AT LAST!! AFTER 3 YEARS A NEW ROBIN BIBI BAND ALBUM HAS BEEN UNLEASHED!!!

THE ALBUM IS TITLED "TRIBUTE TO FAST" AND IS A COLLECTION OF RAW AND POWERFUL SONGS WRITTEN BY THE LATE BRIAN T. HOLMES, A SINGER/SONGWRITER/POET OF EXTRAORDINARY TALENT AND CHARISMA WHO WAS A LONG TIME FRIEND OF ROBIN AND HANS BEFORE HIS UNTIMELY DEATH FROM ALCOHOL-RELATED CAUSES IN OCTOBER 1997. "BRIANO" WAS A REMARKABLY PROLIFIC AND ORIGINAL SONGWRITER WHO IN THE LATE 70'S WAS OFFERED A RECORD DEAL WITH A 5- FIGURE ADVANCE BUT TURNED IT DOWN!!

THROUGH A WELL-CONNECTED MUTUAL FRIEND BRIAN ALSO GOT TO MEET GEORGE HARRISON WHO WAS SO IMPRESSED WHEN HE HEARD BRIAN'S SONGS THAT HE INVITED HIM DOWN TO HIS HOUSE IN WEYBRIDGE TO LAY DOWN SOME TRACKS IN HIS RECORDING STUDIO. BRIAN DECLINED, SAYING HE HAD A DECORATING JOB TO DO!!.

BRIAN WROTE HUNDREDS OF SONGS, BUT VERY FEW STUDIO QUALITY RECORDINGS EXIST; MOST OF HIS SONGS WERE RECORDED ONTO ROUGH CASSETTES WHERE THEY REMAIN IN THE POSESSION OF FAMILY AND FRIENDS.MAYBE SOMETHING CAN BE DONE WITH THEM....

THE ONLY PROBLEM WITH A PROJECT LIKE THIS WAS WHAT TO LEAVE OUT!! WE'VE SELECTED TWELVE SONGS SPANNING ABOUT TWENTY YEARS OF BRIAN'S LIFE AND WE HOPE YOU ENJOY!! THESE SONGS AND THIS TIMELESS TALENT ARE SIMPLY TOO GOOD TO LET DIE....

STYLE-WISE THIS ALBUM IS A CHANGE FOR THE ROBIN BIBI BAND-THIS ALBUM ISN'T BLUES- THERE ARE NO 12-BARS!!!-BUT THE BLUES FEEL IS STILL EVIDENT....

Brian T Holmes

These songs were written over a 25 year period from the 70s to the 90s.... There's dozens more where they came from...We learned, rehearsed and recorded them in one week...We'd like to think he would've approved...!

On our previous albums we've played blues, but this aint no blues album.

It's a celebration of a great life cut off too early...He lived his life fast, went close to the edge...Then across it, but left us songs too good to be forgotten.

Though you're gone your fast life lingers on in your sweet soul songs...