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No matter what you choose, choose love. It's a long leather jacket that makes me
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where I am today. >> You know, in those days when Brian called to say, "Hello, Ringer. Would you
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join the Beatles?" I said, "Yeah." You know, and I come from very early
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country. Yeah. >> And you know, there was like the wife's left, the dog said, "Or don't have
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enough money for the jukebox." You know, >> David, it's your life.
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>> It's from my book. >> Yeah. Well, we got a big one today, Dana.
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>> And we really uh it was kind of nerve-wracking a little bit, but first of all, uh his name is Ringo Star. And
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um he doesn't do a lot of podcasts. I couldn't find any other podcasts. Maybe
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a couple just very rare. >> I love it. So, we were able to we were very lucky a little while ago on the
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podcast to do Paul McCartney, which is a thrill. And then to get Ringo was a double thrill. Yeah. Uh I will say that
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uh nervous. Um, of course there's some when you're with one of the Beatles and
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I know at a certain point someone like Ringo Paul is like they haven't had it
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with the Beatles thing but you know it just it's like talking about something
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forever forever but lovely dude super cool um looks great and I don't want to
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sound like Kelly Ripa but looks great. She got in trouble for telling a guest that. um and such a magnificently huge
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star and you play the drums which I mentioned a Ringo during it. I didn't want to put you on the spot. I just
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wanted to say that someone like you >> will look for more things than someone
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like me when you watch a good drummer and you know every Beatles song back and forth. I think he appreciates that.
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>> Right. and the the because of back channels and people working for us trying to get Ringo for a long time and
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landing him and then we we found out it was about going to be about 20 minutes. So it was sort of like okay what do I
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ask in these 20 minutes because I I could have gone for three hours. Um but to your point you know you don't really
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know till you see someone in person. So, we saw Ringo in person. >> Sharp as attack,
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>> voice really strong, moves really well. So, it's like this guy is like, you
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know, and has a new album out, which we talk about a lot, which is great. Um, >> so yeah, I was a little hyperbolic. I
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was a little amped up. I was trying to calm down. You'll see. I was a little
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and I kind of apologized to him, you know. >> Well, it's too exciting. Like I I was
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just, you know, I go on these things like where it's old celebrities, old Hollywood things they sell and things
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that are cool. And recently there was Beatles stuff and that's such a fun one.
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I think you have a signed Beatles album and uh >> Yep. me. >> Which is unbelievable. Unbelievably cool
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to have all four Beatles on there and I was looking cuz I thought, "Oh, I wonder
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if I could get anything." And then I knew it was going to be out of my range
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and then they just said, "Uh, the ring." You would have loved those superstar
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drums from I think Ed Sullivan show. >> It was the the kick drum cover which was
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preserved perfectly and it says you know meet the Beatles or the Beatles >> the Beatles
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>> and it's an iconic kind of thing >> and that one from one early early
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probably Ed Sullivan went for 2 million or something >> 2.3 after starting the bid 500,000. Yes,
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that would have been out from the get-go. And they sold John Lennon's >> piano that he wrote,
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>> Lucy in the Sky and Sergeant Pepper. And I don't even know what that went for.
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But all that stuff, it's all one of a kind. It's all so interesting. And
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anything to do with the Beatles, they tell me, sells >> so well. So exciting.
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>> And a guy that's part of history. I met him years ago at the MTV Awards.
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>> We did a sketch where I played the receptionist. Remember that when I was
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doing that on SNL, you are condescending disregarding. >> And so we had people coming into the MTV
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Awards that year. I don't think it was the year you hosted. I think >> it was one of the other years. And then
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>> yeah, Ringo came in >> and then we got Ringo to come up and I had to go, why would I know you and
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you're in the music world, which I don't listen to many. And so he was a great
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sport. But I don't know if he would remember that because uh but of course I
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did. And then oh, you know what we'll show Heather? I ran into him about six
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months ago. Our stupid manager gith, "Hey, I got a little party. Freddy Veter, you want to come by?"
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>> Eddie says, "Come by." So, it was a birthday party. And when I walked in,
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I'm on the stairs to the backyard and Ringo's there and I'm like, "Holy shit."
