Drumming day and night

 

October 1971

Drumming has always been his madness

 

Keeping that beat steady

 August 27, 1963 - Southport 

Bangladesh Ringo

 

August 1, 1970 

I wanna be your man

 

Ringo's Revolver

 April 27, 1966

Paul's drumming audition

 

Glad they stuck with Ringo on the drums.   (this is a joke for those of you that will come at me in the comments) 

A view from behind.

 

Anyone else think Ringo really should be on the drum riser with the stars on it instead of the one with the stripes?   The Who ended up using the star one.  

*Thanks to the Deep Beatles page on Facebook for posting this photo

Drummer auditions

 

Our favorite drummer

 

Denny Laine's Birthday party

 

Looks like a fun time was had a Denny Laine's birthday party on October 29, 1976!  

John plays the part of Ringo

 

McCartney III

Photos taken by Mary McCartney

 It was bound to happen this week.   The one week that I take some time off from the Beatles world and put all my focus on my work and Paul McCartney decides to announce the release of McCartney III.  

I missed out on quite a bit of the excitement, but from what I gathered, some lucky fans were sent McCartney dice in the mail  (I was not one of those fans, but maybe one you were!).    I DID get several text messages from Paul this week and those were enjoyable.   I really like the text messages from Paul that we now get throughout the year.  It is sort of cool to see that Paul has sent you a message (even though I know it is his digital team and he has little to nothing to do about it).  

I wonder if the dice were just to announce the new album of it they mean something.  Is there a song about dice?   

I am excited for December 11 to get here to hear the new material.   It is so nice to have a date or something Paul McCartney that is brand new to look forward to.  Even if the album isn't his best, I am going to love it just because I've miss Paul so much this year. 

Happy 55th Birthday Zak Starkey!

 

Ringo loves his bass drum, Mike.

 

Ringo said today:  I’m having a great time in the studio I love my bass drum Mike i’m in the middle of an EP peace and love

McCartney on the drums

 

Drummer Paul

Ringo TV special

Ringo is that you buzzing?

Scene from Help! filmed on April 30, 1965

Ringo's White Album - A book review

Let me be honest.   I typically would not have been interested in reading Ringo's White Album by Alex Cain.  But you know how it is -- we are all stuck in the house and the Kindle edition was really cheap ($1.16).   So why not give this book a read?

There are some really interesting things in the book.    The author really knows his audience and doesn't bother us with the background of how Ringo joined the Beatles or any of the information we already know about the drummer.  He jumped right into the topic of the book, which is greatly appreciated.

This book is exactly what the title says:  Ringo's drumming and percussion on the White Album. Cain goes into how Ringo quit the Beatles and about Paul's drumming on Back in the USSR and Dear Prudence as well.     The most interesting part of the book (for me) was the section about the Hey Jude promo films.  There was some information about Busker Bill and the filming that was really interesting.   I also liked how the book went song by song and put who played what percussion instrument. 

The rest of the book was a little over my head.   I know very little about reading music and nothing about drumming.   Parts of this book were boring to me -- just going on and on about the drumming patterns and whatnot. 

That is not to say that this is a bad book.  It just didn't interest me too much.  Cain did a great job writing it.  It was obviously well-researched, and he knows a LOT about drumming and admires Ringo for being a great drummer.    I am sure that if you were a musician and especially a drummer, the information found in this book would interest you. 

The wonderful thing about living in the era of self-published Beatles books is that now anyone can write in his/her niche area of The Beatles.   I think that is great!    There is bound to be hundreds of other Beatle fans that are interested in the same area that the author is interested in. 

If you want to learn about Ringo's drumming on the White Album in great detail -- then this is the book for you!   Plus, it really wasn't a bad book to read while being quarantined.


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