Bryan Beller

@DaddarioandCo DEE-uh-duh-REE-oh Nailed it, 💯💯💯 *drops mic, kicks it into space*

So...How do you pronounce D'Addario?

MEME THIS: Been studying DiCaprio's meme-ability for engagementmaxxing, and so I offer this to the gods as a half-serious marketing exercise. Whatcha got? These tours and albums aren't gonna promote themselves, you know. 📷 Jackalope Studios (c)(p)(x) All Rights Reserved

PHILOSOPHY CORNER: Nietzsche is A Whole Thing (QTs aren't endorsements!), but this quote being displayed in a place earnestly titled "The Carousel Of Happiness" hit me. Layers of truth and irony in a world struggling w/nihilism? Sure, I'll post it. Happy Monday everyone!

All of this. I once posted that after Hitler became Chancellor it didn’t take that long for the German parliament to vote to dissolve itself. Ppl got mad. The post wasn’t about Hitler. It was about everyone else. And we’re not Weimar Germany. Only makes the point more salient

VINTAGE SONICS: I’ve been looking for some unique vintage tones for my next solo album and I think I found just the thing. (10 points to anyone who knows where this actually is.)

$200 billion. There's always money for some things, right? They hated the neocons and they still got Dick Cheney's Unitary Executive on fucking bath salts. Was it worth letting this dumbass maniac fuck the world because he shit talked TheLibs? Feels good man? Useful idiots.

WORK IT: I’ll be at this year’s @guitar_workshop in San Diego! 9 yrs since last time?! 9 yrs (?!)since the last time I did this supercool event. Also Paul Gilbert & Joel Hoekstra + amazing faculty. There might be jamming. Register: guitarworkshopplus.com/san-diego-land… or call 905-567-8000.

@ToddAshe9301 just did, thanks for following, it's 90/10 music/politics and hopefully the 10 doesn't drive you too crazy 🤪

@bryanbeller Can't wait brother, I'm ecstatic I found ya to follow here! Give and old Veteran and bass player a smile and follow back?? Eh?

NEW SOLO ALBUM WRITING COMPLETE!: 6 songs, 42 minutes, all demos fully fleshed out. It took almost seven months. Slow, but gratifying in the end. Lots more work to do, but I look forward to sharing it with you. Probably in early 2027?

ACOUSTIC GENIUS: @MikeDawesMusic will be supporting The Aristocrats in Paris at La Cigale June 1. Amazing talent and entertainer! I'll be forever grateful to Mike for his 💯 work on "Lookout Mountain" and "The Storm" from my solo album Scenes From The Flood. Stunning stuff.

BASS HANG: Very nice hang with bassist @SeanMcNabbLA. Credits=Quiet Riot, Dokken, Great White, Montrose, Queensryche, lots more. 33 years here & still meeting cool ppl! Off-topic solo album update: 38 mins written & demo'd, only 1 short song to finish. Single vinyl LP this time!

ARISTOCRATS EU/UK TOUR: In just six weeks we'll be hitting the Old Continent with the final leg of the DUCK tour! Some dates/venues have been updated. See the full list here: the-aristocrats-band.com/shows @acratsband

WORTH THE WAIT: @karnivool's 1st new album in 13 years, "In Verses", dropped yesterday. Masterful songwriting, A+ sonics from wizard engineer @ForresterSavell (Karnivool is how we found him!) & sick bass tones from Jon Stockman. Listen to it this weekend - it's everywhere.

MY RIDE OR DIE: Last NAMM pic - @MikeKeneally and Joe Travers. Without these two fine gentlemen, you might not know who I am. Meanwhile: On break from solo album songwriting to work on a super fun top secret recording project. Looking forward to revealing it at the right time!

@SeanTrende What is that piece of audio gear on the left? Some Tascam 8 track thing from 1989 with VU meters? Also that guitar should be a Flying V, ChatGPT rare L (someone already did the Bloomin Onion joke so)

I asked ChatGPT to make a caricature of me based on everything it knows about me and I have to say it at least got the background mostly right (not sure what the zeroum state is but whatever).

MORE NAMM PICS: That's @BrendonSmall from Dethklok on the left. Dethklok is touring the USA April/May, exactly when The Aristocrats are touring Europe for the 1st time in 3 yrs! Americans, you know what to do. On the right, is Aristocrats Asia Tour Manager/Booking Kris Claerhout.

NAS-TEE MEN: It's always a hoot at the Big Johnson booth at NAMM, and luthier Troy Johnson knows how to deliver the big (acoustic) bottom. Now add Norwood Fisher from Fishbone and things get even wackier.

ALL THE GUITARISTS: Well, at least two more at NAMM. Got to see the killer Jack Gardiner tear it up for a great duet w/Rabea Massaad. And also ran into the amazing Michael Lee Firkins, who not enough people know about imho!

NAMM PHOTOS INCOMING: Way too many for one post, so I’ll share a couple each day. We’ll start with guitarists Jason Richardson (formerly of All That Remains) and Scottie LePage (of Polyphia). Coupla pretty talented folks right there! Also the faces feel linked somehow.

@toddhisattva you asked for it: feel free to die on that whatabout hill somewhere else, the fascists here right now in the USA are right wing white nationalists. if it makes you feel better to do reply guy arguments to confirm your priors while Trump/Miller buttfuck the constitution, have fun.

@bryanbeller Always has been, always will be. Read Mussolini.

"There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes." -Ernest Hemingway Feel attacked? Unfollow, IDGAF. If you're *still* gung-ho about ICE in Minneapolis after two unproscecutable murders of US citizens, you are lost as a human being.