A Fly that started a joke

[ss_nucks]

Reports are just coming in Bee Gees singer Robin Gibb died today after
a battle with cancer. He was 62.

Spent a lot of time with the early BeeGees (Pre-disco) in my Mateus
drinking, beret wearing days
RIP big fella

ss

[dean]

"ss_nucks" <undefin...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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...yeah he's gone...

http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/story/2012/05/20/obit-gibb.html

.....you know I hated disco with a passion....which was really stupid in the
late 70's... If I had of "pretended" to like it, like most of you probably
did I might have gotten layed more...their pre-disco stuff is of course very
good as you say....

....anyway having said that, the BeeGees were one of the groups that I
actually sort of liked back in the disco era....even more so now that I'm
much fatter and grayer when I occasionally catch a tune of theirs here and
there...


RIP indeed....Just Barry left now I think...




dean

[Kenji]

On May 20, 6:15 pm, "dean" <tcis...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> RIP indeed....Just Barry left now I think...

The eldest. I think he must have gotten the most juice, he seems
hearty and robust but you never know with cancer. Fucking cancer.

I purchased a Bee Gees retrospective some time ago and was pleasantly
surprised to delve into their pre-disco Beatly pop songs. They were
really fantastic writers. Even the disco stuff is quite well done,
it's just all of the camp and trappings and risible falsetto and
production idiom that warped my perception of it.

[bob]

yeah, about 7 or so of their pre-disco songs are some of the best pop
songs ever written... really borrowed melodies too. all over pop songs
since. and then there's their string arrangements, which we probably
hear derivatives of every day.