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Posted - 02/08/2012 : 17:09:08 Barry Gibb makes debut; Crosby, Stills and Nash to record again?
By Steve Smith- Press Telegram
BEE GEE BARRY GIBB MAKES OPRY DEBUT The sole surviving member of The Bee Gees, Barry, performed for the first time since the death in May of his brother Robin. The oldest Gibb brother at 65 achieved a dream dating back to his childhood in Australia, when he made his debut on the Grand Ole Opry stage in Nashville, according to Country Weekly.
Gibb, a huge country fan, performed a brief three-song set with bluegrass veteran Ricky Skaggs. The set included two Bee Gees '60 s classics, "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart" and "To Love Somebody." He kicked off his showcase with a song from 1901, "When the Roses Bloom Again," that's been covered by Johnny Cash and Jeff Tweedy and his band Wilco.
During his performance a fan shouted out that they missed his brothers (the third brother, Maurice, died in 2003). Without skipping a beat, Gibb replied, "They're all here."
Graham NASH SAYS CSN WILL RECORD AGAIN Graham Nash disputed bandmate Stephen Stills' assertion last month that Crosby, Stills and Nash will never record again, according to an interview with Music Radar.
"Crosby, Stills and Nash will do another record. We're right in the middle of one, "Songs We Wish We'd Written." We started that process with Rick Rubin. It didn't work out, but the idea is still a brilliant one."
As for the trio's relationship with Rubin in the studio, he said, "After almost 50 years of making records, we think we know what we're doing, so it's very hard to tell Crosby, Stills Advertisement and Nash what to do. You can suggest anything you want, but you can't tell us what to do."
He elaborated, "We were recording at Shangri La in Malibu and it was not a great experience. First of all, he pissed off David Crosby. David said he wanted to do 'Blackbird' and another Beatles song. Rick said, 'There will only be one Beatles song.' Crosby said to him, 'There'll only be one Beatles song if we decide there will only be one Beatles song,' you know, like, 'who the (blank) are you to tell me.' From the start, it was irritable."
The band rerecorded the songs produced by Rubin, including The Rolling Stones' "Ruby Tuesday" and The Who's "Behind Blue Eyes."
Nash said CSN will continue recording the album after their summer tour wraps. That tour includes stops on Sept. 7 at the Greek Theatre in L.A., Sept. 28 at the Santa Barbara Bowl and two gigs, Sept. 29-30, at Humphrey's in San Diego.
In other Nash news, the former member of British Invasion band, The Hollies, who was presented an OBE by 2010 by Queen Elizabeth, but became a U.S. citizen in 1978, visited the political talk show, "Morning Joe" on MSNBC.
Among other assessments, he addressed the current avalanche of undisclosed campaign contributions, saying, "I think the very heart of what's going on, and I think one of the main issues is Citizens United. Not only would I like personally to see Citizens United reversed, I would like to have investigated those who gave them Citizens United, (Supreme Court justices) Scalia, Thomas, those people. I'm very upset about the Supreme Court right now. I think the ability to buy a democracy is a terrible, terrible thing."
Nash also doesn't like the Supreme Court's lifetime appointment. "I don't believe personally they should have lifetime jobs. I think people get senile. They think they're unbiased. They're not supposed to be. It's not good."
Always a staunch protector of the land and water, Nash was given the Conservation and Environmental Stewardship Award from the Stellwagen Bank Marine Sanctuary in Woods Hole, Mass. for "a lifetime of achievement spent passionately raising awareness and protecting whales."
