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When I die I want to be buried in the mix ♥

Rick and Luke need to have semi-regular streams just talking about sessions and players from back in the day. I wanna go waaay down the rabbit hole when it comes to this kind of history lesson.

I love listening to Steve talk about his experiences as a guitarist and his collaborations with other musicians.

I could listen to these type of stories all day.

I went on Spotify earlier and played the "featuring Steve Lukather " playlist. If you're 'of an age', it's a really great listen. I could listen to these two shooting the breeze all day long. Love Steve! (and you, Rick 🙂)

Man! LUKATHER has been such a huge influence on my own guitar playing as much as Gilmore and Lifeson! Steve Rothery from Marillion and so many others. LUKATHER is truly one of the greatest. He's a total legend and deserves a great deal more praise than he gets. He's also a great singer.

Lukather is such a character! Without a doubt one of the most animated artists you've interviewed Rick! ✌

just love it when you and Luke gets together, real language by real guitarists. makes me smile.

That Steve Gadd story is legendary. Apparently he showed up hungover, from a binge the night before, almost asleep at the drum kit, and they counted it off and ripped Aja on 1 take

Steve Gadd is a drum god. I've been listening to him since at least Chick Corea's Friends album and he breadth of work is just amazing. He is always spot on perfect.

The Nightfly is so good.

The Toto album Hydra is a great overlooked studio rocker . Anyone else love it? Ie White Sister,

Love these interviews, Rick you sure know how to get people to be themselves.

Love both your channel's and all your guests are top notch, Stay Up, Hard, and Free Rick keep slamming out all these banger interviews.....🔥❤️💯✨️

Love all you work Rick.

Lukather is just a cool nice patient guy.....a real treasure

Lukather is soooooo much fun - I love these snippets!

You gotta love Steve, love his stories, total legend in my eyes...

I love their damn conversation! This is so cool.

Rosana's solo give me goosebumps every time i hear that crazy solo is amaaaaazing.

As a novice bass player (just play in church and have two other careers), I’ve learned so much about music and the industry. Thx Rick!

I didn't know there was a 2nd Rick Beato channel. Subscribed!

Found your channel because of Steve Lukather. Just subscribed. Loved the interview!

I Looooove Luke! He's always a great interview, and of course I love his playing all over the place. Great stories!!

Why I almost felt like I was with you guys? So good. Music lovers talking about our passion

I LOVE these stories

Alright, Beato. I've subscribed. You do great work, I must say.

There's a lot of classic rock, particularly from the '70s, where I wondered what the guitar player was doing between solos. Simply because I couldn't hear it in the mix under the pianos and strings. Like the song would be grooving along, and then this killer guitar solo comes out of nowhere, and once the solo was over the guitar would just disappear again in the mix.

I love Steve, saw him couple of years ago with Ringo Starr, amazing musician, top guitar player and great singer

I love listening to Steve's stories. Would be great fun (and go on forever...lol) to have him and Leland Sklar together in the studio...you could just sit back and let them go on for hours, and it would be incredible! lol ❤

Rick, I just wanted to stop you real quick and let you know that I’m subscribed to Rick Beato 2 and I pushed the notifications button just now…. lol, haha not but in all seriousness Rick this was a great interview…

Great interview. I was an engineer for several years in Dallas back in the early 80's. I always mixed by myself because too many cooks... When you play the mix, and no one is happy about how loud they are in the mix, then you know it is right.

Definitely subscribed!

Rick, you've heard it before, and you're gonna hear it again: you are a great intervier. When you do standard interviews, you do a great job because you ask the question, and then you let your guest talk and talk and talk because we don't want to hear you, we want to hear your guest. That said, these interviews that you do that are like this one, are also wonderful because you have been in the industry forever, your guests have been in the industry forever, and hearing pillars of the industry throw back-and-forth is just phenomenal. Trent Argante Grammy Award Recipient 1987 Gospel category Mylon Lefevre & Broken Heart

A lot of people don't know how much of a shredder Christopher Cross is!!!

