All About Geoff Pearlman
Geoff Pearlman is the guitar player on Greenwich Films/BMG records’ Echo in the Canyon, a celebration of the music of Laurel Canyon from 1965-1967.
Released in June 2019 and produced and directed by Andrew Slater, the film features interviews and musical appearances by Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr, Tom Petty, Steven Stills, Graham Nash, David Crosby, Roger McGuinn, Brain Wilson, Norah Jones, Neil Young, Beck, Fiona Apple, Cat Power, Regina Spektor and more performing songs by the Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, the Mommas and Poppas and others. As part of the Echo in the Canyon band, Geoff is featured both in the film and on it’s accompanying soundtrack playing 12-string and 6-string electric guitar.
Originally from Omaha, NE, Geoff started his musical journey with guitar lessons at age 9 (a side effect of his first concert experience, Kiss). Later, Geoff attended Berklee College of Music in Boston. After some musically diverse and skill-honing years in San Francisco, Geoff found his way to his current home of Los Angeles.
Geoff has performed with a wide range of artists including Shelby Lynne, Jakob Dylan, Linda Perry, Creed Bratton, Jill Sobule, Toni Childs, The Tokens, Lucy Woodward, Norah Jones and Dead Rock West, among many others, and his guitar playing has appeared on a range of recordings from Disney’s “High School Musical 1, 2 and 3” and “Hannah Montana” to records by Jakob Dylan, Dead Rock West, Jon Mclaughlin and Joan Osborne, working alongside noted producers such as Don Was, Andrew Slater, John Doe (X), George Drakoulias and Mike Chapman.
Geoff is also busy as a studio engineer, producer and composer. He has created music for the Travel Channel, the Food Network and Mattel as well as several independent film projects. His original music has been used on television programs such as Fuller House. Jag, Flipping Out, Shark, Dance Mom’s and High School Reunion. He has produced and engineered recordings by Syd Straw, Marc Ribot and others.
As an independent artist and songwriter, Geoff has released a full length CD "Anything at All” (2002), an EP entitled "Someplace Like Nowhere”(2005) and will release his latest, “Lost in the Satellites”, in 2019.
The Deductions
The Deductions featuring Jim Cox and Dean Parks, James Cruse, David Jackson, Dillon O’Brien, Cary Park and whole bunch of the worlds finest session aces get together to diddle the great American songbook every Friday at the Write Off Room in Woodland Hills!
I've had plenty of "pinch me" moments since I've been part of the Deductions crew. It's a band of the most seasoned players in town..or the world for that matter..playing whatever the hell we want. Mostly stuff we don't know. Consisting of, and not limited to, some of the following: Dean Parks, Jim Cox, Dave Jackson, James Cruz, Dillon O'Brien, Cary Park with occasional drop-in's by Tom Scott, Larry Goldings, Chad Wackerman, Billy Valentine, James Gadsen and Abe Laboriel and many, many other legendary players. Every Friday at the Write Off Room in Woodland Hills, you know somethins going down!!
Echo in the Canyon
Echo in the Canyon is a film and record conceived and produced by Andrew Slater documenting the music of Laurel Canyon in the mid 60's. The songs of The Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, the Momma's and Poppa's, are brought to life in a new light by Jakob Dylan as he explores a repertoire of songs with artists like Cat Power, Fiona Apple, Norah Jones, Neil Young, Beck, Eric Clapton, Josh Homme, Jade Castrinos and Regina Spektor. The film includes interviews with David Crosby, Ringo Starr, Tom Petty, John Sebastion, Michelle Phillips and Brian Wilson to name just a very few. The story of those times, told from the people who lived it.
For me, it's an honor to have been part of this project since it's very beginning playing the 12-string Rickenbacker guitar, a significant voice in the music of that era. The film releases May 24 in Los Angeles and the soundtrack comes out the same day on BMG records. The film will release in NYC May 31 and nationwide in theaters in June.