Why I Never Gave Up

subscribed over the last couple weeks here with Led Zeppelin and Nirvana two of my favorite groups today's live stream I'm gonna tell a story I'm gonna tell a couple stories about why I never gave up but first I want to tell you guys about the Beato Club because I always forget to mention it really only because it's a month old but Beato Club is essentially our version of patreon that that Aaron who's sitting over here came up with it's a way to support the channel anybody that signs up for the Beato club during the live stream is going to get a shout out Aaron's gonna tell me who they are and I'm gonna shout their name out whoo but and there's a discount for anybody that wants to buy the Beato book or anything in my store today for the next 24 hours the code is RB 914 at 904 that's how I make a living essentially because I always told people this but my you know when I make these what makes this song great video is they get demonetised or get monetized to the groups which is obviously fair but that does I don't want that to keep me from making videos about the things I want to make the Auto Club link is in the description there and just said okay so let me tell you this story about why I never gave up I'm 56 years old for those of you that don't know how old I am I'm from Rochester New York I just see Jacob greeting from Rochester so my dad graduated from high school in 1937 he started working for the railroad as a timekeeper when he was 14 okay so in the mid 1930s his family were lived on a farm and they he wasn't able to go to college even though he had scholarships to go to college and my mom graduated from high school in 1943 and she wasn't able to go to college either because she had to make money for her family so this is post depression my dad worked for the railroad my mom worked for a company called Rochester products and it was during World War two so every company retooled during World War two to make no offense Aaron because we were fighting the Germans Aaron's German my mom was working on airplane engines at the time so they retooled the factory to work on things for the war but my mom and dad needed to make my ends up us she stopped working when she had my oldest sister Pat in the early 50s and then we had seven kids in my family but my dad worked all the time and I remember my dad would leave before I got up and he'd get home at five o'clock at night with his railroad truck he worked for the railroad and he worked all the way through until I was in tenth grade so 1978 and he retired so we're talking about 1936 to 1978 42 years when I went to his retirement dinner he had only missed their they they gave him an award for he went through I think it was a thirty year period where he only missed six days of work in 30 years and that made an impression on me that I never forgot I thought to myself wow man I never saw dad ever home ever taking any days off no matter if the seven of us were all you know sick with some stomach bug and my dad had it he never ever missed work and then my mom started working again when I was in kindergarten and my mom never missed work my parents were working-class my mom worked in a can factory starting from when I was in seventh grade or I'm sorry first grade kindergarten until until the mid 80s when they relocated they left Rochester and my mom retired but that work ethic of seeing your parents do that really has an impact I didn't realize it I didn't realize it all the way through school when I was a d-minus student but when I got to high school or when I got to college I mean it hit me it really really hit me that wow man my parents are really struggling so that I can go to school here I got I got scholarships and things like that but my you know they just they didn't have money to go to go to school I was the sixth of seven kids you know I was a D minor student I was a d-minus student in high school and so I went to college those of you that know the story that have watched my my video about how I didn't get into college for music when I first tried it was a you know that was a major influence in my life not being able to get into college and getting rejected by two music schools for the first semester okay and then having to study with a another freshman guitar student to teach me these classical guitar pieces so I could rien and get into school okay so I got into college went through my undergrad got my master's degree at New England Conservatory then I got a job back at Ithaca College where I didn't get in the first time where I got did got my undergrad in music education I got in and I came in as a new teacher a professor there teaching in the same office with my with my former teacher Steve Brown in the same office that I got rejected from six years later seven years later six years later six years later cuz I started Ithaca in 1981 so I went from not being able to get into college okay to being good enough to where I was a professor teaching in the same office that I was crushed in when Steve essentially laughed at me at when I did my first audition I love Steve he's the best he was an incredible inspiration I'm gonna interview Steve on