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Ringo, Keith and Zak



Okay, time to speak up.  Thanks Salamander for the interesting
review of the
Who gig, and I agree that Zac Starkey is tremendously talented
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especially in his "Who Playing -- but let's give old Ringo
another listen
before we dump on him for the 1,000th time, okay?  No, Ringo
was not flashy
like Keith or even Ginger Baker or Mitch Mitchell, but so
what?  The Beatles
were not the Who and the Who were not the Beatles (thank God
both ways).

Go back and listen to Ringo's work on such tracks as "Come
Togethor," "A
DAy In the Life," "Strawberry Fields" and "Here Comes The
Sun."  Notice how
he complements each song -- how "in the pocket" his fills are
and how
steady and driving his backbeat is.  If anything, Ringo was the
perfect
drummer for the fab five, and numerous musicians (even famous
ones
like Billy Joel and, yes, even Moonie) have said so.

Ringo, himself, used to say that he was the "greatest drummer
in the world,"
but he was always quick to point out that he meant he was the
"greatest"
because he played with the most FEELING.

I challenge anyone out there to listen to the above Beatles
songs,
but only to the drum tracks.  Then tell me that Ringo has
no "talent."

- - - - -- Henry Gambill (former drummer)

Henry:
Here, here!! Thanks for sticking up for Ringo. You made some
excellent points. WHile RIngo was never as flashy as Keith or
Mitch or anyone else, he, like Charlie Watts, lays down the
best backbeat in rock that I know!

- - -- 
Mark D. Bardini
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"Nothing is planned by the sea and the sand."
The Who, 1973

bardini@virginia.edu
markb@virginia.edu
URL: http://teach.virginia.edu/~mdb2e

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From: Ken Traub <kt@einstein.exa.com>