Rick NAILS it LOL!

I wish the fadeout waa about 8 times longer.

It sounds like most pop music has been being written by AI for years.

??? Totally disagree. My Paul plays easier than any fender. Never played anything with better action or neck shape and the scale is smaller too.

It's just one of those perfect songs isn't it?

I think musicians getting lazier over time. They used to be full in on their stuff..like 100% lots of the time. Now there are lots of distractions. With stuff like AI we might going to see a situation where they let AI do the ''composing'' where they themselves put a persona touch on it later on. I think that is where ther problem is..distractions and lazyness..

Maybe Taylor should cover Kick My Love Pump.

Dear Mr. Beato, I think you should do an analysis of the song "Kings and Queens" by Aerosmith. I listen to that song and I find it mesmerizing, and yet very strange, as if it's multiple songs in one. With sections of power chords, bridges, solos, and where the tempo of the song changes, and then of course going to a piano solo. It's all very strange in comparison to typical rock songs, I wouldn't call it a "Bohemian Rhapsody" yet it is an underrated gem in my opinion. Great work, I love this Nirvana song as well, very creepy and rythmic guitar, I love it.

I’ll be long gone, so I don’t care

At the risk of politicizing things, after watching this video and your one about how musicians used to rule the music industry, I wonder if the decline of education has a lot to do with this. In the 80s The Police were scoring heavy rotation hits with literary references to Nabokov and Goethe. Many schools had strong music programs at time as well. I developed an interest in playing music that was encouraged in my school through the availability of music classes, instruments and recording equipment that could be used, and passionate teachers. Along with a host of commercial pressures to dumb things down and churn out formulaic pop, I wonder if the decline in literary and arts education programs has also contributed to the waning influence of musicianship and lyrical relevance in modern music?

that's because the music isn't important , what is important is making money, and those two things are very different things

I can't share this video with anyone currently in Russia due to owner's policy. What is the reasoning? 🙁

If dinosaur Jr doesn't get mentioned, you're blowing it

YES, EXACTLY THIS, I'VE BEEN LOSING MY MIND OVER PEOPLE DOING THIS FOR YEARS 😭😭😭

lazy writing for sure

Learning the natural notes by location and name,imo,should be the first lessons for the new student. You don't need to know how to play them at first. Learning the notes on the fretboard can be done away from the guitar; it's a mind game, really. From there, then this video lesson makes much more sense. Hint: the major scale creates a pattern that all other patterns can reference it.

I'd say we were spoiled growing up in the time Richard Carpenter was producing these creative masterpieces with his sister's voice to craft around and accompany. The Carpenters were pretty much maligned among the in-crowd as I was growing up, so it's amazing to me that in the last thirty years at most they've finally been getting shown the creative respect they deserve. But with my musical knowledge limited mainly to what I've learned from commentary on KZbin, etc., in middle age - and a fondness for the music I heard in my childhood mainly from AM radio (in my house it was more adult contemporary than echo-chamber Top 40!) - it seems the Carpenters were in a line that you could say followed Burt Bacharach, whose work probably grew out of Big Band era stuff, marinated with the rise of rock and roll and, like rock, influenced by elements of jazz, soul, Motown, folk and whatever else was playing in the 1950s and early 1960s in the U.S. Richard has long acknowledged his early jazz combo and the layering tricks Les Paul made famous in the 1950s, and their influences seem clear now to me. I would attribute also the multitracking tools that were available by 1970 were transforming production and enabling a Richard Carpenter to create these gems. According to my ears, when you compare an album from the mid 1960s with the quality of a stereo production of an album released in 1969 it's clear the technology had made a leap forward.

Madonna gig on Copacabana was the greatest limp synk of all times...I think it was a bad thing to musicians and all the people that appreciate a live concert with music being played by humans...

You say Abba, and I say ahbah...

Wholeheartedly agree. Lyrics have been going downhill for a very long time.

Ted Gioia “"The platforms set the rules" ... this would be okay if those people really knew and love music. But look at the people that ran these platforms, they are not music lovers… These are people that are techies and they have completely different goals and priorities than having a flourishing music ecosystem. “ (quote end) My experience with record labels over the past 20 years - this sums it up for me.

Brilliant conversation. Thank you.

This dude gives me hater vibes

You are not alone Rick!

I wouldn't trust Substack. The will change the conditions to earn more money. Every other platform startet the same way.

Stumbled across your show about a month ago and I believe you do a great job Rick ,keep it up brother, btw I was born in 62 also .

This guy is so obnoxious it makes it a slog to get through the video.