here - Steve Brown he's a huge influence in my life so I did this teaching gig for six years until 1991 when I when I got signed C III in 89 a friend of mine author of the only bands I had ever heard of in the 80s were the police I met but because I was going to school for music and I was only into jazz during that period I never listened to anything until the student of mine came in named Darren and he came into a lesson and he says I want to play you this thing and he played me Nirvana bleach okay this is what started to change my life and got me out of my jazz coma cuz I heard it and I was like whoa is this what kids listen to and he said no no no this is indie rock this is this is alternative rock these are what college kids listen to but this is not commercial or anything I said man this is good I like this anyway so I play on this demo with my buddy Alan and then the vice president of Elektra Records calls him up and says I want to sign you guys to a demo deal a demo deals like he gives you a few grand to record some songs so Alan had written had recorded all of his songs at the time and and and said well I don't have any more songs he says to me he's like can you help me write songs I'm like hey I don't know how to write songs man I mean I know how to write music but I don't know how to write songs and so Alan's like well I'll teach you how to write songs but first you got to start you got to learn what's happened in the eighties since you missed the entire 80s so Alan starts telling me about all these bands that were that were big and basically gave me a history lesson of the 80s that I missed okay so I started studying the 80s in 1989 by 1992 it was us so we never got signed to a record deal or anything but in 1992 we were playing at CBGB's in New York I was still teaching in Ithaca at the time right I had my steady cushy job there where I was gonna probably get tenure the next year and um played a gig at CBGB's and a guy named Gary Baker comes up to me after he gives me his business card he's like I'm a lawyer here in New York or no no no no no no no no no Mike and lawyer was Gary Baker this guy John Tina gives me his business card I think John Tina's still in the music business gives you his business cards like my name is Jan Tina I worked for Polygram publishing I want to sign you to a publishing deal I'm thinking oh come on man it's not true you guys know I'm serious I really worked for work for this company so I go to the my buddy Alan's like this guy came up to me as publisher he says he wants a sign still publishing you we have hit songs so anyway so I call up our lawyer and I tell him is he goes oh yeah he does he works for Polygram publishing so anyway so we get this publishing deal it's it was a nothing deal and we got completely ripped off by our lawyer at the time our lawyer and manager whatever who cares right but that decision there made me say okay I'm gonna take a leave of absence and I'm gonna try and make it in a band I was 30 years old at the time so I'm gonna try I'm gonna quit my college teaching gig for nothing and with no nothing I didn't have any money or anything I had nothing saved I quit my college teaching gig well you know what happened we didn't get a record deal I quit my job I'm living in Philadelphia playing in a band a Peter and then nothing happens and I'm teaching at a local music store they're teaching guitar lessons and nothing and then my bills start mounting up I can't pay for anything you know by the end of 92 you know or 93 I'm sorry I'm back home living with my parents right in December January January of 94 back home living with my parents and I have a whole video on this where I talked about this but I wasn't ready to give up I said I can't I can't do this I can't give up I haven't reached my dream now I'm 30 what am i I'm 32 years old in 1994 I'm like I'm gonna make it in a band I I gotta make it I believe in this I I I have a vision for this kind of Mew I go on a right traveled all over the the United States and Europe in the beginning of 94 all of 94 and ended up here in Atlanta there's a whole video on this right and I moved to Atlanta and I had no work and I had 200 bucks I had a I had sold everything my car was in was gonna get repossessed I owed a thousand bucks on my car my car cost $8,000 at the time I paid it off with my college teaching gig but didn't quite pay I paid up till $1,000 and it was gonna get repossessed okay and my folks said we'll lend you the money to pay off your cars because I said I was really depressed I said I told him I said you my car is gonna get they're gonna come up and they're gonna tow the car my car away and my parents gave me the money my brother Ray hired me and paid me enough money that I had 200 bucks when I ended up here in Atlanta that's all the money I had saved okay $200 I had a Mexican stratocaster enough at a pv classic 50 that's all the gear I owned see this whole studio here I had nothing I had a Honda Civic with no air conditioning moving down to Atlanta and but I had a dream and that dream was that I could make it in music I could make a living in music and I could make the kind of music I wanted that