Beatles drummer Pete Best on David Letterman (Part 1)

An interview with Pete Best from "Late Night with David Letterman" on July 14th, 1982. He was replaced by Ringo just before the Beatles made it big. This is Part 1. Use keywords: 'Pete Best Letterman' to find Part 2.

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[quantumn]

This guy needs a drink of water. Listen to his dry palette. LOL.

[obbor4]

Pete, bless him, was there on the ground floor and can never be relieved of the memories that he must treasure above all. But, we were & are all fortunate enough to have spent the last several decades (those of us who are of that vintage) with an irreplaceable and enormously lovely fellow called "Ringo Starr." Of whom, there is only one of in this world & certainly provided the final catalyst in order for this paricular brand of alchemy to become realised. He is as essential to the mix as any.

[peopleofthecircle]

Weather Ringo was better fit or not, you got to feel for Pete having just missed the best show on Earth during the last century.

[FabRadio]

@OropherThranduil We could argue about Best's abilities as a drummer forever, you don't like him and I do, but I'm not out to change your mind on the matter. However, regardless of how good a drummer he was or not no one deserves to be used and disguarded the way he was, if the beatles only saw him as a temporary member then they should have told him that was the arrangement, not make him believe he was working towards a goal as a member of the group.

[OropherThranduil]

@FabRadio

you don#t seem to get what the anothology was all about, it was to show how pete was simply not a good drummer, but not even that, it was just to show something from every point of the beatles work, i mean they also included some stuff where stu plays bass, i guess in your opinion stu adn pete were the greatest rythm section ever.

While that title belongs to Ringo and paul.

and well, I listened to petes solo work, and he doesn't write and does not even play the drums alone.

[OropherThranduil]

@FabRadio

and only 3 years later the beatles american distributor hired bernard purdie to overdub drums onto all their hamburg sessions songs for a release because they still sucked balls.

no guitar was overdubbed, no bass, only drums.

[FabRadio]

@OropherThranduil I never said Starr was a bad drummer, just that Best was a good one.

[FabRadio]

Pete's style was heavier than Ringos, as to could he have done those songs, we'll never know, and so what if George Martin didn't like pete's drumming, Bert Kaempfert did, so that's a matter of she said, he said.

[OropherThranduil]

@FabRadio

He also was perfect, really, you know that according to Mark Lewisohn, there were fewer than a dozen occasions in The Beatles' eight-year recording career where session "breakdowns" were caused by Starr making a mistake.

i don#t think fucking Bonham had such a perfect score.

[OropherThranduil]

@FabRadio

And what about Ringos imaginative fill work, you know, the one that is praised by Phil Collins lime this:

Starr is vastly underrated. The drum fills on the song "A Day in the Life" are very complex things. You could take a great drummer today and say, 'I want it like that.' He wouldn't know what to do.

He also was a human metronome, you know Elvis first drummer, D J Fontana, after playing with Ringo said that about him.