I just heard this song today, and it was sad.  I’d have gone to Robin’s party…

I really should write on this subject because I haven’t yet.  I think it really hasn’t sunk in or hit me yet. 

On Sunday evening, I was watching a rerun of The Nanny, eating dinner, and checking Facebook on my phone.  When I saw the post from Robin Gibb’s Facebook page, I suddenly felt like I’d been kicked in the stomach.

I feel like a complete cheeseball for being affected at all, just because he isn’t someone I’ve met or anything; however, he and his brothers have been a pretty major influence in the last seven years.  I’d always loved music, but I really started paying attention to it after the summer of 2005 when the obsession started during my recovery from my first bout of mononucleosis.  Their music has improved my guitar playing so much.  

The first night, I watched the first half of the One for All tour, and played the Spirits Having Flown record really loudly.  Several people texted me… I guess my friends know me pretty well.  Throughout this week, I’ve watched truckloads of YouTube videos, as well as the One Night Only concert, and the Live By Request DVD.  I happened to watch In Our Own Time on Netflix on Sunday morning.  Weird timing.  I spent about twenty minutes Monday morning playing every song I knew on the piano.

But really, it still hasn’t sunk in.  I’d been refreshing the Google news feed every day to see if there had been any change, and since I’d assumed no news was good news, I wasn’t expecting that.  

I think the only two things have gotten to me a bit so far.  One, listening to “Giving Up the Ghost” on Sunday night.  Why that was the second song on the One for All concert, I don’t know.  Two, Barry’s video montage that was posted on YouTube.  OUCH.  ”Heart Like Mine” will never sound the same again.  

I’m expecting something to happen one of these times when I hear certain songs.  So far, “Holiday” is just making me laugh because I end up picturing the random stuff Maurice did during concerts.  

“Don’t Cry Alone” is so haunting.  It’s as if he wrote his own requiem.  

mojomagazine:

Robin Gibb, 1949 - 2012. The Bee Gee brother has died at the age of 62. MOJO flags fly at half mast.

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caciquemusique:

Bee Gees - First of May

Because it’s appropriate today.

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Um, do allow me, will you?

A .gif set of the Laendler (not sure how to type an umlaut on my phone)? Ahhhhh. I love that scene.

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Exactly.

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paperbackwriterrrr:

His website is still down :( its so depressing that this is happening to him, pull through Robin

Seconded.

What they did not want you to ever find out is that your generation, the generation born between 1980-1995, actually outnumbers the Baby Boomers. They knew that if you ever turned your eye towards political reform, you could change the world. They tried to keep you sated on vapid television shows and vapid music. They cut off your education and fed you brain candy. They took away your music and gave you Top Ten pop stations. They cut off your art and replaced it with endless reality shows for you to plug into, hoping you would sit quietly by as they ran the world. We as a society are only as strong as our weakest link. Give ‘em hell, kids. 

If this is accurate, then please stop listening to absolute crap and watching total drivel. Get off your bloody rear ends and DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE WORLD.

I’m included in this, but my strengths lie in theoretical brainstorming and not so much in leading anyone anywhere. So I’ll plan something, and someone else can carry it out, mmk?

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I’m going to carry on a mini-rant here for about five seconds… THE BEE GEES ARE NOT STRICTLY DISCO!  I’ve been saying that for years now, but it’s become more apparent as I’ve read countless news articles about Robin Gibb’s current condition and they all end with some paragraph about the Bee Gees’ disco fame. It completely ignores their first success of the late 1960s, and their solid 50+ years of work.  Anyway…

That being said, I’ve spent a good chunk of today refreshing my Google news page and hoping there would be some good news popping up on the top of the page.  Alas, no change. 

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Ruby’s Corner: MATH IS YOUR FRIEND!

by Ruby Karp

Smart kid.