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  1. “I think that the guy's in the band would say that too. That was, I mean, they were really at their peak, the black album had just come out then. Must have been So exciting.”

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  2. “Someday you'll have a beautiful life. Someday you'll be a star, and somebody else's sky, why, why, why can't it be? Can it be mine? Oh my God, Lows me away. That's an amazing line”

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  3. “A Kurt Cobain lyric. It was on the in utero record from the song Francis Farmer. The chorus part is I miss the comfort of being sad. And I was like, yes.”

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  4. “Tell you a little music theory there Seventh and ninth over the chord that he's playing. So if you're playing a C chord, he's singing a B would be the seventh D would be. He does use a lot of those notes, but almost all these people that we're talking, no, all these people that we're talking about use these notes, and this is why there's songs. And when I interviewed Sting, I called them surprise tones and stings like, I like the way you use the word surprise. Notes that are outside the chord that are dissonant with the chords that they're playing, and that creates emotion. Dissonance equals emotion. And that's what I like. I want music to depress me.”

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  5. “Yes. I don't get it. I don't understand it. I can't speak for Tom waits, but in the Beatles case, they went to Hamburg. They spent time on their own. They played cover gigs that were eight hours long, and they lived. Live Like kids today”

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  6. “Solza Swing hits on so many levels because it's got Great melody, great lyrics, and then multiple great guitar solos. And it has such a unique sound to it. The other thing is that it sounds very different from other dire straits songs. I mean, that's like early dire straits. Strat tone, and you think of like money for nothing as a less Paul, and it's a totally different kind of vibe than him playing on Saltons the Swing. But that song is amazing.”

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  7. “I was surprised by that too. But I thought it was like, yeah, okay, that's a perfect song for sure. The first interview I ever did was with Peter Frampton in 2018. And I asked him in that interview, what's a perfect song? And he said, whiter shade of pale. And I was like, ooh, that's a great song. And then I thought. To ask that to people just to see what they now people are prepared if I ask”

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  8. “Yeah, he was the one that talked about that, wasn't he? Yeah. Yeah. That was really interesting. See, these are the things that I like to learn.”

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  9. “The improvisation part of it you don't think of because you have the finished songs that you listen to. Those songs are born out of improvisations, of jams, of little fragments of ideas, and then they. Craft them into these masterpieces”

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  10. “James and Kirk's the down picking. I used to be able to do that. I just can't do that anymore. It hurts my thumb. To do it, I think, honestly, I thought a lot about it. It's like, why is it so painful? Why is it so hard? It's from swiping with your thumb on phones. And I think it affects that basal joint there. And I'm just like theory. I think that that's actually right because I'm thinking, why does that hurt so much to do that all the downstrokes and stuff? Got to be something. It's like, yeah, it's from swiping with a phone.”

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  11. “Yeah, and it's one of the, he's one of the very few people that has the lyrics first and writes the music to it, which to me is far more difficult 99% of songwriters write the music first and then they put the melody and lyrics to the Finished backing track.”

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  12. “Would sit there and play and come up with the song. In 15 minutes or so. There's a great version of, I think, Tiny Dancer where Elton is coming up with it. It's unYube. And he's just coming up with a music right there. And then the band, okay, here's how it goes, and they record it right then. They move on to the next song. That's really incredible.”

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  13. “Couldn't see out into the live room. Elton walked into the thing and we were getting ready to track. I'm pressing the button. Yo, where are you guys? What's up? I thought we're going to start this. And no one's responding. I can hear talking. It's like, what's going on? Where are they? Then all of a sudden they come back in the studio and they were stunned. I said, where were you guys? Elton John just walked into our session and he said he's a big fan. He said, to come over when we're done and hang out in studio A. So we did and he was there with Bernie Toppin. They were working on a song and we talked there for an hour and he was talking about recording two records a year and then they'd go on tour and they'd write and record the whole record in two weeks. So Bernie would give him lyrics. Elton would go out and spend 15 minutes writing all the melody. He'd look at his lyrics and he was doing that that day. Bernie was there and they had a lyric sheet up in the piano and Nelton would go on and they just re-Okay, just record this and Elton.”

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  14. “Yet, because he was recording in a studio in Atlanta that I was working with the band that I was producing. And I was in studio B. He was in studio A. And this band that I was working with, they were called Jump Little Children. And so he had his assistant come in and ask, hey, are you guys Jump Little Children? Yeah, yeah. And then all of a sudden,”

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  15. “60s, right? I don't know. They were on everything in the 60s. Yeah. I mean, it has to account for something, Lex, you know.”

