Tuesday, February 24, 2015

The Bee Gees box set 1974-1979 released march 23 2015

The Bee Gees  box set 1974-1979 is due for release in exactly a month and the above image gives you a better idea of how this five-CD clamshell box set will look.

This set includes four studio albums:  Mr Natural (1974), Main Course (1975), Children of the World (1976) and Spirits Having Flown (1979) with a bonus disc, The Miami Years, mopping up the killer tracks from the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, plus some extras.

If you are wondering about the sound on these discs, this set utilises the mastering found on the 2013 Japanese mini-LP reissues.

Bee Gees 1974-1979 is released on 23 March 2015.
 
 
 
Track listing

CD 1 / Mr Natural (1974)
1. Charade
2. Throw A Penny
3. Down the Road
4. Voices
5. Give a Hand, Take a Hand
6. Dogs
7. Mr. Natural
8. Lost in Your Love
9. I Can t Let You Go
10. Heavy Breathing
11. Had a lot of Love Last Night


CD 2 / Main Course (1975)
1. Nights on Broadway
2. Jive Talkin
3. Wind of Change
4. Songbird
5. Fanny (Be Tender With My Love)
6. All This Making Love
7. Country Lanes
8. Come on Over
9. Edge of the Universe
10. Baby As You Turn Away



CD 3 / Children of the World (1976)
1. You Should Be Dancing
2. You Stepped Into My Life
3. Love So Right
4. Lovers
5. Can t Keep a Good Man Down
6. Boogie Child
7. Love Me
8. Subway
9. The Way It Was
10. Children of the World


CD 4 / Spirits Having Flown (1979)
1. Tragedy
2. Too much Heaven
3. Love You Inside Out
4. Reaching Out
5. Spirits (Having Flown)
6. Search, Find
7. Stop (Think Again)
8. Living Together
9. I m Satisfied
10. Until


CD 5 / The Miami Years
1. Stayin Alive
2. How Deep Is Your Love
3. Night Fever
4. More Than A Woman
5. Emotion
6. Warm Ride
7. (Our Love) Don t Throw It All Away
8. If I Can t Have You
9. Rest Your Love On Me [B-side]
10. It Doesn t Matter Much To Me [B-side]
11. Stayin Alive (Promo 12 Version)

 
 
 
 

Monday, February 16, 2015

Disco Fever - Tribute To Bee Gees Remix



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Barry Gibb, Gloria Estefan among performers at Miami Beach centennial concert

02/16/2015 10:44 AM
02/16/2015 11:20 AM

Local stars Gloria Estefan and Jon Secada will also perform at the show marking the Miami Beach's 100th anniversary.
The rest of lineup includes English guitarist and singer-songwriter Dave Mason, Jamaican reggae and hip-hop artist Ky-Mani Marley, jazz flautist and Nestor Torres, Miami Beach vocalist Nicole Henry and Jamaican reggae band Third World, among others.
The daylong oceanfront music festival will be staged at Eighth Street and Ocean Drive. Gates open at noon, and the performances begin at 5 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. Beach residents will have a special reserved section.
The concert, sponsored by Hard Rock International, the Seminole Tribe of Florida and Seminole Hard Rock Hotel in Hollywood, Fla., is called Hard Rock RISING.


 




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Friday, February 13, 2015

Andy Gibb Interview with Robert W. Morgan, 1978

Mr. Morgan: "Hugh and Barbara Gibb’s youngest son is a star and they couldn’t be happier."
Barbara: "I knew Andy would do it too"

Mr. Morgan: "Andy Gibb, he has packed more living into his first two decades than most people do in a lifetime."

Andy: "They’re going to bury me tomorrow" (laughs) "and yet it is weird, as I suppose I must really remember 20 years old and 3 #1’s is really quite a lot"

Mr. Morgan "(List of all kinds of bands) that had to struggle to the top... because there is no such thing as an overnight sensation, or is there?"

Mr. Morgan: "The exception that proves the rule, it is the story of a young man, who from infancy was groomed for success by rock’s "first family". But even though he is a true overnight sensation, on the morning after he had to face the same pressure and self-doubt most artists already confronted on their way up. From dancing in the shadow of his famous brothers to wanting to be everything to his fans; that’s not an easy journey."

Andy: "I can relate to how things have changed, obviously very differently. I still think back to the early days I mean when all this wasn’t happening at all, and it seemed like a big step but I’m glad I can remember it, I am glad I can still think about it and relate to it. If I couldn’t relate at all it would be a problem for me, because it would mean that’s as far as my head is concerned I couldn’t relate to what I was doing before I had a hit record. So I still don’t want to forget about the times before."

Mr. Morgan: "Andy Gibb has packed more living into his first two decades than most people do in a lifetime. Growing up with brothers Barry, Maurice and Robin, the Bee Gees, Andy had a ring-side view of the high-flying world of Rock N Roll. He also had high-flying parents, they were never reluctant to pull up stakes, pick up Andy and move to another part of the world whenever the mood struck them. So when Andy Gibb says he feels older than his years, he’s not boasting."

