How come Ringo Starr couldn't teach his son to be a good enough drummer for Oasis?

[LoZoccolo]

http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/steve-white-slams-oasis-treatment-of-drummer-165921

It is simple: because he was not good enough for Oasis himself.

Score one for Oasis.

[LeftyFingerPop]

1. I thought that Ringo Starr was the quarterback for the Packers in the 60's?

[madinmaryland]

5. Dude! It was Ron Jeremy or was he the quarterback of the Eagles?

:hide:

[Danger Mouse]

2. Oasis has made churlish, immature behavior an art form.

As well as performing shitty imitations of a band they can't possibly compare to.
Don't get me wrong, I like some of their music, but by no means are they a 'good' band. They're a 'good bad' band.

[DarkTirade]

9. They're catchy.

They don't suck as much as most catchy bands do, so they are ahead of the curve in their field. But still, their main trait is their catchyness, not their goodness.

I do enjoy a few of their songs, but not enough to buy their album or see any shows of theirs.

[Danger Mouse]

21. Yeah, I would put them on the 'high' side of mediocre.

[edbermac]

3. Ringo put the BEAT into the Beatles! Oasis BLOWS!

Pete Best was drummer for 2 years and the Beatles were doing nothing but playing strip clubs and bingo halls.

After 2 years with Ringo drumming the Beatles were the world's most famous band, making A Hard Day's Night, selling millions of albums, and playing for sold-out stadiums all over the globe.

Oasis is about as good as this year's Detroit Lions.

Score 10 for Ringo!

[jeff30997]

11. Ringo is a Caveman !

One of the funniest movie I ever saw. :)

[bbernardini]

4. I saw Zak Starkey play with The Who, and he was incredible.

Probably the closest thing they've had to Keith Moon since his passing (in fact, I think Pete Townshend might have actually said as much). Simon Phillips is an amazing drummer technically, and plays things that are so stunningly ridiculous in their complexity I just have to laugh out loud, but he wasn't right for The Who. Kenney "yet another all-snare-drum fill" Jones never did anything for me. (Although oddly enough, I've always found the all-snare-drum fills in the various projects of Bob Mould to be strangely compelling. Go figure.)

Don't get me wrong. There can never be another Keith Moon, but Zak Starkey comes pretty damn close.

/Cue the "it's not The Who without Moon" people in 5...4...3...

[KG]

8. what would a Beatles cover band need with a Zak Starkey?

[ACTION BASTARD]

6. No, no, no Don Henley was the quaterback for the 77 Eagles and

Ringo Starr was the lead singer of The Mentors
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mentors
(Wiki it if you dare!)

[madinmaryland]

7. But what about Joe Picsarcik?

[jeff30997]

13. Joe Picsarcik?

Is it the really real name of Joe the Plumber? :shrug:

[bbernardini]

10. I am saddened by the lack of Bobby Blotzer references in this thread.

So I have rectified the problem.

[graywarrior]

12. Ringo rocks.

Leave him alone

[jeff30997]

14. I love Ringo!!!

He's the nicest Beatle!

[graywarrior]

15. He kept the rest of them in line!

And he is the funniest one

[jeff30997]

16. Yep.

And he never had an overblown ego dagnabit!

[graywarrior]

17. Never!

He's just a kind and sweet gentleman.

[jeff30997]

18. Yes.,super duper cool nice guy.

I want to bear his children!Oh wait.Er..Fogetaboutit.:)

[graywarrior]

19. LOL!

I'd like to witness that

[peruban]

20. Ringo Starr may not be Neil Pert

But there's a reason he's nicknamed the "human metronome". He can keep time as well as or better than anyone else behind a set.

[cemaphonic]

22. Yeah, not flashy, but his shit was tight.

All that brilliant primitive multitracking The Beatles pioneered just wouldn't have been possible without Ringo.

[ACTION BASTARD]

23. Neil Pert is a GOD! Ringo Starr is the equivelant of that douchebag

that used to play in Motley Crue. Y'know that guy that made a porn flick with Pamela Anderson? Yeah, that douchebag.

[sniffa]

24. Because

Dooga, dooga, dooga.



Am I really the first person to respond with this? :shrug:

[onenote]

25. because Keith Moon taught zak to be good enough to drum for the Who

And on their best night, Oasis can't carry the Who's jockstraps.

[gmoney]

26. I love the (possibly apocryphal) story about Ringo's drumming...

in the 60s, John, Paul, and George always won the lists for "UK's best guitarist" and "UK's best bassist" etc. but Ringo never won...

A journalist supposedly asked John about this, "do you not think Ringo's the best drummer in the UK?" to which he is said to have replied "Ringo's not even the best drummer in the Beatles."