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  16. “That King Cole, he smoked, I think, four packs a day. He died of lung cancer. A lot of heavy smokers, those singers Frank Sinatra heavy smoker McCartney was a heavy smoker. Lenin, all those guys smoked.”

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  17. “Oh, absolutely. Now Do we want to advocate people doing things like that to boost their creativity? Well, I wouldn't, but. Just like smoking, which I think improved people's voices. I mean, really, the raspiness of it, this is the reason that. That so many of these virtually every famous singer No matter what genre music, jazz, soul, rock, they all smoked. Nat King Cole.”

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  18. “I think about this a lot. If you go back and you watch videos, the Beatles, any of their movies, they're smoking all the time. The get back documentary, they're smoking constantly. Go watch any of the MTV unplugs Nirvana. Kirkobain is smoking every second that he's not playing. He's smoking. Every singer smoked. Every musician smoked. Nowadays, I ask my son Dylan. Dylan, does anybody smoke at his high school? He's like, smoke. Nobody smokes. It was an absurd question. And that was part of culture.”

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  19. “Come up with those kind of ideas. Same with improvising. I think that most jazz improvisers, not all, but most do their best improvising before the age 30.”

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  20. “I think it's the same in mathematics as well. You have this. Fluid intelligence versus crystallized intelligence. Fluid intelligence up until you're about, you know, in your late 20s. 30 years old and then crystallized. So you're using the crystallizes, you're using your life experience to. Write things so you'll find that composers Bach, Beethoven, Mozart wrote their most important works at the end of their lives. Beethoven, the late string quartets, the ninth symphony, things like that. So they have a whole lifetime of experience that lead up to this. And they're not improvising. But things for improvising, writing pop songs and that. I think when your mind is really most active and your brain processing speed is at its pinnacle that This is my theory that people can”

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  21. “Fifth, they put out revolvers. So within 365 days, they put out three, I think 14 song records. So they wrote and recorded three incredibly important records. They were in the studio. It's like working out. They're practicing their craft every day, writing songs, trying to outdo the other ones. So you had the perfect thing of four supremely talented musicians, songwriters, singers, and then the best producer you could possibly have, George Martin. And it was just a perfect storm. I think that when I would talk to friends that would just play in local clubs and they'd play four hour sets, five nights a week, and they never lost their voices because they're always working those muscles. And same with the Beatles. They were always in the studio singing every single day doing takes. And I think that that was part of it at least.”

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  22. “Because PA systems were so bad back then, and the Beatles, people screamed so loudly that the Beatles thought, okay, We can't tour anymore because we can't even hear ourselves, so we're just going to be a studio band. And maybe because of we have all these great late Beatles records, they're from 1966 on just because they had bad PA systems. And they had no monitors. They're in Shea Stadium. People are screaming so loudly they can't hear themselves. They're like, okay, forget this. We can't do her. We'll just make studio records. So that's what they did. And in that one year, like from August 6, 1965, they put out help. Then in December 3rd, they put out Rubber Sole of 65. Then August”

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  23. “Lenin used to he would have some kind of biting lyrics. We can work it out. So McCartney writes the, you know, try to see it my way. Do I have to keep on going until I can go on? But the bridge is very Lennon. Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting, my friend. I've always thought that it's a crime. So I'll ask you once again. It's very, you know, very Lenin-esque. That was really a kind of a Real collaboration between the two of those.”

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  24. “This whole What he is. Those are hooks when you think about it, right? It's as much of a hook as any as the chorus of the song or any song. That drum thing is something that people wait for. And they air drum to it. Everybody air drums to it. And it is a hook. And those are hard to create. Those moments are really hard to create. And usually they're done by accident.”

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  25. “When I interviewed Brian May, he told me, I can't remember if this was, if we talked about it on camera or not, but we talked about Bohemian Rhapsody. And at the very end, There was a thing where he was depressing his whammy bar a little bit. And it sounds like the piano is out of tune. I never noticed it before he mentioned this to me. And he said it always bothered him. And there's always something about these songs that bothers people. Even these songs Right. There's always little things, and they sit and they hear it, and they're like, oh man, I wish I.”

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  26. “And he was 18 years old. And I just can't even fathom that. They have a little cafe in the basement of Abbey Road. And I said, did the Beatles come in here? He goes, oh, yeah, they come in here and get coffee. And I remember when they got two microwaves that the first microwave was in 1965 and they were amazed by them. It's hard to imagine that I'm talking to people that worked on these historic records. But they all start with a blank tape or an empty hard drive. And then Eventually fill them up with this music that you can never imagine it not existing like Stairway to Heaven or whatever it is.”

