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

  1.  @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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  2. I've actually seen people dump on him for some reason. No accounting for taste.
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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5.  @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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  6. Honestly, it's an order of magnitude better song than anything on these spotify lists.
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  7. Another great album from 1978 is Hemispheres by Rush. Speaking of which, today marks one year since Neil Peart passed.
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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. Love his tone on Warning.
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  11. I am old enough to remember when Nirvana and Alice in Chains was alternative. Boy are those days ever gone.
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  12. 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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  13. He picks tracks that he thinks are well-produced, not the tracks that music nerds like.
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  14. Gimme Shelter is one of the best rock and roll tunes ever.
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  15. It is funny how when it's in the mix it becomes acceptable, but on its own it's unlistenable.
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  16. 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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  17. 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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  18. 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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  19. 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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  20.  @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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  21. 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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  22. 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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  23.  @barrettKiwi  I feel like Rick's importance to music is up there with John Peel or someone.
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  24. And put a bomb inside the kick drum like on Tommy Smothers show.
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  25. If you buy his book it explains it.
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  26. 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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  27. The cool thing is that it doesn't sound weird when you listen to it, not jarring, just flows.
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  28. 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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  29.  @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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  30. 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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  31. 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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  32. 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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  33. 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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  34.  @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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  35. 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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  36. Leland Sklar got his video taken down for doing a demo of his own bass line.
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  37. 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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  38. No Quarter by Led Zeppelin, any number of tunes by Deep Purple
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  39. 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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  40. Or like elevator music. Soothing, calming, and utterly forgettable.
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  41. 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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  42. 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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  43. Jeez, Rick you even crush the piano like a boss. That last piece was freaking amazing!
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  44.  @thescramble4309  Yes, I'm afraid of you. You sound like you might beat me up.
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  45. 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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  46. That first song almost sounds like a cover of Nickleback's How You Remind Me.
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  47.  @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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  48. And the answer: Lars' snare. Video done in one sentence.
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  49. Love. This.
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  50. You say that like it's a bad thing.
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