Beck
Beck
Beck Hansen, known by stage name Beck, is an American singer, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist. He is mostly known for his musical composition, as well as a palette of sonic genres...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth8 July 1970
CountryUnited States of America
differences done records
You just want to go back to those 70s albums. Even a lot of the 90s indie records were still done on tape, and you hear the difference.
technology guitar acoustics
Technology was something I avoided when I started out - I didn't even have electric guitars. Only played acoustic.
people band collaboration
I enjoy the collaboration. I always envied people in bands who got to have that interaction.
phones people trying
I try not to do email; I try to talk to people on the phone.
memories mind band
When I did "Top of the Pops" for the first time, Ace of Base was one of the other bands, and I have a memory of them on a small stage next to me in the TV studio. A memory of their performance is burned into my mind. Seared.
remembers-you guitar remember-you
I remember you would record a guitar part, and we would have to sit there for 15 or 20 minutes waiting for the computer to process it. You'd see the little wheel spinning on the computer, and you'd be praying that the hard drive didn't crash and you didn't lose the performance.
technology territory tools
When you use some of the more modern recording devices and Pro Tools, when you get into the technology, you are aching to get into some territory.
eras grew grew-up
I grew up I guess you'd say in the cassette era.
backgrounds background-music
Whatever you do has to be commercial and it can't be too distracting - it has to be background music, basically.
quality
There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable.
trying would-be easy
With my own music, I try to get away from things that are familiar and things that would be easy for me to go to.
long periods long-periods-of-time
When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.
art design should
No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.
growing-up lines action
Growing up, a film was an action film or it was a comedy or it was romantic, but you don't really see such stark lines between genres nowadays.