Words@brothersgibb.com message digest 08/14/2020 21:01 (#2020-1389)
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Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2020 23:32:13 +0200
From: "J. F. Mayer" <youwinagain@gmx.de>
Subject: Clarified: It's Live in Bern
Wow, that's a good report that you found, Thomas. Thanks for that. What
cool b/w photos! And the TV footage - brilliant. BTW, there is also some
newsreel footage around where you can see the Mercedes 600 mentioned in
the article in a whole with all those teenagers on it or at least around
it. I can't remember where I saw it, maybe in one of the two 4 hour Bee
Gees documentaries in German TV aired in the last years several times.
BTW the "original" bootleg is the "Live in Bern 1968", not "Strange
Brew" or Spick and Span". We could have found the venue also in
setlist.fm where the concert is reported twice, March 3, 1968 and March
10, 1968, the latter obviously the correct date, proven by the newspaper
article found by Thomas. It's unlikely that they were there also one
week before, the article says right on top that March 10 was their first
appearance in Switzerland.
Thomas, if you understand what the organizer said - I couldn't make it
out completely: "??? Die Aktion wird sofort unterbrecha ???" Can you
understand the phrases where I wrote "???" ?
Joe wrote:
> By the way when we researched the Book, we could not document a Bee Gees
> performance in Bern. It's them of course, but where?
Where and when is clear now. But you might have known it once, Joe. The
article in the Berner Zeitung cites Maurice commenting this concert off
"Da Book". It's on page 167 (1st ed.) where Bern is mentioned as the
scariest tour date. And as we are used to: The story told by the
brothers - or to be precise from the "Tales" authors' sources - is even
more dramatic then the onein the local paper.
Juergen
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