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Rick proves the vast difference; though, I would say NONE of today’s top 10 songs are worth listening to.
Top Comment: “There is some music being made today that is fantastic. Unfortunately, you will never hear it on mainstream radio.”
“Why can’t people just sing harmonies instead of autotuning them?” – Rick Beato
In today’s episode I sit down with legendary GRAMMY award-winning songwriter Jimmy Webb.
He is widely recognized for writing numerous hit songs performed by various artists, with some of his most famous works including “MacArthur Park,” “By the Time I Get to Phoenix,” “Wichita Lineman,” and “Galveston.” Webb is one of the most influential songwriters of his generation.
Great movie about Gordon Lighfoot’s life, released in 2019! Gordon speaks a lot in the film at about age-80, and is pretty honest about things he regrets having done. This is the first time I’ve seen his story told. His music meant a lot to me in the ’70s!
Life apart from Christ: autotune warped voices singing uninspired melodies taking us nowhere. Yuck! I don’t find any interesting.
It’s absolutely one of the greatest, but it’s not a country song, just a song — written by Jimmy Webb.
Rick talks about this performance: Glenn Campbell plays ‘Wichita Lineman’ w/o accompaniment incl. guitar solos on ‘Craig Kilborn’
3:25 Holds pick with fingers clenched, which helps him be more relaxed.
Shoulders should be relaxed
Keep the left hand open like a C
Mute bottom string for Am
Ambient dreamscape banjo and lap steel?!! Surprisingly succeeds!
Mark Peters: guitar, bass, piano, banjo, lap steel, synthesizer, ukulele, harmonica, percussion.
LISTEN HERE
Hard not to cry during some of this. Karen’s pristinely pure voice, the harmonies, and dying so young.
Would people even be interested in music like this today? There was wholesomeness back then: white instead of dark.
Amazing history here:
What Is The Carpenters Greatest Song?
I TOTALLY agree with what Rick says here. I heard a song on the radio a few days ago, and immediately knew it was Jeff Beck on guitar. Rick is a master at explaining the technical, but doesn’t talk about the heart, where this comes from, and then the technical makes it possible.
Beck is now 78. And I don’t know what’s going on with his heart spiritually, but what comes out of him is often amazing.
How in the world do people actually claim that any of us just happened by chance, created by no one?
Start at minute-2:45, if you’re pressed for time.
46:45 “Every other technology has improved the user experience except one, music. … Over a period of decades you actually make the audio quality worse….”
55:00 The less Spotify subscribers stream music the more Spotify makes. “There is a whole system out there incentivized for people to care not care much about music.” So feature and post boring, uninspiring music — the love of money factor.
56:30 Bending the note is now gone with the feeling.
HURT – Cover vs Original – Which Is Better? Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy
Johnny Cash – Hurt
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Performance at 15:00
Kebu shows off his Roland synth collection. In this part, Kebu presents his JD-XA, SE-02 and FANTOM. In the end of the video, Kebu gives a jam with the three synths, controlled and clocked from the FANTOM.
Incredible demonstration at 17:43!
Foo Fighter’s drummer, Taylor Hawkins, is found dead in another tragic ending for an artist connected to so much of the music that made its way out of Seattle in the 1990’s and into the mainstream. We take a look at how the grunge movement really has been devastated by the sex, drugs, and rock and roll lifestyle that it has perpetuated in the world.
NARRATOR @10:05 “When it comes to the grunge scene and so much of the music, this is the therapy of so many of these artists, when they are singing these songs after being bullied an so forth in high school, or whatever it may be, many of which became dropouts. …
They, themselves were ‘normal’ people who had their own problems and anxieties, and instead of casting them on Someone Who can truly take away those burdens and take away those anxieties, they thought that screaming and singing about them would provide for them a purpose and a hope that it simply did not provide.”
12:28 In the Foo Fighters movie, ‘Studio 666’ (2022), Dave Grohl becomes possessed and kills Taylor Hawkins: Trailer
Taylor Hawkins was found with over 10 types of drugs in his system.
Breaking Down the Greatest Classic Rock Song w/ Buck Dharma
Human element removed. Everything sounds plastic.
17:20 Telecommunications act of 1996 — mega media corporations control all the media
Year 2000: ProTools, Auto-Tune and Melodyne
Gridification of music: pitch and time — sterile
Corporatization of all playlists — programmed by one person
Amazing song critiqued and appreciated! Includes some thoughts by Seal over the phone.
I was wondering how Rick got the isolated tracks. Here he says Seal got him the stems for the song.
“How much of my heart can I pour into it?”
2:05 “This song is the same thing over and over and over. … It doesn’t really go anywhere.”
27:10 “We’re in the era of limited dynamic range. Everything is compressed to the max. …the same velocity. Vocals are all autotune, so they’re all in the grid… computerized. Everything is in the exact tempo. It never moves, has no humanity. … It’s not people playing together.”
Related: Why Today’s Music Is So BORING. The Regression of Musical Innovation
How low information music contributes to the decline of musical aptitude.
4:00 Telecommunications Act of 1996, signed by Bill Clinton: 6 companies now own 90% of the media. In 1983, 50 companies owned 90% of the media.