Joanne, I don't really care if he makes enough to buy Twitter from Elon Musk. I never count another man's money. I make enough money to buy every toy I want to buy and not be in debt. I do not have a savings account. I don't want one. Why? To die alone and leave it for the state to take because there is nobody to leave it to? I do have a will but it is written in such a way where all my possessions are to be sold and the proceeds given to the animal shelters what I have gotten my dogs over the years. There is a codicil where my house is to be offered for sale to my best male friend at mortgage balance rather than market value. He also gets custody of whatever dog I have when I die and that prevents the dog from having to be moved from familiar surroundings.

I said all that to say this.

I am a veteran. One thing I will defend to the point of physical confrontation if need be is my claim to being a veteran. There is a huge thing where beta males who have nothing to offer to society seem to think it boosts there image to pretend they served. It is know here (and maybe everywhere) as Stolen Valor. Most veterans share the same pride in our service. Thus most veterans find it appalling when someone who did not serve claims to be a veteran. Most of those losers also embellish their fake claims with tales of having served in exclusive divisions like Green Beret, Army Ranger, or Navy Seal. I hate those people with every kind of passion you can envision.

Again, I told you that to tell you this.

I worked very hard for many years to learn music at the depths that I know it, including 3 years of college to earn a Bachelors Degree. I played forever at every dump and dive until I started to get better gigs, but never "the big time". Never the fictitious "Enormodome" I often speak of to make a point. And I never claimed to be a producer with a long list of bands who owe me their career because of my guidance and direction.

Beato wants to claim he IS that guy, and he doesn't have the track record to back up that claim. He has a studio he brings bands into who don't belong in a studio, likely for very little money, and those bands are then never heard of again. The same way I detest Stolen Valor, I detest false boasts of being a prime time player in music. He intimates that Parmalee owes the small amount of fame they experienced to him as their producer, but nowhere in Parmalee's online presence do they even mention him.

I did download The Beato Book, but to be honest, having studied music in college, I found it to be little more than yet another guy regurgitating what is in every college theory textbook contains.

I see him as little more than a lazy bum who wants to get rich while not working for it. Musicians are supposed to make music, not silly videos telling people why HE thinks a song is great. I don't need anybody telling me what is good and what isn't. That's my decision. So, I am far from a fan.