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Notice how Alan White (not Andy) will not be drawn in by the

Posted by Duilawyer (A) on July 16, 2006 at 17:21:04

In Reply to: Re: Can't make this stuff up posted by J on July 15, 2006 at 22:22:04:

reviewers pleading that he acknolwedge Ringo was good, only that his sound helped the band.
Alan's tact is both obvious, and meaningful.

Alan White
and the Beatles
nfte #247

Before Yes came into Alan White's life there were the Beatles.
ALAN WHITE: I was about eleven when I first started listening to their songs on the radio, and I was learning the drums after playing the piano for quite a few years. My parents bought me a drum kit, and I started studying Ringo's double bass drum beat. When I finally got it down I thought I could play forever, and it was like that was the exposure to it. Then I started listening to the lyrics and harmony between the band musically and vocally, realized what a group was, and that was the first realization of what was to come afterwards.

MOT: Double bass drum beat?

AW: (Boom, ch, boom boom, ch)...you know. That's the first thing everybody learned at that time to play in a band, and once you got that down you were happening.

MOT: Did you think Ringo was a fairly adept drummer?

AW: Yeah, I think he did the right things at the right time. I don't think technically he's one of the masters, but I think he had a ways and means with the help of other people in the band of making the band play. He also had the charisma to make the band gel…a lot of people underestimate what he did.

MOT: I agree. He is very, very underappreciated.

AW: In fact, I saw Greg Bisonette do a clinic in Seattle, and a whole twenty minutes of his clinic is all on the Beatles and how [Ringo's] style affected their music and made it what it is today.

MOT: He is definitely a major component of the Beatles and very much underrated. Which particular songs of the Beatles were influential to you?

AW: I loved all of the earlier albums, but ABBEY ROAD is a great album...I think THE WHITE ALBUM was a great album, and of course SERGEANT PEPPER was a landmark in music. They made lots of stepping stones like that, and people around that time and period basically just used them as a reference for a lot of other music, that's why they were as big and still as big as they are.

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