Thread for Ringo fans

[ashleykarma]

Ringo is an amazing guy. i just came home from Ringo Starr and his All-Star Band concert and i got backstage passes. it was sooo awesome meeting him. he smelled so good.
this is me and him:

[thewalruswasmike]

great picture there, ashleykarma!

[onolennon]

You're so lucky.

[Paulie]

You can say that again!

[Paulie]

Jun 7, 2008 23:20:24 GMT 1 lovely7rita said:

My mum hates Paul, who I love, but loves Ringo. She says he likes peace, quit doing drugs/drinking (which she actually still doesn't believe, but I do), and doesn't eat meat. She says there's nothing to hate about him, he's so calm. Although I read somewhere that on the rare occasion he loses his temper objects fly and he gets really mad. :-D I may be going to his concert in Kettering on July 8th.

SHE HATES PAULIE? I JUST CAN'T UNDERSTAND... I simply can't...

[lucyinthesky77]

Surely no one can hate any of the four!



Cute!

[Paulie]

Yeah, you're right lucyinthesky77... BTW nice picture

[ronprice]

RINGO STARR AND ME: Two Lives Dovetailed back In '62: A Prose-Poetic Note-Ron Price, Australia

On 16 August 1962 Ringo Starr, one of Liverpool’s and Britain’s best drummers, replaced Pete Best as the Beatles’drummer.1 The Beatles were, by then, recording with EMI/Parlophone Records. George Martin was their producer. Their first recording session with Ringo Starr was on 4 September 1962. On 11 September Ringo Starr played tambourine on "Love Me Do" and maracas on "P.S. I Love You.” Session drummer Andy White was hired to play drums. Before Ringo Starr starred on drums were measured by their soloing ability and virtuosity. Ringo's popularity brought forth a new paradigm in how the public came to see drummers. Due to Ringo’s style and approach, the public started to see the drummer as an equal participant in the compositional aspect of a group’s songs. One of Ringo's great qualities was that he composed unique, stylistic drum parts. His drumming parts possess a signature in the Beatles’ songs; his varied and advanced drumming techniques allow listeners to identify a Beatles song without evening hearing the rest of the music.2 Ringo was the first of the English rock drummers of the '60s to define the archetype of the present-day rock drummer." -Ron Price with thanks to 1Barry Miles, Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now, Henry Holt & Company, N.Y., 1997; and 2Robyn Flans, “Hall of Fame: Ringo Starr,” internet site: Percussive Arts Society.

The band's first televised performance was on People and Places. It was transmitted live from Manchester by Granada Television on 17 October 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Art Roberts, music director of popular Chicago radio station WLS, placed "Please Please Me" into radio rotation in late February 1963, arguably the first time a Beatles record was heard on American radio.3 –Ron Price with thanks to internet site “beatles.startingiseasy.com.”

While Ringo was making his entry as drummer in the world of the Beatles, I was 18 finishing my adolescent baseball career pitching my last game against Oshawa in Ontario for the Burlington Juvenile All-Stars and finishing my summer job with the Dundas Confectionary Company. I was also just starting my most demanding academic year, grade 13 in Ontario and unobtrusively beginning my pioneer life for the Canadian Baha’i community. While the Beatles were going on TV for the first time in October 1962, as I say, the Cuban Missile Crisis was mounting to a fever-pitch and my society was as close to nuclear war as it would get in my adolescent and young adult life.

All these juxtapositions, societal crises, an incipient Beatlemania and a general sense of the transitions in my life, though, were unknown to me. I was at that time buckling down, settled into, the task of getting through nine subjects at Dundas District High School. I was in love with a girl in Michigan. In August 1962, just days before Ringo had his first session as the drummer for the Beatles, I had touched the warm skin of a girl’s breast for the first time in my life. I was living with my mother and father at 47 Tweedsmuir Avenue in Dundas, a small town in the Golden Triangle of southern Ontario. My mother was working in her last year of employment at McMaster University in the Overseas Students Department as a secretary. My father was 67, had just retired and in three years would die of an aneurism, a localized, blood-filled dilation (balloon-like bulge) of a blood vessel.

So much going on all around me, then
in that hot August of ’62 and an autumn
that took my world to annihilation’s edge
with Ringo getting a bigger break than he
then knew that summer and me getting a
bigger break than I knew at the time
pioneering for a Movement that had
just struck its head above the ground,
but with my mind and emotions filled
to overflowing with the first taste of
anything one could call romance and
nine subjects that would make or break
my academic life, my career and what
direction my life would take back then
when the world stood at oblivion’s edge.

Ron Price
26 September 2008

Fantasy Impromptu in C sharp minor, Opus 66 - Frederick Chopin

[ericthefish]

Talking or Ringo in August 1962, here's a pic taken yesterday of the venue for his debut 18th August.

Interesting post, Ron (particularly the bit about breast discovery!)

[makelovenotwar1980]

a while back i sent him a letter asking for an autograph......it hasn't come back yet....i wonder if it will. ha ha

Oh Yoko! - John

[dumbslugs]

I don't 'get' Ringo. He's an awful singer & medicore drummer. He was the only Beatle that was replacable. No offence to Ringo fans, its just how I feel about him. But apart from his music, he seems like a nice guy.

[beatlestone]

Ringo is one of the greatest drummers in rock history, he made the Beatles as well & should be given more credit. He's had his ups & downs as a solo artist, but he got back on top in the 90's & he's a great actor, in his own right. I know some fans were upset, with his no more autographs fiasco, he was just angry about something.

[Life is Beautiful]

Oooh wow. i haven't posted for a long time!

Well, I've got to say that Ringo is still my second favorite[after John of course!] He's an amazing drummer, has an amazing charisma and Good Lord! is he cute still after john though X3

The first thing that attracted to him to me was his sense of humor in 'Help!' and his killer blue eyes.. :3

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[lovinlennon]

I like him alot too. Hes a great person to listen to, he seems really fun to be around. I used to think he was replaceable too. I got into drumming a bit, and then I payed attention to the Beatles drumming, and now there is no doubt hes my favorite, hes great. I don't follow his solo career tho. Hes usually really funny in interview. Did anyone see the anthologies where he talks about the "two virgins" cover...hahaha