Love me do with Pete Best

"Love me do" (1962) with Pete Best on drums

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[hairdoggy]

pathetic off timing drumming!

[WisMiss101]

The accurate John Lennon quote says this: "Pete Best was a drummer; Ringo Starr is a Beatle." (Beatles Monthly Book #249, January 1997, page 5) -- Not "good" or "great" or "better" -- just "a drummer."

[Negr0id]

Pete! They need somebody,

Pete! Not just anybody,

Pete! you know they need someone, Peeeete.

When they were younger, so much younger than today,

They always needed Pete's help in every way.

And now these days are back, they're not so self assured,

So now they find they've changed their minds and opened up the doors. Are you gonna help them there falling down? Pete are you gonna turn the career around? Won't you please, pleeeeeeeeeease help pete?

[superAwoman]

@101gamelover don't you dare compare pete best with justin bieber. if you knew what you were talking about, you would not say such stupid things

[peopleofthecircle]

Ringo was a pro, while the Beatles, inc. Pete, were semi-pro!

At lest Pete has priceless memories.

[ultrakool]

@zoltar5282 or maybe epstein was snubbed when he made a pass at best, peter ;p

[Upsiditus7]

@andrewr62 And the problem with Pete Best's drumming on "Besame Mucho" was...?

[1039sflem]

Sorry, it is clear Pete just wasn't up to the job. Not good enough. Why did he keep changing time signagtures ?? Should have kept it simple.

[WisMiss101]

@bonerici Actually the first UK release WAS Ringo's take. The session drummer played it exactly the same way Ringo had played it the week before. Except for the tambourine, the two are very hard to tell apart.

[bonerici]

Oh I found the ringo drumming, not as solid as andy white, but very good, right around 144. They could have used Ringo's drummer in the release if they wanted.

[bonerici]

On second thought I might have been listeningn to session drummer Andy White . . . maybe Ring was awful too back then!

[bonerici]

Got out the metronome, correct me if I'm wrong but Pete starts out around 131 bpm then as the song goes on he's like the mule that sees his stall and gradually speeds up until he's at around 136 bpm at the end. Several times in the song, it seems like he's a bull rider trying to shake the singers off his back. By comparison Ringo is a metronome, 146 bpm plus or minus 0.5 bpm.