Ringo Starr (LIVE) Chooses Love & The Beatles Every Time

0:00I just have to tell you Dana there's something I'm excited about now you remember we talked about jury duty the show oh yeah season one yeah yeah and that one I saw it on tick tock and then it was kind of a word of mouth thing it blew up it was funny and uh it actually all pulled together which I was shocked they pulled that thing together yeah and I was like I would will they do it again and they did and

0:29Dana Carvey:Cool. I think that's very cool. It was set in the courtroom the first time. And this is going to be a company retreat. Hmm. Yeah. Yeah. Jury duty presents company retreat. It takes this groundbreaking social experiment out of the courthouse. Stay with me, Dana. I got it. And drops it into the most relatable setting ever. Oh, yeah. Company corporate retreat. And if you've ever survived that awkward team building exercises or a trust fall with coworkers, you know the vibe. Yeah. I mean, this is an inspired idea, I got to say, after jury duty to put it in a company retreat. This season follows Anthony, a real temp hired by Rockin' Grandma's Hot Sauce for their annual retreat.

1:13Dana Carvey:Right there, they should figure it out, Rockin' Grandma's Hot Sauce. Yeah, I know. Except he has no idea the entire thing is staged around him. It's a workplace comedy meets hidden camera. And it's unpredictable. It's authentic. It's so full of heart. The stakes are higher. The laughs are bigger. And it still celebrates the goodness in people. And here's the wild part. Rockin' Grandma's Hot Sauce, they're actually making it. Okay. And the flavors will be available on Amazon. Oh, my God. I wonder if they started that first or if they just made up that name and then it sounded funny. But it's going to get a lot of attention.

1:52But, you know, this thing, I'm kind of glad they didn't do it in the courtroom again because someone would figure that out, I would think.

1:59Dana Carvey:Oh, I don't think they could do it in the courtroom. I think the company Retreat is the next best one. It's hard to think of where to do it, but they did a good job. So I'm looking forward to that. Me too. Watch now on Prime Video. No matter what you choose, choose love. It's a long leather jacket. Helps me where I am today. You know, in those days when Brian called to say, hello, ringer, would you join the Beatles? I said, yeah. You know, and I come from very early country. Yeah. And, you know, there was like the wife's left, the dog's dead, or don't have enough money for the jukebox. David, it's your life.

2:39Dana Carvey:It's from my book. Yeah. well we got a big one today dana and we really uh it was kind of nerve-wracking a little bit but first of all uh his name is ringo star and um he doesn't do a lot of podcasts i couldn't find any other podcasts maybe a couple just very rare i love it so we were able to we were very lucky a little while ago on the podcast to do Paul McCartney, which was a thrill, and then to get Ringo was a double thrill. Yeah. I will say that nervous, of course. There's some when you're with one of the Beatles, and I know at a certain point someone like Ringo or Paul is like, they haven't had it with the Beatles thing.

3:28But, you know, it's like talking about something forever, forever. But lovely dude, super cool. looks great and I don't want to sound like Kelly Ripa but looks great she got in trouble for telling a guest that and such a magnificently huge star and you play the drums which I mentioned to Ringo I didn't want to put you on the spot I just wanted to say that someone like you will look for more things than someone like me when you watch a good drummer and you know every Beatles song back and forth and I think he appreciates that.

4:06Dana Carvey:Right and the the because of back channels and people working for us trying to get Ringo for a long time and landing him and then we we found out it was about going to be about 20 minutes so it was sort of like okay what do I ask in these 20 minutes because I I could have gone for three hours um but to your point you know you don't really know to see someone in person so we saw Ringo in person sharp as a tack voice really strong moves really well so it's like cool this guy is like you know and has a new album out which we talk about a lot which is great um so yeah I was a little hyperbolic I was a little amped up I was trying to calm down you'll see I was a little and I kind of apologized to him you know well it's too exciting like i was just you know i go on these things like where it's old celebrities old hollywood things they sell and things that are cool and recently there was beatles stuff and that's such a fun i think you have a signed beatles album and uh yep which is unbelievable unbelievably cool to have all four beatles on there and i was looking because i thought oh i wonder if i could get anything and then i knew it was going to be out of my range and then they just said uh the ring you would love all the drum star drums from i think ed sullivan it was the the kick drum cover which was preserved perfectly and it says yeah you know meet the beatles or the beatles the beatles and it's an iconic kind of thing and that one from one early early probably ed sullivan went for two million or something 2.3 after starting $2.3.