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  27. “And there's so much knowledge to be gained for me at least. And I think that the craft of production and recording engineering is something that is not well documented. Especially since there's no, there's so few studios nowadays where there used to be a mentorship thing where you'd go and you work as an assistant engineer and you work your way up. I interviewed a guy named Ken Scott that worked with the Beatles. I interviewed him at Abbey Road Studios just two months ago and he started as a tape op when he was 16. He started on the hard days night record with the Beatles and he worked his way up and he said the first time he ever recorded an orchestra was he recorded I am the walrus the orchestra part he set up the mics and I asked him I said so where was the band standing right behind me the Beatles right behind him the guy I'm interviewing at Abbey Road recorded I am the walrus there I mean he recorded many Beatles songs and”

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  28. “When I've interviewed the guys that are the producers like Rick Rubin, Daniel Anoi, Brendan O'Brien, Butch Vig, the thing about producers as opposed to people that are musicians, if you're in a musician, even if you're David Gilmore, you do a record and then you tour and then you do another record maybe years go by. But producers are working on multiple records, sometimes at a time, Rick Rubin could be working on multiple records. the variety of things that they do you can talk to i mean i can talk to rick about the chili peppers and i can talk to him about johnny cash i can talk to him about tom petty and all these records that i love and there's just so many interesting stories that i mean these interviews could go on for for days with with rick and the variety of records that he worked on and”

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  29. “One note of BB King's vibrato you could know What I'll do is I would separate the guitars. I can actually separate the tracks and I'll just play one note.”

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  30. “No, no, no. I guarantee you. So I was going to do a video last week where I was going to play songs in reverse. See if you can recognize these songs in reverse. And I had my two assistants come in. It's like, do you know what song that is? They're like, oh, that's a Dell. Then they're like, oh, that's Nirvana. Instantly they could recognize like, well, that's not worth making. I said, yeah, it's so obvious. You hear the tone of the voice backwards, forwards. It doesn't matter.”

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  31. “When I hear Brian May, I can immediately recognize it's Brian May. Incredibly melodic the tone that he has, Gilmore, Hendrix. Everyone that we're talking about. One note. It's like, oh, I know who that is. And that's why we're talking about him.”

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  32. “Now, obviously, the intro to money for nothing is one of the greatest, almost impossible to recreate that because of the sound is so unique and his, it's just improvised. It's so cool.”

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  33. “So I called Diesel Zappa, and I was like, Diesel, can you play the ice cream man solo? I'm making a video about it. He's like, oh, I'd have to practice that. And then I called my friend Phil X, who's an amazing guitar player. And he's like, no, I'd have to practice that. It's like, come on, man, cancel me play ice cream, man. The opening lick of ice cream man that he plays is very hard to play because it's an incredibly long stretch. And it hurt my fingers to do. And Eddie would turn his guitar up like this to play. And plus it's a tricky, it just tricky rhythm and it's such a big stretch. It's like, man, I can't, that hurts my hand.”

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  34. “I would have had it lower because it's one of the early ones because I want people to be like, okay, oh, this is a serious list. So Rick's going to talk about serious stuff. And Rick's going to play along with all these things. So, I wanted to kind of state that at the beginning of the video. I mean, I made the video in one day to do 20 solos. I think I played 19 of them, but the heart solo that I had on there. Nancy Wilson, I played the video of. And I tried to get a couple of my friends to play the ice cream man Van Halen solo.”

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  35. “Yes. And I did have Mark Knopfler on my list. It sells a swing. That's right. He did. Now, I had it high in the list, and I'll tell you why.”

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  36. “And that Mr. Crowley solo is a great solo, great solo. He's incredibly influential as a guitar player for metal guitar players. And I love Randy Rhodes.”

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  37. “There's a solo by a guitarist Carlos Rios that people don't know. It's brother to brother, Gino Vinelli's song, but it's very hard to play and figure out that people don't know the solos. I put it on my list because I knew a lot of people are going to watch it and they're going to know what this solo is.”

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  38. “The first guitar solo I ever learned, so I had to put it on there. So I don't necessarily do these by those in kind of how important they are to me and my development. So there's always a biographical. Component to these lists. Number three was Kid Charlemagne, a steely dancel, Larry Carleton, amazing solo, extremely difficult to figure out. Probably there's two solos on the list that are just about are very that one I can play. But there's a few solos that are very hard to play. Stone in love by Journey by Neil Shahn is very hard to play some elix.”

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  39. “Oh, yeah, that's great, but I much prefer David Gilmore. So I always call the Gilmore effect. Anytime I have Invay Malmsteen, anybody that has chops that I interview. The negative comments are always well, I prefer David Gilmore. And I said that I told David that. He's like, well, maybe they should keep their opinions to themselves.”

