(#2002-3391) - Topics this issue: 1) Barry's position on Cover Versions, 2) Various website links, 3) Brian, 4) Brian, 5) Barry w/ shotgun, 6) SV: Barry and Michael Jackson, 7) Happy birthday Robin & Morice !, ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 17:20:49 +0000 From: Cristina Pimentel Subject: Barry's position on Cover Versions I got this from here: http://www.zdf.de/ZDFde/inhalt/0,1872,1004295,00.html "Die Technologie verdirbt einiges!" Barry Gibb - Interview Barry Gibb hält nicht viel von Cover-Versionen. Was ihn so richtig aufregt, und nach welchen Leitsätzen er arbeitet, verrät er hier: 04.01.2002 Wetten, dass..? Europas größte TV-Show Barry, warum habt Ihr den Titel "This Is Where I Came In" für die neue Single ausgewählt? Barry Gibb: Ich denke, es gibt keinen Grund. Wir hatten ständig Ideen und suchten nach einem Titel für das neue Album. Wir waren mehr oder weniger wieder mit dem Erforschen beschäftigt und versuchten, uns in die Richtung zurückzuentwickeln, die wir eingeschlagen hätten, wenn wir nicht "Saturday Night Fever" gemacht hätten. Das war das eigentliche Ziel. Und es scheint, als ob das die Richtung war, die wir hätten einschlagen können. Das gefiel uns. Wir haben von dort wieder angefangen. So schließt sich der Kreis, und die Idee dazu war "This Is Where I Came In". Oder anders: Die Dinge haben sich nicht wirklich so sehr verändert. Der Künstler verändert sich, aber die Musik verändert sich im Grunde genommen nicht sehr. Es ist heutzutage nicht sehr gängig, ein Akustik-Album zu machen. Sogar ein Lionel Richie versucht, seine Produktionen mit neuen Dance Beats zu versehen. Barry Gibb: Also, daran denken wir im Traum nicht und das haben wir auch nie. Vielleicht ist der Grund dafür, dass wir immer noch Musik machen, dieser: Wir gründen unsere Einflüsse auf unseren Instinkten und versuchen nicht, Trittbrettfahrer zu sein oder irgendetwas zu imitieren, nur weil es im Moment erfolgreich ist. Ein Leben lang haben wir das abgelehnt. Zwar nicht immer erfolgreich, aber wir haben wenigstens versucht, originell oder der Masse voraus zu sein. Das kann man nur tun, wenn man Musik macht, die man liebt. Versuche nicht, der Masse zu folgen. Euer letztes Studio-Album liegt vier Jahre zurück. Barry Gibb: Wirklich? Wie die Zeit vergeht. Eine lange Zeit, nicht wahr? Barry Gibb: Nein, es ist nichts. Ich kenne Künstler, die drei oder vier Jahre für ein Album gebraucht haben. Und ich kenne viele Leute, die zehn oder fünfzehn Jahre für einen Film gebraucht haben. Deshalb glaube ich nicht, dass Zeit ein Maßstab ist. Jedes Mal, wenn wir ein Album machen, kann es entweder ein halbes oder ein ganzes Jahr dauern. Ich glaube, es hängt zu dem Zeitpunkt von unserem Ehrgeiz ab. Es hängt davon ab, wie schnell wir die Dinge abgewickelt haben möchten, mit welcher Einstellung wir ins Studio gehen. Bei jedem Album. Daher sind vier Jahre gar nichts. Nicht zwischen Alben. Und Du vergisst eines: Wir haben zwischen "Still Waters" und diesem Album auch noch ein Live-Album veröffentlicht. Dieses Live-Album war eine große Sache, von daher haben wir die Pause überbrückt. Wir haben nicht wirklich vier Jahre lang pausiert. Wir haben das getan, weil viele Leute uns darum gebeten haben. Das hat uns hierhin geführt. Es hat uns die Arbeit an unserem neuen Album ermöglicht. Was hältst Du von BeeGees-Songs, die gecovert oder gesampelt werden? Barry Gibb: An alle, die unsere Songs covern: Es ist das schönste Kompliment, dass man jemandem machen kann, der Komponist ist. Jeder, der unsere Songs covert und jeder, der unsere Songs sampelt, braucht dringend einen Job, denn wir haben die Rechte darauf. Es ist unser Sound. Ich lehne es strikt ab, wenn jemand unsere Stimmen benutzt. Ich sehe es weder negativ noch positiv. Ich finde nur, niemandem sollte es erlaubt sein, das zu tun. Diesen Leute sollte es nicht erlaubt sein, deine Stimme aufzunehmen und sie für ihre Platten zu verwenden. Manchmal ist es wirlich gut gemacht, aber das rechtfertigt es nicht. Ich dachte dabei an Wyclef und seine Version von "Stayin' Alive". Barry Gibb: Ja, und sie hörte sich gut an, aber deswegen muss ich noch lange nicht hier sitzen und denken "Wow, jemand hat meine Stimme gesampelt und sie auf seiner Platte verwendet!" Irgendetwas stimmt damit nicht, auch moralisch gesehen. Das ist genau der Bereich, in dem die Technologie einiges verdirbt. Es sollte einfach nicht möglich sein. Es sollte verboten werden. Rough Translation, using Babel.Altavista (sorry, this is as far as I can go!): Babel Fish Translation, In English: "the technology spoils some!" Barry Gibb - interview Barry Gibb does not hold much of Cover versions. Which excites it so correctly, and after which guiding principles it works, he betrays here: 04.01.2002 Bets that.? Europe largest TV Show Barry, why have you the title "This Is Where I Came in" for the new single selected? Barry Gibb: I think, it give no reason. We