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And he turned around and took a picture with his friends and I [ __ ] whipped in and photobombed it.
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>> Oh, that's right. Yeah. >> And then they left. >> And then I told Gervitz that we're
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having on. He goes, "Did you ever see that picture? didn't you photobomb and
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he sent it to me so we'll put it up uh so you can see it and it's super stupid
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but great time also we can say this that during the interview I know you love this too when he starts explaining
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drumming and he starts doing it on his knees and his feet his feet are going and we're like mesmerized well there is
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it's on YouTube there's a guy who goes Ringo I can play anything Ringo can play
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Ringo's easy and so he has this song act naturally where the high hat is going 16
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time or 94 hits a minute. It's like and then he sings the same time. So that
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bringing that up led him to do a little very quick slap rhythm thing that you'll
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see. And that was like, oh my god, he's he's he's got timing. I I just want to
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put it in context for people. The thing about us Beetle fanatics, and there's
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millions of us, is because what they did in like six and a half years is still hard to comprehend. And who did what?
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So, at one point I did I we were talking about that and then he's he'll he'll
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bring up a song. I don't know if I should mention it, but I had some questions about a song called Come
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Together. And his uh answer to that is uh really uh you >> sort of gave me the chills, little
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goosebumps. Not to overstate it, but it was very cool. >> You'll love it because he does a little
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act out with it and it kind of says it all. And so for me, uh, I knew Ringo was the perfect drummer for the Beatles. I
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didn't know the extent of his talent in in the moment, like that. He hears the
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song and he's not suffering over it or thinking much. He just a lot of his stuff was spontaneous. And that so that
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was really cool to learn that after all these years. And that's why we're still
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obsessed with the Beatles. What did John Lennon do? What did Ringo do? What was the relationship? We had the Get Back
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documentary, but there's still a lot of questions. So, >> yeah, the Get Back documentary. I think
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if you're into music at all, it's just so [ __ ] riveting to me that out of
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the blue, the arguably the greatest band in the world. And then you get to see they don't know what it's their last
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album. They don't know it. It's their last concert. And how they got along
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intricate in full color, fully miked. It's shocking. That was just sitting there. And then
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>> everything you're seeing they're trying to put songs together that you know now
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and they're doing like some was it something that George Harrison's working
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on he's like la like they're not they don't know the words yet but you do
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because you know the final product and you think oh my god this is really how they make it how they put it together
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and Ringo with the coolest name out there one of the coolest names nicknames his name is Richard Starky I think
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that's >> how do you how cool is it I don't know how it went from Richard Starky to Ringo
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star. I mean, it's like the greatest name transition. >> Somebody made a good call there because
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it's so much more memorable. >> Uh, I was going to ask him. Here's why I
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didn't ask him. Uh, they met Elvis and I had watched the night before that he was asked about
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meeting Elvis, which I two of my favorites and he said, you know, the Beatles were going through so much up
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and down and so much craziness >> when they met Elvis at his house. It was
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uh they felt for him because he was going through the same thing, but there was only one of him and there was four
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Beatles and they got to like share their experience and relate to each other like, "Well, at least we're all in the
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same hotel. Should we get out of here?" Elvis was one. He had his friends, but
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they weren't like super talent geniuses like the Beatles were. And so I was going to say that house I heard was way
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up on Hillrest. And is that the house? Cuz I used to live kind of up there. And I was always
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told that was Elvis's house. I was like, "Is that the one you guys met at?" Cuz I
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was very interested. No one else would give a fat [ __ ] But I didn't cuz I had
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one left. But then when he we kept him over 20 for sure, rudely. But he went right into a BBC and I think that was
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his only other interview >> and we didn't see him and I was like, "Shit." Oh, so great though. While we
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had him, >> uh, to your point, the Beatles, uh, when they came out, they were like exotic
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insects. And I didn't even get into this, but John F. Kennedy had just been assassinated and was really kind of and
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then they came out with their accents and their haircuts and Paul McCartney said they'd be in the hotel room before
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Ed Sullivan and they take out we take out a little suits, you know, the little black suits. We put on a little ties and
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said, "There we there we are a foreheaded monster." So when the Beatles
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would do a press conference and the press would try to be snarky, they would just go, "I just got my haircut
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yesterday." You just completely made fun of them. They were just like rockstar
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Markx brothers. But Elvis was up there kind of sweating and tortured by himself. Well, I don't know exactly how
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to answer that, Colonel. And he had Colonel Tom Parker. So, poor Elvis, you know,
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>> someone taking advantage of him instead of like three guys or four guys that are
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equal that are all just so great in their own way. >> It just and the wit. One of the press
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said, uh, uh, what's the secret to what you're doing? And Lennon said, "Well, if
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we knew, we'd create a band and become their managers." You know, that is true.