The outro solo on White Sister is one of the best ever recorded and it’s under a layer of mud.

Listening to Ride like the Wind, the producers made the right call. Beato Nerds

You can tell how respected Rick is, as an equal & peer. You see how comfortable the true greats are talking with him 🎶

Yacht rock king, talking about other kings of yacht rock! Myles Kennedy (incredible tenor vocalist - AlterBridge, Slash, Mayfield four, solo) was chatting with Justin Hawkins (The Darkness) and Rick Beato himself about being a huge fan of yacht rock (among other genres and singers). Mark Tremonti too! They joked that they should put out an album of yacht rock remakes together! Would actually be pretty awesome based on watching Myles sing Levon and Rocket Man recently! Knocks the songs out of the park! (Be nice to have the guitars a bit more in the forefront of the mix too!)

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Lukather talks like a great solo. Effortless, but not a word misplaced. Can you imagine a podcast with Rick, Lukather, and Vinnie Colaiuta? Those guys can talk.

Even Mark Knopfler had difficulty recording with Steely Dan. Fagen and Becker's perfectionism is/was legendary. It is at least partly to blame for the long break after the release of Gaucho.

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I was a big fan of Toto back in the late’70s/early ‘80s. They made some great music!!!

The Steve Gadd was very common back in the day. His chauffeur was a good friend of mine. During his substance abuse days he was known to be passed out right before a session woken up and perform on the first take. He is the ultimate musician who happens to play drums. One of the nicest guys too so everyone tells me!

Steve is the most versatile guitar player to walk the planet

Found it and subscribed too

Earth Wind and Fire were happy to have Luke feature in the mix of their "Back On The Road" single. I bought the record because the guitar sounded like a Steely Dan solo. Give it a listen. It's a gem.

I would really enjoy talking to you all, your channel is really interesting to listen to yall xbehind the music".

Luk is one of the best interviews in music.

Rick you gotta give us more Luke chats. Love listening to his stuff.

Whenever Luke does an interview we all come out and say how awesome he is, great storyteller, and great stories. No doubt. But can we also all agree the dude is ADD and over the place in his stories. 😂 And that's part of what makes them so great. Love the guy.

Steve Lukather tells it like it is. 😊

Alright! Alright Rick I'm subscribed already! 😜 You gotta' love Luke. He's a character.

I forgot what book I was reading recommended to put the solos at the same volume as the vocals if the vocals aren't present.

Proud subscriber from day 1 (more or less 😉).

Love RB2 I've watched the long form interview with Luke a few times but I like these shorter segments as well. It's all good brother!!

Yeah, I get why some shy away from these conversations when just casually mention Phillinganes. Most people don’t know that’s one of the great session keyboard players of our time who played with everyone. Yet, you don’t want to stilt the conversation with edits and asides. Interesting balance. I liked your video Rick about retirement and when, and I loved your unapologetic attitude towards doing what you do because it interests you; not for the clicks. And not taking comments/reviews personally. Love the content.

I am just curious if Luke went to NAMM this past weekend. I kept my eye out but didn't see him. I really wish I could meet him and other members of the band. I did see Rick and he was kind to take a selfie with me. ❤😊

Dear Rick. Is Gil Norton an interviewee you've had your eye on before? I've been wondering for years how he manages to make the albums sound so direct and top-notch. What do you tell the musicians when they have some special technical ideas? How does he deal with that?

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Yeah, so true...

Merci

It’s a weird phenomenon I play (live) guitar for a living and I’ve found that a lot of sound engineers are allergic to guitar. I play helix straight to the desk, with in ears so it’s not an amp volume thing. It’s like they will mix you to the absolute minimum to be heard but will always give drums and keyboards loads of headroom It makes you not play as well because you’re always having to play full tilt to be heard and you can’t play dynamically. I don’t know if it’s revenge for the years we were basting them in the face with a Marshall or what.

