WEBVTT - #495 - Ringo Starr on How He Got His Name, When He Was Introduced to Music, Stories About Playing All Night in Liverpool + Bobby, Eddie & Mike Discuss Most Influential Bands 0:00:07.040 --> 0:00:08.240 While didn't the factory. 0:00:08.360 --> 0:00:10.600 That's when it came I want to play, I want 0:00:10.600 --> 0:00:13.680 to play, and we got this three month gig. So 0:00:14.160 --> 0:00:17.639 I decided I'm leaving the factory, and all of my 0:00:17.840 --> 0:00:22.600 family came to all house to tell me it's all right. 0:00:22.760 --> 0:00:25.440 It's a hobby Stone. 0:00:26.480 --> 0:00:30.440 Welcome to Episode four ninety five. Ringo star Ringo, Star 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:33.120 of the Beatles, Ringo, Star of the Beatles. 0:00:33.560 --> 0:00:35.639 What it feels like? Give me just saying his name? 0:00:35.840 --> 0:00:38.760 That was? That was a little weird, surreal, really cool, 0:00:39.000 --> 0:00:39.760 all those things, right. 0:00:39.760 --> 0:00:41.920 Yeah, it felt like a dream until he was sitting down. 0:00:43.159 --> 0:00:47.479 Yeah, it just it didn't seem like real life because 0:00:47.479 --> 0:00:51.080 that's somebody who's been so wildly famous for so much 0:00:51.120 --> 0:00:54.200 longer than we've even been alive, which is pretty crazy. 0:00:54.600 --> 0:00:59.960 And so what was weird for me was the more 0:01:00.320 --> 0:01:03.240 that he was coming over. I think somehow word got out. 0:01:03.400 --> 0:01:06.440 Did I say outwardly that he was coming over to 0:01:06.480 --> 0:01:08.880 my house like on the show anywhere? 0:01:09.959 --> 0:01:10.720 I don't think so. 0:01:10.920 --> 0:01:14.200 I know I did in the studio, but there were 0:01:14.280 --> 0:01:17.000 executives even within our company that wanted to come to 0:01:17.040 --> 0:01:18.120 my house and meet Ringo. 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:19.840 Did that get to you? 0:01:19.880 --> 0:01:20.000 No? 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:23.160 I didn't hear about that, and usually I'll be pretty 0:01:23.160 --> 0:01:31.360 diplomatic and hey can't or occasionally okay, But there was 0:01:31.400 --> 0:01:33.479 no way I was gonna have anybody extra there for Ringo, 0:01:33.560 --> 0:01:36.840 just out of respect, because he's so famous that I'm 0:01:36.840 --> 0:01:39.160 sure that happens all the time, and so I just 0:01:39.200 --> 0:01:41.960 had to hit him with straight no period in texts. 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:44.240 And then later I went back and was like, hey, sorry, 0:01:44.280 --> 0:01:46.640 I wasn't able to get to the text. We just 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:47.720 couldn't have a lot of people in. 0:01:48.480 --> 0:01:49.240 But I thought I was. 0:01:50.920 --> 0:01:55.400 Courageous to text two hours out from Ringo. Also, I 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:57.160 don't even really know these people that well, and they're like, 0:01:57.160 --> 0:01:58.559 can I come to your house and meet Ringo? 0:01:58.800 --> 0:02:00.280 Like both of those things felt a little weird. 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:01.280 That's a wild ass. 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:03.120 It's a wild ass. Yeah, it's a wild ask. 0:02:03.160 --> 0:02:05.080 And he came in with like security too, so you 0:02:05.120 --> 0:02:07.000 wouldn't want extra people around him. 0:02:07.120 --> 0:02:10.799 So I never saw security, and so you can tell 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:13.240 me what happened. So they pull up to the house 0:02:13.280 --> 0:02:15.160 and like a was it a big black suv that. 0:02:15.680 --> 0:02:18.960 TV like fully tanted windows, and the first person who 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:21.799 gets out is like this huge bodyguard and like a 0:02:21.919 --> 0:02:22.799 Navy seal hat. 0:02:22.880 --> 0:02:23.760 He looked hardcore. 0:02:24.480 --> 0:02:27.840 Now, he didn't follow Ringo down to the studio because 0:02:27.880 --> 0:02:28.960 I never saw that guy, no. 0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:30.800 Which I was surprised. I thought maybe he would escort 0:02:30.840 --> 0:02:32.600 him the entire way. But as soon as he saw 0:02:32.639 --> 0:02:35.120 that he was in the house heading back that way, 0:02:35.320 --> 0:02:35.919 he was good. 0:02:35.960 --> 0:02:38.520 Are you sure that wasn't just a really buff uber driver. 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:39.600 No, he was not. 0:02:40.000 --> 0:02:40.799 He had a driver. 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:42.839 And then the security guy. 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:44.680 Well, it was kind of weird too because it had 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:49.440 just rained, snowed, iced all things that got super cold. 