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Thanks that was great
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Bill, what on earth are you talking about? I have never met Ringo Star. However, I enjoyed the OP.
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A wonderful follow up story about an era that once it had past it's mold was broken........thanks for sharing this.
Nice video.
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There was a curious quip you posted about a former student who took up music, and when you asked him how it was going he said "have you ever heard of The Beatles"...
I just put two and two together and figured it was Ringo
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I love him as Mr. Conductor on Shining Time Station.
well, he didn't shoot the beatles with that camera 
Thanks, I enjoyed that.
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Thank you. I enjoyed it.
I have a good friend who is a session drummer. He rates Ringo quite highly.
However, it's now time for my favourite Ringo story:
Back when the Beatles were recording, one of the UK music magazines (Melody Maker I think) ran a readers' poll. Ringo won the 'world's best drummer' section. John Lennon remarked "he's not even the best drummer in the Beatles!".
Steve.
I loved the scene in "A Hard Day's Night" with Ringo setting up his camera for a selfie, only to have it fall over into the river.
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Thanks for the warm memories
He's definitely quirky. A British eccentric I assume. But that's what makes an artist.
He's definitely quirky. A British eccentric I assume. But that's what makes an artist.
He definitely isn't considered eccentric in the UK, more of an oddball. And in my book he's not a great drummer but that is hardly the point. He's a Beetle which is the only reason he's being mentioned as a photographer and not becasue of his photographic talent or lack of it.
It's like in Formula 1 racing right now, Lewis Hamilton is always banging on about music. His chums are in the music industry and he says he plays the piano. Well when he was pushed on the topic he says he only knows how to play three tunes but the media are creating the impression that he's a musician in his own time. I rekon he's a wanabe musician but is actually useless at it as far as I can see and hear. He just hangs out with musicians.
Well yes, that is a good quote but it does not reflect reality. All of the Beatles could play drums (AND MANY DID ON THEIR LATER SOLO PROJECTS) but they could only play one style. Ringo matched the mood of each and every (VERY DIFFERENT) songs that the band recorded. As Geoff Emerick and George Martin both pointed out, after 1966 the band only worked in the studio and made many takes of each song both as a process of developing the best version of a song and because someone made a mistake. Ringo played every take differently and never made a mistake.
Also let us remember that the Beatles were great only because of the greatness of four men composing and playing together. Without Starr in the mix, they would have sounded quite different, and probably not as wonderful. For example, Something by George Harrison is officially the second most covered Beatles song after Yesterday. If you go on to Youtube and listen to all these covers, almost all of the drummers try to copy Ringo's drum part BADLY.
Back to the photographs, what is fascinating is that he had an insider's view of the mayhem that was Beatlemania. They are great snapshots of a very special time. What is incredible is that, with no real technical knowledge in low light environments he got such good shots. I am sure that this was the result of the labs processing his film to accommodate whatever he told them that he had set on the camera but, none the less, great images.
Do they have an importance to the history of photography - well NO.
Do they give us an insight to a band that developed more in 7 years that most of a lifetime - well YES.
I grew up in the camera club scene of the 1960s and 1970s in the UK. Most of the 'greats' were defined by a single award winning image together with a solid technical body of work. Then came along Creative Camera with an insight into the developing US scene. Here it was clear that it was all about an evolved body of work rather than a single great image. That was the light bulb going on situation for me. A real way of defining someone's work is how the current body of work makes a comprehensive and complete statement. So back to our dear loved national treasure Ringo, who the hell made a more comprehensive contribution to seven years of evolution (just compare that to the Stones - not withstanding their better ability to energise live but, my o my, creative development over the same period) that saw four young lads go from 4/4 love songs to some of the most complex contemporay music ever attempted.
Bests,
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Interesting Video. Thank you.
A bit off topic: the young commercial photographer who photographed the Beatles during their Hamburg year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39qqW7z8dAk
A bit off topic: the young commercial photographer who photographed the Beatles during their Hamburg year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39qqW7z8dAk
Excellent video... thanks for posting!
It just goes to show that ANYBODY can be a photographer.
At least a candid photographer, and the more famous the subjects the more famous the photographer.
Access is the most important factor.
That's why if you gave a monkey a camera and he took zoo shots they would be unique because they are only from a monkeys perspective.
If you don't agree with me, look at the billions of candid pictures now taken on a daily basis.
Because in any other job or art you actually have to be there and do something intentionally. With photography you just have to be there and point an automatic camera. Or understand simple rudimentary instructions and use a manual one.
I can't really think of anything that requires less intent or action.
At least a candid photographer, and the more famous the subjects the more famous the photographer.
Access is the most important factor.
That's why if you gave a monkey a camera and he took zoo shots they would be unique because they are only from a monkeys perspective.
If you don't agree with me, look at the billions of candid pictures now taken on a daily basis.
Because in any other job or art you actually have to be there and do something intentionally. With photography you just have to be there and point an automatic camera. Or understand simple rudimentary instructions and use a manual one.
I can't really think of anything that requires less intent or action.
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