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

  1. 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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  2.  @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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5.  @TheSanityInspector  As opposed to today, where there is plenty of good music, and we don't listen to it now.
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  6. 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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  7. Yes, or maybe a Forest.
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  8. 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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  9.  @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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  10. 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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  11. Oh man 2 Minutes to Midnight would be an awesome breakdown.
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  12.  @ericcrabtree6245  Yep, and also David Gilmour and Rick Wright had similar voices to my ear.
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  13. 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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  14. David Gilmour sings along to his own guitar solos, usually away from the mic.
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  15.  @prickyX  Another reason for Chris to change his bass strings before every gig, consistent twangy piano sound.
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  16.  @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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  17.  @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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  18. 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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  19. 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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  20. 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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  21. That tone is pure Rickenbacker love.
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  22. Kind of like the singer from Echo and the Bunnymen, too, another 80s iconic voice.
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  23.  @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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  24. Well, I was going to do something else, but this video popped into my feed, so...
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  25.  @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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  26.  @robin_holden  A Hitler joke? I did Nazi that coming!
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  27.  @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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  28. 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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  29. 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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  30.  @bobbyfonts3486  David Gilmour also sings along to his guitar parts often.
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  31.  @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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  32. 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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  33.  @Frankincensedjb123 With speech-to-text technology you can write posts and practice music at the same time.
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  34.  @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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  35. 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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  36. I think google's creepy present is worst than their creepy past.
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  37. 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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  38. Or Ray Manzarek's organ in Riders On the Storm
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  39. Leave Britney alone!
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  40. The live version of that song from All the World's a Stage is brain-shatteringly awesome.
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  41. @Luke It is censorship when you are protected by fair use. Educate yourself before posting next time.
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  42. 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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  43. 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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  44. 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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  45. Someday when you're old enough, you'll understand.
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  46. 1:00 That is one of the most 'Murka in the 70s photos ever taken.
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  47. It's called the "Dembow Riddim" and it's super annoying.
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  48. So you like your bass tones the way you like your women: thick?
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  49. Frankly I was expecting more than just one Zep song, but it did get to number one so yeah.
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  50. 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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