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:53.320 So my property is not like a real studio where 0:02:53.320 --> 0:02:54.799 people come all the time like we have. It's a 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:57.800 building and we have our studio built. But Ringo's eighty 0:02:57.800 --> 0:03:02.760 four yep. And so we're like, oh crap, it's icy 0:03:02.880 --> 0:03:04.960 all through these different parts. Just to get back to 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:08.600 the studio, Like there are stairs, there's like an entrance 0:03:08.680 --> 0:03:11.280 to the back of the property. It's a path that 0:03:11.360 --> 0:03:15.240 goes downstairs, goes through a gate, all for foot traffic. 0:03:15.960 --> 0:03:19.480 But it was pretty icy in places, and so you 0:03:19.520 --> 0:03:21.440 and I are trying to negotiate how to get him 0:03:21.480 --> 0:03:23.280 back there without stepping on the ice and falling. 0:03:23.560 --> 0:03:25.920 Yeah, there were so many factors going into that. Just 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:27.680 the weather I was like, maybe he won't even come 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:29.480 because of this, And then the ice on the stairs, 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:29.960 I'm like. 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:30.880 We gotta get him in here. 0:03:30.960 --> 0:03:33.760 We were going, anybody have a blanket we can throw 0:03:33.800 --> 0:03:35.480 on the stairs. I was just imagining what if we 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:37.400 like broke the hip of a beetle like that had 0:03:37.440 --> 0:03:40.640 been terrible. So it ends up what we did was 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:42.800 we walked him through the house, which is fine. I 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:45.520 didn't even think about that because for the most part, 0:03:45.880 --> 0:03:47.800 we do no shoes at my house, and so now 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:49.480 I don't walk anybody into the house just for that 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:50.120 reason alone. 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:51.080 I think it was he was like, wh don't we 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:51.720 just bring up to the house. 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:53.000 Yeah, let's just get him in there. 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:53.840 I was like, great point. 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:55.760 We got to make sure the dogs are up, because 0:03:55.800 --> 0:03:57.440 we don't need our My dog's jumping all over. 0:03:57.520 --> 0:03:58.040 Ringo Star. 0:03:58.760 --> 0:04:02.280 So I'm sitting down in the chair and it was 0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:05.680 just him and like two women, like a promo person, 0:04:05.720 --> 0:04:08.280 probably a pr person, and they walked right in and 0:04:08.320 --> 0:04:10.600 he sits down here like, hey, I'm Ringo or whatever 0:04:10.600 --> 0:04:13.080 the impression is. But you have told me don't try 0:04:13.080 --> 0:04:14.560 to shake his hand, which is awesome because I don't 0:04:14.600 --> 0:04:15.360 like shaking hands either. 0:04:15.440 --> 0:04:17.000 Yeah, they said, he's like you fist bump. 0:04:17.680 --> 0:04:20.599 So what was funny was I know that I love 0:04:20.640 --> 0:04:21.160 that anyway. 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:24.640 Mostly that's how I'm attempting to touch people through fists 0:04:24.720 --> 0:04:27.320 or elbows or bow. And so he comes in a 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:29.800 fist bump them. Read no one gave him the heads up, 0:04:30.240 --> 0:04:32.560 don't try to shake Ringo's hand. Yeah, And so he 0:04:32.600 --> 0:04:34.600 walks in and read those this big old six foot 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:38.040 three hand at him, Hey, Ringo, and Ringo headed him 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:41.200 with the turkey. Ringo puts the fist into the hand 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:45.120 and so Ringo sits down. You're gonna hear the interview 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:48.719 in just a second. And I felt like he was 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:54.160 a lot nicer, softer, and more generous than I would 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:58.280 have expected, because I'm sure everywhere he goes people are 0:04:58.320 --> 0:05:02.400 clamoring to meet him to get a picture. We also 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:05.240 were a little worried, Hey, what can we not ask? 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:07.320 Yeah, I thought there would be rules. 