Rick plays a Meshuggah riff. My life is complete.

I’m close to 40, and I have noticed that as I get older, the music I like gets harder and heavier. I guess by the time I’m 90, I’ll be listening to straight explosions.

I'm 74, listen to Tool all the time. Went to a Radiohead concert when I was 71 or so. So check back in 6 years but I think the answer is Yes (and I mean the band, not just the affirmative).

I was a metalhead in my teens, then I opened to a lot of other stuff. I'm in my forties now, and I listen to rap, jazz, soul, country, rock, blues electronica, hell, whatever strikes my fancy, whatever I find good. But I never really stopped listening to metal.

"Metal fans are metal fans for life... You never meet that guy who says he was really into Slayer for one summer." - Rob Zombie.

Nothing gives me joy quite like watching Rick crank out some Meshuggah riffs

I’m 45, and I still love Tool. I imagine I will love Tool until the day I die… Then again Tool is a band that has evolved as they’ve gotten older.

I'll just say that my grandfather played piano his whole life. When he was 89 year old, with full blown dementia, he would still play Chopin for me, even if he couldn't recognize me.

You’re too cool to not still enjoy Messhuggah in your 90s.

I am 71 and i have never even thought that someday I may quit listening to metal. It keeps me energized, focused and young! Rock on!

I am now “in my 50’s” and have, in the last few years, developed a keen interest in Black/Doom Metal. I’ve played drums most of my life and can’t imagine ever stopping.

Dude, lost the hearing in my right ear over a year ago. Now the tinnitus ringing is all I hear. Protect your ears folks. Please. I'm in my 40s and never thought it could happen to me. One night it just stopped working. Scared the hell out of me. Still does. I love music so much so you can understand why I bring this up.

He just started the video with the hardest groove of Demiurge, Rick has ascended

My father in law recently passed 2 weeks shy of his 84th Bday.... he requested Kashmir by Led Zepplin be played at his funeral-we rocked it!

Man that AC/DC riff is so iconic. Instantly recognizable. Love that one.

My Dad is all into Grunge right now...Pearl Jam mainly...Awesome....he introduce me into Deep Purple, The Beatles, Kiss, Queen, Jethro Tull, Jean Michel Jarre, Pink Floyd, and all fantastic 60s and 70s music. Now he is into 90s classics and early 2000s......my Dad is Awesome .....(I'm 40) BTW he got me my first Dream Theater DVD, 2004's Dream Theater- Live at Budokan...🙏 and my life changed again....and again, and again, again, again....

Some years ago I went to see Black Sabbath's final performance in my home town. We were waiting for the show to star and we came across an old lady. She was easily 60 or 70 years old. We asked her if she was looking for someone, but she was there all by herself. She had been a Sabbath fan for over 40 years and had come to say goodbye to the band. It's not just music, it's not just a phase, it's part of who we are.🤘

I'm 31. I'm hoping by my 80th birthday that I can listen to Tool's 6th studio album

Yess I will be listening to Tool until I die. Especially anything from Opiate

Brother, I’m feeling ya’! I’ll turn 60 in November and I can’t imagine going soft at this point so I don’t think you’re in any danger of losing your admiration for all things Metal. Keep up the great work.

Rick I'm 71 &.. TOOL is my favorite band of this modern era.

My old man is 70. He still listens to Black Sabbath, Led Zep. Iron Maiden. You're never too old to listen to whatever you like.

I just turned 62 and still listen to and regularly play everything I once did, along with more recent bands as well. I don't see that changing as the years go by. One of my favorites to play after over twenty years of playing it is Hall of the Mountain King by Savatage.

Rick, with how open and passionate you are it's no questions as to why you are one of the most significant music youtubers.

Me at 80: Gather around children, this is a group of nice guys called Slayer😏

The older I get, the heavier my music taste gets. I'm a little afraid that when I'm 90 I'll be enjoying grindcore metal.

