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

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

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

Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2022 9:46 am
by mis
Very true but you should have seen Ringo peel a banana. A veritable virtuoso he was.

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

Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2022 10:07 am
by Claude Balls
Are they wild?

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

Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2022 12:03 pm
by Red Baron
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/

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

Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2022 4:15 am
by Julian Mince
Claude Balls wrote:
Wed Sep 07, 2022 10:07 am
Are they wild?
No, I think they're livid!