“He was doing backup at some party and he was doing it straight. “I’ve seen Dave Grohl play straight,” he says, meaning without the usual thundering, cymbal-crashing drama Grohl made famous on Nirvana albums. But someone else actually does impress Starr: a Foo Fighter. “Jim is my all-time hero drummer, no one is as good as him − I love Jim, and that’s about it,” he says. Ringo Starr still has aspirations at 82: 'My aim is to be Frank Sinatra' Starr formed his All-Starr band back in 1989 after getting fast commitments from musicians such as the Eagles’ Joe Walsh, Bruce Springsteen guitarist Nils Lofgren and legendary session drummer Jim Keltner, who remains an icon for the Beatles drummer. Starr allows that he is grateful he can find musicians to go on tour with him, “as I can’t just do songs with me and my drums.” And I said, ‘Forty, get off, and you’re still doing it?’ Well, that’s how you feel when you’re younger.” Who is Ringo Starr's favorite drummer? You may not have heard of him, but you should know him “I asked one guy in that band how old he was, and he said 40. “We opened in England for this girl, (teen pop sensation) Helen Shapiro, and she had a big band behind her,” Starr recalls. Wait, not Ringo? John Lennon originally sang 'Yellow Submarine' as a sad song, and you won't recognize itĪsked if he ever imagined that he’d be gigging more than 60 years after he first sat behind a drum kit, Starr suddenly is back in the 1960s, recalling the time when The Beatles were – incredibly – just an opening act. You’re onstage, with the audience, there’s the band, it’s magical nights. “I had the dream to play drums, and I ended up being that person, and I’m still that person. “I love playing, it’s just part of me now, and it was then, at 13,” he says. dates in the West through late June before launching a broader national tour in the fall.
“We come from an area of life where they didn’t have to pay you, we wanted to play more than anything else,” says Starr, who will play 23 U.S. Why do it? Surely he’s got famous friends to visit and grandkids to goof off with. At 82, the Fab Four kit man is still on the road making music, kicking off yet another leg of his never-ending Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band tour Friday in Temecula, California.
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