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Post by erik on May 20, 2012 19:13:46 GMT -5
We all thought that he had pulled out a miracle, but unfortunately that wasn't the case. Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees is gone now, at the age of 62: news.yahoo.com/robin-gibb-bee-gees-dies-62-232633288.htmlAnyone else here ever get the feeling that a lot of really good entertainers are dying seemingly every other day? |
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Post by terryarceneaux on May 20, 2012 21:42:52 GMT -5
it sad to hear I do have a few albums of there's
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Post by sliderocker on May 21, 2012 1:09:36 GMT -5
When I first heard about Robin's cancer, the type it was, I figured his days were numbered. Also figured his doctors were pulling a smoke screen with news of his beating the cancer and then pulling out of the coma. He spent a long time in the hospital, up to his death, for someone who was supposedly beating the odds.
I've always been a fan of the Bee Gees and thought they were one of the best family-centered bands, if not the best with great harmonies and even better, when those three voices sang in unison or two of the three sang together and either way, you still thought it was just one voice singing. Each had their distinctive voice for individual lead vocals but it's sad to think that three of the four brothers Gibb are no longer with us. As with the other greats who are no longer here, we won't see their likes again.
And yes, I get the feeling that a lot of really good entertainers are dying every other day and wish it wasn't so.
One more thought here, a couple of slight detours regarding the announcement of Robin's death: I was listening to the talk radio channel for news of Robin's death and heard a local right-winged religious reactionary talk about Robin's death on his talk show. I don't know if he was trying to be funny but he talked how Robin's brother Maurice had died in 2003 and now only one brother was left living. You expected him to say the surviving brother was Barry but, he said brother Maurice was the only Gibb brother still living. I thought how can anyone get that wrong? And just to show me how he could get it so very wrong, he repeated himself. Maurice died in 2003 but now was the only brother Gibb still living. Whatever drugs he was on, I wouldn't want to be on.
The other detour involved the fair and balanced network's radio version. In announcing Robin's death, they said Robin's last recording was a reworking of "I've Got to Get a Message to You." His last recording was an album he worked on with his son Robin John, "The Titanic Requiem," which was Gibb reembracing working in the classical music genre. Fraud News got it wrong but it was a minor error out of all the things they get wrong on a daily basis. Still, it goes to show they don't care enough to check their facts.
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Post by rick on May 21, 2012 6:19:43 GMT -5
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Post by Dianna on May 22, 2012 19:45:18 GMT -5
More sadness in the music world. Another legend gone:(
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Post by the Scribe on May 22, 2012 22:07:06 GMT -5
Rather then be sad I would prefer to celebrate his and the other wonderful artists lives that gave so many so much.
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Post by sliderocker on May 23, 2012 16:04:11 GMT -5
I kind of wondered as to whether Linda ever met Robin Gibb? I seem to recall seeing a photo in a magzine of her with Barry Gibb during the disco days, and there was a classic photo of a smiling Linda (in the ubiquitous dress that she wore on the Johnny Cash Show and in the video that's available on "Different Drum") with a dour looking Maurice Gibb from the 60s that was in a late 70s book on Linda. Had to wonder what, if anything, was going on there? Probably nothing although maybe Maurice didn't appreciate the press being there?
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Post by the Scribe on May 24, 2012 21:50:45 GMT -5
I must say that Maurice was my favorite of the brothers. I relate to his personality and wit. He is another that died way too young.
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Post by erik on May 24, 2012 22:19:22 GMT -5
It just makes you wonder how and when the next shoe is going to drop. So many of them, now more so in the Baby Boom Generation, are leaving us, seemingly prematurely, that it should be a wake-up call for us to remember that, in the words of JFK, "We are all mortal." I think it's a bit too easy to forget that little fact.
