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On May 18th Marco della Cava for USA TODAY post the following where Ringo talks about his favorite drummer:
Who is Ringo Starr’s favorite drummer? You may not have heard of him, but you should know him….
Starr allows that he is grateful he can find musicians to go on tour with him, “as I can’t just do songs with me and my drums.”
Not that that was ever a problem. Starr formed his All-Starr band back in 1989 after getting fast commitments from musicians such as the Eagles’ Joe Walsh, Bruce Springsteen guitarist Nils Lofgren and legendary session drummer Jim Keltner, who remains an icon for the Beatles drummer.
“Jim is my all-time hero drummer, no one is as good as him − I love Jim, and that’s about it,” he says. But someone else actually does impress Starr: a Foo Fighter.
“I’ve seen Dave Grohl play straight,” he says, meaning without the usual thundering, cymbal-crashing drama Grohl made famous on Nirvana albums. “He was doing backup at some party and he was doing it straight. And I was like, OK, wow.”
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