Live From Sweden! Let's Talk Swedish Bands

streaming okay we are live from Stockholm Sweden just got here yesterday it's uh what time is it 9 20 P.M uh this is my first time I've ever been to Sweden I have a show here next week on the 22nd at the Soder theater when I talked to Larry who's my agent and old friend uh Larry said you want to do any more shows and I said yeah I'll do a few more shows where do you want to play and I said how about Stockholm I've never been to Sweden and here I am and it's amazing the weather's phenomenally great got here yesterday walked around all day I have the family here and really really excited it's um it's incredible really incredible a couple other things couple of shows coming up Atlanta those of you in Atlanta or one that want to come down doing a really special show on the 28th of September at the Variety Playhouse I'm gonna have people on my on the show I want this this would be unlike any of the other shows I've done because I'm gonna have people that are friends my friends many of whom have been on my channel over the last seven years uh the people that kind of made this whole thing possible and then been part of my musical Journey through through the time that I've you know from way before I was on YouTube 30 years ago when I moved to Atlanta to now but people that have actually played on my channel that you will uh you'll see that will be part of the show I'm playing at The Gramercy theater in New York City October 17th which is an awesome place you get tickets in the description below for all these and then in Berlin October 28th at the passions Kershaw how do they do Mike that's pretty good pretty good you know some when when people that are German say I did okay with that with that um I don't know you can put that in the comments section uh okay so why Sweden uh oh wait uh Beatle bundle on sale 99 bucks all four things that I sell my beater ear training my um quick lessons Pro which is more of an advanced guitar course my beginner guitar course which is really Bare Bones and then of course my biato book interactive so I've got the theory thing covered and I got the ear training thing cover those are the big things but all these things for just 99 bucks all four courses why did I want to come to Sweden there's so many bands that I love that are Swedish um the first of them of course is ABBA now I've never done an ABBA song on my channel before and one of the reasons I never today what makes a sound great because I don't have any tracks of theirs right so uh that was one of the things and I did wasn't sure if I could play them on on YouTube but I think I can actually as a matter of fact I made a little uh YouTube short with this particular song which I love I love all ABBA songs and one day I will interview someone from the or maybe multiple people from the group uh but of course [Applause] this is one of the finest songs [Music] [Applause] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] darling can't you hear me [Applause] okay I just want to make a point here so so they really invented this this formula this uh this particular formula um uh of just brilliant brilliant pop songwriting the things though that they did just in the verse there I just have to point it out do you notice how there's a missing bar that's happening there right here and this is this is which is so brilliant about the production forget about the melody which is amazing in lyrics but this [Music] three bar phrase right and why is it a three bar phrase instead of a four bar phrase because they because it's interesting because it's not symmetrical and it just grabs your ear when that second phrase comes in when you don't expect it um so I just had to say that uh Abba forget it they have 28 million monthly listeners on Spotify still they're one of those bands Abba Queen you know a few bands that have been famous since the 70s and still every generation loves them uh who are some other Swedish bands oh my gosh there's so many there's some snares on let me go into a little bit [Music] you guys know this [Music] [Music] believe [Applause] I love that change [Music] [Music] I love how the bass don't bump bomb Oh so good so good and then of course [Music] Ace of Base forget it [Music] three minutes 11 seconds of bliss [Music] the production of this stuff is so good [Music] the melody oh [Music] [Music] not only Ace of Base we have The Cardigans we have one of my favorite records and bands that uh I I've been talking about a lot lately which is I which I played on the live stream a couple weeks ago refused oh this is this is a absolutely brilliant record that was so far ahead of its time [Music] [Music] this is production [Music] oh so good you're like are there vocals about God [Music] okay this record here the shape of fun to come is one of the finest um it's one of the best records it was ahead of its time came out in 1998 Mike talk about this record so I mean like when we were in the screamo days we it was like this is what you put on this is what everybody in every band that was touring right no matter what kind of music it was is like 200 pounds they're jamming they refused on the bus to get pumped up right everybody jammed Refuge every band jammed refused on the bus that was touring then