Comments by "Helium Road" (@RCAvhstape) on "Rick Beato" channel.

  1. Rhett: "We could a whole 'nother video on Geezer Butler's bass tones." YES YES YES
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  2. Rick Beato discussing "The Gilmour Effect" with...David Gilmour. These are the moments we live for, folks, savor this!
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  3. All I saw was "Rick Beato" and "Radiohead" and clicked so fast I broke my mouse.
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  4. The only thing wrong with this interview is that it is only an hour long. I could listen to Rick and Danny talk for a long time.
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  5. If I've learned one thing from this video, it's that I really need to listen to more Steely Dan...
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  6. I remember when this came out and was all over the radio. The visceral anger in her voice was amazing and even a little unsettling, which I thought was great. She just put everything into it. And that bass line was the next thing I noticed, so good. I love this video series, Rick, because I would never have noticed all that other stuff buried in the mix; it all has a subconscious effect on the listener but it goes unrecognized until now.
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  7. When you're in your teens and early 20s, your ability to learn is at its highest and you usually don't have lots of complications in your life. No wife or kids, no long term job yet, no major bills to pay. That combination of simplicity and voracious learning ability means that whatever you practice hard at during that time will make a lasting impression for life. You can still learn stuff when you get older but it's harder and takes more willpower. You have to avoid distractions and for people with obligations it's tough. So if you're young, strike while the iron is hot. Before you know it you'll be married and involved with life. Put down the video games and your facebook phone and pick up your instrument.
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  8. These Rick Beato interviews are the gold standard for musician interviews. More good information in a one hour video than whole stacks of music magazines or knucklehead youtuber vids.
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  9. Rick is the most honest interviewer out there, and that honesty has earned him the trust of people like Sting and Maynard. Very cool.
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  10. 19:20 "Now we're just getting to the good part!" LOL the smile on that face. On behalf of all your fans and all Tool fans, we love you Rick. Seriously.
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  11. We've lot a lot of 90s singers, Kurt Cobain, Layne Staley, Scott Weiland, but I think Cornell was the biggest shock for me, Soundgarden had recent albums and were an active band once again, and he was indeed one of the greatest rock singers. Huge loss.
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  12. Rick Beato + Led Zeppelin = automatic thumbs up. Zeppelin is one of the greatest bands in rock and roll history.
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  13. "Bass player and drummer are nailing it by the third take..." That's one take too many for Two-Take Beato!
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  14. With all the awful news today, this is just what I needed, Rick digging the mighty Purple! Everything about this song is great, the overdriven organ, the riff, the killer bass line and tone, Paice's ownership of the drums, Gillian's vocals. There will never be another band like 70s Purple.
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  15. Adam Neely has talked about audiation before as well. I've always done this in my head, and always assumed everyone else does, too. Translating it to my instrument is a bit harder, though.
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  16. I discovered the cycle of fifths was a lot easier to learn by just doing it on a bass or guitar. Play a major scale starting with the note C. What's the fifth note in the scale? G. So play another major scale starting on a G note. What's the fifth note in that scale? D. From there, A. Then E. Then B, Gb, Db, Ab, Eb, Bb, F, and finally back to C. Do this while looking at a picture of the cycle of fifths in front of you. Follow along with the diagram and you start to get the relation.
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  17. Wow my comment got a Double Beato reply.
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  18. @Luke He's all legal under fair use. Maybe you should read up on things before spouting nonsense on Rick Beato's channel.
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  19. Because it makes music fun to listen to, not boring like so much mainstream garbage out there.
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  20. You know the old joke: The quality of Weezer's music is inversely proportional to Rivers Cuomo's self esteem. So if you want to hear better Weezer tunes, you have to try to make Rivers feel sad.
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  21. I regret that I have but one like to give for this video, Rick, been waiting a long time for this one, and you did not disappoint! Tool is one of my favorite bands of all time. Subscribing to your channel was certainly a good idea. I won't be this happy again until you get to a Rush song!
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  22. That is a killer track. Loving this. Anyone know who played bass on this song? It wasn't Paz, was it?
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  23. When I was growing up these Steely Dan tunes actually got lots of play on mainstream rock radio. We didn't know how good we had it. Unthinkable today. Tastes have certainly changed.
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  24. Okay, so let's do a little trading. I'd kick "The Boss" (hate that guy, growing up in NJ in the 80s was brutal for haters like me) off the list and add in Rob Halford.
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  25. For hard rock fans, this is a "secret shame song" that you crank up only when alone, kind of like Avril Lavigne's My Happy Ending or one of several Billie Eilish songs. When your girlfriend talks you into going to a concert, you act negative but don't put up much of a fight because inside you know you want to go.
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  26. Dave Grohl on the drum kit. Where he belongs. Great song, and great breakdown. That orchestral part suddenly sounds familiar and I remember hearing it on the radio many times, but it flies under the radar, awesome to see that. And yes, the piano version of this tune sounds cool.
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  27. Being sub'd to Adam's channel led me to Rick's channel.
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  28. If a record company exec can make a bunch of hit songs without having to pay musicians or pay for studio time, then that's what you're going to get. Support local live bands; at least you know they are real when you see them in front of you (unless they're using backing tracks...which may be made by AI).
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  29. 10:10 was waiting to see if Rick would pull out a Theremin and rock that too.
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  30. I love when guitar and bass together sound almost like a single instrument, the way a piano player uses two hands to play two parts on one instrument.
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  31.  @RickBeato  I was wondering if you were going to mention it or chicken out haha!
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  32. Can we just take a moment and admire how freaking beautiful that guitar is?
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  33. I like a lot of Tom Petty's work, I love this series, and this breakdown analysis is very good. But I have to say I've always hated this particular song and still do. I was hoping this would be about Breakdown or Refugee. It's interesting to be able to appreciate the work that went into producing it while still hating to listen to it.
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  34. I can't hear Sarah McLachlan's voice anymore without seeing sad puppies.
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  35. If you want a million dollars as a musician, you start with 3 million.
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  36. Great singing, of course. Still sad that "real piano" is considered special now.
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  37. I love the fact that Rick just made a cicada mashup just for a rant. Love this channel.
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  38. So are we not gonna talk about that epic thumbnail?
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  39.  @robertw1871  You must be new here.
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  40. Rick, those isolated drum tracks are awesome, especially Whole Lotta Love, what a great one Bonham was! Also, great way to sneak in a Led Zep video without getting blocked!
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  41. If Martin Scorsese was making "What Makes This Song Great" vids, he would do only Rolling Stones songs.
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  42. "Yacht Rock" is a retronym, like "hair metal", a term made up years after the fact which nobody used at the time.
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  43. Over the years I got pretty sick of hearing this song on the radio over and over again; the fact that it's really just a long live jam didn't help. But I have to say that watching Rick break it down is a good reminder of how awesome a guitarist Frampton is. And how much fun it is watching Rick play that stuff and loving it.
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  44. "Like a tuned down Geddy Lee" ha ha love it. Never knew about this band, I think I may run off to Amazon and buy this album now.
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  45. The Black Album is a great album, and it was really the album that made Metallica into the massive juggernaut that they are today. And for a lot of us it was basically "thrash for beginners" and led us to check out their older stuff and get into other thrash bands. It's like Moving Pictures for Rush or Dark Side for Floyd, that one smash hit album that makes people notice all your other stuff too.
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  46. IIRC K-Tel compilations were all shortened edits of songs and the vinyl pressings were really poor quality. But yeah, those commercials are like vaporwave nostalgia.
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  47. A video about 70s rock guitarists could easily go on for an hour and a half. Besides just naming players you could make it into a documentary about how the styles and techniques changed and how the players were influenced by each other. For instance, at the tail end of the 70s Alex Lifeson was heavily influenced by Andy Summers, and it starts to show on songs like Vital Signs and on through the Grace Under Pressure album. These guys were paying attention to each other and the music developed rapidly as a result.
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  48. I think I know why I love these videos. They remind me of when I was a teenager sitting in my bedroom with my buddies listening to records and talking about music, except that now one of us actually knows what he's talking about.
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  49. Oh boy that would be a wild ride.
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  50. That Pompeii Echoes is one of the greatest things ever created by humans.
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  51.  @BrunoNeureiter  Nobody said it was a "song". It does have a killer drum intro, though. As well as a killer drum solo. And a killer drum groove. Because Joe Morello.
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  52. I've actually seen people dump on him for some reason. No accounting for taste.
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  53. I don't know much about this guy's band, but he sure comes off as somebody who really knows his business, really sharp and clear-headed. Off to check out some Periphery now...
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  54. Fascinating discussion about how these trends happen, more like this, please! About liner notes, Bandcamp allows bands to post liner notes, credits, and song lyrics. More bands should take advantage of that.
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  55.  @AD1978leo  No, some of the artists are also big time blockers and copyright hawks. I have heard Roger Hodgson of Supertramp is one, and I think the Eagles are too. Never forget Lars Ulrich and Metallica's great Napster episode. If you asked them specifically about Rick's instructional videos, most of those guys would probably be cool with it. But youtube is known as a place where uploaders blatantly violate copyrights, and there are way too many uploads each minute for a human to judge which ones are legit, so they just have dumb algorithms to indiscriminately block whole swaths of videos based on sound clips, legal or not.
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  56. Honestly, it's an order of magnitude better song than anything on these spotify lists.
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  57. Another great album from 1978 is Hemispheres by Rush. Speaking of which, today marks one year since Neil Peart passed.
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  58. Incubus always takes me back to good days, love the unique sound of that band. Also, nice to see Carol join in on the fun with this one!
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  59. Sometimes Rick's channel is like TV before the Internet: if you don't catch it at the broadcast time you're just out of luck.
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  60. Love his tone on Warning.
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  61. I am old enough to remember when Nirvana and Alice in Chains was alternative. Boy are those days ever gone.
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  62. I love dissecting great songs, and these videos really hit the spot. Been lurking your channel for a while, this pushes me to subscribe.
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  63. He picks tracks that he thinks are well-produced, not the tracks that music nerds like.
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  64. Gimme Shelter is one of the best rock and roll tunes ever.
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  65. It is funny how when it's in the mix it becomes acceptable, but on its own it's unlistenable.
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  66. The Live at Pompeii version of Echoes for me, especially the jammy part that takes place about a third into the song.
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  67. This happens to me in the shower. By the time I towel off and get to my instrument it's gone. Like trying to remember a dream fives minutes after you wake up, so frustrating.
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  68. He should do Tom Sawyer. It's a great song with great production, and there's a reason it's still a huge radio song even today.
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  69. If I'm 79 years old and can sell my music for millions of dollars, well, why not? Live out the rest of my days comfortably and be happy that I've made my mark and won't be soon forgotten. Most people publishing their stuff on bandcamp won't ever get that kind of payoff.
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  70.  @misterknightowlandco  Guy I know is a great songwriter and he knows dick all about theory. He plays guitar great, but he doesn't know how to play the guitar the way trained players know; never took a lesson. You put a creative human in a situation where they can be creative they will come up with good stuff. I agree that knowing theory is better than not knowing it, but "dicking around and strumming" is how you come up with new ideas, and if you're thinking about theory while you're doing it, you're just letting your brain get in its own way.
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  71. I went through this with Rush. Right around when I graduated high school I kind of drifted away from Rush and other 80s bands because I was in a whole new phase of life, with new friends and new music to listen to. At the time, Rush was also in my least favorite phase musically. 10 or 15 years later I met some younger people who were newer, huge Rush fans, and they got me to go back and give them another look. Their newer stuff, like Snakes and Arrows and their final album, Clockwork Angels, have some fantastic work in them, and in their final years I saw them 4 or 5 times live.
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  72. Led Zeppelin: writes nerdy songs about Lord of the Rings, girls go crazy Rush: writes nerdy songs about Lord of the Rings, girls go away Plant: ;-) Geddy: :-/
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  73.  @barrettKiwi  I feel like Rick's importance to music is up there with John Peel or someone.
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  74. And put a bomb inside the kick drum like on Tommy Smothers show.
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  75. If you buy his book it explains it.
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  76. Black Sabbath, definitely. First heavy metal album, and every song on it kills. Definitely changed the landscape, plus it has one of the most metal album covers ever.
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  77. The cool thing is that it doesn't sound weird when you listen to it, not jarring, just flows.
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  78. As far as Led Zep and JPJ keyboard parts, my favorite is No Quarter. And yes, JPJ is an outstanding musician.
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  79.  @zenarcher9633  I've heard a speech he made a few years ago in the UK. Dude's mind was way sharper than I expected.
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  80. Would be funny, but in the end being negative and bagging on bands is usually a bad idea. The odd joke is one thing but a whole video just makes the uploader look like a hater.
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  81. This shows how mixing can make or break a song. Another song I'd love to hear remixed, just a bit at least, is Different Strings by Rush, all I want them to change is to not fade it out so fast at the end so we can hear Alex Lifeson melt faces with that outro solo.
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  82. I've heard that the sound of the starship Nostromo's machinery in the background of the film Alien was deliberately made to make the audience feel uneasy and disturbed without them even knowing why.
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  83. Youtube has strayed so very far from its origins. And don't be fooled into thinking that paying for Premium means you'll never get ads again. This monetization strategy is always the same. Back in the 80s when cable TV became big, it was done by telling subscribers they are getting ad-free TV for their fees, which got everyone hooked. Once they had enough subscribers addicted, back came the ads, except for movie channels like HBO, etc. Likewise, once everyone got trained to use ATM machines, banks started charging more fees. Once everyone is forced to use EZ Pass, the discounts on highway tolls will go back up. Youtube will be no different.
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  84.  @TeeCeeBee  The file-sharing "community" is a bunch of pirates who steal people's work because they feel entitled to the fruits of someone else's labor for free. Rick is a teacher who does nothing of the sort and has nothing in common with music thieves. What file-sharers do is illegal; what Rick does is protected by law. That said, Lars was still an a-hole and Don Henley is an even bigger one.
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  85. Well, to be specific, he said 20th Century classical as opposed to "classic" classical. 20th Century was when all the experimentation was happening.
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  86. Leland Sklar got his video taken down for doing a demo of his own bass line.
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  87. Adele is a great blues singer and has some great pop songs. Would be great to see her fronting a legit rock band though, like a modern Fleetwood Mac kind of band, with more of an edge to the music. We have talked a lot about what would bring rock back. Killer talent like Adele might have a chance.
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  88. No Quarter by Led Zeppelin, any number of tunes by Deep Purple
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  89. I would gladly pay for an AI robot that cleans my toilet and does other household chores, like Rosie from the Jetsons. But only if it doesn't spy on me and report all my data to its manufacturer or to the government.
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  90. Or like elevator music. Soothing, calming, and utterly forgettable.
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  91. I was at a jazz concert once and after the set I was talking to the upright bass player, a guy looked to be in his 70s. Somewhere in the conversation the words "Led Zeppelin" came up and the dude busts out Black Dog on the upright bass. Never assume someone's music tastes based on a stereotype.
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  92. I call BS on that. Back in the 50s/early 60s most pop songs were blues tunes. Pick at random any Chuck Berry or Elvis Presley album and count the 1-4-5's on it. Today, maybe, but not back then. Also, you didn't answer his question: if using the same chords all the time is mediocrity, then why is blues not considered mediocre? (I actually think a lot of it is mediocre and worn out, but still, lots of good blues, too)
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  93. Jeez, Rick you even crush the piano like a boss. That last piece was freaking amazing!
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  94.  @thescramble4309  Yes, I'm afraid of you. You sound like you might beat me up.
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  95. I think you're right about rockers getting Bonham wrong. I think the same is true of a lot of the early hard rock and metal drummers, Bill Ward is another one. Compared to modern metal drummers, Ward and Bonham are so much more groovy and swingy, and it's a huge part of why Zeppelin, Sabbath, and other bands of the era remain so listenable years later. Before 1970 I imagine most drummers were trained to play jazz, or at least influenced by it.
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  96. That first song almost sounds like a cover of Nickleback's How You Remind Me.
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  97.  @jazzerson7087  The weird thing is that growing up I remember Herbie as an electronic pop star in the 80s. I didn't find out he was a legendary jazz pianist until much later.