You will still love to play Meshuggah and Tool. That passion never dies or fades. My music tastes have gotten heavier as I’ve gotten older and I will be 69 in October this year. And haha i so related to the line ‘Black Sabbath now sounds like a jazz trio’. Stuff that I thought was so heavy years ago is quite tame to what I’m listening to now. So who cares what you’ll be listening to in the future. As long as it still gives the goosebumps and euphoria is all that matters. Keep rocking’!!!

Love your channel! This is a great topic. Hard to say with this kind of music. Watching you break it down is the fun part!!

I am 67 years old. My grandmother took me to see Jimi Hendrix in August 1968, when I was 14. I took my own daughter to see TOOL in October 2019. I don't expect anything to change when I am 80.

I’m 68 and I love the music of the ‘50’s. The 1850’s. Sea Shanties. Yo, Ho.

Rick, you are of a different breed of music lover as it is your life and business. You dig it all if it is done well, my parents like yours were into the big bands and popular music of their eras, but they liked music enough to let and encourage my brother and myself to go to anything and I mean anything, as a kid I went to the symphony as much as to the area rock shows and jazz clubs, I like what I am in the mood for and always will.

I have been following your channel since the beginning and it has been overwhelming amount of knowledge that has come from you. And despite from the fact that you're a tremendous guitarist with all the jazzy styles that you play. You just blew my mind with this amazing video where you play some kickass heavy metal.

My Dad is 67 now and spends his time checking out new bands and recommending them to me, sometimes I think he's probably cooler than I am...

We’re working on the new upcoming Meshuggah album as we speak. Maybe you’ll have new riffs to play when you’re 90 Rick! :-) Anyway. It will be heavy. Rest assured.

You're always going to be great, Rick.

what a delight episode! beside being so musicly tallanted you are a very wise man. thank you so much rick.

Sir Christopher Lee released a metal album for his 90th birthday which he sang on. A concept album about Charlemagne The Great who Lee is actually a descendant of.

I'm 73. I still listen to Hendrix, Led Zeppelin and Cream. Meanwhile the last concert I went to in 2019 before the pandemic hit was Metallica. I continue to search out new rock. It's total commitment, which clearly what you have, Rick.

I love that you mentioned that you listen to some music for just the sounds. I do the same! I’ve had people be astonished that I don’t know the words to a song and I explain to them that I don’t listen to a lot of music for them words, it’s the combination of sounds and the sonics. There’s something more visceral about songs with sonically powerful rhythms.

Power to you my friend. I still love everything hard rock (70ies), heavy metal (80s-90s), thrash and a lot of the alternative, prog and jazz at age 42. Keep rocking. And up the irons :)

I'm 74. I still listen to all the music I like and liked. I just listen to it at a bit lower volume now... Except for AC/DC. (There is only one way to hear them... LOUD!) Feeling the vibrations is part of the music/sound of any music.

I am 54 years old and hope one day my grandkids get a call from the old folks home saying “ your grandpa is disrupting the knitting class by blasting slayer in his room” 😆🤘🏼

One of the absolute joys of music, particularly music in this modern age, is that we can CONSTANTLY discover and grow. Yes, I listen to everything that I used to listen to growing up and in college. I was blessed to earn two music degrees, undergrad in music ed and master's in performance. So I heard SO MUCH great music. I learned to love SO MUCH great music. I still love to sing, conduct, etc. What I am so thankful for is that I can still discover. I can still hear things I have never heard before, old and new. Different styles, different genres. Rick's channel is a blessing there. Keep on keeping on, Rick!

i’m a riff guy too.. I hear a riff and have to learn it. Nice gear, way to do the songs justice. Just turned 40 myself, i’ll be playing suffocation riffs when i’m 80, but do believe the older and more “aware” you get, the more aware of the little nuances in different styles of music that turn you on to it. Like how watching you play old school solos ads a new respect to it for me that makes me wanna learn some that i grasped.. Boston, Journey, Rosana.. All those riffs i heard a million times but didn’t actually HEAR them until you played the solos in your other video.