Andy: "They’re going to bury me tomorrow" (laughs). "No, I still feel pretty much, as far as the age goes, the same about it as I did before, because though everything has happened in a short time and so as much as, you know, I get tired sometimes and have done quite a few things I still, I don’t know, I can handle it and yet, it is weird as I suppose I must really remember ‘cause 20 years old and three #1’s is a lot; and I’m just worried about 10 years or all those years until I’m 30."

Andy: "Sometimes it is a strange thought thinking if all this can happen, and some days you get depressed and think that it’s been a long year. What is it going to be like having to fight through ten years. I know that success and everything that is happening now is great and it seems like it’s gonna last forever, as it’s happening to you now, but it’s amazing how short that space in time was when you look back on it and how quick things can all turn around."

Mr. Morgan: "It is amazing how fast its all happened for Andy Gibb. During his first year as a recording artist, every record he released, singles and albums, sold at least 1,000,000 copies. At one point he joined his brothers in occupying 4 of the top 5 positions on the music charts. That’s the kind of sudden stardom aspiring musicians dream about, but for Andy Gibb there were days when the sensation of being an overnight sensation was more than he could handle.
"
Andy: "Yea, I had a couple of days and I thought ‘gee, you know, you’ve got to be careful, you touch the edge and you see it all; and I went to Europe and it really gets me, probably a lot of people, I don’t know why. I just, I haven’t had a lot of years struggling in the business of non-stop touring and everything else, so I went out to do a promotional tour of Europe, well I’m not really big there, nothing like America. To go out there, naturally they are really ready there for me to work and we had five weeks promotion and for three weeks we would be going from like 6 in the morning until 2 in the morning. I wasn’t eating all my meals, I was getting called away to all these meetings, not being able to finish my meals. I broke down, it certainly wasn’t mental, it was a sort of physical collapse and we had to cut the tour a few weeks short and bring me home to Miami; and that was like a month ago, so that’s it, I just get very tired very quickly. Having to constantly talk about being successful, until you get used to that, I suppose is a different thing for a person."

Mr. Morgan: "Fortunately, when Andy came back from Europe on the verge of collapse, he could fall into the arms of his family. Miami is home for the Bee Gees and their parents Hugh and Barbara Gibb. Andy’s professional family also lives there including record producers Alhby Galuten, and Karl Richardson. And while most men his age tend to avoid their families, Andy thrives on being close to his."

Andy: "I want them involved in things and show them things that are happening. Even though they’ve been through it for many years, sort of for them, it’s like finishing it off."

Mr. Morgan: "By the time Andy was born in Manchester, England, there was already so much music in the Gibb household, it’s surprising his first words weren’t the lyrics to "Children of the World." Not only were his brothers singing in local theaters during Saturday matinees, but his father, Hugh Gibb, was just winding up his career as a band leader. According to Mr. Gibb, times were much harder for young musicians back when he was a boy."

Mr. Hugh: " I was the oddball in my family, cause I liked music and the attitude was that it would never do you any good. The main theme then, was: go to work, have a steady job, and bring your wages home every weekend. A sidetrack from that it wasn’t right in their eyes. To be a musician was like the old days, you know, when they were considered Vagabonds; and that’s all I ever wanted to do, I was the oddball. I am the only one, I think, the boys could have got anything from. Nobody could foresee what was going to happen."

Mr. Morgan: "The Gibbs had moved around so frequently, when Hugh was a band leader, that after a few months in Manchester they soon got the itch to travel once more. This time, to Australia. Mr. and Mrs. Gibb remember it well."

Mrs. Barbara: "I was having the baby and we had to wait until we got our papers to get on the ship you see. "

Mr. Hugh: "I think Andy was about 5 months old when we arrived in Australia."

Mrs. Barbara "6 months, we left in September. We got our shipping orders and everything about the end of March, Andy was just about 1 month old."

Mr. Hugh: "Sometimes you have to wait 2 years, we got it in 6 weeks.
"
Mrs. Barbara: " The first Monday in August we landed." (1958)

Mr. Hugh: "Because they say ‘don’t dispose of your property until you know what you’re doing’ and right out of the blue we got a note."

Mrs. Barbara: "And we emigrated."

Mr. Hugh: "Six weeks and we were off, amazing!"

Mr. Morgan: "It was amazing, while in Australia, Hugh and Barbara Gibb saw their three oldest sons grow up to become that continent’s biggest pop stars. But the Bee Gees soon outgrew Australia, so the Gibbs packed their bags again and went home to conquer England. Considering that Andy had left when he was only 1 month old it is remarkable how much he missed his homeland."

Andy: "That was really funny, We came by boat and I was told that when we came off, I went running down the gangplank, 9 years old ya know and I left at 5 months old, so I’d never even seen it. I was running down there and kissed the ground and ‘England, England’ you know, and my brothers all kissed the ground. After a few months we wondered why, but we did it."

Mr. Morgan: "Once they were back in Britain, the Bee Gees wasted no time. In rapid- fire succession, they were signed by Robert Stigwood, recorded their first world wide hit ‘New York Mining Disaster’ and were full-fledged superstars. Most kid’s might have found it strange to see their older brothers hounded by screaming fans, but not Andy Gibb."

