Official Bee Gees Fan Club – GSI

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Short translation:

Back To Massachusetts
(Lars Fischer)
At the end of the 70ties there was no bigger band than The Bee Gees. With Saturday Night Fever they discovered the disco sound and flew around the world. Their keyboard player at that time was Blue Weaver, who lives in Worpswede (near Bremen) these days. He now re-lives his times of working with the three Gibb brothers while being part of the Massachusetts production. On tour again with The Italian Bee Gees and all the old hits.

Worpswede
“When I close my eyes it often feels just like in the old days”, says Blue Weaver. Those days, that was between 1975 and 1982 when he was part of the Bee Gees Band. Although the three brothers mostly were in the spotlights, amongst the musicians themselves: the brothers and their band were ONE. Blue being keyboard player was one of them and composed several of the Bee Gees greatest hits together with the Gibb Brothers and they all lived together in Florida. Today Blue is living both in Worpswede (Northern Germany) and Malaga (Spain). While touring with The Bee Gees they used to travel all around the world by private plane.
Successful superstars.

Today there’s only one original Brother Gibb (Bee Gee) left, the last man standing: Barry Gibb. First Maurice died in 2003 and Robin last year in 2012 while younger brother Andy being a successful solo star, had died in 1988. So unfortunately there’s no more Bee Gees but their hits and the memories live on and more than that they are also performed on stage again in the music production Massachusetts with the Italian Bee Gees and with whom Blue decided to cooperate and now he’s special guest during the entire tour.

In the eyes of Blue, The Italian Bee Gees aren’t just a tribute band. The very special thing is that also Walter, Davide and Pasquale Egiziano are 3 brothers who look and sound close to the original. “They feel as brothers the same while working on stage with their music, like the real Gibb Brothers I think, ” said Blue. “The fascinating thing is that also the Egiziano Brothers can easily sing the very complicated song parts. Also special is the fact that each of the brothers can sing each others song parts easily if necessary. That’s then very useful when, like with the performance in Bremen, one of the brothers had voice problems. Davide, who usually takes the Robin parts had to go on stage there while having the flu. Pasquale and Walter then could help him by taking over most of the falsetto parts for Davide and the public had no idea. It’s a miracle how wonderful they work together and they understand each other and anticipate on stage perfectly”.

During their German tour the group will visit around 52 theatres of over 1000 seats each and also in Bremen the audience loved the performance of the Italian brothers and Blue Weaver and also after the show in Bremen like after every show it’s very crowded at the meet and greet where interested people every time get a chance for a little talk, a signed photo or CD and of course photos taken of them with the Italians and Blue. It’s busy like with real big stars after each show! The audience still loves the Bee Gees music. In fact Blue didn’t want to do any more extensive tours but after having seen a show of The Egiziano Brothers he decided he’d love to be part of that after all. In the old days he stood behind his keyboards somewhere in the back ground on stage. Today being guest star of the Massachusetts show he’s in the spotlights. This show chronological tells with video, photo and stories, the history of the band The Bee Gees. And Blue Weaver of course tells some of his own anecdotes of working with the legends The Bee Gees. But most important of all he plays together with the three Egiziano brothers and their full live band and singers for about 3 hours all the famous Bee Gees hits like: “Stayin’ alive”, “Night Fever”, “How Deep Is Your Love” etc. And it’s not only Blue who then closes his eyes and thinks and feels being back in time…….