![]() If all goes as Starr hopes, the All Starr Band could have a gig for years to come. We came to a point, eight years later – it blows me away that we did all that in eight years – that it was time to leave.” We played well together and we got on with each other. But we didn’t make good records while we were touring. “And we stopped touring and made great records. ![]() “We were lads when we started, and as it went on, we had wives and children,” he said. The Beatles, Starr said, had run their course I’m ever grateful to Peter for doing such a great job.”Īlthough it was recorded before the “Abbey Road” album, “Let It Be” became the final Beatles album, released in May 1970, months before the band broke up. ![]() It was lots of fun as well.’ He certainly brought that up. I spoke to Peter (and said) ‘I was there. Michael Lindsey Hogg’s, I felt, was just too down. We were laughing and we were having fun as well and we played great and we did all this in a month. It was on one point of an argument and all these down parts. “The original documentary, I never liked it,” he said. That disappointment aside, Starr said “Get Back” is a much more representative look at The Beatles putting together “Let It Be” than was Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s “Let It Be,” the 1970 documentary that, with its filming, provided the footage Jackson assembled into the new film. I thought ‘I’ll see it on film.’ But it just happened the cameras were off when we did that.” Because I have no idea why I changed that. I wanted to know how I got to that, that rock shuffle thing, just playing the snare drum. “The only thing I was grasping and desperate for, is when we did ‘Get Back.’ If you look at the early sort of getting it together, it (the drum part) is just like straight rock. John and Paul would always have a couple of songs that would start the ball rolling. But the difference with ‘Get Back’ was that we had no songs to start. “We made those records and it sort of went through the same cycle. “I remember quite a lot of it,” Starr said of the “Let It Be” sessions. Speaking of “Get Back,” Starr gave Peter Jackson’s six-hour 2021 documentary his full endorsement. “And we played in the basements of the workmen who eliminated (stuff) all over us. “The three of us worked in a factory,” Starr said of his first band during the fall press conference. In 1957, he broke into music when he helped form the Eddie Clayton Skiffle Group, which, he said, he wished had been captured on film like The Beatles “Let It Be” recording sessions that became the recent documentary “Get Back.” I love to play, My mother had this great line ‘You know what, son? I always feel that you’re happiest when you’re playing.’ And deep inside I am.” ![]() And I was in a couple of really good bands … and it’s still there. I only ever wanted to be a drummer from 13 and then I got a kit of drums. “I was inspired at 13 and that has never left me, the dream and the joy,” Starr said. 17.įestival Pass: Splash House, LA Pride in the Park and more fests this weekend The current tour is hitting the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles on Thursday, June 15 and returns to Southern California during the fall leg of the run to perform at Toyota Arena in Ontario on Sunday, Sept. I mean, with this band it’s great because everybody takes the weight.” “I don’t want to sit in a hotel and relax for three days. “If I’m on the road, I want to play,” Starr said during the mid-May video conference. Speaking during a pair of press conferences with the other members of his All Starr Band (one just last month and another last fall) Starr said the original tour routing for this summer and fall actually had too many off days and he had his booking agent add more shows. For a drummer-singer who is now 82, that might seem like a demanding workload.īut this is exactly how Starr likes it. As he’s done annually since 1989, save for a two-year interruption due to the pandemic, Ringo Starr & His All Starr Band will be out on tour this summer and fall, playing two month-long stints that include shows six days during most of the weeks.
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