Andy: "Well, it didn’t change my life that much, because I was only 10 years old and I knew they were in the business. And I had always known they were in the business, not being anything extra special to me. And at 10 years old you don’t think about show business, you don’t think glitter, you don’t think that you have 4 or 5 hundred kids outside the front door because your brothers are big stars. I just walk in after school, pass the 5 hundred kids at the front door, go in the back door, my brothers would all be sitting, watching television with the curtains drawn. Girls banging on the windows and that was their whole life, you know."

Andy: "I have never had a good day at school ever in my life I don’t think, that’s why I left school literally on my 13th Birthday. I thought my problem was there and that was a bit of a hassle, I mean there were kids there that I would do anything to get anomaly with them, any game/sport or if I would do something outstanding in the game/sport it was ‘a, you think you’re great don’t ‘cha, cause you’re the Bee Gees’ brother you think you can do that fabulously.’ To have that for quite a few years thrown at you, I mean it just got to me so bad in the end, I just couldn’t handle it anymore, I had to leave it."

Mr. Morgan: "Growing up in the shadow of his famous brothers it would have been understandable for Andy to resent Barry, Maurice and Robin, but instead of sibling rivalry, there was nothing but sibling revelry."
 
Andy: "Everyone said that most people in that position would say: ‘God, my brothers are responsible for all this, damn them in the end’. But no there is not for one second did I ever think that, I always decided to take everything myself and write it myself and not consider it as their fault. Naturally, I was always going to be related to them in any conversation or anything, so that has never bugged me really."

Mr. Morgan: "You would think that with 3 sons already in the music business Hugh and Barbara Gibb would have wanted their 4th to pursue another line of work, but considering the alternatives Andy offered his parents, Mr. & Mrs. Gibb really had no choice."

Mr. Hugh: " We said, ‘here we go again’"

Mrs. Barbara: "It was exciting, I knew that Andy would do it too. I knew, you know, of course it took him a little longer than it did the others."

Mr. Hugh: "Andy was later starting. Andy is the oddball of the brothers. He is a real sports freak. He tackles everything and once he masters it he starts on something else. First it was show jumping in England, he was the youngest member of the team, he was only 11 he had two horses. Then we go to Spain and he got interested in scuba diving, still a kid, you know, about 12."

Andy: "I didn’t have permanent friends in many places for long... all my friends were older than me I never had friends my own age. I left school at 13, so, I’ve always been surrounded by people in the business. So to have that and there was never really being able to relate and it was always ‘tipsy’ (always moving) in my family as far back as I can remember, we always moved. We never even stayed in a house more than 8 or 9 months. We never lasted a year at any one house, I don’t know what it was, we would have to get up and move somewhere else."

Mr. Morgan: "Because his parents moved more often than the California fault line, Andy got to see the world without joining the Navy. They lived all over the British Isles and Europe, but the port of call Andy calls the beginning of his career was a sleepy Spanish Island whose name most people mispronounce."

Andy: "Ibiza, it is spelled IBIZA and they pronounce the ‘Z’ as a ‘th’...I BE...TH...A. It’s a very, very pretty little island. There was a lot of work in piano bars and nightclubs and things... I did 3 1/2 years of that for experience... and went to the Isle of Man, which is a small island between Ireland and England, my brothers were all born there. I spent a year there after living in Ibiza, one full year performing in a club for money, the profit at the gate and what have you. We did pretty well there, made a bit of money and at the end of that year, Barry and my Dad said ‘Australia’."

Mr. Morgan: "Australia, three brothers Gibb: Barry, Maurice and Robin had already gotten their act together ‘down under’, now there would be a 4th, Andy."

Andy: " Barry and my Father suggested that I go out there to Australia and just go out there in general and try to become a big name there like they originally did. So they controlled it even from that point which was 1971, probably later than that even. So that even before I became any single at all, they were guiding it and they were planning for the future. They were planning for me to eventually come back to America, for Barry to produce me at the right age and to sign with RSO. So, therefore, even when I was very, very young they told me basically how they had it all worked out and I let them do it...it went pretty nice."

Mr. Morgan: "After 2 years undergoing ‘basic training’ in the Bee Gees Australia musical ‘boot camp’, Andy Gibb was ready to receive his commission. The only thing now standing between Andy and stardom was the telephone. Finally, it rang"

Andy: "The first call came from Barry in Anchorage, Alaska on tour. And he said he’d just been sitting there after the show and he said that ‘I want to produce your records and Robert (Stigwood) wants to manage you’, ("And I thought: ‘manage, oh that’s incredible!’)," ‘plus he wants to sign you up for the label’ (‘ So, what could I say!’), ‘2 weeks’. So a date was arranged and Barry instigated it."

Mr. Morgan: "Andy and Barry Gibb converged upon Robert Stigwood, the RS in RSO Records, at his home near Nassau. Here the Bermuda Trio mapped out the strategy that Made Andy an Overnight Sensation. To be sure, some critics have called his career ‘contrived’, but Andy’s producers Alhby Galuten and Karl Richardson claim what we were really witnessing was a boy becoming a man on vinyl."