5:45Dana Carvey:$500 ,000. Yeah. I would have been out from the get-go. And they sold John Lennon's piano that he wrote, Lucy in the Sky and Sergeant Pepper. And I don't even know what that went for. But all that stuff, it's all one of a kind. It's all so interesting. And anything to do with the Beatles, they tell me, sells so well. So exciting. And a guy that's part of history. I met him years ago at the MTV Awards. We did a sketch where I played the receptionist. remember that when i was doing that on snl of course yeah condescending this is regarding and so we had people coming into the mtv awards that year i don't think it's the year you hosted i think it was one of the other years and then yeah ringo came and then we got ringo to come up and i had to go why would i know you and you're in the music world which i don't listen to many and so he was a great sport but i don't know if he would remember that because uh but of course i did and then oh Oh, you know what we'll show?

6:44Heather, I ran into him about six months ago. Our stupid manager, Gervitz, hey, I got a little party for Eddie Vedder. You want to come by? Eddie says, come by. So it was a birthday party. And when I walked in, I'm on the stairs to the backyard, and Ringo's there, and I'm like, holy shit. And he turned around and took a picture with his friends, and I fucking whipped it and photobombed it. Oh, that's right, yeah. And then they left. And then I told Gervitz that we were having on. he goes did you ever see that picture didn't you photobomb and he sent it to me so we'll put it up uh so you can see it and it's super stupid but great time also we can say this that during the interview i know you love this too when he starts explaining drumming and he starts doing it on his knees and his feet his feet are going and we're like mesmerized well there is it's on youtube

7:34Dana Carvey:there's a guy who goes uh ringo i can play anything ringo can play ringo's easy and so So he has this song, Act Naturally, where the hi-hat is going 16 times or 94 hits a minute. It's like, and then he sings the same time. So bringing that up led him to do a little very quick slap rhythm thing that you'll see. And that was like, oh, my God, he's got timing. I just want to put it in context for people. The thing about us Beatle fanatics, and there's millions of us, is because what they did in like six and a half years is still hard to comprehend and who did what. So at one point, we were talking about that, and then he'll bring up a song.

8:17Dana Carvey:I don't know if I should mention it, but I had some questions about a song called Come Together, and his answer to that is really... Sort of gave me the chills. Little goosebumps. Not to overstate it, but it was very cool. You'll love it because he does a little act out with it. And it kind of says it all. And so for me, I knew Ringo was the perfect drummer for the Beatles. I didn't know the extent of his talent in the moment. Like that he hears the song and he's not suffering over it or thinking much. He just, a lot of his stuff was spontaneous. And so that was really cool to learn that after all these years.

8:59Dana Carvey:And that's why we're still obsessed with the Beatles. what did john lennon do what did ringo do what was the relationship we had the get back documentary but there's still a lot of questions so yeah the get back documentary i think if you're into music at all it's just so riveting to me that out of the blue the arguably the greatest band in the world and then you get to see they don't know what it's their last album they don't know long, intricate, in full color, fully mic'd. It's shocking that was just sitting there. And then everything you're seeing, they're trying to put songs together that you know now, and they're doing, like, was it something that George Harrison's working on?

9:41He's like, la, la, la, la, la. Like, they're not, they don't know the words yet, but you do because you know the final product. And you think, oh my God, this is really how they make it, how they put it together. And Ringo, with the coolest name out there, one of the coolest names, nicknames, his name is Richard Starkey, I think.

9:58Dana Carvey:How cool is it? I don't know how it went from Richard Starkey to Ringo Starr. I mean, it's like the greatest name transition. Somebody made a good call there because it's so much more memorable. I was going to ask him. Here's what I didn't ask him. They met Elvis, and I had watched the night before that he was asked about meeting Elvis, which are two of my favorites. And he said, you know, the Beatles were going through so much up and down and so much craziness. when they met Elvis at his house, it was, they felt for him because he was going through the same thing, but there was only one of him.

10:36And there was four Beatles and they got to like share their experience and relate to each other. Like, well, at least we're all in the same hotel. Should we get out of here? Elvis was one. He had his friends, but they weren't like super talent geniuses like the Beatles were. And so I was going to say that house I heard was way up on Hillcrest. And is that the house? because I used to live kind of up there and I was always told that was Elvis' house. I was like, is that the one you guys met at? Because I was very interested. No one else would give a fat fuck. But I didn't because I had one left.

