(#2005-1231) - Topics this issue: 1) N/A, 2) Robin article, 3) "Bee Gees fever set to spread", 4) N/A, 5) Chat more readable, 6) guilty remaster art work, ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 10:51:35 -0400 From: Joseph Brennan Subject: Re: > CD Audio Side: > > Newly remastered from original master tapes. > > DVD Side: > > --Entire Album in LPCM Stereo > --Interview with Barbra and Barry on recording of Guilty - filmed June > 2005 --A video performance of one of the songs from the new album > included exclusively on this disc as a preview of the new album > --Guilty, Live from the TV Special One Voice > --Photo Gallery from outtakes from the original Mario Casilli Photo > Session I hate to ruin a surprise, but I heard it also includes a video of Robin and the singer I never heard of doing the updated Woman in Love, dressed as Barry and Barbra circa 1980. Joe Brennan ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 10:57:17 EDT From: Compoccias@aol.com Subject: Re: Robin article In a message dated 7/9/2005 4:14:50 AM Eastern Standard Time, maggie-bleksley@supanet.com writes: Maybe I'm the one who should be apologising. Michelle thinks you were replying to Yakima, so perhaps I'm the one who got it wrong. It gets a little confusing sometimes, especially for those of us on digest. Maggie > Also, Yakima (I think his name is Enos) doesn't identify himself after he posts a message, which ads to the confusion. Sal ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 11:03:41 EDT From: Compoccias@aol.com Subject: Re: "Bee Gees fever set to spread" In a message dated 7/9/2005 7:31:33 AM Eastern Standard Time, jpicas@xtec.net writes: Gibb's co-manager John Campbell says a slate of Bee Gees events begins next year. In the works are a Maurice Gibb tribute album, a free summer concert in Central Park, a prime-time special, a Broadway musical, a film and a book." > Some things never change! When reading da book you realize how often they would announce these big plans and how most of these announcements would come to nothing. They did that until the end, and Robin is apparently still doing it. Don't get me wrong, I would love to see all of those plans come to fruition, but history leaves me skeptical. Sal ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 11:06:17 EDT From: Compoccias@aol.com Subject: Re: In a message dated 7/9/2005 7:52:42 AM Eastern Standard Time, julian@theglassfamily.co.uk writes: It's interesting where this strategy came from. Is it unique? I think Barry has a very astute business brain. Think the concept for ONO and the Walmart telecast. He has learnt from his mentor Robert Stigwood (the first album promo as a TV show - Idea - Fankie Howerd Meets the Bee Gees; the first album promotion as a [short] feature film - Cucumber Castle; the first album promotion as a full length feature film - Saturday Night Fever Julian I don't know how unique the strategy is it is Julian, but I would agree that Barry does seem to have some very good business sense, and yes I suspect he learned much of it from Stigwood. sal ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 11:17:23 -0500 From: "veronika freeman" Subject: Chat more readable Just a designer's two cents - which someone could pass along to site people - making text all caps makes it extremely unreadable. You recognized words by the shape of the word, when all letters are caps the ascenders and decenders are removed and it slows the reader down tremendously as every word is now a "rectangle" (ie, bed vs BED, Mississippi vs MISSISSIPPI ) - hence why all caps are used as an emphasis: TO MAKE YOU READ IT SLOWER SO YOU'LL HAVE TO THINK HARDER AND IT WILL MAKE MORE OF AN IMPACT (the web phenomenon has translated this to mean screaming, not the original intent of use of caps in print media). To test this theory, write a few common words in lower case and in all caps, hold a piece of paper over the bottom or top half of a word (one is better than the other but I forget at the moment) and see how many a friend can decipher - they will be able to "read" many more of the lowercase ones due to the letter shapes. So please tell them NOT to USE ALL CAPS! Thanks - Verbal Veronika _____________________________________________ Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 06:36:18 -0400 From: "Linda Johnston" Subject: Re: Barry Gibb live chat That's exactly what was going on Maggie. No, Barry wasn't online. His chat administrator was testing the chat and logged on using Barry's name. I only stayed for a short while, but it appeared the administrator was tweaking the chat and looking for some feedback on how to improve things. Some suggestions/comments I read included (now please don't take shots at me, I'm only telling you what I read) requests that the chat text be in all caps to make it easier to read, ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 12:53:54 -0400 From: "Angel Delgado" Subject: guilty remaster art work click on third link : guilty album page 25th anniversay http://bjsmusic.com/ angel ------------------------------ End words@brothersgibb.com Digest [07/09/2005 15:01] ----------------------------------------------------