words@brothersgibb.com message digest 10/06/2014 03:01 (#2014-296)
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Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2014 23:31:46 -0400
From: "Chris Mathis" <cmathis@brothersgibb.com>
Subject: The Bee Gees: Team Brisbane
http://alturl.com/otyii
As far as Queensland's musical exports go, none come bigger than the boys
from the Redcliffe peninsula, the Bee Gees.
Though born in England, Barry, Maurice and Robin Gibb moved with their
family to the bayside community north of Brisbane as children.
And it was there the Bee Gees were born.
At the opening of Redcliffe's Bee Gees Way last year, Barry Gibb paid
tribute to former 4BH DJ Bill Gates – one of the inspirations behind the
band's name – who discovered the band during a speedway event on the
peninsula.
"This gentleman started everything for us," Gibb said.
"We were in Oxley Avenue and we talked our way into performing a couple of
songs at the speedway where Bill was racing.
"Bill was the person that got us on the air, recorded about five songs with
us and that's the first time we'd ever recorded anything and we were bitten
– nothing was going to stop us after that.
"And he, of course, named us the Bee Gees and that's where it all began."
Gates said another BG – speedway manager Bill Goode – was instrumental in
the band's first steps toward superstardom, having alerted Gates to the
boys' talents.
"The thing that really stood out was their natural harmonies, and how
wonderful they sounded over this old tinny PA system," he told Fairfax Media
last year, prior to the Bee Gees Way unveiling.
"Bill Goode and I both remarked on that, and we decided to see if we could
help them in some way."
They did and the rest, as they say, is history.
Nine Grammy Awards, more than 120 million record sales, induction into the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
All a long way from the Filmer's Palace Hotel at Woody Point, where the Bee
Gees performed their first paid gigs.
That payment? Bottles of Coca-Cola, courtesy of publican Mavis Filmer.
This reporter, then working for the Redcliffe and Bayside Herald, spoke to
Mrs Filmer in 2003 after news broke of Maurice's death.
Mrs Filmer said the Gibb brothers never forgot their roots, and would pop in
whenever they were in Brisbane.
"They had a stretch limo each (when they visited in 1999) – white ones =96
Maurice was in one and Barry in the other one," Mrs Filmer said .
"Someone raced out of the pub shouting `the Gibbs are here'.
"They said they came down to go for a drive to look at their old home before
the show."
Maurice Gibb died in 2003, aged 53, with his twin Robin Gibb dying in 2012,
aged 62.
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Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2014 00:22:53 -0400
From: ntsonbdwy@aol.com
Subject: Technicolor Dreams
Karim: Until you pointed it out, I didn't know that Barry credited his brothers for the 6 seconds of backup vocals on Technicolor Dreams. It appears from a web search that you are correct! That was very generous of Barry - after all, their contribution
Tom M. Fini
917-561-4143
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Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2014 00:22:53 -0400
From: ntsonbdwy@aol.com
Subject: Technicolor Dreams
Karim: Until you pointed it out, I didn't know that Barry credited his brothers for the 6 seconds of backup vocals on Technicolor Dreams. It appears from a web search that you are correct! That was very generous of Barry - after all, their contribution
Tom M. Fini
917-561-4143
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Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2014 00:08:48 -0600
From: kittyLarue <marjlarue@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Rif: Robin's solo album
On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 9:30 AM, karimkassai@yahoo.it
wrote:
> Kitty i never said that Barry should NOT promote Robin's album.
Sure you did. Like in "Basic" GOTO "Barry about Robin's New CD", Sept 16.
Your response to a post regarding Barry NOT promoting Robin's CD was
"BRAVO!!!!" I double checked to ensure I had the correct number of
exclamation marks!!!!, yup, it is four to be exact!!!!
As for the fact that the brothers didn't work together , well , someone
> around Robin says he wanted but Barry didn't and Barry himself says , it
> was Robin that wanted to be a solo artist. If you don't mind i am with
> Barry and not with someone that says that Robin wanted and they know it for
> sure.
Stop the press--you are I are in agreement. I'm with Barry on this one
also. It was BARRY that said he didn't want to work with Robin!!!! Four,
yes, four. Just keeping with your !!!! protocol! See how easy that was, I
knew you and I could find some common ground!!!!
Who told them?
Well, err, Barry told me and many others in numerous interviews.
From where they get these info.?
GOTO above statement!!!!
Why Robin never said such a thing?
Guess Robin believed what many believed when Barry said he would work with
him. But I can't be sure. Maybe you can handle yourself one of them
first-class tickets to the resurrection (Al Pacino-Scarface) and get the
information first hand!!!! But I doubt you'd believe it.
But i want to give you this point of view , yes , it was Barry , that as
> always , so selfish , didn't want to work with his brother , why others
> that are so nice and gentle , didn't ask him to do something on his album.I
> want to remember everyone that in Bee Gees last album " TIWICI" , all
> Barry's songs have the brothers in , Robin's no , even the background
> vocals aren't done bay Barry and Mo.
Barry being selfish are your words, not mine. I have NEVER said Barry was
selfish for not wanting to work with Robin. I don't know these "nice and
gentle" people you are referring to, therefore I cannot answer your
question. As they (the brothers) have repeatedly stated, they all went off
and concocted their own songs. I don't think we ever got the full story of
'why' they scattered in different directions; but that's what they said.
Although I really don't see what this has to do with Barry not working with
Robin, but I'll wait, I'm sure you'll tell me. I'm listening!
Thanks for answering and keeping our love for the music alive!!!!
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Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2014 00:12:06 -0600
From: kittyLarue <marjlarue@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Rif: Robin's solo album
On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 2:15 PM, > wrote:
> I thought Barry's statements on this issue, as we all know occurred after
> Robin died, were very misleading. In fact, they were close to being
> outright lies.
What is the range between 'misleading' and 'outright lies'?
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