11:08But then when he, we kept him over 20 for sure, rudely. But he went right into a BBC and I think that was his only other interview. And we didn't see him and I was like, shit. So great though, while we had him.

11:21Dana Carvey:To your point, the Beatles, when they came out there like exotic insects and I didn't even get into this, but John F. Kennedy had just been assassinated and was really kind of, and then they came out with their accents and their haircuts, and Paul McCartney said they'd be in the hotel room before at Sullivan, and they'd take out, we'd take out our little suits, you know, the little black suits, we'd put on our little ties, and said, there we are, a four-headed monster. So when the Beatles would do a press conference, and the press would try to be snarky, they would just go, I just got my hair cut yesterday.

11:53Dana Carvey:They just completely made fun of them. They were just like rock star Marx brothers. But Elvis was up there kind of sweating and tortured by himself. Well, I don't know exactly how to answer that, Colonel. And he had Colonel Tom Parker. So poor Elvis. Someone taking advantage of him instead of like three guys or four guys that are equal, that are all just so great in their own way. And the wit. One of the press said, what's the secret to what you're doing? And Lennon said, well, if we knew, we'd create a band and become their managers. You know? That is true. I mean, they were all like this. And Ringo, too.

12:29Dana Carvey:All of them were just snappy, funny. And anyway, it was just so great. We have to say, we'll throw it to Ringo here. But we went to an undisclosed hotel. We were nervous. We got there early. We walked around. and then he came up and uh super unassuming i didn't know you know in a way sometimes it's you just don't know how to compliment people have heard it all and been famous this long but you still just want to say it anyway you know and i made sure that i i took a picture of the lyric sheet of one of the lyrics of one of the songs he wrote and said that's a great lyric and And you would, you know, and I don't know, Ringo can't go, oh, yeah.

13:15Dana Carvey:You know, it's like, but you still can't help but gush a little bit sometimes when you meet people that, you know, I was saw him when I was eight years old playing the drums and said, that's what I'm going to do. I see that when people walk up to me and I know they've seen Benchwarmers. It's pretty much the same thing. So they were they're nervous. They're sweating. But when I think he just wanted to be like, oh, these guys are funny. I've seen them and stuff. And I want to do a fun one. and I don't want to get these heavy questions. I just want to go goof around. He's a very light guy on his feet, so I think he liked the idea that it wasn't a super serious 60-minute grilling.

13:52Dana Carvey:No, it wasn't dark or serious. It was more inquisitive. But I think he enjoyed it. I know I did. Yeah, had a great time. So I think we can throw it to him. Here's the man in question, the guy we were all excited about, Ringo. we got to interview uh uh paul mccartney oh yeah i've had him once

14:19Dana Carvey:he said that you guys used to sit down for a plonker you know yeah i love the way he he's a plonk he's a plonker the humility with the catalog is so much you guys are both very humble oh yes poor Ringo I thought the Beatles were good I'm gonna it's a hot take I'm gonna live in LA I'm so humble I love LA are we not always recording productions yes okay good because we don't have a half apple we'll get it going so Richard Starkey those are I think your tour dates love the album heard everything and I'm gonna give you specific examples so what i love choose uh she's gone heart heartbreaking yeah choose love another one of your no matter what you choose choose love this is perfect you guys rolling okay uh wave of love gotta pay your dues if we want to sing the blues yeah because you know it don't come easy that's not on this album you know it don't come easy do you got act naturally was that on this album or no that's earlier yeah much earlier okay like 68 68 but not that early okay here's a lyric that you wrote i'm just starting with this stuff because i love specific well you know t-bone wrote most of this record well i think the long long road didn't you long long road i wrote okay this is a quote yeah with bruce yeah this is a quote from or one of the i I guess the chorus.

15:56Dana Carvey:I don't know. You guys have choruses and stuff. So anyway, don't be attached to your thoughts. Let them come in. Let them go. There was a night I was on my own. I was feeling pretty low. When things have changed since you came back. Oh, yeah. Things have changed. Now things have changed. You came back to me. Without your love, I'm drowning in the deep blue sea. Yeah. Which is interesting. You didn't go to a dark sea. No, I went to a deep blue sea. Anyway. You know, I love oceans, but, you know, it was, you know, just as you're going through life, you learn certain things. And one of them was pointed out to me years and years ago.

