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Tal Wilkenfeld

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
930 total appearances

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#408 โ€“ Tal Wilkenfeld: Music, Guitar, Bass, Jeff Beck, Prince, and Leonard Cohen

And then you're like thinking about it too much. And then you go and you have a dinner and you come back and the next take one after dinner is the one. Like it's usually after there's some sort of a break. But obviously there's exceptions to that rule. Sometimes it's take two and three.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#408 โ€“ Tal Wilkenfeld: Music, Guitar, Bass, Jeff Beck, Prince, and Leonard Cohen

And then you're like thinking about it too much. And then you go and you have a dinner and you come back and the next take one after dinner is the one. Like it's usually after there's some sort of a break. But obviously there's exceptions to that rule. Sometimes it's take two and three.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#408 โ€“ Tal Wilkenfeld: Music, Guitar, Bass, Jeff Beck, Prince, and Leonard Cohen

And then you're like thinking about it too much. And then you go and you have a dinner and you come back and the next take one after dinner is the one. Like it's usually after there's some sort of a break. But obviously there's exceptions to that rule. Sometimes it's take two and three.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#408 โ€“ Tal Wilkenfeld: Music, Guitar, Bass, Jeff Beck, Prince, and Leonard Cohen

Yeah, well, with that particular album that we made together, it's called Welcome to America. He called me up and asked me, he said, I want to make a band with you. I'm really inspired by what you're doing with Jeff Beck. I want to make a trio together. do you like the drum rolls of Jack DeJeanette was like his first question to me. I'm like, well, yeah, who doesn't?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#408 โ€“ Tal Wilkenfeld: Music, Guitar, Bass, Jeff Beck, Prince, and Leonard Cohen

Yeah, well, with that particular album that we made together, it's called Welcome to America. He called me up and asked me, he said, I want to make a band with you. I'm really inspired by what you're doing with Jeff Beck. I want to make a trio together. do you like the drum rolls of Jack DeJeanette was like his first question to me. I'm like, well, yeah, who doesn't?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#408 โ€“ Tal Wilkenfeld: Music, Guitar, Bass, Jeff Beck, Prince, and Leonard Cohen

Yeah, well, with that particular album that we made together, it's called Welcome to America. He called me up and asked me, he said, I want to make a band with you. I'm really inspired by what you're doing with Jeff Beck. I want to make a trio together. do you like the drum rolls of Jack DeJeanette was like his first question to me. I'm like, well, yeah, who doesn't?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#408 โ€“ Tal Wilkenfeld: Music, Guitar, Bass, Jeff Beck, Prince, and Leonard Cohen

Who doesn't like Jack DeJeanette? Like one of the greatest of all time. And he's like, well, you know, sounds like, because we had a discussion about drumming, sounds like you're kind of particular about drummers. So why don't you find us the drummer and I'll trust you to find the drummer.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#408 โ€“ Tal Wilkenfeld: Music, Guitar, Bass, Jeff Beck, Prince, and Leonard Cohen

Who doesn't like Jack DeJeanette? Like one of the greatest of all time. And he's like, well, you know, sounds like, because we had a discussion about drumming, sounds like you're kind of particular about drummers. So why don't you find us the drummer and I'll trust you to find the drummer.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#408 โ€“ Tal Wilkenfeld: Music, Guitar, Bass, Jeff Beck, Prince, and Leonard Cohen

Who doesn't like Jack DeJeanette? Like one of the greatest of all time. And he's like, well, you know, sounds like, because we had a discussion about drumming, sounds like you're kind of particular about drummers. So why don't you find us the drummer and I'll trust you to find the drummer.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#408 โ€“ Tal Wilkenfeld: Music, Guitar, Bass, Jeff Beck, Prince, and Leonard Cohen

You can audition some people, send me some recordings and maybe your two favorites and I'll pick out of the two or something. So I did that, went on a journey, found a couple of guys. He picked the one. We went in and he basically just would be like, okay, so the A section is going to go like this. And then the B section, I think we're going to go to G and then the bridge.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#408 โ€“ Tal Wilkenfeld: Music, Guitar, Bass, Jeff Beck, Prince, and Leonard Cohen

