Major Label Record Deal?
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- čas přidán 2. 04. 2017
- Here is the story my major label recording career. I got signed for the first time at age 36 and it was a disaster of epic proportions. Be careful what you wish for.
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You are a GREAT storyteller. (+4 K new subscriptions since last Tuesday!)
I love it! This is literally one of the greatest record deal stories I have ever heard!
Huge fan of Roger Manning. I am surprised by your indie roots.
Very much enjoy getting to know you through your youtube channel.
You have the same birthday as my daughter.
Love your videos, Rick. Cheers!
I'm not even 60 seconds in to this video and I want you to know as a 26 year old self described "failure", this series has been so good for me to hear. The stories about your college auditions and afterwards, and now this. I've said it from the first time I watched you, but your channel truly is a gold mine and you are doing musicians and guitarists such a big favor by posting these in depth videos every week.
Rick, those stories are hilarious. I mean it's great to see you looking back at this stuff, being able to laugh it up and see how ridiculous things were and yet realize that they made what you are today. I love those insights, really appreciated. I am still working through your book and it's amazing.
If I'm ever in Atlanta, I guess i need to hit the studio with you sir.
Anyways, thanks again for all the quality, humerous content you put out there for all of us and only the best of luck. I see your channel and yt business growing. I'm sure you'll get the silver play button by the end of this year.
Greetings from Germany.
What a beautiful story, thank you so much for brighting my day! Awesome!
“Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal.” -Earl Nightingale
Yes my favorite
Rick, Great Story. Thanks for sharing it and creating your channel...
I appreciate how sincere you are Rick! thank you for your story
Rick you have the best stories man!
Thanks for sharing......
Amazing story time stuff Rick! The guys in my band and I are huge Jellyfish fans. So cool that you're buddies with them! Thanks for sharing 🙏🏼😊
Thanks for the awesome story. Sounds like some of my stories from my years of playing drums. Oh, We share the same birthday brother. Much love man. Take care.
Thank you for sharing this amazing story!
This is a great story, just hilarious. Thanks for sharing this stuff. :)
Thanks for sharing your story, love your videos.
wow, many laughs and smiles cracked. what a rich story. thanks for detailing those experiences.
Hey Rick, I recently (within the last 8 months) moved to Marietta. I've started a progressive metal band with a friend of mine in Decatur, and I'm working with an old bassist of mine over the internet on a symphonic metal project. I'm 28 (turning 29 soon, the years, they fly by) and I've really been enjoying these story videos. They make me feel less like I'm just spinning my wheels with this. Music is massively important to me, and I want to make a life of it, even if it's just a meager one. These videos are great because they inspire me to keep going. Thank You so much for sharing!
I love all of your content (the lessons are so in depth, and Sounding Off is really off to a great start, I look forward to seeing more of those!) and I really feel like I've learned a lot from watching your videos. Please keep doing this! I'd be really interested in some videos about producing and arranging for rock bands.
Edit: A Sounding Off episode with Marty Friedman would be mindblowing.
you got a lot of great stories! love your channel
43... smiling every step of the way with you haha. Great story, Rick.
Damn this sound tech is a gem.
"Why da hell is that snare so low ? I'm gonna go ahead and try to mike it, see if that does anything."
Man, I miss Rockin' Rob's! Your bandmates probably brought me Rob's brisket many times. We even had Rob cater our wedding rehearsal party in 2000. Love the stories and all the variety of videos. Keep 'em coming!
Wow, Rick, you tell this story smiling and laughing, but i bet there was no fun during this events. Thanks for sharing, it really inspiring.
I’ll be honest, I’m glad I found your channel. Before I started doing what I do on CZcams now, I used to dream of being in a full fledged band with some mates from school. I played with those guys for four years or more given our marching/jazz/pep band start (pretty small school, tight knit), and they played some mean instruments. COVID put a damper on things before senior year even wrapped up, but even in my first two semesters of college (and, really, very recently) I held out hope that putting a band together that could get signed would be a good call. Given this story… mmm… maybe not the right thing for me, least of all my mates. Just seems… risky, uncertain as to actually seeing massive stardom. Awesome video anyway, Rick!