I don't know if you're sponsored by apple or something but there are other and better platforms to buy songs from in the highest possible quality (which apple does not provide).

Sting said "the bridge is therapy". Aptly put.

I've always thought that the guitar solo that ends "Pigs Three Different Ones" from Pink Floyd's epic album "Animals" was kind of a precursor, or beginning or a glimpse or taste of Gilmour's epic 2nd/ending guitar solo on "Comfortably Numb". In fact, the Pigs solo sounds to me like Gilmour wasn't done with the solo when the song fades into the next song on the album, "Sheep". Hehe, perhaps I'm wrong, but I think Gilmour was just getting warmed up to crush that damn solo a lot more than it ended up being, and that it was surely a sign of more great, epic guitar solos on their future songs like "Comfortably Numb" from "The Wall", and then "Your Possible Pasts" & "The Fletcher Memorial Home" from their album "The Final Cut", and after Waters exited stage left for his solo career, to a lessor extent on songs like "High Hopes" and "Marooned" from "The Division Bell". Regardless if you agree with me or not, shine on, you crazy diamonds!

Music is going to suck so bad in 50 years that the worst music of the 20th century will sound like a Stradivarius.

Unfortunately it’s looking as if AI will be the next big change in music. As soon as an AI generated song becomes a hit, it will begin. In the future, audio and video will merge, as it has been moving in that direction for many years. Eventually we will have a song be a totally immersive experience, where a Beatles song will include AI enhanced images of them recording rehearsing and performing the pieces, all generated using the raw material created during their career of recordings, photos and movies. People will don their VR bodysuits and retreat completely into the world of the chosen song. Of course, movies will also take this direction. Yes, Aldous Huxley in Brave New World gave us the “Feelies”, where people sat together in a theatre and shared the sensations of the leads in the movie, however music is increasingly becoming an individual experience, taking away that shared experience of sitting around the stereo and listening to music together. Oh Walkman, what have you wrought?

I'm a little surprised that no one mentioned Toccata and Fugue in Dm. I've always thought of that as metal capable of ripping the roof off a place.

Great selection. Really brought back some fond memories. Yes, there could be arguments to add this song or that band to the list, it's just a testament to the times that we had so much fantastic music to choose from.

Fantastic discussion!

Why isn't Ted talking in Congress on national TV?

I just want to say wow!

Just heard/watched the video for the first time it’s like heroin/LSD Induced now I know why kids are overdosing and dying in car crashes 😢

My drumming hero, when I first heard Gish in the late 80’s, it inspired me to play drums. Never could play rolls like Jimmy but he has inspired me for a lifetime of drumming and still at 53 he provides a future goal I still try to attain- excellent interview x

I'm so grateful for this interview. I'm consuming it in small sips to let it sink in.

I don't like this song, but i like Rick Beato's vids

Interesting to hear 2 geniuses talk !!

She is a function. As follows ..... Keep the young women locked in between now and the election, and issue only the most subtle innuendo on who they should not like. That will be enough. She does not have to endorse or preach.

Please excuse the profile pic and name; my granddaughter took over my Google Account and I don't know how to get back my account. Anyhow, I was lucky enough to have attended a Steely Dan concert on March 30, 1973. I was 15 years old when I attended this concert and saw Steely Dan, Focus and Black Oak Arkansas (Jim Dandy had a unique voice). This was an awesome concert. I loved Donald Fagen from day one. I just remember thinking, "why did they have David Palmer in the band?". I didn't really care for his singing, and throughout the concert, he kept climbing to the top of amplifier stacks and jumping off of them. Of course by their second album, they had gotten rid of him. And 15 months later, Steely Dan stopped touring. I heard that Fagen had issues with singing for a live audience, and David Palmer filled the need to take the focus off of himself. Speaking of Focus, they were awesome in concert. They had recently released Focus 3, and they were incredible. I became a huge fan of Prog Rock and Focus was one of my early loves. I didn't see Steely Dan again until September 10, 1994. I'd been to hundreds of concerts, but this concert was my all-time favorite concert ever. They played at the beautiful Gorge Amphitheatre in George, WA. It overlooks the Columbia River gorge, and their performance and sound was the best I'd ever seen and heard. I am one lucky guy.

I think "Use Me" by Bill Withers is a pretty groovy 2 chords song.

Great interview

Love your 2 channels! Please check out Buckethead playing Soothsayer !

Most people say, including Billy himself that honesty is a suprisingly difficult song to play...

Incredible drummer. Very cool!

Get Ted Nugent on Rick. Talk about delving into the depths of corruption. He's your man.