You can audition some people, send me some recordings and maybe your two favorites and I'll pick out of the two or something. So I did that, went on a journey, found a couple of guys. He picked the one. We went in and he basically just would be like, okay, so the A section is going to go like this. And then the B section, I think we're going to go to G and then the bridge.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#408 โ€“ Tal Wilkenfeld: Music, Guitar, Bass, Jeff Beck, Prince, and Leonard Cohen

You can audition some people, send me some recordings and maybe your two favorites and I'll pick out of the two or something. So I did that, went on a journey, found a couple of guys. He picked the one. We went in and he basically just would be like, okay, so the A section is going to go like this. And then the B section, I think we're going to go to G and then the bridge.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#408 โ€“ Tal Wilkenfeld: Music, Guitar, Bass, Jeff Beck, Prince, and Leonard Cohen

I might go to B flat, but maybe I'll hold off. Okay, let's go. One, two, three, four. And then we recorded it to tape. There was no part. He did not want me to punch anything. Like it was like, and there was one song called, um, same page, different book. And he like talked through it just like he did. And then he had me soloing between each phrase, like little fills. It's like, I'd,

Lex Fridman Podcast
#408 โ€“ Tal Wilkenfeld: Music, Guitar, Bass, Jeff Beck, Prince, and Leonard Cohen

I might go to B flat, but maybe I'll hold off. Okay, let's go. One, two, three, four. And then we recorded it to tape. There was no part. He did not want me to punch anything. Like it was like, and there was one song called, um, same page, different book. And he like talked through it just like he did. And then he had me soloing between each phrase, like little fills. It's like, I'd,

Lex Fridman Podcast
#408 โ€“ Tal Wilkenfeld: Music, Guitar, Bass, Jeff Beck, Prince, and Leonard Cohen

I might go to B flat, but maybe I'll hold off. Okay, let's go. One, two, three, four. And then we recorded it to tape. There was no part. He did not want me to punch anything. Like it was like, and there was one song called, um, same page, different book. And he like talked through it just like he did. And then he had me soloing between each phrase, like little fills. It's like, I'd,

Lex Fridman Podcast
#408 โ€“ Tal Wilkenfeld: Music, Guitar, Bass, Jeff Beck, Prince, and Leonard Cohen

I didn't know that that was going to come up. And he loved that. He loved to have me on the edge of my seat, like falling off the cliff. That was my first real falling off a cliff moment from somebody else's holding me at the edge of the cliff. You know what I mean? Now I just do it on my own because it's so fun and it makes sense. It's the best thing for the music.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#408 โ€“ Tal Wilkenfeld: Music, Guitar, Bass, Jeff Beck, Prince, and Leonard Cohen

I didn't know that that was going to come up. And he loved that. He loved to have me on the edge of my seat, like falling off the cliff. That was my first real falling off a cliff moment from somebody else's holding me at the edge of the cliff. You know what I mean? Now I just do it on my own because it's so fun and it makes sense. It's the best thing for the music.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#408 โ€“ Tal Wilkenfeld: Music, Guitar, Bass, Jeff Beck, Prince, and Leonard Cohen

I didn't know that that was going to come up. And he loved that. He loved to have me on the edge of my seat, like falling off the cliff. That was my first real falling off a cliff moment from somebody else's holding me at the edge of the cliff. You know what I mean? Now I just do it on my own because it's so fun and it makes sense. It's the best thing for the music.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#408 โ€“ Tal Wilkenfeld: Music, Guitar, Bass, Jeff Beck, Prince, and Leonard Cohen

Like if you record to tape and there's like, say like you hit a bum note, like to punch in means to like... fix that note like we record over that one little area and and punch that note in he didn't want that he like he's like all my favorite records just like whatever happened happened that's that moment in time let's make a new moment in time it's great nobody makes records like that anymore

Lex Fridman Podcast
#408 โ€“ Tal Wilkenfeld: Music, Guitar, Bass, Jeff Beck, Prince, and Leonard Cohen

Like if you record to tape and there's like, say like you hit a bum note, like to punch in means to like... fix that note like we record over that one little area and and punch that note in he didn't want that he like he's like all my favorite records just like whatever happened happened that's that moment in time let's make a new moment in time it's great nobody makes records like that anymore