The Beatles icon Paul McCartney was joined by Ringo Starr and The Eagles guitarist Joe Walsh at his Dodger Stadium show in Los Angeles over the weekend, and he had a bad supergroup name idea on Instagram. He wrote, “Meet the Beagles! #FreshenUpTour @joewalshofficial.” He also posted a photo of himself kissing Ringo Starr, “Reunited with my favorite Starr #FreshenUpTour @ringostarrmusic.” McCartney’s family recently made a cancer revelation after criticism.
Variety wrote in a review, “It was difficult to actually hear whatever had been mic-ed up on the drum kit that was rolled in for Starr over the steady beat that tour drummer Abraham Laboriel Jr. was kicking up, but we could at least see Ringo, grinning up a storm and seeming to want to renew the blisters he’d worked up when first recording ‘Skelter,’ despite his limited time to do so.
There were at least a few folks on hand, going up into the eightysomething fan division, who’d seen Ringo and Paul the last time they played together at Dodger Stadium, in 1966, at what turned out to be the Beatles’ next-to-last show. You didn’t have to be there, then, of course, to find this reunion deeply sentimental — and to get a thrill out of the fact that it was expended on two rockers as unsentimental as the ‘Pepper’s’ reprise and ‘Helter Skelter.’ Bono stole (okay, borrowed) that song, and finally the freakin’ Beatles were stealing it back. (For more about Starr’s appearance, including video, read our account here.)
The other guest was Ringo’s brother-in-law, Joe Walsh, who came out as one of the three guitarists recreating the part of ‘The End’ where McCartney, John Lennon and George Harrison took turns doing two-bar guitar solos. There was a bit of tentativeness in who actually was going to shred when, for, as McCartney admitted right afterward about the possibly unrehearsed cameo, “We didn’t have a clue what we were doing.”
Paul McCartney wrote a touching birthday message to The Beatles drummer Ringo Starr, along with a photo of them hugging with McCartney appearing to possibly kiss him on the cheek as well. Paul McCartney recently told the sad story of how he met John Lennon.
“Happy Birthday to the best drummer in the world. Have a great one @ringostarrmusic. Love, Paul.
#PaulMcCartney #RingoStarr.”
carseatbedrest commented, “Best drummer in the world? Ringo isn’t even the best drummer in the beatles.”
lewis_white_91 said, “He wasn’t even the best drummer in The Beatles.”
willll_t wrote, “Didn’t know it was john bonhams Birthday.”
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