Comments by "TeeKay" (@teekay_1) on "Rick Beato" channel.

Don't forget on the album the bookend to this song was "Now More Than Ever", which sort of makes Chicago II a concept album. On the single they spliced the two together. Also interesting Chicago II was a double album, although this was the era of bands good enough to pull off a double studio album. The only downside was at that time, new Albums when released were on sale for $4 for about two weeks and then the price when up. But double albums were twice that, so it was a tough decision to spend $8 (this is when minimum wage was about $2/hour)
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@Mindphaser1 But The Beatles also has a much smaller competition lol.
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What I like about Rick is he loves the music. Not just a musician, but a fan, too
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I missed the special, but technically, Yacht Rock is any song that Michael McDonald sings backup on. That was the original definition, anyway. I'll have to watch it in the app. BTW, I don't find it offensive or dismissive at all.
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Pat is one of the true innovators in music today. If you get a chance see him in concert. He doesn't want to stop playing; you get your money's worth.
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Don't feel bad. I've been to Steely Dan concerts and Donald Fagen puts the charts up to the songs he's written. I performed in concerts where I started songs in the wrong key (no idea I did that) and everybody just followed along. The singers were nonplussed since it pushed the high notes out of their range. Ah, the good old days.
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As I said to someone many years ago.... Do you know what classical music is? It's music that people still perform, enjoy and listen to 300 years after the artist is dead.
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Of all the popular singers today, Adele is one of the very few who actually can get raw emotion into her voice when she sings. You can argue what you want about her songs (I don't like a lot of her stuff), but the woman can actually sing. And she can sing it without autotune. Now to be clear, she's not Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughn or even Dianne Reeves, but you cannot deny the talent. As to the backup band, I've played with great vocalists, and in one take, you can build a rapport with them to support them and they get it right away and work with you to blend. She'd be a dream to accompany.
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@MikeM-uy6qp Do you understand the number of bands in England and the United States in the early 1960s? Apparently not. Thousands of bands played in bars and small clubs hoping to create a buzz. The record companies did not invest in bands, they had AOR guys who went out and offered a contract to the best of these bands. The bands who don't get this treatment release their stuff on Spotify and Bandcamp and a few other platforms, some find their way, most don't. That's not a knock on Swift, she's clearly talented, she has great stage presence, and she has a top-notch band to back her up. My wife loves her, my daughter loves her. But the Beatles? Nah. Closer to a Madonna. Modonna had a huge impact on pop music, too.
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@MikeM-uy6qp Which means that it's really easy to find talent now. You point and click. I'm on Bandcamp and Spotify all the time. It's trivial to find a new band that I like. However, very few are great. Back in the 1960's it took detective work to find really great acts.
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Never fully appreciated this song until you broke it down
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I know, right?
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The Beatles changed the culture. Taylor Swift (and no issue with her or the Swifties) makes a lot of money and has a lot of fans. TV was relatively new for many people, we all watched the same shows (Ed Sullivan), and the culture was more unified. In fact, Madonna in her prime had a bigger impact than Taylor Swift. As to Taylor Swift or any big act... a couple million dollars in writing and production could make anybody sound good. Katy Perry proved that on every album.
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Rick you reminded me... I was in a bar band in high school (wasn't really old enough to be in bars, but that was another matter entirely), and the local Boscovs would get in the latest albums and sell them for $3.99 for the first weekend. My buddy worked in the record department and would put them on the stereo and we'd listen and I'd buy two albums that I liked best and take it home. Heart, Eddie Money, Crack the Sky, Steve Miller.... with my mom telling me I was throwing my money away. Pretty funny when I tell my kids about it. They just tell me I'm old.
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After you listen to Frampton Comes Alive, you cannot go back to the studio versions. The studio versions are slower and lack the energy of the live version, which is a big part of the appeal of that album. In fact it's one of the few live albums that pull that off. At first, I wouldn't listen to the album because every live album up to that point (for me) was a huge disappointment, but after the guitar player in our band forced me to listen to it, we did covers of about 4 of these songs. Still love the album to this day, although my adult kids look at me funny when I rock out to the song.
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The Vox continental sounds a lot like the Farfisa organ; were they competitors at the time?
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EDIT: You can hear the full solo played by him here on YouTube. Look up "The Midnight Special More 1980 - 02 - Christopher Cross - Ride Like The Wind". Great appearance by Cross. Glad I stopped by again.... yeah... I always noticed that solo, but I had no idea it was Chris Cross I wonder if they dialed it back because when this album came out it was about "Smooth Rock", and those stations avoided anything that wasn't smooth. And if you haven't heard Larry Carlton in concert in a small club, you're missing something special. His backup band is amazing, and he is just at a master level every time he picks up his instrument.
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Today we throw around the word Genius when talking about football coaches, but people must understand that Bach was a genuine musical genius. And Glenn Gould was one of the great composer and pianists of the 20th century. Rick this video is a great find!
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If you get a chance to see Pat in person, I highly recommend it. The word "genius" is tossed around lightly in the music business, but Pat fits that bill. The CD is hard to find for a reasonable price, I found it on ebay for $9.
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