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>> I mean, they were all like this. And Ringo, too. All of them were just snappy, funny, and um anyway, it was
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just so >> we have to say we we'll we'll we'll throw it to Ringo here, but we went to a
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undisclosed hotel. We were nervous. We got there. We walked around and then he came up and uh super unassuming.
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>> I didn't know, you know, in a way sometimes it's you just don't know how
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to compliment people who have heard it all and been famous this long, but you still just want to say it anyway, you
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know. And >> I made sure that I I took a picture of the lyric sheet of one of it lyrics of
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one of the songs he wrote and said, "That's a great lyric." And you would,
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you know, and I don't know, Ringo can't go, "Oh, yeah." You know, it's like I
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mean anyway, but you still can't help but gush a little bit sometimes when you
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meet people that you know, I was saw him when I was eight years old playing the drums and said that's what I'm going to
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do. >> I see that when people walk up to me and I know they've seen benchwarmers. It's
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pretty much the same thing. So, they were they're nervous, they're sweating.
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Uh but when I think he just wanted to be like, "Oh, these guys are funny. I've
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seen them and stuff and I want to do a fun one. I don't want to get like these
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heavy questions. I just want to goof around. And he's a very light guy on his
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feet. So, >> I think he liked the idea that it wasn't like a super serious
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>> 60 minutes. >> It wasn't dark or serious. It was more inquisitive. But, uh he's he gets uh I
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think he enjoyed it. I know I did. >> Yeah. Had a great time. So, I think we
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can throw it to him. Here's uh the man in question and the guy we were all excited about, Ringo.
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We got to interview uh uh Paul McCartney. >> Oh yeah, >> I met him once.
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>> He said that you guys used to sit down for a plunker. You know, >> I love the way he
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>> looks like a plunk. >> He's a plunker. >> The humility with the catalog is so You
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guys are both very humble. >> Oh, yes, we are. >> Poor Rainbow. >> I thought the Beatles were good. But I'm
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going to It's a hot. >> I've got to live in LA. I'm so humble.
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>> I love LA. >> Are we always recording productions? >> Yes. Okay, good. Because we don't have a
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half apple. >> Let me get it going. >> So Richard Starky. >> Those are I think your tour dates.
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>> Love the album. Heard everything. And I'm going to give you specific examples
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of what I love. >> Choose uh She's Gone. Heartbreaking. He's gone.
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>> Heartbreaking. Yeah. Choose love. Another one of your calls. >> No matter what you choose, choose love.
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>> This is perfect. You guys are rolling. Okay. Uh, wave of love. Got to pay your
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dues if you want to sing the blues. >> Yeah, cuz you know it don't come easy.
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>> That's not on this album. >> It don't come easy. Do you got act
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naturally? I was that on this album or earlier? >> Yeah, much earlier. >> Okay.
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>> Like 68. uh 68, >> but not that early. >> Okay, here's a lyric that you wrote. I'm
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just starting with this stuff because I love specific >> Well, you know, T-Bone wrote most of
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this record. >> Well, I think the long long road, didn't you? >> Long long road I wrote with Bruce Sugar.
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>> This is a quote. Yeah, with Bruce. Yeah, this is a quote from or one of the I
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guess the chorus. I don't know. You guys have courses and stuff. So, anyway,
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don't be attached to your thoughts. Let them come in. Let them go. There was a
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night I was on my own. I was feeling pretty low. when things have changed since you came
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back. Oh, yeah. Things have changed. Now things have changed. It came back to me.
