If the songs of the Bee Gees only conjure up images of John Travolta in a white suit moving across a lighted floor, John Acosta would like to expand that view.
“The beauty of the Bee Gees is that they are underrated,” said Acosta, who is part of the Bee Gees Gold tribute group who will be in concert next week at the Jabez Sanford Hardin Performing Arts Center.
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The Bee Gees was comprised of Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb who started recording well before their disco years — even though many people remember that era most, and they continued to perform and write music for years after disco died, he said.
The brothers started singing together when they were still children and had released several recordings before they hit it big with “Saturday Night Fever.”
“They had to reinvent themselves, and they had to reinvent themselves,” he said. “It’s mindboggling.”
Acosta was still in elementary school when “Saturday Night Fever” was released in 1977, and the sounds of the disco era exploded. He always loved the music.
He went down the tribute band route after a woman approached him following a show of his own.
“She said – you know who you look like and who you sound like? I’m looking for a Barry Gibb for a tribute show,” he said.
For the Bee Gees Gold tribute, Acosta has the look and the sound of Barry Gibb. The show will take its audience back to that 1970s era of disco, but it will do so much more because the Bee Gees were more.
“We’ll take you back,” he said.
Bee Gees Gold will go to those early hits of “Massachusetts” and “I Started a Joke” to “You Should Be Dancing’” and “Staying Alive.”
Any audience member with any sort of memory of the disco era will be transported to that time with the songs and the lights and the costumes the performers wear.
Bee Gees Gold will be at 7:30 p.m. March 17 and 18. Tickets are $39.95 and are available at augustaamusements.com or by calling (706) 726-0366.
Charmain Z. Brackett is the managing editor of The Augusta Press. Reach her at charmain@theaugustapress.com
