Comments by "Lepi Doptera" (@lepidoptera9337) on "Rick Beato" channel.

  1. Not to your landlord. He wants to see US dollars. ;-)
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  2. A corporate lawyer charges $1,000 an hour today, sometimes more. You have to look at it relative to what the non-artists in the business are making with zero input to the product. There is a lot of rent-seeking. The real bucks go to Apple, YouTube and so on. They basically took the music industry's cake and ate it all.
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  3. There is nothing wrong with drum machines. They are DIFFERENT, not worse. And the problem as you said is... there are very few really good drummers. I would take a well programmed drum track over a poor drummer any day.
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  4. That's because of language variety. French is not German is not Italian is not Albanian. That's especially a problem for an Albanian band... their audience is kind of limited to something like eight million people who are not the richest in addition. That is a real problem, economically speaking.
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  5. You didn't watch the video. He said that he doesn't care about comments. He then asked you to leave a comment. Get it? ;-)
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  6. It's amazing to me that they call some of the Steely Dan harmonization "weird". I grew up with this (musically speaking, not as a teenager) and I have heard it so many times... to me this is like how I imagine good music should sound like. To me it's more run of the middle stuff. I realize that very few people can come up with it without falling off the horse like some of the Jazz musicians do, but it's interesting that even the musician who played it thinks it's "outta" there. Very cool interview.
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  7. They won't tell you. It's confidential information.
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  8. Most people create, at least initially, to have their egos stroked, if not by others then by themselves. Here is the difference between professionals and amateurs, though: the professionals will, eventually, learn to create for the audience. They will try to understand their audience and they will strive to satisfy it. That's when selfishness turns to art, at least in one aspect.
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  9. It's not the platform. It's always the dynamic between the audience and the artist or entertainer. Most of what is on YouTube is, after all, entertainment. Some with, some without an artistic component. If you can't be moderately successful here, you are unlikely to be successful anywhere else, either.
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  10. The problem with movies is the audience. It was always the audience. Look at the sales of e.g. French art film. It's pitiful, even compared to block busters at the time.
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  11. There is a reason why he has "notes". He didn't put this together himself. It's researched by his writer team and the whole thing may have been rehearsed more than once. If you can find another clip of Oscar Peterson doing this kind of performance, you know that it was a real "show", i.e. professionally set in scene. You can watch plenty of other "interviews" with celebrities from that time. They are all rehearsed with all the "questions" and "answers" scripted and contractually agreed on by the show producer and the agent of the celebrity. That's a pity because we can't learn anything about the actual person behind the actor. They literally never left the stage when a camera or microphone was rolling. We simply don't know what Greta Garbo was like as a private person or how John Wayne really behaved off set. We may have an occasional "oops" when they lost it, but that's not the real person, either. That is, at most, the real person on their worst days. There may be a few hosts who are trying to show us the real people behind the theatrical masks today, but I think even that is rare. Graham Norton certainly does a great job pretending that he is showing us the real people. So much so that I actually want to believe it. That's the art of the talk show host profession. Having said this... I don't think I would want to be too exposed as an actor or musician myself. The public is more than just a source of income. It's dangerous. One does have to keep a healthy distance.
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  12. Yes, but like the man said, they are having a hard time being heard and even if they are, their income is being taken away by the streamers.
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