Comments on: Guy Babylon: Babylon Bleu – surely not a one off?

By: Jan

Jan — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 08:04:32 +0000

For those who loved Babylon Bleu, you can now download The Best of Guy Babylon on iTunes, including a remix of Babylon Bleu and nine other Guy Babylon compositions. I believe there will be more coming out as well. Guy will definitely live on through his music, what a talent.

By: ike

ike — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 13:05:23 +0000

Babylon Bleu is really a beautiful song. Sad news, surely Guy was an enlightened person. I lost my vinyl of keyboard magazine , but I will rediscover this song.

By: Jan

Jan — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 02:09:30 +0000

If you loved Babylon Bleu, check out Guy’s Las Vegas Twister video, you can find it on Vimeo at http://www.vimeo.com/5391353

Sadly, Guy passed away on Sept. 2. He was a musical genius and the most humble man.

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 01:22:54 +0000

I agree with just about everything that has been said here. I haven’t heard the song in years and would LOVE to hear it again… Especially now in light of his untimely death. That song was very influential to me in that it proved to me that average guys could be rock stars too. That might sound a little cliche but I think anyone who heard the song and knows the story would understand what I’m saying. It was a great tune…

By: Todd

Todd — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:03:51 +0000

Drat, the mp3 links were taken down! I wanted to find this track again. Incidentally, the “guitar” tones on this track were from a Hohner Clavinet that had been outfitted with a whammy bar, IIRC it could only bend pitch upward. The article had a pic of Babylon in his studio posing with the whammy’d Clav. I’d love to hear this tune again, it was indeed killer.

By: Harry

Harry — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 23:38:47 +0000

OMG! Haven’t heard Babylon Bleu in years. A true magnum opus and a mini-symphony. This has been on my Winamp repeat for days now. The more you listen the more you hear and appreciate the beauty of the composition, technical ability, and (more interesting to me) the HUGE range of musical influences and intuition: blues, classical, rock, jazz, funk, techno…it’s all there, and every individual instrument (synthesized, of course) sounds like it’s played like an expert in their field AFAIC (although, to me, the drums/percussion are a little derivative and uninspired in places. Let’s have a little more Neil Peart-like material in some sections;-)).

It’s one thing to master one musical genre and execute one or a few pieces competently and convincingly to a discerning ear, but to encompass countless musical genres, soundscapes and emotions in just under than 5 mins, craft the piece together with seamless key changes and musical styles and sounds, get all the phrasing absolutely perfect, arrange EVERYTHING, AND make it sound natural, spontaneous and fun all at the same time is just…well; it’s that elusive pot of gold at the end of every creative musician’s rainbow.

Imho, all “proper” musicians should have this as one of their benchmarks if they aspire to the mantle of Complete Composer.

Oh, and didn’t he say that he just knocked it up in a couple of hours for a bit of fun? Yeah Guy, bring on the solo albums!

Thx so much for this BJ