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1 Mar 2026 Lex Fridman Podcast #492 – Rick Beato: Greatest Guitarists of All Time, History & Future of Music

“I will play, I have to play some heavy riff- … and so usually it will default to some Metallica or something like that.”

— Rick Beato

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Rick Beato
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1 Mar 2026
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Lex Fridman Podcast

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…That’s your go-to? So, like, the stereotypical guitar store when you come in, you’re playing Master of Puppets? I’ll play Master of Puppets. I will play, I have to play some heavy riff- … and so usually it will default to some Metallica or something like that. Or I’ll play Alice in Chains, or I do usually, like, a lot of times I’ll go and I’ll do Drop D something or play Tool. I usually would do some drop tuning thing. And it’s always gotta be some type of metal that I’ll test to see if the bottom end’s tight on the amp and stuff. So, yes. All right. We have to talk about this a little bit. You made a bunch of videos about it. There was a, there was a moment in time, it still goes on, but there was a moment where really people were freaking out about the use of AI in music. So there’s these, I would say, incredible apps like Suno, Udio. ElevenLabs Music is also great. They can generate basically text to song, full song from a text prompt. And a lot of people started freaking out just based on how good it is. And so you start to immediately imagine how this is going to transform music, and you’re going to replace musicians and all that kind of stuff. It is legitimately nerve-wracking because these are early versions, so you don’t know where it goes. But in your intuition now, you’ve been thinking about this, you made a bunch of videos. Now, like, being able to reflect, “Okay, everybody chill. Calm down.”…

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