![]() ![]() Mardin also suggested they listen to current R&B artists including Stevie Wonder. "He showed us the picture on the cover and said, 'You can rent that place and live there and record and get a sun tan.' We decided that it was our big chance to get serious about our music again so we went out there and did Main Course." Recording Īccording to producer Arif Mardin, when the Bee Gees arrived in Florida, they started to record new material and some of the numbers were still in their old ballad style, and the Bee Gees at that time were listening to a lot of American R&B groups' songs as Mardin is an R&B producer. Maurice Gibb, on the other hand, cites their manager Robert Stigwood as the first to suggest Miami as the best place to record new songs. Why don't you guys go to America and do the same and maybe the change of environment will do something for you?' I think it was really good advice." Barry recalled Clapton's suggestion when he was trying to make a comeback: "Eric said, 'I've just made an album called 461 Ocean Boulevard in Miami. At the suggestion of Eric Clapton, the Bee Gees moved to Criteria Studios in Miami, to start recording their next album. Natural, the brothers retained new drummer Dennis Bryon and longtime lead guitarist Alan Kendall but added a new keyboard player, Bryon's former Amen Corner colleague Blue Weaver, who would become one of only a small handful of non-Gibb musicians to receive composition credits on Bee Gees songs. Main Course also featured the first prominent use of Barry Gibb's falsetto. Natural, and engineer Karl Richardson at Criteria Studios in Miami, their music became much more influenced by Funk sound over a base of R&B style being produced in Miami at the time. Working with Atlantic producer Arif Mardin, who had also produced their previous album, Mr. The album cover with the band's new logo designed by US artist Drew Struzan made its first appearance here. Main Course was the first album to feature keyboardist Blue Weaver. It was the group's thirteenth album (eleventh worldwide). It rejuvenated the group's career and public image, particularly in the US, after the commercial disappointment of their preceding few albums. This album marked a great change for the Bee Gees as it was their first album to include mostly R&B, soul and funk-influenced songs, and created the model for their output through the rest of the 1970s. Main Course, released in 1975 for the RSO Records label, is the 13th album by the Bee Gees, and their last album to be released by Atlantic Records in the US under its distribution deal with Robert Stigwood. ![]()
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