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Without your love, I'm drowning >> in the deep blue sea. >> Yeah.
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>> Which is interesting. You didn't go to a dark sea. Just deep. >> No, I went to a deep blue sea. Uh
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>> anyway, >> you know, I love oceans, but uh you know, it was you, you know, just as
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you're going through life, you learn certain things. And one of them was pointed out to me years and years ago
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said, you know, let the thoughts come in, >> right? >> But let them go out, you know, cuz
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mainly we sit around and for three days we're like, oh, >> you know, when I used to sit down on one
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seat, 25 in here, 25 people all had something to say. And now I'm getting up
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there five. And you said your playing's kind of more emotional or more in the moment or
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>> on the last album and this one I assume. >> Well, I think because it's country.
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>> Yeah. >> You know, and I come from very early country. Yeah. >> And you know, there was like the wife's
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left, the dog's dead, or I don't have enough money for the jukebox. >> David, it's your life.
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>> That's from my book. >> Yeah. Anyway, that's Yeah. You know,
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that sort of bit. So yeah, I think you know there's the she's gone and >> things happen and it's good, you know,
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and like the all the early country singers was all had a bit of, you know, >> downer in it.
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>> Yeah, sure. >> Right. But it's very very emotional. But yeah, it works great. The album is
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beautiful. >> Anyway, I love it because I love country, but I love the blues. I love
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Mottown. I love, you know, Al Green and uh Eddie Cochran, you know, I >> I was asked one time like to do that
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thing where you the best movie, the best record, the >> I we have to stop. I can't answer these
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question, right? >> Because I say one film and then oh god, >> a record. I love a thousand records.
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>> One thing that's run through my mind lately, you know, and of course my
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Beatles, the Beatles, your Beatles. Yeah. >> Like, wow. Is is What's Going On by
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Marvin Gay kind of a work of genius? It's one of the greatest songs ever. >> Yeah. Well, for you.
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>> I Well, and he sold three million. I mean, >> yeah. Yeah. No, he's I loved Marvin K.
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>> Yeah. When you do >> I love Johnny Ray. >> Yeah, of course.
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>> Did you ever hear him? >> Absolutely. >> Before your time. >> No. No. We go way back.
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>> Cry. Frankie Lane. >> Frankie Lane. Yeah. >> I loved his power. So he was like they
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were the last two before like groups came in and this the music started to change.
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>> Yeah. And you still have this great voice and it's it's very distinct and
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bluesy. >> Um so it's all right there and I love the mix right in the drums are the sound
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is great really tight >> you know. So anyway, great album. >> And when you do a new album and you have
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sort of at your fingertips, I can't imagine any musician that wouldn't want
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to kind of jump in with you. Uh is it do you just call people and say, "Hey, you
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want to come and jump in on this with us >> when I'm doing a regular album?" Yeah.
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>> Yeah. I call around and um but this with >> T-Bone, >> T-Bone introduced me to all the country
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people, you know, Molly and Billy and you know, everyone who's on it. >> Sure.
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>> And cuz last year with the other album, we did a big show. >> Okay.
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>> And we got to say hi, but not really hang out. So, yeah, it's been a really
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great experience. Billy Strings is on it. Billy Strings is on on both of them. Good older Billy.
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>> Good old Billy. He's learning how to play the guitar. >> He's now what is he now? 14.
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>> Yeah. Yeah. He's a junior in high school. I think he's on the gymnastics
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team. >> He is fast. >> He is like that that kind of guy. Um so the Beatles um my questions. Did you
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ever was there a moment early on where John and Paul would bring in a song and it you kind of said, "Oh my god, we're
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we're working with geniuses. I mean, this is not normal." And I don't know
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what song it might have been, but there must there was a moment where was like, "Oh, the mop top blah blah blah." And
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then it was like, "Oh, wait a minute." Because it was so much. >> Well, I think we all changed.
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>> You know, we were these pop stars and played clubs. I played I played weddings, whatever any chance you could
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at Rory >> and the Eddie Clayton group. I was only in three bands. >> So I did really well.
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>> So did the other two do really well, too. >> Well, they did well in Liverpool.