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  98. And the answer: Lars' snare. Video done in one sentence.
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  99. Love. This.
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  100. You say that like it's a bad thing.
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  101. I can't remember the last time I cared to watch an NFL game at all.
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  102. @dark day You get butthurt replies from people like you, apparently.
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  103. Doesn't matter how good you are, you will conform to record industry cookie cutter pop standards.
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  104. If you watch live videos of him playing solos, he often sings along to them off microphone as he plays. The guy has music in his head and it goes straight to his fingers.
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  105. That part near the end where you guys mention that song recording is time-traveling hits so hard. I have an old Victrola record player from 1915 and some really old records that date to the 1910s-1950s. One of the records is from 1915 and it's like listening to ghosts. Every musician, vocalist, everyone involved in making that record is long gone but here I am in 2022 hearing their voices.
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  106. Chris has a Rush album behind him. Instant cool points as far as I'm concerned.
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  107.  @dumpygoodness4086  You need to see an ad for crazy pills.
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  108. Gain controls the pre-amp, master volume controls the power amp. Turning up the gain overdrives the input to the power amp, resulting in distortion. If you turn the gain way up and the master volume down, depending on the amp, it will be fuzzy and noisy but not necessarily ear-splittingly loud.
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  109.  @hokedo  Well, too bad you don't like it. Fortunately for you, there's plenty of music with no dynamics, lots of auto-tune, and no song structure out there currently.
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  110. Rick should be paid to remix all rock music from the last 15 years.
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  111. Anything that features lots of Rick Wright's sound would be awesome.
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  112. Also, the fact that Zeppelin has been sued successfully in the past for stealing lyrics makes them a target for every sleazebag ambulance-chasing lawyer out there with dollar signs in their eyes.
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  113. This should've been in the soundtrack for One Tree Hill, Charmed, or Smallville. Like it.
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  114.  @vpgnto  Someone with skillz should make some Beatowave music and vids, like vaporwave but with Rick voiceovers heavily reverbed. Chill out while Rick preaches the word.
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  115.  @JeffBostick222  I think he would care, actually. At the very least he'd be cool enough to give Rick an interview. Jimi did some TV interviews and he always came off as humble, nice guy. Sad he's gone and has no control over his estate.
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  116. I was wondering if Blood and Roses by Smithereens would make the list, at least honorable mention, but alas... I agree about Krist Novocelic deserving more recognition. Part of the problem is that Nirvana as a band often gets looked down on by snob musicians, from jazzers to metalheads.
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  117. Wait, Bach died?! Dammit I guess I waited too long to catch him on tour.
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  118. I think of Radiohead as "prog pop", meaning the sophistication of progressive rock but presented in a way that is listenable to non-music nerd fans, like popular rock. Plus the songs aren't like 15 minutes long, either.
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  119. That's what made me sub
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  120. Lots of memories attached to this song, involving cassette tapes, hair spray, and a Chevy Camaro.
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  121.  @stantonh1452  Even country is just pop music with a southern accent now.
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  122.  @thescramble4309  You sound like you're pretty tough.
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  123.  @markashe3786  Well good for you. Fortunately there's nobody by that name in Metallica, so you can listen to them and keep your signaled virtue intact.
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  124. When Alex Lifeson finally shows up here I will consider the point turned!
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  125. They put a lot of thought into the song, but in the end it's still a schmaltzy song that has no appeal for me. Interesting only from a theory nerd point of view. Good video.
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  126. You can never go wrong putting Tori Amos in front of a piano and a microphone. She will always be awesome.
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  127.  @ckbennetttn  Even Smithereens. At least they were considered "college rock" in the 80s.
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  128. He should've trolled us and put it up as a Vanilla Ice bass intro lol.
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  129. I first heard it growing up watching Apocalypse Now.
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  130. Yep, what most young pop fans don't think about is that most of this music is produced, recorded, mastered, etc. by guys like Rick, who are about his age and have lots of experience in the business.
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  131. Please tell us all about your poor life choices.
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  132. Throw in my defense of Alice in Chains and Tool.
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  133. Rick has talked about this before, especially in his Bonham vids, where he puts Zeppelin tracks in a DAW and quantizes them, making them suck.
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  134. Yes, beware the bunny boilers!
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  135.  @donkeyshot8472  I mean, at the RRHOF induction he was practically doing standup.
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  136. Metallica should pay you for your know-how, Rick.
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  137. Well good for you then.
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  138. Mine is more of a minor flat 5 headache.
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  139. Anything off the first 3 or 4 Sabbath albums is awesome, to be honest. I can listen to them all end to end without any skips.
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  140. If it weren't for this channel, I'd never even know any of these songs exist. The juvenile and repetitive mediocrity made me tune out of pop a long time ago. A shame, since some of these artists have actual talent but they aren't in a position to let it show. Also, awesome thumbnail.
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  141. I think he sucks, the halftime show was well-choreographed garbage. But you know, that's just like, my opinion.
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  142.  @ericmorrissette2253  I remember when my mom first let me use the internet, way back in 1969.
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  143. The microphone deserves to make the list, but like any of the things mentioned on this list, by itself is useless; it's only part of a system of amplification, which itself may be part of a PA system or a system of recording, and they did mention the vacuum tube and magnetic tape, which together enabled hi fi recording. It's really tough to put together a list like this, because so many of these inventions are so dependent on other inventions and how they are used together.
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  144. "If I wrote that riff (Michael Jackson's Beat It) we could've been talking about this on my space shuttle from all the bread I would've made." Hilarious. Amazing to hear that MJ wrote riffs with his voice to teach to his musicians.
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  145.  @Dan-yq8lf  Took you long enough, I knew one of you'd be along sooner or later.
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  146. Wow, lots of haters here.
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  147. You have to imagine that in Morpheus's voice
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  148.  @kingoftheworld5753 If she did hire a guy like that, she should've hired a guy who was better at convincing the jury. To answer your question, I've read that the reason they asked for a jury was because jurors are randos with no music education, so they'd be easier to bullshit.
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  149. Sad thing is that even the singers who can sing great get autotuned into oblivion.
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  150. That's a great podcast.
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  151. I thought it was lousy cheap beer.
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  152. So then, this would be some of Roll involving a Rick, you would say? Like maybe something you would never want to give up, never want to let down or desert, perhaps?
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  153. +1 to this, can't go wrong with Lifeson or Gilmour, awesome sounds. I'm still holding out hope that Rick gets to interview Alex someday.
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  154. On Eminence Front Entwistle's bass is absolutely crushing. I remember cruising around in high school with that song on the radio in our drummer's car, and he would crank it for all it was worth, then he would ask me if I could make my bass sound like that.
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  155. That Zach Bryan tune "I Remember Everything" is pretty damn good.
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  156. It is? What world do you live in? Ask Rush fans about Tai Shan. Nevermind, Rush fans don't talk about Tai Shan.
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  157. Still one of the best albums in rock; I can listen to the whole thing from end to end with no skips. After Bon Scott's death they could've packed it in and broke up but instead they recruited this bar brawler-lookin' Brian Johnson dude with a massive voice and just crushed the new album.
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  158. I actually started on digital photography and gave it up when I learned how to do black and white chemical photography. Digital bores me to death. But I'm a hobbyist, not a pro, and I have enough income to afford it. If I were a pro it's be digital 100%.
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  159. Modern stoner bands do that on purpose, to the point where's it's not only obvious but also cliché. But when it's done honestly it's pretty awesome. Dead Moon was a garage rock band whose every record was like a lo-fi version of AC/DC and I loved them.
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  160. Geezer and Bill?
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  161. I thought it was coming from inside my house, had to pause the video to make sure.
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  162. The original lineup is one of those perfect matchups, pure magic. Change one member and the band might still be great but it sounds fundamentally different. When they reunited in the late 1990s and did that live album it was back as it should be for a while, all the power of Bill and the heaviness of Tony and Geezer and the creepiness of Ozzy's voice, for a while the world was made metal again and all was right.
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  163. I knew Alex Lifeson would make the list! About Stone in Love: Ross Valory's bass line makes it even better.
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  164. The band I play bass in, the singer guitarist does this kind of thing all the time when he's writing, and then, because he knows no theory, asks me if I can figure out what kind of chord he just played so I can tell the other guitarist lol. He has a good sense musical sense but doesn't know the language.
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  165. Isn't an instrumental hook called a riff? Or in classical music, a motif, think Beethoven's 5th: DUH DUH DUH DAAAH
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  166. Or turds bouncing off the sides of the toilet bowl.
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  167. Beato Rants are the best. The Apple rant was the most epic.
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  168. I also think they could do a better job at timing; they're not quite cutting off Rick in mid sentence as well as they could.
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  169.  @danstone8783  That one or the Teenage Dirtbag song. Listen to Iron Maiden, baby...
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  170. In Ozzy Osbourne's autobio he says the Beatles are his favorite band, too.
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  171. 4:26 "And then it gets to the hard part." LMAO
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  172.  @bethoscope  I have zero interest in Coldplay, so I'll watch something else 😉
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  173. I know what's better: the above guitar rig next to a Rickenbacker bass played in stereo through a couple of Ampeg SVT's and 8x10 cabinets. Better yet use Sunn amps, if you can find them. Pretty sure that's what Geddy used back in the day. Orange AD200's will do the trick, too. That will pretty much force people to move whether they want to or not. Might set off car alarms or even make people puke if they stand too close to the cabinets. Making people puke from pure amp power should be your goal.
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  174.  @DaveRoberts308  Well, he made it to 75 before his voice quit on him, that a lot farther than most screamy rock singers make it. Geddy Lee had to quit screaming in his 30s. Last I heard Rob Halford was still killing it.
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  175.  @sebwarren7918  I imagine the producer encouraged the guys to go crazy and let it all out. That yelling is part of what makes it rock and roll and it's awesome. Bonham was definitely feeling it that day.
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  176. Pickle Rick
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  177. Fender Jaguars are great for that. The guy from Sonic Youth did it a lot on their recordings.
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  178. Reminds me of a story from a few years ago. My band is not "punk rock" but it's "punk" in the sense that we're almost completely DIY, no money, and very little formal music training. At the time, I think I was the only one who had taken lessons (to play bass, years ago), and we had no support from any label or anyone else. We decided to try and make a demo recording in one of the guys' dingy basement. I used my little Korg handheld recorder, on a coffee table in the middle of the room, between the drum kit, the amps, and the little PA speaker, and we just played 2 takes of each of our tunes, about 8 or 9 originals. We were fairly well rehearsed, so the playing and singing were fine, but obviously the recording was very lo-fi, and not in a good way, and worse, there was an extra snare drum in the corner of the room that rang constantly. But the band was on fire and the recordings were high energy, with all the things that make rock bands cool, all the little finger squeaks and small mistakes and feedbacking guitars. Later we went into an actual studio and recorded an album, and while the pro versions of the songs sound way better, they seem to lack a bit of that magic that we got in that filthy basement, bad sound quality and all. If only we'd captured that basement session with good gear and somebody who knows what he's doing...
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  179. I find Sabaton to be quite cheesy. Just my take on it.
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  180. I borrowed the B. Concertos on cassette from a library on a military base long ago and that was an eye-opener.
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  181. Echoes. Pompeii version preferably.
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  182. Elvis Presley comes to mind.
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  183.  @RickBeato I watch these vids and understand maybe 10% but that 10% is totally worth it, it makes me think about things a bit differently and I can study the rest if I really want to get it all down.
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  184. Oh man, can't wait for the SVT video! My band sometimes practices in a space which has an old beat up SVT and a 8x10 fridge cabinet. When you switch it from standby to on the lights dim for a second and then I crank it up until the earth quakes. Like the voice of Bass God. That is the sound of rock bass right there. Feel the power! Too bad the things are so big and heavy or I'd own one for sure.
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  185. I've never been a big fan of all that slap bass stuff Flea does (especially for all the ear pain it causes when you walk near the bass section of Guitar Center), but I hold him in high regard for all the great non-slap bass lines he plays. His work on the first Mars Volta album is superb. He's no gimmick player; rather he's a real pro who knows what he is doing.
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  186. Wow, Still They Ride by Journey, haven't heard that tune in a long time. Back in the 80s that was major makeout music lol.
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  187. He's been doing these breakdowns for four years now, and the rest of his videos are full of music knowledge. His first breakdown on Blink-182 is what caused his channel to blow up finally, best subscription ever.
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  188. Rush was a few years old as a band when the Police came around, but Alex Lifeson always pays attention to newer bands, and he was a huge Police fan.
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  189. I noticed the pad but never thought much of it, never noticed those sci fi noises before.
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  190. Long time Rush fan, crushed. What else is there to say, really? It's the end of an era. We are now living in a post-Peart world, and we are poorer for it.
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  191. Adam Neely recently said this: "As a musician, I don't feel protected by copyright laws; rather, I feel threatened." There you have it in a nutshell. Copyright law is supposed to protect people's IP rights, but that's not the case these days. It's been manipulated over time by people like Disney and the big record companies and so on to do the opposite, and youtube/google/alphabet is part of the problem. That guy who told you how they love making money off the backs of youtubers who do all the work for them was talking about how they play guys like Rick for suckers. We should be pissed off about it.
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  192.  @andrepires7687  Also, Jimi's music is classified broadly as "popular music", which is what the word "pop" is short for. And in the late 60s, Hendrix's music was marketed to the same target demographic that Taylor Swift and Billie Eilish's is today, teens and twenty-somethings.
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  193. I'm just happy to be at home here with fellow Rush fans. It's how I know Rick's channel is good.
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  194.  Vela S  Wow, sorry to hear about your difficult life so far. Best of luck going forward.
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  195. Just add some poorly played slap bass.
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  196. Block Sabbath
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  197.  @BB-848-VAC  If he's really that good, it's not because anyone is forcing him to practice, it's because he likes doing it and gets a kick out of improving himself.
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  198. Buy the Beato Book, it's all explained in there.
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  199. Rebecca Black's Friday video is clearly superior.
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  200. Wow, forgot about that show. Throw that in with Smallville, Gilmore Girls, and The OC. Maybe some Firefly for a bit of sci fi.
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  201. Pick up a guitar and play a "normal" chord. Then fuck with the chord a little and come up with a cool new chord, move a finger over one fret and see what it sounds like, etc. Do this a while, and you can make some cool new stuff. Later, go back and try to figure out the theory behind what you did, but don't worry about theory when you're noodling or writing.
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  202.  @brians7749  Funny, Tom Sawyer is one of the few songs Peart didn't write, at least not by himself. He got the idea from a poem written by a member of the band Max Webster, who were close friends with Rush.
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  203. That whole album is amazing, and that album tour was my first ever concert. Another great solo that plays off the vocals is Neil Giraldo of Benatar in the song Fire and Ice. Something he does in several Pat Benatar songs is where Pat will hold a high vocal note and Neil will start the guitar solo off the same note, so you almost can't tell where the vocals end and the guitar begins.
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  204. Somewhere I saw an interview with one of the members of Pink Floyd who said the band was on the road driving in a van when they first heard Sgt. Pepper's on the radio, and they pulled over to the side of the road to listen to it intensely. Beatles were a huge influence on EVERYONE, even other legends.
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  205.  @TheSanityInspector  As opposed to today, where there is plenty of good music, and we don't listen to it now.
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  206. For a non-singing bassist he's done pretty well becoming a rock star, though. Most famous bass players in rock are also singers.
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  207. Yes, or maybe a Forest.
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  208. Also, don't feel bad. I play bass in a band with a singer/guitarist who has no idea how his amplifier works. I try to explain to him the relationship between gain and volume and his eyes glaze over, so we just find a knob setting that works and keep it there lol.
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  209.  @TheAnimeist  Well, hearing about hundreds of civilians from a democracy getting slaughtered is more awful than usual. But that's just me.
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  210. The saxophone might make a "comeback", too, but it doesn't mean 50s jazz will become pop music again. However the guitar shows up in the future, it probably won't sound like 70s rock.
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  211. Oh man 2 Minutes to Midnight would be an awesome breakdown.
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  212.  @ericcrabtree6245  Yep, and also David Gilmour and Rick Wright had similar voices to my ear.
