r/BeeGees

I always felt like this songs rhythm guitar was underrated. Actually a lot of Barry's guitar playing is underrated & overlooked. He always had this cool way of playing rhythm guitar, the fact it's in Open D too makes it a lot more unique. The D7 chord is deeper & the open D chord also sounds great, it always adds this impact to the song whenever going from a higher chord to the open chord. Also helps that whenever he plays like a B C or A chord, he always does a barred chord of it, so it really adds to the sound of it.

My Bee Gees journey began when I was about 8 years old. It started with SNF, which I was given for Xmas, and then by chance was listening to the radio one day the the DJ said, here’s The Bee Gees with “How Can You Mend a Broken Heart”. That song came on and I was floored with intrigue and wanted to understand how the group that sang “Staying Alive” and “Night Fever” could have this gentle, primitive sounding song.

I soon got access to Bee Gees Gold and was extremely interested in their evolution… I then got Main Course and Heart At Last Live.

Another part of the story is that I was watching the Grammys and The Bee Gees won all these awards this night and I was totally surprised to find that they were not Black. I assumed they were a classic soul or Motown band. (By the way, my music knowledge was very minimal at this stage)

Okay, so over the years I took in everything Bee Gees, their entire catalog, deep cuts, demos, etc. I’ve explored the Bee Gees as deeply as my other musical loves … Pink Floyd, the Beatles, and Grateful Dead.

I’ve really never meet a hardcore Bee Gees fan. I meet people who say they like The Bee Gees but have never met a deep fan who knows their story, the full catalog and who appreciates how dynamic and talented the brothers are.

Where are these fans hiding? They must be out there?

I find The Bee Gees story as very interesting and one where there is a lot to explore. I’m rather surprised they don’t get the recognition they truly deserve.

I’ll wrap this with one last thing… At 8 years old I learned that being a Bee Gees fan was uncool… I learned the hard way the day I proudly showed up a school with my Bee Gees lunch box. My fellow 8 year olds in 1979 seemed to like Kiss, Black Sabbath, and other more “manly” stuff. I was told The Bee Gees are gay, disco sucks and made fun of for liking them.

Where are the deep fans hiding?

Yep, Phil Gees! So long story short, I wanted for some reason a mix of 100 albums by different artists I like, and two of them were Phil Collins and of course Bee Gees, turns out that Ai that I used was brain disabled, it gave me a mix of 15 made up albums, with names spelled wrong, and mixed up artists!

Sorry for the quality, it was a small screenshot to take!