As far as Paul’s drumming goes, it’s good – it’s just wrong to say he’s “better” than Ringo.

[55] cute cartoon
(I’ll spare everyone my defense of Yoko. I’m sure few want to hear it)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgfGmEKVM8k

It takes a minute to get going. The few seconds at 5:39 are worth the price of admission, but don’t cheat.

I’d like to hear Paul attempt “She Said She Said” … Paul can groove but he’s not really a drummer.

You’re kidding about Paul playing the drums on Beatles songs right?
Just in case, for the record, Paul played drums on Ballad of John & Yoko, Back in the USSR, Dear Prudence and Mother Nature’s Son. That’s the whole list for Paul on drum kit.

At noon that day, while taking a break from hacking a path through the thick vegetation, the two British explorers finally get to ask one of the bearers about the drums. The man becomes extremely agitated. When pressed on the subject, he says only one thing: “Oh no, no. Drums no problem. Much worse when drums stop for two days.”

That night the two explorers are woken again by the drums, and the night after that as well, but no matter how hard they push for an explanation all they hear, again and again, is the same useless reply: “Oh no, no. Much worse when drums stop for two days.”

Finally, exhausted from lack of sleep, unable to go further, they give up and turn the expedition around, returning to their base at the nearest trading outpost. All the way back the bearers seem much relieved.

Immediately on arrival, the explorers seek out the chief from whom they’d hired the bearers and demand an explanation. “Oh no, no,” the old man says, “Drums no problem. Much worse when…”

“…Yes, yes old bean, when the drums stop for two days, we’ve got that part,” snarls Stanley.

Livingstone then loses it completely and screams, “But why is it bally worse when the drums stop for two days?”

The chief raises his hand for silence, pauses and says, in the gravest voice he can muster;

“That’s when bass solo starts.”

[46] it IS very very very difficult to play slow and groove, no doubt!!!! ballads are really hard to play! Brush work is also super artistic. Ray Charles, was amazing! also, VERY difficult to work for as a drummer. i’ve known a few guys here in town that worked with him. yes, his body is swaying, but it’s certainly NOT a metronome!!! he was very FAR from locking a drummer in. in fact, he tried to throw them off! in his auditions, he would play slow, slower and slowest. he’d also tap his foot, completely out of time!!!. drummers HATED working for him, ‘coz he was sooo difficult to follow.

i understand that last part. i’ve worked for tons of bandleaders and frontmen. they generally don’t tap their feet in time, so it’s really distracting to watch them and try and follow “their” time. they’re usually in some kind of rhythmic vortex! : ~

[49] ah! yeah, i really didn’t know what you were talking about w/ dummkopf and “twiddly-diddly”. i do think some “shredder” types, with chops – any instrument – get a bad rep & rap, from other players/fans that simply don’t like that sorta thing. most of them just have a greater emotional depth and vocabulary with which to express themselves.

i like a TON of different musics and different styles of players, but the ones who can do it ALL, is where i find my greatest influences.

Yeah, it’s true Ringo(and John)’s technical skills receded a bit after they stopped touring.