Comments by "bruzote" (@bruzote) on "Rick Beato" channel.

@lorenzolarue337 - If you dump a "friend" (or even an acquaintance) because they think all of Steely Dan sounds the same, you've revealed enough about yourself to make a distinction that you're a person with shallow values and shallower temperament. One does not need to meet another face-to-face to make such an obvious judgement about a public admission.
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@Dan76Rock - One need not go after the individual filling a small niche that will NEVER be filled if royalties are demanded. Can you imagine making a simply YT video in which a DH song is not the main content, and for which you MIGHT make a few dollars, but DH wants you to pay him royalties? One can exercise judgment. AFAIK, he would not lose his rights if he let some folks slide.
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This song did not SET a precedent. On the other hand, The Verve's version of Bitter Sweet Symphony was TRULY an extremely different song yet the poor band got none of the money from their unusual and excellent song.
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I can pitch a perfect fit.
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See Chris Sherer's comment about the stick hitting the drum mic.
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This video is the second EVH video I found released one day before news of his passing. Is that unusual?
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@ckatheman Awesomw lyrics for a revenge song, but the real Old Man was so greedy, I doubt he cared about the lyrics since the Old Man had the rights to all those CCR songs.
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Making art you believe in is really not that hard and painful unless your art supplies are expensive. However, making art that can reach out to OTHER people seems to be the problem. People won't stop trying to find fulfillment until it is so costly they can't or won't seek any more of it. Thus, no matter how many albums were to be heard, the effort of creation would not stop until the same levels of bitter disappointment were enventually encountered. Such is life. Such is the human way.
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Were the edits just used to remove some briefly wasted moments, or was some editing done to keep it shorter? I would think the latter makes no sense for a streaming platform, but what do I know?
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Stunning.
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The Billy Jean intro must have endless other songs to which the drum part is identical or very similar, no? I mean, each can oddly distinctive and yet quite similar to another. I was immediately brought back to ZZ Top's Sharp-Dressed Man.
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@Jan Wade - Your comment describes much of his career. It is much more poignant today, given the sad news. RIP, Jeff Beck.
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@45:00, when they talk about music credits and information, I am reminded of the broken promises resulting from the USA's governmental approval for the conversion of public FM radio transmissions from analog to digital. One of the benefits of the digital conversion was that stations could embed descriptive information within the signal. However, the government allowed this transition without requiring such information and without enforcing the requirement. Instead, the public was sold empty stories about how they could learn more about what was being played. In fact, only some radio stations provide information, and even that is just the name of the song and the primary artist. We can't learn more, even though the potential is there. The worst is when a radio station just fills the data stream with the name of the radio show and that's it. You just see basically a self-promotional message on your radio display, and learn nothing about the music.
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Steely Dan drove people to get away from "white music". Any "joy" in this music that is commensurate with the complexity is not going to be sensed by most people, nor will it ever. IMO, most rap is typically so simple it allows the most unaware listener to feel like they are as expressive as the performer (and probably more creative). Look at the music education of most rappers who hit it big. It is negligible. They don't even have large VERBAL vocabularies, let alone musical. (How ironic for a word-based music form.) Still, this is a real allure of rap (the Trumpularity of music), while SD is at the other end of the spectrum (the wonks of music, flowering with the greatest of technique and style, flying over the heads of people who have no chance of keeping up with the flood of technical creativity).
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@ZephaniahL - As I understand it, though, sometimes we Americans use warm words without the underlying feeling and follow-through, and other nationalities can find us phony and lacking in our own self-awareness.
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Elton John actually reminds me of Mariah Carey. They have all the talent and all of the "right" lyrics and notes, but they lack a soul that rings to me as anything but "popular performer".
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