Rick, you're such an inspiration. Thank you.
Great story! Hugely entertaining! Very similar thing happened to me in 1999 with Universal Latino in Miami...
Love your stories, Rick. :)
great storry , and great learn for me....and wish if i can hear your red, blue and white tape fully😊.
Thanks for sharing!
Great story and great lesson about the music industry. I had a Sansamp too 😄
What a great story. You've gone through so much.
This story is amazing. Wow. I want to see a movie of this.
Great story sorry u had to go through all that mess! I bet it was hard
Hello Rick - I have just discovered you on youtube and your storys about major labels and the music business are awesome!!! What a story about your first ban! What a rollercoaster ride! I think you are the very best person who can help me. I am (actually a sound engineer) I evolved to a whole a video producer, actually I am managing and producing the german version of a huge top 10 channel (Top 10 best avengers moments - this kind of video) by myself for them - so in regards of Top 10 Lists, I have a very solid track record...but as you know the internet business is more than tough and let me put it that way I have dry bread and water for breakfast, lunch and supper (despite we germans love our bread though ;) - But with what you can help me - "This is the situation" I knew that this could not go on for long otherwise I would be destroyed financially so I thought of doing my own top 10 channel. And because usually it is third party content I thought how to grow the channel best. And my solution was: Start with music lists - Maybe you have heard about the GEMA situation in germany - an ongoing law thing with universal, the greman and youtube - as a result almost all big records in germany have been blocked from youtube for years. UNTIL NOW - the problem is solved - and I saw an opportunity - I contacted the universal music group germany, pitched my channel idea and now we have the situation that I could do Top 10 lists for the german market with their content exclusively - We are close to struck a deal - every skype call about concept etc is done - the next thing next week will be ...serious talk about contracts in berlin in their headquarters...now - knowing that they really could screw me bacause...they are universal - what shall I do - may I ask them for an advance to start with the best conditions...or shouldn`t I "beg"...you have to understand me - for 10 years - as an audio engineer, cutter etc people had screwed me over...have been the kind of the person who always wanted to do things for free...and in a few days I will be in a position to negotiate with universal on my own...I am actually a little bit overchallenged - I thought maybe you can give me 2-3 hints how to deal with universal in this particular case - I think maybe we could do a skype call youtube video out of this, could be interesting for your audience I think...but this is just a thought. Sorry for the long text though!
Wow! your whole darn wish came true. Thanks for sharing this
Great story rick!
Rick... This story really resonated with me. There were a lot of odd parallels that coincide with my experience thus far in music. Parts made me cringe... I'm glad you weathered the storm and righted the ship on your musical journey. I sincerely appreciate all your videos. Cheers.
Hahha Rick you’re a great storyteller - love it.
Great story!
Rick Beato I'm 55. I'm from Argebtina. I hardly understand english but I appriciate that you speak so cleary in all of your videos. Thank you.
I think it's awesome someone with so much theory knowledge likes shoegaze music
Marty Friedman is the original reason why I picked up the guitar. :D Your stirues amaze me Rick. Good job. Great value.
Hahaha great story Rick! Can't believe you had the chance to meet Brecker and Metheny! on a side note, the 24th of April is the Portuguese national day, just thought it was a funny coincidence :p
+pedro cardoso I got to hang out with Mike Brecker every day for two weeks! He was not only the greatest player but the greatest human being you will ever meet. That was the best part of the whole experience :)
I love these stories.
You had me at Jellyfish!. love those records.
Hey Rick, thank you for all that you share and your knowledge which is most to be accounted for. If i may request, could you do a video on "its never to late to pursue your music career." The very thought is haunting enough as i have heard stories like when a certain musician has started playing their instruments when they were3 years old or 5 and have achieved virtuoso. Hate to ask much than your already giving,
take care,
Wes Montgomery was 19 when he started guitar. Leonard Bernstein was 9 when he started the piano. Two of the greatest.
Church! People just don't understand how this works. Incredible story. You are a survivor.