In high school my favorite band was Slayer. Now, my favorite band is Cannibal Corpse. I'm 50. Seems I've actually been stepping up the heaviness as the time goes by. I will ALWAYS listen to metal, till my dying day, and so will my neighbors.

Andres Segovia died three days before a scheduled recital at Carnegie Hall. He was 94. My inspiration.

Happy Birthday Rick!! 🎉🎊🎂 I'm sure you will!! Keep rockin'!! 🤘

Hi Rick, I still play all music I liked when I was young, am 66 now, but every week I discover artists and songs new artists that amaze me with no limits to the genre. In '78 I made my hobby my work and worked for 10 years in a recordshop. In '90 I started working in the record industry (Play It Again Sam) as a sales rep and after BMG, Zomba and Edel (in those companies I had various management positions) I returned to Play It Again Sam. Yes, I will stay play the music that moved me then and and anything new that is worthwile. I love the topics you discuss, keep them coming.

"Old people don't feel old. They feel like a young person who's got something wrong with them." I forgot where I heard that, but it definitely applies to me. I am mostly stuck with my high school musical tastes.

Now all I want is “what makes Meshuggah - Bleed a great song”

I've had an explosion in discovering new music through a popular streaming service, by playing my favourite albums and looking up people's playlists that include those songs. The sheer joy of discovery stumbling over stuff like Animals As Leaders is amazing, then diving into their catalogue.

Great video Rick, something strange has happen in the last two years, I´m 52 years old and I think I´m gping backwards, more and more i like older music. I grow up listening musuc from the seventeens and forward, but now, i´m happy stuck at 50´s and 40´s music. Don´t get me wrong, still listen "my youth music" but more and more listen the olds ones too. Cheers!!

I'm 37 years old. I have been listening metal music since highschool. Many of my friends started to listen softer music (mostly pop or techno) and it made feel like i'm still younger than them :) In fact, i started to listen heavier metal bands (like Cannibal Corpse) after i passed 30. Salute to all my headbanger friends.

I was shocked at the conservatory when my 62 year old classical guitar teacher started playing riffs from old metal music. After a few lessons I realized he's even crazier than I am

Hey Rick, a particularly inspiring video among so many. I'm a few months older than you, so I'm kind of a contemporary. I'm a musician like you, mainly teaching vocals, guitar, drums. Here's my story: At 7 I sang Heintje (a Dutch child star), at 10 I listened to The Sweet, then Uriah Heep (and always felt a bit bad when my friend raved about the great Beatles). Until 25, I mainly made and listened to rock music, but also a bit of Bach, Beethoven and Rachmaninov. At university I 'had' to sing classical music: Josquin du Pres, Monteverdi, Brahms - and as I was in music, I learned to love it. That was one of the most important discoveries of my life. A lot of music I didn't like when I heard it. But when I did it, I liked almost all of it. Then came a 20-year a cappella period, and I felt that I had now reached my goal. Then came a duet period with Renaissance songs. It's great how new doors keep opening. Recently I fell in love with the Adagio of Mahler's 5th Symphony, soundtrack of the film Death in Venice - gorgeous! And when I don't like to hear the old songs anymore, I look for a cover version. Music will always touch people, who will then make touching music again. I am sure of that.

I got into metal at 14 and am 45 now. I've never stopped loving it and am always looking for new bands.

I wouldn't be worried about still listening to metal when turning 80, rather than being afraid of not beeing able to headbang anymore

I read this quote on a wall somewhere: "People don't stop playing because they're getting old. People get old because they stoped playing."

my grand dad was always very open minded for his age, He introduced me to symphonic rock and grunge when I was 3 or 4 years old (1994). He liked everything, from barroque, classical, russian folk, flamengo, bolero, tango, national folk (arg), rock, hard rock, grunge, jazz, you name it. A really aweasome guy he was

Went to my first Tool concert Jan 2020, at the ripe old age of 67.