we all did they they were this record uh was is one of the finest records that came out and and it's literally it's 25 years ahead of his time but I was I've been trying to make a video about refused uh that they and the weird thing is that this particular record was was you know I it was a departure from the record before it's really kind of an interesting story uh that their fans did not the hardcore fans that they had uh did not get this record and I've always tried to figure out why um maybe because it's um is it too Metal Mike compared to what they had done before that that um is it more too Progressive it's like a progressive hardcore record with that's a metal record at the same time it sounds so good it's just unbelievable I would always bring this up and listen to the drum sounds listen to the guitar sounds everything even the intro every song is great on this record but the intro with the muted guitars this stuff is so tight oh so good um and then there's uh you know what else who else do we have in Flames Meshuggah um ghost um a band that I got turned on to yesterday actually uh this is a another band that um uh this is a band called breach that a musician friend uh turned me on to yesterday that's a uh uh a band from the 90s this particular record is uh I just listened to it yesterday for the first time it's called it's me God is the name of the record it's on Spotify they have 5 000 monthly listeners but it's from the 90s and it's amazing I listened to the whole record yesterday it's unbelievable um uh we have um Peter Bjorn John [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] the hives okay so these are how many people are in Sweden Mike did we find out because Stockholm has 1.7 million right it's uh like 10 million 10 million in the whole country Mike says I'm not sure we'd have to verify that but uh there's all these unbelievably great Swedish bands of all different genres and then you have people like Max Martin shell back these brilliant songwriters pop songwriters and producers this I mean it's unreal now why did all this great music come out of Sweden well that's why I'm here to find out this is one of the reasons why I wanted to come here is because I wanted to find out why all these great incredibly diverse bands these from the heavy bands like Meshuggah in flames and then you have Ace of Base and Abba and Roxette and refused I mean the hives this is Ghost why why here what is it about here uh is it today because the weather today and yesterday was unbelievably beautiful but um the sun comes up at 3 30 in the morning on uh in in July and it goes down at 10 p.m and it comes up at 3 30 but in the winter time uh obviously it's the opposite so maybe people have nothing to do in the winter or they get really uh I don't know it's kind of like Rochester New York where I'm from in the winter time when it's snowing you just stay in and you practice you and you uh and you use your imagination a lot I don't know but it's it's really um I I've been having a great time so okay so what uh I was trying to think here if is it who's I I don't have the chat in here Mike do you have the chat are people in the chat what are they saying here a lot of Opeth um Opeth oh my God it's surprising a lot of people say Viagra boys which is that's that band I showed you in L.A uh the sort of Post Punk what I said was kind of like refused but like more Dancy um okay a lot of Europe obviously yes Europe I have Europe on here which I did not play um okay so I was trying to think of of um um I said to Mike I was like we should tell people that we're gonna go out somewhere tonight here but here's the funny thing is that I can't even pronounce any of the street names I I really can't so I couldn't even tell you where where we are in town uh so and I think like how do people learn this language this is this is really amazing uh the people here are so nice and everybody speaks English so well that it's kind of unnerving because I hear him speak and it's like wait are are you Swedish it's unbelievable how well I mean I've I've know I have so many friends that are Swedish over the years and their English is so good it's just you just don't even you don't even think about it you just think everyone in Sweden speaks English because they do pretty much right uh uh it's uh but but I couldn't um uh ingvey how do we uh how do we if they should have been first on the list okay so I want to back up and talk about a couple things I put out a short yesterday um that uh with how many of you saw my short with John Petrucci and tosin and me in it uh I hadn't I had those guys in the studio about a week and a half ago it was tosin John Petrucci and Devin Townsend all together and I feel I I put put out a short yesterday of John trying out my Mesa Mark 7 and and honestly I I hadn't used the amp that much and he flipped it on and uh I set it up for him and tosin and I set up amps for those three guys to play right so so John uh and I don't even know how the amp really works I just got it so John's like oh it's got this 2C uh 2C setting Mesa setting and he puts it on then he dials in his tone and then he starts playing and it is unbelievable and so he kind of shreds in the uh in the little in the short that I did I put it on Instagram too