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>> Yeah. Okay. >> You know, that was it. >> Yeah. >> And uh not outside and Rory, we were
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like >> in Liverpool as the top band, but >> spreading ourselves a little outside.
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And then with the Beatles, we were big in Liverpool and then we went way outside.
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>> Graham Nash, I got to talk to him once about you guys. I think it was 62 or
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three at the at the cavern and you all came in with long leather jackets and he said that just there was a vibe in the
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air like everybody knew something special was happening. >> Yeah. >> Well, I think that was before I joined.
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>> Do you never had a long leather jacket? >> No. >> Could we get people a long leather
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jacket? I haven't such a long leather jacket makes me today. >> I think you I think I read you saw uh
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the other three guys and you said this is the front I want. This is a wall in front of me that I is better than what I
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have even >> well I met them like hi how are you doing in Liverpool >> and then we went to Germany and they
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were booked first into this other club and we were into the club with Rory >> and then the Kashmir the guy won both of
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them put us both on the same stage. >> Oh really? >> And so at weekends we'd play eight hours
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between two bands. >> Oh wow. really play. But I loved >> the front line.
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>> Yeah. >> I I just loved it. >> Was Was it the charm and >> was they were great
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>> and the harmonies were great. It was just a great feel from it, you know.
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>> And uh they you know in those days when Brian called to say hello, >> would you join the Beatles? I said yeah.
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I said I said when he said oh this evening we were at you know playing a three-month gig with Rory said I can't
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leave them today. >> Yeah >> got to give him time to get another drummer so I left Saturday I can leave
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tomorrow everybody all the drummers and most of the players in those day we all played the same songs.
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>> Sure. >> Right. I went on stage once and two three bands gig and uh two of the
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drummers just by chance didn't turn up. So I put a jacket on and played with
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you. Sorry. And then you came on with your band and I just played with you. Then you came on with your band.
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>> I just didn't get up all night. There's a great interview with Paul where he
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mentions I don't know if it was from the documentary in the 90s just when you
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joined and when you kicked in in the back like it was just a whole other and I can see I often thought like because
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you have heavy foot and heavy hands like you have inordinately really big hands >> strong. Yeah. Well, look at these.
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>> They look big to you. >> Yeah. Strong hands because you just you really brought that
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>> Yeah. But I lower slightly. >> Yeah. But you still have power. >> It's all in there.
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>> Dana plays drums, so he knows more about the drum stuff than I do. >> Not as good, obviously. He's hard.
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>> No, I But >> but he looks at it from a different lens than most people.
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>> I just love the quirkiness of the way you played. Um, you didn't all go to the
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splash when you think you would go to the splash at the you just got but you don't do the splash. You know,
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>> this first guy to do that, you go to the floor, Tom, a lot >> on the course. I love the depth.
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>> Yeah. >> of the toms. That's why I always love that. >> And uh you know, so the snare is is
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deep. >> Mhm. >> Cuz you know, I had one I played for years that had a hole in it and I just
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put chewing gum in it. It lasted five years, you know. >> Yeah. >> Far out. Oh, it's all so technical now,
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you know, just a skin with a hole in it and a snare on a lot of Beatle records. Are there some harder harder than
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others? Like even me, I don't play the drums, but when I play along in my card,
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something like Ticket to Ride, I never get it right. Like just a tough, >> you know, are there certain ones that
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are tougher than others? >> Uh, they are, but you know, I was guessing. >> It seemed to work.
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>> Yeah. I mean, you you know, if you saw that huge documentary, Peter Jackson
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twice ago. >> Oh, yeah. Cuz he found 56 hours of unused stuff. >> It's so crazy, you know.
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Um, you know, I'm sort of I I called him like a year later because on uh get back
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>> how did I get to that sort of marchy thing? >> Anyway, so he he found footage and I'm
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like get back and then he found a cut then sort of next job and then it cuts to And I said, "How did I get to that?"
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>> Riveting. >> How? I don't know. >> And but we didn't find the actual piece
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that showed me. >> It's just amazing when you was that naturally like 16th time or 94 beats a
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sec. I mean, it was so fast. >> Yeah. >> And then you're singing and that's just
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a rare thing that >> Well, that's Boys. >> Well, boys singing. >> Yeah. Boys was considered hard rock to
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me when I was like 10 years old. My brother, I had the older brothers. They said, "The Beatles got this new song
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called Boys Raino Singing, Man." I mean, it was hard rock, >> but that was an old song.
