Discussing Progressive Instrumental Rock w/ Aaron Marshall (Intervals) 

Rick Graham much respect Rick!

Rick, when are u gonna be on this show?

@@jaredy18 he already did..

Awesome

Yea

man im still hoping this comment becomes true haha

IMO progressive music has declined. Not because there are not plenty of brilliantly skilled players out there. IMO they have concentrated on being skillful, but not being 3 dimensional. For instance, early progressive music, let's say "Close to the Edge" by YES. Listen to that masterpiece and show me anything even remotely as mind-bending as that. AFAIK it doesn't exist anymore. And the vocalists of progressive music now...meh. I'm also hearing a lot of similarity between players in the upper strata now, as they all attune to the intervals that are practical on a guitar. So what we have, as I see it, is many more fantastically hard working artists who can play really fast, clean, and flawlessly, but they are missing something. In much of music I hear people in for the glory. And despite their humble appearance, you must be one helluva ego driven person to become this skilled. It's the nature of the beast. But in that focus, service to the music is muddled, or lost. IMO the greatest thing that an artist can do is to serve the music, rather than their own ego. And I see very little other than ego in music today. Yes, a vast and powerful ego is necessary to make music for any length of time. And for you to know how good what you are doing is, you also need that magnificent ego. But you also need perspective, which is something ego really sucks at. But we've created a scenario where ego now drives everything. And we lost something in the transition. Cheers.

@@downtownbillyandthenewjivefive dude listen to the first Haken studio album and tell me it isnt more of a mind fock than CTTE

@@killmepls7865 Thanks for the recommendation. Listening now to "Streams". Definitely different. I like it so far. But it ain't no CTTE, but they are now on my list.

@@downtownbillyandthenewjivefive Yeah also check out their song Cockroach King from their third album, especially if you like Gentle Giant ;-)

@@killmepls7865 haken is doing nothing for me

same here

Of my decade 😍

Järvi his music is certainly addicting.

That's awesome! I just discovered him in November, so it's a real coincidence for me to see Rick sit down with him so shortly after I got to learn about him.

it was for me back in 2016 with The Shape of Colour. Man that album is tight, and all recorded in E Standard!

Oh yes!

That and Archetype Zytecki 😍

Aaron and Owane would be awesome

I would but that In a heartbeat

A year later it’s and it’s a tragedy this hasn’t happened yet. I bought the Nolly plug-in, will probably get Plini at some point, but holding out for this 🤞

That’s great

RC32 yeah, I agree. If you managed to find it online have a look for Deep Purple live BBC sessions. They did two sessions in one in Maida Vale London. There was only a few people there because it was a really intimate gig, but it allowed Ritchie Blackmore to play lines similar to this. Just soft clean picking up and down the fretboard while everyone else put their instruments down. One record was recorded 1970, the other record was 1972. Richie even went into classical soft lines which was really beautiful.

@@RB747domme That's amazing man! I'd definitely need to check that out!

The influences from other genres make it more friendly to listeners who particularly don’t like low chugs with screaming, which is why I just love it so much, and it’s cool because it seems that people who don’t play guitar can enjoy this music on the same level.

“Leave no stone.” One of the best

I think that was improvised

Compliment retracted then, since that's just how he is without working for it.

kek with its four rock stars...and cross-dressing PM.

Yeah because Allan Legere, Gilbert Jordan, John Martin Crawford, Léopold Dion, Paul Kenneth Bernardo, David Michael Krueger, Robert William "Willy" Pickton, Wayne Clifford Boden, William Patrick Fyfe were such a wonderful people :/

@@rcandrews4334 wtf are they?

@@blahdeblah6207 Murderers.

NivekIohc saw them a few weeks ago in Seattle. What a great show!

Rick was there! Went to the meet and greet for Chon and saw him in the venue

That sounds like it was a killer show.

Saw them in Milwaukee last month. Pretty killer show and hadn't heard of Intervals before. Got to talk to Aaron after the show and he was a cool guy. Look forward to seeing them again.

Saw them in Asheville NC. Met Aaron before the show, super nice guy.

RDE Lutherie old Bissel bc they are heaviest.

If you like what you hear from Aaron [a personal fave], do check out these folks as well just to name a few: Plini, David Maxim Micic, Jakub Zytecki, For Giants. So many other amazing bands and players now in the post Satch/Vai/Govan milieu!

Joe Satchton THIS is helpful. Thank you. Hard to imagine living in a post satch/vai world.

@@luthiervandros Cheers man. Yup, agreed and you know how I feel just from my youtube handle. :) Satch will always be the man for me musically, but life is about forward progress and folks like Aaron and the others I mentioned are definitely the next gen, real deals. I too was in a guitar music vacuum for a long time until I started checking out new stuff. For me, it was the band Periphery that led me towards these new young guns. Hope you enjoy 'em as much as I do. :)

Joe Satchton totally get it. I’m not on the same page re: analog amps, but yah. Maybe I am, though. Most of my guitars have been tracked on Amplitube 3 lol. In denial perhaps.

Thats when I first saw him too!

That's when I first saw him/them, too.

it is followed by one of the best melody ever

Ty

@Andrei James i think its improv

That was such a phenomenal tour!

@@Gwunhar I never got a plintervals shirt. Will always be my favorite bromance. haha

@@curtislitchfield1378 I was lucky enough to get one! It's one of my favorite pieces of tour swag.

Andy Bell don’t support Spotify not good for artists

@@jakemf1 I'm sure he'll stop using it because you said so.

@@jakemf1 Aaron has actually said that Spotify keeps the lights on. Spotify is only "bad for artists" when they sign their intellectual property away to a label to takes the majority of the money they should be making from Spotify.

the holy trinity, i wish i was there

aal tends to sound a bit chaotic, while Plini and Intervals have a clear melodic line

I got in to them a couple years ago by listening to Animal's as Leaders and Modern Day Babylon. And said then that this is the future of guitar music

I agree ! Nice 'n smooth player !