Why Do Certain Artists Still Block Their Music?

I'm about to turn my 7th anniversary on this channel and for those of you who have been watching the whole time, thank you if you've been watching for a week, thank you, it's great to be here, it's great to have you, but I've been reflecting today about what has really changed since 2016 when I launched my channel. One of the things that has changed is the artist

block

ing policy. You've heard me talk about it a lot, but why is it important? One of the things I've said all along is that if you demonetize the videos and allow people to use the

music

, it will stay relevant over time.

Now a lot of people thought: I don't think you know that you don't need people who make YouTube videos for The Beatles to be relevant or AC DC or any of the people who

block

well, they have a lot of followers, it doesn't matter if you talk about them or not, but is that really true? I don't think that's true actually and I. I always thought it wasn't true, so just to give you an idea of ​​how many videos I've made, I've made almost 1200 videos in seven years on the channel, of those 1200 videos I've made videos about AC DC. like the 10 best AC DC riffs or why AC DC's

music

makes you move things like that.

I have made many AC DC videos without ever playing an AC DC song on the channel. I have never played a Beatles song on the other channel. than me playing or making a recreation of it. I've never played Guns and Roses even a note of a Guns and Roses song. I've never played the Eagles. Nothing from the Eagles. I have done things. I've played a little. of a California hotel solo incorrectly so it doesn't block and I've never played a note of a Jimi Hendrix song on my channel, that's because they all block Eagles, Guns and Roses, The Beatles, AC DC, Jimi Hendrix and there are others, but those are The main ones are hugely popular groups, but I would say they are getting less popular every year since I started my channel.

You may not notice it in the Spotify numbers yet, but Jimi Hendrix, for example, has 9.3 million sub 10 monthly listeners. Now I made this video recently about the top 500

artists

on Spotify by monthly listeners and to be in the list to be number 500 you had to have almost 13 and a half million monthly listeners, which tells you that Jimi Hendrix is ​​nowhere near that at 9.3 million, he's probably not in the top thousand, it's hard to imagine, and I've said it before, Jimi Hendrix is ​​being forgotten, the same with AC DC and I think the same with the Beatles when I started my channel, when I mentioned the Beatles. people loved the Beatles videos, they did.

I'm a big Beatles fan. I'm obsessed with Rick Piatto's videos on YouTube. Wait, who is Rick Biato? I don't know who a music producer is. He's a Beatles fan, so there's a lot of beetles in there, but Renee hates when I talk about the Beatles, now some bands retain

their

freshness even if they haven't released an album like Nirvana or Abba 27.8 million monthly listeners, Huge, Queen, huge, and they've done it without your leadership. Singer Kurt Cobain has been missing since 1994. It's been almost 30 years, but when Kurt Cobain died he was immortalized at age 27. The thing is, kids really connect with music, but do kids necessarily connect with the Beatles?

I don't believe it. I know why the Eagles will be forgotten. Their blocking policy is ridiculous. Don Henley seems to think it doesn't work. The dmca notification and takedown system is not working. Believe me. Any Eagles video will be removed immediately. The net effect of blocking people. from actually talking about

their

music or even doing tutorials on the Eagles like you can't do the Orioles on Guns and Roses otherwise they'll block you, what's the point in that as time has gone on throughout these seven years, I've noticed The Beatles' influence waning on people in the comments section oh, I don't want to hear about the Beatles.

I like Rick Biato's channel, except he always talked about the Beatles. I never thought the Beatles would go out of style and people think Guns and Roses won. They won't go out of style nor will AC DC, but they will, they will, there is too much new music that young people want to consume that is made by their contemporaries by other young people. I recently had Marty Friedman here and something he told me when I was taking him on his show and he didn't say anything in my interview with him. He said you know new music is getting newer and old music is getting older and I said, Marty, why didn't you say that in the interview?

I said it because it occurred to me, you are absolutely right, new music is getting newer which means new things are constantly coming out from contemporary

artists

from young artists and the further this music goes in the past you can't even do Enough videos about this and it kind of gets to the point where I always talk to my friends about how well you can know an album. I was born when the Beatles released their albums and I experienced them 50 years ago. I didn't have to learn about the Beatles if I was born in 1990 or something and I go back to the music that was made 30 years before I was born and then I try to experience the Rolling Stones on Jimi Hendrix and Black Sabbath and BB King and all the music that was made before me.

There were even bands like Nirvana who stopped releasing records in 1993 or maybe they knew they made some releases later, even that music, if I had been born in 1990, would have been music really before I was aware of music and one of things. The thing about being 61 years old now is that I have had time to listen to all these things. I don't have to go back and listen to Steely Dan records to talk about them. I heard them 50 years ago or any of the artists. since then I was alive when Jimi Hendrix was alive you know, I mean, I knew Jimi Hendrix's music when he was coming out I knew the Beatles' music when he was coming out when Stairway to Heaven was being played on the radio, it was a new song in 1971 I listened to it Stone's records everything back then everything that happened in the '70s, '80s, and '90s when I talk about Gordon Lightfoot I experienced Gordon Lightfoot when I was coming out when I talk about Nirvana I was 30 years old What did I have? 29 years old when it doesn't matter came out I met Bleach before I was 20 I'm contemporaries I'm you know Kurt Cobain was born in 1967 I was born in 1962 Eddie Vetter 1964 Chris Cornell what 1963 something like this these people are my contemporaries the guys from Red Hot Chili Peppers They have been releasing albums since the 80s and I knew those albums back then, the blockage thing, I think people should really rethink those artists I don't know any of these artists I don't know anyone from the Beatles I don't know anyone from AC DC I don't know anyone from the Eagles I don't know anyone from Guns and Roses I don't know anyone from those bands but one label I do know has changed their blocking policies, ECM Records, ECM Records has changed their blocking policy and has passed to demonetisation.

They have the early Pat Metheny records on there and there are wonderful ECM records, over 2,000 ECM releases since 1969, 1970 or something, a big modern jazz and modern classical music label, they've changed their policies, maybe in part because I insist that they should change their policies because I had to get permission to make a Keith Jarrett video when I did. It was two years ago before I interviewed Keith and the reason I got an interview with Keith is because he saw my video, the video I had to get permission for. It took me five years to find someone at ECM Records to get permission to make a video.

Pat Matheny made a video about Keith Jarrett and there are so many other wonderful artists on ECM that I can make videos with now. This is one of the things I'm proud of on my seventh anniversary: ​​fighting against these things and making people aware of them. blocking policies and that you can't talk about

certain

artists here like I said, you will never see a video where I use real Beatles songs, real Jimi Hendrix recordings, real Guns and Roses recordings and I know other YouTubers who do Guns and Roses tutorials Roses that they have removed them and given them copyright strikes, which, frankly, is outrageous.

I love Guns and Roses. It's ridiculous that they block people from playing their songs and teaching them. Why do they want to stop people from teaching them? It doesn't make sense, I mean Jimi Hendrix. Don't block videos of making Jimi Hendrix tutorials but Guns N Roses yes and the Eagles yes and it's ridiculous that's all I'm going to say about this thank you very much for watching my channel over the years I wanted to bring this up I think it's important to come back to this because it has changed over the years and it is important to continue insisting on these things.

Thank you very much for watching, subscribing, see you later.