Michael Beinhorn - Why We Shouldn't Listen To The Beatles, The Rolling Stones And Led Zeppelin

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Producer Michael Beinhorn (Red Hot Chili Peppers, Soundgarden) on why we shouldn't have to listen to The Beatles, Led Zeppelin and The Rolling Stones anymore.
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[@ecallender]

Finally! Michael Beinhorn said what so many of us are thinking. The Beatles are old. The Stones are old.

[@mygic183]

I think this is one of the better Michael interviews I’ve seen… great stuff

[@interstellarbeatteller9306]

Great music has no expiry date - Bach's Air on a G string is still one of the best tunes 150 years later,, much like how 50 year old Led Zeppelin still rock the pants off most modern bands

[@deepcloudsmusic]

This is fantastic!

[@bobsbigboy_]

i will never stop listening to the brilliance of those bands

[@warnerbasement1628]

Production choices are why we're here. Things are over produced, quantized, auto-tuned, and pitch corrected. That's my barrier and it's a huge one. We've also become obsessed with subgenre purity with an over-emphasis on chops over song composition and arrangment and playing instruments to the song and not songs being driven by instrumental prowess -- which is just boring, contrived and usually sterile. We have metal with bass drums so fast it isn't human beings playing it but we pretend it is -- which is the definition of insanity. Why???? Purity of a self delusion? Also so much modern music is done by committee and that's not the same as a band hashing something out with other musicians and artists. It's so bad you have AI generating "90's sytle" music intentionally omitting pitch correction and auto tune to sound more "authentic" to the period but it can't quite reconcile it, so it's partly toe in and toe out in terms of "modern production techniques". That is bat s**t crazy! But here's the thing. AI songs doing 90's era prompts are BETTER tonally, arrangment wise and compositionally than similar music produced today.

[@toomuchfandango]

I understand the idea that michael is saying here, he is saying basically wake up humanity and get artistic again! But your wrong to blame people listening to the greats. Listening to the greats is awesome. Trying to rip them off is not. If chris cornell didnt have the Beatles he wouldnt have made black hole sun. Case and point. The real problem stems out to the wider culture we are in. We are so afraid to be strange and different. Everyone has opted for safer routes in fear of not succeeding and has resulted in missing the point. I say listen to the beatles and zep more than ever, and if you try rip them off, means you havnt actually listened properly ....

[@cristianescobar6027]

I was about to say exactly what you said already months ago. I don't think Beinhorn was trying to be provocative, but summarising his point as such was extremely lazy and lacking substance. Besides, the last 15 years have mostly been Hip-hop derivatives, Synth-driven tunes and shallow, prefab, soulful piano/guitar based songs; I wish I could see the Beatles's influence anywhere near. If Michael Beinhorn wanted to actively push music forward he could produce his own albums, other than just shielding on "my job is to make the artist's desire work well"; you usually read about him approaching bands that hire him saying he wants to make the greatest album, but Nigel Godrich, for example, rejected a lot of Paul McCartney's compositions when they were pre-producing "Chaos and Creation...". I do love though how he produces drums and guitars. "Malibu" is one of my favourite songs in that aspect. I do agree with him, though, that it is all a sociocultural phenomena, but I humbly don't think that listening to the bands mentioned here has any role in what we are witnessing.

[@NikosPage]

Amazing

[@honkytears]

Finkle is Beinhorn... Beinhorn is Finkle

[@oprahwinfrey2967]

The Beatles were never that great. They were simplistic and repetitive. Furthermore, their relevance to popular music expired long ago. Michael is right in his assertion that the listening public has moved on and thus music producers are better served by following suit.

[@MrACangusyoungDC]

Nah, just see what's gold in the old. I have my old nickname from when I was 11 here and please make rock that is as hard as Shake Your Foundations to put on a grid and as dynamic as Night Prowler. Nothing comes close to it, and people think AC/DC is caveman stupidy rock

[@TheBrettWilson]

Why is Micheal standing on me with his eyes closed and those tiny tubs of milk in his ears that hotels put in the fridge for your coffee (one splash is all you get!)

[@justinreynolds3935]

He is correct about music however I think it stems more from humankind just getting dumber and worse as a whole. It's all related.

[@keithferris9574]

Absolutely