Ringo Starr vs Charlie Watts!

Ringo vs Charlie Watts!

Edited by SteveG - February 26 2018 at 09:14

have to admit to being a Ringo fan...  I mean really.. who ISN'T a Ringo fan deep down.  He could even drink Moonie under the table.. something I will definitely try when my body finally gives out on me and I make the ascention.  Night one.. Moon... Night Two.. oh yes... Janis...

Tom Ozric wrote: I think Ringo. He occasionally has a jazzy flair to his playing - something I never hear in Charlie’s playing. Plus I e never heard Charlie play an odd meter.

I would agree with those who think Charlie is a better drummer - but I always quite liked Ringo's simple, but effective style. Unfairly underrated. Even that simple beat on 'Ticket to Ride' still resonates more than all the double bass drum intricacy of many a prog metal maestro.

I have to go with Charlie Watts on this one. I openly admit that I strongly preferred the Stones over the Beatles back then. I was one of those odd kids who saw the Beatles on Ed Sullivan in early 1964 (I was age 7 at the time) and did not like them at all. Even after all these years, I cannot listen to their early work prior to A Hard Days' Night. Never was a fan of bubble gum type music. The Stones, on the other hand, appealed to me from the first time I heard Satisfaction and I liked the vast majority of their '60s work. They did start to lose me around the mid-'70s though.

SquonkHunter wrote: I have to go with Charlie Watts on this one. I openly admit that I strongly preferred the Stones over the Beatles back then. I was one of those odd kids who saw the Beatles on Ed Sullivan in early 1964 (I was age 7 at the time) and did not like them at all. Even after all these years, I cannot listen to their early work prior to A Hard Days' Night. Never was a fan of bubble gum type music. The Stones, on the other hand, appealed to me from the first time I heard Satisfaction and I liked the vast majority of their '60s work. They did start to lose me around the mid-'70s though.

Really went speechless when somebody´s telling he´s seen Beatles! (I wasn´t even born when they splitted) I like also their early stuff, they were really tight playing band already beginning. Of course the dearest ones are the stuff after Help!

I recall seeing some live Stones footage (mid-late ‘70’s) and Charlie had this MASSIVE looking kit, with, maybe 6 mounted toms, double-bass, cymbals everywhere. Dunno if he used it all though.

Edited by Tom Ozric - February 25 2018 at 00:22

Easy Money wrote: A lot of Ringo's drum 'recordings' aren't really Ringo, Charlie Watts never needed a replacement.

SteveG wrote: yeah, I believe that Macca's role as the Beatles' second drummer is overstated, with only two songs totally credited to him. (..USSR and Ballad Of J&O). I don't count Wild Honey Pie as my 6 year daughter used to play it on my kit!

Here is Quincy Jones talking about having a jazz drummer fill in for Ringo, there are more instances than this, Ringo needing fill-ins is just something that is well known in the music industry.

" I remember once we were in the studio with George Martin, and RingoJones arranged a version of “Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing” for Starr’s 1970 solo debut album Sentimental Journey, which was produced by the Beatles’ frequent collaborator George Martin. The song, and album, are more than a bit gloopy. had taken three hours for a four-bar thing he was trying to fix on a song. He couldn’t get it. We said, “Mate, why don’t you get some lager and lime, some shepherd’s pie, and take an hour-and-a-half and relax a little bit.” So he did, and we called Ronnie Verrell, a jazz drummer. Ronnie came in for 15 minutes and tore it up. "