I mean it's unbelievable and so then when he left I thought oh I gotta take a picture of those things in case the knobs get moved I gotta take a picture of the settings but man but you know so much of this stuff is just in the fingers and and I know that's a cliche to say but these guys John Petrucci man tosin Devin Townsend these guys they just they it didn't matter what they were playing on Devin played through my computer through uh uh I I've one of the one of the neural DSP plugins tosin played through my dual rectifier John played through the through my other Mesa and it didn't matter what they played through it sounds you know they just sound like them it's genius it's all in the hands really some of it uh okay so um Avicii yes I I well you just mentioned it let's see here hold on um wow how many people are are actually from Sweden that are in the chat and and if you're in here can you tell us a cool place to go out if we wanted to go out tonight um because uh yeah put it in put it in the chat if there's a place here in Stockholm that's a cool place to go and hang Mike and I will go out so we're here really for uh for what a weekend for a week or so something like that we're here for about a week um and we we went around I went to a Killer music store here in town yesterday um that uh let's see here I had it on my um Nicholas uh let's see where's Nicholas's place here he's the owner here Nicholas and I hey uh I'm gonna tell you what it is here I always go to um I always go to music stores in the um whatever town that I'm in I like to I like to pick out a uh here we go DLX music in Stockholm I went to yesterday oh it's it was a great place I hung out for a couple hours uh oh man just quit here there we go if my stream just went out it's because um the internet fluctu fluctuated just hit re hit Refresh on the stream here uh but anyway so I went to DLX music in Stockholm yesterday oh man this is going on in office what you said Mike do what use your phone data it'll work will it Mike says it'll work I don't see how it'll work Mike I mean what do you mean use my phone data you Mike's trying to trying to tell me how to do something fancy here it's working fine Aaron says okay okay so I went to this great music store and and I hung out I met Zeke I met Nicholas I met a guy named Oscar oh man it was amazing I had a great time anytime I go to a new city I find the the whatever cool guitar store is and I go there because music stores no matter where you go are all the same cool music stores when I went to uh when we went to Reykjavik Mike and I went to uh this this we went to a couple music stores there and you just it doesn't matter where you are music stars are are the best you know you meet such cool people it's awesome okay so um couple things I'm going to say for the people of people that just got on uh do another quick show announcement here I'll be at the um I'll be at the soldier theater on the 22nd which is next week here in Stockholm Atlanta the Variety Playhouse if you haven't gotten your tickets September 28th all these things will be in the description below uh New York City at The Gramercy theater October 17th and in Berlin on October 28th at the passions character wow this is my world tour I said this on a live stream I think last week that this may be I may be retiring from from from uh live shows after these these may be the last ones it's not that I don't love doing them I love doing them but it's just um it's tough during the the school year with my kids that's that's really the reason is that it's tough to do the to do the trips this time of year is great got the family here um and we we just had such a amazing time the last couple days it's so great um I want another thing the uh uh running my sale if you want to get better at music if you want to improve your ear I don't run ads in my videos except for the ads that I do for my educational things that I have built my ear training course my biato book interactive my quick lessons which is like an intermediate guitar course in my um in my uh beginner guitar course and the reason that that I do these is because um one of the reasons I I initially created my my biato book which was originally a book a physical book back in 1989 when I was a college professor and I did it because there were things that there really no teaching textbooks at the time for guitar and I hated writing the same stuff out over and over because my first year I taught was in 1987 and in 88 I really started writing my book and and um there were Concepts that just weren't even in books anyways and so this journey led me honestly to here I know you know it's funny because I never thought of myself as a music teacher uh even though I was I have always been a music teacher which is very funny right and so I went from from my journey of going to college for music getting an undergrad degree in in music education then getting my master's so that was in classical bass getting my masters in jazz guitar then I went out and I started teaching college and I taught Jazz studies and then I left there after getting a publishing deal with polygram publishing in 1991-92 and um and I tried to um and I moved around playing in bands for a few years trying to to find people to play with ended up