I feel like there was maybe a Seinfeld episode where George gets neurotic about someone not liking the Beatles. "A hundred songs the world loves and I'm the freak." I can't quite remember the episode well enough to quote it properly or find it online. But that quote here.
They were my favorite band when I was a kid because my dad was a big fan. I listened to them less when I get older and got exposed to more music, but I still enjoy many of their songs every now and then.
You understand that Ringo was a great drummer right? He could play many different styles, had perfect tempo, and could play odd time signatures. He is also very creative and distinct, in fact, he changed drumming due to his unique positioning and playing. Just listen to his drumming on "Rain", "The End", or "Come Together". He wasn't just lucky, he was amazing and the Beatles were actually lucky to have such an amazing drummer. By the way, he is an excellent singer as well! Just listen to the beauty of his voice in "With A Little Help From My Friends", "Good Night", "Yellow Submarine", and "Octopus's Garden" (An amazing song that HE WROTE). So don't write off Ringo, he was creative in his own way and deserves appreciation. (Edit: Grammar)
He's better than a lot of people make him out to be, but a lot of people could've been the drummer in a band with 3 super talented people setting the standard for a long time to come. Lucky bugger was he.
Ringo is a really good drummer. The drums are not designed for soloing. They should elevate the song, which Ringo always did. To suggest that the drummer in the most successful band in history is not good is to suggest that the drummers don't matter, which is dead wrong. Go listen to the recordings with Pete Best. They're really bad. Ringo changed everything for the Beatles. People just rip on him because he's less talented than three of the most talented pop musicians who ever lived. But in most bands, he'd be the most talented member.
It doesn't matter that he wasn't the best drummer in the Beatles because very few pop musicians are as talented as Paul freaking McCartney. He was really good. He just wasn't as good as the other three, but the whole reason the Beatles are the Beatles is that they're all ridiculously talented. Paul is a 10. John is a 9.5. George is a 9. Ringo gets ripped on for being an 8.
Many songs from the white album inspired Manson and I wouldn't say Helter Skelter necessarily inspired him more over others. He was inspired a lot by Revolution 9 and piggies as, even putting quotes from piggies on the wall in blood at some of the murder sites.
Billy Preston, who is the only person to get a joint credit on a Beatles song. Although that was more due to contractural problems than the band's feelings about him and other artists.
And then there is the story maybe true maybe not that during George's disappearance during the Abbey Road recordings that John and Paul had numerous conversations about firing him and bringing in Clapton to at least finish the album and perhaps be a permanent replacement.Nonetheless he for sure played on one song on the "White" album and very likely played on one or more songs from Abbey Road.
According to George Harrison, the only people worthy of that title are Derek Taylor and Neil Aspinall, although everything I have read about the band (and it's a lot) suggests George Martin contributed a lot to the music, and much more than anyone besides the actual band members.
Well there’s Sutcliffe, who was the original bassist, Pete Best, who was the drummer before Ringo, George Martin, their producer, and Brian Epstein, their manager.
First live rock concert I ever went to---reluctantly, at the time---was when a woman who was friends of my folks asked me if I would please drive her and several teen girls to it because she didn't want to fight the traffic and asked me to "watch out" for the girls. Said she had a free ticket for me. The Beatles, Cow Palace, San Francisco, 1964.
^ Yes, John was very egotistical, wasn't he? Ringo is an excellent drummer (and singer), who was not appreciated (at least by John). It's no surprise that John became a house-husband; to me his greatest achievement (Imagine) was behind him.
I believe the "best drummer" John was referencing was Paul, who is indeed an excellent drummer (he played on several songs on the White Album while Ringo had temporarily quit, notably "Back in the USSR," which has very good drumming). I'm sure John could dabble in the drums, but I don't think he'd suggest he was better than Ringo. Also worth nothing that Taylor Hawkins is also one of the best rock drummers on the planet...and yet isn't the best drummer in his band either.
My English teacher in China was a Kiwi who was a huge Beatles fan. During our formative years we had little interest in famous foreigners, no matter how bad they were. Hitler, Mussolini, the entire Confederacy, we simply didn't care. But one person we were given a burning hatred for was Yoko Ono. I still have it, although I now know there is probably another side to the story.
if youve only if you really want to hear yoko's best stuff, listen to anything on Double Fantasy and Milk & Honey, dont just listen to the stuff she made in the sixties and assume that its all she's made, it's like if i were to say Paul's music sucks beacuse i've only heard Liverpool Sound Collage.
Are we still saying that Yoko Ono was evil and meant the end of the Beatles?
A much less misogynistic question could be: "Who brought tons of inspiration to the Beatles—linked their work with the most relevant trends in contemporary culture, particularly Fluxus and conceptual art? Who pushed them to be more socially and politically active? Who gave so many ideas to break conventions?"
Yoko deserves much more than being the evil woman breaking up the Beatles. She was not.
Correct: Jasper Carrot.
A much less misogynistic question could be: "Who brought tons of inspiration to the Beatles—linked their work with the most relevant trends in contemporary culture, particularly Fluxus and conceptual art? Who pushed them to be more socially and politically active? Who gave so many ideas to break conventions?"
Yoko deserves much more than being the evil woman breaking up the Beatles. She was not.