AG or KR: "Andy’s got a lot of energy and what it is um, each time, like the first album we did with Andy, is to us has been so amazing to watch him grow to do the second album, and I am sure when we do the third one, it will be even another ‘quantum’ leap. Each time he grows the songs come through with more stuff, and he’s feeling it more, he spends a lot more time getting involved in the studio, so I’m looking forward to the next one. There is always a ‘quantum’ leap when you are dealing with someone that young."

Mr. Morgan: "Not surprisingly, the Bee Gees are Andy’s favorite group. He has sung along with their records and with them ever since he was a kid. So, I asked Andy if he’d ever consider joining his brothers as the 4th Bee Gee."

Andy: "I think that would only ever happen if I joined the Bee Gees soon, and then they split up and they all retired, ‘cause I’m not ready to retire, I’m not ready to stop yet ‘cause, you know they’ve got a lot of years.; and if they want to stop or not get into it anymore, at that point if I was a member of them which I’m not saying I am or I would, we just touched on it lightly many times: and if I was and they did, then I would continue as a solo artist."
 
Mr. Morgan: "Although Andy Gibb’s words and music are aimed at an older audience, he has also become a teen idol. His every move is breathlessly reported in the pages of countless teen magazines. Andy’s more amused than angered by these publications, especially the ones which used to run his name on the bottom of their covers."

Andy: "Now it’s at the top ‘Andy and Shaun, or Shaun and Andy’, you know, ‘Win a Date’ or ‘You Could Be Their Heart Throb’, or What Turns Andy On’. ‘Is it True About Andy and Marie’, you know and all of this across the top: ‘Are Shaun and Andy Battling For Marie’s Love?’ It’s fabulous!" (laughs)

Mr. Morgan: "Sensing a scoop in the making. I visited the Hollywood offices of ‘Tiger Beat’, a fan magazine, where I learned that Shaun Cassidy and Andy Gibb aren’t battling each other for Marie Osmond’s love. However, as long as I was there, I asked ‘Tiger Beat’ Editor Kathy Coen (Kirkland) what kind of fan mail Andy was getting these days."

Kathy Coen (Kirkland): "Of course they mention the records first ‘cause that’s really the only way they know him so far. It’s a little different with people like Shaun where they’ve seen him on TV, but it’s definitely a romantic feeling. ’You move so well on stage’, or ‘I’d die to meet you, please write me back’ that sort of thing; ‘cause, I mean, face it, he’s really cute, so...." (Andy laughing in background).

Mr. Morgan: "He might be an overnight sensation, but for Andy Gibb the real struggle is only now beginning. And yet he is growing day by day with every song he sings his voice takes on an added authority; and with every song that he writes he exhibits greater maturity. He is much more than just the Bee Gee’s younger brother or the teen idol, he is Andy Gibb and tomorrow belongs to him."

Andy: "I am so much more confident now after doing this second album, dealing with the pressures of proving to myself that the first one wasn’t a ‘fluke’ and that I could write a second album. So now I am a lot more confident."



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Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Samantha Gibb Memories offical video

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/mem...
In this video, we tried to capture the idea that memories are only as good as you keep them. And sometimes its important, no matter how far you have to go to find them, to watch and remember the

way we felt in those moments. Make those memories bigger than life! Let your past inspire your future.
A big thank you to all those in the video. Thank you so much for helping us create everlasting memories.




This video is dedicated to our family. This weekend my dad and uncles received a Lifetime Achievement Award for their work in music. So proud and so grateful for all the memories they have helped create. Congrats boys and hats of to my brother who gave an awesome speech! Our paps would of been proud: )







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Sunday, February 8, 2015

Barry gibb on Special Merit Awards Ceremony Recap

watch Barry at 2:20

BARRY GIBB ON BITTERSWEET BEE GEES GRAMMY,

Barry Gibb Speaks From the Heart at Grammy Special Merit Awards

 
 
 
 
One day after Bob Dylan made headlines with a fascinating speech at the MusiCares Person of the Year event, Barry Gibb delivered an emotional and deeply personal speech at the Grammy Special Merit Awards. Gibb was there to accept a Lifetime Achievement Award for Bee Gees, the brother trio which scored top 10 hits in the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s.
 
Gibb, 68, is the only surviving member of the trio. His younger twins Maurice and Robin died in 2003 and 2012, respectively. Their youngest brother Andy, who was a solo star in the late ’70s, preceded them all in death in 1988.
Gibb noted, “Andy wanted to be a Bee Gee, but he was a little too young. We never thought of ourselves as Bee Gees—we thought of ourselves as the four brothers. Me being the eldest, I was always watching out for the rest of them. And I miss them very much … I always imagined we would sit around in our 80s and laugh and joke. But it just didn’t work out that way….I think I’ve had enough of death to last me a lifetime.”
 
Gibb praised impresario Robert Stigwood, who brought them Saturday Night Fever and Grease (Barry wrote the title song of the latter film). “Robert presented us with those opportunities. When you see it, grab it, because it goes away real quick.”
 
Maurice Gibb’s son Adam accepted the award on behalf of his father.
 
Many consider the Special Merit Awards, which were held on Saturday at the Wilshire Ebell Theater in Los Angeles, to be the highlight of Grammy week. Where the Grammys have become big and brash, the Merit Awards are an intimate affair. The honorees almost always show up to receive their awards. For honorees that have passed on, their children or other family members accept for them.
Dhani Harrison accepted the award for his father, George Harrison, who died in 2001. Dhani, who has subbed for his father on various music projects since 2002’s Concert For George, noted, “He did everything with a big, open heart and lots of love … He taught me that anything can be accomplished as long as you set out to do it with love.”