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  213. Randy Marsh's crowning moment of awesome was when he showed Stan and the boys how to play that riff on a real guitar.
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  214. David Gilmour sings along to his own guitar solos, usually away from the mic.
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  215.  @prickyX  Another reason for Chris to change his bass strings before every gig, consistent twangy piano sound.
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  216.  @erikvelasco7718  Also JPJ's bass playing on What Is is just fantastic and totally blew me away the first time I really listened to it in headphones.
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  217.  @clivehorridge  Actually I'm not; I never heard of John Peel until a few years ago. He wasn't well-known in the US when I was growing up.
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  218. Wow, never noticed that deliberately out of tune stuff, it's genius! ATDI and Mars Volta are bands that really deserve this kind of breakdown, lots of thought went into their music. Watching this with a huge smile on my face, I'd almost forgotten how much I love this band's music.
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  219. The solo at the end of A Forest by The Cure. Daryl Sturmer's work on Easy Lover by Phillip Bailey and Phil Collins.
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  220. The Police always sounded great in headphones. We also used to play it to test out car stereos, too. Especially Wrapped Around Your Finger with that deep bass and sparkly cymbals.
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  221. That tone is pure Rickenbacker love.
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  222. Kind of like the singer from Echo and the Bunnymen, too, another 80s iconic voice.
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  223.  @domonicdecoco2410  I disagree. The albums without Ward sound very different, especially the last album, which really missed Ward's swingy feel. Furthermore I believe no guitarist can carry a band on his own; even Hendrix benefitted greatly from Mitch Mitchell's killer drumming. Guys like Malmsteen bore me to death.
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  224. Well, I was going to do something else, but this video popped into my feed, so...
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  225.  @nicholashylton6857  Also, a sequencer isn't the same thing as a backing track, and many synth parts are meant to be played on a sequencer to begin with. I saw Rush 6 or 7 times, and they never used a backing track to fill in for synth parts that were played by hand, Geddy always played them himself, while playing bass pedals with his feet. And Alex never tracked in a second guitar part during solos, they just rolled with it and Geddy filled in the space with his bass.
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  226.  @robin_holden  A Hitler joke? I did Nazi that coming!
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  227.  @DaveJLamar  Nope, not even close to being true. 80s Rush doesn't sound anything like 80s synth pop or anything like 80s blues or anything like 80s hair metal. I don't know if you are old enough to remember the 80s but it wasn't just a bunch of synthwave tracks and a Ferrari driving over a pink grid pattern.
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  228. I would love to see a breakdown of Lifeson's solos from any songs on the Grace Under Pressure album. Not often thought of as a "guitar rock" album, but if you actually listen to it is has great guitar work; a great riff on Kid Gloves and the solo on Between the Wheels just kills. In fact, Between the Wheels as a whole is just a fantastic song, one of the best deep cuts of any Rush album, right down to the drum beat ending.
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  229. It's also fairly common in jazz recordings from the 50s and 60s to hear musicians vocalizing in the background, yelling, laughing, or grunting in between breaths while playing horns, etc. Most of those recordings were done by having the band just play live in the studio and using the best takes.
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  230.  @bobbyfonts3486  David Gilmour also sings along to his guitar parts often.
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  231.  @jdenino6022  Yes, and unless you drive an older car your car is reporting data to the manufacturer as well. All this tech is designed to make life easier for us by making us a product to be mined.
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  232. I try to keep an ear to the rail when it comes to music, but it has occurred to me that I hardly know any of these names, and have little interest in hearing their tunes. If you go to their youtube videos they have millions of views, yet somehow their very existence passes me by unless they make it into a news headline. I never wanted to be one of those people who becomes totally disconnected with younger pop culture as I grow older but it seems like you can't help it. I listen to a lot of newer bands, but none of them will ever chart. And I guess I'm okay with that.
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  233.  @Frankincensedjb123 With speech-to-text technology you can write posts and practice music at the same time.
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  234.  @mightyV444  Geddy's Rickenbacker bass tone in those days was amazing, it had a kind of chime and grumble to it that he has never topped. I really wished he had used that bass and rig on Clockwork Angels.
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  235. Just off the top of my head: NIB (Bassically) - Black Sabbath Come Together - Beatles Believer - Ozzy Osbourne No More Tears - Ozzy Osbourne Rain When I Die - Alice in Chains Cygnus X-1 Part 1 - Rush Does It Really Happen - Yes Money - Pink Floyd
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  236. I think google's creepy present is worst than their creepy past.
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  237. Technically his Replicas album is under his band's name: Tubeway Army, so even though it is full of great tracks it's not strictly a Numan solo album. As for his newer stuff, I love some of it. He was a major influence on Trent Reznor of NIN and now NIN is a major influence on Numan.
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  238. Or Ray Manzarek's organ in Riders On the Storm
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  239. Leave Britney alone!
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  240. The live version of that song from All the World's a Stage is brain-shatteringly awesome.
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  241. @Luke It is censorship when you are protected by fair use. Educate yourself before posting next time.
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  242. I notice a lot of these picks are from the late 70s / early 80s, and they remind me in style and tone, of Neil Schon's work with Journey. Schon was highly rated, of course, but some of Journey's deep cuts from Escape and Frontiers have awesome guitar work. There's also Alex Lifeson's solos from the 1984 album Grace Under Pressure, which often gets overlooked as a synth album when, if you listen to it, is really a guitar masterwork by Lifeson. Check out his solo on Between the Wheels, an obscure Rush song that really deserves to be well known.
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  243. Hmm...if only there were a website where I could easily and quickly find tons of videos of Steve Vai playing guitar... j/k dude, you're right lol
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  244. Dazed and Confused was a Yardbirds song, that Jimmy brought with him when he formed Zeppelin. There is a video out there of the Yardbirds performing it. As with all these "stolen" songs, the Zeppelin version is far superior, and if was stolen, I'm glad they did.
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  245. Someday when you're old enough, you'll understand.
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  246. 1:00 That is one of the most 'Murka in the 70s photos ever taken.
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  247. It's called the "Dembow Riddim" and it's super annoying.
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  248. So you like your bass tones the way you like your women: thick?
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  249. Frankly I was expecting more than just one Zep song, but it did get to number one so yeah.
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  250. Money is weird because it's a blues in 7/4 with a straight 4/4 on the guitar solo. The sax solo is in 7 though.
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  251. Chris Squire's bass tone is the gold standard for me. That lineup of Yes was unbeatable. And I never realized that guitar part was backwards, wow!
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  252.  @MJ-xk5ts  Highlight it and hit CTL-C?
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  253.  @BillMellow  1984 is such a killer album, the last true VH album and one of the greatest rock albums of the 80s.
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  254.  @lueysixty-six7300  Last I heard he owned an arena football team in Philadelphia lol.
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  255. I'm jealous of anyone who got to see Zep live. Savor it!
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  256. Tool managed to go 13 years between records and when the new one came out in 2019 it was a pretty big deal. When I went to the show it was a lot of dads bringing their kids, which was kind of weird to a GenX'r like me. A Tool show in the early 90s was a dirty mosh pit of teens and 20-somethings and nobody in their right mind would take a child there.
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  257.  @robertmellang6998  Gonna take an awful lot to beat that Apple rant.
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  258.  @kingoftheworld5753 So why didn't Perry have one just like him?
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  259. I think you can hear it during the triplets in Moby Dick, too. Been a while since I listened to it, but I remember hearing it in more than one place.
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  260.  @jimfritz9503  The music from "The Thing" 1982 is as terrifying as the movie.
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  261. Right on.
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  262. I grew to hate this song back in the day, too, but if you listen to the whole album, it's good in context. Same goes for songs like Stairway to Heaven or Money; they are on such awesome albums they sound good again.
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  263. Only on days when it's not Sabbath riffs.
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  264.  @jessejordache1869  Or into a church parking lot.
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  265. He can probably even do it without his pants (but I for one would prefer not to see that on his channel).
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  266. The bass line is what makes Down in a Hole stand out. Especially if you listen to the unplugged version.
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  267. Logan Beato
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  268. Great video, love the bass! Of course we could argue about this all day. For example, I love JPJ's bass parts on stuff like Ramble On, but always thought the tone was dead and muddy. My favorite JPJ bass tone would be from Achilles Last Stand or Nobody's Fault But Mine. And Geddy? His Rickenbacker tones are the best to me, especially on the Hemispheres and Farewell to Kings albums. Cinderella Man and Circumstances are still killer crushing bass tones, and of course that riff during the guitar solo in The Necromancer is one of the heaviest things Rush ever did.
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  269. 80s kid here. I try to forget that movie existed lol
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  270. What Makes This Bassist/Musician Great
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  271.  @Zundfolge  Sure, but making enough money is almost as hard as getting famous. And while it's probably true that many artists don't care about becoming gigantic celebrity famous, it would be nice to at least be an influence on future music rather than just being completely forgotten about the moment you quit or die. Not everyone gets to be JS Bach unfortunately.
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  272.  @Markle2k  No, we didn't.
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  273. FrF Grace Under Pressure is one of their best albums, very underrated. When it came out in 1984 a lot of their old school 70s fans didn't like it because it was too synthy and 80s sounding but it is a masterpiece.
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  274.  @RogerBiwandu  Clearly you aren't getting the reference.
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  275.  Jim lastname  Sorry for triggering you. I'll send some cookies and a comfort puppy to your safe space and we'll call it even.
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  276. That latin beat is called the "Dem Bow Riddim" and it's been around forever. Apparently original thoughts are not values in that genre. I always liked how hiphop is all about coming up with new beats, but whatever that Latin genre is called these days is just monotonous.
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  277. Charo, now there's a blast from the past. Cuchi Cuchi!
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  278.  @sister_bertrille911  She's more talented than Neil Young skill wise for sure.
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  279. Just for fun somebody should autotune a Rick Beato monolog, like all those "autotune the news" videos ten years ago lol.
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  280. OMG I almost forgot about those Shreds vids! About Whiplash, though, the thing about movies like this is that musicians were going to hate on it no matter how "realistic" it was. This is not a movie for snobs and nitpickers of technical details, it's a movie that uses a fictional music school setting to tell a good story about obsession on the part of both a student and his teacher, and how destructive it can be. Fletcher is obviously a manipulative, abusive jerk, but Neiman is also a horrible person, and actually chooses to be so, showing his family disrespect, ditching his girlfriend as an abstraction, and deliberately buying into Fletcher's worldview, almost like Anakin Skywalker choosing to follow Palpatine. He deliberately lets Fletcher help him ruin his life for the dream of being the greatest drummer. It is pretty funny that he admires Buddy Rich, who was a top notch asshat in real life, as abusive as Fletcher and an opinionated jerk to boot. Anyway, it's not a movie for musicians. Nobody cares what musicians think. It's a movie for people who love good storytelling.
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  281.  @JonathanNagel  How is Fugazi not a rock band?
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  282.  @jupitard  Punk rock is, by definition, rock.
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  283.  @ArchieOnEarth  Same
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  284. I'm happy to see Triumph not getting left out. Such a great band.
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  285. I played once with a guitarist who was always too loud and would get all butthurt when the venue asked him to turn down. If people are holding their ears and leaving when you play, you need to get a clue. That counts for rehearsal; I shouldn't need a hearing exam after every practice. On top of that he once broke a string on a Strat and tried to finish the song with his guitar horribly out of tune, then we had to stop and wait for him to change a string and tune up, on stage, at full volume. I was so embarrassed I almost quit the band on the spot. Fortunately he quit not long after that. How many pet peeves is that? Here's another one: I play bass, and I've had idiot guitarists tell me my bass is too loud, even when my amp is turned off. Here's another one: young metalhead guitarists who want to shred like Yngwie but can't play a simple 12 bar blues.
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  286. Stuff like this keeps this channel alive and interesting. I'll probably never play Pat Matheny's guitar stuff, but I enjoy studying chords, and I enjoy watching Rick geek out over it.
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  287. Ligeti for the win.
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  288. This is awesome, actually having one of the band members in the vid. Now, do this with Alex Lifeson! I really didn't know much about this band, but it reminds me of some of the best 80s metal, the beat, vocals, harmonized guitars, and that bass tone is like Queensryche on one of their good days.
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  289.  @genephillips4809  Right. Then, in a couple of years, when ads start showing up on Premium, you can upgrade to "Super Premium" and on and on.
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  290. After the Fire's cover of Der Kommissar needs to be on this list. The writer, Falco, was pretty well known, but his best song became a hit in the US when it was covered.
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  291. Even better, Geddy's Ric live tone on, say, Exit Stage Left, or his studio tone on Circumstances. Legendary bass sound, wish he had never quit using that bass. Let me also add the tone from Countdown, the last Rush studio track to feature Geddy's Rickenbacker, and a glorious tone it is.
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  292.  @mightyV444  As I've grown older I appreciate Grace Under Pressure more and more as the masterpiece that it is. It's now one of my favorite albums and represents that part of the 80s perfectly. The bright sound and the dark themes and the sophisticated music that puts it above most of the New Wave era.
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  293. I always thought one the things that makes Hell's Bells a great song was that steady A under the main riff, which is played on guitar at the beginning and then the bass line picks it up, it ground the song and drives it like an unstoppable freight train. Also, that piece in the beginning of this vid? Can we all agree that J.S. Bach is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, musicians of all time? Can you imagine how awesome it would be for him to be alive today doing movie soundtracks and stuff? Bach never fails to make my hair stand on end.
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  294. Can Rick actually play that bad?
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  295. Surprised to see so many decent tracks for once.
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  296. Dazed and Confused was a Yardbirds cover, which was Page's old band. He started Led Zeppelin as a way of restarting the Yardbirds but they changed their name to Led Zeppelin and became a new band.
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  297. My band covered this song and I don't think any of us really noticed all these little details, this is great. I play bass, so I don't really pay too much attention to the guitar parts, but it's fascinating to see what that second rhythm guitar is doing, playing the third on the E chord, and the whole thing with the delay on the piano is fantastic. Thanks for helping us get through Quarantine 2020, Rick!
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  298.  @mightyV444  I don't think Moving Pictures is all Jazz, is it? I thought for sure Camera Eye is a Rickenbacker, and maybe Red Barchetta? Sounds like it anyway. As far as I've heard, his last studio use of the Rickenbacker was on Signals. Subdivisions, Analog Kid, and Countdown are Rickenbacker. I think the rest is the Jazz. Exit Stage Left there is no question, a sublime sound.
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  299. Well, she is a huge figure in modern jazz. And also a killer bass player.
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  300. A Lerxst fan thread? Count me in! And my pick for obscure Lifeson solo would be Between the Wheels.
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  301.  @timothyreff6750  Yeah, lots of Tool songs. Sober is a great one, too, bass chord city on a Rickenbacker!
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  302. Love Carmen's voice. One of the best ever Beato vids was when you had her and her I9 guitarist on singing live. Made my hair stand on end.
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  303. The Eagles should get exactly what they want: zero mentions, zero attention. Let them be forgotten by the Internet.
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  304. Also, Sleep is a great power trio.
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  305.  @tinaturnerization  "Whispers when she sings" Yeah, aside from the fact that you didn't pay attention to the video, which is filled with conventional singing, whispering into a mic is great if you can make it work, it's one of the great things about electric amplification. And Kurt was great, but he wasn't that much more special than any other rock star in the end. He had great talent, but deification is not healthy. Let's hope Eilish avoids the depression issues he had.
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  306. Oasis and other Britpop bands are kind of in a different category, because they were very far separate from the American Seattle grunge scene and also from the LA bands like Tool. Oasis & Blur mostly had their fanbase in the UK. I was in high school in the 80s and I remember all of this happening in my early 20s. By the end of the 80s I was so sick of "glam metal" (we didn't call it hair metal until later) and was glad to hear new stuff, but I hated how the music industry just overnight killed off all the good along with the bad. Alt rock didn't get big on its own, it was made big by those running the business, and in 2000 it was made irrelevant by the same business.
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  307. 2:38 The cover art on that Cityscape album is awesome.
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  308. There is a punk band from Philadelphia called Spinechain who killed live when I saw them some years ago. I don't know if they are still around but I'd love to see them get some traction.
