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Posted by Danmac on 1 December 2011 - 1:09pm.
Hi Folks can someone remind me which podcast included the piece which
laid waste to the common myth that Ringo was a poor drummer ? Thanks
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Ringo
It's this one: http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/england-are-never-going-win-anythi...
Otherwise known as Podcast 139.
Thanks
Thanks Fraser I want to bring this to someones attention as it will do a far better job than I could .
Anyone who tells you that Ringo was a poor drummer...
...is literally not worth arguing with.
It's one of the most annoying cliches I hear
And when I do I simply ask them what makes him a poor drummer, to give me examples where he could have been better and what they feel constitutes being a good drummer. Usually shuts them up.
Or play them the Pete Best demo of Love Me Do, alongside Ringo's (or Alan White's) and then they'll hear what a poor drummer sounds like.
The drumming on Rain and Come Together is not being played by a poor drummer.
Whereas one of the better cliches is that people wearing a Ramones t-shirt can't usually name you a Ramones album or more than one song, come to that, because that cliche tends to be true!
You will get no
You will get no arguement from me . As it happens the bloke has already reviewed his position .
It's one of those myths
That's repeated so often it becomes received wisdom. A bit like 'Andy Cole needs 10 chances to score 1 goal'.
Just play them Rain
Job done.
Looking for another
Can anyone tell me what 'cast did Mark Ellen reel off the order in which the uninitiated should listen to Captain Beefheart albums? It was a response to someone who claimed not to like the good Captain but had only listened to TMR.
It was the effortlessness and accuracy that tickled me.
I'm guessing
I don't remember that, but maybe http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/word-podcast-157-eltons-sunglasses... ?
I've an idea
it could be before your time, Fraser. I'm not at home right now, so can't check, but doing my weird 'associate one thing with another because it's how I remember things' thing, I remember going on a binge of Word podcasts when I got my iPod, which was around Christmas 2008. At that point, I more or less started at the beginning and worked my way through a heap of them. I think the Podcast sought - and I can almost *hear* David going through them in my head as I type - was one of the rather early ones. Around the time of the Led Zepplin reunion, perhaps. I'll guess it's before Christmas 2008...
We're meant to start with Safe as Milk, if memory serves...
Ringo was the best drummer in The Beatles
John said so