Between The Wheels

lately I have been watching quite interviews / longs & shorts on Rick Beato's channel. I know some of you do as well.
i like his way of interviewing, he is really knowledgable and insightful. So I ran into his interview with Tool drummer Danny Carey and I was floored. Not only did he interview him great, Danny was such a pleasure to listen to. So humble and open. And what revelations! He played with Jeff Buckley even way back, how about that? And then running through his kit, some real eye openers there for me!

(and as a fan: Danny mentioned they have remastering AEnima, and he heard it on vinyl...so that means a re-release on vinyl FINALLY coming up!).

Stewart Copeland is another fantastic interview, although I have seen a lot of Stewart and was already a fan..

Anyway, just thought I'd mention it in case you hadn't noticed Beato and his 4.2 million ( :o ) subscribers.

https://www.youtube.com/@RickBeato/videos
And for shorter versions or excerpts:
https://www.youtube.com/@rickbeato2

Something about Rick's personality grates on me a little. I think his sales schtick is a little over-confident.

But I must admit his interviews are usually brilliant. Very comprehensive, very long usually. He understands music theory and music production so he asks interesting questions other interviewers usually wouldn't. He usually has a knowledge of his subjects' music and career that other interviewers don't. I've been a little embarrassed by some of the questions people have asked Geddy when he was doing the rounds for My Effin' Life for example.

I'd love to see him interview Alex, although Alex doesn't seem to have a lot of music theory knowledge so that could actually prove a little embarrassing for the opposite reason.

His Andy Summers interview was fantastic, I linked it somewhere in Other Music I think.

As well as the interviews I like his analysis videos. He did one for Xanadu. I especially like this one for the old Burt Bacharach tune The Look of Love.

Rick had mitral valve surgery this month. He seems to be doing very well.

https://youtu.be/y0PjXiB4y2E?si=GIgMvJRoxMhePXnN

This is brilliant - Dweezil Zappa breaking down Eddie Van Halen's guitar style and technique. Apparently Ed played with really thin picks, which I find amazing. I just cannot get on with a light pick at all and I'd assumed that only cowboy chord strummers used them.

Very interesting one this. I was hoping he would mention Rush, but didn't. Kind of sums up all the arguments I've read on here and elsewhere on why certain albums are better than others. Or as a man once said, "Old Rush good, new Rush bad".

Very clickbaity video title, there.

I saw that last night, and my thought was - it's not that, it's just that people only have so much creative stuff to give, and it runs out. But there are other factors involved when it's a band, rather than an individual.

Quote from: Slim on November 03, 2024, 09:48:03 AMVery clickbaity video title, there.

I saw that last night, and my thought was - it's not that, it's just that people only have so much creative stuff to give, and it runs out. But there are other factors involved when it's a band, rather than an individual.

I do believe that creative fuel tank is age related though. That huge flow of mental energy and excitement does unfortunately only exist in the late teens through our twenties for the most part. Unless you're a Robin Williams type human.

Published two hours ago, an interview with one of my favourite players, Mike Stern. Only watched the first two minutes but I wonder if he'll tell his Miles Davis anecdote about a tune called Fat Time.

This is pure gold. Published yesterday. Rick B asks a short question roughly every half hour. Rick W just talks, and talks, and talks ..

Quote from: Slim on November 13, 2024, 07:26:11 PMThis is pure gold. Published yesterday. Rick B asks a short question roughly every half hour. Rick W just talks, and talks, and talks ..

Yep that was great...

After Rick had a bit of a moan on how he could not get the biggest names in the business because they are not social media savvy anough (or rather their agents aren't) it looks like he did get David Gilmour to talk to him. Typically he teases shorts for these interviews, and this seems one of those.

Quote from: Fishy on November 14, 2024, 12:29:49 PM

Quote from: Slim on November 13, 2024, 07:26:11 PMThis is pure gold. Published yesterday. Rick B asks a short question roughly every half hour. Rick W just talks, and talks, and talks ..

Yep that was great...

It was indeed.

Quote from: Thenop on November 14, 2024, 06:14:36 PMAfter Rick had a bit of a moan on how he could not get the biggest names in the business because they are not social media savvy anough (or rather their agents aren't) it looks like he did get David Gilmour to talk to him. Typically he teases shorts for these interviews, and this seems one of those.