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  309.  @n0n1337h41  Thanks, and yeah, I figured as much. TANSTAAFL
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  310. 74 Jailbreak
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  311. Look up a 70s band called Fanny. They were awesome and should've been huge.
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  312. Radio back in the 80s and early 90s was so much better. I used to work midnight shift and the rock stations would play deep cuts and longer songs at 2 AM, prog rock and instrumental stuff and stuff that hadn't been heard in years. And if you drove around the US, every city's stations were different and each city had a different "radio personality". New York sounded different than Philadelphia which sounded different than Baltimore or DC. Now it's all the same. You have to search the internet to find good music, but streaming is not the same as a radio broadcast. With radio, you know there are people in the cars around you listening to the same thing you are.
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  313.  @tinyb69  Nice.
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  314. Once again, Rick, another great interview. I never knew Andy played in Soft Machine, going to have to look that up.
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  315.  @resignator  Disagree strongly.
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  316. Yes, it's fun to watch Yngwie play fast. For like a minute. But ask a random person to name a single Yngwie song, then ask them to name as many Pink Floyd songs as they can. I can think of like 25 immediately. Virtuosity is not the same as musicality, and unlike the Olympics, music is an art, not an athletic event.
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  317. I'd love to see Rick do one on Echoes. To me that's my favorite Floyd tune. Especially the Live at Pompeii version, that's pure music heaven right there.
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  318. Would be funny if Rick Beato Live turned out to be a Blocker and blocked the Rick Beato channel.
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  319.  @TheSanityInspector  Exactly. Tons of good music out there but you have to put effort into finding what you want.
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  320. He has so many not-normal guitar solos to pick from. Afterimage from Grace Under Pressure is a solo played pretty much with just chords, and sounds so good.
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  321.  @dcurry7287  Nick seems like the easiest one to get along with, but he's also protective of the Floyd's catalog. If he thought you were actually infringing I imagine he'd take action. I think Rick need not fear Mr. Mason. Record companies on the other hand...
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  322. So many Tool songs to pick from.
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  323. What makes this song great? It's Rush lol. It's a rainy morning where I'm at, but this makes my morning mood!
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  324. Great breakdown, and lets me see the song in a different light. I remember when this song was all over the radio. Great instrumentation but I could never stand that guy's voice and all that rap rock stuff was so irritating to me, like Limp Bizkit. Too bad, because the bass and guitar on this song sound awesome.
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  325. If I had a time machine one of the things I would do with it is give JS Bach a rack of synthesizer gear to do what he wants with.
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  326. Hendrix thought of Clapton as his guitar god. I don't think people today get how highly regarded Clapton was in the 60s, probably thanks to some of the weaker pop stuff he's put out since the 80s, but part of Hendrix's agreement to go to England was that he got to meet and jam with Clapton.
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  327. Kind of like how Geddy Lee's ability to scream was shot by the early 80s.
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  328. They're dyslexic and hit the wrong button is all.
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  329.  @eduardoGentile720  Well, they are the kings now that Rush is retired ;-)
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  330. You're missing Video Killed the Radio Star by The Buggles, 1979! This song is very important as it kickstarted the 80s and the video was the very first video MTV ever showed. Like Numan's Cars, it gets listed as an 80s hit but it's really a 70s song.
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  331. The live in France 1970 version of Warpigs is basically Bill Ward destroying the world. Awesome.
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  332. When I started playing bass as a teenager in the 80s my rig was a cheap Acoustic solid state head through a Peavey 2x15 cabinet. Wasn't the greatest sound in the world but it kept up with our guitarists, who were using pretty big rigs, one had an old Fender tube head and a 4x12 cabinet with Celestion speakers. If you touched his guitar strings it would shock you. Safety lol. My heavy Peavey bass cabinet was a bitch to haul up and down stairs but I did it regularly. We were not particularly loud as teenage bands in the 80s went. Now I'm in a band in 2019 and the guitar players are using 30-ish watt combos that get mic'd up, and my bass rig is an Ampeg Portaflex with a 2x10 cabinet. We sometimes get asked to turn down. In the 80s we got asked to crank everything.
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  333. "I rarely buy guitars." says the guy with a room full of guitars lol
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  334. Same
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  335. TikTok is Chinese communist spyware designed to gather personal information while spreading stupidity in the western world.
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  336. I'd be more interested in how they write crazy stuff like this, but yeah, this too. That said, Justin Chancellor is famous for keeping his pedal board secret. He reportedly puts unused pedals on his board as decoys so that photographing it won't tell you how he gets his bass sound lol.
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  337. You may not be a huge country fan, and that's probably why you liked it.
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  338. Similar thing with Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler's Sabbath riffs. The guitar riffs don't sound quite right without the bass filling in the missing part of the sound.
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  339. When I saw the title I was afraid you were gonna tell us you got a DUI or something serious!
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  340. First time I heard Imagine Dragons Radioactive on the radio I knew music was in trouble. They sound like a cheesy car commercial. Way overproduced and unnatural sounding, not like you'd imagine a real rock band sounding live at all. And since then our local "rock" radio station is chock full of this kind of slickly produced schlocky garbage. I'm sure the guys in that band are talented and all, but I tried hard to find something to like about it and just can't.
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  341.  @solcalsteve198  There's no such thing as free.
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  342.  @twisantigo  So was her mom attractive? And did it become awkward when the song came on in her presence?
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  343. I figured Alex Lifeson would pop up somewhere on this list, wasn't wrong.
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  344.  @srgntpepper9855  Pink Floyd were hugely influenced by the Beatles. I remember seeing an interview with one of them, Roger Waters I think, where he said that when Sgt. Pepper album was released they played it on the radio and Floyd were touring in a van, said they pulled over to the side of the road and listened to it.
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  345.  @dareangelmusic  The drummer in my band uses his smart phone. I don't know if he started doing it on purpose or just out of habit of taking his phone out whenever he sits down, but it works for him lol.
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  346. They are definitely young and ill-informed. Rolling Stone has always been all about what's trendy, not what's good.
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  347. I"m confused because the titles of some of your videos seem to change once or twice in the first day or so.
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  348. It's like whiskey or anything else, you develop a taste for it over time, starting with that one jazz tune that catches your attention. For me it was Take Five by the Brubeck Quartet; that album was my gateway to all kinds of jazz. But I'm still a rock guy mainly.
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  349. Dave Jerden is wearing the Beato uniform in that pic at 0:37
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  350. B-52s are awesome. I'd listen to Planet Claire over this any day. Awaiting the comments insulting my taste.
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  351. It is a mind melting solo but doesn't fit this list. If that were the only song Rush ever published it would still make Alex Lifeson a guitar god.
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  352. Rock and roll piano? The Killer, Jerry Lee Lewis for one. Little Richard wasn't too shabby either. Piano was much more prominent in rock's early days. One of my favorite rock pianists you may never have heard of is Nickey Barclay of the all-girl 70s band Fanny. There is a live in studio video around here somewhere and she absolutely kills on keys and vocals.
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  353.  @stefaniadangila3017  The thing about Fairies Wear Boots is that you don't have to play the intro bass line note for note exactly the way Geezer played it, you can improvise it to some extent. But it's good to learn every note he played just to see how he was thinking when he did it.
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  354. 1:10 Al violates Rick's "no clip-on tuner" rule. Can the universe handle it!
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  355. I saw the Who live once in the late 80s, front row seats. Kenny Jones was drumming at the time. Awe-inspiring show, great stage show, and super loud. Something I'll never forget.
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  356. Iommi's strength has always been creating the almighty riff. His sound is also great and heavy, but that guy is just a riff-writing machine. A lot of Sabbath songs aren't built around just one riff, they're built around three or four legendary riffs just in each song. And he's done this for decades, album after album, even when it's a song you don't like, the riff is still kickass.
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  357.  @MetallicAddict15  I don't know, good question. I mean, I never met you, don't know what you look like even, and yet for some reason I already don't like you. Weird, isn't it?
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  358. "One of the best songs of the past decade, Clarity..." Me thinking: You mean the doom metal song by Sleep? Doh...
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  359. Always good to see Ringo getting some respect.
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  360. THat last category I knew you were going to mention Andy Summers and Edge, first guys I think of when I think of soundscape guitarists. And Andy Summers in the late 70s hugely influenced Alex Lifeson as well, who has never been afraid to pay attention to what other bands are doing, even though Rush is technically older than The Police.
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  361. It was all that and a bag of chips somewhere around 100 episodes ago.
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  362. "If you take your guitar into the woods and play badly where no one can hear, do you still suck?" - Pat Metheny 2021
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  363. I love that theme and how they used it again in The Animated Series.
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  364. Royal Blood is all bass guitar through octave up pedals to get a guitarish sound IIRC. Kind of a cool 2-man band.
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  365. It's by far the worst song on an otherwise killer album, and possibly the worst VH song ever, but it certainly is a well-known anthem.
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  366. Love Renaissance!
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  367. At least Steward Copeland plays a real hi hat.
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  368. @laser325 you forgot the important part "in my opinion"
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  369. Fu Manchu
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  370. Well, there's been enough discussion about the death of rock. Fun to talk about but kind of sad and distracts us from making music. Time to start looking at the bright side and motivate ourselves. I play in a rock band with a bunch of guys younger than me and we see a fair amount of younger people at shows so it's not like it's completely dead. We do shows with other bands that have lots of talent, we record stuff for far less than it once would've cost. It may not be like the heyday of the 80s anymore but it's still a real thing. EDM or other electronic music may be huge, but it is never going to be as much fun as jamming with a group of people and forming a band, which is more than just a collection of musicians; it's a team trying to achieve a goal together. So what if it's all underground now, that's part of what makes it cool now.
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  371. Somewhere between the bright lights and the far unlit unknown, maybe?
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  372.  @ExasBits  Because your average sports fan has bad taste in music.
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  373. This is an awesome interview. And given Metallica's fan base, Rick's gonna get a TON of views.
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  374. "Why didn't they use real drums?" Because record companies and producers.
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  375.  @legalize.brokkoli  Often it starts riots and wars and gets a lot of people killed, too.
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  376. Both Closer to the Heart and this song were huge radio hits. Sorry you're too cool to like only the deep cuts, but there's a reason these songs got, and still get, so much air play.
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  377. Could also be a reference to OK Boomer.
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  378. Sony MDR-7506 is my current favorite pair. Oldie but goodie. Generally speaking, I've never had any complaints about Sony's higher end headphones/earbuds, going back to the 80s. I still have my MDR-40 headphones from 1984 but I need to repair them since they are so abused. Good value for the price.
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  379. "How Rick Beato makes a song great"
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  380. I think a lot of pop songs use basic melodic phrases which are easy to accidentally copy, lots of songs use these three chords (I, IV, and V), and lots of songs have this kind of disco style rhythm. But to put them all together in such a way that it sounds this close to another song? Gonna be difficult to argue that's a mere coincidence.
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  381.  @JeffBostick222  Oh, gotcha.
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  382. @ThomasMeeson He is truly an artist of some time.
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  383.  @escobar64  Or maybe it all sounds the same to him. Insulting him isn't going to make him waste more time on music he doesn't like.
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  384.  @davearonow65  Yngwie does seem to be overinflating a bit as he gets older, come to think of it.
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  385. Mongoloid is perfectly in keeping with the theme of the band and that first album especially. The idea that an artist can't get away with his art anymore is a pretty sad one.
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  386.  @autury-5703  Seriously, let's hear it for fake music, amarite?
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  387. Yeah in the interview he said he thought he overstepped and was gonna have to do another take.
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  388.  @jaschul  You know everybody seems to think that Rick hates this or that band or whatever, but be fair: rock is a HUGE genre with about a 70 year history at this point, even a guy who swims in music like Rick isn't going to cover everyone's favorite band in a tiny list of 20+ examples.
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  389. "Not quite my tempo."
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  390. My favorite bands like Rush and Tool are always cool with people doing teaching videos and instrument covers and so on, while people I dislike such as Don Henley and Axl Rose are just too shortsighted and greedy to know what's good for them. Kind of makes me feel good about the bands I choose to listen to and the ones I never really liked.
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  391. Enshittification
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  392. How about Party All the Time by Eddie Murphy
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  393. Either you can stay relevant by being honest, or you can fail at it by trying too hard. I always think of how Rush ended, with a final well-made concept prog rock album. They weren't worried about trying to stay relevant (whatever that means anymore), they just set out to make a good album like always. The fans gave them an A+, they toured twice and Neil Peart called it a career. Honest and real.
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  394. I think trios are the easiest rock bands to form. It's the fewest people you need to be functional and more people makes it harder to organize and split pay and so on. My own band is supposed to be a four piece, sometimes we have a fifth member, but the core of the band is guitar/singer, drums, and bass. Keeping a band together is hard when nobody wants to pay for music anymore, so most of the time when we play out it's just the three of us, and we write all the songs and arrange them for a trio mostly, so the trio is the natural result.
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  395. Chrome? By the same people who own YouTube? lol
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  396.  @gmill7911  I saw Pentagram a few years ago and the guitarist was playing an Epiphone ES335, sounded great.
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  397. Look up his djent video, where he answers the question, "But can Rick djent?". Spoiler: the answer is yes.
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  398. I like how his tone changed over time, too. On the last Sabbath album, 13, he had a much more modern clanky gritty tone while his early stuff was fuzz city.
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  399. Juice makers gotta eat too.
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  400.  @willbowling3744  "Boomer take"? Chart numbers don't lie, sonny boy.
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  401. So glad to see someone mention Joe Morello for a change. Brubeck Quartet without and with Joe was like night and day.
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  402. I wanted to see Alex Lifeson do it. That would be different.
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  403.  @mightyV444  That's the Rush magic, the guitar solos have lots of space in them and suddenly the bass and drums pop out even stronger. Another thing I notice is that even though Lifeson changed his gear and style over the years, there's always something about his sound that only sounds like Alex Lifeson, from the first album in 1974 to whatever he's doing today.
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  404. I also miss the old chalupa with the ranch dressing for whatever was on it.
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  405. Yes, and they were right. The chart in 78 was way better than the chart in 98. If we're talking top 40 charts here, and we are, then absolutely music today sucks. If you're talking about music in general, which you have to dig around the net to find, then music today is certainly doing fine, it's a golden age for listeners who don't mind a little searching around.
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  406. Prog metal: "metal kids who were into Yes" Perfect description.
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  407. Tremendous interview, Rick, eagerly awaiting part 2!
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  408. Didn't Stu leave the band before they changed their name from The Quarrymen?
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  409. It's that boosted mid range guitar tone Eddie uses. It's not necessarily the best for all rock, but it's perfect for the kind of music VH made.
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  410. I'm confused because there was no BASS at the end...
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  411.  @mightyV444  Yeah, he is shown with the Ric in the music video, but music videos are often not representative of the gear used on the track. Knowing the album is split between the Jazz and the Ric, if I had to guess I'd say Tom Sawyer was a Jazz tune, the bass is darker and less aggressive sounding than his Rickenbacker. In more recent years he buries the Jazz tone in overdrive and people think it sounds like the Ric but it never did to me really. If you bury a bass under enough distortion they all start to sound similar. I saw them on they're last tour and Geddy used like 15 different basses through the same stage rig, including a Ric 4001, a 4005 export model hollowbody, a 4080 doubleneck, and a bunch of Jazzes, as well as a Precision and even some Gibsons. Every one of them sounded different. But the solid body Rickenbackers were the best.
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  412. The only Bon Jovi song I think I actually like. Okay, maybe Runaway is also good.
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  413.  @fenderstratocastertelecast8479  Never forget: Rush is Alex's band, he started it in his bedroom as a teenager in the first place and had the smarts to gather a bassist and drummer who were good enough to be in it!
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  414. How much of the Police's sophistication was due to Andy Summers? I think he is more of an old school early 70s rock guitarist, but he really seemed to stretch out in the post-punk/new wave era when he teamed up with Sting and Copeland.
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  415. And since you brought it up, Chemistry is also a great Rush song, a deep cut from the Signals album.
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  416. It's not like Rick is charging you money to watch it.
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  417.  @althejazzman  Rick understands that we want to hear the guy being interviewed, not the guy doing the interview.
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  418. It takes bands I didn't really like and gives me reason to go back and give another listen.