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Saturday, February 7, 2015

Barry Gibb on Entertainment Tonight

Barry Gibb will receive the GRAMMY Lifetime Achievement Award on behalf of the Bee Gees on Sunday, but the distinction is bittersweet as his brothers and fellow Bee Gee members Robin and Maurice have passed away.

Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Q & A with Maurice Gibb

von Carmen Borgia, Crossfire Magazine, Januar 2002

Fresh from the World Cup, Carmen Borgia had a chance to sit down and chat with Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gees and newly addicted paintball player. Here's what he had to say.

CB: How did you get exposed to paintball?
MG: “I first played in 1984; it was called Survival and there was a bunch of us who all decided to try it. It didn't have the goggles or the protection, but it was all very low velocity so no one really felt anything when they hit you. I used to see [the paintballs] come out of the barrel - they were that slow. I got into it then and I loved it. It was more of a woods scenario.”

CB: How did you hear about it?
MG: “I heard about paintball from some Australian thing I saw on television where they were marking sheep from a helicopter with [markers] and some guy decided to start playing games with them. I thought it looked like fun. I found someone who was doing it here and I just asked around. Someone told me they were doing it right here in the Everglades, called Survival. So I bought all camouflage and a pair of glasses that protect your eyes. I just went out to the field and played, and I loved it.”

CB: Did you just play that one time and hold off for a while?
MG: “No, I played for about a year, but then I got really busy and couldn't get time to do it. Also, the fields weren't lasting long, people really weren't that interested. The fields were closing up so when I went back to play they were gone.”

CB: What got you interested in playing again?
MG: “I was having lunch with Frederick Renucci – my friend and teammate who keeps me safe, organized, and makes it all happen for me. One day and I asked him if he ever played paintball. He said no, but that he had heard of it. So we checked on the Internet and a lot of sites came up - I'd never seen anything like it. With all these wonderful masks and protective gear and markers, it just blew me away. I thought we've just got to do this again. I'd heard about a field called Rough and Tough, which is located in Florida and run by Pete Bofil who is also a pro player from Team Rage. It was a nice wooded scenario and two obstacle courses.”

CB: What is your favorite marker to play with?
MG: “My favorite gun is definitely the Angel, particularly Rocky's version of it [from Warped Sportz]. I love that one because it's very light and very accurate. I got a new one at the show this year, which is fantastic. So now I just use the two Angels.”

CB: What other markers have you used in the past?
MG: “The very first I ever had was the Black Angel. I like the Intimidators, I have two backups of those, and two E-mags. I have about nine markers in all.”

CB: How did you pick your team?
MG: “People like Ken, who is a great favorite of ours and a great team member, started showing us things. Eventually we all became a team. There was about six of us - Ken, then Dad, and Jason - and we could see who was passionate about it by who turned up every Sunday. Those who were dedicated became Royal Rat Rangers.”

CB: Is this your first tournament together?
MG: “The World Cup is our first tournament. We didn't know whether we'd win anything or not, but we just wanted the experience. I thought, ‘If I never do, then I'll never know.' This year we were definitely going to do it. So, we practiced as much as we could trying to get our moves, communication, and codes down. Communication, I've learned, is really the most important thing. For a novice team to go out with 300 points – we never thought we'd get 100 points.”

CB: When was your biggest fear encountered?
MG: “My worst nightmare, of course, at the World Cup was that I would get left alone out there and get bunkered to hell. And guess what? The first game I turned around and all my guys had gone, and I went running. It was All American I think, and they got me good. But I experienced it; after that I wasn't worried anymore. To tell you the truth, I think their air was a bit low.”

CB: Can you compare the adrenaline rush of performing a live concert to the rush of paintball?
MG: “The greatest thing in my life is having a natural high. The greatest natural high besides my wife and kids is going on stage, performing, recording, writing the songs, and then releasing it to the world. It's the same kind of rush with paintball because it makes me feel young and alive. It's exciting, it's safe, and it's fun. The stress relief is unbelievable. My favorite shower of the week is when I finish playing. I'm just in another world and so relaxed. I am still, two days later, floating. I love the fun of it all. It's not being dangerous, it's not being stupid, but it's like being a kid for the day. And the camaraderie!”

CB: When I saw you last year at the World Cup, were you just checking it out?
MG: “We got there too late, unfortunately, on the last day. I was intimidated then, and I thought, ‘I can't play them, these guys know what they are doing. They've been playing a hell of a lot longer than I have.' But then we all decided to have a go at it. We have pictures from this year of the guys walking the field, looking so worried. Then after the first game, everyone looks so relieved and happy.”

CB: I wondered if you were really into playing paintball.
MG: “We are. We've been doing this just under two years now. We want to play as many tournaments as we can, even if I can't play every time, the team is going to. We've got replacement captains and all that.”

CB: What do you see your team doing for the next year? What are your goals?
MG: “Next year? To be the number one team. We will do that? I'm going to have lunch with Avalanche to talk about it.”