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  40. “I will say this, Lex, is that the other thing is that most of these people have a really good sense of humor. When I was, when the first time I interviewed David in New York, my brother John came along and he is a massive David Gilmore fan. That's his biggest influence as a guitar player. And so he said, you're anything David Gilmore? I'm coming. I was like, all right, come on, come on down. So my brother John standard about five feet away. And John is a sales guy, but great guitar player is at John's like. I was like, David, this is my brother John. David, great to meet you, buddy. And, you know, it sounds like it's so, he's a sales guy. And so during the interview, I was like, hey, John, what was I going to ask David? Ask about the Gilmore effect. Oh, yeah, that's right. And Gilmore effect is my thing that I say in the comments section when people say anytime anybody plays anything technical.”

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  41. “I have an incredibly good memory That's what it is. It's that I can remember when records came out, who produced them, where they recorded them, who was the engineer, what songs are on it. And not only that, but the people I'm interviewing know that I can play all the parts of all the instruments because I've done breakdowns of their songs, which is why I get the interviews. With them in the first place, really”

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  42. “Yes. And I can think of a hundred questions to ask David Gilmore. But I always ask my questions based on what they say to me. But I do make a playlist of songs that I want to talk about. So that kind of guides me is that because I want to make sure that I There's specific things that I need to play so that Can jog his memory because anytime you play something that somebody recorded even 50 years ago, they'll remember They don't remember the exact specifics That brings it to life to them again, and they can. Can kind of piece together some aspects about it and they can really talk, he can talk about the phrasing and the, you know, the kind of melodic direction of things like that”

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  43. “And hopefully a solo. And then after a while, you hear the solo, and it's like, well, I'm not going to replay that. That sounds great. You get used to the sound of it, and that's what it is. So people always talk about, oh, well, he couldn't have used that. He's recording through an amp. Because it sounds great. And then he's like, Yeah, yeah. So that's what I use. And then I have the video of it right there, and it has its presets DG1 and DG2 and whatever.”

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  44. “Does do emulation actually? He has this thing, and this is, I asked him in the first interview about this. There's a little rack thing that I had heard that he used, but I asked him for sure. It's called the Zoom 9030. I put out a short where he talks about it. I said, so that Zoom 90, is that a real thing? Because I've read about it. He's like, yeah. And he talks about how When he's sitting there recording on his own, he runs Pro Tools himself. And so he'll be sitting there. There's no one there to help him. He's like, I'll just plug into this thing and then I'll play a solo with this model. It's like a kind of 90s modeling early modeling thing.”

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  45. “So it's just hard to imagine that those things still, of course, though, he's just kept it. Yeah, this is his Vincent echo that he played through, and this is this, you know, these are all the same effects pedals. Wait, is this the same high watt amp? Yeah. Is this the same? Yes. Yeah, you get some new stuff. Keep all their own gear. And that's, I mean, he does sell his guitars for charity, but like he has a black strat that is a signature version. He's an exact copy of his old one. So to him, it sounds exactly the same, plays the same.”

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  46. “He has a very sophisticated setup for his tone. And that was one of the things when I went to his studio. And I said to him, so David, is there anything I'm not supposed to see here? I mean, he never sits down and shows people his gear. And he laughed about it But there I am sitting there right next to all these petals. And I asked his tech Phil, I said, these are the same ones he used on the records? He's like, yeah, this tech has been with them for like 50 years. I mean, the exact ones, yes.”

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  47. “He has just an incredible melodic sense. He knows how phrases should be put together. There's a flow to his ideas that I think is just incredible. It's the same with Hendrix. This flow how one idea leads to the next, how there's space between them. It's just like speaking”

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  48. “That day Right. Now, the day later, I would have said it's the second solo But I did the first solo because nobody talks about that solo. And that solo is equally great. And when David Gilmore When I played it for him, and we talked about it in my interview with him, it was. Just to watch his face when he listened to it was incredible. I mean, I'm thinking to myself, I'm sitting with David Gilmore and he's listening to comfortably numb and he's hearing it. He's plaited a million times live. But how many times has he gone back and listened to it on the record? Probably not for a long time. And then he's hearing, he's like, ooh.”

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  49. “Because Much as I love to play the guitar and I love to play the guitar more than anything, I think, but the bass really defines what the quality of the chord is because you can put the root in there. You can put the third of the chord in the bass. You can put the fifth in there. You can play a lot of notes. And whatever you play in the bass kind of defines what kind of chord it is. So the bass player has a lot of power.”

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  50. “Yeah, but my first instrument was the cello in third grade, and then I switched to the bass in sixth grade. And I majored my undergrad degree. It was in classical base. So I. I always think of myself as a bass player first, and I always think the bass is the most important instrument.”

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