After Sarah Jones’ interview this month, we started talking about the Beatles movie Get Back. Sarah asked me, “Did you see the Beatles movie Get Back? I thought Ringo was amazing in that movie. He was so calm when things were going crazy around him.” I agreed. While there were people quitting, camera crews, concert plans being made, guests dropping by, changing studios… There Ringo was, calm as could be. Sarah continued, “As a drummer I could see him with that expression, “I’m over here at the kit, I’m ready whenever anyone wants to play.” It occurred to me that I hadn’t talked about Get Back in the pages of Modern Drummer. While I was watching the film, I noticed that Ringo never played unless they were working on a song. He never played unless he needed to. Personally, I think that is really important, because no one can think […]