CB: As far as circuits, which tournaments do you think you'll be attending?
MG: “I'd like to eventually get to the status of a pro team and play as many of the tournaments that we can possibly play.”

CB: Do you think you'll be going to all the NPPL events?
MG: “Oh yeah.”

CB: Do a lot of your peers in the music industry know you play?
MG: “Yes, most of them do. I've talked about it to people and of course the first question they ask is, ‘Does it hurt?' I said, ‘Well, Elton,. Let me put it this way: You can't wear that.' But seriously, a lot people have asked and I said to get bunkered is like getting hit with a wet towel. You're just so annoyed that you got hit that you don't think about it.”

CB: What is your favorite band or favorite type of music?
MG: “Well, I listen to all sorts, I don't really have a favorite. It depends on the mood I'm in; I like all kinds.”

CB: What are some of your hobbies besides paintball?
MG: “I love photography, editing videos, and experimenting with sound. My hobby is really electronics - gadgets and making things work how they are supposed to work. I'm a computer freak too, so I love computers, especially with digital photography.”

CB: Musically, what has been your best moment?
MG: “I think it was when our very first record went to number one, which was 'Massachusetts'.”

CB: And how about your greatest paintball moment?
MG: “My greatest paintball moment was playing in this World Cup. It was one huge moment and one of the greatest weekends I've ever had.”

CB: I've seen the Gibb story on A&E and I think you're the same guy I saw in the 70s. It's very cool for me to see you playing paintball.
MG: “Well, thank you. I always have such a good time. I was afraid that I wouldn't get accepted, but I really felt at home. I chatted with a lot of the teams and players like Rocky, and everybody was so nice and helpful.”

CB: As captain, what do you talk about to the team?
MG: “I talk about the most important things: speed, communication, and the excitement. It's not necessarily motivation to win, but to do the best. The top thing is to have fun. I won't tolerate negativity. Learn from it and move on. “

CB: What kind of strategy changes do you think you'll make in the team after the World Cup?
MG: “Once again, we've learned from other players, by watching them and how they interact with each other. I know that when we take the field this Sunday, we'll be playing a lot different than before the World Cup. We learned, and we have a different confidence level too. It put a lot of confidence in the players.”

CB: You looked like you were just really enjoying yourself.
MG: “It just amazed me. All the camaraderie, the chemistry of the people, and everyone was ready to help. I wasn't going to go into this thing like we were a pro team when we're not. We were novices, and we wanted to learn.”

CB: You're taking the right steps, and you seem very open-minded about it.
MG: “I'll tell you something, none of those guys have egos. We just want to have fun and see how far we can go. The more we win, fantastic, but we're not going to let it get us down just because we didn't win one year. We have to build it and it's going to take time.”

CB: You surprised a lot of people, and I'm sure yourselves too.
MG: “I was so proud. They did everything the way they were supposed to, it was perfect. When they came out and lifted their masks, they were all sweaty and red with pride. That alone made the trip worthwhile

Des & Mel: Robin Gibb interview

ITV1, 27. Januar 2005
Robin Gibb and Russell Watson promoting the single "Grief Never Grows Old"

Q: Hello. I was looking at the line up of the people on the track, and it's... who isn't on the track? It's wonderful, I mean, Cliff, your brother Barry, Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys, are the Beach Boys on it as well?

Robin Gibb: Yes, absolutely

Q: Boy George and a choir from Sri Lanka....

Robin Gibb: Yes

Q: But did all the people, they're all busy people, were they all in the studio at one time?

Robin Gibb: Different studios across the world, Sri Lanka, Miami, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, there were different studios involved in this

. Q: That's fantastic! Who came up with this idea to do this recording?

Robin Gibb: Mike Read RW: Mike called me while I was in New York and asked me if I'd do the song first plane back home.

Q: And of course you've got a Tsunami concert at the Royal Albert Hall. Is it 31st March?

RW: 31st March, it's called 'Classic Response', there's going to be lots of classical artists there

Q: Who's going to be there? That's another gigantic list that will be called...

RW: Yes, I'm not sure who exactly is going to be here, but I know one thing, I definitely will be there, and we're going to raise as much money as we possibly can, so get down to the Albert Hall

. Q: You might see my little face there as well. I won't sing... don't panic! No, that's great, we'll talk more about that later on because you're going to sing the track for us?

Robin Gibb & RW: Yes Q: It's absolutely beautiful, let it go to number 1, let it be a monster hit

RW: We need it to be. We need it more than anything to go to number 1, because that's where we're going to gain the publicity around the record, effectively sell more records, and you know, get the money to help people out there.

Q: I've got to ask you Robin, I've got to ask you...

Robin Gibb: Ask away!

Q: Are we ever going to see you maybe get together with your brother and maybe do some more....

Robin Gibb: Well, me and Barry are actually on this record together for the first time since Maurice died, which is 2 years ago this month, it's our first recording and hopefully me and Barry are going to get together and do something this year.

Q: Under the Bee Gees banner?

Robin Gibb: I don't know if it will be under the Bee Gees banner but definitely Robin and Barry. We've always thought about whether we should leave that with Maurice, the Bee Gees, but then, like you say...