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:08.760 Because he has this new record out which I spent 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:13.279 time listening to, which I think it's really good because 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:16.240 and I mean this in a way of it's a 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:19.400 simple country record and it sounds like Ringo being Ringo, 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:24.120 but it's probably not as simply made as it was 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:27.440 to hear. Meaning the real brilliance of this is it 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:29.720 feels like, oh wow, this is pretty simple record, but 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:31.240 I'm sure there was so much that went into it. 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:34.440 I really liked it, and I'm not just saying that 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:36.400 because there are a lot of records I just go, hey, 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:40.080 it's out. Because if I don't listen to it a 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:43.359 or I listen to a couple songs, or I don't 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:45.760 like it, it's not my thing. I just won't won't 0:05:45.880 --> 0:05:48.560 give an opinion on it. But I really liked it 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:50.520 because it has Alison Krause on it, it has Larkin 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:54.120 Poe on it. I'm big fans of the Larkin Poet 0:05:54.120 --> 0:05:57.160 sisters and Alison Kraus and Billy Strings. So he found 0:05:57.279 --> 0:06:01.080 kind of that Americana bluegrass feel, and I think that's 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:03.440 from TiVo Burnett, who produced the record. 0:06:04.240 --> 0:06:06.000 But he came in, he. 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:10.080 Sat down, and obviously you want to talk about the Beatles, 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:12.400 but I need to give him a place to get 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:14.479 to the Beatles, so then I can ask questions about 0:06:14.520 --> 0:06:16.480 the Beatles. But as soon as he sits down, before 0:06:16.480 --> 0:06:19.760 we even went on, he was like kids these days, 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:20.760 they they don't. 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:23.280 Have clubs to play in how are they supposed to 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:23.640 get good? 0:06:24.320 --> 0:06:26.560 And so this is why we're like finishing cameras and 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:28.240 you know, getting his people seated. 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:30.400 And so I hear him say that, and you hear 0:06:30.480 --> 0:06:32.719 me go to it where it's hey. 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:35.320 We mentioned that kids don't get to play in clubs 0:06:35.320 --> 0:06:36.840 and get good, and that kind of got us to 0:06:37.000 --> 0:06:37.680 Beatles stuff. 0:06:38.080 --> 0:06:39.719 But he never said, don't talk about the Beatles. No, 0:06:39.920 --> 0:06:40.800 so we definitely did. 0:06:40.800 --> 0:06:42.880 What I found crazy and he'll mention this in a second, 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:44.760 is when he was playing two bands at once and 0:06:44.800 --> 0:06:46.599 he play for six hours and then you go play 0:06:46.600 --> 0:06:48.799 with the Beatles for six hours and play twelve hour days. 0:06:49.200 --> 0:06:49.800 That's wild. 0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:52.040 It was just wild to hear him talk about Beatles 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:56.040 stories when we've only heard people talk about like stories 0:06:56.080 --> 0:06:58.360 of stories. But to hear from the source itself was 0:06:58.520 --> 0:06:59.840 I had a moment where it's like, Wow, this is 0:06:59.839 --> 0:07:02.360 an actual Beatle in here telling Beatles stories. 0:07:02.400 --> 0:07:05.880 Firsthand, I'm pretty jaded, not in a bad way, but 0:07:05.920 --> 0:07:07.560 because I do I do it, and we do it 0:07:07.560 --> 0:07:09.440 a lot where we talk to people that have made 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:13.840 significant impacts on pop culture or country music or they're 0:07:13.840 --> 0:07:17.240 great artists. This was different because this is like a 0:07:17.240 --> 0:07:22.040 real life museum, like the most historical band of all time, 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:24.960 like one of the four people, one of the two. 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:27.760 Alive, and not only that, in your house, Yeah, my house, 0:07:28.160 --> 0:07:28.520 my house. 0:07:28.880 --> 0:07:30.720 I was walking a Beatle through your house. 