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  419. And Kubrick was right to do so, since the result was almost perfect. He was also right to blow off Steven King during the making of the Shining, as King himself would later prove by embarrassing himself with that awful SyFy channel remake.
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  420. That AI Rick voice is creepy af. Why are we creating this world.
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  421. Howzabout Necromancer by Rush?
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  422. Wow, you guys sound great, Rick.
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  423. Is there a downside to Adblock? Do you have to pay a fee? Does it put spyware on you or track you? What's in it for the Adblock people?
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  424. Really surprised one of you three didn't call out the Stratocaster. As a bass player I always thought Strats were cool and one day I got me one. I just think of all those legendary guitarists who used them, Hendrix, Buddy Holly, David Gilmour, SRV, Clapton. Even guys who aren't known for being Strat guys have used them at least occasionally, Alex Lifeson comes to mind.
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  425. Living vicariously through video games you say? Vicariously we live while the whole world dies much better you than I - Maynard Keenan
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  426. 8:22 that Brad Mehldau cover of Tom Sawyer is quite the thing.
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  427. So sad to hear this. So good to hear Rick paying tribute.
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  428. Bonus SRV clip, love it! I remember where I was when I read that SRV had died.
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  429. Rick, you should let Glenn Fricker translate your awesome rants to metalhead language. Basically the same stuff with lots of F bombs and screaming.
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  430. More bass stuff, please, Rick, we're not all guitar players out here, and this was great!
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  431. He used the term incorrectly. A microphonic pickup is when the glue holding the magnet and the windings together loosens up and vibrates, making the pickup act like a microphone. If you yell at it you can hear your voice through the amp. That's not a good thing and when it happens it needs to be fixed. Can cause feedback problems and stuff.
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  432.  @chasethedragon  You know, not a Kiss fan here at all, but Simmons is actually a decent bass player, among other things.
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  433. In every painting of Bach he is wearing a black top. Beato uniform precursor? Bach also never used a clip-on tuner.
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  434. Ahem...have we all forgotten the great Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up? TO this day bringing joy to the Internet like no other!
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  435. Black Sabbath needs a mention here. So many of their songs change up in mid-song, usually from one bone-crushing riff to a new one. Electric Funeral, Hand of Doom, Into the Void, Fairies Wear Boots, Iron Man, the list just goes on and on and it's all awesome.
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  436. Question Rick: is the guitar solo played and then reversed from end to beginning, or did Fruscianti play it forwards and then each note was reversed individually? I was kind of hoping you'd play it backwards for us. I've heard this song a million times and once again you've given me reason to really pay it more attention again.
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  437. What is this you speak of? Link?
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  438. A 2 year wait to play on that stage? Wow. A lot of bands don't even last that long.
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  439. You took down the subsequent rant video?
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  440. That's it. I'm buying this album.
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  441.  @kospandx  Yes, if I stick to a subculture, I can skew the results. But that fact is I am an 80s metalhead, I even own an Yngwie record from back then, and I can't name a single song off of it from memory. After I bought it I regretted it. Great guitar playing, boring songs. To make matters worse, he picked an awful singer for his band.
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  442.  @judu2b  You're smart, huh? Make a better comparison. Don't forget to upvote your own comment again.
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  443.  @kospandx  Agree to disagree. Also, "patently false" implies that you have some sort of research to back that up. I doubt it, and have none of my own, other than the fact that aside from my musician friends I can't think of anyone I've ever met who's even heard of Yngwie. It's not real data, just anecdotal.
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  444.  @judu2b  Of course I'm speaking for myself. DO you think you are going to change my mind in a youtube comment argument? Is it really that important to you that I agree with you? I don't like Malmsteen's music, regardless of how much of a shredder he is, and you typing at me all night isn't going to change that.
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  445. I kinda want a Rigby Otto t shirt now.
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  446. Advertising has been shown to work, and work very well, for a good century and a half or so. Companies pay a ton of money for ads for a reason. The fact that I can watch youtube videos for free makes me okay with some advertising of some sort, but this is deliberately obnoxious and is aimed more at getting you to pay for YouTube Premium than it is at advertising per se.
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  447. Also, where's Children of the Sun by Billy Thorpe?! Killer guitar riff, one of those songs that makes you instantly reach to crank the volume all the way up.
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  448. I'd like to see an early Paul D'Amour Tool song, like Intolerance.
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  449. 3 Days Grace, now there's a name I haven't heard since...
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  450. I think that Different Strings by Rush cheated itself out of making this list when they faded the outro solo just as Alex Lifeson was winding up to face-melting mode.
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  451. Also an 80s teen bass player here; I listened to a lot of Rush in the 80s for the same reason lol
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  452. Is C maj over F a Csus4 inverted? Are they related?
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  453. This video just makes me smile.
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  454. Well I guess if you can't make enough money by selling your poor quality controlled guitars, may as well try your hand in the lawsuit lottery.
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  455. All this machinery, making modern music, can still be open-hearted Not so coldly charted, it's really just a question of your honesty, yeah your honesty! - Neil Peart
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  456. 10:51 Rick throws together a quick demo piece and a video that blows away anything I've ever tried to do lol.
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  457. The focus is on guitar heroes, but the problem is that rock as we knew it 30 or 40 years ago isn't the cultural force it once was. Pop music used to consist of a fair amount of rock, now it's moved on to lighter fare. Rock, like jazz, is becoming a niche or underground movement. Like jazz, it's still hugely popular with a large segment of the population, but it's not the top of the hill anymore.
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  458. Condolences, Rick. (Or should we call you "Richard" for a while?)
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  459. Rick's shoes
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  460. The SG will forever be associated with Tony Iommi in my mind.
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  461. You should do a part 2 where you point out the things to pick out for someone who is listening to a tune like this for the first time. When I started listening to jazz I did what any fan does; I just played my favorite tracks over and over and each time I paid attention to a different part. Piano one time, bass line another time, the turnaround, etc.
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  462.  @roberthuffmann8204  Yeah Hendrix was known for Beatles covers. There's video somewhere of him doing a Beatles tune or two at a show.
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  463. Amazing interview.
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  464. 60 second video shorts on awesome guitar knowledge, 20 minutes on horrible overproduced pop.
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  465. The Taylor Swift song is okay, but it makes me want to go listen to "Cruel Summer" by Bananarama now, which remains a killer 80s pop song.
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  466. This tune encapsulates all that is iconic and cool about the early 1960s. Sex, style, surf rock, a bit of film noir, and the dashing agents we liked to imagine were fighting the Cold War behind the scenes.
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  467. I thought BAE stood for "British Aerospace-English Electric". But I'm old I guess.
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  468. Rush made 4 albums before they proved the public would pay for good heavy prog rock. Their third album sold so poorly they almost got dropped by the label. No way would a band like that NOT get dropped today. Also no way they'd let Peart write his own lyrics.
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  469. If you told me you were in a famous band and played this song for me I'd assume you had nothing to do with it except maybe singing. The whole thing sounds like it was created in software and uploaded to Bandcamp or Soundcloud.
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  470. This video needs to blow up, and this channel needs to blow up more.
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  471. William Murderface gets overlooked again! lol Great video, Rick, I hope you'll do a few more vids focusing on the role of bass in music.
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  472. Duster is another great slow-fi band that does this kind of stuff. RIP Mimi.
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  473. I love how you could've chosen any Tool song to demonstrate their odd time signatures, but you choose Die Eier Von Satan, which is one of their most off the wall hilarious tracks!
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  474. The consolidation of media companies has implications for society far beyond music. It's a major factor in what has gone on in the last year or so, and that's about as far as I want to go in this comment section.
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  475. I think I owned that Beck album in the 80s for some reason. Don't know why; I hated that Rod Stewart song and never listened to the record. Maybe my brother owned it or something, because I sure can't imagine why I'd buy something I disliked so much.
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  476. Or Maynard's Dick.
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  477. This is a really well-composed video and thoughtful commentary, Rick, those are all great points. I remember thinking years ago that streaming was causing us to revert to the days of the 45-rpm single, only this time without the cool physical media of a 45 record and sleeve. I think that even if a musician can't afford to have records or CDs printed, they should strive to make albums in digital form, complete with artwork and liner notes, etc. Of the bands I've played in, my favorite project was the one where I successfully pestered them to go in a studio and record an album. We did it for fairly cheap and it was a milestone when we finished it, we were all proud of what we had accomplished, and years later we have a tangible record of the times we spent writing and performing.
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  478. Pink Floyd Umma Gumma and Tangerine Dream Zeit! Love this guy's musical tastes.
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  479. Does she own the melodies and copyrights? Are the new versions actually covers of the old versions for which she must pay a fee?
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  480. That No. 1 track is cool, almost sounds as if they transported 70s Rush into the 90s and gave them a 90s producer.
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  481. My dad had this album years ago and I used to listen to it a lot. I'm not really a fan of Pat Metheny but at the time I thought this album was cool.
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  482. Rush's Limelight solo as played by David Gilmour
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  483. This is great. Hope to see some Alex Lifeson here someday.
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  484. Great video, Zeppelin might call it up in court, haha. Loving the Adam Neely-ish outro theme. Also: 3:20 Zeppelin-Beatles mashup: Page and McCartney need to make this happen NOW
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  485.  @j_freed  Her name is Merry Clayton, and I don't know where you heard that. She actually covered the song on her own album and she's been on youtube talking about working with the Stones.
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  486. I had problems seeing the last part of this video. I think there's something in my eye...
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  487. I was really young, didn't know about it until the next day when I walked to the school bus stop and one of my friends said, "You hear John Lennon got shot last night?" and I was like, "Oh. Who's that?" I had no idea who he was talking about. I remember it was really freaking cold out and there was snow and ice all around that morning.
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  488. Never thought I'd say this, but pick any random 80s hair metal band and they sound better than this list.
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  489. This is great, Rick. That stuff about the panned reverb is why I love this series. For decades we've all talked about how great the playing was in VH but without this video I never would've known about that studio magic.
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  490. I thought the Zeppelin song would be Whole Lotta Love but there are a dozen that'll do.
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  491. I count Marissa Paternoster of the Screaming Females as a guitar hero. She has chops and stage presence for days. The problem there is that rock bands like the Females won't ever play stadiums because the industry doesn't put them out there as pop stars the way they used to.
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  492.  @frantisekvtelensky820  Also, in her James Corden interview she sang in his car and yes, she can actually sing very well when it's called for. I wonder if Dan can sing as well.
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  493. I actually remember where I was the first time I heard this song. Driving up I-95 through Baltimore and it came on 98 Rock over my Blaupunkt car stereo. I had no idea who it was but I cranked it right up immediately. Been an AIC fan ever since.
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  494. The 2000's were the beginning of the end for rock as a mainstream genre. So many rock bands were riding the coattails of what remained of grunge and post-grunge and the production was starting to get really obnoxious in a way we hadn't seen since the hair metal days. Throw in the Loudness Wars and here we are in the 2020s struggling to find a decent rock radio station in major cities, inundated with mediocre pop songs produced by a committee of 25, snapped to grids, and autotuned to hell and back.
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  495. This video will be demonetized for the Eagles pie fight!
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  496. Awesome! Next, tell us about the Lifeson Chord. And then someday interview Alex Lifeson and ask him about it.
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  497. Boomer bends sounds like some kind of horrible scuba diving accident.
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  498. The down votes must be from the various piano repairmen and tuners who worked with Oscar.
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  499. For me, it was Niel Peart. The only celebrity loss I was really upset about, and still am.
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  500. @Nick Costa Your opinion reinforces my point about people today not understanding how important Clapton was back in the day.
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  501. @Nick Costa Well Jimi didn't think he was boring.
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  502. @Nick Costa And besides, I was trying to talk about a historical fact, when you decided to throw in your personal opinion and then start an internet argument over it. If you're really in your 50s you should know better than to act like such a child.
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  503. I remember the parody version: Eat Me I'm a Danish.
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  504. I remember how, about 10 or 15 years ago, rock music on the radio started to sound dry and repetitive, and every band had an annoying loud mouth singer and the music was all overproduced. It reminded me of how rock music got really stale in the late 80s, when all the hair metal bands were just rehashing each other and trying to see who could have the bigger party image than Motley Crue, before the grunge/alternative scene breathed new life into it. This video goes a long way to explaining how the later phenomena came to pass.
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  505. They really ad-bombed you on this one, Rick. I guess Eddy Vedder's gonna make some money off your vid.
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  506.  @RickBeato  I too lazy to use an ad blocker, so I just have to struggle through this. Getting harder these days the way youtube is going.
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  507.  @ethanbaum6776  Funny thing is I know a woman who is pretty good with the theremin but can't get used to playing a guitar or a piano.
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  508. Time for a new Beato=produced I9 album.
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  509. Right, so let's get this straight: small time youtubers who sample a few seconds of a 40 year old pop song for instructional purposes get demonetized or even copyright strikes, but super pop stars blatantly ripping off 40 year old songs almost note for note is just fine with youtube. Why? Because the pop star makes the record company money, and youtube does what the record companies want? That's complete BS. I'm so sick of this. Has anyone here heard of "February Filter Sweep"? Last year a youtuber was reviewing a new synthesizer and showing off the filter sweep function and his video got hit for copyright infringement because that one sound, not a melody or even a note, just a sound, was too close to a sound in some pop song. Earlier this year it happened again. This is insane, when does it stop?
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  510. Just here from the live stream...okay, end of vid. My opinion: Vox for the win. Too bad it has to be ear-splitting loud, but you can't beat that sound.
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  511. I'll say this for Guitar Hero etc., those games introduced a lot of younger people to music of past generations and gave a lot of 70s rock bands an uptick for a while. Maybe even got some kids interested in learning a real instrument once in a while.
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  512. BASS
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  513.  @kristopherloviska9042  At least it took some skill to paint Dogs Playing Poker. I can't draw that, anyway.
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  514.  @MicovskiMC  Rick says it's a real piano. You say it isn't. Guess which one of you I am going to believe.
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  515.  @disarmsox  Hey, I'm having an argument on the internet over here!
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  516. First song I remember learning was Distant Early Warning by Rush. On the bass. Because I decide from the start I wanted to play the bass. I was obsessed with bands with strong bassists like Rush and Yes, Led Zeppelin, Iron Maiden, and I worshipped guys like John Entwistle. Every kid I knew wanted to play guitar or maybe drums; I wanted to play bass. Worked out, too, in the 80s if you were a teenager who was competent on bass your phone rang off the hook with kids asking you to join their bands.
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  517. This is awesome, Rick, more New Wave / Post-Punk tunes, please! At least let's talk about on a live stream sometime. Some obscure great stuff from the 80s buried behind all these hit songs, too. Modern English's entire After the Snow Album, for example, or The Chameleons album Script of the Bridge. The 80s was so experimental and creative. Nobody knew what the future was going to be coming out of the 70s and all kinds of things were being thrown out there.
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  518. Rick, great job with the on-screen notation and color display, I don't know how you did that but it's a great visual aid. Also, that title, even though you mentioned this was coming on your live stream it still scared me a bit!
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  519. I always knew there was a synth pad there but never noticed it made those sci fi noises! I love the vast amounts of space the notes have to breath in this song, and the fact that it's not squashed to death with compression. Those ambient room noises actually make it better, more natural sounding. The Police were a great band who existed when analog recording was at its best.
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  520. Side B of Rush's Moving Pictures with songs like The Camera Eye and Vital Signs. The deep cuts from Signals like Chemistry and Countdown. Albums are essential for any real artist.
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  521. 1 million subs, congrats! Imagine, 1 million people who will never get informed about all those blocker bands Rick would love to tell us about. Don Henley thinks he is protecting his income by keeping his music in the dark, SMH.
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  522. The chances that the original artists are watching your channel are much higher than you think, Rick. Over the years you've gotten feedback from quite a few of them and your channel is well-known amongst musicians. Now, when do we get a Matthew Fisher interview? ;-)
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  523. I don't know which one I "like" better; that would depend on what you're trying to record, but the difference in sound is certainly dramatic. There is a lot of truth to the notion that the speaker cab is at least as important or even more important than the rest of your gear.
