I know John Bonham or Keith Moon are the "best", but Ringo's drum work on "Day in the Life", is very good, plus he has a good personality.
I know John Bonham or Keith Moon are the "best", but Ringo's drum work on "Day in the Life", is very good, plus he has a good personality.
From what I’ve read, he has the best timing of any drummer in the history of rock and roll. If he maintains a beat, he can maintain it forever.
The “most” underrated likely lives or lived in relative obscurity.
I saw a youtube of some guy saying he could play Ringo’s stuff no problem. About a minute and a half and he acquiesced. Ringo is hard to “beat”. 😁
I’m told Paul McCartney once said Ringo wasn’t even the best Drummer in The Beatles. The man is a machine, though. He’s a Human Metronome.
I remember reading that Paul McCartney would go in after recording sessions in the middle of the night and re-dub Ringo’s drumming b/c he wasn’t happy with it.
Ringo gets a lot of flack, but I love him. He is a solid drummer. My take on the Beatles is this: Paul is one of the finest song writers I’ve ever heard. George is a criminally overlooked guitar player. Ringo is a superb drummer, and a truly fine human being. John was an overrated hack who was eclipsed by his wife (who I actually love, she’s such a nut case.)
Gene Krupa, Buddy Rich, Ed Shaughnessy, Hal Blaine of the old school.
Ringo was the best for the Beatles tho.
If you ever wonder how The Beatles maintained their place in songs during their live performances with screaming girls, that was Ringo. He wasn’t the most talented or technically accurate drummer ever, but he was the right drummer for The Beatles. And Paul was not the best drummer in The Beatles. Not even close.
Ringo’s trademark style was to remain subtle and not steal the show, and maintain the beat like a quartz crystal. His only ‘breakout’ solo really was the short segment on Abbey Road’s ‘medley’, but an impeccable percussionist.
Not shabby.
No, Danny Seraphine was The Best Ever.
He, Danny, had one problem though, he wasn’t in The Who or uh, that other band. Plus he was irretrievably nuts.
OK, two problems...
Meanwhile, Ringo is turning out really well at having perhaps the longest career of rock drummers, which is good.
Underrated: Larry Mullin, Jr. (U2)
Overrated: Dave Grohl (I'm not a drummer, maybe I just don't get it).
Karen Carpenter started out as a drummer and was considered pretty good. She started in 1964, after joining her high school marching band in order to get out of gym class.
She persuaded her band director to let her switch from glockenspiel to the drums, despite concerns that ‘girls don’t play drums’.
Genius of Ringo Starr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDY-YeNTcE4
Mickey Dolenz was underrated, IMO. He wasn’t a great drummer, but he did OK for having had to learn how to play drums after he was cast as one of The Monkees.
Another underrated drummer......Karen Carpenter.
One of my favorite drummers is Terry Chambers of XTC, on their early albums. Just listen to his work on “Generals and Majors” and “Ball And Chain”.