(#2005-1139) - Topics this issue: 1) mistaken identity, 2) Guilty Pleasure, 3) the Middle Ear's main mystery, 4) the Middle Ear's main mystery, 5) Selling Middle Ear is only a sign of the times, 6) Tragedy.........is no so that ?, ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 14:22:26 +0000 From: "anil dular" Subject: mistaken identity ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 16:32:10 +0200 From: "Per Bausager" Subject: Guilty Pleasure From what I have heard until now I think Hideaway is the most Gibbbish of the songs. Nicely composed and very suitable for Streisands voice. I don't find the melody of Stranger in a Strange Land as seamless as a Gibb song use to sound. It just doesn't have the usual flow. I don't feel sure that it is going to make it as a single. Per ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 11:42:38 -0400 From: Edward Vlasov Subject: Re: the Middle Ear's main mystery Who bought it??? Eddy ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 17:46:41 +0200 From: "Toni Quintana" Subject: Re: the Middle Ear's main mystery Robin in association with Paul McCartney. :-))) Toni. (Of course that was a joke). > Who bought it??? > > Eddy > > > > > > "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: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 15:23:15 EDT From: Compoccias@aol.com Subject: Re: Selling Middle Ear is only a sign of the times In a message dated 8/26/2005 4:28:04 AM Eastern Standard Time, toquisa@terra.es writes: don't see selling Middle Ear as an end of a colaboration between Barry and Robin, it's the opposite, their next work together may be Barry being in Miami and Robin in England and nobody will notice that. Toni. > And maybe Barry and Robin would prefer it that way, too! Sal ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 19:45:34 -0300 From: "Zulema" Subject: Tragedy.........is no so that ? Good Bles you and your good sprit.. Michael Liu. You are showing the best feelings in earth. Because I'm sooo sad that you wouldn't believe. I thing It's the worse thing ( after Mo's death an my father's death... Ive' had to face. Hope from ny heart you are right. Zule :(....... > Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 04:11:35 -0400 (EDT) > From: Michael Liu > Subject: Selling Middle Ear is only a sign of the times > > The comptuter has brought what was once the exclusive domain of > professionals into the hands of the masses. You used to have to take your > artwork to a professional to get printed, you used to have to send out > typed copies of a manuscript to a proofreader, you used to have to send a > negative out to a professional for retouching and you used to have to go > to a studio to record an album with cassette based machines being used for > demos. > > These professional services used to billed at rates of hundereds of > dollars per hours, now people can do these on their own with computer > applications. > > Studios used to manned with huge reels of tape, recording spaces for > ambience and sound, tapes used to have to be edited with razor blades and > to send tracks to anothers tudio, they would have to be mailed. Studios > used to be used to mic drum sets. > > These days, all of these things can be done with a PC and some software. > Many people use electronic drums and some go as far as to not even use a > drummer, but build drum patterns from prerecorded samples. Less people mic > guitar amps and room ambience can now be added electronically and editing > can be done with the computer. Computers can "simulate" hundereds of amps, > microphones, speaker cabinets, and preamps. > > Even the radio DJ is getting replaced somewhat by mp3 technology. > > Tracks can be sent over the internet almost instantly without the need for > the post. > > The studio of the late 20th century is simply being replaced by a computer > that costs less then $2000 plus maybe an additional $1000 for microphones > or preamps. > > Keeping a professional studio costs money in rent and equipment, that for > the most part isn't used anymore - it can all be done in someone's house > with no rental fees and at one's convenience. > > Barry selling Middle Ear is simply a sign of the times - his studio is no > longer needed because it can be done faster and better in the hands of > someone who knows what their doing in a basement. > > The professional studio is simply going the same way that other > technologies have once control was put in the hads of the end user. > > Don't be sad, I suspect it has nothing to with the GIbbs never recording > again. They can do it elsewhere for less and sound better. ------------------------------ End words@brothersgibb.com Digest [08/26/2005 21:01] ----------------------------------------------------