The Jeff Berlin Interview

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  @vexphoto · 8 years ago

  Rick, you’re a great listener...

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  @hamishmac100 · 7 years ago

  Jeff is such a wise man - all younger musicians really need to listen to this guy - both thoughts and music.

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  @eisenyeo · 8 years ago

  I studied with Jeff at MI in '87, still benefiting from his lessons 31 years down the road. Thanks Maestro Berlin :)  With Love from Shanghai, China.

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  @fisch723 · 9 years ago

  Rick, can you please, please, please do a lesson on the music of Bill Bruford? The "One of a Kind" record is considered by many to be the best progressive/fusion album of all time and now that you've had Jeff Berlin and previous lessons on the indomitable Alan Holdsworth, I know you must be familiar with this masterpiece of composition. There is so much to be learned from the use of chords and unique melodies (not to mention 4 virtuosos performing it). Of course, having Bruford or Dave Stewart would be incredible as well but I don't want to be greedy. :)

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  @noahmaillouxmusic · 9 years ago

  His playing at the end was beautiful

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  @narq5099 · 4 years ago

  Road Games- one of my all-time favorite albums. Allan, Jeff, and Chad: trio of perfection!

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  @BoBeau-d4j · 3 years ago

  Message received Jeff to the heart.

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  @Bassic778 · 2 months ago (edited)

  Another amazing interview! Jeff is a bass player's bassist, a great educator, and one of the most skilled, knowledgeable, and honest musicians on the planet!!! Amen, Jeff! If you don't learn a language, how can you speak the language? If you don't learn music, how can you play music? If you don't learn your instrument, how can you play your instrument? I never get tired of hearing Jeff speak the truth! Beautiful playing at the end!!!

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  @blahdeblah6207 · 7 years ago (edited)

  "...the truth will set you free.  but first it will piss you off." -- EPIC!   And then he played.

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  @simondavies6270 · 2 years ago

  Mr Jeff Berlin is not only an incredible muscian but is as we all can bear witness too, an intelligent and articulate man. Great interview Rick, I really enjoyed listening to it. Jeff was a name that I had heard banded about by other noteworthy musicians but did not pay any particular attention too until last night when I finished watching him with Bill Bruford and guitarist Kazumi Watanabe perform a concert filmed in Japan in 1987, in an hour long music  video on YouTube. I'm not a bass player but I thought the guy on bass guitar - Jeff Berlin was amazing. I couldn't get him out of my head. That is why I watched this interview.

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  @anmm1057 · 1 year ago

  "Joe Frasier" is one of those tunes that is in my head at least once a month.

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  @sincocuerdas · 1 year ago

  Back in the late 70's-80's when Guitar Player magazine was the only resource, Jeff emphasized being "Literate". Fast forward after decades of self-study, I was making tons of money in the studios and backing major artists in my country culminating in backing major international artists. Unbelievable how someone thousands of miles away can transform someone's life immensely just by expounding musical concepts. Great interview Mr. Beato.

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