0:07:30.840 --> 0:07:32.640 Yeah, thank god a dog didn't jump on him, because 0:07:32.640 --> 0:07:34.880 they would have because they don't know the Beatles. Stanley 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:37.280 and Neller don't know the Beatles. Some fun facts about 0:07:37.320 --> 0:07:39.400 Ringo Star before we get to the interview. He joined 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:43.520 the Beatles pretty late, meaning they weren't already famous. But 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:46.040 you may have heard this before. He wasn't an original 0:07:46.080 --> 0:07:47.800 member of the Beatles. He replaced Pete Best as the 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:50.120 drummer in nineteen sixty two, but that was before they 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:55.120 became famous. So that's like Dave Grohl and Nirvana. Dave 0:07:55.200 --> 0:07:57.800 grohls a founding member of Nirvana and all of our 0:07:57.840 --> 0:08:00.480 minds for the most part, because when they got big, 0:08:00.520 --> 0:08:02.480 he was the drummer, like he was the drummer that 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:06.760 did it with them, And so Ringo is that because 0:08:06.760 --> 0:08:10.080 they weren't the Beatles yet until Ringo got there. 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:12.000 Yeah, like Travis Barker Bloken eighty two. 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:15.120 Wait, I don't, I don't, I'm not there, help me. 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:17.680 They had a drummer before him, see I didn't even 0:08:17.720 --> 0:08:17.880 know that. 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:20.240 Yeah, a guy named Scott before they really got famous, 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:21.920 and then Travis joined the band and they got huge. 0:08:23.000 --> 0:08:27.160 Ringo suffered from serious health issues as a kid. He 0:08:27.280 --> 0:08:33.160 had something called parent hmmm, parrotinidis at age six. He 0:08:33.200 --> 0:08:36.240 had tuberculosis at age thirteen, which kept him in the 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:40.080 hospital for long periods. He did sing lead on some 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:43.560 Beatles songs, mainly the drummer, but he's sang lead on 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:46.760 very famous songs like I Get By With the Little 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:51.960 Help from My Friends, Oh, Yellow Submarine, Octopus Garden. We 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:53.959 talked about him being left handed here because he when 0:08:53.960 --> 0:08:57.079 he plays guitar now he plays it right handed and 0:08:57.120 --> 0:08:58.400 I was like, but you're left handed, so we get 0:08:58.400 --> 0:09:00.480 into that conversation. But he's a left handed rumber, but 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:02.920 really wasn't able to play left handed. He was the 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:05.839 first Beatle to release a solo album. His nineteen seventy album, 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:08.680 Sentimental Journey, was the first solo album by a Beatle 0:09:08.760 --> 0:09:12.880 After the band's breakup. He's acted in several films, including 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:16.040 Caveman and That'll Be The Day. Have you seen either 0:09:16.080 --> 0:09:18.600 one of those? As movie Mike no Is that before 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:22.000 your Time, I think so. He's even narrated early episodes 0:09:22.040 --> 0:09:22.920 of Thomas and Friends. 0:09:23.000 --> 0:09:25.120 That's where I knew him from first. The Train that 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:27.079 was my favorite show as a kid, and I remember 0:09:27.160 --> 0:09:28.760 him as the conductor and doing the narration. 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:30.960 He's been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of 0:09:30.960 --> 0:09:34.480 Fame twice, once as a member of the Beatles and 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:36.760 then as a solo artist the Beatles in eighty eight, 0:09:36.840 --> 0:09:38.520 a solo artist in twenty fifteen. 0:09:40.080 --> 0:09:42.160 He says peace and love. 0:09:42.240 --> 0:09:46.000 Peace and love a lot the picture we took because 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:48.520 I don't only touch people in pictures anymore. Just generally speaking, 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:51.040 you'll see that, not just with the Ringo, with anybody. 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:52.960 It's gotten kind of weird too, where like even Dirk 0:09:53.000 --> 0:09:55.360 So I'm friends with, it's like or Matt Carney was 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:56.839 up here, they're like, why you're not touching me? And 0:09:56.840 --> 0:09:58.559 they're like, put their arm over my shoulder. I'm just 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:00.680 getting in the habit and not touching people for the 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:02.280 one or two people that don't want to be touched. 