16:34I said, you know, let the thoughts come in. Right. But let them go out. You know, because mainly we sit around and for three days we're like, oh, you know, when I used to sit down on one seat, 25 in here, 25 people all had something to say. and now I'm getting up to five.

16:56Dana Carvey:And you said your playing is kind of more emotional or more in the moment or on the last album and this one, I assume. Well, I think because it's country. Yeah. You know, and I come from very early country and, you know, there was like the wife's left, the dog's dead, or don't have enough money for the jukebox. David, it's your life. That's from my book. Yeah. anyway that's yeah you know that sort of it so you know i think you know there's the she's gone and things happen and it's good you know yeah like the all the early country singers was all that a bit of you know downer in it yeah sure right but it is very very emotional but yeah it works great the album is beautiful anyway i love it because i love country but i love the blues i love motown i love you know al green and uh eddie cochran you know i was asked one time like to do that thing we the best movie the best record the brain i said we have to stop i can't answer these questions right because i say one film and then oh god i know a record i love a thousand records one thing has run through my mind lately you know of course my beatles the beatles your beatles yeah yeah like wow is is what's going on by marvin gay kind of a work of genius it's one of the greatest songs ever yeah well for you well and he sold three million i mean yeah yeah no he's i love marvin gay yeah when you do i love johnny ray yeah of course did you ever hear him absolutely yeah before your time no no we go way back he would cry yeah frankie lane Frankie Lane, yeah.

18:40I loved his power. So he was like, they were the last two before our groups came in and the music started to change.

18:49Dana Carvey:Yeah. And you still have this great voice and it's very distinct and bluesy. So it's all right there. And I love the mix right in the drums. The sound is great. It's tight. Yeah. So anyway, great album. LifeLock, how can I help? The IRS said I filed my return. But I haven't. One in four tax-paying Americans has paid the price of identity fraud. What do I do? My refund, though. I'm freaking out. Don't worry. I can fix this. LifeLock fixes identity theft guaranteed and gets your money back with up to$3 million in coverage. I'm so relieved. No problem. I'll be with you every step of the way. One in four was a fraud-paying American.

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20:06When you do a new album and you have sort of at your fingertips, I can't imagine any musician that wouldn't want to kind of jump in with you. Do you just call people and say, hey, you want to come and jump in on this with us? When I'm doing a regular album, yeah, I call around. But this with T-Bone, T-Bone introduced me to all the country people, you know molly and uh billy and you know everyone who's on it sure and because last year with the other album we did a big show okay and uh we got to say hi but not really hang out so yeah it's

20:43Dana Carvey:been a really great experience billy strings is on it billy strings is on both of them good old billy he's learning how to play the guitar he's now what is he now 14 yeah yeah he's junior in high school i think he's on the gymnastics team he is fast he is like that that kind of guy um so the beatles um these are my questions did you ever was there a moment early on where john and paul would bring in a song and you kind of said oh my god we're we're working with geniuses i mean this is not normal and i don't know what song it might have been no there must there was a moment where it was like oh the mop top bop bop and then it was like oh wait a minute because it was so much well i think we all changed you know we were these pop stars and played clubs i played i played weddings whatever any chance you could but rory and the eddie clayton group i was only in three bands so i did really well so did the other two do really well too well they did well in Liverpool.

21:50Yeah, okay. You know, that was it. Yeah. And not outside. And Rory, we were like in Liverpool as the top band, but spreading ourselves a little outside and then with the Beatles, we were big in Liverpool and then we went way

22:09Dana Carvey:outside. Graham Nash, I got to talk to him once about you guys. I think it was 62 or 63 at the Cavern and you all came in with long leather jackets and he said that just there was a vibe in the air like everybody knew something special was happening yeah yeah well i think that was before i joined do you never had a long leather jacket no could we get yeah long leather jacket i haven't said it's a long leather jacket you helped me where i am today yeah i think you i think i read you saw uh the other three guys and you said this is the front i want this is a wall in front of me that i is better than what i have even though i met them like hi how are you doing in liverpool and then we went to germany and they were booked first into this other club and we were into a club with rory right and then the kashmita the guy on both of them but it was both on the same stage oh really so at weekends we'd play eight hours between two bands oh we really played but i loved the front line yeah i just loved it was was it the charm and it was now it was they were great just great and the harmonies were great it was just a great feel from it yeah and uh they you know in those days when brian called to say hello ringer would you join the beatles i said yeah i said i said when he said oh this evening we were you know playing a three-month gig with rory said i can't leave him today yeah gotta give him time to get another drummer so I left Saturday I can leave tomorrow everybody all the drummers and most of the players in those days we all played the same songs I went on stage once and two three bands gig and two of the drummers just by chance didn't turn up so I put a jacket on and played with them and then you came on with your band and I just then you came on with your band I just didn't get up all night.

