Guy Bergeron
After going electric and trying several different local blues and rock cover bands to varying degrees of obscurity (Via Satelite, Smith Row, Skinless Frank & The Foot-Longs), Guy migrated back to his acoustic roots, and began to gather a solid local following as a solo performer, entertaining with his percussive, quirky mix of blues, classic rock covers, and his own songs. Thats how it is done to current times.
Guy's two self released CD’s on Walking Bear Records are available through CD Baby, Amazon and other fine online retailers. Guys recorded work has been featured in the TV shows “Trailer Fabulous” and MTV’s “Made”.
About The Music
People think of the guitarist singer songwriter, typically they think of folks like David Gray, Dan Fogelberg, John Mayer...you know the type. Some touchy feely dude strumming softly and whimpering about his feelings near the fireplace. This Guy ain’t nothing like that.
These guitar-propelled tunes are typically tinted on the blue side, musically speaking. Elements of Blues and the occasional Twang are nailed together with a Rock ’n’ Roll sensibility. The recorded work is fleshed out with full garage band thump, including slappadabass, layered guitars and drums. (Guy loves the Line 6 processing, and uses it shamelessly on most tracks.)
Guy Live:
Regarding the live performances, I feel it is my prime directive to offer up something a bit different for an acoustic solo act. I choose my song list carefully, and certain things people just expect, such as "Margaritaville" and "American Pie" are scrapped, quite on purpose. There is plenty of that elsewhere.
Also, I am staying "low tech" as well, again quite on purpose. No prerecorded stuff happens in my shows, and we go as minimal with gadgetry as can be managed. Playing to a prerecorded rhythm section is glorified karaoke, and we'll have none of that here, thank you very much.
CD's, Where To Get Them:Guy's 2 releases on his own microlabel, Walking Bear Records, are available on CD and digitally through CD Baby and all their fine affiliates. You can also hear clips of some original songs from this link, for both CD's.
Also CD #3, entitled Hip Replacement, is available only at live shows. This CD is a compilation of the best of both releases through Independent Records, as well as other good stuff that was made in the lab between 2002 to 2008 but never made it on the first two releases.
Heres some linkage: CD Baby site http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/GuyBergeron
More Linkage: Reverb Nation Tunepak Link: http://www.reverbnation.com/tunepak/3351657
