Geoff Bartley

Musician

Geoff Bartley 2: You want to be a star, you have to grab people’s attention.  To grab people’s attention you got to be outrageous, and as soon as you get into that conversation then it’s no longer about meaning, it’s no longer about documenting the human experience in terms that are real--the world of commercial music is not about real--folk music, on the other hand, is about real events in the lives of real people, and that tends to be where I go with my writing and choosing songs by other people that I actually learn. That’s one of the things that has made Cambridge and greater Boston valuable to me since I began playing in this area in 1970.