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:05.280 But what Ringo does is he doesn't like to be 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:08.559 touched obviously. Same and he holds a peace sign up 0:10:09.080 --> 0:10:10.520 and so he's holding it up in the picture. So 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:12.720 I do a peace sign. It looks at me and goes, yeah, 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:15.800 that's the ticket, which is pretty funny. Coach is how 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:18.320 nice he was. I'm telling you, I was so surprised. 0:10:18.880 --> 0:10:22.600 He was knighted by the Queen in twenty eighteen, officially 0:10:22.720 --> 0:10:27.520 making him Sir Richard Starkly. He inspired a drumming style. 0:10:28.240 --> 0:10:30.920 It's cool on TikTok now to see a lot of 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:35.480 the young drummers kind of give Ringo credit for a 0:10:35.559 --> 0:10:39.200 bit of a like a avant garde type style within 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:42.960 boundaries and they're like, check this fill out. Ringo doesn't 0:10:43.000 --> 0:10:45.000 get the credit. It's it became like a trending thing 0:10:45.040 --> 0:10:46.040 on TikTok in the last. 0:10:45.960 --> 0:10:47.520 Year and they're like, this is what he could have played, 0:10:47.559 --> 0:10:49.280 but this is what he decided to play. It was 0:10:49.320 --> 0:10:51.280 like so different, Like oh, that sounds amazing. 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:55.120 As a drummer, he has a unique grip. Not a drummer, 0:10:55.160 --> 0:10:57.920 not really familiar with a matched grip or a traditional 0:10:58.040 --> 0:11:01.920 jazz grip, but he did. He'd write some songs. He 0:11:01.960 --> 0:11:04.360 was close with Keith Moon and John Bonham. Keith Moon 0:11:04.800 --> 0:11:08.520 from The Who, John Bonham of led Zeppelin. Those were drummers, 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:11.920 his son to drummer all right. He nearly left the 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:14.920 Beatles during the recording of the White album. Ringo briefly 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:16.920 quit the band due attention, but was convinced to return. 0:11:16.920 --> 0:11:19.280 His bandmates even decorated his drum kit with flowers and 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:21.800 to welcome on back. I have two more. He's a 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:27.440 painter and his drums were stolen. His first Ludwig drum kit, 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:31.240 which became iconic, was stolen in nineteen sixty. It surfaced 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:33.920 decades later and was auctioned offer over two million dollars. 0:11:35.080 --> 0:11:37.079 The buyer Paul McCartney. 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:39.360 We talked to t. 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:41.320 Bone Burnett, who will be in a later episode, and 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:45.000 t Bone said that when he was producing this record, 0:11:45.280 --> 0:11:47.080 he would go to Ringo's house. Ringo has the same 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:49.520 symbols that he had when he played with the Beatles, 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:53.440 and that he's never cleaned them once, so that dust 0:11:53.480 --> 0:11:57.480 and that dirt is from fifty sixty years of just music, 0:11:57.480 --> 0:12:00.960 including the Beatles, which is pretty crazy. T Bone Burnett episode, 0:12:01.040 --> 0:12:02.440 you guys a gonna like two because not only did 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:06.560 he produce his Ringo album, but he did walk the 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:12.880 line h Joaquin Phoenix. We talked about Johnny Cash. He 0:12:12.920 --> 0:12:15.600 did Old Brother, We're out there, Old Brother, We're out Now. 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:17.800 I did that music won tons of Grammies for that. 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:20.319 He produced the Counting Crows record August and everything after 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:22.600 he did the Wallflowers. He brought up the Wallflowers and 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:24.440 I'm like, I got an opening. I'm going in for 0:12:24.440 --> 0:12:25.120 the Counting Crows. 0:12:25.160 --> 0:12:27.360 You're just casually bringing up these huge and yeah, you're like, 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:28.120 wait a minute. 