Q: Maurice, if he was here, would be saying, "Go on, Go for it!"

Robin Gibb: Well, he probably would, but then I don't know if Barry has a problem with that yet. It's an emotional thing

Q: Yes. Now Robin, you have written some wonderful songs, is there any that you can pick out that has given you the most satisfaction over the years?

Robin Gibb: 'Woman In Love' for Barbara Streisand, 'Chain Reaction' for Diana Ross, 'Heartbreaker' for Dionne Warwick and 'How Deep Is Your Love

' Q: I recorded 'How Deep Is Your Love'!

Robin Gibb: Yes! Q: I'm sorry about that! He was lovely, he never sued.

Robin Gibb: That's coming!

Q: He said: 'Go ahead Des and do it!'

Robin Gibb: It was a great version.

Q: You've got a really busy year, haven't you? You've got the tour? What's this I hear about you're going to have a celebrity boxing match on TV?

RW: No! It's interesting that the night they wanted me to do the boxing match, I'm actually doing a concert at the Albert Hall, so what I was planning on doing was doing the first half, give him a slap, come back and finish the concert!

Q: Well, it wouldn't take you long to wipe him out, would it? I wanted to ask you about that, I was hoping you were going to say you were going to get in there and get stuck in...!

RW: I like my boxing

Q: You do, don't you?

RW: Oh yes, I'm a big boxing fan! I like to do a bit myself.

Robin Gibb: Kick boxing?

RW: Yeah, everything, Thai boxing, kick boxing...

Robin Gibb: I won't pick a fight with you, mate.

RW: Any boxing...

Robin Gibb: I wouldn't want to meet you down a dark alley at night!

Q: Robin, when you're in the middle of a song, do you instinctively know if it's going to be a hit, do you just get a vibe?

Robin Gibb: Well, if you feel good about a song other people are going to feel good about it, if you don't, don't expect others to. There is an instinct, yes.

Q: Is it true that you actually wrote two hit songs in just one afternoon?

Robin Gibb: Well, that can happen, we wrote 'Tragedy ' and 'Too Much Heaven' in one afternoon. And there are other afternoons which aren't so good... You can't always count on those afternoons!

Q: Well, that's it! I remember I was just saying... a lovely memory of you and I, you were on the show and your mum came over....

Robin Gibb: Oh, yes!

Q: And she... Do you remember?
Robin Gibb: She was eating pies! Pork pies!

Q: She was eating pork pies in the audience!

Robin Gibb: Oh, she's rather fond of pork pies! [...]

Q: Well, I can't wait to hear the single, you're going to perform that for us now?

Robin Gibb & RW: Yes




Tuesday, February 3, 2015

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Grammy Awards 2015


Saturday, Feb. 7 2015

The Recording Academy's Special Merit Awards Ceremony - 3 p.m., Wilshire Ebell Theatre
The Bee Gees, Pierre Boulez, Buddy Guy, George Harrison, Flaco Jiménez, The Louvin Brothers and Wayne Shorter will be the recipients of Lifetime Awards at The Recording Academy's annual Grammy event. Trustees awards, Technical Grammy awards and Music Educator awards will also be presented, and members of Grammy Camp - Jazz session will provide some musical accompaniment.



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25 Years Ago: The Bee Gees Rebound With 'One'

Jeff Giles      August 12, 2014

It was never our intention to do anything else with our lives except to become famous,” admitted Barry Gibb in a 1989 interview. In fact, he added, he and his younger twin brothers Maurice and Robin — or, as the three have always been more popularly known, the Bee Gees — were busy making plans at an age when most kids were still playing with toys: “Before we ever got into our teens, we had already agreed with each other that that’s where we were going.”

The brothers’ ambition paid off in a big way. The Gibbs formed their first band in the mid-’50s, when Barry was nine and the twins were six; 10 years later, after the family moved from the UK to Australia, they were already a successful recording act with a budding discography that started producing Australian hits as early as ‘Wine and Women’ in the fall of 1965. And although those early years were followed by plenty of ups and downs — including a brief breakup — by the end of the ’70s, the Bee Gees were one of the biggest bands on the planet.

That torrid late ’70s run, fueled by the string of hits that came out of the Bee Gees-dominated ‘Saturday Night Fever’ soundtrack, eventually turned into a liability, as the group’s sound and public image became intertwined with the disco craze. When the disco backlash inevitably followed, the Bee Gees became a convenient scapegoat for a musical and cultural fad that, for awhile, proved maddeningly pervasive. In 1979, their ‘Fever’ follow-up LP, ‘Spirits Having Flown,’ topped charts around the world; two years later, its successor, ‘Living Eyes,’ peaked at No. 41 in the U.S.

To their credit, the Bee Gees responded to their sudden change in fortune by going away — or at least seeming to. For listeners who were paying attention, the Gibbs were almost as active on the charts as they’d been during their peak; they just did much of their work behind the scenes, penning hits for artists such as Dionne Warwick (1982′s ‘Heartbreaker‘), Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton (1983′s ‘Islands in the Stream‘), and Diana Ross (1986′s ‘Chain Reaction‘), while Barry and Robin continued their solo careers.

