Here at Last... Live

The Bees Gees: Barry Gibb (vocals, guitar); Maurice Gibb (vocals, bass); Robin Gibb (vocals).
Additional personnel: Alan Kendall (electric & steel guitars); Joey Murcia (gutar); Blue Weaver, Geoff Westley (keyboards); Dennis Byron (drums); Joe Lala (percussion).
Boneroo Horns: Whit Sidener (alto saxophone); Peter Ballin (tenor saxophone); Stan Webb (baritone saxophone); Ken Faulk, Jeff Kievit (trumpet); Pete Graves (trombone).
Producers: The Bee Gees, Karl Richardson, Albhy Galuten.
Recorded at the Forum, Los Angeles, California on December 20, 1976.
This 1977 live album found the Gibbs at an interesting point in their career. Their white-suited, disco-boosted peak of popularity (courtesy of SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER) was just around the corner, but when HERE AT LAST was recorded, the Bee Gees were promoting 1976's CHILDREN OF THE WORLD, an album that pointed the way to SNF with "You Should be Dancing" and "Boogie Child." So while the band's "disco" (really just souped-up R&B) side is well represented here, there's no "Stayin' Alive" and the Bee Gees' earlier days are given anything but short shrift. The slick '70s session sound that they brought even to their live performances of the day gives their '60s hits like "New York Mining Disaster 1941" and "I Can't See Nobody" an updated sheen. However, the brothers' trademark harmonies are solidly in place, resonating as sweet as ever, and that's the most important thing on any Bee Gees album.