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Post by sliderocker on May 25, 2012 13:05:51 GMT -5
It just makes you wonder how and when the next shoe is going to drop. So many of them, now more so in the Baby Boom Generation, are leaving us, seemingly prematurely, that it should be a wake-up call for us to remember that, in the words of JFK, "We are all mortal." I think it's a bit too easy to forget that little fact. Those of us who are of the Baby Boom generation are at the age now where we're more likely to die from natural causes: more likely to die from age-related health issues than from non-health related causes. Our health gets all the more precarious the older we get and it's a very difficult task trying to stay healthy. |
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Post by the Scribe on May 25, 2012 18:47:07 GMT -5
Those of us who are of the Baby Boom generation are at the age now where we're more likely to die from natural causes: more likely to die from age-related health issues than from non-health related causes. Our health gets all the more precarious the older we get and it's a very difficult task trying to stay healthy.
I wouldn't worry too much about that now. After all, this is 2012 and most of us will die healthy on December 22nd. When it hits I want to be eating my favorite food.... maybe a chocolate enchilada.
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Post by sliderocker on May 26, 2012 0:50:14 GMT -5
I wouldn't worry too much about that now. After all, this is 2012 and most of us will die healthy on December 22nd. When it hits I want to be eating my favorite food.... maybe a chocolate enchilada.
If the world were to end on December 22, 2012 (funny, I thought it was December 21, 2012), I'd like to spend my last remaining hours with Linda just getting to know her personally on a one to one basis, as a friend for the last few hours. Nothing more serious. Of course, we know the world won't come to an en end. The odds have to be 999 nonillion (to the power of 999 nonillion) to one. Your odds of winning the lottery are better than the world coming to an end in December of 2012. Btw, there is actually a number called nonillion, it's 1-999 followed by either 33 or 36 zeroes, depending on the American or British interpretation. (There is also a further irony here to the Decmber 22nd date you mentioned as it relates to this particular thread: Robin and Maurice Gibb were born on December 22, 1949, so if the world really was to come to an end, at least they were spared of it happening on what would've been their 63rd birthday.  )
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Post by the Scribe on May 30, 2012 21:48:27 GMT -5
You are correct. I do not know why I always think it will be the 22nd especially as much as I have read about it. Although, it could end here or in the Mayan time zone on the 21st and be the 22nd in several other locations. Yeah, that's it!
This is another of my very favorite BeeGee songs:
I was lucky enough to see them in concert the same year and place that I met Linda .... 1972.
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Post by sliderocker on Jun 6, 2012 0:32:13 GMT -5
"Fanny (Be Tender with My Love)" was one of my favorite songs as well; I loved those incredible falsettos near the end. I'm not sure every one of those falsettos on that song were sung by Barry. I think Maurice and Robin did some of the falsettos. The "Main Course" album remains one of the strongest albums the Bee Gees ever made and it's totally unfair to call it a disco album as a disco album it's not. It's closer to being a light pop-rock album with Barry and Robin trading lead vocals on most of the songs though Barry has a couple of leads to himself and Robin has a single lead, and there's a final song with Barry and Maurice on vocals instead of Barry and Robin. I always thought Pink Floyd borrowed the guitar riff heard on "Jive Talkin'" for a brief section on their song "Another Brick in the Wall." It's just a brief nick, no more than a few seconds and I don't know for sure that Pink Floyd notice the similarity. The same would've been true for the Bee Gees as I was fooling around on the piano one day with an Elvis songbook and discovered a four note section for the backing vocalists on one of the songs that when played on piano but not sung is the piano intro you hear on "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart." (I'm not the greatest piano player or guitar player but I can play by ear and pick out any melody after hearing a song once or twice and can sight read a music sheet.)
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Post by the Scribe on Jun 8, 2012 21:15:23 GMT -5
Robin's horse drawn funeral procession:
The funeral of Bee Gees singer Robin Gibb is being held in his home town in Oxfordshire. Fans lined the streets of Thame to pay their respects as his body was taken in a horse-drawn carriage to his funeral. Gibb, who was born in the Isle of Man, died from kidney failure in May after suffering from cancer and pneumonia.
Robin Gibb has been laid to rest in a small English churchyard opposite his Oxfordshire home of more than 19 years. His mother Barbara Gibb, now in her 90s, buried the third of her sons under a rain-filled sky. She was accompanied by Gibb's children and his surviving brother Barry.
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