wizard of wednesday Ive got blisters on my fingers! Helter Skelter, White Album Paul says that Ringo Starr is still his favorite drummer, much to the amazement of the drumming community and the world at large. McCartneys worked with Steve Gadd, Jeff Porcaro- he can have the pick of anyone, just about, but he still loves Ringo. Ringo could be the best rock n roll drummer -- or at least one of the best rock and roll drummers ... He does fills which crack up people like Jim Keltner. Hes just amazed because Ringo starts them in the wrong place and all of that, but that is brilliance, thats pure feel. - George Harrison Ringos got the best back beat Ive ever heard and he can play great 24-hours a day. - George Harrison Lennon got into abstract lyrics and his acid rock guitar style, McCartney expanded and refined his pop-writing craft, and Harrison got very involved in authentic Indian music and Indian instruments. Ringo, meanwhile, had the challenge of adapting to everyones style. He always played what was called for. If he had been a rigid drummer, set in his ways, The Beatles would have been in trouble. He played the songwriters version of the song, not his, like an egoless drummer. ... He always had a gift for being very musical with The Beatles music. -- Kenny Aronoff in Modern Drummer magazine (Nov. 1987) Kenny Arnoff -- I consider him one of the greatest innovators of rock drumming and believe that he has been one of the greatest influences on rock drumming today... Ringo has influenced drummers more than they will ever realize or admit. Ringo laid down the fundamental rock beat that drummers are playing today and they probably dont even realize it. (Modern Drummer,Oct. 1987) . . Ringo always approached the song more like a songwriter than a drummer. He always served the music. (Modern Drummer, Dec. 1987) Max Weinberg -- D. J. Fontana had introduced me to the power of the big beat. Ringo convinced me just how powerful that rhythm could be. Ringos beat was heard around the world and he drew the spotlight toward rock and roll drummer. From his matched grip style to his pioneering use of staggered tom tom fills, his influence in rock drumming was as important and wide spread as Gene Krupas had been in jazz. (The Big Beat, 1984) Phil Collins, drummer for Genesis -- I think hes vastly underrated. The drum fills on A Day In The Life are very complex things. You could take a great drummer today and say, I want it like that. They wouldnt know what to do. Andy Sturmer, drummer for Jellyfish -- Ringo is a great guy and really amazing drummer. He has that feel thats between a shuffle and straight eights -- Ringo territory that nobody else can do. He played some amazing stuff on that (Time Takes Time) album. Rory Storm -- During the four or five years Ringo was with us, he really played the drums. He drove them. He sweated and swung and sung. Ringo sang about five numbers a night. He even had his own spot. It was called Ringo Starrtime. Don Was -- As a drummer, he influenced three generations of rock drummers. Its not very flashy playing, but its very musical. Instead of just counting the bars, hes playing the song, and he puts fills in unusual places that are directed by the vocal. George Martin -- Ringo always got and still gets a unique sound out of his drums, as sound as distinctive as his voice. ... Ringo gets a looser deeper sound out of his drums that is unique. ...This detailed attention to the tone of his drums is one of the reasons for Ringos brilliance. Another is that although Ringo does not keep time with a metronome accuracy, he has unrivaled feel for a song. If his timing fluctuates, it invariably does so in the right place at the right time, keep the right atmosphere going on the track and give it a rock solid foundation. This held true for every single Beatles number Richie played ... Ringo also was a great tom tom player. ( Summer of Love, 1994) Mark Lewisohn -- It is true that on only a handful of occasions during all of the several hundred session tapes and thousands of recording hours can Ringo be heard to have made a mistake or wavered in his beat. His work was remarkably consistent and excellent, from 1962 right through 1970. ( The Beatles Recording Sessions, 1988)
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