in Atlanta at the end of 1994. I got in a band got signed 98 some of you know some of my funny stories from that and then I started producing in the mid 90s also and um and a lot of the groups that I produced they always said that I was like a teacher because I would always teach them the stuff that I was doing when we were producing why should you do this why you should why should you do a Harmony Part because it's the producers always have to talk to the artists into things when I interviewed Butch Vig and he said the story he talks about with Kurt Cobain where he's like I had to convince Kurt to double the vocals in the choruses and then double the harmonies Dave girl double the harmonies and the way he convinced him is by telling him that John Lennon did that so when you're producing artists to to convince them to try anything you have to basically teach them that other people it's okay to do these things because other people that they respect did it as well right so so this is this is part of of the psychology of being a music producer is to teach is to uh convince artists to try things that they don't want to try for the betterment of their own songs and of course once they try it when people try doubling the choruses and the vocal in the double the vocals and the choruses they're like oh that sounds amazing it's like yeah people have been doing it since the you know since the Beatles like this has been going on since the beginning of of all different types of pop music rock rock music hip-hop every genre of music r b people double vocals and but you'd think that that uh that you wouldn't have to convince people by using these these kind of things so it's like you're always teaching and then it would be like okay the melody would sound better if it went like this and then you'd play it for them and they're like well this is I wrote it now check this out hear this note how it sounds against this chord here when you do this if the phrase were to be like this and because the snow here and this minor chord this flat sink it sounds flat six it sounds cool especially when it returns back to the fifth and you play it for them they're like yeah that does sound good then they'll sing it against the thing and then they're like oh my God I can't even imagine how the melody was before and I'd be like yeah it was really bad before no it wasn't it was just not as interesting as it could be so this whole thing of being a music producer and teaching people about music theory and and uh and the psychology Behind these things are it's the same thing when I break down songs whether it's what makes us sound great or we talk about songs on live streams here and I talk about like in SOS it's a three bar phrase that turns around instead of a four bar phrase because that would be something that you'd have to tell about you know what let's not go around that fourth time let's just cut that out because it's it's less expected uh since you've been gone that that was a Max Martin Dr Luke song uh Kelly Clarkson huge huge hit the chorus is a uh I think it's a is it the verse of the chorus it's a six bar phrase it's an odd group odd number phrase and these kind of things are now they wrote the songs they these guys are pro-songwriters but but um but when you're working with artists to try and um you you have to use these things and it's fascinating when I interview producers and I've only been able to interview Butch Vig and uh Daniel lanwa but the stories are always the same trying to get artists to to convince them to try things out when they get locked in in things a certain way so um anyways this is why the teaching stuff to me is is so important is to to teach people what the possibilities are even just to get them to try I think something once or to hear and sometimes you know it's like somebody like me I need to hear it to see if and sometimes I'm like you know what the melee that we have is better that wouldn't happen that often but it would happen anyhow um Mike anything else um anybody say anything in here because I can't see the chat a few people said which is funny to ban the sounds I actually toured with them for a while that's a really good band but it's like Indie you know um let's see who else um a lot of people said yeah I mean a lot of Bagger boys Europe dude Robin the pop artist yeah but nobody said of any place to go tonight Mike is there any from anyone because I don't know that like sometimes it just looks like a long time [Music] we're not we're laughing at us because we're idiots right as I apologize um if anyone has any suggestions put them in the Stream after and say that it's a it's a place or it's a uh or it's a street now put a place there okay and then we'll figure out where it is all right so uh I announced the dates beato uh my Beatle bundle's on sale uh for the rest of the week 9am bucks for all four things I hope to see you guys if you're in Stockholm hope hope to run into you I've run into some incredibly cool people it's been a great great time so far I look forward to uh look forward to being here uh over the next week or so all right well

Channel: Rick Beato

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Length: 31min 55sec (1915 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 14 2023