World's Great Drummers Salute Ringo Starr

Watch as among the world's greatest drummers, including Dave Grohl and Taylor Hawkins of the Foo Fighters, Stewart Copeland of the Police, Questlove of the Roots, Tré Cool of Green Day, Max Weinberg of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, and Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, all salute Ringo Starr from behind his famous Ludwig kit, now on exhibit at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland!

[humptydumpty]

Ringo is so badass he gets a tribute video before he even dies

[SonnyChenova]

Everyone: Ringo does these complicated fills. He's a genius.

Ringo: I'm just a left handed person playing on a right handed Kit.

[ericrowan]

Everyone: Ringo is such an innovative drummer

Tre: he plays weird

[leokimvideo]

About the only thing missing was a guest appearance by Ringo.

[mpdb]

For all the ridiculous disrepect that is thrown at Ringo from much of the public, it's says a lot that most great drummers love him.

[bozzy]

It would've been cool if Ringo himself appeared at the end of the video and played.

[Adyman]

RIP Taylor Hawkins. I can't believe he was the first to pass away, and so young. We need a tribute like this to him, as well.

[iopy]

Everyone:Genius, unique, distinctive drummer..

Ringo:I played what sounded good✌️😎✌️

[LadyMorgaine]

"Give me a Ringo thing"
They all play the intro to Come Together.
Nice!

[TheBeatlesVocalHarmony]

"I mean honestly... if you're a drummer and you can do this... (plays Come together) and have people dancing.. then you're a f...ing badass".

[greva]

Sheila E on Ringo: "Once I sat and broke down his process on every single song, I couldn’t believe how his simplicity of playing drums was actually very complicated. I’d close my eyes and every time I got to the part of playing the drum fill he would already be there. It was then I realized that his approach in the Beatles was as if the drums were another singer.”

[samstring]

Nobody listens to Beatles for mind blowing, face melting drum and guitar solos or badass bass lines, they listen for the songs, songs perfect from aspects, like a fine dish, with perfectly balanced ingredients. That's why they are universally loved.

[michaelfridayable]

Ringo Starr was the perfect drummer for the Beatles.

[Mark-ynvl]

I have a friend of mine who has been playing drums for about 25 years. When he first started learning, he said "I'm going to learn some Beatles songs first, they're easy!" When I asked him how it was going, he said "Damn they're a lot more complicated than I thought!" Now he has a lot of respect for Ringo's style, and if any of his students start talking smack about Ringo, he'll setup the drum kit the same way and say "Ok, now YOU play it". They all shut up after that.

[cajagato]

You guys should put up a longer version of these segments. I, for one, would like to hear these great drummers go into more detail.

[artdaydesigns]

1:53 Abe Laboriel : "It's that sloppy, swampy, falling down the stairs kind of sound..." That's the best description of Ringo's sound I've ever heard.

[lambert]

i’ve watched this dozens of times and i just now realized it’s in black and white

[unwritten_zephyr]

I’m no drummer, but the thing that always impressed me about Ringo is that he did so much with such a small kit. Ringo has all these iconic hooks, and he did it all on that. Shits beyond impressive, dude.

[janetaldrich]

When you hear the drum part without other instrumentation, you still know the song. There's nothing else it could be.

[rebeccastevens]

"It's that sloppy, swampy, falling down the stairs kinda sound. It is the coolest thing ever." LOVE THAT...