You are really good at telling stories!! :) This sounds like movie material to me. Is there any way to hear the music?
you are an awesome storyteller !
Amazing story that plays like a movie for sure.
Sounds like the music industry is a loving, nurturing playground of security and hope. lol
Forgot to add-in loyal too.
Wow. Great story Rick. I literally gasped at 43 records. You could have probably sold more if you had personally called all your friends and asked them to buy just one. You endured and found a career and that's the moral of the story. Very cool.
Thats some amazing story dude. Is there any place I can listen to your band's music ?
Big fan of Marty Friedman, any chance of having him on like you did Steve Vai?
Great stories Rick!
wow this was great 👍👍👍
Great storytelling as always, I never expected you were into shoegaze back in the days. Any chance of giving us a few small parts of the demos to listen to?
+Appa Rillo I'm actually trying to get Adam Franklin from Swervedriver on my show :)
Drunk producer + Dirty socks + 43 = 3 more than 40 + congratulations to Mark + resigned to Universal + dropped again = great story!! Loved it..:-)))
Rick, the Beato Book might be great, but now is the time for you to right an autobiography ! :)
You've got some good stories, man! How long have you been in the industry?
Woah, it's not that hard to find out who that drunk producer was. This guys credit list is incredible, I guess he went through some tough times back then and you suffered because of that.
Great Story
(The record doesn't sound to bad also.)
What a great story! Hollywood could not have scripted this.
just wanted to tell you how many memories were brought back when you mentioned Swervedriver, listening to mezcal head right now awesome stuff
+Dean Goritz One of my favorite records of all time!!
Well Rick, that's better than my 'Rock To Riches' story.
Hey Rick, you should show some songs that you composed for the blue demo.
That sounded like cluster of dissaster but great story Rick.
Nice story.
WHERE CAN WE LISTEN TO THE BLUE DEMO?!
Haha! I still have the cassette!
You should upload it. I think after this very interesting story many of us want to listen this "blue demo")))))) Thanks for what you are doing
The blue doe is cool! The major label record is horrid!! It's unlistenable! The guitar tone are so shrill, the drums are horrible. It's actually amazing how badly this guy screwed up an easy record to record. The Blue Demo was all live playing with singing overdubs on tape, no click. The only way :)
But seriously, it'd be awesome to be able to check it out!
Dying to hear that too!
Great story Rick, thanks for the insight. Any chance of a Sounding Off with Marty Friedman?
I've already talked to him about it. He's in.
life has a twisted sense of humor lol good story.
Started to get flashbacks to the Daily Adventures of Mixerman there for a bit...
Laughed out loud at "$60k for wine" and "43". Great stories
with 400k today you could do a record, the US tour AND the world tour, right? hahaha...
Love to hear your stories, rick! I was just wondering how a such a knowlegeable musician as yourself could do bad in wathever music! I know you were already a proficient jazzist in these times, but did you had some of the arrangement chops you have today?
Had the arrangement chops but the drunk producer erased all of the good parts. It was a disaster.
demos, where? i buy.
You should have a band story telling contest with Steve Bailey.
Yo Rick love the stories. Do you ever plan to talk more in depth about your production career?
I don't know what I should talk about.
I'd be really interested in you talking about your career as a producer and the ups and down of the job, similar to how you've discussed the story with your band and you're other video on you're college experience. One of the things I love about these videos is that we get to see the series of events that have you made who you are and that's really interesting on a personal level as well on a career level for me and I'm sure many others that are about to graduate school and start this journey for themselves. Maybe it could just be a video about the highlights in your career and helpful advice for other producers based off knowledge you acquired while being on the job?
Do you have any of this material online so we can hear it?!
Who are the jokers who gave this the thumbs down?? This is an awesome post!
+David Paul Hey David- some people are incredibly cynical and some people actually hit the button by accident not realizing it. You see thumbs down on any video even cute kittens :)
that was scary story but interesting.
upload the demo!
Tim is a hero of mine (such a big Jellyfish/powerpop fan). Umajets! Roger Joseph Manning Jr.! I'm getting the vapors...
no doubt , i must have listened to "a change is gonna come" and " girl on a motorbike" about 50 times today
yes, play as the album!
