McCartney on Letterman

For the needs of the Beatles, Ringo was absolutely fine.

One thing that's always puzzled me, though - when the Beatles canned Pete and brought Ringo in, George Martin still insisted on using session drummer Andy White on "P.S. I Love You" and a version of "Love Me Do." But he also recorded a version of the latter song with Ringo on drums and released that version as the U.K. single. The Andy White version became an album cut as well as the single in the States, making it the one with which we are most familiar. I just never understood why Martin went to the trouble that he did.

 

The guy could be out there with a walker and drooling through a kazoo, and people would still be saying 'he can still bring it.'

 

Was it better than this?

 

McCartney got in a good line about having played a rooftop concert before when Letterman asked him about playing on the Ed Sullivan marquee.

 

Martin at the time was really fixated on the idea that Ringo, who had just joined the band, wasn't "technically" a good drummer (As if "Love Me Do" requires complex and challenging drumming -- half the people on this board could play the drum part for "Love Me Do"). Martin changed his tune and became a big booster of Ringo later.

 

Yeah, but Phish stole it from U2.

 

Probably to impress Jodie Foster.

 

But U2 stole from these guys:



Besharps forever!

 

Sirs, Madames,

I have George Martin in a three-way tie for the top spot with J and P. That said, I like All Things Must Pass as a better post-Beatles album than anything 'cept Plastic Ono Band.

Alas, no mention of the guy who was the fifth-or-sixth-or-seventh Beatle back in earliest era. I met him and wrote a piece about him years back. The sourest man in the world. (Cross-threading Advisory: Those opposed to the use of says, please do not read.)

http://beatles.ncf.ca/william.html

I wonder if Sir Paul ever paid him the outstanding balance. I've never had time for Macca and I do manage to take a shot at him in the bionote.

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I think Ringo as a drummer was comparable to John as a guitarist - not technically great, but plenty capable.

John couldn't do a lot of what George could do on a guitar but, as he proved on "All My Loving," if nowhere else, he could handle his Rickenbacker just fine.

George wasn't an overly flashy guitarist but he was a lot better than he often got credit for. Paul, of course, was by far the most proficient musician in the band, not to mention one of the most inventive bass guitarists who ever lived.

 

geez, boys and girls, it's paul effin' mccartney!!! he need not ever write another song again. he'll always be the 1-2 punch of the greatest/most important rock band EVER!! and among its finest pure musicians (bass guitar) and pure rock vocalists in history. 8) 8) 8)

 

Anyone know why McCartney lost the Beatles catalog to Jackson - did Jackson just outbid him? I understand it created a rift, but what I don't get is either McCartney "sold" the catalog, or just didn't want it bad enough when it was up for bid.