Tsk. Ringo wasn't even the best drummer in the Monkeys

Post Reply
User avatar
Phillip Phlopp
Posts:21588
Joined:Mon Oct 22, 2018 7:16 am
Tsk. Ringo wasn't even the best drummer in the Monkeys

Post by Phillip Phlopp » Wed Sep 07, 2022 7:59 am

"It's easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled"
- Mark Twain

User avatar
mis
Posts:6959
Joined:Sun Oct 21, 2018 8:43 pm
Location:Hythe, Kent

Re: Tsk. Ringo wasn't even the best drummer in the Monkeys

Post by mis » Wed Sep 07, 2022 9:46 am

Very true but you should have seen Ringo peel a banana. A veritable virtuoso he was.
I once had a whim and I had to obey it
To buy a French Horn in a second-hand shop;
I polished it up and I started to play it
In spite of the neighbours who begged me to stop.

User avatar
Claude Balls
Posts:4365
Joined:Mon Oct 22, 2018 12:34 pm

Re: Tsk. Ringo wasn't even the best drummer in the Monkeys

Post by Claude Balls » Wed Sep 07, 2022 10:07 am

Are they wild?

User avatar
Red Baron
Posts:5535
Joined:Sun Oct 21, 2018 7:07 pm
Location:Up a hill or at the seaside

Re: Tsk. Ringo wasn't even the best drummer in the Monkeys

Post by Red Baron » Wed Sep 07, 2022 12:03 pm

This irks me as it isn't true.

Anyone who has watched 'Get Back' can see that.

LENNON: “Ringo was a star in his own right in Liverpool before we even met. He was a professional drummer who sang and performed and had Ringo Starr-time, and he was in one of the top groups in Britain but especially in Liverpool before we even had a drummer. So Ringo’s talent would have come out one way or the other as something or other. I don’t know what he would have ended up as, but whatever that spark is in Ringo that we all know but can’t put our finger on … whether it is acting, drumming or singing, I don’t know … there is something in him that is projectable and he would have surfaced with or without the Beatles. Ringo is a damn good drummer."

It was, apparently a joke: https://www.radiox.co.uk/artists/beatle ... t-drummer/
“Tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it... Yet.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

User avatar
Julian Mince
Posts:8038
Joined:Tue May 12, 2020 7:33 am
Location:Peterborough, England

Re: Tsk. Ringo wasn't even the best drummer in the Monkeys

Post by Julian Mince » Thu Sep 08, 2022 4:15 am

Claude Balls wrote:
Wed Sep 07, 2022 10:07 am
Are they wild?
No, I think they're livid!
I know a man who taught his dog to play the trumpet on the London Underground.
He went from Barking to Tooting in an hour.

Post Reply