24:15Dana Carvey:There's a great interview with Paul where he mentions, I don't know if it was from the documentary in the 90s, just when you joined and when you kicked in, in the back. Like it was just a whole other, and I can see, I often thought like, because you have a heavy foot and heavy hands, like you have inordinately really big hands. Do I? Yeah, well, look at these mitts. They look big to you. Yeah, strong hands. Because you really brought that. Yeah, but I hold the six lightly. yeah but you still have power it's all in there dana plays drum so he knows more about the stuff than i do not as good obviously he's yeah horrible but but he looks at it from a different lens than most people i just love the quirkiness of the way you played um you didn't all go to the splash when you think you would go to the splash yeah you just got to put it you don't do the splash you know i'm just first guy to do that you go to the floor tom a lot on the course i love the depth yeah of the toms that's what i always loved that and uh you know so the snare is is deep because you know though i had one i played for years that had a hole in it and i just put chewing gum in it it lasted five years you know yeah far out still works oh it's all so technical now you know just a skin with a hole in it and a snare on a lot of beatle records are there some harder harder than others like even me i don't play the drums but when i play along in my card something like ticket to ride i never get it right like just you know are there certain ones that are tougher than others uh they are but you know i was guessing it seemed to work yeah i mean you you know if you saw that huge documentary of peter jackson because he found 56 hours of unused stuff so crazy you know um you know i'm sort of i i called him like a year later because on uh get back how did i get to that sort of marchy thing anyway so he he found footage and i'm like get back and then he found a cut the sort of next stage of it then it cuts to

26:42and I said how did I get to that riveting how I don't know and but we didn't find the actual piece that showed me

26:50Dana Carvey:it's just amazing when you did was act naturally like 16th time or 94 beats a sec I mean it was so fast yeah and then you're singing and that's just a rare thing that's boys boys well boys i'm singing yeah boys was considered hard rock to me when i was like 10 years old my brother i had older brothers and he said it's got this new song called boys ring no singing man i mean it was hard rock but that was an old song i know and it was actually done by a girl band a girl vocal group and i just loved this loved it you know and who cares and i didn't think you're talking about boys they're talking about boys yeah i know oh okay yeah so i was a i'm doing it anyway right yeah sounds like you're celebrating i like this song i never because with rory i used to have ringo star time so i'd have like five songs and that was one of them guys so i could talk to you all day but there's something i listened to recently that just blows my mind every time because the leap between i guess it was rubber soul revolver in there somewhere you you did strawberry fields and that that last two minutes where you're doing this marching drum and it fades away comes back is so magical and i don't know if it's overdub but it sounded like a marching band or i did very little overdub so you did it all by yourself we just played through yeah i mean the first time we'd play it would be great because we'd all be sort of like making it up yeah and sometimes you know you could sit there all year and you wouldn't have got what you just made yeah yeah yeah so that's how it works right 23 there's not any uh memory of mine of like oh you can't do that in my song you know oh no you can do that oh cool you know and um come together just let me finish this oh i'd love to hear this let me finish this story so So we're going to another studio just to get out of Abbey Road.

28:50Yeah. And come together. And I was on drums. John was sort of sitting over there on the floor. And he had the guitar and it was like, what he's doing. And so I just sort of went. Bubbity, bubbity, bubbity. And he goes. Oh, yeah. Oh, my God. How cool. I never read that story.

29:16Dana Carvey:you just surprised him with it well we hadn't done it before that minute when we'd like let's set up and see what's happening wow so it just came the two things I'm blessed with is that I don't play a lot I keep good time it's all in here well it's all in here it's all in the star so when you that is a great story I love that that gave me the chills actually when you leave and you i think you're all doing solo stuff um and you do photograph and some of these big hits do they call is it is it you're still talking a lot you're kind of doing your own thing but they must have to acknowledge like holy shit these are rippers well if you you know if you look at the ringo album and the next album i did with um i just died god bless him Richard Perry

30:14it's like an all star band because you know I've got the band John came and played wrote a song and played George happened to come into town it was never planned and oh he's in the same town so come on over you know and we had like Dr. John and half of the band sure

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