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That book he put out, "Beatotudes", is a little over the top.

Like "Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after chops: for they shall have their iconic fill."

And then the little motivational anecdotes after the sayings.
Come on.

penningtron wrote: Fri May 05, 2023 9:52 am

Anthony Flack wrote: Thu May 04, 2023 6:52 pm Just learned Beato has a Gibson sig model. Play all your favourite Rick Beato tunes!

I blame Gibson for yet another boneheaded boomer move. I don't fault Beato for taking them up on it.

It’s really interesting how different of companies Fender and Gibson are now.

I get Fender newsletters and they have complete embraced mass customisation and seem to put out endless reissues and new products.

Gibson just seem sclerotic and badly run. I assume that’s way the went bust.

PS my main guitar for 25 years is an SG so I’m no Fender fanboy.

Not into him but he did do an hour-long interview with Derek Trucks (truly a wonderful guitarist). It had about five minutes of Derek's guitar playing in it and was otherwise Trucks just geeking out over Coltrane, Sun Ra, John Gilmore, Elmore James, Col. Bruce Hampton etc. DT was totally charming and guileless and reminded me a lot of my friend Rob Bochnik, which is never a bad thing. The whole thing was nice and I liked it.

Over the past few months, I’ve listened to a handful of his interviews—with Butch Vig; with Kris Noveselic, Kim Thayil, and Jack Endino—and watched a couple regular “music these days, amirite?” episodes. I’ve enjoyed them a lot more than I’d expected to. It’s refreshing to hear people talk about mic placement, arrangement decisions, and the creative process and not about band drama, drugs, and personal beefs. I wish the Butch Vig interview had been twice as long (or exactly as long, but without the Smashing Pumpkins).

So I’ll vote not crap.

The one where he has Steve Gadd try to repeat his infamous brushes-on-a-pizza-box performance from one of his '80s instructional videos and he can't quite seem to play it right sober is really hard to watch.

Having spent some time with Rick during my convalescence I’m voting Not Crap with waffles.

His tastes can be a little stuck in “quality MOR”. Which is fine, but it can miss the mark, like when he has a whole episode on Drop D and doesn’t mention Page Hamilton.

My favorite interview yet.

Yes, I am biased.

Crap with some waffles possibly. He's got a pretty big ego and he's truly tiresome. He is so smarmy and speaks with a certain made up authority that is quite annoying when you realize that he hasn't actually accomplished a lot musically in his life.

The Beato interviews are better that his older videos. I watched some of the Nirvana and Soundgarden one and it was enjoyable because of the interviewees. It's kind of hilarious when Beato interviews rock musicians and tries to get them to talk music theory like "so you played an A minor with an added ninth while the bass was playing the fifth of the chord, was that done on purpose?" and they look at him like he's out of his damn gourd.

I much prefer Adam Neely to him. That's a guy who's knowledgeable, humble, and actually a working musician.

Also the fact this poll is skewing not crap is proof we're getting old.

I am not proud but I clicked on that "Music’s Most Impressive Pivot | The Rebirth of Kip Winger" video thinking to myself "Did he pivot to writing songs about women of legal age or what?" and it turns out that that is exactly what the entire 37-minute-and-35-second interview is about – he comes off as truly contrite about his past, almost embarassingly so. Still, it seems like Beato is setting the bar pretty low here when it comes to impressive pivots in music history.