was the most important thing I had a vision for what I could do I said I had here this music in my head and I recorded these four track demos so I moved here and I moved in with a bunch of musicians okay I moved in a house with four other four other musicians there's five of us my buddy Jason who I'm gonna have him on a video here he was living in the house at the time too and I'm still friends with all these guys so it's a house full of musicians I'm living here in Atlanta paying I didn't know 120 bucks a month rent okay and teaching I was I was teaching guitar lessons one day a week then working at Blockbuster music the rest of the time wearing a blue shirt making minimum wage which was about five bucks an hour okay so I have but I was recording these demos on a four track all the time I had it my buddy Rich's bass that I borrowed his Fender bass I had my little strata tar I didn't have anything but a little distortion box that I went out of the distortion box into the into the four track that was my my amp because I didn't have any mics to record in the amp so I so I made all these demos I still have my cassette of this vision I had with all these kind of weird guitar tunings and they were all had all these dissonant chords and I'm with distortion on them and finally in 1996 I met my buddy mark who was a singer of another band who quit this band called hundred-year son they were from they're from Augusta Georgia and he moved to Atlanta and Mark and I just started to start a band together in the fall of 96 and we wrote in demoed nine songs I borrowed a recorder at eight-track digital quarter from a friend of mine named Alex Alex showed me how to use it he had a little console that I used and he taught me how to use the console I still didn't have an amp I still went through the distortion pedal into the console I had a mic that I borrowed that Mark Ari 20 and Mark would hold it here because I didn't have a mic stand and we recorded these demos it was a nine song demo tape I tell this story in one of my videos anyways our band does our first rehearsal on January seventh of 1997 with a bass player and drummer and that was our band we did it one rehearsal four weeks later he played our first gig opening for a band here at a place called the point in Atlanta and and I knew I was like I was teaching guitar lessons fifty students a week while this was going on mark and I Mark was working waiting tables our bass player and drummer Darren and Walter they had no money so we had to pay for our we have any money either but we had to pay for our practice space and we went into the studio for weeks after we did our first rehearsal beat in February we were in the studio recording okay we were recording and Mark was producing our singer Marc was producing I was not the producer Marc would say oh we need this kind of sound here oh I need some weird sound here no no it needs to go like this and he would sing stuff as I go that's a good idea and so I'd be going at hitting those 50 students a week and we go in the studio at night and we practice at at 11 o'clock at night 11 to 1 get up the next day go teach my students and and this would go on so in March we get offered because of this demo tape we get offered this gig playing New York City we go there we play there's there's a sound man that that was was a sub on this gig and we had 10 labels show up my one of my best friends came with a head of A&R at Atlantic Records and it was a disaster it was so much of a disaster that that they said my buddy Dave was like oh man it was I said how bad was it he said I was horrible there's you know like after the third song that get sound guy came up and Mike the snare there were no monitor there's nothing by the way beyond Oh Club everybody that signs up for the Beato Club right now gets a shout out Aaron's gonna tell me the be out of clubs away you can support this channel okay anyways disaster every label thinks our band is horrendous okay so what do we do do we quit no I'm 35 36 35 at the time and asked my brother John I was like man should I give this up he goes no forget it no way and I said give it another year so we finish making this record we put it out was called the good night sky and we printed up a thousand of them I still have stuff still have them here again I got I have 900 of them here but we ended up getting a record deal I bought a year after that so a year after this disaster we got signed so we got signed when I was 36 years old okay and I didn't give up then I was like no I'm gonna do this we get in with this label that makes us forces us to work with this producer in the meantime I had started producing a couple projects but I didn't really know anything about production I had produced a couple bands I produced a band called the tender idols here that had a guy named Dave Cobb who produced Adam he had like a grammy-winning a produced Jason with Jason Isbell and Chris with a beard country artist Sturgill Simpson dave was in the first band ever that I ever produced Chris Stapleton thank you so dave was the guitarist of the band and so we got stuck with this producer because our label said no we want you to use this