Ringo Starr recently celebrated his 83rd birthday on tour in America with other, similarly mature, musicians. Through facebook I recently found the following tribute, where whoever posted it fail to post the name of the author... No matter, the author is right about Ringo as a musician, however much we might wish that John Lennon lived to record and release as many solo albums as Ringo has, thus far; a mere twenty studio albums, eleven live albums, and four EPs....
"Ringo always got, and still gets, a unique sound out of his drums. His drums are as distinctive as his voice. Ringo gets a looser deeper sound out of his drums than others get, that is unique to him. The detailed attention to the tone of his drums is one of the reasons for Ringo's brilliance. Another reason for the looser deeper sound is that Ringo does not keep time with metronomic accuracy. He has an unrivalled feel for a song. When his timing fluctuates it invariably does so in the right place at the right time in the song. He keeps the right atmosphere going on the track and gives it a rock-solid foundation. This held true for every single Beatles number Richie played. Ringo was also a great tom tom player."
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