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  524. Sad that we think of Gary Numan as a 1-hit wonder, at least in the US. He has a lot of great songs and that Replicas album, under his band's name Tubeway Army, is one of the most cyberpunk themed album ever, all in new wave style. His newer stuff is pretty good, too, check My Name is Ruin on his channel. I saw him live a few months ago.
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  525. It was a single DJ at WMMS in Cleveland, OH, who broke Rush by playing Working Man on the radio repeatedly in 1974. Donna Halper, arguably the first and most important Rush fan is a girl, believe it or not, and today she'd not be allowed to do that. Radio used to be awesome, and now it sucks big time, and we need to make it awesome again.
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  526. DQ, never heard that before except when in the mood for some frozen desert product.
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  527. It's called the G.I.F.T. Greater Internet F-wad Theory. Basically, internet access + anonymity = people act like total F-wads for no good reason.
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  528. Second albums better than the first, a few of the top of my head: Rush - Fly By Night Slint - Spiderland The Sound - In the Lion's Mouth
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  529. Thing is, if Rick warmed up and woodshedded sufficiently, I bet he could play that lick after all.
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  530.  @RickBeato  That's the spirit!
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  531. Thanks for another great breakdown.
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  532. Keyboard Bsss!
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  533. Do tell, Rick!
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  534. 1:35 not knowing if the cyclist gets hit or not is keeping me awake...
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  535. J.S. Bach may be my pick for greatest musician/writer of all time. Hard to find a better one.
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  536. Songs like You Know You're Right just plain sound good to your ear, you don't know why you like them, you just do. 20+ years later along comes Rick to explain why, and now I know. RIP Kurt, if only you had found another way to deal with the pain. He'd be about 50-ish today, and the world would be a little better place for it.
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  537. I don't think the question is, "Will you still be listening to today's metal when you are 80?", to me it's more like, "Will you be listening to whatever metal has turned into when you are 80?" I think for most people that answer is probably "no". Sure I love Tool and Opeth and so on, but many of these bands are already more than 20 years old, and we grew up with them. Whether I listen to tomorrow's metal depends on a few things, like how overproduced and formulaic will it be, how original does it sound?
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  538. Hey Rick, did they use a compressor on the bass and guitar for more sustain during those slow chords?
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  539. 22:00 I thought somebody was blowing their car horn in front of my house lol
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  540. This is genius, Rick. Eric's was my favorite. I'd so love to see a guitar duet with him and Page. Phil did a decent job of copping Eddie's sound and chops, but I have to wonder what Eddie himself would've come up with music wise. Same goes for you and Peter. Me, I'd love to see what Alex Lifeson would sound like on it.
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  541. I can't hear Suite Judy Blue Eyes without hearing the bass part in my head.
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  542. This was always one of my favorite Police songs, and this is a great video. This breakdown of structures is why I sub'd to this channel in the first place. Also, what more proof do we need of Andy Summers' talent than the fact that Alex Lifeson studied him intensely during the late 70s early 80s, and you can hear that influence all over Rush's albums of that period.
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  543. Hard pick just ten, the Beatles were lightning in a bottle when it comes to music, how can all those good riffs and songs and talent come from four random guys in under ten years?
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  544. The Pretenders' awesome debut album misses this list by one year (1979).
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  545. Another great story, Rick. With your talent and experience it's about time you finally get some recognition. One thing about music is we know all about the celebrities who get famous, but for every one of the "stars" there are lots of people like you who make things happen without getting "big".
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  546. Is No Quarter in drop D? Personally, I would've filled this list with mostly Tool songs myself. Of course, Everlong, and a few Van Halen songs I guess. And you mentioned the CSN and Neil Young stuff. So many good D tunes it's hard to keep it to just 10.
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  547. I immediately thought of Dust in the Wind.
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  548. Trees is another one, 5/4. La Villa Strangiato. Natural Science. The list just goes on with that band. All good.
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  549. Spicy chords are like spicy food. They burn at first, but then you get used to them, and over time you like them.
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  550. The Beato kids will grow up to be like Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes.
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  551. "we can always travel back in time to listen to this music." UMG: "Oops. Yeah, about that fire we had ten years ago..."
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  552.  @thomaswalkowiak815  You and me both brother
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  553. Wow, Rick, you keep knocking it out of the park with these interviews.
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  554. How about What I Got by Sublime? Pretty sure that's two chords.
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  555. Queen is still actively touring, too, which helps. My friend's 17-year old daughter went to see them like a year and a half ago. Don't know (or care) who their singer is these days, but continuing to exist as a band and putting on a good show helps you stay relevant, as long you're not geezing it too much (talking to you, Yes). As far as Hendrix, it seems his estate's management is a big fail. Jimi wasn't just a great guitarist and musician, he was actually a great rock star, complete with cool image. Basically the greatest rock guitar hero ever.
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  556. Dude.
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  557. 9:25 that's a beautiful Strat
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  558. Yep, I remember suddenly young people were interested in 70s rock, which was kind of weird to me but cool.
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  559. Wow, the outro is downright Neelyish. Rick gettin' fancy!
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  560. Nice score, Rick, happy for you.
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  561. Did it actually come with a guitar? Would be cool to have a Strat with a VW logo on the headstock lol.
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  562. Is your outro music Adam Neely?
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  563. I'm sad, Rick hit up all these blockers' hooks, but no Eagles or Don Henley? Dirty Laundry has some good hooks in it, so does Life in the Fast Lane, Take it Easy, etc.
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  564. So Rick, whatever happened to the 12-string your mom bought you? I still have the bass my mom bought me.
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  565. Did my comment get deleted?
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  566. Jan, I'll do it, but you have to pay me.
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  567. Another amazing catch for Rick's interview archives.
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  568. Ron Carter?! Automatic thumbs up.
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  569. Rick digging Rush. Automatic thumbs up. Geddy's bass playing is what inspired me to start playing an instrument.
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  570. Great video, Rick. About your better sound recording equipment, unfortunately it also picks up not only your voice but also the thumping sound of your piano's keys when you play them.
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  571. So Rick, where can we find that video where Carmen sang live in your studio? I don't see it on either of your channels, maybe I'm looking in the wrong place?
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  572. "Stadium rock" is another fake term made up so people can dump on bands like Journey and Styx.
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  573. "So what do you do?" Hans: "I'm a musician." "No, no, what do you do for a living?" Lol that's so on point.
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  574. As a bassist I find your spread triad videos immensely useful and satisfying.
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  575. Support the good guys: buy a Dean or two.
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  576. So where does Slint fit in? Certainly an important band at the dawn of the 90s in underground circles and still influential today. Their use of guitars to create tension and soundscaping was pretty radical compared to the mainstream at the time.
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  577. So true about how Taylor Swift and so many other pop megastars could be doing fresh-sounding stuff like this but choose to stay boring and predictable instead.
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  578. Film the interviews with the blue wall in the background instead of the white door.
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  579.  @bbarnhouse9022  Cool. I long ago quit trying to argue with people who don't like what I like, but the internet will internet. I enjoy Rick's technical analysis of music like Coldplay even though I may not care for the music itself.
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  580.  @shawnminnier6117  B-52's have a lot of great songs, but what I like about them is the energy and vibe they put out, with that 50s/60s surf throwback thing.
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  581. Back in the day I thought they were cheesy but I still listened to them when they came on the radio. Little did I know I would later miss that sound.
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  582. Honestly when this song was all over radio I wasn't a fan, but I do love that bass line. Also, Tim looks a little hurt that just as he grabs that Rickenbacker the video is ending.
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  583. I keep checking to see if my cell phone is close to my speakers.
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  584. That era of Journey, those two albums Escape and Frontiers, was just tremendous. I was about 10 or 12 years old when those songs came out and I was instantly nostalgic for a time and a place that I had never experienced, taking the midnight train to anywhere, singers in smoky rooms, I was too young to have experienced any of that in life, but Journey makes you feel as if you've lived it. Still They Ride is another instant nostalgia song, I remember listening to it on vinyl with my bandmates when I was in my first band around 16 years old, marveling at Schon's guitar playing and seeing the emotion on each other's faces.
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  585.  @ezekielbrockmann114  Ok, Jigsaw! lol
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  586. This is cool, wish it were a bit longer. Home Adam and his band make more appearances on Rick's channel.
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  587. I normally ignore the dislikes, knowing that videos with lots of views always get a few, but I'm genuinely curious as to why anyone who watched this gave it a thumbs down, these stories are the best and they have a valuable lesson embedded in them as well. So why the dislike? You hate music? You hate learning? You hate dads?
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  588.  @RickBeato  They envy you.
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  589. Okay, so this is a thing. Now you have to get Alex Lifeson, Geddy Lee, and Adam Jones to show up on your channel. You've set a high bar!
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  590. Great video and great tribute, Rick. Keep up the good fight.
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  591. The whole list could be Bonham tunes. Maybe with a few Bill Ward tracks thrown in.
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  592. I love great lyrics. Tales of Brave Ulysses by Cream. Subdivisions by Rush. Invincible by Tool. From Beyond by Sleep. I'm the President by Knower. If you have vocals and you give a damn about the music, you should treat the lyrics with the same intensity you treat the rest of the song.
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  593. "Long form youtube videos are different." Are they really though? I waste ridiculous amounts of time on videos that are about 10 minutes long. 3 or 4 hours can go before you realize it, time I should be spending in the music room. And these aren't garbage videos, there is a lot of good stuff out there, it's just that I should be spending that time on other stuff.
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  594. When I was growing up in Philadelphia, the football stadium was called "Veterans Stadium" in honor of veterans. We called it "The Vet". It got torn down and replaced by a nice modern stadium called "Citizens Bank Field", because bankers are more important than combat veterans. Remember those brave wealthy Citizens Bank bankers this July 4th!
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  595. Great interview with a great musician. Also, I like this interview format, where you break it up to play or demonstrate the music being discussed, very cool!
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  596. Rick, that piano piece was beautiful. I hope once you're satisfied with it you post it up on Bandcamp or SoundCloud, I'd definitely throw a couple of bucks toward a download. And the accompanying video makes it even better.
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  597. I think of singers like Neil Young and Tom Petty, who weren't really great in-tune singers, which was part of why we like their songs. Modern production would autotune those guys to death and kill the appeal. Also, the fact that modern pop stars even use autotune in live performances is something I find grossly dishonest and in poor taste. They are ripping off their fans, and even if the fans know it they are conditioned to be okay with it. In recent years I've all but quit listening to rock radio in my car, because I can't name a single newer act that doesn't sound fake as hell due to overproduction, as if they're all making soundtracks for car commercials or something. I hear these things on the radio and think "there's no way a rock band can sound like that without lots and lots of processing help". Thus all the music I like is "underground"* and you have to go online to find them or go to local small time shows. *not really any such thing as true underground music anymore since the internet, but you know what I mean...
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  598. This is great, Rick, keep up the good work! Interesting note about that drum track: Eddie Money's song Take Me Home Tonight (with Ronnie Spector) uses the same drum pattern during the saxophone break about 2 minutes into the song. I only know this because when I was a teenager in the 80s I remember my band's drummer pointing it out when it was on the radio one day. Useless fact for the day. I'm sure this pattern shows up in lots of places.
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  599. The most influential rock band of all time is without question The Beatles. Period. I would say that the Yardbirds may have been the most fertile breeding ground for rock musicians, but their music has not even a fraction of influence of The Beatles, who still have young fans today almost five decades after they broke up.
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  600. Thing I like about GC is that I can order something from them on line and pick it up or return it at the local store. And it's not like there aren't shitty "mom and pop" shops out there, though, some of them are run by idiots or assholes.
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  601. That solo is already sick as hell, but it sounds even better with Rick playing along to it.
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  602. I think it's the distortion and reverb as much as the spread triad thing that makes people think of Eric J.
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  603.  @Cymbaline713  Jimi's sister probably would actually try it.
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  604. While you are correct about UMG being out for themselves, as far as I'm concerned anything which hurts TikTok is a good thing. TikTok has always been a project of the Chinese Communist Party designed to influence Western, specifically American, culture in a negative way. If this forces UMG to support an alternative to TikTok that is based out of a western democracy than that will be a good thing in the long run.
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  605.  @michaelb1761  I'll be honest: every once in a blue moon I'll see an ad that is actually a well made entertaining or funny video and I'll watch it to the end. Think "GEICO Caveman" levels of entertaining. Happens very very rarely, though.
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  606. Awesome. How about Alex Lifeson's guitar tone on the Grace Under Pressure album?
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  607.  @alleygh0st  Are you a duck?
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  608.  @loopyzreal  Well said.
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  609. What are you using to download it with?
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  610. Hearing myself talk is more important than listening to what you have to say.
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  611. Think about this: imagine you record an original song and post it to youtube. You're not a signed artist on a big label, just a dude or girl in your bedroom having fun. Do you think if an artist on a major record label blatantly steals your song that youtube's bots are going to help you out? I know how I guess that would go.
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  612. The thing that kills me about this stuff is that those who create these AI tools actually think they're doing some kind of good for the world. Some of them, anyway, all of them are happy to get paid for doing it, and for the algorithm writers and coders, it is a rush to build a software tool and see it work so well.
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  613. My first band covered that, when I was like 16 or 17 and hair metal was still a thing.
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  614. Sometimes simple is best, especially in noisy loud garage rock. White has great instincts when it comes to that. He's the kind of guy that technical prog guys look down on and then wonder why he has so many hit singles.
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  615.  @RickBeato And so does Lindsey if he watches this video.
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  616.  @fernandox25691  He knows what he did. Music theory is about why it sounds good.
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  617. Television and Radiohead should've been here IMO.
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  618. Rush, Pink Floyd, Tool, and Alice in Chains, 4 of my favorite bands in the top five. Guess that says something about my taste in music lol.
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  619. Anything else.
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  620. I have heard stories of people getting strikes on public domain music before. Record companies suck.
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  621. This is the only vid I think I've seen where Rick isn't wearing a black t-shirt. Looks like a Captain Kirk shirt.
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  622. Dead Meadow
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  623. I for one do not miss the days of being force fed garbage pop tunes every time I turned on a radio or started my car or switched on a TV or walked into a bar. I am quite happy not to be able to name a single Taylor Swift song, for example, and believe I can live a happy life without it. That's not to say I don't miss good rock radio; I absolutely do miss it. MTV not so much.
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  624. Wait, Phil is readying for another Genesis tour?!
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  625. I grew up with the Cars all over rock radio, and this song was always my favorite. Such a great band. Covering this song is truly fun to play in front of a drunk happy crowd all singing along lol. Also, Ric Ocasek gave all us nerds hope when he managed to marry supermodel Paulina Porizkova. RIP Ric and Ben.
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  626. Fantastic interview, Ricks!
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  627. That bass kind of sounds like a cello to begin with.
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  628. "Les Pauls are heavy." LOL the bass player has no sympathy for you. And I look cooler than the guitarist when playing my Rickenbacker!
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  629. Wonder why you even watched the video. The nice thing about electric guitar is that with the right amp and signal chain you can go from super clean to crazy distorted.
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  630. Jason is such a good metal bassist. Too bad about all that history.
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  631. A bass solo. Be right back, going to hit the head and get a beer.
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  632. The Jerry Reed appearance sent me down a wild Wikipedia rabbit hole; I knew I had seen that guy somewhere before, and sure enough, he was the truck driver in Smokey and the Bandit!
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  633. The bass line in that song also kicks ass.
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  634. That Cupid song sounds like a ripoff of the song from the GEICO Caveman airport ad. "Remind Me" by "Röyksopp" was the song.
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  635. I'm not an Oasis hater, but a woman friend of mine hates them. She says they are a Beatles ripoff, and she certainly noticed the similarity to Lennon's voice, I think it's what she dislikes most about them. It's a shame to dismiss them so quick, they made some really good songs. Ironic thing is, she loves the Smithereens, another band notoriously accused of ripping off the Beatles, so much so they decided to own it by recording a Beatles tribute album lol.
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  636. A year or two ago we had "Filter Sweep February" in protest of youtube squashing synthesizer videos which feature a filter sweep that sounds too close to some copyrighted song. Not even a riff or series of notes, just one note with a filter sweep, played by people doing sound demos. Disgusting.
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  637. Nice.