guy I'm not gonna name him he was a drunk he got drunk every day and destroyed our recording during this process we were paying you know we went we spent four hundred and eighty thousand dollars on a record that was a complete absolute disaster but I didn't give up I didn't give up the record was done the label said they're gonna release it okay it's now 1999 37 years old and I've got no money again so what do I do I go back to teaching part-time but my friend reads said to me you know you should produce bands sounds like man I don't really know I can't I don't know how to engineer anything he goes I have a band that needs a better demo I want you to call him up and tell him that you'd that I told them that you they need you to produce them and I said well how much should I charge him he goes I don't know 150 bucks so I thought this bana said you know Reed was their lawyer okay and they want to read to represent them and so so I called this band up and I said that that I want to produce your record they said what's a producer do I said it most like a director I guess shout out to Lee we got we got one one person be Auto Club that's it oh my god this is ridiculous I'm just kidding Thank You Lee thank you it's awesome um so so I say I talked to the band I call up this buddy in my Billy they had a studio in his basement and I said Billy I want you to I'm gonna produce something you know how much you charge and and can you engineer mixes it yeah yeah so I get this band together we go in and we do this recording we do five songs was on 16-inch sixteen track one-inch tascam machine that we did it on so we did this song and one of the songs actually got on the American Pie 2 soundtrack ok the first thing that I really did and eventually that record sold like a million copies okay one of the songs got put on there but in the meantime my band the record comes out four weeks after it comes out the record label gets bought and we get dropped in the meantime those four weeks or maybe it's five weeks just so we had gone on tour opening for Megadeth okay Megadeth I and and during the entire tour Marty Friedman and I hung out every day and played guitar together and that was the greatest thing Marty and I are still really great friends I have a really cool interview on this channel if you don't know who Marty Friedman is he's a legendary guitar player one of my dear friends um my band gets dropped I get a call from my lawyer our lawyer one day and he says we're in like Baton Rouge Louisiana he calls me up and he says hey man you've been watching the news I said no what's up he goes well Polygram was bought by Polygram owned our label slash records that we honored London sire and yet Polygram was bought by universal he's I said what does that mean he goes that means that you guys your tour support ran out today and you guys are dropped from your deal so what you're kidding me right so I go back in I wake up the guys of hotel room and I said you're not gonna believe this but our label was bought out this is after this disastrous record and the label decides to put it out anyways and then they get bought out and we're dropped okay but in the meantime I go back and my buddy Billy says to me okay I'm gonna teach you I'm going away for two days here's the Pro Tools manual I want you to learn how to engineer I want you to learn how to run Pro Tools so I stayed at his studio for two days straight I did not sleep and I read the Pro Tools manual to learn how to run Pro Tools he taught me about miking I had no cards from things from magazines that I got at Barnes & Noble and borders I learned engineering from reading magazines and writing stuff down because I couldn't afford to buy the magazines okay and I started producing band after band and then I got a room or I went to the studio called tree sound here in Atlanta and Dave Cobb brought his Neve console that he owned at the time to tree and had a room there and I used Dave's console for four years or so four years six days a week producing bands and after band after band it ended up being about 750 bands from 19 really 1996 or 95 when I did the tender idols all the way till two years ago when I stopped producing okay about 750 projects out of those 750 projects i co-wrote probably a thousand songs and only one song was ever picked up as a single one out of all these songs that got on major-label records only one song was chosen as a single because to be chosen for a single you have to actually go through a committee okay so one song that one song a label got behind and it was this band permanently and the song after forty three weeks of being on the radio after we had written in 2007 in 2013 in December 9th and 16 two weeks in a row it was number one on country radio sold a million copies and was the number one song for two weeks one out of a thousand songs now did I write all other songs that could have been hits of course but you have no control over any of that stuff but you know what you don't give up Parmalee started their band in 1998 they didn't get signed until 2013 really 2012 so from 1998 to through 2012 they went they kept their band together and played gigs terrible