God damn I'm sad i missed it.

Thats what I loved about the 1990s, it was such a freeform decade. Frank Zappa talks abou how the 1960s was like that. Nobody in the industry really knew what was going on , and as a result you got all these strange collaborations and really unusual bands getting signed. I think the 90s was.a bit like that for a while. The industry was completely upended by Nirvana and for thel longest time afterwards a lot of really unusual acts where getting signed because the record execs where all "fuck it, the kids seem to like it, sign em" And so you'd get stuff like Beck and Johnny cash doing a tour together. This is something that never could have occurded before, or after the 90s. I'm just waiting for something truly underground to break water once again so we get another decade of true innovation. We're about due for it.

Pure gold

Interesting crowd I’ll bet?

No doubt,shows like that in the 90’s was common,man I miss the 90’s ....it might have something to do with the fact that I was in my 20’s 😉I turned 21 in 1992 in LA

I love how he was tearing up watching cash say how much he liked and was impressed with some of his work.

damn straight. musical psalm 1.01

+Industrial Savior I actually like hearing people say that because it includes Trent Reznor. I think to this day people are even more unaware of what happened with "The Downward Spiral" breaking ground than someone like Beck. But that plays into the theory that while Trent may have truly shown sounds and layers unheard to the human ear at the time (I believe it was 94) he failed to reinvent his sound the way say Beck or even Radiohead has over the years. For most that tends to have more longevity. Sorry, not sure I have a point outside of "I agree". So I'll leave it at that.

Ryan Ranger Early NIN was good, but Tent Reznor didn't invent any new sounds that were "unheard of". Swans and other early industrial bands and even early no wave bands did it way earlier.

Industrial Savior damn straight. It's an automatic immunity/get out of jail free card

Very true and he didn’t look down on people. I honestly admire him because even as a self proclaimed Christian (same as me) he’s never been judgmental or like you said, sealed off with this idea that he’s above anyone. He was open. He was a hard addict (same here) and when you’ve been there and get on the other side of it you understand how easy it is to be at the bottom. To be looked at as less than when you’re still of the same spirit inside just broken. You nailed it. He was open to other things and willing to see the good in everything. His variety show back in the day was amazing. I’ve seen clips, he invited everyone on.

Cash was a beautiful real man.

Just a point, Cash WAS modern music. He came up with the Million Dollar Quartet: Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Elvis at Sun Records. He might have been a bit more country, but he wasn't old fashioned. And back in the day he was doing songs with Bob Dylan and covering the Stones. So he was always hip.

Cash was a man carved out of a mountain.

I remember there was an interview w/ cedric and omar from mars volta/at the drive in and they talked about meeting Johnny and how he was showing them hardcore bands from DC he liked.

Sure is.

+Fast Heart Mart Beck was a "big deal" when Mellow Gold dropped. That was in the early 90's.

Ha! You ain't got to tell me, I've been with Beck since the beginning ;) I heard that Johnny Cash was into Beck before Mellow Gold's "Loser"...they were neighbors or something in LA? Beck put demo tapes "Banjo Stories" etc.. in Johnny Cash's mailbox. Just good to know Johnny Cash had such a brilliant ear as all the greats do :D

hipster detected

Ashton Keel What's that supposed to mean?

Ed F booboo What's that supposed to mean?

+MUDSWAT Hence the moment of Beck's tears.... It's true though. The man in black had a good ear. I love that he noticed a significant handful of bands and performers I loved as well.

You gotta be when you write and play every instrument in the band by yourself 😂

kevtruth I liked Beck before I was born

I liked beck before music happened

I was born before I even liked Beck.

I was Beck before born he was even like

Before he was cool..

A lot of people didn't like 'Mutations' but I really did. It's much more melancholy than 'Mellow Gold' almost as if Beck was feeling withdrawn because of the fame he didn't want. 'Odelay!' was his bounce back full force.

How perceptive.

Gets you right in the gut

Duh?

I think he might have been a little ironic doing that.

Greg Williams Really? Ironic? I guess. I’d buy satirical. Not sure about ironic. Beck was pretty young during this interview. He may have been sarcastically or satirically(both are usually attempts at humor)wiping tears but there’s always truth in humor. I think his feeling was appropriate. Maybe he didn’t have real tears flowing because he was emotionally spent from touring or because he is a sociopath(jk). However, he certainly knew what having an artist like Cash enjoy even ONE of his songs meant. So he went through the motions of emotions instead of gushing verbally. I could be wrong. It may have been ironic and maybe he has or had some disdain for Cash. Ironically implies some form of opposite. Maybe I’m wrong. Totally open to discussion

So much references I can't read without hearing them in my mind

he wasn't already?

Dude's been a badass from day one.

maybe, but it took him six years and three recordings to finish "honky Tonkin'."

When Leonard Cohen first met Bob Dylan, Dylan asked Cohen “hey that song of yours, Hallelujah, I really like that song, it’s like a prayer. How long did it take you to write that?” Cohen, embarrassed of saying the truth which took him 4-6 years to write it, he lied & said it took him 2 years. The Cohen asked Dylan about a song he liked of his & asked him how long it took him to write that, to which Dylan replied “30 minutes in the back of a bus”.

I feel like this says more about the overbearing simplicity of country music, than it does music in general, or song writing...

@@JNava i believe Cohen wrote over 80 verses for Halleluja

@@HughMansonMD Then write us a classic overbearing simplistic country song and post it.

It means when the Muse is coming for you, you better be ready because she leaves as quick as she comes!

When you get used to it, makes you forget, new people enter this plane every day

He's a musician's musician. And kids today... have you heard what they play on the radio? I honestly feel sorry for these kids.

leadbones I'm 14 and I hate music in these days now. I like music that other kids in my age don't know what I'm listening to.

Sittichai Theppaboot Then you are my hero!

i am sorry in advance i dont mean to be dicky or anything but he i think knows em because he saw him in the same venue he was playing

Did Beck record this on an album? I’ve only found it as live performances.

@@bryantaskins4448 yes on stereopathetic soulmanure

like Maybelle Carter.

+r boyington Like Liza Minelli. Wait what are we talking about? I suppose "we" weren't talking about anything. I just impulsively and randomly decided to jump in and lower IQ's with my idiocy. Shit, sorry about that. After over an hour of watching nostalgic things, time traveling and leaving thoughtful comments I had to counterbalance a bit. You're the innocent bystanders. So why not just erase this? Good question (Narcissism?).

wilson2038 he who smelt it dealt it

Exactly :-)

You might want to rephrase that. ;)

lol

@@inphanta I think it's supposed to have that double meaning, lol

Get in line, sister.

I don’t approve

Nathaniel Hornblower No

@Gupster 23 i don't like how I know your pfp source

Landon Balk it's understandable. Most of artists are emotionally sensitive .

When your hero praises you, you might get weepy.

That would be an understatement. "Save my life I'm going down for the last time" is more like it. I'm always a huge fan of anyone this good who really should no longer be amongst us but Beck in particular does absolutely have a gift too. One of those gifts is absolute total honesty as I recall. "Yeah, that's real!" cuz, that's Beck. Any real rockers should be hugging this kid to death and especially these old timers who can barely hang today as he has so much to be of the genuine. Very rare in the music World.

the HOF is nonsense corperate bs