bapu
...Nuff said.

Never eNuff
 
 

DeeringAmps
Three favorite? Gotta be Octopus's Garden, Octopus's Garden, Octopus's Garden; doesn't it?
Did he write anything else?
Favorite Beatle; Ringo!
Favorite drummer of the era? Charlie Watts of The Rolling Stones.
Oh man, I wanted to BE Brian Jones; looked like the best job in rock.
But, you gotta love Ringo, the man just exudes "cool", right up there with Dino for that!
 
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That's sort of the joke.  However, he actually wrote TWO songs.  The second one was Don't Pass Me By.  He also sang lead on 11 songs.
 
Oh yeah, and he got the job because he was a much more accomplished drummer than Pete Best (the Gingerbread Man). 

And a little known fact (that is rarely mentioned or remembered); Ringo was more famous (in the UK) than The Beatles were when he joined them.

When Jim Keltner says Ringo's the greatest...quit arguing.

Done deal.

craigb
Oh yeah, and he got the job because he was a much more accomplished drummer than Pete Best (the Gingerbread Man). 

Not quite correct.  It could be said that Best was actually a technically superior drummer than Ringo.  According to the book 'Lennon' by Tim Riley what Ringo did was interesting.  Lennon said that in the songs in the areas where Best quietened down and played simpler and softer, Ringo did the opposite and got louder and really used the tom toms in a way that Best was just not doing.
 
At first Lennon said he did not like it, because he would have been used to the way Best had been doing it for those three years in Hamburg.  But then Lennon caught on realised how good it actually was and then he said the songs changed quite a bit as a result of the way Ringo started playing them and then the others just loved it and so they stuck with him. 
 
Lennon said one of the hardest things he ever had to do in his life was to fire Best.
 
 
 
 
 
 

Jeff Evans

craigb
Oh yeah, and he got the job because he was a much more accomplished drummer than Pete Best (the Gingerbread Man). 

Not quite correct.  It could be said that Best was actually a technically superior drummer than Ringo.  According to the book 'Lennon' by Tim Riley what Ringo did was interesting.  Lennon said that in the songs in the areas where Best quietened down and played simpler and softer, Ringo did the opposite and got louder and really used the tom toms in a way that Best was just not doing.
 
At first Lennon said he did not like it, because he would have been used to the way Best had been doing it for those three years in Hamburg.  But then Lennon caught on realised how good it actually was and then he said the songs changed quite a bit as a result of the way Ringo started playing them and then the others just loved it and so they stuck with him. 
 
Lennon said one of the hardest things he ever had to do in his life was to fire Best.
 
 
 
 
 
 

Conflicting views abound for sure. 
 
According to TUNE IN by Mark Lewsohn Pete was "in" because of his Mom and their connection to play in her club. Too many references where made in that book about how Pete just could not keep good time especially at the harder/faster stuff (which was the direction they were heading after their first Hamburg trip.
 
 
 
 

I seem to remember George Martin also suggesting that a better drummer was needed to replace Best.

Good points.  I heard it from George when we were downing some jars and chatting up a few birds. 

Jeff Evans
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Not quite correct.  It could be said that Best was actually a technically superior drummer than Ringo.  According to the book 'Lennon' by Tim Riley what Ringo did was interesting.  Lennon said that in the songs in the areas where Best quietened down and played simpler and softer, Ringo did the opposite and got louder and really used the tom toms in a way that Best was just not doing.
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This might just be the mark of a very good drummer ... using the quieter spaces and making them sound better and come up to the rest of the piece of music!
 
Makes sense to me ... why waste a passage or chord change by sounding the same and playing the same like all the Berklee musicians?