tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14338594.post256394173643080891..comments2024-03-05T09:42:44.066-08:00Comments on Rational Rant: Fake History: The Replacement of Ringo Starrsbhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05074136019151416282noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14338594.post-25607681256832921282014-10-19T06:02:29.329-07:002014-10-19T06:02:29.329-07:00Here's the weirdest explanation for Pete Best&...Here's the weirdest explanation for Pete Best's firing that I've ever found on the internet:<br /><br />http://www.thenotalentassclowns.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/The-Beatles-Conspiracy-Against-Pete-Best.pdfAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14338594.post-71066141195747219502009-12-01T17:24:52.183-08:002009-12-01T17:24:52.183-08:00From the start George Martin was to bring in a ses...From the start George Martin was to bring in a sessions drummer, as rock drummers were not used to the finesse required in a recording session. Rock drummers were used to getting volume in dance halls. No one miked up drums in those days. Martin knew a drummer in live gigs didn't have to be very precise, but when recording he had to be.<br /><br />George Martin wanting to replace Best with a sessions man was interpreted by naive Epstein as Best not being good enough,putting the recording contract in jeopardy. He was a good drummer, as good as Ringo, if not better. During the first session Best was playing a battered drum kit that had been used heavily in Hamburg, which didn't help. <br /><br />As the Beatles had been turned down by DECCA 6 months previously they panicked being frightened of losing the recording contract, so sacked Best. Best was a quiet sort of loner which never helped. Also Best's mother Mona had just given birth to a baby by the bands road manager Neil Aspinall, who was 17 years her junior, which may have been a point against Best. Martin was surprised Best was sacked, saying he was the band's biggest asset being the best looking - good looks were essential in the now TV age. Anything that promotes the group improves sales which is what EMI wanted.<br /><br />One version is that Epstein offered the job to Tommy Huchinson of The Big Three, however he turned it down, not thinking too much of The Beatles. Epstein managed The Big Three. Hutch had stood-in for the Beatles previously and could not be told anything doing what he wanted - a difficult man. <br /><br />Hutch was a friend of Best and said he would not do the dirty on him. Ringo was approached on a Wednesday and said he could take the job on the following Saturday - he was resident in Skegness. Tommy Hutch filled in for Best for two days until Ringo took over.<br /><br />Hutch has not publicly given his account of the event. He is millionaire property developer in Liverpool.<br /><br />There is little difference between the three versions of Love Me Do. Best was as good a Any White's.<br /><br />Best was the victim of ignorance and misinterpretation. One of the unluckiest men in history.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07364702297077550601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14338594.post-57875790087588254812008-05-08T17:53:00.000-07:002008-05-08T17:53:00.000-07:00The big problem with that story is that Ringo play...The big problem with that story is that Ringo played the drums on the first recording of Love Me do, September 4, 1962. Martin didn't think Ringo's drumming was steady enough either, so he had the Beatles rerecord Love Me Do on September 11, 1962 with Andy White on Drum; they also recorded several other songs with White. I they were PS I Love You, Ask Me Why and an earlier version of Please Please Me. According to Mccartney in the book "Beatles Recording Sessions" Martin liked precision show drummers of the type on Sinatra records and no rock n roll drummers was doing that kind of drumming. Also, Martin never heard Best play in person, only on the June 11, 1962 test recordings. Ron Richards produced those recordings, Martin was not present. The truth is Martin would have turned down any drummer short of a sessions drummer.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com