Rick Beato - a recommendation for music lovers

[CapMan]

As a musician and lover of most things musical I wanted to recommend Rick Beato's You Tube channel. He is a musician, producer and studio engineer and his channel includes many insightful and genuinely fascinating interviews as well as breakdowns of well known tracks.

His interviewing style is respectful, informed and most importantly he gives the interviewee as much time as they need to respond. He avoids sycophancy but retains a child-like interest and joy in hearing from these musicians. It's great.

Most recently I have enjoyed his interviews with Glyn Johns, Steve Lukather, Brian May, Steve Gadd and Tony Levin. I have plenty more to work through.

I would definitely recommend the Glyn Johns interview - at one point Rick asks Glyn if he was concerned about signal degradation when using long mic cables to record the Beatles roof top concert - he just looked bemused at the question Puts things into perspective when some audio folks are concerned about how pure the copper is in their wire

Glyn also reinforces the importance of bands playing together and recording as a unit - he is clear in his view that this is where the magic happens and a little scornful of other more modern approaches !

Hope this is of interest.

I would also add that these interviews show that the truly great musicians seem to be consistently humble and grateful to their teachers and those who helped them .

 

[Snarfie]

As a musician and lover of most things musical I wanted to recommend Rick Beato's You Tube channel. He is a musician, producer and studio engineer and his channel includes many insightful and genuinely fascinating interviews as well as breakdowns of well known tracks.

His interviewing style is respectful, informed and most importantly he gives the interviewee as much time as they need to respond. He avoids sycophancy but retains a child-like interest and joy in hearing from these musicians. It's great.

Most recently I have enjoyed his interviews with Glyn Johns, Steve Lukather, Brian May, Steve Gadd and Tony Levin. I have plenty more to work through.

I would definitely recommend the Glyn Johns interview - at one point Rick asks Glyn if he was concerned about signal degradation when using long mic cables to record the Beatles roof top concert - he just looked bemused at the question Puts things into perspective when some audio folks are concerned about how pure the copper is in their wire

Glyn also reinforces the importance of bands playing together and recording as a unit - he is clear in his view that this is where the magic happens and a little scornful of other more modern approaches !

Hope this is of interest.

I would also add that these interviews show that the truly great musicians seem to be consistently humble and grateful to their teachers and those who helped them .

+1 when i'm looking for artist background information i come regular across his interviews for instance with Chuck Rainey

Infact it lead to inspiration to fiddle around with some multitrack files from Aja the Peg track ( here under in the link topic) where he played lead bass an that started a My favorite bass artis topic. https://www.audiosciencereview.com/...o-is-or-are-your-favorite-bass-players.66887/

 

[CapMan]

Check out the interviews with Lee Sklar and Tony Levin and have a great Sunday

 

[CapMan]

Nearly two hours in the company of David Gilmour - what an absolute treat .

 

[Spkrdctr]

Rick Beato is a real treasure for anyone interested in music. He does fantastic interviews and you get to see/hear from all of the best in their genre. He is a huge icon. I hope as he retires that someone younger picks up the idea and keeps it going. Amazing guy.

 

[mags65]

I thought this was an interesting video in the context of amp «sounds» in music creation vs. reproduction.

 

[Vacceo]

I have seen his takes on Metal. He seems to not be able to reach beyond surface level, hence not realizing that a genre that started underground and returned to the underground is not in decadence, but in its natural habitat.

I guess it is the usual "audiophile" take on music, simply not the best suited person to cover certain genres.

 

[diddley]

you can't have all in one person.

 

[CapMan]

Rick Wakeman should be classed as a national treasure - this is a 'press play' interview where the interviewer is smart enough to let the musician tell their stories uninterrupted.

 

[HedgeHog]

I have seen his takes on Metal. He seems to not be able to reach beyond surface level, hence not realizing that a genre that started underground and returned to the underground is not in decadence, but in its natural habitat.

I guess it is the usual "audiophile" take on music, simply not the best suited person to cover certain genres.

He used to produce metal bands and he said he likes metal. Not sure where the "take" came from.

 

[Vacceo]

He used to produce metal bands and he said he likes metal. Not sure where the "take" came from.

At no point in the past has been the amount of great Black and Death Metal bands that there are now.

 

[Zgrado1970]

Yeah, Rick is great if you like tired old boomer sh*t.

 

[AdrianusG]

Yeah, Rick is great if you like tired old boomer sh*t.

Well, i happen to do

 

[diddley]

And so do I, and i'm not even a boomer but a music lover.

 

[Member 90125]

I'm not the biggest Beato fan- but I do appreciate that he incorporates 2 key elements in his interview style: interesting and informed questions and allowing the subject to do the bulk of the talking. If I see he has someone on that I'm interested in- I do try and check it out for those reasons

 

[Spkrdctr]

Yeah, Rick is great if you like tired old boomer sh*t.

I resemble that remark! He is fantastic at the education side of music. Like how the industry has changed over the last few decades. How big business ruined the industry and sucked all the money out of it. He also knows how things are done like song writing. the music ect. It is far from old boomer stuff all the time. The biggest issue coming up is that AI is going to kill off the musicians and the singers. In ten years there will be a heavy amount of AI replacing any human interaction in making music.

 

[tokyo_blues]

His Keith Jarrett interview was fantastic.

Tired boomer sh*t my ar*se

 

[NoFuzz]

As a musician and lover of most things musical I wanted to recommend Rick Beato's You Tube channel. He is a musician, producer and studio engineer and his channel includes many insightful and genuinely fascinating interviews as well as breakdowns of well known tracks.

His interviewing style is respectful, informed and most importantly he gives the interviewee as much time as they need to respond. He avoids sycophancy but retains a child-like interest and joy in hearing from these musicians. It's great.

Most recently I have enjoyed his interviews with Glyn Johns, Steve Lukather, Brian May, Steve Gadd and Tony Levin. I have plenty more to work through.

I would definitely recommend the Glyn Johns interview - at one point Rick asks Glyn if he was concerned about signal degradation when using long mic cables to record the Beatles roof top concert - he just looked bemused at the question Puts things into perspective when some audio folks are concerned about how pure the copper is in their wire

Glyn also reinforces the importance of bands playing together and recording as a unit - he is clear in his view that this is where the magic happens and a little scornful of other more modern approaches !

Hope this is of interest.

I would also add that these interviews show that the truly great musicians seem to be consistently humble and grateful to their teachers and those who helped them .

Excellent interviews and love the process, the creativity, the craftsmanship, the happy accidents behind the scenes of the record industry.

Though when I first saw a video years ago I thought is Anthony Bourdain also into music? But a filled up table was not part of the interview so that gave some hint ;-)

 

[dweeeeb2]

I don’t even know what the tired boomer sh*t is. Happy to be educated, what does that mean?

 

[Newman]

Yeah, Rick is great if you like tired old boomer sh*t.

Stereotypical tired old boomer sh*t.

(Not all of us tired old boomers like the same sh*t)