axlsalinger

"This new single is gonna take America by storm, one small town bar jukebox app request at a time" - GNR, probably

cleaned that up a bit for realism

Maybe it was Monstro City, the sequel to Paradise City scheduled for CD5.

Don't encourage them. Then this board will be reduced to, "was Slash smiling when he said no comment?" "I swear the way Dizzy hesitated before saying no comment means he knows something!!"

i still think the release of Perhaps is coming "soon" ... the more interesting question is, will there be anything else?

i think i've identified the problem right there

One of these options is just so extremely unlikely, a conspiracy theory based on very little evidence constantly overanalyzed by crazy people on internet message boards. The other option is quite possible, could even happen tomorrow with a quick press conference. So ... aliens it is.

i saw a mysterious post somewhere from someone who seemed to know a lot about this stuff, saying that Me and My Elvis was later called "In This Grave", and that the vocals were recorded December 24 2002. Anyone hear this title before?

perhaps Duff was wrong

Again, all they need to do is what most other bands are doing. Have the video de-monetized when their song is used, and get the ad revenue from the video. The internet has completely changed many things in society, a lot greatly improved, some completely destroyed. But no matter how angry it makes Don Henley, it ain't never going back. The music industry and newspapers took huge blows, no doubt. Most of the things you're complaining about have nothing to do with YouTube anyway. I'd love to see bands work in a proper studio with producers again too, but on the flip side it's way easier and cheaper to record now than it ever was back then. You standing outside a newspaper office holding up a ghetto blaster isn't going to bring newspapers back into your arms either. And the whole "gatekeeper" thing was total bullshit, anyway.

Ah yes, the poor recording industry. All those wonderful people at record labels giving artists fair contracts and proper compensation for all those years... The music industry is certainly fucked, some of it their own doing ... and there are many, many reasons for this, but absolutely none of them are Rick Beato videos. No one is saying that Don Henley or whoever should not have control over their music. We both strongly support artists and their art, just happen to disagree on this one point i guess. i am arguing they would get more money AND more recognition for their art and hopefully a new generation of fans by removing these outdated and dimwitted blocking policies. Nobody buys albums anymore, so this is how it works now. People learn about your band online and eventually listen to your songs, and hopefully become a fan and buy a ticket to a show. i mean if you were having the first dance at your wedding to an Eagles song and Don Henley walked by, he would probably run in, unplug the speakers and scream at you for playing his song without compensating him!

Some fair points. Certainly not everyone is going to like every video, or even a particular YouTube channel. I have found that Beato's info meshes well with what I know about music, and I think the channel's great and entertaining. Love the interviews, too. Not familiar with Rhett, but Beato did introduce me to Tim Pierce who is awesome in his own right. What a career he's had as a session musician! Brilliant player too. Anyway, the point here isn't about Rick Beato himself, per se. The point is that no one, including Pat Finnerty, or anyone else, can use a small clip of a GNR song without the video immediately being blocked and taken down, with a potential strike on the channel. Even if it's an educational video, if it's brilliant, says nothing but great things about the song, or introduces thousands of kids to the song or band. I posted because I think some people commenting in this thread (not you) think this is about making money off the artist. Now of course anyone trying to make a living on YouTube wants to make money, just like any other job. It takes a shitload of work to make these videos. But if someone makes one about a GNR song and it gets de-monetized, GNR and/or the label would receive the associated ad revenue instead. And Beato doesn't have any issues with that at all. Some people joke they're afraid to even say the words "Hotel California" on YouTube for fear of having the video blocked. Don Henley is an incredible songwriter, but also a well-known douchebag and negative asshole. Probably walking around his mansion right now muttering about people trying to rip him off. It's fucking stupid. And costing himself money in the end. It's mostly older bands that have this attitude. Sometimes it's the label (especially a small label working with older bands), and the artist may not even be aware. This has happened a couple of times with Beato, where an artist heard a video got blocked, and had the policy changed. It just seems hard to believe that Guns n' Roses doesn't believe in this idiotic policy, and would like to make more money on YouTube, and wants more young people learn about their music. Yet continue to allow many videos to be blocked on YouTube based on the actions of one deranged lunatic.

Seems clear that the people mocking Rick Beato have never watched the channel. It's one of the best music channels on YouTube. Beato was a writer and producer for many years and has a long track record. He does some "What Makes This Song Great?" and music theory videos, they are excellent and informative. His point is that most bands allow their music to be referenced in YouTube videos, including most current popular groups. He does not care if bands or labels "de-monetize" the video, which means that the bands may receive money from ads for that video instead of the video's creator. He just wants to educate people about great music, and the bands with this idiotic policy are preventing younger people from learning more about these bands, and also costing them ad revenue. Ultimately this seems like an Axl thing to me. If he doesn't care, someone should put a stop to this moronic blocking policy because it's 2023, not 1993.