GEOFF BARONE - COMPOSER & MULTI-INSTRUMENTALIST
  • Home
  • BLOG
  • MAILING LIST
  • SHOP
  • STREAM
  • Home
  • BLOG
  • MAILING LIST
  • SHOP
  • STREAM

"SIDEWALK" THE LYRIC VIDEO™

3/10/2020

0 Comments

 
MAKING THE VIDEO:

Cheaply produced from the comfort of my couch, I created this video on my iPhone. Using a video editing app, I compiled the visuals and video content I've used over the last few months to promote the album in addition with the lyrics. Some visuals accompany what is happening in the song, some of them are related to themes from the album. Some are just in there 'cause I liked the way they looked.

I incorporated shots taken by Micah Schmidt way back in 2015 because A: I don't have any updated press photos of myself and B: since most of this album was recorded years ago, I felt it apt to show myself back in 2015...and not today. ya dig? Additional photography by Scott Clinton & Tom Bush IV. 

I hope you enjoy the song and get a lil sense of what I was trying to say lyrically.

SONG NOTES:

'Sidewalk" may be the oldest track off The Darkest Of Summers. I started this session in October/November of 2012, right around when Super Storm Sandy hit NYC and Long Island. In fact, I may have been recording scratch guitars on this very track when we first lost power.

This tune was written in the same batch as 2 songs from my album Acquiescence. ”Swimming Through Sand” and “Headhunter”. Both of which were intended to be within this collection of dark songs I had brewing...but when it came time to finish up Acquiescence, I wanted to add the 2 aforementioned tracks because by then I’d spend ALOT of time on them. "Sidewalk", not so much.

Either way, it’s a song that’s been sitting on the shelf for quite awhile and if memory serves this may have been one of the first songs that inspired me to begin to collect the “dark” songs.

It wasn’t too long after I came up with this guitar line when I got the news that my Grandmother had passed away...so a lot of my grief and sadness began to seep into aspects of this song. 

The chorus’ of the song are a slight departure to the rest of the text. In a nutshell “I’m dying for no company...I just wanna be alone”...was my reaction to the ever needing attention my kids needed from me..and me just wanted to be alone to work on my music, or just chill. The never-ending task of finding the balance between work/family.


MUSIC NOTES:

Whenever I write a new song I always think to myself "Man! this is the greatest thing I've created! such original! such riff!"

NO. As any songwriter can attest, you're a byproduct of what you listen to or what you've listened to. So in hindsight, these are the famous tunes that I hear when listening my song:
​
  • "Coast" Devin Townsend
  • "Sympathy" Marillion (Rare Bird cover)
  • "Close Every Door" from Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
  • "Neon" John Mayer


FUN FACTS:
​
  • There's a repeating motif throughout the song that was directly lifted from the end of the title theme from Wizards And Warriors on Nintendo. Hence the use of the 8bit videogameysound..although if I’m not mistaken this has been used in several classical music pieces...I know I’ve heard it somewhere before!
  • During the final chorus I added strings which begin to play a counter melody to what I’m singing. Does this counter melody sound familiar? Probably not. But if it does it’s because it’s “The Shepard’sFlute” theme from the 80’s film “The Land Of Faraway”...oh you don’t remember that movie?? Well, fun fact: it actually co-starred a young Christian Bale in his first acting role. No foolin!
  • I also recycled the chorus melody on the song "I Speak Dirt" from my album "Somewhere In The Near Future". Take a listen again - it's there!!​
BUY "The Darkest Of Summers"
STREAM "The Darkest Of Summers"
Picture
0 Comments

THESE SONGS ARE HOW OLD?

2/3/2020

0 Comments

 
Picture
The Darkest of Summers is a collection of songs that were written periodically over the course of the last 8 years.

​
Songs that were inspired by not only the untimely deaths of people close to me, but me beginning to take a deeper look at my own mortality and just what the heck I was put on this earth to do...and what I'd leave behind.


