Alan Parsons interviewed by Rick Beato

[Frankymole]

" Alan Parsons: From The Dark Side of the Moon to The Alan Parsons Project"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrS6LWHz-dk

[surfling]

Here's another recent podcast where Parsons talks to Martyn Ware of Heaven 17:

https://chartable.com/podcasts/elect...5-alan-parsons

[NuffM]

Cannot stand Rick Beato. Interested in the interview but I'm not going to be giving this a watch.

[stonytokes]

Really? What's the issue with Beato?

[NuffM]

stonytokes he feigns ignorance just to have someone answer something that is common knowledge just for him to give a mindblown expression. In the episode with Copeland he asked such an obvious piece of Police trivia and acted like he never knew it. This behavior just comes off as completely fake and it ticks me off more than I'd like to admit. He also comes off as cocky and smug in my opinion. I really really REALLY hate his interview style. I hate the way he talks and acts dumb. I cannot stand him.

Also cmon man, what the hell is with that hair patch under your lip? Get rid of it, you're not 20.

[stonytokes]

NuffM I'm going to assume that you're referring to the exchange where Copeland details how Spirits was composed and recorded, and I'll agree that Beato's miming astonishment to a question to which he obviously knows the answer is pretty amusing, but EYE think he's doing it for the benefit of his audience.

The opening exchange between them gave me a chuckle, though, when Copeland subtly knocked Beato off his high horse. Notice the edit cut afterward?

Personally, EYE thought it was a great interview other than that. Watching the exchange between them about how the Police wrote songs and the power dynamic between the members made me think that a parallel could be drawn between the Police and the Floyd, Roger playing the part of Sting, of course, insisting that songs be played a certain way.

EYE can't speak to the grooming issue you referenced. Beato looks clean shaven to me. EYE must be getting old. Exchange starts at 9:35 for anyone else interested.

https://youtu.be/XIJkRhd1CTY?si=Nmbs4AHq_BGPS8_y

[TheMoebLoop]

Have to agree with you, NuffM on Beato, I also find him self-satisfied and smug. His condescending "old man shouts at the clouds" rants about "the sorry state of music nowadays" are, at the very least, tiresome in how out of touch and refusing to let go of the past they are, with his obviously paying lip service to jazz and classical music, then proceeding to use only guitar-based music for the rest of his examples of why "they don't make it like they used to anymore, man"; on one video, he even risibly mentions Dr. Dre as a paragon of sophisticated music from the past, yet completely ignores how contemporary hip hop is an incredible world of almost by-the-minute innovation, with artists like billy woods, Earl Sweatshirt, JPEG Mafia and the late MF Doom having, in the last decade and this one, pushed the genre way beyond anything imagined as possible anywhere in the 90s.

Don't like hip hop? No problem. Elsewhere, you have Tim Hecker, Meitei, Laurel Halo and Autechre in electronic music; Helmut Lachenmann, Poul Ruders, Olga Neuwirth and Nadia Sirota in classical; and the amazing partnership of Julia Holter and Tashi Wada in their uncategorisable brand of merged pop and classical. But Beato would rather ignore all of this and more, while also excluding by omission anything that is not in the "Anglo-Saxon" realm, in name of sophistry geared at his classic rock-idolising audience who have forgotten or are simply unaware of all the junk that the 60s-80s also spawned. He'd do well to use some intellectual honesty, which could be gained by shutting his mouth and re-opening his ears.

Anyway, sorry for the off-topic; I would be interested in some of the content of the interview, but there's no way to bear Beato at the helm.

[MrFender]

I can understand some people's aversion to Beato,can't argue with the smug aura he gives off but he does ask real and pertinent questions in his interviews.

At least it's not yet another "Reaction" video. That's right, you're in the music biz to some extent and have NEVER heard Stairway to Heaven? BS.

[PhxHorn]

I ended up standing in line next to Beato in the men's room at the Intuit Dome for Gilmour, and on the way out someone hit him up for a photo. Beato was friendly and accommodating, I'll give him that much.

[NuffM]

Cannot stand Rick Beato. Interested in the interview but I'm not going to be giving this a watch.

Bumping this amidst the news of David appearing on Beato's show.