I will continue to listen to Tool even after I'm dead... Their music transcends the mortal realm 😎🤣 I'm 45 now, have listened to Tool since I was 18.

I can’t imagine ever not loving Tool (and I’m almost 62).

I always find more music I enjoy and want to play. It may take a while to listen to music I like again, but I usually get around to it and love it just as much. I think the access to a massive variety of music is one of the greatest things we have in the modern world.

Wonderful, wonderful point The way I see it, At least as a musician myself, Is that you love what you love. That would probably never change, on a deeper level. The only thing is the way that the articulation in which you perceive art and culture evolves. With a greater understanding of why and how you enjoy the music you love, The creative side of you will naturally understand better what it is looking for, whether by sticking to basically the same albums, songs, and type of music you listened to since a young age, Or, whether by exploring the limitless creative and imaginative ways to discover new and innovative music and artists, and even being inspired to be one yourself Age means nothing when it comes to love. Great video Love your SGs 😁

Rick, I'm 55...and I can't imagine a day where I won't still enjoy Slayer, AC/DC, Megadeth, Judas Priest, Tool, Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam, etc. I still listen to that music.

I'm 72 years old and still play every day. I listen to everything from The Beachboys to The Foo Fighters.

I've loved the same music I like for 30 years. I listen to all genres and I listen to songs now that I loved as a kid and they feel more real to me now and impact me more because of life experience , Great channel!

I clearly remember my father looking at my metallica posters on the wall and saying: oh well… it’s just a phase. Well… 30 years later, here I am! Stuck on the same “phase”.

Demiurge right at the start of a Beato video? Mind blown

The scariest realization for me as I got older was the fact that I'm still the same person.

All in for a video with Peter. What an inspiring dude! 🔥🔥

That meshuggah riff u played is one of my fav riffs and you knowing that stuff makes me love u even more ! Take the next six months and work on bleed and play it

Metal has proved to be timeless over the years in my humble opinion, ever since its beginnings. So many awesome subgenres and bands have come out of Metal, and still continue to do so. It is probably my favorite genre of music.

I'm 41, and my music tastes are way different to when I was 13. Back then, I was into boy bands and Top 40 pop. Then I discovered Nirvana, and things have only gotten heavier from there. At this rate, while I'm 90 I'll be listening to hawking radiation directly from a literal black hole

Looking forward for the interview.

Loved this video. I’ve been a professional musician since I was 16, been into all kinds of music and musical projects. I started a prog pop rock project when I was 35 and now, more than a decade after the first release, I started to gain listeners from all over the world. I’m 46 and it’s so fun to finally write music knowing that people are going to listen to!

I'll still be listening to Tool in my 80s. I started in my 40s and it hasn't got old yet. Plus, I might be a bit more deaf by then and metal will still be audible.

When I was 14 I started listening metal music. Motorhead, Metallica, Kreator, Death, good old Obituary, etc. My mom always told me to stop buying albums because I will get bored and throw all away. I am 47 now and still enjoy metal music. More than that, I recently started learning guitar. By 70 I hope to be a decent death metal guitarist, lol.

I don't stress about the future and what I like or don't in the future. I love the fact that I keep finding new (and old) stuff constantly and I'm dead sure there will be plenty of music, different genres and styles around when I'm old(er).

Awesome video Rick!!!

I am 51 and lately the popular music is so uninteresting and my taste in metal has gotten heavier and I love it.

I'm 43 and personally love metal more now than I did in my teens.

Hello Rick. I'm 60 and still get a fat one playing Van Halen, Ratt, Badfinger, Frampton. I love these new kids. Plini is outrageous for example. As musicians, I think we find new things that keep our excitement alive, and reinforce that archetype inside us that "came out" when we heard that first song that made the fir stand up. Just Between You and Me...April Wine...that big muff pie at the beginning riff will never fade ..

love to see you rock out Rick

I'm 53..... music I love and discovered in the last 10 years.... Opeth , Gojira , Steven Wilson, Porcupine Tree, Riverside , The Pineapple Thief , Meshuggah , Anathema , Devin Townsend.....I could go on. Good music is good music.