Glad to see this but is it really "the most famous chord in rock history"? No. The opening chord of Stairway to Heaven.

The opening chord of Hard Day's Night trumps both of them, but I wouldn't call it rock.

He has to sell it, and he's an American. So everything is the biggest, bestest and boldest.

Looking forward to this. David is a very articulate player but very limited, it's a shame he never learned to break out of the blues scale. That gift for economy and phrasing could have been really special if he had a deeper and broader understanding of music.

Yep Gilmour should be good.. I see he has a Pat Metheny interview as well..

Quote from: Slim on November 15, 2024, 12:57:27 PMLooking forward to this. David is a very articulate player but very limited, it's a shame he never learned to break out of the blues scale. That gift for economy and phrasing could have been really special if he had a deeper and broader understanding of music.

I'm trying my best to understand your take on this but not quite getting there. Surely these limitations, if that's what they are, make him the David Gilmour so loved by millions, playing the kind of music that most importantly he is passionate about. It's why I put him light years ahead of, Vai, Satriani, Govan et al, despite their technical ability and musical knowledge. I'll always prefer Lerxst, Brian May and classic rock type guitarists for their feel and melodic genius. After I read your post all I could think to do was Google, "is David Gilmour a good guitarist?" Google says he is!

In my opinion:

David doesn't have a melodic genius, he plays tasteful lines in the strict limitations of the blues paradigm. He phrases nicely.

Those other guitar players you mention have a much deeper feel for and understanding of music and all three of them can inhabit a piece of music in a way that David never could. Check this out, this is Guthrie improvising over a ballad called Time to Let Her Go. What he plays brings out the colour notes in the chords; it's sympathetic to the tension and release inherent in the music, it harmonises sympathetically to the chord changes while having an exquisite melodic narrative in its own right. It's brilliant. He'd never have to get Lee Ritenour in to help him finish a solo because he'd painted himself into a corner.




By contrast David is something like a chess player who only know how to move the pawns.

Quote from: Slim on November 16, 2024, 12:45:22 AMIn my opinion:

David doesn't have a melodic genius, he plays tasteful lines in the strict limitations of the blues paradigm. He phrases nicely.

Those other guitar players you mention have a much deeper feel for and understanding of music and all three of them can inhabit a piece of music in a way that David never could. Check this out, this is Guthrie improvising over a ballad called Time to Let Her Go. What he plays brings out the colour notes in the chords; it's sympathetic to the tension and release inherent in the music, it harmonises sympathetically to the chord changes while having an exquisite melodic narrative in its own right. It's brilliant. He'd never have to get Lee Ritenour in to help him finish a solo because he'd painted himself into a corner.

By contrast David is something like a chess player who only know how to move the pawns.

I agree with you, it's brilliant, but I couldn't listen to it all night. One of the best guitar pieces I have ever experienced is on one of those CDs which used to come with Guitarist magazine. I have dozens of them, but Joe Satriani appeared as a guest on one issue. He played an improvised part over a backing track he had only heard once. It's incredible. I'd never heard such free flowing on the spot creativity. It made me look into his career and I watched a video of him tutoring a young guitarist who had won a competition to have a lesson with Joe. His knowledge of the entire structure of music was mind blowing. It sounded like an interview with Beethoven or Mozart. He is talented on another level but I enjoy him more when he plays stuff like the Neil Young cover with Grace Potter. I don't know what made me think of this but Geddy said something really funny once about some of the more complex Rush material, "you can dance to it, but you'll hurt yourself". I suppose it's all down to how are brains are wired. Personal taste probably isn't our own choice but dictated.

All I can say is, is that when I've seen David "Don't Call me Dave" Gilmour live, when he starts playing the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.

It's him, you know it's him and he does what he does better than anyone else.

So... Gilmour's interview is up

About half way in and it is very entertaining. Gilmour's not the easiest to open up as I understand, and I have never really seen an in-depth interview done, but Beato manages to get him talking in a matter of minutes.
Great stuff again!

Yes, a good watch, watched it whilst eating my lunch.
From what I've read elsewhere, Gilmour seems to be a bit more chatty and open these days.

Nice interview....