gigs all over the place they're still together they never gave up okay then I remember saying I got married 2007 and I told my wife I said you know I said what am I gonna do what am I gonna do am I gonna be producing bands when I'm 60 years old is that gonna be weird and she says what are you gonna do I said I don't know so I haven't really thought about it anyways and I didn't think about it I just kept going and going and going until Rhett came in with a band Rhett who you've seen on my channel before he came in with a band that I produced and then he said to me he said man can I come in and just you know whenever I want and and and learn how to do this I said absolutely you come in whenever you want he started coming in and he would in turn I said come on in here man and it was me and GL my assistant and then rat would come in he'd come in like once a week or so and I'd say here's how you might drum so you might get kick drum this is you mic a bass and say you do this so you do that this that this that this that this went on for years until 2016 and that's when ret came in and said hey you watch YouTube right I'm like yeah I watch YouTube why you need to be a youtuber you guys know the story here I was like what are you talking about I don't know anything about making videos he's like it's just like editing audio even though read didn't didn't know how to make videos either well he actually knew how to run his camera is that we got anything or what dude yeah we got some shoutouts what Thomas Derek Steven and Richard all members of the Beato Club come on people that's five I got five hundred thousand people here five members no that's awesome I appreciate that that's great so Rhett was the one though and he said I'll come down tomorrow this sounds like totally like read he's like I'll come down tomorrow I'm gonna bring my camera and we're gonna do this so he brings his camera and he sets up lights in the control room and all of a sudden I sit there in front of the camera I say I don't know what to say he said come on man we'll talk about what your channel is gonna be like I'll cut it together and I said well I have no idea and I said well he said what's it gonna be of us is gonna be like all different things he goes he goes well just you know whatever I said what if I call it everything music cuz it's all about all different topics of music he says this sounds great let's do this and then then we were trying to make these like oh man terrible terrible you got to have something you have no flow to this I was like what can you write something out so we download a teleprompter app for the iPad and and we write out this thing that's that's my channel trailer this is still my channel trailer and Rhett films it sits down on the couch in the control room he edits it and I say then he shows it to me I was like whoa that's that looks great man and then June 2nd we uploaded it of 2016 and then on June 8th I made my first video and then I made a second video in a third video in a fourth video in a hundreth video and a two hundred and fiftieth video in a 400th bideo and a five under this video and now I'm up to about five hundred and thirty videos and that's in let's see two years it was in June so July August September 24 25 26 and 27 months I've made five hundred and thirty videos why because it's important to me it's it's important you know somebody wrote a comment on the Nirvana video and said you know I've searched YouTube for years for a video to explain why I like Nirvana songs so much and that right there and I made that video yesterday because I loved Nirvana and I think Kurt Cobain was an absolute genius anybody that doesn't think that knows nothing about music he was a melodic genius okay but for that guy right there that wrote that a guy or woman whoever wasn't wrote that that's why I make videos for those things because I want to explain these things because they're important to know I I was lucky enough to have people teach me these things you know I wasn't even the first person in my family to make videos I was talking to my older brother Ray he's my next oldest brother he's years older than me thank you Marcus any shoutouts here yeah David Jeffrey and Madeleine thank you rue so my brother Ray had actually started with my brother Mike but my brother Ray started making family videos after my dad passed away in 2004 he made a video of a one time we went out and played golf me and my four brothers and my dad so the six of us won out and played played golf together and we didn't really have any audio we had almost no audio of my dad even though he passed away in 2004 my brother made this video I'm gonna put it in I'm gonna put some of it in a video I was talking to about it last night but he turned me on to film composers he had some Thomas Newman James Newton Howard in the thing I said to him this is so emotional this is amazing he's like I said where is this music from he goes I was a sound track this one's a Santi King Kong this one's from I don't know a Thomas Newman one and so I said wow that is incredible and my brother every big birthday or something or big family event when somebody turned 50 or 60 