Is Paul Really Dead? Page 3
I reckon Heather's leg is alive & kicking.
You mark my words. This has all been about a parking space,
Quote: zooo @ February 14, 2008, 10:41 PMI love Elvis!
(not the fat one.)
Quote: David Chapman @ February 14, 2008, 7:57 PMSo how come Ringo didn't go first?
As Paul famously said when asked if Ringo was the best drummer in the world "He's not even the best drummer in the Beatles".
I'm waiting to hear from Aaron.
That was John. Then Paul sent Ringo a postcard saying he was the best drummer in the world.
Some people will lie about anything.
When I first saw the title of this thread I thought Paul W did more then dying on stage. I nearly got my hopes up as well, taking the role as sole global mod.
I've heard this rumor before. I'm not sure if it's true or not, it looks pretty convincing, but then you can get anything from anything if you look in the right place.
If anyone is going to be accused of being replaced, surely is has to be this guy...
Nah, you can still hear him in there.
Quote: Aaron @ February 15, 2008, 10:53 AM
Dontcha like Mr. Costello?
Quote: zooo @ February 15, 2008, 12:06 PMDontcha like Mr. Costello?
To be honest, I'm really not aware of enough any of his work in order to judge. But do you not like the King?
Oh the other Elvis is good too!
I'm a fan of all Elvises.
Quote: zooo @ February 15, 2008, 2:47 PMOh the other Elvis is good too!
I'm a fan of all Elvises.
I liked Elvis the spider from Sean's Show
Aww.
There's only one Elvis and that's Costello. 
Presley had a voice but the real talent is in singer-songwriters like Costello. Producers of work, not piggy-backers on a writer's talent.
Yes, David, Macca used to kick around on the drums during the studio sessions but the only Beatles' release that (I'm aware of) features Paul's drumming is "Ballad of John and Yoko" which John and Paul recorded without the others, as they were on hols.
Ringo's drumming is (without hyperbole) superb. There's an old myth going around that the Beatles used a session drummer. But that started when a drummer (was it Jimmy Nichols?) filled in for a very ill Ringo on the Amsterdam leg of a tour. It also ignores the fact that Ringo was such a revered drummer before the Beatles that he was in demand as a session drummer. You don't become a session player if you're shite. His drumming on the Pepper album, and the Magical Mystery Tour double EP is stunning. Anthology 2 and 3 highlights some of his work in isolation from the rest of the tracks.
Anyway, Ringo doesn't need me to defend him when his back catalogue will kick shite into his detractors by itself. 
Listen to Strawberry Fields Forever (especially the syncopation in the drum roll intros beneath the "Let me take you down coz I'm going to ..." and the fade out when he gets as close to playing a drum solo as the Beatles allowed him to (excluding the real solo on Abbey Road). Especially listen to the Anthology 2 version for a lesson in 'crap' drumming. "Good Morning Good Morning" shows him playing 5/4 bars, dropping and adding the beats as and where needed. He da Man.
As to attitude. He's about as level headed a person as you'd expect for a guy who's played with the greatest inside and outside the Beatles, who was one of the four most popular people on the planet for a decade, who met presidents and kings, and who married a Bond girl. All that, and he still isn't a total jerkwad like some upstarts who've done far less than that and still vanish up their own arses.
Rock on Ringo. 
You're spot on with the ballad of John and Yoko. Paul did indeed play drums on that track. The session drummer they used was Andy White. He played on the original love me do track and was called in again for their tour of Australia when Ringo was taken ill.
Ray, you saved me a Google.
If I remember right, he played on the Love Me Do track but it was later re-recorded with Ringo's drums - I think that version is on Past Masters 1. I think, being the operative section of that sentence.