"Group Time" That's where the "Chemistry" of a Group of people is heard/felt. You can see it in Rock but it's really evident in Be Bop Jazz where the Groups were like Musical Chairs. Change Just the Tenor Sax and a whole different "Feel" comes thru.

Rick! How does one write charts for a recording session? Is it just sheet music or something else? Great Interview!

Leland Sklar just had a comment about not rehearsing or you lose the spontaneity, or the good stuff.

Why Rick Beato 2…why not! More killer content.

Subscribed! Now get Robert Fripp on an interview, please.

Awesome - Jimmy Page next please! :)

I read or heard a number of years ago Larry Carlton was highly favored at Steely Dan sessions as he could help generate charts satisfactory to Fagan/Becker while being user friendly and inspiring to session players that came and went daily. Any truth to that or corroborate?

I agree, there's a lot of drums and keyboards on Toto's two first albums. Even the vocal is barried in the mix.

NIGHTFLY is a must on a island.

Great stories.

Audio is a little bit quiet in the interview segments.

Is that the same Michael Lardie who was in Great White... ? I didn't catch that before.

Cliffs of Dover is still great. (Eric Johnson was mentioned at the beginning)

can you do an interview about Vito Bratta sir Rick..

It probably happens all the time. Andy Summers’ classic guitar riff for Every Breath You Take was buried in the original mix. Andy flipped out and demanded changes. EBYT is, of course, now the most played song in the history of radio. Most guitar players don’t have the power to do what Andy did.

I have an idea for a video, Rick. Talk about the idea that guitar players are technically better than ever and are outright mind blowing, but there seems to be a disconnect between that virtuosity and the ability to write great songs. Is that a thing or just an old guy thing?why hasn’t there been songs as good as those from previous decades?

Could you set up a third channel where you just sit and chat to Steve Lukather?

Okay fine, I hit the button.

Luke is awesome! Everyone should read his book - "The Gospel According to Luke". The amount of great music he contributed to, with SO MANY great artists, is RIDICULOUS, he will go down in history, as one of the greatest musicians ever!

I wanted to hear Ricks story about the retake with Steve Gadd.

I recently got hired by a band to play lead guitar. A lot of my stuff gets buried. In truth, I'm OK with it. At the end of the day, everything is supposed to serve the song. Thankfully, I'm not hemmed in by a snapshot in time in the form of a recording.

That Piano solo on Ruby Baby is so delightfully lazy on the standard tempo of the song that it's perfect.

Geniuses can show up hungover and still be a genius.

Rick, have several channels not just two. KZfaq censors, blocks you name it.

Same thing happens at a lot of churches, you see the lead guitarist playing and can barely hear them

Smash like and Sub. Have a great one everybody,from Tampa Florida..

I think Lukather's dialogue with Scorsese could be an experience in articulation.

The irony of Rick lamenting that Steve's guitar level was buried in the mix while Steve's mic level in this interview is buried in the mix 😅😅😅

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Well... From somebody who played the killer riffs on many records, it ain't always about the solos. Just ask EVH...

Silver V Silver "I was hardly done by' 'Yeah, my whole life!'

It's a common-thing with front of the house PA guys now-a-days always burying the guitar in the funking mix!! I HATE it and them. Stop. If you're old and don't have your hearing anymore...let a YOUNG person handle it. If you are a drummer or just don't like vocals and lead guitars standing out for the lead instruments they are....stop doing what you're doing and let people that understand mixing and the formula do your job!

In my opinion if that guitar solo on Ride Like the Wind was more in your face it would have been less appreciated at the time. It was supposed to have this low-key sneaking through the mix vibe. Design to catch the attention more for the non-musician

That is funny because if you listen to their albums after their heyday, and Lukather is in control because of smart guitar appearances and great self promotion, the guitar is overwhelming.