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>> I know. >> And it was actually done by a girl band, a girl vocal group
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>> and I just loved the loved it, you know, who cares? And >> I didn't think you're talking about
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boys. They're talking about boys. >> Yeah. >> Oh, okay. >> Yeah. So, I was Hey, I'm doing it
00:24:21
anyway, right? you know, >> sounds like celebrating. >> I like this song.
00:24:25
>> I never knew >> because with Rory, I used to have ring called Star Time.
00:24:28
>> So, I'd have like five songs >> and that was one of them. >> God, it's so I could talk to you all
00:24:34
day, but there's something I listen to recently that it just blows my mind every time because the leap between I
00:24:41
guess it was rubber soul revolver in there somewhere. you did Strawberry Fields and it that that last two minutes
00:24:47
where you're doing this marching drum and it fades away and comes back is so
00:24:54
magical and I don't know if it's overdub but it sounded like a marching band
00:24:58
>> or >> I did very little overdub. >> Mhm. So you did it all by yourself. We
00:25:03
just play it through. And I mean the the first time we'd play it would be great
00:25:08
because we'd all be sort of like >> making it up. And sometimes, >> you know, you could sit there all year
00:25:14
and you wouldn't have got what you just made up. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. >> So that's how it works. Pretty free.
00:25:20
Beautiful. >> There's not any uh memory of mine of like, oh, you can't do that in my song.
00:25:24
You know, >> oh, you can do that. >> I don't know if there's, you know, in um
00:25:29
>> come together. Just let me finish the story. Just let me finish the story. So
00:25:33
we're going we went to another studio just to get out of Abby Road. >> Yeah.
00:25:38
>> And come together and I was on drums. John was sort of sitting over there on
00:25:42
the floor and he had the guitar and it was like >> what he's playing. >> Um and so I just sort of went
00:25:55
and he goes, >> "Oh, >> oh yeah. Oh my god. I never read that story.
00:26:03
>> You just surprised him with it and you just did it in two. >> We hadn't done it before that minute.
00:26:08
>> Don't >> when we like set up and see what's happening. >> Wow. That's
00:26:12
>> you know so it just came. >> You know the two things I'm blessed with
00:26:16
is that I don't play a lot. >> I keep good time. >> It's all in here.
00:26:22
>> Well, it's all in here. >> Okay. >> It's all in the star.
00:26:27
So when you uh when uh >> that is a great story. I I love that. >> That gave me the chills actually. Paul
00:26:33
>> what >> when you leave and you I think you're all doing solo stuff um and you do
00:26:38
photograph and some of these big hits. Do they call is it is it you're still
00:26:42
talking a lot or you're kind of doing your own thing but they must have to acknowledge like holy [ __ ] these are
00:26:46
rippers. Well, if you you know, if you look at the Ringo album and this the next album I did with um I just died,
00:26:55
God bless him. >> Richard Perry. >> Richard Perry. >> Yeah. Um it's it's it's like an allstar
00:27:02
band because you know I've got the band. John came and played it wrote a song and
00:27:07
played George to come into town. It was never planned >> and oh he's in the same town so come on
00:27:14
over. >> You know we act like Dr. Dawn and half of the band and you know it was great.
00:27:23
>> Well, I'd like to make an observation >> is that you've inordinately popular with
00:27:27
your peers. You're just really popular. I mean, everybody wanted to play with
00:27:31
you. >> I mean, that's kind of you are popular. >> Yeah, I am. >> And you were the anchor of the Beatles.
00:27:37
We saw that documentary and you were kind of the the peace and love. >> Well, they were wild, those boys.
00:27:43
>> Crazy. >> Had to keep them steady. If they couldn't sing, you'd throw them in the
00:27:47
trash. >> Yeah. >> Next. >> Who else you got? But it is it is nice
00:27:53
that all these years you people come, they want to play with you. >> Yeah. You know,
00:27:58
>> well, I play on >> probably around about 10 people's tracks. >> Okay.
