Gibb brothers sacked long term Bee Gees members over the phone | UK | News

Even not talking about albums that broke a few box office records, it was the largest band on the planet from the mid -1970s to the mid -1970s thanks to Single, which sells millions like Night Fever and Stayin ‘Alive’.

But three members of Bee Gees – Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb brothers – were among the best of the song writing, but it was never what you call world -class musicians. They needed help to give life to life both in the studio and live. For this, Bee Gees called some of the best session musicians of the time.

A little surprisingly, these musicians did not come from Detroit, Los Angeles, Memphis or other traditional beds of the registration world, but from Cardiff. In Southern California, Cardiff is not Cardiff, as in South Wales.

The majority of the notes played in their songs, which started with the launch of the Main Course album 50 years ago and lasted until 1980, was the work of the drummer and percussionist Dennis Bryon, who was well known as a Blue Weaver, and the two -galli -baby explosion in the 1960 group Amen Core.

Tight drum patterns based on staying alive – this would be Dennis Bryon’s job. How deep is a glittering, etheric opening – this would be blue weaving. The dirty low -down note that works with Jive Talkin ‘ – This is blue. You should dance, the vibrating sound explosion responsible for directing John Travoltas to the dance tracks around the world – this Dennis and Blue are doing their unique rhythm department together.

According to all intentions and purposes, if you danced to a Bee Gees song (and confront, not at a point), then this melody was almost absolutely definitely molded by Bryon and Weaver, turning the demos to Hitos, the guitarist area Kendall (from Darwen, which is not equally possible in Lancashire). As Barry Gibb accepted the group in 1977 in the creative Zenith, it was really like Bee Gees more than side musicians ”.

“It was just two really humble men, Al Allan Jones, former saxophone player in Amen Corner, said to both Bryon and Weaver. “They weren’t Ravers and they were in the most beautiful way possible. It wasn’t in any way flashy or flashy. Only two normal men from Cardiff.

“They went to the nightclubs-we did it-but at the same time it was about making music. They didn’t overdo it as some people did. They were really clean. They were really clean.

As 1974 led to 1975, he would not force anything to say that Bee Gees had died in water as a commercial group. In the 1960s, after the words and hits such as Massachusetts spread to fame, it was dark to the extent that they played the British diversity circuit in the north to protect the money. According to Robin Gibb, who sang the songs of the group until then, the entire demoralizing experience pushed him to feel physically ill.

If the group was going to survive as an entity, something had to change. And he did it with revenge. First, Barry Gibb discovered that he could say Falsetto. Not only that, but also began writing new songs. Secondly, Kendall joined to provide guitar. Kendall once shared an apartment with Bryon, who was once invited to audition at Barry’s house in Berkshire. “We passed by a full -snooker table and realized that all the walls were covered with gold discs and prizes, Bry Bryon remembers a head of the group’s old glory. “There was a reward or trophy over each flat surface.”

Before sitting with the brothers for a cup of tea, Bryon passed the auditions including playing with songs that I need to get a message and words.

Gibbs, willing to develop the increasing sense of momentum Bryon, to help modernize their sounds to help the keyboards suggested to add the old Cardiff Chum Weaver.

Robin Gibb said, “Our dream is not the best group of sixties, it’s the best group of tomorrow,” Robin Gibb said. With two white galli Soul Boy on board, Bee Gees gave them the chance to do it.

And so that the group has started a five -year purple patch since Beatles will sell more records than other groups. Weaver’s contribution, especially Bee Gees, even the point of winning unless the Gibb songs, even without him, led to the places where they would not go. For example, take the song night fire.

I wanted to make Night Fever’s genesis once the disco version of the song “Always a summer”. He said. I said ‘a summer theme’. ‘No, it wasn’t new’.

Not because Bryon is not there to compensate for the figures. In 1977, he said that his mother was seriously ill in Cardiff, while he recorded songs to be included in Fire Film music on Saturday night. How deeply your love and fire were recorded, but the business has not yet started to survive.

He had to leave the sessions without a drummer, producer Albhy Galuten and sound engineer Karl Richardson cut a piece of band that includes playing drums on Bryon’s night fire, and then added to a live cycle. The problem has been solved, all of them thanks to Bryon’s constant perfect shots.

Of course, he couldn’t. In 1980, the disco was worn in the face of new musical trends such as Shine, Punk, New Wave and even Rap. Bee Gees was always more than just the disco, but the death of the species sank them with it. Desperate to stay reliable, the brothers decided to fire Alan Kendall, as well as Bryon and Weaver. Both of them did not receive the news (rather than their faces) well, Weaver threatened legal procedures.

In the end, Barry Gibb realized that he had handled the situation badly and offered to make financial changes from the group’s future earnings. Bee Gees biography, as Bob Stanley wrote, said, ‘Within a few weeks, everyone would be under the conditions of speaking again and Bee Gees continued’. However, Bryon and Weaver never worked with the group again.

Both men moved to Nashville during the years that continued to participate in the music industry. It is still very lively and the weaver who lives in Germany now continued to perform at Massachusetts: Bee Gees Musical.

Orum I re -create the sounds I use in all Bee Gees records, ”he said. “Our show is the life story from Bee Gees to the last song they recorded together.”

“At the end of the day, they were lucky to be there with such a group,” Allan Jones added the concerts at Cardiff, where he started for Bryon and Weaver. “They made some money, it is as important as a business musician, but Blue probably did not do as much as he should do, because of his contributions.

“Nevertheless, what they succeed is quite extraordinary, one of the best -selling albums in all these songs and so far (in the form of fire music on Saturday night). This is unimaginable, to think that they are part of it. And it is great to imagine that they enjoy life while doing them.”