Bye Joan The Catalan Man ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 15:01:32 -0500 (CDT) From: BeeGeezy@webtv.net (Keppel) Subject: Maurice Memorial Soryy if this was already posted (I'm on digest). MIAMI BEACH =A0Gibb park memorial to be put on ballot =A0Singer meditated at Island View =A0BY RICHARD BRAND =A0rbrand@herald.com =A0 Miami Beach officials are trying to rename Island =A0View Park in South Beach after Maurice Gibb, the =A0longtime Beach resident and Bee Gees singer who died =A0Jan. 12. =A0 Commissioners voted July 2 to put the name change on =A0the November elections ballot. According to city =A0laws, name changes to public parks must be approved =A0in a referendum. =A0 The small park, nestled between Biscayne Bay and =A0Purdy Avenue just east of the Venetian Causeway, was =A0a frequent meditation spot for the late singer, who =A0would take breaks there between sets at his Middle =A0Ear recording studio at 1801 Bay Rd. =A0 ''He used to go there almost every day at lunchtime =A0to feed the seagulls,'' said Bob Koske, a =A0Gibb-family friend who has pushed for the memorial. =A0``He would sit there, look at the water. Like =A0anybody [who] has a little meditation spot.=B4=B4 =A0 As the Bee Gees, Maurice Gibb, 53, and brothers =A0Barry and his twin Robin were responsible for such =A0hits as Jive Talkin', Stayin' Alive, How Deep Is =A0Your Love, Tragedy, Words and Lonely Days. =A0 Commissioner Luis Garcia, Jr., described Gibb as =A0outgoing and approachable. He remembered meeting =A0Gibb as a firefighter in 1976, when the pop star =A0asked to ride along with his company. =A0 ''He was a fire-rescue buff,'' Garcia said. ``He =A0spent a whole day riding with me and my partner. I =A0really liked the man. He was very down-to-Earth.=B4=B4 =A0 Garcia added that renaming the park would be a =A0fitting tribute. ``The Bee Gees chose Miami Beach to =A0be their home town. They could have lived anywhere =A0in the world.=B4=B4 =A0 Beach officials also hope to place a gazebo or bench =A0in the park to honor Gibb, but that plan has met =A0with some resistance from neighbors worried that it =A0would attract homeless people. Koske and neighbors =A0said they plan to meet to design a memorial that =A0both sides could be happy with. =A0 ''All we want is a memorial,'' Koske said. =A0``Something simple. Maurice was a simple man. =A0Nothing grand.=B4=B4 ~Nanci~ "Keppel" ------------------------------ End words@brothersgibb.com Digest [07/12/2003 18:01] ----------------------------------------------------