00:28:04
>> And I send it back, you know, send the files. I do it in my kit because I know
00:28:08
it. >> Yeah. >> And I say, "Use me or lose me because I may not have played what you wanted, you
00:28:14
know." Sure. >> So, it only ever happened once. >> Well, like you said, they they the guys
00:28:20
wouldn't tell you what to do and you would add it and they'd say, "This is
00:28:22
great." That's kind of a good freedom to have. >> One thing fascinates me. I'm sorry. I'll
00:28:27
try to be slow down, but she's so heavy when you guys were playing that and then
00:28:32
there was a complaint. This on the tapes from Revolver. You can't, you know, got
00:28:37
to calm down the music. They're saying this and they're like, "Us now we have
00:28:40
to play." So Lennon said, "John, let's do one more loud and then we'll play it
00:28:44
softer after this." But that long jam and then that where that song went and
00:28:49
you guys went into that really cool jam and you were doing this kind of with the
00:28:53
toms kind of in part is so fantastic. I don't know if you listen to this stuff.
00:28:57
>> Well, yeah, not every day, but yeah, you know, things just happened. That's how
00:29:03
it was. And like, you know, they say it's your birthday is a jam. >> Yeah. We were just jamming and then it
00:29:09
turned into like a rhythm pattern and Paul was always great. He'd jump in, you
00:29:14
know. >> Yeah, >> he would. He was reading something in the paper about somebody's birthday. And
00:29:20
that's how it gave him the hook. You know, they say it's your birthday. >> Second only to Happy Birthday.
00:29:26
Absolutely. It's nice to hear your rhythm section with Paul when they did the re uh
00:29:32
reissues and some of the remixes because we're listening to you guys on Transistor radios in the 60s. You know,
00:29:37
>> you listen more than I do. >> He knows a lot. >> There's a lot of me and in Hollywood a
00:29:42
lot of us were on email text changes. >> Anyway, I've got a new record out.
00:29:46
>> Yeah. >> Long long road which is fantastic. It's pure Ringo. I recommend you go out and
00:29:52
buy it. Pre-sold. It comes out April. A lot of good tracks and T-Bone Bernette produced it and a lot of it's done in
00:29:59
Nashville and a lot of it's done in my studio. >> Wait a minute. Hold on.
00:30:05
>> Oh, look at >> Oh, you've got a copy of this birthday. >> You know, I don't have a copy.
00:30:10
>> There's the first one. >> Must be on the way. Yeah, that's great.
00:30:13
>> Look at how cool that is. >> That's hip. So, you're gonna have an LP
00:30:16
out. >> Yeah. Long, long road >> vinyl Ringo Star. >> There you go.
00:30:21
>> Yeah. >> Mhm. >> This house is in LA. It's a why T-Bone
00:30:25
heard about it. We went to do the forest with Henry Duls and uh it's the craziest
00:30:31
house you've ever been in. >> Where is that? >> Where is up the hills?
00:30:35
>> Where is it? >> Do you remember the address? >> Up in the hills.
00:30:38
>> Up in the hills is not knowing the address. >> A crazy hill home.
00:30:42
>> Yeah, but you know who knew? >> Well, you look cool in that purple
00:30:46
shirt, by the way. >> I know. Everybody talks now about this job. >> The shirt's bigger than the record. It
00:30:52
gets you in the building and then you'll >> That's from those days. You know that
00:30:56
shirt. >> Those days >> meaning, >> you know, those old days >> all those other days.
00:31:00
>> Long time ago. >> Let me see. >> There you go. >> If they put it in here, too.
00:31:04
>> Let's see if they did it right. >> No, I want to see if they Oh, no.
00:31:07
They're just get Oh, there it is. Look. In those other days. >> Oh. Oh. Oh, yeah.
00:31:11
>> Oh. Oh, yeah. Yeah. >> Wait. Speaking of house. >> But anyway.
00:31:17
>> Oh, everyone says, "Oh, man. I love that shirt. So I say, "Good."
00:31:23
>> Yeah. I really >> You can't have it. >> Come on. You got four minutes.
