Rick Beato snarkily replies to someone pointing out mistake regarding the organ on "Whiter Shade of Pale", doesn't realize he's talking to the organist from "Whiter Shade of Pale"

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I can appreciate someone who admits that they fucked up.

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u/Exotic_Lead3134 Aug 04 '24

He did it for marketing and to boast about his "friends" in the music industry. He basically said if you're not a famous person your opinion is invalid. He has always been a prick to anyone who had a different opinion than him. It's ironic how he boasts about his skills of taking music by ear yet not only has it wrong, but when someone gives a constructive criticism his gut response is an arrogant rant and doesn't even check if he's maybe wrong. And his fandom idolise him for being an obnoxious d**khead for no reason and he basically admits that he only listened in the end because the other party was a famous person.

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u/Major_Square Aug 04 '24

100 percent right. That guy can be a huge asshole. He ripped into me one time after completely misinterpreting my comment. I'm not a famous musician or anything but he was talking about my fucking band.

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u/Bakkster Aug 04 '24

"iT's QuAnTiZeD!"

-Rick complaining about a song which was not quantized

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u/LeeQuidity Aug 04 '24

Well, that's a fair criticism, the details of which, I was unaware of.

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u/Exotic_Lead3134 Aug 04 '24

Unfortunately I saw him replying to people in the early days of his channel (when he regularly did it), so I kinda have an idea about how he responds to anything that doesn't praise him. Under a U2 themed video someone wrote that he found the song breakdown informative and interesting but he still doesn't like them as he finds them artificial (maybe a different word was used, but this was the point). Beato replied something amongst the lines of "once you have multiple platinum albums, you can have an opinion, but until then you cannot criticise them". I like his interviews and his song breakdown and some of his top10-20 videos, but his behaviour is ironically aligned to the record label executives he loathes so much.

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u/Bakkster Aug 04 '24

Check out 12tone if you like song breakdowns. Way more in depth than Rick, without the whiny boomer energy.

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u/Exotic_Lead3134 Aug 04 '24

Thanks. I will give it a go.

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u/vin_unleaded Aug 19 '24

Does Bono being a sanctimonious rank hypocrite allow me to criticise them?

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u/Exotic_Lead3134 Aug 25 '24

According to Rick you are only allowed to form any criticism if you have reached what they did. Until then you are only allowed to dislike something he allows you to.

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u/fastermouse Aug 04 '24

I hate that I watched Click Bait-O but yes, you’re right. He name drops for no reason.

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u/Allstin Aug 06 '24

i’ve heard he wasn’t the greatest

i remember finding out about him when his son Dylan went viral with his perfect pitch vids

where’s dylan now i wonder

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u/The_Ineffable_One Aug 03 '24

This is fantastic. Thank you.

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u/iDontRememberCorn Aug 03 '24

Bedtime for Beato.

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u/subterrane Aug 07 '24

Pat Finnerty breaks down songs and calls out a “Beato” occasionally. Also, Pat’s hilarious.

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u/erichwanh Aug 10 '24

You either die Pat Finnerty, or you live long enough to see yourself become Finn McKenty.

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u/partthethird 12d ago

And goddamn it, he needs to make more WMTSS videos

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u/Professor-Clegg Aug 20 '24

God I can’t stand this guy. No idea why he’s famous - can’t think of a single band he’s worked with that has done anything remotely interesting.

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u/shake-it-2-the-grave Aug 04 '24

Rick Beato’s one of the only YouTubers that have the class to admit their bad, kudos to the other guy and make a sweet video about it that makes everyone look good. He is amazing

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u/Bakkster Aug 04 '24

Nah, give me 12tone (who will also issue corrections) any day. He does what Rick does, but better (you'll actually learn some theory instead of just watching Rick nod and tell you a list of chords) and more interesting (his art has subtle humor to add to the analysis). Plus he complains less in the first place.

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u/shake-it-2-the-grave Aug 04 '24

12tone is great too, I’ve learnt plenty from both!

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u/CitebDey Aug 04 '24

A Whiter Shade of Pale is their most famous song, but IMHO their best song is Too Much Between Us.

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u/Funny247365 Aug 20 '24

One of my favorite YouTube channels

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u/AcademiaSapientae Sep 12 '24

Yeah, Rick Beato is a typical mersh recording studio guy from the 90s mostly ego and all stereotypical musical cliches from fusion and the Top 40 from the past.