Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 06:32:01 -0400
From: David Garcia <garcia10303@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: After Dark by Andy Garcia
Too great a challenge -- on "Desire," even Andy couldn't get a word in
edgewise in the chorus...
On May 4, 2014 11:56 PM, "Julian Glass" wrote:
> Hey David, you could remake After Dark and share the credit with Andy.
> After all Barry sang as himself and Andy on the original
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> Julian
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Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 04:00:06 -0700 (PDT)
From: Daniel Vaughn <dv573@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Do you know "Linda Gibb"
Bill,
You hit the nail on the head there! I couldn't agree with you anymore. Its actually sad. Even more sad to think of where or "how" society will be in 10 or 15 years. To be honest I could really care less but I have three children all under 8 and it makes m
Danny
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On Sun, 5/4/14, Bill Busch (M) wrote:
Subject: [words] Do you know "Linda Gibb"
To: "words List Member"
Date: Sunday, May 4, 2014, 1:58 PM
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I don't get the whole "I have to
friend a celebrity who will never speak to
me" thing.
What do they do? Walk around at parties saying, "Oh yea I'm
friends with
Linda Gibb on Facebook. Who are you friends with?"
Society has really taken an indescribable downturns since
the social media
explosion.
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> From: words@brothersgibb.com
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On
> Behalf Of Chris Mathis
> Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2014 9:15 AM
> To: words List Member
> Subject: [words] Do you know "Linda Gibb"
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> I received a Facebook notification, (I do not use
Facebook, but still have
> an account so I can monitor my 10=A0 year old son)
asking'
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> Do you know "Linda Gibb", "Someone Else" or "Someone
Else" etc, etc.
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> Now Linda not talk much, ok, we have never talked, and
she does not even
> know I exist, and really has no reason to. That being
said, I did decide
to
> go to her Facebook page to see any recent news or
photos. One of the last
> photos I saw of her was the infamous 'walnut' photos
from a number of
> years
> ago.
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> It was cool to see all the photos, and to see quite a
number of list
members
> that were "Linda's Friend". Of course, we have to take
that with a grain
of
> sand, and a pint or hard scotch.
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> I also was surprised that she has been on for quite
some time.
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> I doubt she spends much time there, but it was nice to
see her, in a
sense,
> "out and about" by herself.
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> Oh, and NO, I did not send her a Friend Request.
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> I hate rejection.
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Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 08:48:03 -0700 (PDT)
From: Carol Gentry <benbumminaround2@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: The Longest Slight
LOL!=C2=A0 I'm so glad you are back David!=C2=A0 I really missed you!
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From: David Garcia
To: words List Member =20
Sent: Saturday, May 3, 2014 10:46 AM
Subject: [words] The Longest Slight
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Quoting Joe quoting Ronnie:
*Ronnie Olsson > wrote:*
>
>
>
> *A little bird whispered in my ear that "The Longest Night" on ESP is
> nowshortened by ~15 seconds on the Warner Bros Years set. Another stake
> inthe heart of this set.*
*The MP3 download (Amazon) is 5:30 instead of the original nominally 5:47.
That is a big difference.=C2=A0 Do we know that it just fades sooner?=C2=A0 Or should
one of us drop a buck on the MP to check for an alternate mix?*
So, someone has to spend a buck twenty nine on iTunes to solve this, do
they?
Well, consider it solved.
I, for one, had to know what was done to this song. It=E2=80=99s been one of my
personal favorites for over a quarter of a century (a new song, in other
words), and, to be perfectly blunt, slicing fifteen seconds off this tune
may turn out to be one of the most creative things Barry has done in recent
memory. So=E2=80=A6 I just had to hear it for myself.
First of all, yes, the drums are still there. Well, we assume the drum
intro consists of drums. Could be a Chevy Nova with a faulty transmission
or something. Or a washer with pillows and sneakers unbalancing the load.
Either way. It=E2=80=99s still there.
And the first verse is the same, the chorus is the same, and the second
verse is the same. But what happens then? My lord, what happens then=E2=80=A6
(Oh, you people do know I write parodies, right? As in, making dumb things
up to achieve a humorous effect? Okay, just wanted to make sure=E2=80=A6)
Well, you remember that part where Robin goes =E2=80=9Cnobody cries for the way I
feel,=E2=80=9D =E2=80=93 which is true, generally speaking, people do not go around crying
for the way you feel. I felt rather bilious the other day, due to a Chinese
restaurant assuming that Egg Foo Young is carnival food. But no one cried
for the way I felt. Certainly not the cooks at the Peking Garden.
But I digress.
After Robin sings that, you recall that we then have Barry playing with a
vocoder. Or, more acurrately, Barry humming some random melody into a mic
while qualified personnel play with a vocoder.=C2=A0 And I remember when that
came out, I thought that was SO COOL! And wanted to know how he does that,
and where can I, a budget conscious man with a maxed out credit card, get
such a thing? Never did solve that one, but I can see that Barry thought it
was at least as cool as I did. Because now=E2=80=A6 (Parody, remember? Ok, just
making sure) Barry takes this to the next level. Now you have harmony
vocoder, falsetto vocoder, even harmonic digitally enhanced bagpipe
vocoder! It=E2=80=99s Cinco de Mayo for the vocodor industry, and takes up three
times the amount of mp3 that his little eight bars of buzz buzz did
previously. My heavens, who would have thought it?
But, oh, did I mention that the song was shorter? Well, yes, it was. And I
can see that Barry shares my sense of humor here. Knowing that the only
people left on the planet to download this song were crazed die-hard fans
such as myself, the sort who usually end up with restraining orders being
served on them sooner or later, well, he had some fun with us. He didn=E2=80=99t
cut out anything at all. He just sped it up. Gradually at first, not enough
that you=E2=80=99d notice. Then he starts revving up the tempo, then changing the
pitch, then kicking in the echo chamber =E2=80=93 if you are familiar with the old
classic =E2=80=9CThey=E2=80=99re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha Ha,=E2=80=9D then you know what I=E2=80=99m
talking about here.
And then it ends with a vault door slamming shut, echoing loudly. And Barry
muttering=E2=80=A6 =E2=80=9Cthat ought to hold them.=E2=80=9D
I don=E2=80=99t know about you, but as for me, I=E2=80=99m making this one my new ringtone!
David Garcia, who if he was at all merciful would state the obvious, that
nothing really changed other than the ending rift was trimmed slightly and
faded out a bit more quickly, but never mind that in NYC
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