From: radioacti...@gmail.com   
      
   Well, I refuse to speculate about what I'd most miss about Starr, inasmuch as   
   I might very well die years or even decades before he does.     
      
   After all, as every serious Beatles fan knows, young Richard Starkey was a   
   sickly child for some of his youth, and, during a bedridden bout with some   
   illness (after they hit it big in 1964), was even replaced for nine Eastern   
   Hemisphere concerts,    
   including a bunch down under in Australia.  Nevertheless, not many   
   Beattlemaniacs in the audience even noticed, as his replacement--by NO   
   coincidence--kinda sorta resembled the sidelined Starr.   
      
   THAT SAID, Ringo is a fascinating character on a variety of levels, not least   
   because of his extensive film-acting career.  Heck, he even played The Pope   
   once, although not in the least convincingly.  (He was more credible as that   
   silly caveman character.   
   )  Of course, Starr was most impressive as a fictive version of himself, in   
   the witty and whimsical "Help!"--shot in beautiful FULL-COLOR, one of several   
   reasons "Help!" is a decidedly-superior achievement compared to the   
   vastly-overrated monochrome "A    
   Hard Day's Night".   
      
   But to little ol' me (as a barely-can-handle-the-basics drummer), the most   
   interesting thing about Starr is that, while the southpaw Starr famously drums   
   LEFT-handed, he operates his pedals RIGHT-footedly...just like I incompetently   
   play my own kit!   
      
   (Meanwhile, I flat-out refuse to squander ANOTHER two hours of my waning   
   life--as I did during a midnight screening at the suburban St. Louis cinema   
   The Kirkwood in early 1973--enduring the nonsense known as "200 Motels", Frank   
   Zappa's disaster of a self-   
   indulgent film, with Starr inexplicably dressed AND made-up as the late Zappa   
   himself.)   
      
   BRYAN STYBLE/Florida   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)