John Lennon was the Drummer

Get the latest Penn EVERYDAY: http://crackle.com/c/Penn_Says The great thing about romantic pop bands, is forcing the wrong person on the wrong instrument. John Lennon is a drummer, Paul is a lead guitar player. Ringo just is. When Penn Jillette has an opinion it's a safe bet he won't hold back. Upload your own reaction and get the rants rolling! Tune in each week for new insight and agitation. Follow PennSays on Twitter: http://twitter.com/pennsays tags: John Lennon was the Drummer Penn Says @pennsays atheist politics religion libertarian penn jillette

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[pennsays]

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[sluggxp]

Penn, you're the man, but drums aren't instruments? You may have broken my heart a little bit.

I'm not mad at you, but I'm just assuming that you haven't been exposed to the wide realm of percussion.

Long story short, a drum is DEFINITELY an instrument. Drums are a lot harder to play correctly than most people realize.

As for Ringo, he's a really boring, lame, untalented drummer. He was friends with the other guys in the band and had a good image, that's it.

[pennsays]

@sluggxp Here's Penn playing the drums, pretty sure it's a joke: watch?v=_z2eQDNGSGA

[jordanowen42]

Penn, if you have one great skill, its that you can have a great point and be completely full of shit at the same time.

[SoTiredOfIdiocy]

Ringo was and is an excellent drummer! When he came on board with the others Ringo was considered one of the best in the local circuit of musicians. In an interviw, Ringo pointed out that with the music, John and Paul were very specific about how the drums should be played. All four of them went on to successful solo musicians with each member being a fantastic musician in his own right. Any changes in time were, for Ringo, either intentional, or very slight!

[pyleen]

What a waste of 5min listening to this clown talk pure dung hahaha they way he looks tho did give us all a laugh :-)

[n136h]

What a fucking prick to suggest that Ringo was comic relief, that George was incidental and that the beatles individually weren't great instrumentalists individually. It comes from that snobbish and cranky stupid school of thought that suggests only wank off self indulgent Jazz players are the only technically gifte

[YusifRock]

Penn's grasping and way off here. This is a bad analogy comparing the Beatles to a cheesy 80s hair band and an attempt to compartmentalize their roles within the band. The Beatles were a lot more creative and groundbreaking than that. Also, dismissing Ringo and George is really lame. George wrote "Here Comes The Sun", "Something", "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", Ringo is an amazing drummer (would "Come Together" be the same without his crazy rolls on the verses? I think not) This video's lame

[romans52345]

@plangentmusic And on The Ballad of John and Yoko

[Jcolinsol]

Everyone knows that Ringo is the coolest beatle.

[Preston060796]

@sluggxp ringo wasnt untalented and he wasnt just the drummer because he was friends with the other beatles, the original beatles drummer was kicked out of the band by their first manager so they found a random drummer they barely knew from another local band because they were about to start recording and needed a new drummer

[Gravitymann]

I'm so sick of motherfuckers dissecting the Beatles... get the fuck over it.

[dsrtflwr]

I love Ringo. He's great.

[dsrtflwr]

@sluggxp A lot of musicians say drums aren't instruments or drummers aren't musicians. Drummers are in a category by themselves.