From: Beaver_Fever@live.com   
      
   On Monday, January 29, 2024 at 7:17:25 PM UTC-8, Topic Cop wrote:   
   > On Wednesday, January 24, 2024 at 5:06:20 PM UTC-8, radioacti...@gmail.com   
   wrote:    
   > > 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   
   > I'm going to miss Ringo   
      
   Hard to believe someday soon he will be gone forever   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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