Ringo can’t get no love!

The last one is the best - WTH was John thinking?

He damn sure wasn't thinking. Ringo, BTW, had a lot of hits post Beatles. He certainly was the coolest Beatle, anyway.

weaselbeak said:

He damn sure wasn't thinking. Ringo, BTW, had a lot of hits post Beatles. He certainly was the coolest Beatle, anyway.

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I think he was too.

Well heck, it don't come easy.

On February 7, 1964, Pan Am Yankee Clipper flight 101 from London Heathrow landed at New York’s Kennedy Airport.



A few years later at age 14, I bought a Sears/Danelectro Silvertone 1448 guitar and amp case for about $50 from my paper route profits.


My brother, Peter, somehow managed to purchase a set of Roger's gold sparkle drums with Zildjian cymbals.



He only had a paper route, too. Dad liked him better, I suppose..

But we had a blast playing to our Beatles albums.

I still have those vinyl discs in my collection.

YamadudeXS650C said:

Well heck, it don't come easy.

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Still my favorite Ringo song! I was also a huge Beatles fan, still am. I love your high school garage band you had going.

I agree tha Ringo was the coolest - and I think it is because he ...sort of....didn’t take it all that seriously.

A couple years back I went to a talk put on by Pete Best, the original drummer. It was interesting to hear about the early early years when they were still kids. His Mom started a coffee club, and the lads were trying to become the house band, but had no drummer, so Pete went out and bought his self a kit and practiced every night. There was 5 of them back then, Stu Sutclife, died when they were rehearsing in Frankfurt Germany. Epstien came to see them at the coffee club, told them to lose the black leather jackets and put on suits to appeal to the girls. And off they went, but without Pete Best, the sound engineers couldn't get a handle on his drumming style. Ringo came in, but on the very early recordings, he was left out and a session drummer used. Very interesting talk, and a lot of stuff most people have no idea about. And I am a Ringo supporter, his turn in A Hard Days Night was terrific. I was more of a Stones fan, but Sargent Pepper pulled me in. All good music, not like the shit out there today.

The original boy band! Rocky Racoon? Ob La whatever... c'mon man. As for what was John thinking? I dunno, maybe he loved her?

queenslegs said:

As for what was John thinking? I dunno, maybe he loved her?

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If I was John I might have tried to find somebody who'd never heard of me (not saying she was that). Coincidentally I was thinking about the Beatles this morning and I think that probably their net effect on the World was negative.