Jänner 2023

On the RoadCast - Snacks, Trucks and Rock'n'Roll: Sbäm - Stefan Beham - S1 EP5
https://pca.st/episode/97b06702-407a-4ce1-8d61-4c08d97045e6 (28.01.2023)

  • Artwork, Label, Festival

  • RUSSKAJA

  • Shows after the pandemic

  • Marillenknödel for Guns ‚n‘ Roses

  • Diverse and female

  • Lines between songs

  • Sugar coated shit show

  • Tech rider = contract

  • NOFX – 40 years, 40 shows

  • „That’s sooo Amsterdam!“ – falling into a river … on a bike

  • Punkrock wedding band

  • HGs Schlager Launch

  • Office @ Arizona

  • Documentary, Mini Series

  • Headquarters in LINZ

  • More famous in the US

  • Marco Pogo Stuff

  • ARTWORK

  • One song for the rest of your life …

  • Ausgeliefert (Dujmic)

  • MO

  • EDELWEISS = SOS

  • Exotenbonus

  • Videogetriebene Zeit

  • Beobachter des Zeitgeistes (Fendrich)

  • Mit der feinen Klinge die Wunde offen gelegt

  • Etta Scollo – Beatles

  • Slow down (Andy Baum?)

  • CHARTS in den 80er = Vielfalt

  • Jetzt: Gangster Arie

  • Früher spannender

  • Jahrescharts

  • Thomas Forstners Glatze

  • Vorschau: Austro Dance


#649: Rick Rubin, Legendary Music Producer — The Creative Act, Overcoming Creative Blocks, Developing Your Perception and Sensitivities, Reinvention vs. Going Narrow, The Future and AI, and Much More
https://pca.st/episode/ba584cf1-dce0-43da-84a5-b89dcd921e81 (19.01.2023)

  • Autobiography vs. Inspiration

  • Blind belief – something good will happen

  • The artists way (Julia Cameron)

  • Inviting the reader to see your picture (in the book)

  • Homework for the artist: Come back tomorrow with one word you like

  • Hundreds of hours of interviews (Rick)

  • Principles (of problem solving) at workü

  • Interpersonal conflict resolution

  • Battle of ideas

  • Take the personal out of it (ideas)

  • No label, no explanation

  • Knowing the information is not helpfulness

  • Revisions (V65 vs. V49)

  • Worktime vs. Progress

  • There is no rule to this

  • GEIL: New idea? Execute the first draft all the way through – No revisions

  • Reign in blood

  • As good as it gets (Beatles)

  • Not recognizeable

  • AC/DC – always the same

  • If there is a movement and you are riding a wave of a movement – riding this wave forever?

  • RHCP – the audience loved THEM

  • Ballbreaker (1995)

  • Long term goals

  • Outside of time – no rockstar content

  • Collaboration – you and the universe

  • „Look for what you notice but no one else sees.“

  • The seer and the seen (examples)

  • We miss, what’s in front of us – open up

  • „The object isn’t to make art. It’s to be in that wonderful state which makes enebadable“

  • The artist ≠ the making … the way of experiencing LIFE

  • Representation of THAT

  • Same sense of AWE

  • Craftsperson vs. Artist

  • Making the thing that you didn’t know you wanted, the thing you didn’t know you couldn’t life without (Art)

  • Everything is fine (when you are in the ice bath)

  • Helpful distracting

  • Distracted by playing the guitar (Neil Diamond)

  • Recognize patterns

  • Feedback by people who care about your work

  • Midjourney for music

  • Subscription @ 2015

  • Rick – helpful

  • The computers are doing the making

  • Looking for a moment that interesting (sampling)

  • A moment where things go right

  • WOW – not being moved

  • Guiding rod – surprise

  • Paduan training for the son – best music producer ever

  • Liste. To art music … beyond wording

  • Imagination vs. Experience – WOW

  • Taken out of your body by art = meter setting

  • Touching those buttons … I don’t wanna leave Herrlinger

  • Living in the place where the music is

  • Not everyone can be Da Vinci – we can all be the best we can be

  • Make ONE point – not 10

  • Boneo

  • Top of the popes


The Creative – Act A Way of Being (Rick Rubin)
https://www.audible.de/pd?asin=B0BKH7NFXH

  • If you have an idea you are excited about and you don’t bring it alive, it’s not uncommon for that idea to find its voice through an other maker


Surrender – 40 Songs, One Story (Bono)
https://www.audible.de/pd/Surrender-Hoerbuch/B09ZK9XT14 (04.01.2023)

  • i can’t change the world, but I can change the world in me

  • Clear thought = the hook

  • Digital only release

  • DIY dead

  • Roman catholicism is the glam rock of religion

  • No piano – no room

  • You can only begin a real meditation on life with a meditation on death (Dalai Lama)

  • To move people with music, you first have to be moved by it

  • The mechanic of the heart

  • Prayers are not always answered in the way you want

  • Verified taste

  • Performers don’t like to be ignored

  • U2 is opera in the pop music of the day

  • Guggi vs. Bono

  • Bono Vox of O'Connell Street

  • You have the people you need right there beside you, if you can see than

  • Close to THE EDGE

  • We wrote own songs, because we couldn’t play covers

  • Allison Steward

  • Swollen Ego

  • Maximum minimalism: Post Punk

  • London

  • The 10 commandments of PUNK

  • Anton Corbijn

  • They have nothing but IT

  • A Band IS a cooperation

  • Punkrock contract

  • Worried money never wins

  • Being paid for having this waking dreams

  • BOY meets man

  • „Let’s try it“ (mantra)

  • Lemmy

  • Lennon producing BOY (he didn’t)

  • Marquee Moon

  • Stepping away from the blues, going sci-fi

  • Memory Man

  • Pretending to play Jazz

    Drummers are born, Pop Stars are packaged, Rock stars are Homo Errectus Showbusiness

  • Brian Eno

  • TELEVISION

  • An album without minor

  • The love for unfinished songs (Eno)

  • Riff vs. (Guitar) Figure … Sound vs. Sonics

  • Mr. Good Morning & The Girl with the beard

  • Live Aid 1985

  • In service of the greater good (music)

  • Streets …

  • Quincy

  • Mental Polaroids

  • E7E

  • Selenskyj

  • The state is „kaputt“ (Gorbatschow)

  • „My father told me, never to appear more than you are and always to be more then you appear.“ (Angela Merkel)

  • Hansa Studios

  • Conny Plank

  • Less is more, more is more

  • One foot in the past, one foot in the future

  • Telling your life story with your instrument

  • Stage persona

  • Blackstar (Elvis Presley)

  • Sleepwalking Bowie

  • Zooropa / Zoo TV

  • Life imitates art, art irritates life

  • Playing it back (3rd Reich)

  • Killing Rushdie

  • Dreaming it up (again)

  • Ironic rockstars

  • Kitchen (Dublin)

  • The breasted one (god)

  • Mother giving god

  • Life large, travel light

  • Method acting

  • Sinatra

  • Pavarotti

  • Singing a song vs. being sang by the song