A video clip has been making the rounds recently where Rick Rubin sits cross-legged in a t-shirt, with a Santa Claus paunch and wisps of grey hair levitating from his temples. The interviewer, a coiffed Anderson Cooper, looks at him aghast and asks if he knows how to play an instrument? Maybe work a soundboard? Anything that would indicate an propensity to guide musical acts of multitudinous genres to critical and commercial success, as Rubin has done for the past four decades? With Malibu bl...