It’s been quite a challenge getting back into the mindset of where I was when I wrote them and to recollect what I was going through at the time....
​

Read More
0 Comments

DON'T FORGET TO REMEMBER, IT'S ALREADY NOVEMBER

11/8/2019

0 Comments

 
Picture
Hello there! Got a few new things and a few new old things on my workbench for the rest of the year and into 2020 and wanted to share some updates about them with ya...

Read More
0 Comments

BEHIND THE LYRICS "I'm So Happy For You"

9/27/2019

0 Comments

 
Picture
In my last blog I described the tune musically as if “Frank Zappa wrote “Bohemian Rhapsody” while wearing a flannel shirt while listening to Grunge in the 90’s”.

After sitting on the “digital” shelf for a few years, the song slowly made it way back into my peripheral in early 2019.

Read More
0 Comments

BEHIND THE MUSIC "I'm So Happy For You"

9/21/2019

0 Comments

 
Picture
Forgive me Father, for it's many months since I've last blogged...
​

Anyway, on Friday, September 13th I released a new song called “I’m So Happy For You!”

It’s one of those songs that has been sitting on the shelf for quite awhile. Lingering around for least 4 years now as I couldn’t find the right melodies or lyrical content that seemed to jive with what I had done.

Read More
0 Comments

Welcome To 2019. The Here. The Now

1/1/2019

2 Comments

 
Picture
​Happy New Year everyone! As I reflect on the last 12 months, 2018 was a half way decent year. I managed to release Acquiescence, and in the interim got alot of work done on a couple other secret projects, some new Citizen 603 tunes as well as working dillegently on "The Darkest Of Summers", which is shaping up very nicely and will be out this year. (I have a release date, I'm just not gonna tell you right now)
 
Alas, the other half of the year was not-so-decent....

Read More
2 Comments

Erotomania

11/9/2018

0 Comments

 
If you know me, you know I’m a recovering prog-head. As much as I try to deny it, DT is part of my DNA and my musical make up unfortunately....

Read More
0 Comments

Stranger Than You Dreamt It

11/2/2018

0 Comments

 
​Among my love for progressive rock, one of my other favorite genre’s is musical theatre.
 
As you may you know already, when I was in my early teens I reluctantly went to see The Phantom Of The Opera on a chorus trip in Toronto...thus began my obsession with Andrew Lloyd Webber’s music and musical theatre in general
 
Here’s me covering “Stranger Than You Dreamt It” from POTO. It’s a bit of a deeper cut from the show, but by far, my most favorite song from the musical.
 
I dare not cover the title track or a song such as “Music Of The Night”. That’s like doing “Stairway to Heaven” or Freebird IMO
 
Enjoy!

​G
0 Comments

THE LOST CONVERSATION PIECES ALBUM COMMENTARY

10/26/2018

0 Comments

 
Tuesday, October 30th marks the 6 year birthday of my concept album CONVERSATION PIECES.

Well whilst cleaning out the cobwebs of my old hard drive I happened upon a commentary I did back in June of 2012.

THE LOST CONVERSATION PIECES ALBUM COMMENTARY

​I had intended to include this recording with the albums bonus items on Bandcamp, alas it was forgotten about and forever lost in the digital void of my hard drive.


In this commentary, I dig deep into the albums plot, lyrical details and talk about all of the amazing musicians that helped me out on this project.

I hope you enjoy!

​G
LISTEN ON YOUTUBE
LISTEN ON BANDCAMP
0 Comments

SEPTEMBER UPDATES

9/21/2018

0 Comments

 
Picture

​​Helloooo!  Just wanted to give you a few updates on what’s been happening here in my musical world.
 
Since the release of Acquiescence back in April, I’ve slowed down on my studio/recording work. Towards the end of that production, I definitely started to feel the burnout set in. I tried jumping straight away into another album I had on deck, but it just wasn’t working. 
 
Honestly, the last thing I wanted to do was sit in front of a computer screen for another summer, but every so often I would make some progress on this new album....

​

Read More
0 Comments
<<Previous
Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.