When I saw him standing there....
I guess the concept of "synergy" would explain that.
“Guitar’s fine, John, but you’ll never make your living’ at it!”
I was in a book store earlier today and they were playing a satellite radio station that was all Beatles.
There wasn’t a single person in there that wasn’t singing along. It was awesome. :)
Paul was amazed John had a band. John was amazed Paul knew how to tune a guitar.
CC
A far more interesting story (and this one is Ok, but not too surprising- lots of “greaser” Brit teens liked rockabilly and blackabilly music which were majorly promoted to that generation in the UK)— is how exactly the Beatles became a band, and began to play out as amateurs. It was all due to the original drummer, Pete Best’s mother. She was the Indian native wife of Pete’s dad, who was a British officer serving many years, during and from WWII in India where they were married.
They returned to UK and lived in a sad little flat, and she really wanted a house the size they had in India. She put her life savings on a horse race— and won (to Win) quite a pot of money. Bought a large house and encouraged Pete and his friends, John Lennon and Paul McCartney to paint and fix up the basement into a coffeehouse/club, which was much safer for them than wandering around late at night in “adult” club scene. That’s how it started— there is a real nice documentary on it, and how Ringo came on later. All because a Mum believed in her son, and in taking care of the kids in the neighborhood.
I really have to press my GIFA$HIT button. Never cared for them and never bought an album. So why is this a big friggin’ deal?
In hindsight. But who is to say what would have happened if Lennon & McCartney had seperately hooked up with other talent that was kicking around during that time?
Many of the better players eventually found eachother in their 2nd (or 3rd) bands. Reputations earned, and helped a log by record execs, have a way of doing that.
I think I remember reading in that book that Paul admitted he was aware of John and had seen him around prior to the church fete. Remember that Paul is almost 2 years younger than John, so it would be very unlikely John would have accepted an approach had Paul not been more knowledgeable and musically adept at the time.
I’ve noticed that the Beatles seem to be very popular with a bunch of kids who are just now going into middle school. When has there ever been anything like that before?
The guy must eat yogurt or something. He does not look 77. Maybe the beard is hiding the wrinkles....
Ringo Starr marks 77th birthday
http://www.dailynews.com/arts-and-entertainment/20170707/ringo-starr-marks-77th-birthday-in-hollywood-with-a-little-help-from-fans-friends
This utter crap that Ringo wasn’t a “good” drummer is getting tiresome. We have all those Beatles songs as proof that he knew his job and did it spectacularly well.
It was and is obvious to anyone who isnt deaf that Ringo lacked a lot of training and general drumskill but of the riffs and notes he had he always employed them to a degree of musical effectiveness that no less than the formidably talented and skilled Buddy Rich appreciated the “appropriateness” of his musical decisions. Ringo added a HELL of a lot of texture to the songs to a degree that any other drummer in there, no matter how talented (and there are many of them) would have resulted in something less than The Beatles.
So yeah, damn near any drummer over the age of 15 has more in the way of technical “chops” than Ringo but damned few of them would be able to do what Ringo Starr has done again and again: Put his inimitable stamp on scores and scores of records and make them in some unquantifiable way better. I’ve written many a Rock song myself. Occasionally I’d consider what a big time musician might do with, in this case the drum line. I KNOW what a John Bonham (an Olympian at his craft) would do and I’d love to hear it. I don’t have the slightest idea what a Ringo Starr would do...but I’d LOVE to hear it.
We are just back from a lour of England and did the Fab4Four taxi tour of the Beatles’s Liverpool. It was awesome.