
259: Rick Beato—In Another Time He Could Have Been a Star
The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe
What Makes All the Things That Grab Your Ear?
Mito: "It's a music appreciation slash music production slash song writing technique series" He says he tries to make the videos so that anyone can enjoy it, even if they don't know anything about music. Mito: "You can geek out on it if you're a fool on music, theorist or hard core i lover"
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Speaker 1
Well,
Speaker 2
i never started out. I had my friends that would tell me, oh, ye, if you'regoing o be on u two be have to make short videos. They have to be this long. And i said, well, shouldn't you make videos as long as they need to be,
Speaker 3
as long as it is good? Yes, it antbe as long as it is good. That's what we owe. Yes,
Speaker 2
of course, edit them. But you want to really cover these topics that you're talking about. And sometimes you can't do it in eight minutes. Sometimes it's 28 minutes. Sometimes it's an hour and forty six minutes. You know,
Speaker 1
how do you edit? You're what makes this song great? I mean, it just looks like a lot of flash upaye, which i love. Mito,
Speaker 3
i
Speaker 2
shoot them in sequence. So i play the song and em and i just move along through the song and talk about i talk about all the things that grab your ear. That's not as catchy of a title.
Speaker 3
Ha, ha, ha. What makes all tedays avyour her all
Speaker 2
the things that get hap your ear is really the its
Speaker 1
kind of good ben infection. It's
Speaker 2
kind of, aa a. It's a music appreciation slash music production slash song writing technique series. Essentially i talk about the production of it, how these parts are what types of sounds are being used, how they're played. I did a breakdown a kid charlemagne. I played larry carleton's solo. I had the drum part that bernard purdy played, who i interviewed recently. I notated the shuffle that he played. I had chuck rainey's bas part written out for the people that want to go there. It's there for the people that want to just hear the parts and me talk about em. They can get that. I try to have it so that anyone can enjoy it, even if they don't know anything about music, or if they, if they nw to read music and they want to know what bernard purdy's exact drum part is, they can take a screen shot and they can play it. That's
Speaker 1
it. That's the thing i was trying to articulate, rick, your channel over all, but this series in particular, you can geek out on it if you're a fool on music, theorist, hard core i lover, and you can absolutely enjoy it in relative terms to the same degree if you're just somebody who's curious as to why they like a thingy, that's very, very rare, like really, really unusual. And i know you know it, but i just wanted to say it to you, because it's chuck. Do you remember, i think i introduced you to what makes this song great? You
Speaker 3
totally did. I can't remember exactly. I think it was a boston song. Y, it was e and which i loved boston. That first album was like, ma gash.
Speaker 1
I couldn't believe it. He did it in his basemente
Speaker 3
had, right? The whole thing
Speaker 1
built all the yearol damn. Sa, what's his name? As it tommy sholtz. Im sholts.
Speaker 2
He played
Speaker 1
every instrument, sang
Speaker 3
every part. This reminds me of another band that mike and i are both big fans of. And i'm sure rick that you know of this band, but they were only popular in like, philadelphia and ba more. And that's crack, the sky. You remember them? Yes,
Speaker 2
i
Speaker 3
do. John polumbo, he did the same thing, didn't he? Didn't he record the first album in his basement or somethingyes, yes. He lived over in talson.
Speaker 1
So this is the thing that makes me crazy, rick. It's david rolf the reason that we know each other. And it, i'm still still knot quite over it. He has so much talent, yes, that it makes your eyes cross. And i don't know what he's doing to day. I dont know if he's scoring movies. I don't know if he's back in a band. I know he's living up in a park city with his beautiful family, but i have no idea if his best work is gathering digital dust. And john polumbo, he could have been john polumbo cracked the sky could have been boston, right? It's endless. How close. How many people in this crazy industry are adjacent to something like ubiquity? Most,
Speaker 2
mike, most. It's
Speaker 1
the space between ananimity and ubiquity. It's so skinny. It's so skinny. We don't have. Most other careers have a path. They're like lily pads, and you hop here, and you hop there and here. No, you can spend 30 years of your life slaving away, and then wake up one morning and you're famous or not, you know, i just or not,
Speaker 3
haa,
Speaker 1
or youre ricbiato. And you do what you do, and you have a measure of success. And then the technology comes along that enables you to say, here's a question. What makes this song great? Oh, i know. I'll answer it for you over and over again. You can't scrip it, brother. It
Speaker 2
was just luck.
Rick Beato drops by to talk Everything Music; his dinner with Joni Mitchell, his interview with Sting, and the TWO weddings where he sat next to Mike at a time when Mike was couch surfing.