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:30.920 And then we get back to Ringo because he was 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:33.080 a massive Beatles fan, so to him that was super cool. 0:12:33.720 --> 0:12:37.480 And so yeah, T Bone Burnette produced Ringo Star record, 0:12:37.679 --> 0:12:39.320 and we're gonna get to Ringo now, and we're gonna 0:12:39.320 --> 0:12:41.040 come back and talk about some Beatles stuff after the 0:12:41.040 --> 0:12:42.840 interview here because the interview is like thirty five minutes 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:47.320 or so. The album is called Look Up. It's Ringo 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:51.320 Star produced by T Bone Burnett. We talked about some 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:52.760 of the artists that are on with him. 0:12:53.240 --> 0:12:53.960 I really like it. 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:56.000 I think if you're a fan of country music, I 0:12:56.000 --> 0:13:01.520 would say a fan of like seventies and eighties straightforward 0:13:01.520 --> 0:13:06.480 country music, you will like this. I think that's it. 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:07.600 Is there anything else need to say? 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:08.720 I think that's it. Yeah, it's good. 0:13:09.040 --> 0:13:14.160 We'll come back after. But here is Ringo star Ringo. 0:13:14.400 --> 0:13:17.600 Good to see you, Nice to meet you. Pretty pretty 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:18.240 exciting here. 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:19.160 Yeah, thanksful. 0:13:19.520 --> 0:13:20.040 So were you? 0:13:20.200 --> 0:13:21.520 You were just over at the Ryman. One of my 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:23.079 friends just texted me and said he saw you over there. 0:13:23.120 --> 0:13:26.200 I was over there hanging out with all those guys 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:29.200 and some girls. 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:30.200 You know. 0:13:31.720 --> 0:13:34.439 The gist of it I thought was that they're all 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:37.600 like newcomers coming up and they got a chance to 0:13:37.640 --> 0:13:42.239 be on stage and the place was full, and that's great. 0:13:42.480 --> 0:13:45.400 So it's a great move. Well done radio. 0:13:45.640 --> 0:13:46.880 You know, I'll take the credit myself. 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:48.559 Oh you did it, all of it. 0:13:48.600 --> 0:13:53.079 If that works, I'll take all the credit. So how 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:56.239 long have you been in Nashville on this distin since Tuesday? 0:13:56.400 --> 0:13:57.920 And what do you do while you're here? 0:13:58.360 --> 0:14:01.200 Well, we don't do much because it's snow point, you know, 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:03.200 walking around it's so damn cold. 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:05.760 Snow. It's weird. Yeah, yeah, snow. 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:08.640 Snowed last time I was here. This is. 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:14.600 Like if I arrived, snows it coming. But you know, 0:14:14.679 --> 0:14:19.320 we're rehearsing and we're doing promos and we're doing radio chats. 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:24.400 That's fun that you still rehearse because I would think 0:14:24.440 --> 0:14:25.760 why would you need to rehearse? I know you have 0:14:25.760 --> 0:14:28.920 all the new songs, but I just think you probably 0:14:28.920 --> 0:14:31.000 have it all figured out, Like is it how long 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:32.560 have you had the band with you? 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:34.520 Well, I don't have the band with. 0:14:34.720 --> 0:14:39.360 They're touring all from local guys. 0:14:39.760 --> 0:14:42.080 I didn't, So that makes sense as to why you'd rehearse. Then, 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:44.720 So are you rehearsing to play like the opry or 0:14:44.880 --> 0:14:46.040 because I know you're doing all the dates. 0:14:46.120 --> 0:14:47.200 We're doing the Opry. 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:51.800 That's why I'm here this time, and we're going to 0:14:51.880 --> 0:14:56.200 do one from the album and another song, so give 0:14:56.240 --> 0:15:01.600 it all the way. I did a track naturally book Owens, 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:05.320 and you know, the story is so great. I love 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:08.000 it because you know he did it. I found it 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:11.000 in the sixties on the record and I just loved it. 