By the middle of the ’80s, however, they’d started to get antsy for a return to their roots as a trio, even if resurrecting the Bee Gees banner meant starting over from scratch on the professional front. “We’d lost our management and our record company,” Barry admitted later. “And all of those legal problems associated with both led us into a vacuum for years. And so, for those years we weren’t a pop group and we enjoyed it. It was good for us. Then I think we basically just got tired of listening to everything that was on the radio and knowing we could do just as well, if not better.”

The Gibbs broke the Bee Gees’ recording hiatus with 1987′s ‘E.S.P.’ album, which served as a sonic evolution of sorts, while maintaining ties to the group’s platinum past. Co-producer Arif Mardin, working with the band for the first time in over a decade, had earlier been instrumental in helping them refine the sound that led to their work on ‘Saturday Night Fever.’ And although ‘E.S.P.’ wasn’t a major hit in the States, it enjoyed substantial success in other parts of the world, led by the No. 1 UK single ‘You Win Again.’

“It sustained us,” Barry admitted of ‘You Win Again’ catching on. “It proved our belief in what we were doing and that was encouraging. So we carried on.”
Their resolve was tested harder than ever the following year, when preparations for the ‘E.S.P.’ follow-up were derailed by the sudden death of the Gibbs’ younger brother Andy. Just 30 at the time of his passing, Andy Gibb enjoyed his own late ’70s successes as a successful solo artist, but he struggled out of the limelight. Well-documented battles with substance abuse contributed to the heart troubles that ultimately killed him on March 10, 1988.

In the years before he died, the elder Gibbs had been working on demos for a new Andy Gibb solo record, to be followed by an album and tour with the Bee Gees. “We were going to be together, to go out as a force,” Barry  recalled  “He wanted to do another solo album to prove he was good at what he did and then he was going to join us. … That has to be the saddest, most desperate moment of my life, when I heard he was gone. Since then, I’ve asked myself a thousand times, could I have done more or said more to help him?”


The Gibbs’ sadness echoed through some of the material written for the new Bee Gees LP, ‘One,’ which arrived in the summer of 1989 — but while songs such as ‘Wish You Were Here’ and ‘Tears’ seem directly inspired by Andy’s passing, the album’s tone was far from funereal. In fact, as evidenced by the title track and leadoff single, the trio’s trademark sibling harmonies and knack for radio-ready melodies remained intact. As Barry later told it, their younger brother’s death ultimately served as a sort of rallying cry

“It devastated the whole family,” he admitted “Nobody expected anything like that to happen to Andy.” But, he said, “It’s been a very spiritual experience for us; it’s made us all much more interested in the metaphysical side of life, and it’s made us want to perform much more than we would have normally. We want to get up and be counted — we want to play our music live, we want to become a performing group like we used to be … I think losing Andy has brought that out in us, in that we always feel that he was a very gifted person and a lot of it was wasted for various reasons. We don’t want to waste what we do, and that’s been a lesson to us: We want to do everything we can do and get better at it, and I think Andy’s responsible for that also.”

Whether ‘One’ represents a musical improvement for the Bee Gees depends on one’s personal point of view, but it definitely marked a surprising commercial rebound for the group, particularly in the U.S., where the ‘One’ single peaked at No. 7, giving them their first Top 10 hit since 1979. The album’s success coincided with the Bee Gees’ first full-fledged tour in years, and a decade after being crucified for disco’s sins, they were finally able to resume their recording career in earnest.
“We’ve always had a feeling about something we thought was a hit. We feel in our bones that that’s a hit record,” Barry noted of ‘One.’ “If we’re going to reclaim ground we’ve lost, then we have to make the best album we know how to make — not just make an album for certain ears, or an album that’s commercial. Just what we love as music.”

Recorded mostly with a relatively small four-piece session band, ‘One’ was neither as dance-driven as their ’70s hits nor as synth-dominated as ‘E.S.P.’; it was simply a snapshot of where the Bee Gees happened to be musically at that point in time. Even as it returned them to the public eye as something other than a punchline for the first time in years, however, it didn’t exactly restore them to their former commercial glory. In the U.S., the album stalled at No. 68, and its follow-up, 1991′s ‘High Civilization,’ failed to chart altogether.

Still, ‘One’ proved far from the Bee Gees’ final chart appearance; while 1993′s ‘Size Isn’t Everything’ failed to catch on in the States, it did well around the world, and both 1997′s ‘Still Waters’ (featuring the Top 40 hit ‘Alone’) and 2001′s ‘This Is Where I Came In’ peaked in the Top 20 of Billboard’s U.S. albums chart. Sadly — but perhaps fittingly — it was finally only death that could drive the Bee Gees apart; Maurice passed away suddenly in January of 2003 while awaiting intestinal surgery, and although Robin and Barry mulled over carrying on as a duo, those plans died with Robin after he succumbed to complications resulting from liver cancer in May of 2012.

Ultimately, while they may always be most strongly identified with one particularly powerful moment in their long career, the Bee Gees never really stopped moving creatively — and although they were counted out countless times, they never lost the drive that initially propelled them to stardom. “We totally believe in our music,” Barry explained in the months after ‘One’ was released. “That’s it, regardless of what anyone else may think of it, and it just drives us on.”

  


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