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  638. This makes me think of the song Witch Hunt by Rush, on the Moving Pictures album. It's creepy to begin with, but there's this part during the intro where Neil Peart plays this creepy line on what sounds like a xylophone, and then just goes crazy with it, like some poltergeist or demon is playing the instrument and suddenly gets pissed off. I remember listening to that with headphones in the dark and it creeped me out so much my eyes watered up.
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  639. One of my favorite vids was when you shut down the metalheads who thought you couldn't "djent".
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  640. Compare this channel to Adam Neely's regarding gearheading.
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  641. I just asked the question. Both are pros in the music biz, one likes to talk about gear, the other not so much, which I find interesting. Don't get all butthurt there, Phil. Maybe you need to avoid my comments.
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  642. You are so right about not playing to a grid. Black Sabbath's last album, 13, had some decent tunes on it and great Iommi and Geezer riffs, but without Bill Ward's swingy drumming and that 70s time feel it was lacking something. Also Rick, you should have a 1-minute spiel about having the tracks that you paste onto the beginning of every one of these vids to shoot down all the questions about it.
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  643. I hope you explore this a bit more, love it!
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  644. Blocker
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  645. That Gracie Abrams song, if I didn't know better, I'd think it was a Lisa Loeb song from the mid 90s.
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  646. LOL true dat
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  647. If I find out a band I like is using a backing track, I instantly lose a bit of respect for them. Period. Especially if they are faking it and trying to hide that fact. In the case in question, a band that becomes helpless without a laptop holds no interest for me. You have a drum set? Guitars and bass? You mean you can't play anything at all? No backup plan? Seriously? That just comes off as lame to me. Ashlee Simpson had no excuse, either. In her case there was an actual band on stage with her. Call an audible and roll with it. Those guys know how to play, right? You know how to sing, right? It's SNL, you only need to know ONE song to get through to the commercial break, for cryin' out loud, but instead she and her band choked on the goal line and here we are 18 years later still talking about it. If you're a musician, be a freaking musician and remember that all that technology is an addon, not the main show.
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  648. Hitch a Ride loses points in my book for the stupid handclaps, one of those things that really annoys me.
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  649. I knew Rush would be in here somewhere!
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  650. What Is and What Should Never Be was the song that sold me on JPJ as a bass god when I was growing up.
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  651. 30 years? That isn't that long. Tool puts out a new album like once every 30 years or so, by 2100 Tool will have like 2 more albums out.
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  652. 74 Jailbreak is one of my favorites.
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  653. Nancy Wilson, gotta love her! Some of my favorites are Farewell to Kings by Rush, Under the Milky Way by The Church.
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  654. Did the ear training vid get taken down? I stopped halfway through it last night and now I don't see it...
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  655. Another great one, Rick, keep up the good work.
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  656. This series is fantastic, so many things about these songs I never noticed before buried in the mixes and compositions. The female vocals on this track are one of those things, now I will never listen to this song again without hearing them.
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  657. I always hated that modulation part. Not that this was ever my favorite song to begin with, but that lame key change was such a tired trope in pop rock music and it always felt like the producer or writer didn't know where else to go with the song. An example of a key change that doesn't sound lame to me would be Back on the Chain Gang by The Pretenders, where the modulation happens over an extended held vibrato vocal by Chrissie Hynde that is amazing and makes you not really notice the key change.
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  658. Isn't it mostly Jimi's sister that heads the estate?
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  659. Weezer not blockers? Cool.
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  660. And remember, if you are up and coming and manage to make some money, you'll get sued for copyright infringement by somebody with way more money and lawyers than you could ever imagine, who made all their money in the 70s when a band could actually make a living. So stop trying and give up now! Enjoy waiting tables meanwhile lol
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  661. ...when you can meet up with Alan Parsons and tell him how he butchered one of his own works.
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  662. Clare Torry did The Great Gig in the Sky in two takes. I would like to see Billie Eilish pull that off and give me something to cheer about. She and other modern singers have lots of talent but I feel this tech is holding them back.
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  663. Cool, but there's no such thing as "yacht rock".
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  664.  @ShaunHensley  I agree with Rick: there is not.
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  665.  @philipmccracken697  So should I listen to you or to Rick?
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  666. Sweet blue P bass.
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  667.  @Markle2k  No you didn't, your memory is wrong.
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  668. Gimme Shelter is one of the greatest songs in rock and roll history. Sweet Emotion's guitar riff sounds kind of lame without the rest of the band, amazing how a mix changes everything. Paperback Writer's riff is an incredible piece of rock. Love the sound of that Linkin Park and Chevelle stuff. Love the fact that James Hetfield has made this list; underrated rhythm player. Layla starts off as an awesome song, until the vocals and the lame key change, yuck. As for that last, magic 21st sound, LOVE ALEX LIFESON!
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  669. Oh boy, new Metallica, this'll be fun reading the comments. Metallica fans are like Philadelphia sports fans. We love this band and hate them at the same time, and always wish for them to do better.
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  670. Paul Chambers was a bass god.
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  671. I don't think Hetfield gets enough love as a guitarist, it wasn't until I saw him playing his riffs during an interview that I really started paying attention to it and noticed how he plays thrash rhythm parts so tight and makes it look effortless, and of course the riffs he comes up with are almost at Iommi levels of catchy ear candy.
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  672. @KEM boy there's one in every crowd.
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  673. This is pure gold, Rick, you are contributing to music history with these interviews.
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  674.  @maverator  yeah okay
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  675. Yet another reason to love Stevie.
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  676. When I see a Beato vid with "rant" in the title I click thumbs up even before the vid starts. I don't even care about U2, aside from a few songs I like, but Rick's strong opinions are always worth a watch.
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  677. Love prog-era Genesis. I think that Phil Collins' and the band's huge success with pop tunes in the 80s really obscures how freaking good he really is on drums, plus the fact that he can sing like that while playing, that's Geddy Lee level singer/player skills. Unfortunately everyone just remembers In the Air Tonight, which, while admittedly a cool-sounding drum tune, isn't nearly as badass as his 70s stuff.
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  678. Speaking of Geddy Lee...eagerly awaiting the next Rush tune in this series!
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  679. Cool vid, thanks for putting the fingering diagrams up, to.
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  680. What a shame the Pink Floyd are blockers. I learned an awful lot by studying that band's music. My pick for favorite Gilmour solo would probably be Dogs. Not my favorite PF song, maybe, but that solo is crushing. I love how Gilmour is never a shredder, it's all just taking his time and squeezing emotion out of his instrument.
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  681. Beck, Bogart and Appice
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  682. Is that you in the background, Rick?
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  683. When he played Creep...man, been a long time since I listened to that album. Lot of old memories came back.
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  684. Never clicked so fast.
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  685. Thinking about it, it's interesting to note that pop/rock originally came from a combination of country and blues back in the 50s, and modern country is once again starting to fill the gap created by the kind of subpar musicality seen in modern pop. A lot of these country songs sound more like pop songs with twang than actual country to me.
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  686. I don't necessarily get all the technical recording stuff, but I can listen to a well-played Bonham drum part all day lone, his drum parts are like awesome little songs all by themselves.
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  687. @crush537 It's Anakin Skywalker
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  688. Too bad it's on Apple, so I'll likely never see it.
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  689. My aunt was an operator for Bell Telephone back in the 60s. I wonder how many sad sack customers like this she had to deal with on the job.
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  690. Saxophone in new metal sounds like a weird King Crimson thing.
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  691. I remember as a youngin', listening to the radio in Philly at midnight, Jan 1st, 1984, when the DJ spun up the first two tracks of the new Van Halen album: 1984, followed by Jump. Oh, the buzz that followed in the halls of high schools over the next few weeks, "Did you hear the new VH? What's up with the synths?!" A woman DJ on the radio station, 94.1 WYSP IIRC, she even said out loud on the air, "Congratulations, guys. Now you sound just like everyone else!" Synths on a VH album was a HUGE deal at the time. Fortunately, for those of us who bought the album, it was still a solid heavy guitar rock album. The whole thing with DLR's acrimonious exit afterwards still sucks to this day; the band was at the top of their game when he left.
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  692. Led Zeppelin famously got sued for ripping off The Killing Floor by Howlin' Wolf when they released The Lemon Song. I think it's a similar phenomenon: The Lemon Song is fantastic but it never would've existed if they had not lifted it from Wolf. If only they'd have been smart or responsible enough to credit Wolf from the outset.
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  693. Really cool, I didn't realize that show was even still on, I quit watching it when that Neegan guy showed up a long time ago. What's with the leather vest? Was that your producer's idea?
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  694.  @RickBeato  Ah, yes, I should've figured that out.
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  695. No love for Take Off by Geddy Lee and the McKenzie Brothers?
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  696. I saw BoC open up for Rush on the Power Windows tour in 1986, great band and great show. My favorite BoC song is Veteran of the Psychic Wars from the Heavy Metal movie soundtrack. Reaper's a great song, can't believe that SNL skit is over 20 years ago now.
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  697. So I have to say this, I always liked this song, but that main riff always made me think of the theme song for the TV show The Munsters.
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  698.  @beastslayer9153  Just one, I agree. Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
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  699. And the award for worst band name of the decade goes to... Hoobastank! Come on up and collect your reward, Hoobastank.
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  700. I'm waiting to see how many people write in later complaining about how they broke their amps lol.
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  701.  @demeon3738  Do it.
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  702. Thriller was Toto? Wow, never knew that!
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  703. Cool. Except for EVH's solo I never really thought about who played the music on that album, although I knew it was some famous studio cats.
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  704. Why did Lisa Loeb have only one hit? God we loved her back then. Did she not single-handedly make glasses cool?
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  705. Yes, hits are a must, because streaming music singles is where the money is at today. Back when album sales made money, it was different, because while a record needs at least one or two hit songs on it, there is room for 4 or 5 songs to take a chance on. Oftentimes they sucked but many of them later became hits. It's almost as if the music business is back in the 1950s when singles were sold on 45 rpm records before LP albums became bigger. But at least the 45s each came with a B side track that didn't have to sound like an instant hit.
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  706.  @D-One  So not liking music you think he should like is racist now. That'll make him like it.
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  707. Sending out an S U S!
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  708. House of the Rising Sun by The Animals Sweet Home Alabama by Lynard Skynard Elevation by Television almost any song by Chuck Berry
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  709. I'm trying to keep an open mind. But it's really really hard sometimes.
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  710. Imagine if Swift joined an actual rock band.
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  711. You should do a vid like this for best bass albums to get inspiration. I grew up playing bass and didn't really learn how to play guitar at all until I was in my 40s (so yeah, I still suck at guitar), but I can tell you which albums inspired me to play bass. Fragile by Yes, Led Zeppelin II, Powerslave by Iron Maiden, and almost anything ever made by Rush. Geddy Lee is the reason I started playing music. The first song I ever learned end to end on the bass was Distant Early Warning by Rush. In the 80s hair metal era every kid wanted to play guitar or drums, but if you were a half decent bass player you were in high demand. Once I played some Rush in front of my friends while hanging out one day, my name got spread around and I got phone calls from kids I didn't know in other high schools asking me to try out for their bands. Also, before I forget: 1990, so young! ;-)
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  712. Geddy Lee vs. Chris Squire! Also, I love that you're lounging on the couch for this video, still wearing the Beato Black uniform lol.
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  713.  @ChristopherPhillips  He does. Take a dive through his channel videos.
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  714. I saw that video before years ago. I remember what he said about soloing: "Embellish the melody!" That stuck with me.
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  715.  @InventorZahran  And some "experts" say that studying Bach is racist, or something...
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  716.  @robin_holden  No, it's Bach. Broadly, Western music.
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  717. Not much I can say about how awesome EVH was that hasn't been said. I will say, as a bassist who knows only a bit about guitar, that I did not know about the tempered tuning thing, that's really cool to learn! Back in the 80s playing in bands, usually I would tune my bass to a pitch tone generator at home (it is a stop watch that also makes an electronic tone), and the guitarists would tune to my bass since basses stay in tune longer than guitars. The lead guitarist in my band back then was really talented but I don't remember if he ever tempered his instrument or not, if so he never pointed it out to me.
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  718. Isn't "major key with sad lyrics" how many Cure songs work, too?
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  719. So Nickelback is good because Rick Astley has finally joined them? Nice!
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  720. I never knew SW played the drums, wow, sick beats!
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  721.  @ryanwebb6356  If you got the balls to. Their cover of Satisfaction is perhaps the greatest cover ever made, and they play it super tight live. Devo is no joke.
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  722. This channel is like Disney World for music lovers. And while old farts from the Eagles are busy blocking you from almost even mentioning their band's name, here's Misha helping you out and no doubt making more fans for his band. I definitely plan on checking out more Periphery now, seems like another reason blockers are stupid.
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  723. While it's a decent song as written, I don't like the production, and John's voice sounds weird and perhaps even a bit auto-tuned. If Ringo and Paul are okay with it, than it's okay of course, but just wait until they are out of the picture and watch the record company start mining their old tapes for more money via AI trickery like this.
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  724. Never thought about this before, but it's true. Though I wonder, is he better-known than J. S. Bach?
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  725. We just don't see giant rock stars today like we did in the 70s and 80s. There are a small handful of pop superstars, your Beyonces and your Adeles, but pop rock stars? I think the Police would be successful in the sense that they'd have a strong following and an internet presence, but I don't think any rock band gets to be the huge mainstream force they used to become anymore. There are a ton of really good rock bands out there with large fanbases but they will never get radio airplay and they don't make lots of money from music sales anymore. Think of Dead Meadow, Screaming Females, and countless others. You have to be part of their scene or a really big music fan willing to dig around to find out about them.
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  726. Listen to your mom: if you don't have anything nice to say, keep your pie hole shut.
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  727. These old photos and films are great.
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  728. When I saw the title I thought this might be about the guitar solo in Freewill by Rush, which is really a guitar, bass, and drum solo at the same time.
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  729. Rick, I grew up in the 80s and never much cared for this band, and this song was played to death on the radio, but halfway through this video I am suddenly waking up to it, thanks for the eye-opener! (Now how do I get my band to cover this...)
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  730. I think one or two Rush songs cold at least make honorable mention. Spirit of Radio maybe?
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  731. 90125 is an underrated album. Older prog Yes fans disliked it for obvious reasons and it was never going to be as popular as the fresher 80s acts like Michael Jackson and so on, but if you get past the radio-played-to-death Owner of a Lonely Heart and listen to the deeper cuts like City of Love, Leave It, and Hearts, that album is like a fluffy pink and blue pastel cloud-enshrouded 80s time machine of happiness.
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  732. Chalk up another major win for Beato interviews. So refreshing to see an interviewer who does his homework and knows who and what he's talking about.
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  733. Another home run, Rick, keep up the good work! And if you ever do this for a jazz tune, consider some Dave Brubeck.
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  734. This interview is awesome.
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  735. Rickenbacker still matters. For starters, they very aggressively take legal action against clones, and their instruments, especially their basses have a distinctive sound and look cool. Plus, once you get used to their quirks you always want one in your collection.
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  736. Why quit when you "retire"? Some people only start their channel after they retire. There's a retired guy named Joe Van Cleave who makes videos about weird photography and typewriter collecting stuff. He doesn't have a schedule; he just does it for fun. And if internet videos are not a job, you can't really retire from it, can you?
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  737. In before the Metheny takedown!
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  738. Saw your testimony, Rick. You clean up nice!
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  739. Perfect Albums, hmm... Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd; no comment necessary Grace Under Pressure by Rush; every song kills, a complete theme sonically throughout. Not the "favorite" Rush album, but to me the most complete Fragile by Yes (also maybe Close to the Edge); the band had the best lineup and on top of their game Need to think of some others...
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  740. Back in the day Matt Cameron: insists on keeping snare sound producers don't like Lars: Write that down, write that down!
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  741. Well, knowing this certainly makes it easier to write a hit song now. The hell with originality.
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  742. Adding guitar is cool, but it doesn't change the fact that these tunes are still utterly predictable, familiar chord progressions we've heard a million times before, and equally telegraphed melodies. Add in the overproduction and the purposely annoying vocals (Probably autotuned to boot) and you've got a nice example of modern pop music's doldrums. If you're going to be that predictable, at least play some old school 12 bar blues. Given how Tool's recent comeback release scored attention with the younger crowd I think there's plenty of untapped demand out there for something different.