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:14.320 So I did it with the Beatles, and then in 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:18.320 the seventies we did it together, you know, as far 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:19.480 out that's cool. 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:20.120 Yeah. 0:15:20.200 --> 0:15:22.600 I am left handed, but I played guitar left handed, 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:24.680 which has been very very difficult for me because I 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:29.160 can't play anybody else's guitar. Like in this town, everybody plays, 0:15:29.600 --> 0:15:32.200 and so if I want to play, I can never 0:15:32.360 --> 0:15:33.520 play anybody's instrument. 0:15:33.760 --> 0:15:36.920 You're left handed. Did you decide to play right handed 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:37.400 because of that? 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:41.000 Or just the chance to sit behind a don't kiss? 0:15:43.000 --> 0:15:48.520 In Liverpool? I sat behind the right handed kits and 0:15:48.560 --> 0:15:51.160 thought this is it. I didn't know any better. 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:53.640 See, you had to play right handed. It was the 0:15:53.680 --> 0:15:54.720 only way that you could learn. 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:57.800 Yeah, well I just did it naturally. Really, you know, 0:15:57.840 --> 0:16:00.520 it's just like, oh, okay, so it's this. If I 0:16:00.560 --> 0:16:03.720 played reggae, I have to turn the whole kiss around. 0:16:05.240 --> 0:16:06.880 What about if you play guitar? What do you play 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:07.280 right handed? 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:07.800 Left handed? 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:08.000 No? 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:10.240 Right? You do play every play golf right? 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:11.200 Wow? 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:12.320 So are you even left handed? 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:14.080 Because well, I'm left handed. 0:16:14.160 --> 0:16:18.360 If I write my name, you know, and there's like 0:16:18.480 --> 0:16:21.920 it's like a mad left handed guy because it's some 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:25.200 of it's right and some of it's left. And uh, 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:31.240 you know, I played dolls with my left I feel. 0:16:31.000 --> 0:16:32.360 Like you're just deciding what you want to do with 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:34.480 what hand. That's the great grandad. 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:38.720 My well in a way, but my grandmother moved me 0:16:38.800 --> 0:16:41.800 from being left handed because I was righting as a kid, 0:16:42.520 --> 0:16:45.280 to right handed because she thought that would be better 0:16:45.320 --> 0:16:45.640 for me. 0:16:46.480 --> 0:16:47.960 My grandmother raised me for a lot of my life 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:51.200 adopted me. You mentioned your grandmother. Did she have a 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:52.360 big part in your raising? 0:16:52.520 --> 0:16:52.680 Oh? 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:55.560 Yeah, I was brought up because my dad left when 0:16:55.560 --> 0:17:00.840 I was three and my mom and my grandma, my 0:17:00.880 --> 0:17:04.640 granddad wrote you, and so they had a big part 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:05.440 in my life. 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:07.040 Yeah, yeah, my my grandmother. 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:09.600 My my dad left when I was five, and so 0:17:09.680 --> 0:17:12.680 my grandmother jumped in and adopted me, and thank god, 0:17:13.400 --> 0:17:15.320 what what uh. 0:17:15.000 --> 0:17:17.280 Well, we didn't go that fall. They just loved me. 0:17:17.760 --> 0:17:19.800 Well, she had to adopt me because my mom left too. 0:17:20.720 --> 0:17:22.480 So it was like I needed the last name and 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:24.719 had to have somebody I understand now. 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:28.240 Yeah, my mom loved me every minutes of my life. 0:17:28.840 --> 0:17:32.199 I was listening to the record over the past a 0:17:32.200 --> 0:17:33.880 few days or so, I saw you on the front 0:17:33.880 --> 0:17:36.040 of a magazine here in town. Yeah, you know, it's 0:17:36.080 --> 0:17:37.840 the cover. Yeah, and I was like, man, that's really cool. 0:17:37.920 --> 0:17:38.680 That's when I started. 0:17:38.840 --> 0:17:40.160 It's on the cover of Nashville. 0:17:40.280 --> 0:17:40.800 That's what it is. 0:17:40.880 --> 0:17:43.000 Yeah, that's what I saw. There was the cover of 0:17:43.000 --> 0:17:43.560