00:31:27
>> Baby don't go. Baby don't go. Baby is such a great one minute. One minute.
00:31:30
>> And in in the course you do tomtoms. >> Yeah. >> So you're back full circle
00:31:35
>> and they're perfect. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> You know, I do, you know, it's no big
00:31:40
plan. You send me the song, I'll sit behind the kit >> and I'll listen to it once and then
00:31:47
we'll play it. And I usually now do two takes cuz that's enough. >> It's got it all there.
00:31:54
>> So sometimes, you know, when we do the the verse and we get to the chorus.
00:32:00
>> Mhm. >> Okay. I'll do it that way. And then when we get to the next chorus, you know, I
00:32:05
may come in like a beat late or earlier or whatever happens in here. >> Yeah. And I've never been able to, you
00:32:13
know, oh, double that, you know, double what you >> I can't do that. >> I do it at the moment of the emotion.
00:32:20
>> It's weird, but I just cannot do it twice the same. >> I can do this all day. Fingerprint bomb.
00:32:30
>> I mean, tomorrow never knows. I guess it's legendary. >> Yeah, legendary.
00:32:35
>> You're very humble, man. But you couldn't make a mistake. Then they have
00:32:38
to start over, right? I mean, it's kind of extra extra. >> Yeah. Well, we didn't, so we're lucky.
00:32:45
Yeah. I mean, that's the the the drag really with some of those reissues. >> Yeah.
00:32:51
>> Like they'll say, "Oh, take nine." >> So you, you know, everyone thinks that
00:32:55
it's that long, >> right? >> Where usually like take nine was two,
00:32:58
three, four, >> one, two, three, four, you know, come on in. It only got as far as the counting.
00:33:05
Yeah. Yeah. >> Yeah. I was lighting a cigarette or something. I don't know.
00:33:08
>> Yeah. >> Well, your allstar band. I've seen it in the past. I'll see it again. You're on
00:33:12
tour. Uh starting pretty soon. >> We're at the Greek. >> The Greek,
00:33:17
>> you know. So, we started Humphre. I love that game. >> I've played there a lot.
00:33:21
>> I played too. I love it. >> And I shout at the guys in the yachts.
00:33:27
>> Oh, yeah. Bastards. Wouldn't even buy a ticket. >> Oh, they come in and listen. That's
00:33:33
right. gamage in Arizona where I'm from. >> No, I still like to be with the
00:33:37
audience. >> Yeah. >> Well, that's a tight little amphitheater. You think there's no roof,
00:33:40
but it just feels very good. And I'm going to play it in in November if you're around,
00:33:46
>> you know. >> Are you going home for >> I'm going to play Humphrey's November.
00:33:49
>> You're booking already for November. >> You're all locked up for November.
00:33:53
>> Well, it was kind of like these other dates didn't work at November. It's kind
00:33:56
of outdoors. It might be cold. And I said, "Hell with it." Ringo would do it.
00:34:00
Ringo would do it. >> Yeah. Rain. Rain or storms. I don't care. >> You don't go play.
00:34:05
>> Thank you. >> And I tell everybody, if there's three people turn up to see us, we'll play.
00:34:10
>> I've one of the allstar bands, we were playing uh Denver. >> Mhm.
00:34:16
>> And uh the monitors went out. Every one of them. Well, we can't play. I said,
00:34:23
"What? What? What do you mean you can't play? We'll have to listen to the amps
00:34:27
and listen to, you know, what people are doing." >> Right. >> And we did the show. I'm not stopping
00:34:32
just cuz you can't hear the monitor cuz everyone has a different monitor these
00:34:36
days. Y >> Anyway, we played the gig and to a man they said, >> "Oh, that was great."
00:34:43
>> You never know. Sometimes the monitors can throw you off. If they're too loud,
00:34:47
then you don't push it. Anyway, I know you have to go, but one last qu No, I've
00:34:51
never >> I do have to go, but it's been good seeing you guys. Good seeing you. Good
00:34:55
luck with your album, Long Road. And um >> what do you play? >> I don't just mumble jokes. Okay.
00:35:01
>> He plays with He plays with girls. >> Okaybody. >> Thank you.
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