or my parents were married for 50 years or my brother Ray would make a video for them so he was actually the first one in the family to make videos and and he's really good he still makes videos we were talking about this last night I'm talking about he's talking about the Ken Burns effect and he was talking about cutting on cutting on the beat and everything and it's funny to think of the fact that I'm not even the first person to make videos in my family right so but this for that one comment that I had about Nirvana I've been looking on YouTube for years to find out why I like Kurt Cobain's melody so much how to write melodies like that and that is why I keep going that is why I never give up that is why you should never give up because it doesn't matter I'm 56 years old now 56 and a half I've been doing this since I was 54 on YouTube I mean my first impression that rep my first thing was like dude come on there's no white haired dudes on on on YouTube he's like because I'm telling you you can do this you can do this sube thank you I really appreciate that really appreciate that so I get up everyday you know when people say oh man don't overwork yourself like what are you talking about overwork myself dude people say that to my dad a mic don't overwork yourself at the railroad like what people don't tell other you know if you gotta go to gym this is my job now I make my living by people basically through my store that's it and through the Beato Club that's the only way I paid for anything for my family is through that if I could get to one percent participation what are we at Aaron oh point zero one point zero zero one zero point one percent with the be Auto Club it's been going for a month so or six weeks I think right seven weeks the goal is 1% to get to 1% of the subscribe you know of the people that subscribe to the to the channel thank you green arrow I know you are I know you are be on a book you can support the channel with that 20% off everything the mug you know if you want a mug that shows you oh we just added the modes of the major scale so that we have the complete set you know my hair actually looks darker it's almost like it's getting darker it's not as white as it used to be I'm looking at it right now it was totally white before so and I am gonna do dire straits I see that Mobius drummer so the so the we added modes of the major scale to the cop to the mugs so we have modes of the major scale modes of the melodic minor scale most of the harmonic minor most of the harmonic major modes of the double harmonic major and all the triad formulas as the formulas of all those modes you look at your melodic minor mug and you say oh thank you Richard you look at you say Oh Dorian flat 2 I know what that is Lydian augmented 1 2 3 sharp 4 sharp 5 6 7 mixolydian sharp 11 1 2 3 sharp 4 5 6 flat 7 you drinking your coffee because that's what you need to do to be a successful musician you need to drink coffee about 50 times a day actually I have coffee right here but it's iced coffee and you keep going and you keep going and going and going you stay in good health - you gotta you know but you never ever give up so that's my pep talk for the day I like to get on here and and tell people that's that is the you know for people to say oh man don't burn yourself out it was like what are you talking about this is burning yourself out you don't tell your friends when they go to work hey man don't burn yourself out at work it's like what is that what is that I'm just getting started Aaron any more shout outs Steve for the prime membership and Lincoln awesome thank you piata book RB or anything in my store 20% off today for the next 24 hours are benign one for you guys are amazing I did a little IRL last night on my second channel but I'm not going to tell you about my second channel only certain people on your nose who's who are members of my second channel the hidden channel I did a little IRL do you guys know what that is I actually learned it from Aaron Tom my man I know you are I did some shopping the second channel I say don't the sube don't tell him anyways you guys are the best thank you so much for being here every day I do have a Jeff Buckley video coming up I've seen Jeff Buckley Mike the beyond the coupon code is rb9 one for sign up to the B Auto Club Hirsch you're awesome mark mark just signed up to Hirsch let's see for Texas let's see INXS something from Latin America Rock let's see so thank you so much got it I always take requests for what makes this son great Peter you have a headache now Peter smart everyone Peter gives me many many ideas i chat with Peter all the time and I i am a peter has been a very good friend and and a an inspiration for the channel Tom because of me you're overworking yourself I will do zombies big star love big star mars volta and i saw without what else i saw something else GNR I'm definitely gonna do Steve the Beatles were working on that we got Zeppelin so we got one blocker okay so we got one blocker down I'm gonna work on the rest Sufjan yes alright you guys are the best I'm out of here

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Published: Fri Sep 14 2018