Posted on 05/20/2012 3:44:07 PM PDT by AnAmericanAbroad
Bee Gees' singer Robin Gibb has died following a lengthy battle with cancer, his family have said.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
Early Bee Gees is good stuff. Stuff like Every Christian Lion Hearted Man Will Show You and I’ve Gotta Get a Message to You.
Freegards
RIP to two stars of the Disco era.
For some unexplained reason, I’ve always equated Disco with Republicans. No, I don’t have a real reason why, I just do.
I was trying to be nice and introduce you to some newish bands you may like...why the hell would i take the time to send a post if i figured you had heard of them?..you posted that you were interested in something new...if you don’t like them, then fine...oh and btw...kiss my ass you argumentative dick.
“bad week for disco.”
_____________
No kidding. How sad. May they rest in peace. I still remember listening to both of their songs when I was fifteen and going to high school. They brought a lot of joy to a lot of people.
I agree. RIP Robin Gibb and Donna Summer...
The RIAA knew which way the wind would eventually blow, and they spent more money trying to get it shut down than they did going after the copyright infringers at Napster. The judge bitch slapped the snot out of the RIAA when the ruling was finally rendered.
The founders then sold the site for a ton of money to people who have run it poorly.
Wow, that is just awful, brutal. God bless him.
I saw him in concert with Leo Kottke. You could tell the awe and respect in which they held one another,
In a subsequent Leo concert (Michael was still alive at the time), he talked a little about Michael. Leo held out his right hand, hanging loosely, and wiggling his fingers, while saying, "His right hand is like an octopus."
Death of Disco?
BeeGees pre Disco singer songwriter stuff was tolerable as a soundtrack to my early adolescence
Disco still sux
RIP
Lydia Loveless
New Country Rehab
Deadman
Dustin Welch
Pokey LaFarge
Martin England
Ray Bonneville
Charlie Faye
David Jacobs-Strain
Eilen Jewell
Malcolm Holcombe
The Deep Dark Woods
Enough? All on Youtube and elsewhere. Good source: musicfog.com.
David Wax Museum
You just can't make this stuff up.
Sorry, half of the band is long dead. Although, Mike Love and Bruce Johnston made up a large part of the sound (Carl is still there also), Brian Wilson (the composer) is a zombie. The poor guy went mental back in the late 60's and never recovered. He shows up on Letterman or Leno sometimes and makes me sad to look at him. After decades, Brian finally finished his "Pet Sounds" remix and released it as "Smiles". Although better studio mix of same songs with some additional instrumentation, I don't think it's better than the original "Pet Sounds" tracks.
The poor guy spent his life trying to make that one album sound better. It was already a masterpiece, but poor obsessive Brian thought for decades that he could do better with the same songs. Listen to the original "Good Vibrations" as compared to the "Smile" version. Yes, it's longer, but to me, doesn't work as well.
I always thought it was like Led Zepplin trying to improve on any of their masterpieces.
I grew up with those guys in Hawthorne, CA. I surfed the very spot that Dennis Wilson (drummer) surfed in Redondo Beach (breakwater). He was the only surfer of the band. I talked to him one day at the the old abandoned Biltmore Hotel at 13th street in Hermosa Beach (my surf turf).
We were talking about Dick Dale or the Ventures or the Safaris or some other surf band playing there. Too far back to remember, but I do recall it was Dennis. Think he had a Jacobs or Dewey Webber surfboard. I had a 8'10' Bing surfboard back in the days of the long boards. When I started surfing again later while in the Navy and living in Imperial Beach, I had a 7'3" board. Even that is large for nowaday rippers.
What a privilege to grow up with the Beach Boys and hear their harmonies. They were an early soundtrack to my life before Motown and later, hard rock.
Funny you ask. Back in my early Navy days, us hard rock and country rockers (think Skynard) hated disco. We actually used that saying, "Disco Sucks!".
Interestingly, on my first Navy cruise to the PI when looking to buy some decent speakers I could afford at the Navy Exchange, I used Donna Summers' track, "I Feel Love" to compare speakers. It has the highs, mid-range, and lower base. It still has a groove if you give it a try.
The trappings of disco ruined soul music (and careers). The trappings of new wave/mtv ruined music in the 80s as well as established acts added drum synths and other bogus sounding instruments to sound “contemporary”.
Older artists (and some youngbloods) have cast off those examples of bad judgment (the overuse of strings has also been jetisonned).
You want to listen to disco? Fine, I prefer to what is referred to as “Northern soul” (typified by the Northern England record buying public who rejected the trappings of disco tinged 70s souls). They’d come into London to see a soccer match and buy some records. The dealers would say “don’t bother showing them that, they just want that Northern Soul”.
Some mistakenly think it refers to 60s soul records from Philly, NYC, and Detroit. It can include Memphis, Houston, New Orleans and elsewhere.
The Dap Kings (who have used numerous names over the past 15 years) helped craft appreciation in America for new acts that play the older style music (they own the labels they often are on). They’ve gotten note for being Amy Whinehouse’s backing band but they go much deeper than that.
I have no use for “disco”. Dancing’s fine. So is soul.
That must have been amazing!
Where’s the one about the brother from another mother?
I love disco, but I am also a huge Northern Soul fan.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.