As long as Tomas Haake is playing drums for Meshuggah, I’ll keep listening. No worries about Tool either... listen to them all the time. I’m 63.

Hey Rick, very Interesting video. Looking inner to find out what really matters, and move yourself is quite fascinating. To answer the question, I really think that my tastes have absolutely not changed, I do think they have grown richer. What i mean by that is, i'm 28, and i'm still carried by the same visceral emotions and the same obsessions since as far as i can remember being singing melodies lying on my bedroom floor and imagining /creating my emotional world. I was always moved by the ''vibration'' quality and the dissonance of the sounds : from the day that I discovered heavy distortion, then the lows made by a cello, to the imperfect harmonies from Thomas Newman and so on. Since then, I'm still in the pursuit of new things to satisfy my musical bulimia. Times are changing but not the fire within. Tastes are evolving like fine wine, but because everything that I've listened back when i was 5, was led by pure choice and a real sense of musical commitment, I have the chance of having no music that I am ashamed that i listened once, and i'm still searching for the same musical qualities. I just want to be challenged and moved but the core energy remains the same. The same happens with the album i'm working my as on for ten years. I listened to the songs again and against hundreds of times. But, when you're a composer, you have the chance to create the perfect songs for your ears to hear. So no matter how time goes by, the emotion remains the same. Greetings from France.

HELL YEAH… Will blast all Meshuggah albums to my kids & grandkids 🔥🔥🔥

Sir Christopher Lee...a passable actor and badass heavy metal singer when he was almost 90. No age limit.

I’m 52 and recovering from a heart attack, I play guitar in a stoner rock band, I’ve listened to heavy music all my life and Electric Funeral by Black Sabbath will be playing when my coffin goes into the fire. 🤘🤘

Hey Rick. I'm 54 and still love the things I loved during my past years. Some things I play less simply because you need some space from them for a bit and then you put it on again and love it again, but it is always there! You made me think of Paul Gilbert, who still exudes a massive love and knowledge of all music - ever though of having him on? You would get on like a house on fire, I'm convinced.

Man I'm so stoked now, if making it to my 80's or 90's is in the cards then I cannot wait to be hanging out with my grandkids or even great-grandkids, listening to Mastodon, or Underoath 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

3 old guys are entering a rock show on walkers and canes when a young kid standing by the entrance says "Aren't you guys a little old to be listening to a rock band?" The reply: "We ARE the band!" 🤣 Rock on Rick 🤘

Simple answer: Yes. I'll be listening to Tool for the rest of my life.

I can't say I've ever STOPPED liking a certain type of music. I just add to my likes. People who say "I used to like this type of music, but now I know it sucks" are disingenuous people, trying to do what they think will make them cool to others.

You played all my faves, must admit though I've only gotten into most of these bands since I started working outdoors. It all speaks to me in such powerful ways, especially as I lever plants into the ground with my spade.

I listen to Iron Maiden since I’m 8, I’m now 45 and nothing gives me more joy than Iron Maiden...so I don’t see it ever changing anymore

We musicians are eccentric bunch of humans. I'm 60, still listening & playin' to every genre of music once in a while. Diversity is the key of enjoying my short life.

Great video Rick!! Like you, I like at least a little bit of all types of genres. I have been a fan of Metal, Hard Rock, and Punk for as long as I can remember. When I first saw the Destroyer album cover, I knew. And then I heard Blizzard of Ozz and in turn early Sabbath, and there has never been any looking back. I listen to regular rock and country and even some rap.... but I will DEFINITELY be listening to Metal until my dying breath.

Rick: I think an amazing follow-up to this would be to interview Bob Heil. Amazingly nice guy with seemingly endless energy and enthusiasm. He's 80 now, and that I know of still goes out on tour at times with some artists. I imagine he would have an excellent take on this question!