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

  1. 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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  2. 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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  3.  @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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  4. 1:10 Al violates Rick's "no clip-on tuner" rule. Can the universe handle it!
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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7.  @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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  8. "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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  9. Always good to see Ringo getting some respect.
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  10. 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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  11. It was all that and a bag of chips somewhere around 100 episodes ago.
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  12. "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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  13. I love that theme and how they used it again in The Animated Series.
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  14. 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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  15. 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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  16. Love Renaissance!
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  17. At least Steward Copeland plays a real hi hat.
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  18. @laser325 you forgot the important part "in my opinion"
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  19. Fu Manchu
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  20. 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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  21. Somewhere between the bright lights and the far unlit unknown, maybe?
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  22.  @ExasBits  Because your average sports fan has bad taste in music.
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  23. This is an awesome interview. And given Metallica's fan base, Rick's gonna get a TON of views.
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  24. "Why didn't they use real drums?" Because record companies and producers.
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  25.  @legalize.brokkoli  Often it starts riots and wars and gets a lot of people killed, too.
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  26. 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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  27. Could also be a reference to OK Boomer.
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  28. 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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  29. "How Rick Beato makes a song great"
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  30. 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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  31.  @JeffBostick222  Oh, gotcha.
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  32. @ThomasMeeson He is truly an artist of some time.
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  33.  @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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  34.  @davearonow65  Yngwie does seem to be overinflating a bit as he gets older, come to think of it.
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  35. 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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  36.  @autury-5703  Seriously, let's hear it for fake music, amarite?
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  37. Yeah in the interview he said he thought he overstepped and was gonna have to do another take.
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  38.  @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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  39. "Not quite my tempo."
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  40. 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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  41. Enshittification
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  42. How about Party All the Time by Eddie Murphy
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  43. 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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  44. 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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  45. Chrome? By the same people who own YouTube? lol
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  46.  @gmill7911  I saw Pentagram a few years ago and the guitarist was playing an Epiphone ES335, sounded great.
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  47. Look up his djent video, where he answers the question, "But can Rick djent?". Spoiler: the answer is yes.
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  48. 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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  49. Juice makers gotta eat too.
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  50.  @willbowling3744  "Boomer take"? Chart numbers don't lie, sonny boy.
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