The Rick Rubin Interview

He looks exactly like old Mr Burns

Beautiful. The love of music in this interview. And not music as “entertainment” as such but as sometimes transcendent moments of experience that you can’t plan or repeat, you can only be open to it.

As soon as rick said "I would go see Bowie and then in the after party later on I would go see the BAD BRAINS at CBGB`s". Thatś it, thatś all he had to say, f+CKING BB. Awesome interview Rick...Cheers.

So that's who's responsible for all that rap crap. He may have produced some great albums for actual musicians like Tom Petty, but it doesn't excuse the crap that led music down the drain.

Thank you Ricks.

Rick, I love your channel. And I love it even more because of how much our musical tastes overlap. Steely Dan, RHCP, Beastie Boys, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, etc. etc. etc. You obviously have great taste, brother. ;) Respect.

Watching this interview for the 4th time I remember being a kid in the 80s and something rick said struck me saying there must f been a lot of people who liked rap and rock because beasty was popular and I can 100 percent remember liking run dmc but I was a rocker kid i had there album before walk this way i was 10 when walk this way was out and I loved it so much it was my favorite song of my pre teens rick was totally right about the young in those times yes I liked both rap and rock because I was one of them

Just so much wisdom in this interview so many things strike me like let the art be what it Is try represent what it is the best you can don't try to make it something its not its such wisdom as simple as it is because all people involved in music song writing recording preforming are whatever so often people try to make it something its not its a huge mistake made by seriously everyone let the art be what it is huge to me

Maybe the best interview I’ve seen. Just the feeling of it

I think Rick Rubin is in an entirely different league of enterprise. Everyone wants to be an expert player but Rick is an expert LISTENER. He stays present with things in general it seems. A breath of fresh air in a world where we have the attention spans of goldfish

I got tears listening to this interview. Thank you so much!

Brilliant period.!

slayer

Amazing watch thank you sir

did you ask him about smokey mountain wrestling?

Rick is quite an amazing producer but he is no historian.
Slayers first album was not Reign in Blood and the SOAD album he talks about is Toxicity which was not only not their first album it was released on 9/4/2001.
Rick Beato just sitting there clueless😂

Excellent!

the world is a better place because of these two ricks

His book is great! Bought it for a flight and finished it before we landed! Run out and get it. Really enjoyed this interview too!

Amazing interview! I love both of you guys. I hope you both live forever and continue doing this work.

What's with the roll of fabric at the back. I'm thinking of an aesthetic value but something also tells me it could be to dim the reverb in the room.

I know Rubin has forgotten more albums than I’ve listened to, but Reign was not Slayers first album.

It’s so interesting to hear all the records Rick (Rubin) was involved in producing. These are all bands/artists that I loved and listened to when I was young, several of them I had no idea they all produced by the same person, some I did know Rick was involved. At the time I thought it was really weird that he was appearing all over the place on these disparate albums. Hearing the songs together one after another his influence is very apparent across all the genres (metal, funk, rap/hiphop). His influence makes so much more sense to me all these years later.

beato kinda tried to grill him on californication's mastering and with good reasoning, what a botched job they did

WOW that mas awesome headbanging to SLAYER with Rick Rubin and Rick Beato! MONEY!

Brilliant interview... I'm officially changing my name to Rick!

Rick Rubin is a Guru, and so is Rick Beato.

in the age of AI, Rick Rubin is the musical messiah. When he explained his thoughts on "audience last" and making music from a personal, human place, its something that hit hard. Music IS human and should be flawed. Its our heartbeat. The feeling of being connected in an imperfect world.

And loved his early walk by cameo on Seinfeld. Parking lot episode.

I wonder why the furniture and eve the wall is covered in white cloth?

Rick did great! And Rick was awesome too!

I love the insight on recording metal like Slayer that it was unique and not produced like traditional Metal. The Tom Petty session was great. I wanted to know why RR U2 sessions didnt work. Im not a Green Day fan but a RR fan and the albums he's produced ever since I heard The Cult Electric album however the U2 / Green Day song on the U2 Singles album "sounded" as far as production was great. The drum sounds were powerful. They scraped a full albums worth, it was said to be difficult sessions with the band and Rick.

It is a pleasure to revisit this many times. The flow of the conversation, the tones of your voices, the anecdotes and processes, the music.... I wish it could last 100 hours.

Could listen tonconversations like that for 10 hours in a row

guy is worth 300 mill+ whats with the drop sheets?

It's surreal when they are listening to tracks, shaking their heads in sync, to the music🤘

The sheets, oh the sheets.

Rickiestry! wow

Chillipeppers and Flaming Lips are the two bands I've seen multiple times live, and as Rick says: are there.
Every time, as it it their essence.

I’m sorry, but just hearing Rubin say “Hip-Hop” is kind of cringe.

The best interview you've done Rick and you've had some good ones

When Rubin talked about the Chilli Peppers live I remebered the SNL Under the Bridge presentation. Even at war with each other, with John fucking up his vocals, it still sounded killer.