had constantly ideas and looked for a title for the new album. We were more or less again busily tried with the investigation and to back-develop us into the direction which we would have taken, if we had not made "Saturday Night Fever". That was the actual goal. And it seems, as if that was the direction, which we could have taken. That pleased us. We began from there again. Thus the circle closes, and the idea in addition was "This Is Where I Came in". Or differently: The things did not change really so much. The artist changes, but the music changes strictly speaking not much. It is not very usual nowadays to make a acoustic album. Even a Lionel Richie tried to provide its productions with new Dance Beats. Barry Gibb: Thus, to it we think that in the dream not and have we also never. Perhaps the reason is for it that we make still music, this: We create our influences on our instincts and do not try not to be or something imitate free riders, only because it is for the moment successful. A life long we rejected that. Always successfully, but we did not try at least to be originally or the mass ahead. One can do that only if one makes music, which one loves. Attempts not to follow the mass. Your last Studio album is past four years. Barry Gibb: Really? As the time passes. A long time, not truely? Barry Gibb: No, it is not anything. I know artists, who used three or four years for an album. And I know many people, which used ten or fifteen years for a film. Therefore I do not believe that time is a yardstick. Each mark, if we make an album, can last it either a half or a whole year. I believe, it depend at the time of our ambition. It depends on it, how quickly we would like to have completed the things, with which attitude we into the studio goes. With each album. Therefore four years are not nothing at all. Not between albums. And you forgets one: We published Live album quietly between "Waters" and this album also still another. This Live album was a large thing, from therefore we the break bridged. We did not pausiert really four years long. We did that, because many people asked us for it. That led us this way. It made the work on our new album for us possible. What do you hold from BeeGees Songs, which are gecovert or gesampelt? Barry Gibb: To everything, those our Songs covern: It is the most beautiful radix complement that one can make for someone, the composer is. Everyone, which covert our Songs and everyone, which sampelt our Songs, needs urgently a job, because we have the rights to it. It is our sound. I reject it strictly, if someone uses our voices. I see it neither negative nor positive. I find only, to nobody should it be permitted to do. This people it should not be permitted to take up your voice and to use it for its plates. Sometimes it is made wirlich good, but it does not justify. I thought thereby of Wyclef and its version from "Stayin ' Alive". Barry Gibb: Yes, and it sounded itself well, but therefore I must sit and think still for a long time not here "Wow, someone my voice gesampelt and her on its plate used!" Something does not tune thereby, also morally seen. That is exactly the range, within which the technology some spoils. It should not be possible simply. It should be forbidden. Gibbyhugs, Cristina "People have asked me to write with other people, but as far as I am concerned, I'm writing with the best." (Maurice Gibb) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 13:54:41 -0000 From: "G.R.Gooch" Subject: Various website links I was browsing for stuff on Robin's recent UK promotional visits on radio and tv, but found these sites instead... (1) Article on Johnny Young's cover of Craise Finton Kirk :- http://www.radiolondon.co.uk/sixties/jyoung/jy.html (2) Pic of Robin with Uri Geller and a large boulder :- http://www.uri-geller.com/pics/x14.jpg (3) Uri Geller again :- http://www.uri-geller.com/articles/face/face3.htm (4) Memories: Robin Gibb interview transcript. Broadcast 6.30pm on 26-Aug-2002 (Australia):- http://www.abc.net.au/dimensions/dimensions_in_time/Transcripts/s659681.htm (5) Old interview with Bee Gee Robin Gibb, aged 42 :- http://www.beegeespoetry.hpg.ig.com.br/Robin.htm (6) Mick Taylor plays on Percy Sledge album (including Your Love Will Save The World) on 23-Aug-1984 : http://www.nzentgraf.de/books/mt/taylor94.htm (7) Selle v. Gibb - the Forensic Analysis of Plagiarism :- http://www.intelproplaw.com/Articles/IP/4.shtml Graham in Manchester, UK. -- ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 18:08:11 -0000 From: "Lee Meadows" Subject: Brian Oh dear Brian.....me thinks that Kirsten didnt quite understand what you wrote!!! Lee > > > > Barry is a has-been, an "is", and a will-be. > > > > Brian > > Barry Is Not A Has-been He Is A Great Singer & Songwriter So If You Don't > Have Anything Nice To Say Then Keep Your Comments To Yourself. > > From A Big Robin Gibb Fan Kirsten ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 10:47:33 -0800 From: "FULL SPECTRUM RECORDS" Subject: Re: Brian This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_004D_01C2A8DE.5DDD8580 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Yeah, I think you're right, unless she was responding to the original = post that I also responded to. Brian ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lee Meadows" To: "words List Member" Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2002 10:08 AM Subject: Brian > Oh dear Brian.....me thinks that Kirsten didnt quite understand what = you > wrote!!! > > Lee > > > > > > Barry is a has-been, an "is", and a will-be. > > > > > > Brian > > > > Barry Is Not A Has-been He Is A Great Singer & Songwriter So If You Don't > > Have Anything Nice To Say Then Keep Your Comments To Yourself. > > > > From A Big Robin Gibb Fan Kirsten > "Words & Music", Fans Of The Brothers Gibb > http://www.brothersgibb.com > > To change any of your list options, > please go to website listed above. > > ------=_NextPart_000_004D_01C2A8DE.5DDD8580-- ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 11:14:07 -0800 From: "FULL SPECTRUM RECORDS" Subject: Barry w/ shotgun This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0069_01C2A8E2.140F0880 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Does anyone remember where that picture of Barry with a shotgun at a = hunting club is? I think it was in black & white. Brian ------=_NextPart_000_0069_01C2A8E2.140F0880-- ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 19:25:20 -0000 From: "Linda" Subject: Re: SV: Barry and Michael Jackson LMAO !!! ----- Original Message ----- From: "FULL SPECTRUM RECORDS" To: "words List Member" Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2002 6:40 AM Subject: Re: SV: Barry and Michael Jackson > Hopefully, it will show that Barry is BIG enough to hold MJ over a high-rise > balcony railing and.... Whoops, dropped him. Then the world would love the > Bee Gees again. :) > > Brian > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Per Bausager" > To: "words List Member" > Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 1:07 PM > Subject: SV: SV: Barry and Michael Jackson > > > Just relax Ronnie. I am certain that this will show how big Barry Gibb is, > and I admire his courage. > > Per > > -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- > Fra: ListMember@brothersgibb.com [mailto:ListMember@brothersgibb.com]På > vegne af Ronnie Olsson > Sendt: 19. december 2002 18:38 > Til: words List Member > Emne: Re: SV: Barry and Michael Jackson > > > 02-12-19 16.50, skrev Plaza Online på pbau@plaza.dk följande: > > > And what if Barry pulls MJ back to the top? > > I doubt anything or anyone could pull MJ back to the top. It would be > interesting for us Bee Gees fans, as well as MJ fans, to hear what a > Barry/MJ team could accomplish but I think the big masses are fed up with > MJ's antics and found something else to listen to. > > > For me the interesting part of the collabaration is not what what the > press > > may say, but what kind of music they can create together. They are > certainly > > both among the very best writers in the history of pop music. > > I concur > > > Ronnie Olsson > > The Omnipotent King of Scania & The Court Jester at Cucumber Castle > Wanted List - http://klippan.seths.se/~kl19082a/ > > > > http://www.brothersgibb.com > Bee Gees News and Information > > "Words & Music", Fans Of The Brothers Gibb > http://www.brothersgibb.com > > To change any of your list options, > please go to website listed above. > "Words & Music", Fans Of The Brothers Gibb > http://www.brothersgibb.com > > To change any of your list options, > please go to website listed above. > "Words & Music", Fans Of The Brothers Gibb > http://www.brothersgibb.com > > To change any of your list options, > please go to website listed above. > > ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 19:05:30 -0300 From: "Zulema Nicotra" Subject: Happy birthday Robin & Morice ! Dear Robin and Mo : Love you very much Thanks for doing always your best. If you keep doing music life is sweeter and you'll always mend a broken heart with it. HAPPY BIRTHDAY !!! God bless you . Zule :) ...................................................... Time.. has.. gone But I'll go anywhere Yes I'llgo anywhere with you***BRM.Gibb from "This is where I came in" ................................................... > > From: Paul Mann > Subject: Magnet! > Hi everyone! > > I personally absolutely love all the Magnet samples!!! > I'm REALLY looking forward to the album now! Robin's > voice sounds great and all the songs sound bang up to > date and I reckon this could be a huge chart success!! > > Wahey!!!!!!! > Paul ------------------------------ End words@brothersgibb.com Digest [12/21/2002 18:01] ----------------------------------------------------