Watched the whole thing. I'm only 24, and been producing and composing since I was 16. Whenever someone offered help, it would sound terrible. Same thing when I was 15 and tried starting a band. Lesson of my 9 years of doing music - Learn do to it yourself. I think that's sort of what you're trying to tell here. I'm going to work both on my solo music project, which has done incredibly well AND in the coming 5 years I'm focusing on learning to produce and write music for other artists. You're teaching us A LOT!
I think the American Pie 2 song that Rick mentions is "Left Front Tire - Bring You Down". Why does Rick not have a wikipedia page yet :D?!
+Muros One of my friends asked me the other day why I don't have a Wikipedia page. I told him I have no idea what that entails. Haha!
Well that was a horrible trip in musicland !
well i guess these days you are looking back at this laughing on how ridiculous some of the stuff that happened was.
I'm curious though do you think it could be possible to have Friedman on the next Sounding Off, (or did you already have someone in mind ?
Did I hear that right that Elton John used to buy cds from a blockbuster in atl once a week?
Y'all really need to get that through your head a recording career is something rich parents buy for their kids meaning you have to be rich to get one
Listening to Ascension and think it has some jams? Very Janes Addiction. I can see why you don't like the mix though.
At least Walter was around some awesome hooters after all that.
bittechslow Haha!
You say you weren’t commercial, but problem is you just missed the window when you guys would have been. If Billionaire was around anywhere between 91 to 96 you would have had a fair chance at winning the Alternative lottery that so many bands did. You were late to the game, but definitely a great band.
I enjoy being independent............love it!!!!!
Records come out on Fridays.
$380,000 !? I may have missed something, but where did you guys get that kind of money? Was it an advance? If so that's not bad for a totally unknown band.
+Hubert Van Calenbergh I think it was $480,000! That was not unusual for bands back then if you had multiple labels interested. We still made a horrendous sounding record thanks to our drunk producer.
26:50 😂😂😂
That's my favorite part of the story and the one that we all still laugh about!! haha!! 43!!!!
A company is only going to invest in someone if they can trust them and that's any business any industry and look at you people who the hell would trust you
Justin Hawkins, kingdom music.
It sucks that this happened to you ur one last chance and actually got a label to put real money into ur band and bam got screwed. Had the label used a high end producer that regularly got music on the radio the songs would have been much better and would have had a chance at a successful career in original music.
Rick! It was an incredible fantastic story. My name is Henrik af Ugglas and I'm living in Sweden and have believed a lot of crazy stuff in the music-buissnes, hopefully, we are going to see each other... and ... then I will tell you. Your lessons are great. It's so interesting to learn the theory how you can analyse beautiful cords.I play the Hammond B3, Drums, And I am a singer. I also play the guitar, flute and for a year ago I start playing the viol. Sooo... you tell us if we wanna pay you for the lessons. Is it possible to that via Paypal? If you wanna hear a song , I put out JUST one of mine; You can do that on Spotify. Artist: Henrik af Ugglas Song: "When I Go" And I will promise you that: I have a lot of stuff to tell you. Kind Regards/Henrik
Wheres the mexican Strat Rick?
it totally sounds like the script of a mockumentary
I forgot to talk about the producer crying on the phone to our singer on the days he wasn't showing up because of a fight with his wife. :)
But, hey, you got to meet Metheny and Brecker during that otherwise horrible experience. I bet that was awesome. So it wasn't a complete loss . . . not to mention that it allowed you to hone your engineering and producing chops. And when you mix that with your vast knowledge of music theory and unique ability to share and teach that knowledge with others, then it's no wonder your CZcams channel has grown so quickly. It's certainly one of my favorite CZcams channels for all things music. Thank you for sharing your story!
So basically: If you're too old dont try. Thanks.
No offence dude but you are your own worst enemy in this story. Well maybe second behind this Chris dude. Good lord
Gosh I wish you people would just find another hobby: why would a record company invest in an artist that won't need the company in one year because they're so popular