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  743. Today I found out that Joe Satriani is a Rick Beato fan like the rest of us.
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  744. This was your first demo? Wow. Compare that to the garbage I've seen bands try to push out there sounds like they used a cellphone in a concrete basement. This is actually good. If you look it up there is a demo Motley Crue made of songs on their first album. It's pretty primitive and garage rock compared to this.
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  745.  @chez_jn  Bandcamp is where I look for new bands, and even really old famous bands often post there.
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  746. This woman must be protected at all costs.
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  747. I try not to be a potty mouth on Rick's channel, but this is bullshit. Litigation destroys creativity and makes innovators risk-averse, not just in music but in lots of fields. Lawsuits killed sampling in hip hop, making it financially impossible for a young low-budget artist to do what guys like Chuck D did back in the day. I guess if you're Taylor Swift or Beyoncé you can afford lawyers to fight when your same-as-everyone-else's 4-chord progression lands you in court, but for the little guys out there, tough luck.
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  748. Best cover ever? Devo's cover of the Rolling Stones song "Satisfaction". Look up their performance of it on Saturday Night Live. Devo owned it.
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  749. Oh man, you played a tiny Supertramp clip, lucky if this doesn't get taken down. Supertramp are notorious blockers!
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  750. What you said about Geddy Lee and Rush -> truth
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  751. Bill Ward is the main one missing from this list, in my opinion. War Pigs is basically Ward in beast mode surrounded by awesome music as he destroys his kit, especially the live in Paris version. Also glad you included Ringo on here, he is so much better than he gets credit for, A Day in the Life is some great drum playing.
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  752. I can't wait until "flex" stops
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  753. I remember when Lorde's song Royals came out, I was thinking, "this girl has a great voice. Too bad the music is computer crap. Imagine how good this'd be if she had a good band backing her." And that pretty much sums up modern mainstream for me. Some of these artists have talent but it's wasted on this garbage.
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  754. Now you have to team up with Adam Jones and Tool's rhythm section to make an epic video like Adam did!
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  755.  @kassios  I shouldn't have to be an expert to know I am reading something authentic. This kind of fake stuff, coupled with deep faked video and audio, is going to cause wars and get a lot of people killed eventually.
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  756. Wow, have there really been 29 of these so far? Time really flies! Great job, Rick.
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  757. DENIED!
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  758. Strange, I got no ads this time.
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  759.  @kimdawcatgirl  Jake from State Farm? She sounds...hideous!
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  760. 15:17 Do I detect a bit of fan boy squee there? ;-) Awesome video, Rick! Hopefully you could score some more interviews like this (Alex Lifeson...hint hint) and start a new series, "What Makes This Interview Great"!
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  761. Isn't Tempus Fugit by Yes in Dorian?
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  762. Alex Lifeson
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  763. Yes.
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  764. Interesting video, but doesn't quite live up to the thumbnail hype lol.
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  765. If they're going after years-old videos, Rick, you'd best be ready to move to a different platform before YouTube nukes your account. I'm so ready to kick google to the curb in any way possible. These big tech companies have the big record companies' backs and you don't count for anything in their eyes.
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  766. How would we know if you're crazy, Rick? We've never heard the song before.
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  767. Missing the point. The tapes are the original. A digital copy of the original is just a copy, even if it's a really good copy.
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  768.  @powertuber4.068  Still a duplicate.
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  769. Dylan is better than the algorithm used to block youtube uploads.
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  770. Great interview, Rick!
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  771. Isn't Django Reinhardt the reason Tony Iommi didn't give up guitar after his industrial accident?
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  772. Bach's Prelude is to cellists what Stairway to Heaven or Smoke on the Water are to guitarists.
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  773. Thank God WMTSG is back!
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  774. Again, a great video and another great breakdown. I appreciate the production that went into this song, despite the fact that I've never connected with this song or this band at all.
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  775. I think for great sound you picked the wrong Tool album. Lateralus is fantastic, maybe Tool's best, but Fear Inoculum, to me, is unbelievably well-mixed and engineered. Since it came out I have given it a listen every few months in headphones and it just sounds so amazing.
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  776. The best singer in Fleetwood Mac. And the best songwriter, too. Stevie and Lindsey get all the attention, but Christine was what was up.
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  777. Then there's the fact that Gibson headstocks will snap off very easily if the guitar falls over. My buddy's SG has the same headstock design and he has already glued it back together at least once. When it comes to guitars I'm a bassist who plays guitar poorly, but I prefer Strats. I have to say though, I've got nothing against Les Pauls, they sure are pretty and in the right hands they sound great, too.
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  778. For the love of God, Rick, when are you going to put these musical pieces together into an album and put it up for sale? Come on, man!
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  779. I miss the days when rock radio was decent, but aside from that I couldn't care less about what's popular. Taylor who? I have technology that allows me to find absolutely killer rock and jazz bands from all around the world at any time. Not just music from the 70s or 90s, but current modern bands that you'll never hear on radio or see at a Stupor Bowl halftime show. I wish some of these great modern bands could become stars and get rewarded for their good work but they do exist at least and I try to support them by paying for downloads and the occasional record, and if they come through my area I make an effort to go see them live.
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  780. That was cool as hell! For your next song, maybe Limelight by Rush? Although I kind of want Alex Lifeson to be your next special guest, so maybe not Rush. But yeah. Rush.
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  781. Over the years I've heard music snobs take shots at Cliff Williams for his simple bass lines, but it's evident when you analyze it like this that Cliff knows exactly what he's doing and has a good reason for it, because it's completely effective. Also, you mentioned the vocals, they are so important. To this day fans are still divided into the Scott camp and the Johnson camp, both were great singers for this band. When Axl Rose took over as touring singer recently it was a HUGE deal for fans, Axl is surely talented and can hit all the notes (and for once actually did his job without being a giant douche), but to sing for AC/DC is to tread on sacred ground. The standard to which you will be held is very high.
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  782. Anybody looking for simple, kickass garage rock check out an old band called Dead Moon.
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  783. 9:05 someone please tell me where that is I want to go there
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  784. Hate to say it, but because of what REM was doing at that time, especially this song, I hated that band with a passion. I hate the lyrics, the strings, that stupid mandolin. I didn't appreciate REM until later when I went back and explored their earlier 80s stuff, which I find much more enjoyable. (That mandolin...yuck, kill me now...Alex Lifeson had an unholy infatuation with that instrument in the 90s/00s which brought Rush down a few pegs for me as well, and Rush is my favorite band)
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  785. I miss the grilled stuffed burrito, but the quesarito is like crack so it's all good.
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  786.  @greenchilaquiles  Why you no good...! Were we co-located I'd challenge you to a Taco Bell-off!
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  787. So will Don Henley go after those guys, or only small time youtubers who quote 10 seconds of his music?
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  788. Whenever I hear SRV I get blown away not just by the guitar but by that awesome Double Trouble rhythm section of drummer Chris Layton and bassist Tommy Shannon, those guys have killer groove.
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  789. Finally! The Pink Floyd on my favorite music teaching channel!
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  790. Rolling Stone? Oh, yeah, the magazine whose staff said Rush sucked. Not fit to line my parakeet's cage with.
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  791. Purple was huge in the US when I was growing up.
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  792. In before takedown! Next time you have Tim on, Rick, let's hear that sweet-looking Ric he's got there.
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  793. The problem with Jimmy Page keeping the tapes is hinted at in what you said about the condition they were in when he brought them to the studio, in a crumbling box, in need of protection against decay. Of course it's a good thing he didn't trust UMG to store them, keeping them in his attic was doing them no good in the longer term. Another few decades and they'll likely be damaged as well. When Jimmy passes away, what then? Will someone in his family take care of them? The problem with UMG isn't that they had a fire; no matter how well you try to preserve something accidents can happen. The bigger problem is that they were keeping all the eggs in one basket. If what you said earlier was true about them losing old celluloid films, keeping anything valuable in the same facility with that awful flammable stuff is a huge mistake. Even in a fireproof room that film can spontaneously combust if the conditions are right; preserving it requires a separate, expensively equipped facility. UMG is negligent, dishonest, and deserve to have daylights sued out of them.
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  794. About that lo-fi midrange effect: this song always made me feel nostalgic, even when I was too young to know what the word "nostalgia" meant, and it's because of that mid range filtering on the guitar. It sounds like you're listening to an old AM radio, because AM radio is filtered to preserve bandwidth on those low carrier frequencies, and sound always make it feel like you're listening to a memory from your childhood. Pink Floyd did the same trick on the intro to "Wish You Were Here", where the radio is being tuned down the dial and Gilmour's electric guitar comes in midrange filtered right before the acoustic starts. Brad Delp was just amazing, wonder how he could take a breath on those long notes, and his voice was beautiful. Was a sad day when we heard he had passed away.
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  795. This stuff makes my skin crawl to be honest. Even worse that it often fools me, makes me not want to trust anything anymore.
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  796. I don't know what this guy's talking about, all my stuff is top notch! Really! 😉
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  797. That outro solo is fantastic.
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  798. How about the best 1-chord song: Sabotage by the Beastie Boys?
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  799. Looks the UMG fire 11 years ago burned down the wrong UMG building.
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  800. Can't wait for that SVT vid!
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  801. What is that grungy tune you're playing along to in this vid? Sounds cool.
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  802. This "journalist" clown writes for things like The New Yorker and Rolling Stone and he lives in NYC, so basically he's the kind of hipster douche that makes the rest of the USA despise New York City. The insufferable New Yorkers ruin it for the decent and kind ones, as usual.
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  803. I know, I was thinking we might get a guest BASS.
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  804.  @TheAverageWazoo  yep yep
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  805. Best Beato rant in a long time. And very on point. Love the thumbnail.
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  806. Gibson Guitars has entered the chat...
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  807.  @tiorio9551  The Wizard by Blocker Sabbath
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  808.  @drapala97  Into the Void starts with guitar.
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  809. Well I for one got really sick of it all over the radio growing up and honestly don't care if I never hear it again. But I'll listen when Rick wants to talk about it.
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  810. As in, "Rick will beat you if you pronounce his name wrong"?
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  811. I think I have a mild case, seems to vary in intensity based on fatigue or something, not sure. I'm surprised it's not worse. Generally I don't abuse my ears, but I occasionally like my music loud, and have played in loud bands. In a prior life I worked around jet engines and firearms. Always wore protection , but one time somebody fired a rifle next to my face with no warning, and my left ear rang hard for a day or so, and I don't think that did me any good. These days I do not go anywhere where there is loud music without earplugs, whether it's me playing or another band. I even wear hearing protection when using the vacuum cleaner around the house, because it's loud and irritating.
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  812. "Quad cortex...flamjammer into the MIDI throttlespammer....outbound messages microlooper granular stereo...retinal thoughts create 88 mind explosion algorithms" lol yeah I got all that clear alright.
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  813.  @ericliang4744  The melody was written by Desmond, but the tune is a Dave Brubeck Quartet tune. Desmond thought the track would be kind of a filler track to allow Morello a drum solo, but it accidentally became a huge hit, one of the biggest in jazz history.
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  814.  @MyRackley  It's a song by the Dave Brubeck Quartet (not Dave Brubeck), written by Desmond. It's not on a Desmond solo album. Desmond didn't write the piano riff or the drum solo. Not too hard to understand.
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  815. This band was so talented. Kurt, of course, but Krist is underrated as well, he looked like a know-nothing punk rocker what with his antics (like knocking himself out with his own bass), but his lines are solid, and of course Dave Grohl behind the drums, (WHERE HE BELONGS). Lightning in a bottle. I have seen a lot of music snobs over the years who hate Nirvana for whatever reasons, the one I hear most is that Nirvana had no talent and thus made talentless music popular, killing the wonderful melodic hard rock and guitar solos of the 80s. Well, I was in high school in the 80s and I can tell you that hair metal, MTV, and commercial garbage was killing rock and roll. The phony nature and schlock factor of it was so obvious. I was into prog rock, but there was nothing progressive about the commercial MTV stuff on the radio. Nirvana was a huge shot in the arm for rock and roll. Here was a real band, who put it all out there, with something that was kind of punk but so much more. When this came on the radio you cranked your car stereo to ear bleed levels. And as Rick points out, hidden under that punk aesthetic was sophistication, and yes, guitar solos for anyone who cares to actually pay attention. The last great rock revolution happened in 1991. Can't happen today with the changes to the industry brought on by technology, no one rock band can be this big today. Radio is pretty dead and the internet dilutes fan bases across lots of genres and regions.
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  816.  @dougrobinson8602  Just wait.
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  817. The most impactful statement Rick makes here is, "Nobody cares." Of course there will always be a small minority of music fans who care, but the average public doesn't give a damn about real vs. fake music, or art, or anything else. Musicians, who have always had a hard time getting paid, and even harder lately, will now be utterly worthless. Making real music will now be as much a monetarily worthless hobby as fingerpainting. There will still be a handful of megastars needed to keep around to be trotted on stage at events like the Superbowl halftime or whatever, your Taylor Swift types, etc., but holograms may kill that gig as well. Wait until individual tavern owners can use AI to generate their own music, then there will be no need to ever hire a live band or pay an ASCAP/BMI fee again. Music will be as worthless as trying to sell snow to penguins.
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  818. It's amazing how the 80s keep coming back.
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  819. The album that song is on, After the Snow, is one of the best kept secrets of the 80s. My girlfriend got me to listen to the whole record one day and she was right about it, fantastic album. Too bad they are only known for the one song.
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  820. Things that make me happy I have a day job career that I like.
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  821. I've heard Americans from New England do that, too. President Kennedy used to say "Cuber" when he was talking about Cuba.
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  822.  @wickedcoolname399  I think you have the most New England username on YouTube.
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  823.  @pakoti96  He's explained this a million times: blockers. No, wait, nevermind, what I meant to say was, Rick just hates your favorite music. Feel the indignity.
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  824. Usually I hate everything on these lists, but I have to say that Sabrina Carpenter stuff is giving off some 90s Lillith Fair vibes, and that's not a bad thing.
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  825. I would watch a video with a musician on Rick's channel ANYN FREAKING DAY over one on some jackass channel like Jimmy Kimmel. Rick's channel is where it's at for music fans, those talk show clowns are for losers.
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  826. Honestly, pop music from 20 years ago isn't all that far off from today's pop music, which shows how much it is stagnating. In the 1980s 20 years was an eternity; Michael Jackson didn't sound like anything from the 60s. From the 50s to the 90s popular music went through tremendous change. Now everybody "writes" the same beats on the same software and the market isn't really made up of "listeners" anymore, just people looking for something to play in the background while they do something else.
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  827. I've heard Mike described as "the John Paul Jones of REM", the band's talented secret weapon. Gotta love his bass playing.
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  828. Classic Beato Rant. Blocking, autotune, and crap songwriting by committee all covered. Only thing it needs is a dig at Apple, though I bet the autotune software runs on a Mac lol.
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  829. Imagine Dragons is "alternative" now? WTF?
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  830. Top 10 times James Hetfield ends a sentence with "____ya".
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  831. Low lighting on this vid...hiding in the shadows so the Blockers can't find you, Rick? ;-)
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  832. I love the heaviness Rick gets out of a Telecaster
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  833. Bach is the best. And that part about the bass player not being able to hide holds for all genres. I was taught when playing rock or jazz that if the bass player sucks it makes the whole band suck.
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  834. This is awesome. Makes me think of that band called Compressorhead which is a bunch of robots programmed to play guitar, bass, and drums. The robots are just machines taking in what is presumably MIDI signals but they have actual robots fingers and hands and feet to play real instruments. Also, those old Wurlitzer paper roll machines you see at carnivals that play real instruments mechanically.
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  835. The problem with DLR vs. Sammy is that Eddie wanted to do a different style of music and Dave didn't, nor was he really the right guy for the job anymore. Sammy's singing style was better for that pop sound Eddie wanted, plus Sammy is a decent guitar player, which added a dimension to the band. I always liked Sammy but I like him more before and after he was in VH.
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